I can't help but be bothered by the trailer for The Cleveland Show. I think Stewie sums it up best in the beginning when he says, "What the hell, HE gets his own show?!"
Cleveland never had his own catchphrase.
Quagmire always seemed the fitting recipient for a spinoff, as "giggity goo" is universally one of the most applicable catchphrases known to man. He could be the next Leisure Suit Larry for T.V., someone for frat boys and adolescents to look up to in their confused moments of sexual frustration.
Watch the extended trailer at HULU.com and see for your self-- it's a strange risk they're taking, Fox. When amazing shows like Arrested Development and Firefly get canceled, it makes it all the harder to appreciate shows like this and American Idol. What's the damn deal?!
While I agree that Cleveland getting his own show is a little disconcerting, I must say, a Quagmire show would be awful. He's a goofy, very out-there character with the one joke that he's a pervert. It works as a couple-jokes-a-show thing, but would die as an entire show. I think they picked Cleveland because he is boring enough that you could have a show about him that can go in any direction, not just the singular direction of pervert jokes. Still though, I say McFarlane should cancel all but one of his shows and put all the focus on that. It's been clear for about two years that he's been paying way more attention to American Dad than Family Guy and that AD has far surpassed FG in quality... but a third show? I feel like all will suffer. Not that I'm too concerned.
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