The Simpsons Did It??? Death & Family Guy

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  • čas přidán 2. 10. 2023
  • Let's just say the death of Family Guy was greatly exaggerated.
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  • @TheRealJims
    @TheRealJims  Před 9 měsíci +876

    You know it's spooky season when a Simpsons CZcams channel is covering a Family Guy episode 😯

  • @AlexTenThousand
    @AlexTenThousand Před 9 měsíci +603

    Only Jim could both do an April Fools and a Halloween episode rolled into one.

    • @Scarybug
      @Scarybug Před 9 měsíci +28

      I was going to say: That ending paragraph was such an April Fools tone.

    • @hatchmaster_5745
      @hatchmaster_5745 Před 9 měsíci +5

      On October 3rd

    • @mpg272727
      @mpg272727 Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@hatchmaster_5745 That's Spooktober for you. 31 days of Halloween

    • @emolovetree
      @emolovetree Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​@@mpg272727I think you mean goth-tober

  • @AIBETTSYIA75
    @AIBETTSYIA75 Před 9 měsíci +293

    I feel like I've slipped into another dimension with Jim saying 'Peter' and 'Family Guy'

    • @Pyroniusburn
      @Pyroniusburn Před 9 měsíci +36

      This is indeed a disturbing universe.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 9 měsíci +5

      A Wizard did it?

  • @MicoDossun
    @MicoDossun Před 9 měsíci +211

    “Lisa and Brian: two characters who have nothing in common”

    • @funnyyellowdog8833
      @funnyyellowdog8833 Před 9 měsíci +4

      Has he been sarcastic? If yes, it went over my head.

    • @oohdannyboy
      @oohdannyboy Před 9 měsíci +13

      ​@@funnyyellowdog8833More tongue in cheek.

    • @Qualimar
      @Qualimar Před 9 měsíci +28

      As previously established in the Garfield episode Lisa is The Simpson's Odie equivalent.

    • @TheBandit025Nova
      @TheBandit025Nova Před 2 měsíci

      Meg is the Family Guy counterpart

    • @CyberLance26
      @CyberLance26 Před měsícem +1

      Lisa and Brian are the smart liberals of the familys.

  • @sapphyreblayze
    @sapphyreblayze Před 9 měsíci +133

    "Upon receiving his hospital bill, Peter is horrified by the outrageous cost. This is a reference to the U.S. healthcare system." Love me some deadpan RealJims.

  • @msmothman
    @msmothman Před 9 měsíci +463

    As someone born the year before the Simpsons first aired, the real kickoff to spooky season for me was the last video's assertion that Homer Simpson is now a Millennial

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Před 9 měsíci +26

      scary. I saw him start off as your classic post war boomer dad before becoming an ex-hippy former party boy, then a Gen-X dad and now millennial. it fills me with dread. Also confusion since Grandpa is still a WW2 vet meaning he had Homer when he was in his 60s or 70s, and Vietnam vet Skinner should be ready to retire seeing as he's got to be 70 by now.

    • @Cyril29a
      @Cyril29a Před 9 měsíci +18

      When the Simpsons first started on Tracey Ulman I was two years older than bart, now I am 8 years older than homer. This truly is a disturbing universe.

    • @motherplayer
      @motherplayer Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@arthas640 I feel it's possibly because there is so much history extolled to the cast and trying to be on top of current culture trends and pop that it feels distracting when they keep outright moving the goalpost for what has happened. You can't suddenly say that history doesn't matter anymore when it often is the source of so many defining moments for said characters.

    • @cannibalisticrequiem
      @cannibalisticrequiem Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@Cyril29a I was born the same year that The Simpsons first aired on the Tracey Ullman Show, and currently I am the same age Marge was in the episode Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield. (I believe she was stated to be 36 in the early or mid seasons of the show.) I concur that we live in a strange timeline.

    • @mightyfilm
      @mightyfilm Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@Cyril29a Big Bird's been 6 for over 50 years. Elmo's been 3 1/2 years old for 40. Difference is, at least the Simpsons can get away with sliding scale. It's downright creepy that the cast of humans aged while the Sesame Street Muppets don't.

  • @guillemtb1671
    @guillemtb1671 Před 9 měsíci +97

    "Homer is more blood-thirsty than Peter" damm if that isn't jerkass Homer at its primest

    • @MaxNeck
      @MaxNeck Před 9 měsíci +2

      It's a treehouse of horror episode

    • @nickrustyson8124
      @nickrustyson8124 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@MaxNeck Honestly even if it wasn't, Homer is still more violent, Peter has a bigger body count but they're mostly not targeted, Homer is or was more likely to attack you

  • @TheDanTheManShow
    @TheDanTheManShow Před 9 měsíci +150

    You can’t just jumpscare me like this with Family Guy, I know it’s October but I almost had a heart attack

  • @markbowen2777
    @markbowen2777 Před 9 měsíci +81

    "Wholesome storylines where Quagmire dated Marge."
    God, I had forgotten about that. Cursed.

