Toon Zone Talkback - "Family Guy's" Cleveland Will Get His Own Show

I like it. Cleveland has a pretty huge cult fanbase when you look around. Plus it would be cool to have another black animated series on tv that HASN'T been cancelled.
 
My question is; What's Cleveland going to do? Spend every episode trying to find a woman to replace his wife Loretta? Because FOX already has a sitcom with that premise, Unhitched.

I don't think that any of the Family Guy supporting characters have deep enough personalities to carry an entire series.

And a Stewie spinoff? No thanks. Family Guy is practically "The Stewie Show" as it is.
 
That's not some sort of secret project. They had an episode of it on MySpace where he interviewed Rob Corddry to promote The Winner. I don't think they made more than one, though. Maybe they'll make one with Mike Henry when they promote the Cleveland show...
 
Just is wrong with a Cleveland show, Oh I get it now It because he black isn't it? Sorry about that, just a bit crazy.

Could y'all wait for it to air before y'all judge it.
 
I agree here. I have to say this... would you REALLY want a show centered around Stewie? Because we pretty much got that now. And much as I love my FG, I miss Stewie being a violent, matricidal sociopath. Now he's just an effeminant weirdo that thinks he's funnier than he is. Usually to Brian (that one where they built the house together was pretty much the worst of Stewie I've seen so far). The character alone is overexposed, and over rated. Chris having a spinoff would have some potential, though.

But I can see Cleveland holding up a show on his own. Quagmire you'd think would make a great show, but he's better as a supporting player. I can really see something where Cleveland moves away (due to the devorce and not being able to pay for his house). And maybe we'll actually see his son in an episode. What happened? Did he die or something?
 
QFT again for emphasis.

As much as FOX could use a show with an African-American protagonist (and as much as any of the major broadcast networks could use a show with an African-American protagonist who isn't a rapper or a fat blowhard), I don't think FG's Cleveland, a one-dimensional second banana, is the right man for the job.

Here's an idea, Seth: instead of extending your empire on FOX with new shows and spinoffs (this Cleveland show, The Winner), how's about you actually work to make your first child cohesive and entertaining? Crazy though, I realize.
 
Didn't you read the whole thread before posting? Its not at all becuase he's black, its becuase he's a boring character. Nothing intresting about him at all, at least on Family Guy. Maybe if they do some thing different with him on his spin off I'll give it a chance. Hopefully he will move some where so it won't be like Family Guy just with a new main character :shrug:
 
I predict that this won't last beyond a season, and certainly not beyond two. There's not enough to Cleveland as we know him in family guy to make him interesting for episode after episode. I fear this will be an unholy fusion of American Dad and the worst of Family Guy, with "we have to save Mr. Pibb!" type plots and an attempt to prop it up with legions of cultural jokes. And if you save it by bringing in Peter and Joe and Quagmire all the time, you basically just have Family Guy 2.

And yeah, count me in the "fix the real Family Guy first" category.
 
The skepticism of a proposed Cleveland spinoff has nothing whatsoever with Cleveland's being African-American. It's because Cleveland is a mere supporting player who is neither deep nor layered enough a character to carry an entire series. Of course, it would be possible to transform Cleveland into a more multi-layered character, but it would a very Cleveland Brown than the one that we know on Family Guy.
 
Most characters are one trick ponies. I thought Frasier from Cheers was a one trick pony, but that's how spin-offs happen. It's not always a breakout character.
 
Normally I would say that a spin-off of Cleveland is a bad idea but I'm going to go ahead and say that a spin-off of any of the characters is a bad idea. Peter, Brian and Stewie basically make up the whole show and while Quagmire and some of the other characters are also funny (sometimes), it just has bad idea written all over it. The article also mentions a Prison Break spin-off with a female prison which is also a bad idea.
 
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