American Dad: Since I started reviewing American Dad and getting back into the show, I've heard people declaring Roger to be little short of the greatest comic character in recent history. Even our illustrious commenter SarCCastro says so, and ...

American Dad: This episode of American Dad was almost pure family sitcom. There's an A-plot, involving Roger and Klaus making a bet to see if Roger can make Steve cool and a B-plot involving the parents trying to scare ...

With The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, and Family Guy all taking a break this week, it's a down week for the Fox animation, especially as those are the three most interesting shows to write about. The two tonight can ...

The Simpsons: This was something of an odd episode of The Simpsons. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. This wasn't an odd episode of The Simpsons. It was pretty normal and relatively forgettable. Hell, with its done-before premise of ...

Bob's Burgers: It's a great feeling to be there when a show filled with potential suddenly fulfills it. First off, because you can get the feeling that you're special for being one of the few million who ...

The Simpsons: I have no idea what The Simpsons was trying to do tonight. On one hand, it felt like a Platonic example of late-period Simpsons lack of quality: It relied almost entirely on guest stars (Cheech & Chong) and topical ...

The Simpsons: There are many common shorthands for the decline of The Simpsons. For example, some people say it got too unrealistic. That argument was depicted in the Poochie episode, which is my “turning point” episode, since it showed how ...

American Dad: Tonight's American Dad just felt off. Like it was an off-brand parody of the show. The characters were there, and the situations were properly built for comedy, but the jokes just didn't land. Maybe it was ...

American Dad: After a few wobbly episodes, American Dad is back in fine form tonight, something notable from the start when the show bypasses a full credits sequence in favor of a simple title card. It opens with Roger auditioning ...

A Family Guy rerun this week means only four shows instead of five. Which is probably wise for Fox to do to maintain reviewer stamina. Kind of like the animated version of crop rotation: leave one show fallow, and the ...

With the addition of Bob's Burgers, Fox's Animation bloc is now five shows, running two-and-a-half hours. For some reason, this felt much, much longer than it did at even four shows. This could be because most of the ...

Hello, animation fans! Todd has officially resigned from this particular assignment, thus removing the “interim” tag from my position. And he took the Katy Perry episode for the team as well! These are also exciting times for Fox's Animation ...

Family Guy's place within the Animation Domination lineup is a strange one. It's obviously a cult show. It has the soul of a cult show, and its audience is as devoted to it as the audience of a ...

In a lot of ways, comedy comes down to point of view. A successful comedy has to come from a place that's specific in order to make us laugh. It's the difference between Seinfeld and all of the ...

Hello, animation maniacs! Todd asked me to fill in for him this week since he's traveling, and I accepted, forgetting the fact that today's my birthday. Because everyone wants to spend their [redacted]th birthday with The Cleveland ...

Now, this isn't going to shock any of you, but sometimes, the Fox animated shows like to take on fairly easy targets and act as if attacking those targets merely in and of itself is an act of incredible ...

In one of his reviews filling in for me (most likely down in comments, come to think of it), Rowan talked about how the season premiere of The Cleveland Show hit the B-/C+ sweet spot for him. As innocuous ...

Fox getting the rights to the baseball playoffs and World Series has always played havoc with its fall season, bumping stuff around and occasionally ensuring its new shows all debuted in early November. The network has mostly avoided this in ...

Hi everybody! I had so much fun with you all covering the Fox animated shows last week that I've kidnapped Todd so I could keep on doing it. I figure I'll at least wait until after this post ...

Hello, cartoon lovers! Todd asked me, the new guy, to substitute review while he's away. That or you guys finally broke him, though he did set the record as the reviewer who lasted one episode more than a year ...