    • @BradTheThird
      @BradTheThird Před 9 měsíci +10

      That bit was edited in the TV version. Obviously the joke was that Lois was monologuing so there was a Simpsons banner at the bottom diverting you from her boring speech. But in the TV version there is no banner and she is just rambling on. I can't say I blame them for editing that bit, that was some serious edge.

    • @Ampharosite
      @Ampharosite Před 9 měsíci +25

      @@BradTheThird Worse in my view is that it was apparently "revenge" for a joke saying that Peter was wanted for plagiarism. An obvious potshot at Family Guy for sure, but when the retaliation is literally a depiction of sexual assault and murder... that's absolutely indefensible. Seth in general is just so damn immature and childish that I wonder what people like in his works.

    • @BradTheThird
      @BradTheThird Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@AmpharositeWas that the Italy episode with Sideshow Bob?

    • @milliondollarmistake
      @milliondollarmistake Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@Ampharosite It's not SA if Marge liked it afterwards. In the world of high art the term is referred to as "mind break".

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 9 měsíci +9

      @@BradTheThird Yes, the plagiarism joke was in that episode, followed one saying that American Dad was MacFarlane plagiarizing himself.

  • @cockatoo010
    @cockatoo010 Před 9 měsíci +225

    As much as I like The Simpsons they never had Norm McDonald voice death, so that's a Family Guy Win

    • @JargonMadjin
      @JargonMadjin Před 9 měsíci +27

      Having Norm in your show at all gets you points

    • @TimothyRedburn
      @TimothyRedburn Před 9 měsíci +11

      Norm, that old lump of coal.

    • @aidanm5578
      @aidanm5578 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@TimothyRedburnhim and that old battle axe of his.

    • @WildDiamond07
      @WildDiamond07 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Imagine if Norm played Grim in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

  • @Abonkit
    @Abonkit Před 9 měsíci +271

    I think its messed up that the Simpsons copied Family Guy's concept of a funny sitcom family.

    • @n0tlenny
      @n0tlenny Před 9 měsíci +40

      Even worse that it copied Family Guy's concept of being animated

    • @GourmetJobSim
      @GourmetJobSim Před 9 měsíci +18

      @@n0tlennyEven Worse, Simpsons stole being created by a human from family guy.

    • @eduardomunhoz1581
      @eduardomunhoz1581 Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@GourmetJobSim I heard they even have a dog and a baby
      they don't talk tho, weird choice

    • @thibaud1832
      @thibaud1832 Před 9 měsíci +5

      You take away our rights to steal ideas, who are they gonna come from?

    • @O.K_Andrew
      @O.K_Andrew Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@thibaud1832 How about ........ghost......mutt?

  • @john-vl3mm
    @john-vl3mm Před 9 měsíci +33

    "Lisa and Brian, two characters who have nothing in common."
    This line got me good. Whole video was great.

  • @kangarooMonkee
    @kangarooMonkee Před 9 měsíci +70

    That Quagmire joke caught me off guard, good job.

    • @creationx6337
      @creationx6337 Před 9 měsíci +10

      One of the reasons why I hate family guy and Seth

    • @DDodo280
      @DDodo280 Před 9 měsíci +11

      @@creationx6337 Yeah, I legitimately don’t know what was going through Seths head when writing the joke, I’m all for dark/dry humour but having marge get rped on screen and enjoy it was just…
      Though Family Guy has done some good comedy in the past
      Loved the RealJims episode though to be clear

    • @milliondollarmistake
      @milliondollarmistake Před 9 měsíci +3

      at least the marge voice actress on family guy sounded more authentic than the current one lol

    • @kangarooMonkee
      @kangarooMonkee Před 9 měsíci +16

      @@milliondollarmistake come on man. People get older, her voice might not be all there anymore but she’s still a great actor.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@kangarooMonkee But Marge hasn't aged, so it doesn't make sense for her to sound so old. The real problem is that they should've ended the show at its peak rather than keeping the show going until one one of the actors drops dead. (Even then they might just continue with wrong-sounding Simpsons.)

  • @Uulfinn
    @Uulfinn Před 9 měsíci +136

    "Wholesome storylines where Quagmire dated Marge"
    For those who don't know the backstory to that clip, the simpsons did an episode where they made fun of family guy and Seth got really mad. So he made a segment in an episode where Quagmire forces himself on Marge and then shoots every member of the simpsons one by one. In the commentary for the episode, Seth complained about simpsons writers not being able to take a joke when it's directed at them. He really said that.

    • @dabmasterars
      @dabmasterars Před 9 měsíci +28

      the ending of the cutaway was made intentionally vague to make some believe maggie actually shot quagmire and not the other way (a reference to the episode "who shot mr burns")

    • @lamontyaboy718
      @lamontyaboy718 Před 9 měsíci +38

      All the Simpsons did was show a quick picture of Peter Griffin in the dictionary under the word Plagiarism. So in response Seth does... that? Seems like an overreaction and like HE'S the one that couldn't take a joke.

