Talk about stereotype. The new Cleveland Show premired this weekend and I was amazed! In the beginning of the show Cleveland leaves "Family Guy Land" and both Stewie and Joe say, one after the other basically, "Bye chocolate people." I know it's just comedy, and I thought it was kind of funny, but doesn't that kind of point towards an idea that these two characters weren't important other than to be the "token black family," which was probably the point.
Gotta love the black woman with the ghetto booty, two back-talking kids and a suckie baby-daddy. I can tell this show is going to be very heavy on the black jokes. I really like Family Guy, so maybe this new show will be able to play up the satire as well as Family Guy does. This show has the potential to be great, it also has the potential to go over the top. Family Guy goes over the top a lot, sometimes that's what makes the jokes funny, sometimes not... If The Cleveland Show goes over the top people may get angry.
Here it is on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/97541/the-cleveland-show-pilot
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