10 Best New Cartoons Of The Decade
7. F Is For Family
F Is For Family is comedian Bill Burr’s semi autobiographical cartoon which details the lives of a poor family of five in the ‘70s. It’s rude, it’s crude, and it’s packed with references you’d only get if you lived through the ‘70s. Perhaps because of this, it hasn’t found a massive audience, but it remains a hidden gem.
As you’d expect from Burr, it’s not a show which pulls its punches. The father, Frank (voiced by Burr), frequently threatens to put his kids ‘through the f***ing wall’. The show takes the feuding family dynamic which has propped up many sitcoms over the years and swings for the fences with it.
Other modern cartoons have rebelled against the trope, building a loving, supportive family, but F Is For Family instead dives in deep.
It’s not afraid to be real either: the family’s poorness is a constant with no real escape, Frank loses his job, the neighbourhood bullies are extremely horrible yet entirely believable... put simply F Is For Family does a fantastic job of balancing its core ideas.
With Burr backed up by Sam Rockwell, Vince Vaughn, Laura Dern and Justin Long, there’s a lot of talent involved here.