Compare And Contrast The Simpsons And Family Guy

Everyone should watch programming like The Simpsons or Family Guy because of the messages that these shows satirize disguised as “all in good fun” entertainment, though both shows try to get across the same messages both shows have their similarities and differences. The Simpsons have been on television for around 28 seasons that is more than any other U.S. Television show, while Family Guy has only been on for 15 seasons which is still impressive. Here are some of the major comparisons: both shows try to satirize what is happening in real life in order to jog audience’s minds, Family guy’s plot is all over the place while The Simpsons is more straight forward, and finally Family Guy’s characters are kind of modeled after The Simpsons characters.
Family guy follows a random plot with each episode is more of a skit rather than episodes all building onto each other. The Simpsons on the other hand are more straightforward with its plot with each episode being a continuation of the last. Both shows have benefitted from their style at the plot, each episode of Family Guy starts out different such as in Season 2 episode 3 the Griffin family survives the world being destroyed by nuclear blast and the whole episode takes place in the destroyed world (“Da Boom”), but the very next episode none of the nuclear blast ever happened and the plot of this episode is about Brian searching the world trying to find himself. With no explanation on how the show made the jump it can confuse new viewers on what is happening. But with these jumps it does not take away from the comedic views that the writers are trying to get across. There are also times where Family Guy sticks with a story arc for more than the usual allotted 30 minutes, in one episode they are making a parody of the game of Clue. During an hour episode, the Griffin family and friends are stuck in mansion where they must find out who is the killer and the reason why everyone was invited to this mansion in the middle of the woods (“And Then There Were Fewer”). While The Simpsons always stuck to one theme during the entire episode like in the Episode “Goo Goo Gai Pan” the Simpson family travels to China because one character Selma wants to adopt a child because she was unsuccessful at adopting within the united states. In the end Selma manages to adopt a child but gets it taken away because she is not legally married to Homer who she stated she was married to. That is why The Simpsons has been able to stick around for how long they have been around, they stick to one theme therefor they can explore more within an episode compared to Family Guy where they have used so much material