Family Guy. The Cleveland Show. American Dad. Seth Macfarlane is the latest Shakespeare. I used to say that of Matt Groening and The Simpsons, to a lesser degree of South Park, King of the Hill and other assorted pieces of animation comedy genius. But evolution is a wonderful thing and somehow the creators of FG, TCS and AD seem that bit closer to the summit of comic-satiric-surrealistic perfection.
Isn't it just too clangingly obvious that as on-screen human actors become more and more two-dimensional, cliched ciphers spouting paint-by-numbers dialogue, so their animated alternatives have reached a kind of uber-mature sophistication ? If you're looking for signs of intelligent life on our dumbed down planet, head straight for the sagacious, rarefied realm of cartoon japery. It makes everything else seem like child's play.
PS: And once again thank you, iTunes, for giving me access to this stuff out here in the back of beyond, a culture where Family Guy might as well have come from Mars.
PPS: Fate's a funny thing: "Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane had been scheduled to be on the flight (American Airlines Flight 11) but arrived at the airport late." The free world will always have the last laugh.
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