only want to see you laughing...

Is anyone else obsessed with The Family Guy? I'm a devout Simpsons fan, and today they were showing a rerun of The Simpsons (on Fox) opposite a rerun of The Family Guy (on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim). I felt as if I had stumbled upon a moral dilemma of cosmic proportions. Tellingly, I chose The Family Guy.

Stewie, the 1-year-old whose sole purpose in life is to kill his mother (and achieve world domination in the process) is simply the freshest character on TV today, although the show has been cancelled. There seems to be an online consensus that the reason for the cancellation was the extreme political incorrectness of the series. Alas. This just highlights the fact that notions of political correctness (lauded by liberals) are inherently inconsistent with the anti-censorship movement (a decidedly liberal movement). One for the libertarians!

Some favorite Stewie quotes of mine:

Chris: Hey birthday dude, you want some ice-cream?
Stewie: Yes, but no sprinkles! For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you. (Episode 103)

Stewie: You'll prance about this house like a cock on a walk, but will you be prancing when, when, when there's nothing to prance about? Hm? Will you be prancing then? (Episode 107)

Stewie: [reading the Bible] My my, what a thumping good read. Lions eating Christians, people nailing each other to two by fours. I'll say, you won't find that in Winnie the Pooh. (Episode 202)

Meg: Hey everybody, guess what I am.
Stewie: Well the, the end result of a drunken back seat grope fest and a broken prophylactic? (Episode 305).

Stewie: You know mother, this could almost have passed for a palatable banana pudding, but without 'nilla wafers it's just another one of your wretched culinary abortions. [knocks it off the table] Now clean it up! (Episode 322)

Meg: Mom guess what. I made Flag Girl squad.
Stewie: Flag Girl? Um yes, good for you. Now you can be somewhere else when the boys don't call. (Episode ?)

Stewie: I say, mother, this hotdog has been on my plate for a full minute and it has not yet cut itself! (Episode ?)

Lois: Now Stewie, why don't you play nice?
Stewie: I don't know Mother, why don't you burn in hell? (Episode ?)

Stewie : Oh my God I can't believe Lois is going to die, there are so many people to thank. God of course and...oh this was completely unexpected.....lets see here.....oh yes, Satan. (Episode ?)

Stewie: Yes, yes... I rather LIKE this 'God' fellow... A plague here... A pestilence there... OMNIPOTENCE! I've got to get me some of that... (Episode ?)

Short-lived, but brilliant.