10 Reasons Family Guy Is The Laziest Show On Television

10. It Stole Its Way To Success

Even before Family Guy's sharp decline in recent years, its earlier, higher-quality episodes still gave off the distinct feeling that the writers were severely lacking in the creativity department.

Specifically, they just couldn't seem to stop stealing their jokes from The Simpsons, more often than not, verbatim. Plus, there's an argument to be made about Family Guy's base premise itself being a carbon copy of The Simpsons.

What makes the joke-stealing so unforgivable is not necessarily that they did it in the first place, but rather how unabashedly blatant they were about it. What's worse is that Family Guy would then go on to mock The Simpsons for years to come, despite that Springfield's first family was responsible for their early success (whether they wanted to be or not.)

That's not biting the hand that feeds you, that's snatching food from the hand that wasn't for you, then biting it anyway just for kicks. And the fact that some of the episodes of Family Guy that were actually good only got that way because the comedic material was outright stolen speaks volumes about its writing staff.