And in this installment of Versus we're comparing Family Guy to The Simpsons to settle once and for all, which Cartoon Crew deserves the most praise?

There is a lot to settle between the two long running series, so let's get to it.

Yeah, Round one laughs.

The early years of The Simpsons were hilarious when the show began.

It was nothing quite like it, and it quickly won over audiences with its sharp writing and nuanced topical humor.

Yes, I ate two grapes.

Please charge me for them.

02 grapes.

Who cares?

Just charge me something, please.

Okay, all right.

I need a price check on grapes You heard me feel so measly.

Staking grapes with a talented set of writers including Algae and Conan O'Brien, the show could makes highbrow and lowbrow comedy like no other Boomer slammed back down.

It's just a weather station mind, Marge.

It's fun to smash things good.

You got real purty hair combined with fluid animation show was edgy and brilliant.

However, the three decade plus animation lost some of its charm in later seasons.

I'm looking forward to visiting the Arctic Circle, as I call it, my wife's side of the bed.

For the purposes of that joke, I'm married.

Constraints to run time as well, a steeper competition against everything from copycat shows to YouTube.

Oops, the show has seen a dim in the spark that once made it so surprising.

Let's be honest.

Family Guy started out as something of a Simpsons clone.

After a number of cancellations, the show expanded from it's mildly crude comedic stylings to favor a more shocking, gross out, no holds barred approach.

While the writing often crosses the line, going for the cheapest shot available for devoted audiences, those shots often hit their mark.

Pulling out laughs from either the outrageousness of the situation or from the sheer awkward randomness of it.

I mean, look at the front of its Totalled.

It's completely totaled.

Peter office is just terrific.

How we gonna get Oh my God, that's I knew I should have driven.

I should always drive, cannot trust you, Peter Griffin.

Also, as the show seems to operate within its own rules, it will never run out of material, a problem with more reality.

Grounded shows winner Family Guy rounds.

Two characters.

The Simpsons characters are known and recognized around the world alone.

Ed Sarah, depart the Reverend Lovejoy, but I'm kind of in a tizzy.

Her son, Todd just told us he didn't want to eat his damn vegetables.

While the show focuses on the titular family.

Over the years, many side characters within the town of Springfield have been fleshed out with their own backstories personalities and episodes, some becoming as beloved as the members of The Simpsons themselves.

Goto hell, you old bastard.

Hey, I think they liked us.

Have the ruling students cute concerned?

Those aren't Do they see the way each of the characters interact with one another has real heart.

As for the main family, it took only three seasons for them to become icons of the TV landscape.

Despite nearly 20 years on the air, the characters of Family Guy have never really been given more than one dimension, and in some cases, such as Peter actually seem less nuanced than they did initially.

I'm watching this awesome show, Brian.

See, they took all these college and then making him all live together in a beach house.

Not a red one is sleeping with the green one and a blue one thinks he's gonna have a career in music, and the yellow one is just a total bitch.

Peter.

That's just a channel that's gone off the air.

While the Griffins are individually recognizable, they are all sort of the same in that they're all terrible people.

Yeah, I just remembered I gotta get the hell out of here.

As for the townsfolk of Quahog, Rhode Island, they likewise just seem to be somewhat lacking in depth.

Outside of ardent fans, the average person would be hard pressed to name even half a dozen, let alone describe anything truly individual about, um, what is it, that killer baby from the trial's Gone missing on A.

For creating a living cast of memorable characters, we have to give this one to The Simpsons winner.

The Simpsons.

Round three story lines.

Despite being a comedy, The Simpsons has veered with great success into other genres.

Some of the classic story lines are genuinely great television, with touching, memorable moments that helped to establish The Simpsons as a classic and that nostalgia continues to keep the show going.

Who can forget?

Lisa's substitute teacher will be okay.

Got free now or Homer.

Sad farewell to his mother.

Remember, whatever happens, you have a mother, and she's truly proud of you.

Or the time Homer took a job working for the nicest bond villain ever put to screen.

Or the many misfires of Sideshow Bob with A B and C plots throughout every episode, weaving in sinking and surprising and natural ways.

By the third act, there is much to enjoy in any given Simpson story line.

Good.

Soon I will kill you some peace Auntie Bow French for her foot.

Smells lovely.

