Article: Family Guy Could end in a few years

This is false.

I hope the show actually ends rather than going on forever. I could still see a few more DTV movies or theatrical film even if they ever decided to end the show. And, of course, there is always more spin-off material.
 
Family Guy staying on the air indefinitely means that he'll get and exposure than with it out of production. Especially in our "out of sight, out of mind" media universe.

Family Guy will probably see a writers exodus, and maybe Seth will become less hands-on in time. But the show will be on for a long time.
 
As much as I really don't like Family Guy for its in-your-face brand of humor, I still think it's respectable for Seth to let the show end on a note that he deems high and good enough for him. There is no reason to let the show drag out for the sake of money and ratings when there really is nothing left to work off of.

Double-edged sword. While you may get the laughs from your audience during the short term that the events take place, in the long term it just won't be relevant enough to watch again because the events have already run their course and the punchlines just won't have that same bang anymore. Fans of the show can look at the episodes in hindsight in the future and could just come to the conclusion that Matt and Trey were starving for ideas or just shrug off the issue at hand rather than laugh at the punchline presented. So basically, if you have nothing to work with, you're just better off ending the series on a high note so that your work can be more properly respected and not pitied.
 
This explains a lot.

I'm not talking about quality, but how differently the show has been written since this episode has aired. Obviously because his input on the show is diminished, it leads to a different show than it used to be.
 
He's implying that FG is not bad right now though, FG already started to suck for a few years now, most of the revival.

Also AD started off bad but quickly became good and superior to FG which was also the time FG started becoming bad.

In fact I found it incredibly ironic how that "banned" song from FG said the simpsons now suck while FG was already sucking for a while by that time.
 
To be fair, IIRC Groening has gone on record as saying that he wouldn't mind a bit if the Simpsons got canceled tomorrow, but that Fox owns the show outright and has made it clear that they'll keep making it for as long as it's profitable, with or without him. In a situation like that, can you really blame him for wanting to keep drawing a paycheck? I'd hardly call that "sitting on a throne he no longer deserves." The more salient question is, given that it's GOING to continue no matter what, how bad would the Simpsons suck if he WASN'T still involved?
 
I always find it odd when people attack Matt for things they dislike about modern Simpsons, since he's basically not involved at all. I've read comments from unhappy viewers that sound like they think Matt writes, animates and voices each and every episode himself.
 
True, but the situation is different now. American Dad was number three on the block for the past few years. With King of the Hill gone and the Cleveland Show in, it's now number four. So if another animated series that Fox wants to push hard like they're doing with the Cleveland Show comes along, American Dad would no doubt be done.

Of course we don't know how the Cleveland Show will do, the ratings could dictate otherwise, but Fox sure has a lot of hope in it.
 
I read somewhere that American Dad is hugely profitable for Fox, so when it doesn't get good ratings it makes up for it in merchandising and DVD sales. Plus, everytime Family Guy is renewed, American Dad is renewed along with it by default. The fact American Dad has lasted so long is definitely quite the feat though, considering if it was any other show getting the average ratings it gets, it would be gone before you could blink (Sit Down, Shut Up)
 
Well, he's very strict on how the animation looks, he says he doesn't want it too cartoony, but other that he's not involved with the show much at all. The last episode he actually wrote for(besides the movie) was 22 Short Films About Springfield, way back in the 7th season.
 
Matt is very much involved with Futurama though, which probably partly explains why that show never jumped the shark like The Simpsons did.

On another note though, when the day eventually comes (however far away it might be) that it is announced The Simpsons is coming to an end, i am sure that i am honestly going to have trouble sleeping for a while. Even though my rational thoughts tell me that the show has sucked pretty bad for years and years, and that i shouldn't care that much about it anymore, i am so emotionally attached to it and just so plain used to getting to see more new episodes of it year after year, that i am going to be truely depressed when it finally dies of.
 
The last and so far only episode he wrote for on that show was Space Pilot 3000. Matt just has a lot of control over both shows, and aside from creating the main characters has not put much creative effort in either show. I do have an enormous amount of respect for Matt, but sometimes you have to dish out criticism were it is due.



I'll feel the same way. Truthfully, I'll feel pretty much indifferent when shows like Family Guy or South Park end, even though I've spent many years watching those shows, but when The Simpsons ends it will be different. That show is and always has been my favorite show, despite it's problems. That show has been around almost as long as I have, and while there have been other shows that I loved to death, they all came and went, whereas The Simpsons has always been there.
 
Concerning Matt's involvment with Futurama, i just want to stress that Matt DO still write for the show, even though the pilot episode was the only one he ever wrote the "base script" for. Cause it's with Futurama the way it is with The Simpsons; no episodes are actually written by just one person. One (or sometimes two people working together) write a script, and then the entire gang of writers sit together an improve it by coming up with and inserting new jokes and stuff in it. So in actuallity, it's usually impossible to know which person wrote which jokein an episode (unless of course it is stated on an audio commentary or something).

And once again, Matt still shows up at those re-write mettings for Futurama, but not for The Simpsons.
 
I don't blame Groening for the shows decline in quality, but I do blame him for this. Specifically:

"I honestly don't see any end in sight. I think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome... but right now, the show is creatively, I think, as good or better than it's ever been. The animation is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and the stories do things that we haven't done before. So creatively there's no reason to quit."

Spell it with me kids, D-E-N-I...
 
That's one of those things where I've realised I just have to disagree. The Simpsons gave me alot of laughs and heavily encouraged my tastes in comedy. For that, I'll just politely bow out on what I feel is a show that has been made to go on well past its prime. If Matt honestly doesn't see a problem, I'm dissapointed.
 
There's tons of people who still enjoy the Simpsons and it has nothing to do with D-E-N-I-A-L. Comedy just has to change when you been on the air for 21 years. Of course the internet is an minority in everything and doesn't matter:)
 
The internet is made up of normal people who happen to have access to it. We really don't need this idea that somehow the internet is a group of blind people hooked up a master computer who react negatively to everything even though they can't experience it.
 
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