How is it that the corny SIMPSONS cartoon is the longest running cartoon on the air to this date.

Family Guy is way more funny,even BAT MAN Brave/Bold is good but we can't even get a excellent action cartoon or movie like MOTU produced or on the air.

What is going on with this Giant Toy Industry name Mattel.Sh*t BARBIE is older than me & she's running STRONG & don't even have her own show.

Why must the sales of the toys dictate the future of the line which in this case The MOTU SHOW???We have spend enough money with MATTEL since they relaunched it back in 2008.

Maybe if Stewie & Brian say something or become collectors-then Mattel will listen??

What do you think????

I think the Simpsons & Batman have MUCH wider fan bases than MOTU. And Family guy is still on the air so I don't understand that comparison...

When It comes down to it MOST cartoons are marketed at kids and let's face it, kids don't care about MOTU. The toons are advertisements! MOTU has become an adult hobby and no company wants to market a show to adults who will buy the toys with or without a toon. Plus you have to understand that shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy are primetime sitcoms. No network would put a primetime MOTU show on the air to pander to a niche group.

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Originally posted by Digs:
I think the Simpsons & Batman have MUCH wider fan bases than MOTU. And Family guy is still on the air so I don't understand that comparison...

When It comes down to it MOST cartoons are marketed at kids and let's face it, kids don't care about MOTU. The toons are advertisements! MOTU has become an adult hobby and no company wants to market a show to adults who will buy the toys with or without a toon. Plus you have to understand that shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy are primetime sitcoms. No network would put a primetime MOTU show on the air to pander to a niche group.

Your probably right.

Barbie may not have her own show but she has a long running series of direct to video/dvd movies. I agree with Digs MOTU just doesn't have the audience that the other licenses you mentioned have.

At best I could see a series of 2 to 3 minute long webisodes in the same manner of the first Star Wars Clone Wars or GI Joe Resolute.

TOTALLY, shot webisodes would be the way to go! I like this idea, make it happen Mattel.

I agree although I understand what your saying

I read that they had a few seasons planned for the 200x show. Too bad they never got produced. I still say that companies should not depend on cartoons to sell toys and vice versa. Let them be independent of each other.

Let the advertiser's money pay for the show as well as the consumers by allowing them to buy the digital or physical releases of the shows/movies.

Let the money for the toys pay for the toys.

Keep them as separate "lines" but still use them to promote each other.

I'm not so sure it's the companies themselves that dictate the logic but the retailers who buy the product.

Generally speaking, it's the company that manufactures products that has complete control.

For example, music retailers (those that still exist) stock merchandise that they order from the labels and from wholesalers. However, they can't return any merchandise for credit until given approval from the labels/wholesalers.

UM simpsons kick it.
I love family guy but at the end of the day other than some one liners is there really a point to it than just to pe people off.

I will put any family guy season against just one simpsons tree house of horror and see what the vote is.

I f I may quote one of the simpsons writers..."To those that say the simpsons is not as good as it was 20 years ago....neither are you."

Well, Comedian, to answer your quote with a nother, one person said this, "Why would a writer say such a thing? He does not know me, on the other hand, I know enough about his writing and the fact is, it's gotten worse".

I do agree though, the new Sipmsons episodes aren't as funny as the 90's episodes. As for Family Guy, well, ugh... If the show could only get over the "like the time when I" line, I could maybe watch it.

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Originally posted by Speed Racer:
Well, Comedian, to answer your quote with a nother, one person said this, "Why would a writer say such a thing? He does not know me, on the other hand, I know enough about his writing and the fact is, it's gotten worse".

I do agree though, the new Sipmsons episodes aren't as funny as the 90's episodes. As for Family Guy, well, ugh... If the show could only get over the "like the time when I" line, I could maybe watch it.

AGREED.
I do know that when I am 80 years old sitting in a chair the simpsons episodes will still be funny to me and not just funny but entertaining.

Some of their newer episodes have gotten better...but I do think they need to clean house maybe bring back some old writers....I wonder what Conan is doing now.

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Originally posted by Comedian:
AGREED.
I do know that when I am 80 years old sitting in a chair the simpsons episodes will still be funny to me and not just funny but entertaining.

Some of their newer episodes have gotten better...but I do think they need to clean house maybe bring back some old writers....I wonder what Conan is doing now.

I may be in the minority but I also still enjoy The Simpsons. Granted it's just a shadow of what it used to be. In all reality with what it did to revolutionize television it has earned the right to run as long as it wants.

Plus, besides Family Guy, it beats the **** out of Seth McFarlane's other shows... ****, even Family guy has gotten worse since it became some cultural phenomena and every person under 50 quotes it about 1000x during conversation.

Family Guy turns my stomach, I know that I am the only one in the world that feels that way, but I think it's utter crap.

Was it Power Rangers, Bakugan and Ben10 that Stewie had as toys? Nope. It was He-Man, Trap Jaw, Lion-O & Optimus Prime. Every so often when I get to feeling old, I remember that I was a kid when toys & their accompanying TV shows were legendary and I forget about that pesky foot I have in the grave.