Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane is an outstanding success, i love it, so I can absolutely understand the overwhelming temptation to try and copy some of their formula if you have been tasked with creating an 'English' animation series aimed at adults. But come on Channel 4, is this really the best you had on offer?......
The most annoying obvious Family Guy rip offs that didn’t work:
- Parody of a TV show. Full English did the show 'Skins' right at the beginning, almost the first thing you see, and it wasn’t funny, it wasn’t anything other than an instant disappointment and realisation the writers were obviously lacking in creativity that they had to start the show with a Family Guy rip off.
- Rich Father-in-law that dislikes his son-in-law. They literally lifted the Carter Pewterschmidt Peter Griffin relationship straight from Family Guy and defecated all over it, it was like watching someone copy in an exam but put all the answers in the wrong place.
- Stupid backward son. Chris Griffin, enough said. LAZY LAZY LAZY!!!!!
- Famous cameos. Due to the success of Family Guy celebrities are literally lining up to be on the show, even if Seth MacFarlane turns them into a complete psychopath (James Woods), but filling your show with UK celebrities just to try and gain a few cheap laughs because the main characters have no substance is weak and a clear sign the writers have the imaginative skills of a rotting lettuce.
Britain has always struggled to produce any animation that can go up against Americas best, yet we can do comedy, we can do satire better than any nation in the world, but as soon as someone is tasked with putting these words into a cartoons mouth we panic and produce absolute horse manure, and not even the good sort of manure you can use to make your veggies grown strong and humorous! why why why???..... off the top of my head the only animation for adults that we have produced that works is 'The Ricky Gervais Show' and that’s because all they have done is draw over a conversation between three extremely funny men.
For Channel 4 to allow this Full English crap on TV is a bigger scandal then George Entwistle not knowing about the Newsnight investigation. I will be watching the @ComedyOn4 twitter feed closely today hoping they use their 140 characters to say something along the lines of:
- #FullEnglish sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry
- #FullEnglish we know.... we are sorry. @SethMacFarlane please help us.
- #FullEnglish was just an elaborate @DerrenBrown experiment to see if a monkey with a typewriter could in fact write anything. Sorry
