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Let’s get ready to rumble!

Seems the creative teams behind The Simpsons and Family Guy are having it out. Apparently, the Simpsons camp feels Family Guy’s lovable idiot patriarch, Peter Griffin, is a blatant rip-off of the reigning cartoon king fool, Homer Simpson.

I disagree. Maybe he would have been a decade ago, but these days the Family Guy characters are brilliantly offensive each and every week, whereas the Simpsons, sadly, haven’t had the same socially relevant bite since Conan left.

It’s one thing to be a lovable idiot. It’s another thing to be a lovable idiot that can make people laugh, make people think, and make people feel insulted - all at the same time.

Winner? Seth MacFarlane.