This is even better than that time ...
... (fill in the '80s reference of your choice here. We'll go with Teeny Little Super Guy.) Seth MacFarlane, the do-it-all smartmouth behind Family Guy, American Dad and the forthcoming Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show, is about to become one of the richest dudes on TV. The Hollywood Reporter says MacFarlane has inked a deal worth $100 million that'll keep him at 20th Century Fox TV through 2012. Yes, that makes him the highest paid writer-producer (and actor, if you want to get technical) on television. Higher than Matt Groening. Higher than Simon Fuller. Higher than J.J. Abrams. Higher than Jerry Miller, creator of Farmer Wants a Wife. (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) Suffice it to say, MacFarlane will never again have to hump anyone's leg to get a dry martini around here.
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$100 mil to take hundreds of pop culture references, throw darts at the wall and mesh them together while formulating an "episode" with no plot whatsoever, all while increasingly making tasteless and incorrect insults (wow, cancer patient jokes and mistakenly insinuating Doug Henning had AIDS, how novel!) the focal point of the show's "edginess"?
South Park may have had an off-season recently but any of McFarlane's shows are but mere pretenders.
Posted by: Paul | May 05, 2008 at 02:14 PM