    • @Uulfinn
      @Uulfinn Před 9 měsíci +14

      @@dabmasterars that's audience interpretation. If you know seth's type of humor and how petty he was being, it's clear that he intended quagmire shoot maggie.

    • @jordil6152
      @jordil6152 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Well, none of these characters are real, so the two scenes never actually happened. They're jokes, people.

    • @redjirachi1
      @redjirachi1 Před 8 měsíci +1

      The Real Jim has a master poker face

  • @Mtooncartoons3181
    @Mtooncartoons3181 Před 9 měsíci +27

    Hey lois, this is better than that time the real jims talked about our show

  • @AltName7
    @AltName7 Před 9 měsíci +9

    Is comparing and contrasting Lisa against different dog characters going to be a running bit? Because it's hilarious.

  • @amaliapursell
    @amaliapursell Před 9 měsíci +32

    My first exposure to this trope was through the Terry Pratchett novel, reaper man (1991)
    In which, death is fired for being too merciful, the world goes without death for a time, and inevitably, another arises who can take his place. (The original grim reaper beats him and takes his old job back)
    But as far as I understand, this goes back to folklore and mythology, with multiple iterations of people trapping death in a sack or something and death not being able to do his job.
    There were various book and movie versions dating at least back to the 1930s that at least have the grim reaper unable to do his normal thing. So the world without death trope.
    The earliest cartoon to do it might be a Gargoyles episode --1994 or so, in which someone purposefully tries to take the place of anubis.
    But it is substantially different than these two comedic takes.

    • @antonco2
      @antonco2 Před 9 měsíci +4

      I was about to say this! Not as cleverly written as you but yeah!

    • @bibbitybooper6437
      @bibbitybooper6437 Před 9 měsíci +1

      That's such a fantastic book

    • @amaliapursell
      @amaliapursell Před 9 měsíci +2

      ​@@antonco2thank you very much for that compliment. I did try quite hard to make it informative without going on and on.

    • @TheLetterJ0
      @TheLetterJ0 Před 9 měsíci +4

      The earliest example of someone trapping Death that I'm aware of is the story of Sisyphus from Greek mythology. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there was some other ancient culture with a similar story.
      As for cartoons, I'm not aware of any examples with Death earlier than your Gargoyles example, but Bugs Bunny did take the Easter Bunny's place once, and apparently Fred Flintstone took Santa's twice. Obviously those make for very different stories, but they're at least still the "normal person takes over for a mythological figure" trope.

  • @Supremo801
    @Supremo801 Před 9 měsíci +8

    You’re going to hell for that Quagmire dating Marge joke lmao

  • @Vitorio582
    @Vitorio582 Před 9 měsíci +18

    Jim using Family Guy screenshots is unnerving

  • @tarvinneekomainitakaan
    @tarvinneekomainitakaan Před 9 měsíci +12

    The ominous way the Grim Reaper talks when standing at the doorway is likely inspired by the "Mr. Death" scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, a scene that itself is likely a parody of the old Swedish film The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. And Woody Allen parodied the Death stuff from The Seventh Seal before Monty Python in his film Love and Death. And at least the Simpsons episode is possibly meant to also be a parody of that Christmas movie where Tim Allen kills Santa Claus and has to replace him. Bit difficult to say who "did it first" when everything is a reference to a reference that had been done before by someone else.
    Oh yeah, and Family Guy used the name "Jebus" before The Simpsons did, since Family Guy's pope episode predates The Simpsons' missionary episode with few months.
    (Great video.)

  • @yourgoodfriend276
    @yourgoodfriend276 Před 9 měsíci +6

    Every time I try and forget the Quagmire Marge thing, somebody brings it back up

  • @EmployeeAMillion
    @EmployeeAMillion Před 9 měsíci +34

    Happy this series is back. I think the Simpsons writers were aware of the Family Guy episode, because they’d already made some shots at their show, and wanted to put their own spin on this concept. BTW, the Rocko episode aired one year after Bart of Darkness, but I’m sure you can think of a way out of that one.

  • @brain_apostrophe_t
    @brain_apostrophe_t Před 9 měsíci +10

    The plots of both are kind of referencing 1934's "Death takes a holiday" as well, that explains some of the similarity. Though definitely not all of it

  • @Eidlones
    @Eidlones Před 9 měsíci +61

    I forgot just how good early Family Guy was. Every screenshot you used, i remembered the joke, and chuckled to myself.
    Plus Norm as Death is just... perfect.

    • @AarturoSc
      @AarturoSc Před 9 měsíci +19

      The first 3 Seasons of Family Guy are a treasure of absurdist comedy. It was the peak of the show and the characters were goofy but full of wonderment and love for their family.
      I don’t feel I need to state the obvious of what happened after revival, specially from season 12 onwards.

