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In its short run, Family Guy was, on an average night, funnier than the average Simpsons night during that same stretch of time.

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Yeah tend to agree -
"When it was good, it was very, very, good, and when it was bad, it was horrid."

I liked the Dukes of Hazzard spoof episode they did - that was a real hoot and my wife who had never seen the DoH thought it was even funnier once I stopped laughing and explained some DoH backplot and "recurring plot devices" to her.

But other episodes were pretty off sometimes - more than once in fact.