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Button Fakers.

In the elevator lobby at work, it's pretty much every man for himself. No formal lines are formed, no courtesy is given to whom waits the longest or looks the least like they should be standing up for long. The only rule, however unspoken, is that you don't break through the waiting crowd before one of the six elevators dock. It's tough to explain why this is so annoying, but picture it...it is. Rulebreakers are always present, in all walks. Here is no different. We call them "button fakers," or at least I do. They're the fools who march through the waiting crowd -- a big no-no -- and hit the already pressed-and-lit-up button as if they didn't realize everyone was standing around waiting for am elevator. Pressing an already pressed button does not give you the right to be up at front. I hate the button fakers. I will kill them all.

I didn't see American Dad. I'd love to hear what you thought of it, though.

Posted by Matt on 02/07/2005. E-mail me!


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Button Fakers.

In the elevator lobby at work, it's pretty much every man for himself. No formal lines are formed, no courtesy is given to who waits the longest or looks the least like they should be standing up for long. The only rule, however unspoken, is that you don't break through the waiting crowd before one of the six elevator doors open. It's tough to explain why this is so annoying, but picture it...it is. Rulebreakers are always present, in all walks. Here is no different. We call them "button fakers," or at least I do. They're the fools who march through the waiting crowd -- a big no-no -- and hit the already pressed-and-lit-up button as if they didn't realize everyone was standing around waiting for am elevator. Pressing an already pressed button does not give you the right to be up at front. I hate the button fakers. I will kill them all.

I didn't see American Dad. I'd love to hear what you thought of it, though.

Posted by Matt on 02/07/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 95 comments

Didn’t see "American Dad." I’m not a fan of "Family Guy" and my family took over the TV the moment the Super Bowl ended. I took a shower and went to bed instead.

I work in a 55-year-old, one-story grocery store and there are few elevators in a small town, so I’ve never encountered Matt’s problem.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/08/2005 8:18 PM

Oh man, now that I’ve finally put together who Paul Lynde is I am SO in. I took a long time to warm up to Family Guy, so I’m willing to invest in a few episodes.
King of the Hill is another one I had to warm up to, but it’s one of my absolute favs. Futurama is also classic but it makes me a little depressed what with the premature cancellation and unresolved Frye/Leela love angst.
If AD is the way I’m imaginining, it could turn out to be a really kickass genre parody like That’s My Bush (hey, since we’re stuck with a second term shouldn’t we at least get a second season?)
Sundays are traditionally HBO nights around here but I’m having to work Arrested Dev into the schedule. As for the Simpson’s…um…I just can’t stand what they’ve done to Marge’s (and Lisa’s) character in the last few years so it’s not as fun for me anymore. Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa) is opening a one woman show in LA soon (tomorrow, I think?). Anybody planning on going?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/09/2005 12:58 PM

I liked American Dad even though it seemed pretty much like Family Guy. A dorky son, a misunderstood daughter,a loud and sometimes bullheaded father, the alien and the fish are Stewie and Bryan respectively. But I still liked the show regardless, some bits were hysterical like the alien saying "douchebag." Nothing says comedy like alien cartoon characters saying "douchebag" and eating chocodiles.
The son was kinda annoying though. But that half dead dog bit made me laugh in a sadistic way and when the dad killed it, that was comedy gold. And I’m a Simpsons mark, except I was never a fan when they did the stuff with Lisa. Any Lisa driven episode always annoyed me, except the Buddhist and vegetarian one because of the flying pig. I think I had too much time on the podium…*sits down*

Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 02/09/2005 1:22 AM

American Dad was awesome. Definately didn’t disappoint. The thing with the Jack in the Box Man was hysterical (if you’ve been to my site this week, then you’ve probably guessed what I thought of it already…)

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/09/2005 1:58 AM

even though a goldfish speaking in German is quite cool i think it’s not as cool as a baby plotting to take over the world. so sad…so true!

now, what amused me was this:

"Don’t mind our outdated look. We’re working on it. Really slowly."

hey that was really neat!!! the "Feverishly" was taking a new dimension to the word, so three points for you, matt (now I’m not sure if three points is goodnews or it’s just a crappy prize but hey, it’s three points)

Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 02/09/2005 7:12 AM

Thanks Matt for admitting the christmas design is being updated slowly. I really wasn’t buying that "working on it feverishly" line anymore.

I enjoyed the dolls review as well as the Fireball Island segment. I know you’re busy so thanks for taking time to write something.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 02/09/2005 9:49 AM

GOTO http://WWW.AMERICANDAD.COM to watch the epasode

Chestnuts roasted by Jordin @ 02/09/2005 9:49 AM

I thought American Dad sucked. I couldn’t even make it thru the whole episode. I wasn’t crazy about Family Guy when it first started, so I’ll give AD another chance, but it just felt like a FG rip-off.

Chestnuts roasted by mutton72 @ 02/09/2005 10:36 AM

Sometimes I am grateful that I live and work in the suburbs.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 02/09/2005 12:27 PM

American Dad was great IMO. People get all worked up about how its not as funny as Family Guy, but they don’t seem to remember that the pilot for Family Guy was not one of the best episodes.

Also, for me, it takes at least a couple of episodes for the characters to grow on me. So I’m definitely going to give it at least a few more episodes before I fully draw my conculsive opinions.

