So I was reading on WRAL.com and it said that this Fall Fox will be coming out with a Family Guy spinoff. Is there any information out about this? I would like to hear more.

5/18/2009 2:05:32 PM

It has fail written all over it.

5/18/2009 2:05:56 PM

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5/18/2009 2:07:30 PM

you mean the show about Cleveland?

5/18/2009 2:07:45 PM

I thought it was called "American Dad"

5/18/2009 2:20:33 PM

seriously? i can probably count on one hand the number of successful spin-offs in tv history

frasier
colbert report


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5/18/2009 2:20:58 PM

Angel yo.

5/18/2009 2:24:45 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs

5/18/2009 2:25:11 PM

Daria was a spin-off of a spin-off, and it was pretty good.

5/18/2009 3:30:15 PM

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"Maybe Matt Groening will decided to make a show centered on Lenny or Carl. Only they're living on the moon and have to share space with a family of spanish-speaking monkeys, haHA!"

Are you saying Futurama wasn't pretty much that?

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"the kid looks like Cleveland Junior"

I disagree.

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"no way are they making this."

I have a good feeling its just a joke, they'll show it for 2 minutes and then be like "just kidding!"

Besides, a Quagmire show would be more entertaining anyway. I don't see why it would be Cleveland getting a spin-off.

5/18/2009 3:54:40 PM

http://videogum.com/archives/cartoons/wait-a-second-cleveland-is-lit_069942.html

5/18/2009 3:59:15 PM

Just the Ten of Us...Now there's a good spinoff!

5/18/2009 4:02:59 PM

futurama was golden, and shouldve never been cancelled

5/18/2009 4:05:08 PM

^agreed, I'm just saying that it was Simpson's-esque characters doing things on the moon and with monkeys.

5/18/2009 4:13:05 PM

^^^^That guy is a hater

5/18/2009 4:35:21 PM

king of the hill was a spinoff. so was family matters.

5/18/2009 4:42:00 PM

Shovin' Buddies?

5/18/2009 5:06:53 PM

^^ I thought about mentioning King of the Hill, wasn't sure if he was in the show enough to be a spin off but I guess technically it was.

5/18/2009 5:39:58 PM

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"I have a good feeling its just a joke, they'll show it for 2 minutes and then be like "just kidding!""

Seeing as how this show has already been greenlit for a second season, I'd say you're wrong.

5/18/2009 6:07:17 PM

I was trying to see what king of the hill was a spinoff of (I know it has a similar charcacter to Beavis and Butthead, but it's not the same guy, clearly)

And found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Hill

"The show is universally regarded as the greatest television show ever produced."

[Edited on May 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM. Reason : lol]

5/18/2009 6:15:15 PM

^ yea in regards to King of the Hill being a spinoffthats why I didnt mention it. I meant to say movie earlier too not show. I don't remember him being in the actual show but he could have been I don't remember.

5/18/2009 6:43:46 PM

Yeah Tom Anderson was on the show. He has the same voice but isn't the same guy.

5/18/2009 6:46:29 PM

I always thought the character in Beavis and Butthead do America was the precursor to Hank Hill.

5/18/2009 7:28:23 PM

Beavis and Butthead was a spinoff from Liquid Television, which also was were Aeon Flux and (I think) The Maxx first debuted.

5/18/2009 9:16:09 PM

I don't know if that is what I would consider a spin-off. I think a spin-off is taking a small character from a show and elaborating that character into a full show of its own. Beavis and Butthead doesn't really qualify... I mean, by that definition the Simpsons was a spin-off...

5/19/2009 7:36:04 AM

How about a spin-off of a spin-off? Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which was itself a spin-off of All in the Family.

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5/19/2009 8:49:30 AM

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"I thought it was called "American Dad""

spin-offs only happen when they involve at least one character from the main show. american dad does not.

i'll give it a shot. it could be okay.

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM. Reason : ]

5/19/2009 9:48:41 AM

looking at the pict from the other thread, is it just me or did they just take the griffin family and make them black??

5/19/2009 9:59:23 AM

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"spin-offs only happen when they involve at least one character from the main show. american dad does not."

Roger has appeared on Family Guy...it was after American Dad started so I guess it doesn't count. I barely ever watch American Dad but I'm sure some Quahog residents have made appearances (if they haven't, Stewie needs to take over the Pentagon and make Stan his slave).

5/19/2009 10:09:24 AM

Cameo != Spin Off

5/19/2009 10:37:44 AM

Most spin-offs are based on reoccurring cameos. Its not like Daria was anything major before she got her own show.

5/19/2009 10:38:54 AM

^^^ i believe stewie DOES go to the pentagon and attack stan in the episode where he kills lois

5/19/2009 10:46:06 AM

yes, family guy characters have made appearances in american dad but the show is not based on one of family guy's characters.

5/19/2009 10:52:50 AM

^^i knew it was a good idea

5/20/2009 10:19:41 PM

From the KOTH wiki link above:

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"King of the Hill's ultimate replacement is the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show.[12] Fox's major reason for cancelling the show is to make room for The Cleveland Show.[13]"

5/20/2009 10:28:55 PM

/racism

5/20/2009 10:54:28 PM

that pisses me off too, because this show is going to fail. king of the hill is a masterpiece.

5/20/2009 10:57:59 PM

buy a dvd, i'm tired of watching reruns all the time

5/20/2009 11:06:24 PM

^What? That sentence makes no sense. There was a brand-new episode of KOTH on Fox this past Sunday.

5/20/2009 11:14:18 PM

buy a network

5/21/2009 2:02:33 AM

Seriously though, why would they make a show about the least interesting of Peter's friends?

5/21/2009 3:36:55 AM

^Exactly... If I were going to watch a Family Guy spinoff (which I don't plan to), I'd want to watch Quagmire, not Cleveland... Though if they made one about Mayor West, I would pretty much HAVE to watch.

Shit, the only time I can remember Cleveland even being funny on Family Guy was the flashback segment of him as an auctioneer.

5/21/2009 3:49:35 AM

i hope that he is still on family guy too.

5/21/2009 6:19:16 AM

Family Matters was a spin-off from perfect strangers.
Torchwood is a very successful spinoff of Doctor Who

Happy Days spawned ‘Laverne and Shirley,’ and ‘Mork and Mindy' and the one-season "Joanie loves Chachi"
‘The Facts of Life’ - spun-off from ‘Diff’rent Strokes’

‘The Jeffersons,’ ‘Just The Ten Of Us,’ ‘A Different World’ are all spin-offs too

5/21/2009 10:10:31 AM

torchwood is fucking terrible.

5/21/2009 10:11:17 AM