Who was in the wrong here?

His works is mostly administrative.

AD characters give as good as they get instead of being punching bags. Even Klaus will ruin everyone else's life given an inch.

Like when Steve and Roger were on hold

Family Guy's version of that joke:
youtube.com/watch?v=_ENbp-U6JPk

I'll leave it to you guys to articulate why this is so much worse than American Dad, despite being essentially the same joke.

Allow me to impress upon you the severe mistake you have made, for years my conduct has been largely benign and yet without provocation you have severed our détente and forced me to unleash upon you the vengeful flame of a thousand suns! You shall curse your mothers for the day of your birth! So go now... gooo and begin your life of fear, knowing, that when you least expect it, the looming sword of Damocles will crush down upon you cleaving you in twain and as you gaze upon the smoking wreckage that was once your life, you will regret the day you crossed the wrong fish!

I've been struggling to express exactly this.

Why is American Dad more sincere than Family Guy? Is it because American Dad is more grounded in its givens so the comedic actions have more weight?

Like the difference between Stewie wearing a costume and Rodger wearing a costume. One character takes the act more seriously than the other despite both actions meant to be comedic.

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Steve just needs to get laid already. I'm tired of the cocktease episodes.

He did though. Another episode even confirmed a cherry being popped between him and that purity club girl

The timing is just better. With peter, you know its going to be stupid, and he sets it up by pointing put the fire extinguisher.
We know lewis is crazy but he also behaves like an authority figure half the time as well. You really dont know what he will do. So when he appears you halfway expect a sensible response. Then without mising a beat he smashes the coffee pot.
Whats more it isnt drawn out like peter's. Its just one solid hit that comes out of nowhere.
Its all about that set up and timing. Family guy is too slow on both counts.

>One character takes the act more seriously than the other despite both actions meant to be comedic.
Roger is goddamn insane to the point he spawned clones for every different costume he's ever worn.
youtube.com/watch?v=0NknZYThNQo

What episode confirmed it?

better characters
most of family guy's characters didn't really have distinct personalities for interactions with other people. everyone just kind of revolved around Peter. Brain and Stewie get spotlight but they're hardly developed in the start. Ironically Meg is the second main character of Family Guy in the earlier seasons

Insane is the wrong word. Roger is committed to his personas as we see in the episode where Stan has to take over some of them.

All of the American Dad characters are all in on their gimmicks. Family Guy characters are all too cool for their gimmicks because the show is very cynical.

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Louis's evil laugh here kills me.

I believe it's because Principal Lewis went overboard and then laughed about it as though he enjoyed it

Most people will agree Steve deserved some sort of punishment, maybe being punched or even getting his ass kicked by an older, bigger boy. But the fact it was the principal who then laughed at it makes it funny.

On the other hand as pointed out, the gag there is that it's a grown man beating up a girl for more or less no reason other than she's mean to Meg. Meg is always abused by her family. So it's a complete random, but expected moment from Peter

In addition while cutaways can be funny, the problem here is we know Peter is a fucking sociopath who has no problems hurting anyone so it was less funny and more like 'remember how Meg gets abused by Peter? Well here he is standing up for her because he gets to hurt a child'

Because it tries to give personality to the characters. Family Guy is slapstick. American Dad is more like live action sitcom
The best way to describe it is think of any time Peter hurts Meg, it's done as a 'joke'. Compare that to Stan diving on Hayley because he thought she was a burglar. Earlier in the pilor he makes Francine pull out dual machetes that she sleeps with to 'protect the clan'
The joke already is Stan expects to die and trusts someone with two fucking swords to protect the kids. We know something fucked up is going to happen
So it turns out he almost murders his own daughter then plays it as serious

Which leads us back to it: the characters in American Dad are series. In Family guy they're just slapstick

A long, long time ago, this is like, before Family Guy got canceled the first time, a friend told me that Family Guy was like a sketch comedy. I agreed at the time and I thought it was a good thing, because it gave Family Guy a very distinct, unique edge. And I still believe it did, because in those first couple seasons, the jokes were really funny. It was a sketch comedy masquerading as a sitcom, but there was still an underpinning there that made you care about the characters.

It's still basically a sketch comedy, but now the mask is fully off and nothing matters. Also, as pointed out, the pacing is shit and it makes the jokes unfunny.

Am I stupid? I have a major in city planning I can tell you where to put a bar and a school put I can't tell when a fish is giving me the business.

Always thought they should bring her back, suddenly aged up to be a love interest for Steve, wouldn't even be the first time they did that kind of thing, happened with Akikko as well

Why did he pick the little girl to punch?

>most likely to plead insanity

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