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KIDS, YOU TRIED YOUR BEST, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. Howling with laughter, senior Arthur Sheyn listens to one of historys most popular characters, Homer Jay Simpson, explain how to live life. The beer-loving safety inspector of Springfields nuclear power plant resonates with his audience.
"It's about a milkshake, a meatball, some french fries, and their zany adventures."
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Everyone has a different view on what is funny, which explains why similar cartoons dont succeed. What some people might find to be funny others might not, therapist Elaine Chan Scherer said. Funny differs among individuals. Clearly a majority of people are able to laugh at the antics of Family Guys Peter, his lovely housewife Lois, his two average socially incompetent teenagers, Meg and Chris, their cynical talking dog named Brian and the popular baby Stewie, who wants to kill his mother.
Family Guy takes its viewers by the shoulders, shakes them to catch their attention and fills them with laughter. Family Guy is one of the few shows which makes me laugh out loud, Goodman said.
Old cartoons like The Simpsons are the godfathers for new cartoons. Shows such as Family Guy and American Dad, feature wacky misadventures of abnormal middle-class families with a twist they push the boundaries of what is appropriate. Family Guy has a raunchy, crude and over-the-top humor compared to The Simpsons, Valero said. Happy Tree Friends, like South Park, features bloody deaths, in which characters die in almost every episode but then appear in the next show.
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