![]() Chris’s “I need an adult" (+1) is perfect for escaping awkwardness. ![]() Peter’s trademark laugh (+1), “holy crap” (+1), endless “whoa, whoa, whoas” (+1), and adaptable “shut up, Meg” (+2) weren’t the only lines that made it off the screen. On the other hand, Family Guy is unique in its ability to kill an internet meme by merely featuring it on the show, a phenomenon known as “the Family Guy effect.” (+2) The show also had a thing for eclectic musical non-sequiturs, and gave Conway Twitty (+2), the B-52’s “Rock Lobster” (+1), and the Trashmen song “Surfin’ Bird” (+1) a brief renaissance. The series' primary contributions to the comedy landscape were its popularization of the cutaway gag (+4), and introducing Adam West to a whole new generation (+1). Not only did this result in another 14 (and counting) seasons and MacFarlane-verse sister series like The Cleveland Show (+1) and American Dad (+3), it made cancellation no longer a permanent death sentence, (+7), even though you “touch yourself at night.” (+1). The show was so popular in death that Fox revived it in 2005. Family Guy also sold a ton of DVDs, helping to fuel the series DVD boom of the era and get other shows on discs (+3). Fox gave the first 50 episodes to Cartoon Network, and those episodes helped carry the Adult Swim programming slate (+5) through its early years. Gaining a legion of fans within its first three seasons, Family Guy did not go quietly into that good night when it was initially cancelled in 2003. Which one? You'll have to scroll down to find out, because if I did all this work you little ingrates can at least skim this article.īuckle up, buckaroos. What resulted was a monumental, subjective, exhausting, and hopefully exhaustive process that at least gave me a math-based argument for which cartoon was the most important of our lifetimes-and one cartoon’s massive reach did exceed all others. But kids parroting Cartman lines on the playground doesn’t leave as much of an impact on the world as the attitudes toward politics and environmentalism South Park helped create, so for each of these items I assigned a point value from 1 to 10. These programs-the big three of Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park in particular-literally altered the way people talked, and later how they posted online. So I did my best to tally up every instantly recognizable catchphrase, meme, and IRL impact created by each show. Supposedly, writer, John Swartzwelder stops by the sub.I wanted to find some way to quantify the impact the major cartoons of the 90s had on society-this means Futurama, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy.We also won't let you shill the Eddie Stobart trucking company. We no longer will allow you all to shill the MALK company's products and now remove them.So some political posts are allowed, but if you're completely changing a quote/image just for political reasons it can be removed. ![]()
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