    • @rieldebonk1044
      @rieldebonk1044 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@AarturoSc They've gotten better in the very recent seasons, kinda average now

  • @overlordwinter4611
    @overlordwinter4611 Před 9 měsíci +7

    I love the girl scouts' "we like being alive" song while Peter is trying to figure out what to do

  • @Alex_DC413
    @Alex_DC413 Před 9 měsíci +40

    I remember this episode and being flabbergasted that the Simpsons cribbed material from Family Guy when jokes about Family Guy ripping off the Simpsons were en vogue. And funnily enough, that's one of the better Treehouse segments from that era

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 9 měsíci +4

      The Simpsons had quite a few of these jokes, too. In that one where Sideshow Bob has a family in Italy, there's a wanted poster showing Peter Griffin saying he's wanted for plagiarism, followed by another one showing American Dad's Stan Smith saying it's plagiarism of plagiarism.
      There was also a DVD commentary track where one of the writers claimed that Hank Hill was just "Homer with glasses".

    • @wrongemail5242
      @wrongemail5242 Před 9 měsíci +9

      @@KasumiKenshirouI know the writer probably said that in jest but hearing someone say that just irritates me for no reason since hank hill is nothing like Homer Simpson IMO.

  • @ChickenGeorgeClooney
    @ChickenGeorgeClooney Před 9 měsíci +69

    Just wanna say your episodes (especially Simpsons Mysteries) have inspired me to (re)watch all of the simpsons, except watching them not in release order. I group episodes by major supporting characters or recurring guest stars (i.e. Albert Brooks), and currently im watching all the treehouse of horrors
    (youre so right about pixelated and afraid!)

  • @michaelboyle7281
    @michaelboyle7281 Před 9 měsíci +7

    Speaking of simularities between these two episodes, the scene in the very bottom left at 2:31 contains a joke that Family guy later did on their show. The joke is Marge telling bart to "Run like the wind" but she says the wrong "wind" (Like wind up, it's purposly confusng to type the joke out lol). Lisa tells marge that's not the right way to say the phrase and Marge says "I've only ever read it in books". Family Guy did the same joke later on but with a different word being used. Pretty sure it was a scene with Louis's parents. Just thought it was an interesting coincidence, maybe the Family Guy writers thought this episode was too similar to their epsoide and decided to take a joke from it to show they noticed or something lol

  • @scpjack7856
    @scpjack7856 Před 9 měsíci +48

    I would absolutely love one of these on The Itchy and Scratchy Movie and the “Me No Know” episode of Recess. I know the Recess one came after but they are two of my favourite episodes of their respective series, because they cover the same topic in such different ways. An atonement story for Bart and a reaction to the moral panic around late-90s youth culture for Vince create two stories of children being shut out from the cultural zeitgeist that anyone who grew up with media and the peer pressure around it can relate to.

  • @Tacom4ster
    @Tacom4ster Před 9 měsíci +12

    I forgot Norm was Death, RIP

    • @ViktorKruger99
      @ViktorKruger99 Před 9 měsíci +3

      I was going to say this
      I dont even like family guy, but I find myself rewatching that FG episode because man, I miss norm...

    • @TheRealJims
      @TheRealJims  Před 9 měsíci +4

      It was fun going back to this episode because Norm is so entertaining, in general. Guy could read the phone book

  • @Jermadumptruck
    @Jermadumptruck Před 9 měsíci +5

    There's also a strange similarity between the Family Guy episode "To Love and Die in Dixie (2001, s3/e12)" and the Simpsons episode "E-I-E-I-D'oh (1999, s11/e5)". In both respective episodes the families relocate to a dilapidated house in the countryside to escape a threat imposed on a male character in the family (Chris Griffin and Homer Simpson). Both episodes include the families' fathers' getting attacked by a raccoon after entering the dilapidated house. By the end of both the episodes, the families have to face the threat for the last time with both cases ending in a short gunfight. Chris almost gets murdered and Homer gets shot in the arm. While the two episodes have different themes, they do share a fair bit of plot beats.

  • @aidanandreasen2611
    @aidanandreasen2611 Před 9 měsíci +4

    I can't believe Real Jims talked about Family Guy before he talked about Simpsons Season 17

  • @DeepWeeb
    @DeepWeeb Před 9 měsíci +50

    Loving this new series: every time another cartoon got ahead of The Simpsons for once

  • @mudlark4099
    @mudlark4099 Před 9 měsíci +13

    I miss Norm....I hope he is resting at peace....he was so afraid of death.

    • @mightyfilm
      @mightyfilm Před 9 měsíci +6

      I liked Norm's take on the Grim Reaper more than Adam Carolla's down the line. Not that Adam's wasn't good, I just wish Norm were more available to perform the character on a regular basis.

    • @kaisim980
      @kaisim980 Před 9 měsíci +6

      i didn't even know he was sick

    • @BagOfMagicFood
      @BagOfMagicFood Před 9 měsíci +2

      I guess Family Guy's first Death got turned into a pigeon.

