Family Guy's Peter Vs. The Simpsons' Homer

Since the Simpsons came onto the air we have witnessed Homer get stupider each season. I believe most expected him to be confined to a chair, in the Simpson's bizarrely shape shifting living room, drooling and possibly constantly bashing himself in the head with random objects. Amazingly Homer still can speak, barely, and the audience keeps tuning in to watch what stupid thing he does next.

Late into the Simpsons success another show emerged, got cancelled, and then re-emerged on television. Family Guy and with it was introduced the borderline retarded father Peter Griffin. There was an episode where they discovered that Peter was in fact legally retarded, this left me wondering why this hadn't been discovered sooner but held my complaint because the episode was hilarious.

I have read a lot of discussion that Family Guy is a rip-off of The Simpsons. But if you take into consideration that today everything is a rip-off, that argument really isn't valid. What really should interest people is who out of the two fathers' is the stupider primate?

For this you will have to analyze the content of which both are depicted. Both are fat, which apparently is synonymous with stupidity; however Homer's gluttony is thrown into greater expression than Peter's. Both are alcoholics, literally mislabeled stupid juice, but Peter's drinking is not restricted primarily to a bar like Homer's. Both have to converse with their brains for bigger decisions in this they are equally bad are solving whatever problem they are stumped with.

When you get right down to things they aren't all that different, which the reason for the idea of the rip-off probably exists. In true they are both equally stupid, fat, lazy, alcoholics. They depicted the left of that useless jerk we have all ran into at the bar. What the shows are really doing is making us laugh at what we consider a character that is below us in the social ladder. Typically giving permission to laugh at those seedy jokes normally saved for locker rooms and barracks. The silver lining is that we realize this eventually and it causes us to examine our personal character and discover the very stupidity of holding these stereotypes within our views.

Laughter is the cure for any lesser trait of mankind.