http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/17/television.simpsons.reut/index.html

'nuff said.

"...Fox has greenlit two more seasons..."

greenlit ???

Is that supposed to be English ?

You know, these days, I just can't force myself to get upset about these things anymore. I regularly see those kind of bastardizations in even the most respected newspapers and magazines. This goes double for online news sources, which I guess editors can't be bothered to actually check before they post, for fear that they won't be the first to post a story.

At this point, my brain has trained itself to just skip over them, get whatever news story they're trying to convey, and move on.

It's called slang, home boy. Or I guess you could call it englishizing or englishization.

``Alum'' for ``alumnus'' or ``alumna'' continues to bother me.

Just the other day, I saw a newspaper use the word ``drug'' to mean the past tense of ``drag''. <sigh>

greenlit ???
Is that supposed to be English ?

No, it's a sub-dialect called Hollywood Speak.

Remember people, verbing weirds language.

"English? Who needs English? I'm never going to England!" - Homer

Thank you so much for bringing this thread back on topic, instead of yet another fscking thread which degenerates into a discussion of proper grammar.

Damnit, why do they have to bring King of the Hill back? I have never found that show in the least bit funny. Family Guy, on the other hand, is 100 times funnier. Why the hell did they cancel that?

Agreed, and Futurama rocks, but is hardly ever on where I live.

Futurama was cancelled, but they seem to be showing the remainder of the already-filmed(?) episodes. Cartoon Network is showing reruns now, though.

On the other hand, I have to disagree with both of you. I find KotH pretty funny, though I don't go out of my way to watch it, and I liked the first season of Futurama, but the remainder of Futurama was generally unfunny and Family Guy was totally unfunny. (Okay, except for one thing I saw where the old Kool-Aid man crashed through a wall and then became despondent after having everyone stare at him.)

Here (new england) futurama is on at 7:00PM. not the syndicated shows, the new ones!

Great show, bad time slot.
Not sure why Fox put it there. If it was on later, I'd watch it.

Family Guy is sheer genius.

Z~

Like Bitt said, Fox cancelled Futurama (because they're stupid), and they're showing what was left of the episodes that were made. I'm pretty sure the reason it's on at 7PM on Sundays is that they won't mind having the football games run over in time, forcing them to skip Futurama.

I also definitely think Family Guy was hilarious, and what's funny is I think that the Kool-Aid man bit has become pretty well known. I know people who don't know what the show is, but they know that scene. Hilarious.

They're coming out with a DVD for FG, but it's not like "Season 1" or anything like that. I think it's just a collection of episodes. I hate when they do that. Why not release all the episodes at once and be done with it? Argh!

They're coming out with a DVD for FG

I gave up and bought season 1 on Region 2 DVD. My laptop makes a fine player.

I also have the banned Family Guy episode as an mpeg file

In its short run, Family Guy was, on an average night, funnier than the average Simpsons night during that same stretch of time. Unfortunately, I don't think it hit home with the entire 18-49 age group that The Simpsons did. The Family Guy brand of humor tends to be "funny" to more college-aged people and less funny to those in their 30's and 40's. For some reason, The Simpsons manages to hit a really wide target audience, hence, it outlasted Family Guy. I don't agree with the decision, but that's what I've read about why Family Guy didn't last.

Plus, Family Guy was "the new kid" and The Simpsons was an institution. It's easier to win as an incumbent, and I guess Fox just decided that the animated comedy landscape was overcrowded with KotH and The Simpsons already.

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greenlit ???

Is that supposed to be English ?

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Well what would you say "Green Lighted"?

Lit is the past tense of light, so when something is approved its Greenlit - that sounds ok to me.

Well I would say "has been given the green light"

but I am an engineer and tend to speak wrongly most of the time anyway

Greenlit is a perfectly cromulant word

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Greenlit is a perfectly cromulant word

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Yes, I'd agree, but cromulant is not a cromulant word.

I also have the banned Family Guy episode as an mpeg file

Any chance of making this available or where I can get it myself? Or info like the ep. title so I can search?

BTW I read FG died becasue FOX would steal the writers for other projects so they never got any consistency with the writing and continuity was non-existant between seasons/episodes.

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

Personally, the most suprising part of Fox picking the show up is that the creators have more storylines in the bag. I mean, some of the more recent ones have been reeeeeally thin. Several shows in the past few seasons have just been strange, or random, or (once) not funny at all.

For example, I most of the jockey stuff in the Furious D episode (like the song in the land of the jockeys), was just weird and random, and not really all that funny.

I always wonder if most of these extrememly random moments are references to things, and I'm just not able to get all of them. I mean, I used to watch the show with about 6 other people every Sunday, and I was the only person in the room who was laughing his ass off at half of the Mr X episode, because nobody else had the slightest idea what "The Prisoner" was, consequently making half the show very strange for them.

Fortunately, they've been picking up in quality lately.

I still wish Family Guy and Futurama were continuing. Another upside to Futurama was that the animation was better than anything I've seen out of cartoons lately. It looked so damn good!

cromulant is not a cromulant word.

it is in springfield

"When you wish upon a Weinstein"

Is that supposed to be English ?

You may appreciate this...just heard it a few minutes ago on NPR (forget the context...somebody being interviewed about the upcoming anti-war demo I think...):

"If we don't effort to bridge it..."

I stand ready to have somebody Bitt me and tell me this is real English....

It isn't (obviously), but it is one I've heard a lot.

Bam!

That's the best freakin' news I've heard lately!

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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.

Yup. If they're correct in saying it's the first 28 episodes, that would be the first two seasons (according to Ep Guides), since season one was very short (7 episodes). Hopefully they'll release the third as well.

Got it with WInMX, thanks!