Family Guy is actually far more popular now with young adults, and the Simpsons writers obviously became aware that times had changed. As a result, they felt they needed to change the show to keep up with the competition. This is all really a legacy of South Park, where fortunately The Simpsons...
Family Guy is funny, but it's a lot more 'obvious' than The Simpsons, which WAS a vastly superior form of humour. The blatant in-your-face humour of things like Family Guy/Jackass etc is more popular nowadays than things which actually have a message.. I blame this on stupid Americans, which in...