Family Guy Hosts The Simpsons, But What About South Park?

It was announced yesterday that The Simpsons and Family Guy will be doing a crossover episode in 2014. What do the kids at South Park think about that? I mean, is it fair? The people at Family Guy get to go to Springfield just because they’re on the same network? The Simpsons and South Park have had a mutual admiration society for years now, since Butter’s sidekick pointed out “the Simpsons did it” to just about every idea on TV. Including Family Guy, which that particular South Park episode was about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone can’t stand Seth MacFarlane. They take every opportunity to shit on him. I don’t know what their actual problem is with him, but they fucking hate him. Maybe it’s the way he keeps putting money in the pockets of Fox while they kept their autonomy and made Comedy Central a cable player. Maybe it’s because he gets greenlights on everything he pitches. Maybe they saw his asshole character on The Gilmore Girls and they got a thing for Alexis Bledel. Maybe it’s just the smug way he’s been going through his entertainment bucket list, hosting the Oscars, making a movie, hanging with Captain Kirk, banging the Dragon MILF from Game of Thrones. Who knows? But they are obsessed.

And now that he’s gonna host The Simpsons on his show, there’ll be no living with him.

Seth MacFarlane does everything on Family Guy, he writes it, writes music for it, voices characters for it, caters the cantina, Windexes the phones. He studied animation at the Rhode Island School of Design, came up through Hanna-Barbera, writing and drawing for such shows as Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory and got to do his own show, Family Guy, in 1999. It won two Primetime Emmys. Family Guy got him the green light for American Dad!  and The Cleveland Show. He sings, does a web show, gets to go on Bill Maher, made the biggest R-rated comedy ever in Ted and is bringing back The Flintstones. Oh, and he got to do a musical special in prime time and hosted the Oscars. And got William Shatner, all decked out in his Captain Kirk accoutrements (was it the series uniform or the movie uniform, I don’t remember) to help him with jokes. Ah the $#!7 my father says.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone went a different route. Best friends since forever, their first film was Giant Beavers of Southern Sri Lanka from 1989 and then did the short holiday classic Jesus vs. Frosty. The came up on the radar with the indie dark comedy Cannibal! The Musical while they were at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They followed this with another short cartoon Jesus vs. Santa.  South Park started on Comedy Central in 1997 and won Emmys like "Outstanding Programming More Than One Hour" and "Outstanding Programming Less Than One Hour" and other arbitrary time limits. They made a couple movies, put up one of the most scintillating sex scenes ever in a puppet movie and won a billion Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon. But they get no respect.

The Simpsons, of course is an institution. It’s the longest running scripted show on TV, it won a million Emmy Awards, sold a trillion toys, started a dance craze, won an Oscar, made a movie that didn’t win an Oscar but tipped off Stephen King to the possibilities of Domed Communities on screen. It started as a little thing on the Tracey Ullman Show that she couldn’t wait to get rid of and then became a worldwide phenomenon. I mean, in places where they don’t have TVs they have The Simpsons.

So, Matt and Trey are probably sleeping in today. But I’m sure they will wreak their vengeance in the upcoming season.

Oh wait. The Simpsons did it.

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