Via TV Squad:

In the end, I think American Dad is maybe showing a higher level of quality because of that character commitment we’re starting to have with this family. On Family Guy, it’s all about the gags and the jokes.

And here’s my comment to this article:

I really appreciate this article, because I think that AD is the most underrated comedy out there right now.

The problem is that AD had such a shaky start, and it didn’t help that it drew such obvious comparisons to FG. But by its third season, AD has not only eclipsed FG’s comedy quotient, but regularly blows it away in terms of story-telling and intelligence. Whereas FG is now the epitome of lazy, stupid gag-comedy, AD has become a subtler, character-based show with much smarter comedy to boot.

Everybody needs to give American Dad at least another chance.

I’ve been a fan of all the Alice in Wonderland incarnations, including American McGee’s videogame and the 1999 TV mini-series, and of course the Disney one ranks as probably my favorite Disney movie ever.  It seems to me that Alice is a public-domain fairy-tale that can be told again and again without losing its unique charms.

So color me just a little excited that Tim Burton is doing his version, coming early next year.  The casting (Tim Burton as the Mad Hatter, Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen) looks fantastic.  And judging from recent photos like the one above, the visual look appears to be the usual Burton brilliance.  Now let’s see if Burton can actually tell a compelling story for once in his life.

Illustrations by Fernado Vicente.