Prepare to be murdered.

A party baby will do.

That's Sanskrit for your toes.

I like perfume.

In contrast to the well oiled gears of The Simpsons, family Guy works off of a bizarre sort of randomness sold to the gentleman from CO hog, Rhode Island.

Congratulations, sir.

What brings you down here to Louisville?

I don't know.

Generally, there is a chaotic, inciting event often caused by Peter that sets into motion the rest of the plot, but often in a totally unrelated way.

This makes it so that Act two is usually completely disconnected from the 1st 10 minutes or so a viewing it can make for a real roller coaster of a viewing experience, as you truly never know what direction any given episode will take.

Hi.

So have the medical experiments go?

So good, Lois, so good.

I'm gonna squeeze right in here if my thighs will let May.

However, relying on so much randomness doesn't leave room for the same clever meshing of storylines.

Furthermore, Family Guy really likes to make a joke out of dead air time and gags that go on way too long, Theo.

It's funny the first time, but after a while it starts to feel like patted runtime material for giving us some truly great plots.

Over the years, we're giving this one to the first family of Springfield.

Round four Consistency for 10 seasons, The Simpsons were simply amazing.

Nearly every episode was a winner with Mork quotable lines than you could shake a Canada fat go cause off on a solution to all of life's problems.

They couldn't keep it going forever, though, and there was a significant dip in quality by the beginning of season 11.

First, fans couldn't quite put their finger on it, but as the series went on, it was clear that the show had changed.

No longer grounded by the simple premise of a dysfunctional yet loving blue collar family, the plots became more theatrical and less relatable.

Homer seemed to get dumber, and not in a funny way.

And the storylines Zini er, once you get used to the drug things, this isn't a bad place.

Oh, it's wonderful.

Truly God's Country.

While there were still some good episodes, it always felt like a rare return to form rather than a continuation of it.

Except for the first season or two.

Family guy has turned out the same sort of content for years.

After a couple of false starts, they leaned into a madcap reality bending.

Can you get away with that on TV?

Style of narrative.

Okay, go.

Oh!

Oh, my God!

Are you okay?

They're insane.

Approach keeps many plot doors open as the show truly works on cartoon logic with provocative humor.

What, my love?

Tinker toy and a little dribble boy.

He can either tap his pram away.

You never know what you're going to see in any given family guy episode.

But you know what you're in for by tuning in whether it's a road trip to murder Santa Claus.

A mission to get Jesus laid.

Your 2000 year long cold streak is about to come to an end.

What do you mean?

I'm saying, Jesus, we're gonna help you lose your virginity or an endless fight with a giant chicken.

There is no bottom to the absurd.

Well, family guys so steadily draws from winner Family Guy.

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Round five.

Legacy.

Despite the ups and downs, The Simpsons Air still wildly popular.

18 bucks for this.

What a rip off.

Over 30 years old and showing no signs of stopping, The Simpsons has been parodied, quoted, merchandised and broadcast so widely it's nigh impossible to escape the show's reach through an uncanny ability to tap into the cultural zeitgeist, they've accidentally predicted a number of real world events.

As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.

Several of the show's catchphrases have been added to dictionaries.

Look up stupid in a dictionary over a picture of me.

It holds the record for the most episodes and aired seasons of any scripted television program.

And the show's comedic timing in style, including the lack of sitcom laugh track, are so copied they've become part of the fabric of not just television but Western pop culture.

While it has been its own creature for a number of years, Family Guy is ultimately still part of The Simpsons legacy.

Would an adult animation about a working class family with an oafish husband, long suffering wife and 2.5 Children even have aired in 1999?

If The Simpsons hadn't just done it for 10 years, we act like we didn't take a lot from The Simpsons.

What we took a lot from The Simpsons.

Like many shows cast under the Yellow Shadow, it's clear that Family Guy ran into The Simpsons.

Did it first problem early on before finding its own stride.

Several other duff variations, packages and design elements have been similarly infringed, resulting again and again in pale imitations, cheap copies, clumsy counterfeits, and weak substitution.

Tze The show has developed its own following style and staying power.

But the influence of the older show is undeniable, and its own impact on pop culture history just can't quite compete.

Once again.

The Simpsons did it.

Winner The Simpsons Do you agree with our picks?

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