Poll of the Day > Man, WTF happened to American Dad?

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I'm watching season 14, and these episodes are pretty shitty. It's like the quality drop of The Simpsons had from season 10 to 11+. Did they change writers or what?
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I honestly thought this show had been cancelled and new episodes weren't being produced but apparently TBS picked it up immediately after FOX cancelled it. Maybe the shitty episodes coincide with the network change?
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Yeah I feel it got worse ever since it moved to TBS. And yeah the old showrunner left as soon as they switched networks.
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I'm pretty sure most shows that have been on that long have completely different writers than they did initially.
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Any series that goes on for too long ends up that way.

Trump happened
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PuddingBoy posted...

Maybe the shitty episodes coincide with the network change?

I'd say it probably coincided with the writers running out of ideas, getting tired, and ceasing to give a shit (not necessarily in that order).

Which is also the same reason for decreases in quality in later seasons for Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, and pretty much every other show that runs for more than a handful of seasons.

It also doesn't help that Seth MacFarlane has clearly moved on to caring about other projects and is mostly just doing the old stuff more out of obligation and a desire to keep the money coming in, rather than because he's actually passionate in it in any way (which, again, is similar to any number of other creators who went on to do new things while their old stuff was still going, like Matt Groening giving up on The Simpsons to work on Futurama, or Joss Whedon basically abandoning Buffy and Angel when he got the idea for Firefly).


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Ive been enjoying the new season tbh