The Shawshank Redemption or The Green Mile

[MinionZombie]

WTF? I haven't watch Family Guy in years because it became the same repetitive crap....but it's gotten THIS bad? Ugh... Bizarre ... back in about season 5 or 6 is when, for me, it got shite 95% of the time. Fortunately the episodes have really picked up again, and that Stephen King episode was one of the funniest of the latest couple of seasons (same goes for episode 8x01, which I had to watch a second time the day after cos I laughed so much).

[bassman]

I think I stopped watching it around the...fourth season? I know after it was brought back from being cancelled it was the same jokes over and over again. Fighting the chicken, the "shhhh ahhhhh", animal or object with gay voice, old man pedophile, etc. I gave up on it after I kept seeing those same jokes. The first few seasons are still hilarious, though. And now they've got a Cleveland spinoff???? I watched about 15 minutes of that show and wasn't sure if it was even meant to be a comedy...

[EvilNed]

Actually i could argue that to great extent but I know most of us would agree to disagree. Basically you have a story set in the great depression, and the south, a place very hard hit by the depression, and a place steeped in spiritual enlightenment. A majority of southerners are hard core christians, so the context of the story isn't that far out of place, and the subcontext of the story is whether you want to believe in a greater power. Tis a fine line with some people, but overall this is the simplicity of the story. Someone wrote in this thread that the Shawshank Redemption was a great film about the human condition. And the very inclusion of spiritual overtones into The Green Mile ruined that film's chances of getting anywhere near as close to having real and human characters. In real situations. The Green Mile was too melodramatic and too silly for me. You may like the spirituality in the film. I think it's very silly.

[MinionZombie]

haha, The Cleveland Show isn't very good is it? Even still, the last two or three episodes have stepped up considerably ... but not enough to match Family Guy or The Simpson's (which is also doing a lot better these days after many 'teen-years' of pish-ness). Aye, I think there was an air of doing the same gags repeatedly (and certainly doing too many of those "like the time when" gags - I mean fuck, in season 5 it just got LUDICROUS how many of those they did per show, and it wasn't at all funny). Being a bit obsessive though, I keep watching these shows, and as such I'm always glad when the quality picks up again.