It started out as the former and for a little while was the latter.
Yep. It all started with The Simpsons. Not to say the Simpsons is (was?) this specific kind of "adult cartoon", but it was the first of its generation to appeal to people other than kids and it gave Seth MacFarlane the idea of "what if simpsons but edgier". And then someone copied him, and someone copied that person, and so forth. So now what we have is a bunch of identical, exaggerated Simpsons homunculi where someone thinks they're being clever because they made a cartoon say "fuck".
Around the time of Big Mouth, they just stopped caring and are making things purely for money laundering purposes. It's no coincidence that a bunch of pedophiles chose a show about pedophilia to let everyone know that they no longer need an audience.
Considering Married ... With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show debuted at the same time on the same fledgling network (Fox), the latter and The Simpsons just kind of complemented one another in making fun of all the smarmy family sitcoms that we'd had since the 1950s, from The Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet up to Silver Spoons and Full House.
Yeah, when Fox was the youthful, edgy network (I watched their stuff via CityTV, Canada's "edgy" "youth" network that stopped being good when Mark Daley was demoted to "token white".)
Yep. It all started with The Simpsons. Not to say the Simpsons is (was?) this specific kind of "adult cartoon", but it was the first of its generation to appeal to people other than kids and it gave Seth MacFarlane the idea of "what if simpsons but edgier". And then someone copied him, and someone copied that person, and so forth. So now what we have is a bunch of identical, exaggerated Simpsons homunculi where someone thinks they're being clever because they made a cartoon say "fuck".
Around the time of Big Mouth, they just stopped caring and are making things purely for money laundering purposes. It's no coincidence that a bunch of pedophiles chose a show about pedophilia to let everyone know that they no longer need an audience.
Considering Married ... With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show debuted at the same time on the same fledgling network (Fox), the latter and The Simpsons just kind of complemented one another in making fun of all the smarmy family sitcoms that we'd had since the 1950s, from The Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet up to Silver Spoons and Full House.
Yeah, when Fox was the youthful, edgy network (I watched their stuff via CityTV, Canada's "edgy" "youth" network that stopped being good when Mark Daley was demoted to "token white".)