Poll of the Day > Which Fox primetime cartoon was the best?

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Do any of you even remember The Critic?

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captpackrat posted...

Do any of you even remember The Critic?

It stinks.

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it sucked glad its gone king of the hill had no right being cancelled

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Never heard of The Critic. I stopped watching The Simpsons a long time ago, but in its prime I think the humor beats all the other shows.

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captpackrat posted...

Do any of you even remember The Critic?

Yes. It was great, and it mostly died because it was too smart for the audience.

The problem with most cartoons on that list is that even the ones that were good tended to stay on the air too long, to the point where they stopped being good. So the shittier later seasons tend to pull the overall average of the series down.

So no matter how brilliant early Simpsons might have been, or how good early Family Guy was (no matter how much the Internet in general loves shitting on it), or how fantastic Futurama was before it got cancelled at the end of season five (it should never have come back), it's hard to look at the entire series and be all that enthusiastic about them as "the best ever". But The Critic died before it could suffer that sort of rot.
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https://youtu.be/ct-rFVpsW6s

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHvl5i059c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbG1rkTwXk

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Futurama

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Bob's Burgers.

American Dad got AWESOME, but not right away.

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The Simpsons.

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captpackrat posted...

Do any of you even remember The Critic?

If only there was a person whose job it was to watch movies and stop tragedies like these from happening...

https://youtu.be/WwTqZp5bYRA?t=1121

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yes. It was great, and it mostly died because it was too smart for the audience.

The problem with most cartoons on that list is that even the ones that were good tended to stay on the air too long, to the point where they stopped being good. So the shittier later seasons tend to pull the overall average of the series down.

So no matter how brilliant early Simpsons might have been, or how good early Family Guy was (no matter how much the Internet in general loves shitting on it), or how fantastic Futurama was before it got cancelled at the end of season five (it should never have come back), it's hard to look at the entire series and be all that enthusiastic about them as "the best ever". But The Critic died before it could suffer that sort of rot.

As much as I enjoyed The Critic during its initial run, looking back much of the series wasn't anything special. It had a small handful of great episodes (like "Uneasy Rider"), but so much of the show -- for lack of a better word -- stunk. And a lot of the humor wasn't exactly smart -- you had running gags about characters' looks (such as Jay's weight), occasional fart jokes, zany antics from screwball characters (like Jay's dad), etc.

Granted, had The Critic lasted longer, it might have hit its stride and actually been great for a while but it never had that chance (and, of course, it never had the opportunity to decline afterward).

That said, I loved the after-credits gimmick almost as much as the Simpsons' couch gag.
("Excuse me, sir, the show's over." "Is the snack bar still open?")

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king of the hill was a masterpiece, ok?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yes. It was great, and it mostly died because it was too smart for the audience.

The problem with most cartoons on that list is that even the ones that were good tended to stay on the air too long, to the point where they stopped being good. So the shittier later seasons tend to pull the overall average of the series down.

So no matter how brilliant early Simpsons might have been, or how good early Family Guy was (no matter how much the Internet in general loves shitting on it), or how fantastic Futurama was before it got cancelled at the end of season five (it should never have come back), it's hard to look at the entire series and be all that enthusiastic about them as "the best ever". But The Critic died before it could suffer that sort of rot.

Yes it should have.
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The Simpsons stopped mattering when the 90s ended...

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Joker_X_II posted...

The Simpsons stopped mattering when the 90s ended...

Entertainment never matters.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yes. It was great, and it mostly died because it was too smart for the audience.

Which is appropriate given that a running gag of the show was the main character talking over the heads of his audience.

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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Which is appropriate given that a running gag of the show was the main character talking over the heads of his audience.

While being disliked and frequently criticized.

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