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Compared to Clerks, Family Guy was crap, but compared to what is on regular TV, Family Guy was pretty good. Note: The Tick also got cancelled, guess the networks need to figure out how to tune drivel for morons like "Runaway Bride" into a TV series....

Actually The Tick wasn't cancelled -- the episodes they showed this past fall/winter had actually been "in the can" for over a year. It wasn't nearly as good as it should be (I'm a fan of both the comic and the cartoon) but still had enough of the fun to make me enjoy it as just pure mindless entertainment.

Part of the problem was that Ben Englund lost a lot of the rights when he signed the cartoon deal (ironically with Fox)... but for whatever legal reasons they couldn't create characters like American Maid, Die Flader Mouse, etc...and so had to use knock offs, which never translated as well...

But...the show was not canceled! :)

NOT IN THE FACE! NOT IN THE FACE!!

Actually The Tick wasn't cancelled -- the episodes they showed this past fall/winter had actually been "in the can" for over a year. It wasn't nearly as good as it should be (I'm a fan of both the comic and the cartoon) but still had enough of the fun to make me enjoy it as just pure mindless entertainment.

I wanted to like The Tick as I enjoyed co-creator and former Seinfeld writer Larry Charles' other journey into comics, Dilbert. But it just didn't get the job done, IMHO.

The problem with The Tick is, strangely enough, The Tick! Patrick Warburton can be funny as all get out, as he was in "The Face Painter" epi of Sein that made him a star -- but he's only as funny as a script will let him be. Of all the principal characters in The Tick, The Tick is the least interesting -- he's dense and monosyllabic, and the others are funny dealing just with him. (BTW, Tick's high-tech bobbing and rising antennae just get in the way of punch lines.)

IMHO, the show would have been better with the knock-off characters and a Tick knock-off that could have been shifted to the background.

Poor Liz Vassey, who was on another of my fave shows that no one else liked: Pig Sty, from UPN's first season.