    • @mudlark4099
      @mudlark4099 Před 9 měsíci

      @@mightyfilm I wholeheartedly agree with that.

  • @Sonnakai
    @Sonnakai Před 9 měsíci +7

    the funny thing about this is in reaper madness, theres that "THE WIND!!!" "its wind" "well ive only ever seen it written" joke, and then years later family guy went on to make the EXACT same joke in welcome back carter. i guess in a roundabout way, family guy got the last laugh

  • @christopherfarley4180
    @christopherfarley4180 Před 9 měsíci +4

    I mentioned this in the other episode but Daria did a story about vending machines in the school that ends with them being destroyed with an axe and the Simpsons also did a story about vending machines in the school that ends with them being destroyed

  • @DemomanX614
    @DemomanX614 Před 9 měsíci +5

    The family guy episode was so good. Norm macdonald was so good as Death, its sad they used Adam Corolla in later episodes.

  • @ShinSeikiEvan
    @ShinSeikiEvan Před 9 měsíci +9

    Yes, PLEASE do the Garfield "Binky Goes Bad" episode that you mentioned. The Simpsons really did seem to have ripped that off, and that was from the golden era.

    • @tiablue9106
      @tiablue9106 Před 9 měsíci

      they kinda couldn’t have ripped it off since the Garfield ep aired just a few months before the simpsons one :0

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 9 měsíci

      @@tiablue9106 Garfield: November 4, 1989
      Simpsons: April 29, 1990
      That's enough time for someone to have seen the Garfield script. The Simpsons writers didn't necessarily have to wait for the Garfield episode to have aired. (Are there any people who worked on both shows?)

    • @tiablue9106
      @tiablue9106 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@KasumiKenshirou unless I'm misremembering, I think both garfield and the simpsons were animated by film roman at that time, but idk abt any shared writers, artists or anything. maybe production codes would give more info, as garfield had 7-min segments while simpsons is 22 mins; I'm no animation expert (esp not for specific cartoons) but that might mean it's possible "krusty gets busted" at least started production before "binky goes bad", since it'd take longer to make

    • @tarvinneekomainitakaan
      @tarvinneekomainitakaan Před 6 měsíci

      @@tiablue9106 The first three seasons of The Simpsons were animated by Klasky Csupo. They moved to Film Roman from season 4 onwards.

    • @justinfields7661
      @justinfields7661 Před 4 měsíci

      There was also Krusty Gets Kancelled & Binky Gets Cancelled.

  • @MattTheParanoidKat
    @MattTheParanoidKat Před 9 měsíci +3

    Family Guys Death is Norm MacDonald which is one point in Family Guys favor.

  • @mandodiaz7647
    @mandodiaz7647 Před 9 měsíci +5

    "oh we like being alive
    oh we like being, oh we like being alive! "
    I guess it's their time to go.

  • @thomaseeds544
    @thomaseeds544 Před 9 měsíci +13

    Quagmire dating Marge and baking cookies for the whole family in their own home was too wholesome! I heard the Fox censors told them they needed to cut it out or nobody would ever watch anything else!

  • @overlookers
    @overlookers Před 9 měsíci +27

    Lionel Hutts: "Imagine a world where _Family Guy stayed cancelled.."_
    Lionel Hutts: **nations in peace, hand-in-hand together**

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Před 9 měsíci +9

      people talk about Simpsons declining but even as a teen I felt like Family Guy peaked early and declined quickly. Especially after it got canceled it seemed like they were goading the executives and fans, including weirder shock humor and worsening quality and ever increasing amounts of cut away gags like they were challenging the studio to cancel them again. I feel like more people would look back on Family Guy more fondly if it stayed canceled.

    • @JacktheRah
      @JacktheRah Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@arthas640 It's definitely always been the worse of the two major Seth MacFarlane animation shows. American Dad has always felt like the superior show taking the strengths of Family Guy but leaving the weaknesses behind.

    • @creationx6337
      @creationx6337 Před 9 měsíci +1

      This guy/girl. Them and me are on the same page. Finally glad to see someone else say it.

    • @Arkantos117
      @Arkantos117 Před 9 měsíci +3

      I don't think Family Guy is that bad.
      Not great, not terrible.

    • @micjimster4845
      @micjimster4845 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@Arkantos117 I mean it's no where near good but it's not the devil span people make it out to be.

  • @kaimactrash
    @kaimactrash Před 9 měsíci +13

    I know it's an utter coincidence and a bit heavy to mention, so that's your warning but I found the situation morbidly humourus.
    My grandad died today and I got a youtube notification for this video minutes after finding out, went from "oh this will be nice for later" then saw the topic... As I say morbid, but it did bring me a laugh in a very dark momment, just like the simpsons have done many times.
    This is in no way a complaint about the episode though! I'm sure I'll love it in a few days, and there's plenty of other content by you to enjoy until then.
    Also five times a day the "we like being alive" song sung by the girl scouts in the family guy episode plays in my head, early family guy music is almost impressively implanted in my mind, the hang Nail song is another such track.