Chestnuts roasted by mattbrand @ 02/09/2005 1:55 PM

Elevators are… cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 02/09/2005 2:37 PM

Here’s the bottom line:
SIMPSONS- Shadow of its former greatness
FAMILY GUY- an overly crass version of the Simpsons that can be funny but is ultimately very cheap and familiar
AMERICAN DAD-HUGE mistake to use same animation style and voice(s).
(Futurama was Groening-esque, not SIMPSONS-esque).
But, the masses will probably tell me I am wrong and that MAD TV is also very funny if "I just gave it a chance."
Emmie says hey.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 02/09/2005 4:30 PM

I fell asleep.

Chestnuts roasted by Tom No Like @ 02/09/2005 4:33 PM

I agree with you on almost all counts, Manimal – except I think that Family Guy is much better than you give it credit for. Some of the humor is really creative and sly.

But yes – American Dad really, really sucked. It was like the evil Bizzaro World version of Family Guy.

It’s almost like Fox wants to stretch Seth Macfarlane too thin so that he’ll fail miserably, and they’ll be rid of Macfarlane shows once and for all.

The damn fish. If it had any comedic possibilities, they were exhausted in the one episode. It’s like a really poorly done combination of Stewie and Brian. Get rid of it.

The mother. Unlike Lois Griffin, she has no personality at all, no reason for being there. Get rid of her.

The daughter. She’s obviously the liberal voice of reason, the perfect foil to her crazy-paranoid-McHitler dad. That isn’t enough to provide fodder for a decent character. I swear, she’s only written into community college so that we won’t call her Lisa Simpson. The disguise isn’t good enough. Get her a real character, or get rid of her.

Keep the dad – make his paranoia more of an OCD thing than a "isn’t Bush evil?" thing. Keep the alien. Keep the son. Make them all just bit players among the cast of characters in Quohaug, and expend all Macfarlane energy on Family Guy instead.

Chestnuts roasted by Stacy @ 02/09/2005 4:51 PM

American Dad was Seth MacFarlane’s own use at proving his leftist sense of humour which I usually have the utmost respect for, but for some reason his bizzare cast of Characters didn’t really work out too well. Family Guy is still a laugh riot, however the Simpsons golden age really was in full swing about 7 years ago… I was in 5th grade during some of the top seasons that had the true occult following. But reallly, we can’t be too upset, did Family Guy, King of the Hill, South Park, or Futurama get an Arcade Game?? I DONT THINK SO!! Basically my flowchart of animated Sit-Coms goes: Family Guy>Simpsons>King of the Hill>South Park>American Dad… This is coming from someone who has an amibition to work with animation timing, so I watch a shitload of cartoons

Chestnuts roasted by Marcus @ 02/09/2005 4:55 PM

ATTENTION STAR WARS GEEKS AND ANYONE WHO’S SEEN RETURN OF THE JEDI AND DUG LEIA’S OUTFIT.
Look up leiasmetalbikini.com. If you can convince your girlfriend to put one of these on, you can do anything!
I’d better get my knee pads on, cause I’m gonna be doing alot of begging.

Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 02/09/2005 6:46 PM

American Dad is a recycled version of Family Guy. Same basic premis, trying to get laughs with uber-conservativeness. It was fuckin’ stupid. Bring back Family Guy if you want a new series.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 02/09/2005 8:04 PM

Ah, nothin’ quite like those little things that drive the sane person [Speaking for myself, of course. I'm 98% sane. Or so some quiz on some site says] off the edge. Mechanical pencils, for instance. You know that point where it extends fine, but as soon as you go to write it slides back up? Or erasers so blackened that they smear before they erase anything. Ooo, howsabout when you’re lining up, be it the supermarket or whatever, and a new till opens so you change lines and end up stuck behind someone with something that takes half an hour to quadruple price-check. Meanwhile, your original line has been and gone. Yay.

Chestnuts roasted by onslaught86 @ 02/10/2005 5:24 AM

So…when is the site going to lose the Christmas look? It’s making me depressed that Christmas is so far away and it’ll make the upcoming one less special!

Chestnuts roasted by Nani @ 02/10/2005 5:41 AM

Sho’ think dem big-city folks is rude. Whatsa subway ‘gain?

:) The joys of public transport (try it without the "l"). Of course, being in Africa, it’s a case of me wondering if there really is such a thing as public transport – I ain’t neva see it, dawg. (Sorry, I appear to be discovering an inner Panthro).

Be grateful you HAVE fast, cheap transport. Not the sort of thing likely to get you killed if you use it… Like SA minibus taxis. You ain’t neva seen a bad taxi-driver, yo.

Chestnuts roasted by eminentfreak @ 02/10/2005 9:42 AM

I think I would rather watch Psycho Dad, than American Dad. BTW, AD should stand for Arrested Development, since that show is the bomb diggity! I hope no one takes my rape horn.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 02/10/2005 11:06 AM

Marcus: South Park did get a pinball game.

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkis @ 02/10/2005 12:51 PM

There was a Futurama game released. I know it was available for xbox & I think it was available for PS2. I’m also too lazy to open up another browser window & check.

Chestnuts roasted by Jenno @ 02/10/2005 6:24 PM

A Family Guy game is in the works (not that I’m looking forward to it). You can’t really blame any recent animated show for not getting an arcade game as just finding places with actual arcade machines is hard enough in America.

I agree that last week’s Simpsons was pretty lame except for the Donkey Kong bit (which even then, was Simpsons’ trying-to-be-like-Family-Guy-ness it’s been doing in small amounts since the episode where they went to Japan). At least the show still makes me laugh from time to time.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 02/10/2005 10:41 PM

AD should stand for Arrested Development, since that show is the bomb diggity!

Arrested Development’s second season is being cut short to 18 episodes. It’ll be replaced with….
..
..
.
American Dad.

Don’t hit me, Kidneyboy, I’m just the messenger.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/11/2005 1:43 AM

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