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Ref sheet for my American Dad sona, Rick!
He's a gay little fishercat who used to be a human. He willingly chose to volunteer for the CIA's mindswap program because he was tired of being a human. He wanted to be a furry in real life now. And now he is.
He actually just rents out the Smith family's basement as a room and art studio. He's the only one of those weird little creatures to pay rent, so he's just a tenant. He isn't considered part of the family until him and Klaus start dating. Even then everyone thought this was NOT gonna last and were taking bets on when Klaus would fumble this. He didnt. Somehow.
So once it was obvious this relationship was serious, they started including Rick in things. He was more than just a tenant now! Except he still has to pay rent. Even when him and Klaus are married and Klaus starts living down there with him he still has to pay rent. Klaus doesn't but they do try to get him to.
At some point Jeff and Rick find out they're related! Jeff didn't really know his family so he had no idea he had a relative out there. Though when he finds out, he sees Rick's deadname on a family tree genealogy thing when everyone in the family does one.
Like how it went was Jeff being like "Hey, apparently I have an alive family member! It says her name is [deadname]" and Rick drops whatever he was holding because he gets startled hearing this. He then has to be like "Yeah that's uh. That's me. I guess that explains why we have the same last name then. But don't say she or that name ever again." and Jeff is like "OH MY GOD RICK IM SORRY...Or should I call you Uncle Rick now?" and then they try to start bonding bcuz they both had the experience of being abandoned by the family and finding a real family w/ the Smiths.
If I had a nickle for every time the Smiths took in someone with the last name Fischer and changed thier life for the better, id have two nickles.
He's a gay little fishercat who used to be a human. He willingly chose to volunteer for the CIA's mindswap program because he was tired of being a human. He wanted to be a furry in real life now. And now he is.
He actually just rents out the Smith family's basement as a room and art studio. He's the only one of those weird little creatures to pay rent, so he's just a tenant. He isn't considered part of the family until him and Klaus start dating. Even then everyone thought this was NOT gonna last and were taking bets on when Klaus would fumble this. He didnt. Somehow.
So once it was obvious this relationship was serious, they started including Rick in things. He was more than just a tenant now! Except he still has to pay rent. Even when him and Klaus are married and Klaus starts living down there with him he still has to pay rent. Klaus doesn't but they do try to get him to.
At some point Jeff and Rick find out they're related! Jeff didn't really know his family so he had no idea he had a relative out there. Though when he finds out, he sees Rick's deadname on a family tree genealogy thing when everyone in the family does one.
Like how it went was Jeff being like "Hey, apparently I have an alive family member! It says her name is [deadname]" and Rick drops whatever he was holding because he gets startled hearing this. He then has to be like "Yeah that's uh. That's me. I guess that explains why we have the same last name then. But don't say she or that name ever again." and Jeff is like "OH MY GOD RICK IM SORRY...Or should I call you Uncle Rick now?" and then they try to start bonding bcuz they both had the experience of being abandoned by the family and finding a real family w/ the Smiths.
If I had a nickle for every time the Smiths took in someone with the last name Fischer and changed thier life for the better, id have two nickles.
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I apologize in advance if this sounds pretentious, but looking at all of your MacFarlaneverse fanart, one of the things I like about it is that it's a more genuinely emotional interpretation of this aesthetic that, because it really only exists as a vesicle for farce, doesn't have that much emotional depth and tends to be thought of as disposable.
It's something I'd like to see more of, stuff that's inspired by and improves on this particular institution rather than just ripping it off or criticizing it.
Long story short, I like this! :P
It's something I'd like to see more of, stuff that's inspired by and improves on this particular institution rather than just ripping it off or criticizing it.
Long story short, I like this! :P
Thank you!!! This comment is genuinely amazing.
If you let me get a Bit Pretentious too, I grew up with Family Guy and American Dad (Mostly Family Guy.) and had a pretty shit childhood, so the shows, despite being negative and mean, still felt like somewhat of a solace and I think really kickstarted my love of adult cartoons. I never connected with most kids shows becasue I didnt really get a childhood so Seth's shows have always been kind of special to me despite, you know. Everything.
I think whats fun about the characters is that you can kind of just do whatever. And I think fear of being seen as Cringe stops people from just taking that and running as far as they want when they do fanart.
I do also think American Dad in general has more solid characters and setting and worldbuilding and more heart than Family Guy, but there was always something there with Family Guy that so many people loved. I think American Dad has gotten great at keeping the raunchy weird humor while letting the world change permanently sometimes and not being afraid to retcon shitty edgy things from early on in the show (Shoutout to them for retconning all the fucking nazi jokes w Klaus. Hes so much funnier now).