    • @TheRealJims
      @TheRealJims  Před 9 měsíci +6

      Really sorry for your loss. 😕
      Hope the video was at least able to give you a brief distraction on this crappy day

    • @EmmBee27
      @EmmBee27 Před 9 měsíci +2

      I lost my Dad on Sunday and honestly I hadn't made the connection until finishing the video and seeing your comment.

    • @Redlegcook
      @Redlegcook Před 9 měsíci +1

      My condolences

    • @kaimactrash
      @kaimactrash Před 9 měsíci

      @@TheRealJims it definetly helped me keep my mind of it! Always enjoy the escape to Springfield your videos offer!

  • @succulentadam5782
    @succulentadam5782 Před 9 měsíci +11

    I actually really like the idea of looking at other tv shows and their take on an idea

  • @jessicastrike5640
    @jessicastrike5640 Před 9 měsíci +4

    Do you know what would be really spooky this season? A retrospective for season 17…

  • @xyz.anonymous
    @xyz.anonymous Před 9 měsíci +3

    your jokes are so much more deadpan in this one I love it

  • @alarex8204
    @alarex8204 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I know it's popular to hate on family guy now, but it holds a special place in my heart. I started watching it when i was nine or ten, so i have a lot of nostalgia watching it with friends and family on adult swim. It was kind of like the Simpsons of the 2000's.
    Hoping you do more family guy stuff in the future! It's weird how both shows became so similar to eachother for a while. Like they both became twisted versions of eachother for a few seasons.

  • @darkwingdaffy1991
    @darkwingdaffy1991 Před 9 měsíci +11

    i actually love both episodes despite them being so simular i think they are able to get away with it because family guy and the Simpsons are two different styles of comedy despite being so simualr

  • @Iggy_Dogg
    @Iggy_Dogg Před 9 měsíci +2

    alright if you're gonna do the Rear Window parody comparison, please also include Home Movies' "Definite Possible Murder"

    • @tinfoilslacks3750
      @tinfoilslacks3750 Před měsícem

      "I have kids...we call it the shakey cheese" Josey doesn't speak and Brendon very obviously doesn't call it the shakey cheese

  • @MissAshley42
    @MissAshley42 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Family Guy has so many time travel episodes because Seth actually owns a time machine. He obviously took a peek into the future to crib Reaper Madness's script. Simpsons did it!

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 9 měsíci +6

    Tony Todd said death doesn't like to be cheated. But he did not say anything about being copied.

  • @conormurnane6457
    @conormurnane6457 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Gotta say, Family Guy did this idea first and did it better. Not just because of the extra length, I believe one can get a lot out of short-form storytelling if done well, but I just think the jokes are consistently funnier throughout. They really got every gag you could possibly get out of this concept, wheras The Simpsons only scratched the surface. Although I am surprised you didn’t mention Family Guy stealing Marge's "wind/wined" joke in a later episode.

  • @nid150
    @nid150 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Something that makes me laugh is that a treehouse of horror earlier there's a segment in which Homer clones himself and one of the clones is Peter

    • @DasNordlicht91
      @DasNordlicht91 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Apparently that segment had a cut joke where Marge comments how Homer is a real “family guy”, and he angrily says not to call him that.

  • @patrickb125
    @patrickb125 Před 9 měsíci +4

    This video is hilarious. You can tell by his tone that Jim does NOT like Family Guy.

  • @SnipingIsAGoodJobMate
    @SnipingIsAGoodJobMate Před 9 měsíci +2

    5:25 I actually spit out my drink when you said that because I also thought exactly about Moe.
    Maybe Moe just has that grim reaper aura around him.

  • @ReveiwKing999
    @ReveiwKing999 Před 9 měsíci +8

    If you're looking for ideas for The Simpsons Did It???, I always thought "The Debarted" took more from the Recess episode "The Spy Who Came In From the Playground" than the movie it's supposedly based off of.

  • @NamesUnknownMusic
    @NamesUnknownMusic Před 9 měsíci +8

    "This is a reference to the U.S healthcare system" already my favorite video on this channel

  • @ravenwilder4099
    @ravenwilder4099 Před 9 měsíci +3

    I feel like both eps are basically just them going "What if The Santa Clause, but with the Grim Reaper?"

    • @BagOfMagicFood
      @BagOfMagicFood Před 9 měsíci

      I was going to say, that one difference in the Simpsons episode, the way Homer got roped into the role by killing the guy and stealing his clothes for a lark, seemed like it might have been inspried by The Santa Clause.

    • @JargonMadjin
      @JargonMadjin Před 9 měsíci +2

      So you're saying Tim Allen technically beat them both to it?

