Seth MacFarlane thinks Family Guy, the hit animated Fox series he created and on which he voices many of the characters, should have ended already. Discussing the ten-year-old series in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he says that, in his opinion, the show should have taken its final bow after season seven. "There are plenty of people who say the show is kind of over the hill," he says. "But still the vast majority go pale in the face when I mention the possibility" of ending it. He clarifies that he has no immediate plans to curtail the show, as fans still like it and it employs hundreds of people whom he cares about. But critics, predictably, weighed in. Is Family Guy really past its prime?
It should be canceled: Good news "for people who like to quietly nurse their undyingly bitter and cold hatred for Family Guy," says Travis Woods at Screen Crave. The series has always been over-praised, when, really, it's a cartoon that just "ripped off the basic premise of The Simpsons, and then tossed in, like, 25 random pop culture references per episode and then called it a day." Seth MacFarlane is right: After ten years, it's time to get Family Guy off the air.
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