First off: did he actually address why his problem with the show wasn't the show itself? I'm not sure exactly when he mentioned it, or if it was supposed to be the fact Nickelodeon played this at a time for kids to see it, or if that was another issue he had with it. It didn't sound like he ever addressed his very first issue with it, but that could just be me missing something.
So then he starts complaining about the laugh track. Sure, we all hate it. Then he says it's because it's animated...? Everyone knows audiences are hardly ever there to be live, there's many takes for a sitcom and they record the first take's audience's reactions (that are also scripted) and replay them so that the audience doesn't have to sit there for four takes of an entire show. I know next to nothing about reviewing stuff and even I know this. Laugh tracks are obnoxious in anything, but don't say it's because it's irrelevant to an animated series. Hanna-Barbera did that shit ALL THE TIME. Flintstones, anyone? Oh, he addresses it... but says it's okay because it was the first of its kind?
So? Does that mean regular sitcoms need to stop with laugh tracks because they're not the first to do it? Just because we don't use them for animated shows anymore means we can't ever use them again? I thought you were saying laugh tracks are distracting and annoying because they cover up the fact that most sitcoms aren't funny. You're just being a nostalgic ass, right now.
I am not even coming CLOSE to touching on how he complains about cliche families when he also doesn't get the weird 'quirks' that try to make a family member different. I'm not saying it DOES make them different, but it means they honestly tried, right? A business-oriented teen girl? At first it sounds new. Why am I not going to look into any more of this? Because I've read his goddamn script for his own animated show and he doesn't have the right to whine about cliche, overused stereotypes or tropes for each family member.
At all.
I get it, you're pointing out the annoying "clumsy, goofy dad who somehow keeps them all together" cutout. That's fine. But you know what? I honestly remember and have a soft spot for Homer Simpson, Hugo Neutron, and Bob Oblong. They all were genuinely funny and had good moments of reminding us of our own dads. My dad's a goofball. Lots of dads are goofballs. As long as you give that character an actual personality where they can feel a range of emotions outside of "he's silly and dumb" then I really do not give a shit, and neither should you. I can see those dads hanging out with their kids and being good influences to them in their lives if they were real people, unlike your cookie cutter sack of protoplasm you made for your cartoon.
You know people go "Simpsons did it first" as a joke, right? As in, you shouldn't hold back your own jokes because someone else did it. Just like you complained about this show doing a cliche joke wrong, you did it wrong by saying "Family Guy did it first." No, they probably didn't. Don't be a hypocrite.
What the fuck are you talking about? Highway chase scenes are some of the most iconic parts in any classic comedy. They are also cliched nowadays but they can be a huge potential for hilarious absurd moments all piling together. I'd also say environmentalists having shotguns and shooting at people could be pretty funny... why on earth do you need that much logic of "environmentalists don't own guns because they're not good for the environment"? That's really stretching it.
Okay, so that was one episode. This show looks pretty lame but... one episode. So you chock it all up to meaning the entire series is bad? If you review more episodes to show why, sure. For the love of God, stop trying to compare this to Family Guy as if Family Guy is some milestone all comedy must strive to achieve, especially when you cannot stop bitching about how you hate mean-spirited dumb dads (Peter Griffin?).