  • @dylanmcartoonell1536
    @dylanmcartoonell1536 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Here’s an episode you can do for this series. In season 31 of the Simpsons, there’s an episode where Marge is addicted to smartphones and tablets.
    3 years earlier, a certain Nicktoon about a family with 10 girls and 1 boy did a story about a parent becoming addicted to screens.
    Probably the most recent example I can think of

  • @tonyhoang987
    @tonyhoang987 Před 9 měsíci +12

    I'll be honest, I can't think of another plotline for a death related story.

    • @raze3297
      @raze3297 Před 9 měsíci

      The Frighteners

    • @youmukonpaku3168
      @youmukonpaku3168 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I can think of several, mostly by stealing directly from Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU), but even he used this plot in Mort. He did it at least 13 years earlier (published '87,) right down to the bar fight.

  • @YourBuddyBrady
    @YourBuddyBrady Před 9 měsíci +5

    Quagmire *dated* Marge, huh? Thats one way of saying it.

  • @Joseph_Drew_III
    @Joseph_Drew_III Před 9 měsíci

    When I commented the idea for this video under the Pinchy one, I was thinking 4 Butters. But you made a really good case.

  • @BnglMcgnglMcgilTh3rd
    @BnglMcgnglMcgilTh3rd Před 9 měsíci +2

    Can't wait to see "You know what really grinds my gears?" on here

  • @BDFsecret
    @BDFsecret Před 9 měsíci

    Great comparison, thankyou Jims!

  • @xGODSNINJAx
    @xGODSNINJAx Před 9 měsíci +2

    Imagine TheRealJims but a Family Guy channel? In my dreams

  • @FirestormConvoy
    @FirestormConvoy Před 9 měsíci

    As someone with an intense dislike for Family Guy, this was not something I needed to see, and I hope to never hear the names Peter, Lois, Brian, Stewie or Meg on this channel ever again. Seriously though, great video. I vaguely knew there was an episode involving Peter becoming Death, but didn't know that 1) it came first, or 2) how many similarities it had to Reaper Madness. so that was interesting.
    Also I audibly laughed at the notion of Homer being more bloodthirsty than Peter in this. That just doesn't seem like it should be possible. but, here we are.
    Looking forward to more "Simpsons did it?" style videos in the future.

  • @CapnBooker
    @CapnBooker Před 9 měsíci

    I really appreciated that Dead Like Me shoutout. Made watching a video about Family Guy worth it.

  • @TheNotoriousBTG
    @TheNotoriousBTG Před 8 měsíci

    8:10 The amusing thing about you referencing Dead Like Me, is that in August of 2003, they aired an episode entitled, "Reaper Madness". Three-ish months before The Simpsons'.

  • @giovanniorellana2200
    @giovanniorellana2200 Před 9 měsíci +4

    Have you ever thought of doing a video on the various Couch Gags over the years?

  • @humbledaoist
    @humbledaoist Před 9 měsíci +3

    I can't believe I saw this fourteen seconds after it was uploaded. Utterly wild.

  • @BoyOHBoy123
    @BoyOHBoy123 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Seeing your editing style with Family Guy Screenshots is horrifying.

  • @PanAndScanBuddy
    @PanAndScanBuddy Před 9 měsíci +1

    What's really going to cook your brain is that Bryan Fuller took the premise, started Dead Like Me, then departed 5 episodes in to make Wonderfalls on...Fox.

  • @sonicmastersword8080
    @sonicmastersword8080 Před 9 měsíci +3

    The main issue is that the Simpsons themselves are composed of cultural references and parodies plus original storylines, they just did it so well you needed to understand a heuristic to get the references. Family Guy is blatant-effectively just telling you the reference. Simpsons is more subtle.

  • @dovidoes3193
    @dovidoes3193 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I didn't realize it was April 1st already. Aren't they both parodying the same thing, like with Rear Window? I half-remember one of those Twilight Zone-type shows (or perhaps Twilight Zone itself) doing the concept and having similar plot beats.

  • @lawyer🈁
    @lawyer🈁 Před 9 měsíci +1

    You just know i cackled when the "patented butters scale" came up

  • @adamkahoe6327
    @adamkahoe6327 Před 9 měsíci +1

    *Peter:* "Haha! Looks like this is one we beat you to!"

  • @austinandhisfriends
    @austinandhisfriends Před 6 měsíci

    When you compared the garfield episode "main course" with the simpsons episode "lisa gets an a", i really enjoyed that and I thank you for it. So how bout you do another garfield and simpsons comparison and compare the episodes "binky goes bad", and "krusty gets busted". In both episodes, the clown character of the show gets in trouble for armed robbery, and in both instances it turns out the clown was framed. But I'd like too hear what you have to say, like how different the episodes are, and what they also have in common. Would you do that sometime? I'd really love it.

  • @ChiefMedicPururu
    @ChiefMedicPururu Před 9 měsíci +1

    Never expected Family Guy to be talked on this channel, not just cameo'd.

