Every Simpson, Griffin & Belcher Family Member Ranked

Who’s the best of these three funny families?

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Animation Domination has hosted a lot of shows in its time, but there’s only been three or four which have really landed.

Golan The Insatiable, The Cleveland Show, Axe Cop, High School USA, King Of The Hill, Lucas Bros. Moving Co., Allen Gregory, Napoleon Dynamite and Sit Down Shut Up have all been in the line up over the years. Of those though, only King Of The Hill, Napoleon Dynamite and The Cleveland Show are particularly memorable, with the latter two only because of a previous connection to something much better.

This leaves The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and American Dad. However, with American Dad moving to TBS, Fox rebranded Animation Domination as Sunday Funday, though the original title will never die.

Here, each member of the Belchers from Bob’s Burgers, the Griffins from Family Guy and the Simpsons from, well, you know, have been ranked. Sorry, American Dad fans, but they’re not in Animation Domination anymore, so have been disqualified.

Brian counts as an honorary Griffin, but don’t expect to see Santa’s Little Helper or Snowball II clogging up the list. Abe neither, as he’s not a fixed family member living at 742 Evergreen Terrace.

16. Maggie Simpson

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She’s a baby...

Granted, there’s another baby from a different family who features much higher up the list, but he’s involved heavily in the plot and is an iconic part of his series... plus he actually has lines every episode.

Maggie is more often than not just there. Some episodes, particularly Treehouse Of Horror episodes, cast her into the spotlight, the most notable time being when she was voiced by James Earl Jones.

Away from those though, she’s also shot Mr. Burns, saved Homer from a flying beer bottle and, on another occasion saved him from the mob. Still though, in 30 years she hasn’t contributed all that much to the general fabric of the show.

Judging her on her best moments, she’s a contender to the rest of the characters on this list; judging her on her whole run and impact, though, she’s easily bottom.

With Maggie Simpson: The Longest Daycare, she does have an Oscar nomination to her name, something which makes her unique on this list. Still, it's not enough to bump her up.

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