The Family Guy - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972) Discussion

[–] tmnoble 17 years ago

Let's not put the cart before the horse here cartoon guy. Family Guy came from Wait Till? How about it came from the Simpsons, and if you argue about where Wait Till coming before the Simpsons, well, I just watched an episode of Wait Till that had the same plot of an episode of the Flintstones.
Flintstones started it.
Not to mention the Flintstones were a direct (and admitted) rip of the Honeymooners.
So, I guess that would make Jackie Gleason Stewie Griffin's great-great-great-granddad?
I forgot where I was going with this...

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[–] Kuro-Inu 17 years ago

I don't know where you get your ideas from, however, Wait 'till your father gets home was inspired by and has more in common with "All In The Family",which itself was a remake of the British series "Til Death Us Do Part" Its similiarities to the shows you and the other posted stated are in the formulaic sence of a family oriented sitcom.

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[–] stanleyhetz 8 years ago

I don't know where you get your ideas from, however, Wait 'till your father gets home was inspired by and has more in common with "All In The Family",which itself was a remake of the British series "Til Death Us Do Part" Its similiarities to the shows you and the other posted stated are in the formulaic sence of a family oriented sitcom.

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[–] VelvetCyberpunk 16 years ago

What? You're the one putting carts before horses here. It would seem that you've never seen WUYFGH, otherwise you'd know the original poster was right. Family Guy is also inspired by All In The Family, hence the piano playing intro.

Yes you are correct that everything came from The Flintstones, and they were a rip-off of the Honeymooners but I think the op was bringing up WUYFGH because Matt Groening, and the Simpsons fans are all carping about how Family Guy is ripping him off.

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[–] emmeline01 17 years ago

The Commune episode. Did anyone else see this episode this week? Alice decides she'd rather live on a commune than go to school even though she has straight A's. It reminded me of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer takes the family to live on a commune too. Harry gets Alice back by hiding close to her & grilling a steak then he hangs her favorite comfortable nightie on the flag pole.

I'm REALLY glad this show is airing again & I'm exceptionally happy my DVR is working.

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[–] cdborders 17 years ago

Yeah, King of the Hill used the same plot. Hank Hill grilled some steaks in front of a cult to get Peggy and Luann to come to their senses. Everthing is everthing, it gets chewed up and regurgitated.

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[–] Invariable Self 17 years ago

When I first saw Family Guy it reminded me of the old WTYFGH series that I haven't seen since the 70's. I think the tip-off is that Meg on Family Guy seems to be (if my memory is correct) a direct copy of the daughter on WTYFGH. Maybe Seth MacFarlane is worried about a copyright lawsuit.

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[–] bgva 17 years ago

I haven't seen this show in years, and the more I look at it, the more I wonder how much influence it had on Seth MacFarlane.

Matt Groening too, but Family Guy and American Dad are extremely similar to this.

He sold me a fake Rolex!
-He paid me with a fake $20!

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[–] Mira8 15 years ago

TOTALLY. The first time I saw Meg I knew she was an exact double of the girl on this show.

Trust me, doubters, if you are old enough to have watched this show in first run you would know - Family Guy is a rip off of this in so many ways.

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[–] garthsantiques 14 years ago

just figured it our tonight. Its a vague memory from childhood,but i think about it alot when I watch the family guy, then all of a sudden, tom bosley. This is where it came from if you deny your lying.

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[–] PanicAtTheMovieTheater 17 years ago

I never sleep because sleep is the cousin of death

Finally I found people who know about this show!
Doesn't Meg of F.G resemble the girl from WTYFGH
[link]http://www.toontracker.com/waittil/waitil1.jpg[/link]

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[–] mhoffman8540 17 years ago

Meg is similar in facial looks to the daughter on WTYFGH, but that's it. The political views of that daughter is similar to Hayley on American Dad. Everything looks so much like everything else, even when it's cutting edge...why else is Boomerang's slogan is 'It's all coming back to you now', and not just for the Boomerang thing.

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[–] shadow-otr 17 years ago

I don't recall watching WTYFGH before {born after it first aired & all} - but when I saw the opening for this a couple months ago on Boomerang - it wasn't even half over when I realized that "Family Guy" uses WTYFGH as the basis for it's key/core characters.

"Family Guy" has a few tweaks here and there - but now that I'm a mite more familiar with WTYFGH it's very prominent in what I recall of "Family Guy".

{Except for a handful of episodes to see what it was all about I don't waste time watching Family Guy - there are so many other better things to watch on TV than that particular bit of humorless & uninspired television}

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[–] zeta1983-1 15 years ago

You know I had forgotten about this show for so long. I used to watch it in the mid-90s on cartoon network long before Family Guy or American Dad existed but I can see the parallels. WTYFGH is the 70s Simpsons is 80s/90s era, Family guy and American Dad the 2000s but they're all like different incarnations of the same family!

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