But even with the consensus American Dad has more heart(Like with Roger genuinely caring about Rogu a lot and Jeff becoming a permanent character and him and Hayley having a pretty good relationship all things considered.), there still was something to Family Guy that captivated so many, including me. There is merit to Macfarlane shows but they're buried in a lot of shit.
Sorry for going off so long oh my god I did not mean to do that. I just think abt these shows a lot and always have.
If you let me get a Bit Pretentious too, I grew up with Family Guy and American Dad (Mostly Family Guy.) and had a pretty shit childhood, so the shows, despite being negative and mean, still felt like somewhat of a solace and I think really kickstarted my love of adult cartoons. I never connected with most kids shows becasue I didnt really get a childhood so Seth's shows have always been kind of special to me despite, you know. Everything.
I think whats fun about the characters is that you can kind of just do whatever. And I think fear of being seen as Cringe stops people from just taking that and running as far as they want when they do fanart.
I do also think American Dad in general has more solid characters and setting and worldbuilding and more heart than Family Guy, but there was always something there with Family Guy that so many people loved. I think American Dad has gotten great at keeping the raunchy weird humor while letting the world change permanently sometimes and not being afraid to retcon shitty edgy things from early on in the show (Shoutout to them for retconning all the fucking nazi jokes w Klaus. Hes so much funnier now).
But even with the consensus American Dad has more heart(Like with Roger genuinely caring about Rogu a lot and Jeff becoming a permanent character and him and Hayley having a pretty good relationship all things considered.), there still was something to Family Guy that captivated so many, including me. There is merit to Macfarlane shows but they're buried in a lot of shit.
Sorry for going off so long oh my god I did not mean to do that. I just think abt these shows a lot and always have.
No problem! Again, it's nice to see someone take a more genuinely emotional look at these cartoons, instead of just criticizing them or ripping them off. Whatever you wanna say about the quality of the shows themselves after such long runs, these are still very enjoyable characters who've made me laugh a lot. That's reason enough to still like them.
And that's generally how it is with sitcom characters anyway: on one hand, they rely on the strength of each individual joke, so if they jokes don't work, neither do the characters, especially when there's such a reliance on shock humor. Plus, you can only stretch a sitcom premise so far before you're forced to make things really, really outlandish just to keep having stories. And Seth's shows are VERY "sitcomy" sitcoms. If it's a fear of looking "cringe" that's holding more folks back from doing more earnest interpretations of these characters, I think it's because the shows themselves are viewed as disposable, pedestrian humor not worth much more than cheap laughs. A more earnest Family Guy probably makes as much sense to most folks as a more earnest Gilligan's Island lol.
On the other hand, the only reason there can be so many stories in the first place is because these characters are so easily discernible. They're kind of like Hanna Barbara characters, in that you know on first glance who they are and what they would or wouldn't do, which makes it easier to write stories around them (I don't think they'd be as easy to criticize if people didn't recognize them so immediately). And if Scooby Doo can get a zillion different reinterpretations of over the course of half a century, why not have a more genuinely emotional, non-cynical reinterpretation of MacFarlandverse characters?
Again, I really like what you're doing with these characters and this aesthetic is really cool and I'd love to see more!
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Funny story: about 10+ years ago, just as it was becoming popular to say Family Guy wasn't funny any more, my friends and I would regularly go on for about a minute or two about how the new episodes of Family Guy weren't funny... and then immediately proceed to quote our favorite likes from older episodes for upwards of an hour. XD
And that's generally how it is with sitcom characters anyway: on one hand, they rely on the strength of each individual joke, so if they jokes don't work, neither do the characters, especially when there's such a reliance on shock humor. Plus, you can only stretch a sitcom premise so far before you're forced to make things really, really outlandish just to keep having stories. And Seth's shows are VERY "sitcomy" sitcoms. If it's a fear of looking "cringe" that's holding more folks back from doing more earnest interpretations of these characters, I think it's because the shows themselves are viewed as disposable, pedestrian humor not worth much more than cheap laughs. A more earnest Family Guy probably makes as much sense to most folks as a more earnest Gilligan's Island lol.
On the other hand, the only reason there can be so many stories in the first place is because these characters are so easily discernible. They're kind of like Hanna Barbara characters, in that you know on first glance who they are and what they would or wouldn't do, which makes it easier to write stories around them (I don't think they'd be as easy to criticize if people didn't recognize them so immediately). And if Scooby Doo can get a zillion different reinterpretations of over the course of half a century, why not have a more genuinely emotional, non-cynical reinterpretation of MacFarlandverse characters?
Again, I really like what you're doing with these characters and this aesthetic is really cool and I'd love to see more!
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Funny story: about 10+ years ago, just as it was becoming popular to say Family Guy wasn't funny any more, my friends and I would regularly go on for about a minute or two about how the new episodes of Family Guy weren't funny... and then immediately proceed to quote our favorite likes from older episodes for upwards of an hour. XD
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