  • @craftcannabisculture
    @craftcannabisculture Před 9 měsíci +1

    In all honesty I want to thank you for your channel man. I have been watching for ever and as a lifelong fan of the Simpsons I really appreciate your dedication man

  • @protocetid
    @protocetid Před 9 měsíci

    Didn’t expect The Simpsons to take so heavily from an episode of Family Guy, please make more videos if there are additional instances.

  • @grease_monkey6078
    @grease_monkey6078 Před 9 měsíci

    I do like these videos where you discuss similar plots from both family oriented cartoon comedies

  • @jonothanthrace1530
    @jonothanthrace1530 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I appreciate that Family Guy's version ends with a Final Destination parody, though that raises the question for me of "did the Simpsons also do an FD parody in a Treehouse of Horror?"

  • @darkcloak100
    @darkcloak100 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I feel The Simpsons version was kinda a "The Santa Clause" parody.

  • @snowyyzoe
    @snowyyzoe Před 9 měsíci

    So where do we bring the mangus archives episode in which yet another character becomes death after the previous death is taken down?

  • @anthonykim6582
    @anthonykim6582 Před 9 měsíci

    You should definitely cover the crossover between the Simpsons and Family Guy!

  • @guyrocketram9698
    @guyrocketram9698 Před 9 měsíci +1

    you should really do an episode on Rocko's Rear window parody.
    its funny, Home Movies, The Simpsons, and Rocko's Modern life ALL did rear window parodies where the twist at the end was that it was a misunderstanding.
    i didnt even realize that Bart of Darkness was a parody of anything until i saw the Home Movies episode and realized that the premise was so similiar that they had to all be parodies of the same thing. i also assumed that Rear Window was also a big misunderstanding because of both (all three if you count rocko) episodes sharing that detail.

    • @BagOfMagicFood
      @BagOfMagicFood Před 9 měsíci +1

      Oh wow, the one other Rear Window parody I knew of was in Mathnet from Square One Television, but since that was a police procedural, there really was a crime after all.

    • @stryke-jn3kv
      @stryke-jn3kv Před 9 měsíci +1

      There was also one with Castle, which was also a police procedural, but there the whole thing is faked as a very extensive and kinda mean practical joke.

  • @starro54
    @starro54 Před 9 měsíci +3

    toonrifictariq is gonna love this one

  • @spandytube
    @spandytube Před 9 měsíci +2

    One thing I just noticed is that Homer is a guy who has a family. Really shameful, lazy writing on the Simpsons' part.

  • @AntihexProductions
    @AntihexProductions Před 9 měsíci +1

    Hi TheRealJims, can you please make a video on the history of Mr Teeny?

  • @NotQuite_Frogg
    @NotQuite_Frogg Před 9 měsíci +2

    Wow, odd timing.. just watched the pinchy episode yesterday and didn’t expect this to become a series!

  • @davidmoncholi6746
    @davidmoncholi6746 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Good video Jim's

  • @AarturoSc
    @AarturoSc Před 9 měsíci +4

    “But luckily it was just a dead comedian from the silent movie era”
    I had to pause the video to laugh at that.

    • @TheRealJims
      @TheRealJims  Před 9 měsíci +4

      I wish I could take credit but I quoted Peter Griffin on that one

  • @robertgiardino3314
    @robertgiardino3314 Před 9 měsíci

    I would love to see you, do a comparison between the Simpsons rear window episode, and Rocko’s moderns life take on it

  • @poesc
    @poesc Před 9 měsíci +1

    I hope you analyse the South Park ‘World of Warcraft’ episode vs Simpsons episode of it. As it’s pretty much the same episode

  • @fuckakakaka
    @fuckakakaka Před 9 měsíci +2

    The Simpsons's version has a bit more flavor of The Santa Clause on how Homer becomes Death

  • @novemberguy7087
    @novemberguy7087 Před 9 měsíci +2

    1:45 "And where it says sex I'll write no thank you cause I'm dead." This is a reference to the US hea... I mean copulation.

  • @Porygon2ube
    @Porygon2ube Před 9 měsíci +4

    God I love Family Guy

  • @tarvinneekomainitakaan
    @tarvinneekomainitakaan Před 8 měsíci +1

    Possible subject for another "The Simpsons Did It???" video: A few years before The Simpsons did It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse in Treehouse of Horror XIX, Robot Chicken did a Peanuts parody with the same premise (Linus summons The Great Pumpkin which turns out to be a killer monster that chases and eats the kids). The two versions go on different directions but would still be fun to compare. Maybe on next year's Halloween?

  • @inferno8050
    @inferno8050 Před 9 měsíci +2

    This concept is a comedy twist based on a old story where even death dies n there must always be a death
    I think its greek

  • @Coolestdogeverooo
    @Coolestdogeverooo Před 5 měsíci

    Don't care if this was uploaded 3 months ago. This video after finishing the rest of the run time of the video has made me Laugh and Cry. Thank you!