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When I first heard that there was going to be this show, my first thought was, "What? A show centered around a somewhat bland supporting character from FAMILY GUY?" But I decided I would give the show a chance. After all, there have been stranger premises that have worked.

Later, I found out that the character of Cleveland Jr. had been changed from a (hilarious) hyperactive young boy into a fat and slow teenager. But I decided I would still give the show a chance. Maybe this revised character would be funny.

A day before the show first aired, I was surfing the Internet and came across a selection of reviews of the show. They were almost all negative. But I was still willing to give the show a chance. Sometimes critics are wrong.

The next day, I watched the pilot episode. It was terrible. But I decided I would still give the show a chance. Sometimes writers need time to polish their writing for a new show.

As I write this, I've watched some more episodes of the show. And I think I can say now that this show simply doesn't work. It's not very funny - it seems to be written by teenaged fans of FAMILY GUY who have no professional writing experience. Not only that, the show is cursed by some characters that are a major turn-off. They are not only written to be annoying, they have some of the worst voice acting I've heard in a cartoon series.

This show will get no more chances from me.

Can't understand the hate reviews here. It's an offshoot of family guy with Cleveland as the lead and he carries it well. He's a hilarious character! Not sure why people don't like it, even after reading the reviews. I'm guessing people are turning this into a race thing, which is disappointing.

Just saw WatchMojo top 10 worst TV series and it was in here... I found it offensive. Yeah, it's not as great as Family Guy or Simpsons but it wasn't that bad. I get the idea they've tried to make everything the same as Family Guy just concentrate on Cleveland's family not Peter's. It was okay, not really funny but watchable and even some episodes were entertaining. I get it why it has only 4 but still, if you have free time it's better to watch this than half other useless TV shows.

Most people hate this show because it's a trend to say it sucks. Totally untrue. Its comedy is on par with later Family Guy episodes. No it isn't to die for funny but it will make you genuinely laugh hard plenty of times.

The show failed because too many characters were complete disasters. Tim, Lester, and Holt are God awful. Tim's whole gimmick is sounding like a muppet and being a bear, Lesters whole gimmick is being a moronic redneck, and Holt's whole gimmick is being an unfunny dwarf. Cleveland and Junior are on par with Peter as far as their comedic value. They tone it way down in the Family Guy episodes and I wish I knew why. Cleveland is incredibly relatable and he and Donna are a perfect comedy duo. (WAY better than Peter and Lois as a couple but not funnier than Peter)

Rallo and Roberta are just alright. They're not actually terrible as side characters. Meg and Chris are not funny. I don't care who disagrees. An episode of Family Guy will never focus on them because they are not interesting enough to be more than side characters. We're pretty much getting the same thing with Rallo and Roberta. Junior however is pretty funny.

I wish this show wasn't cancelled but changed instead. Like if they got rid of Cleveland's friends and replaced them with funnier characters it would work.

I remember first watching this back in 2014 not even knowing it was a spin-off of family guy, and I absolutely loved it. I don't understand why the show gets so much hate, it was actually pretty funny. Cleveland is an enjoyable character and he carry's the show really well. And his new family is pretty enjoyable too. Give it a watch if your a family guy fan like me!

The Cleveland Show is a decent television series with some good episodes,a few great episodes and a fair share of very weak episodes.The show started off very promising,I really enjoy the first season,the second season was pretty good,it dropped down in comedy largely in the that's season,and the fourth season was painfully unfunny and filled with very weak storyline's.I think the show didn't have great material to work with,Cleveland was not the right character to give a spin off to,I think of so many Family Guy characters that could have a much better series,I think the writers are aware of this because they changed Cleveland's personality to a huge degree,I think at times he was just very unlikeable,and he isn't the only character that I found unlikeable (Donna,Holt,Cleveland Jr,etc.).My favourite characters on the show were definitely Rallo and Tim (the only character voiced by Seth MacFarlane),Rallo was usually the side story character and I normally enjoyed his role in an episode more than the actual plot.The shows best moments is when they make a reference to Family Guy,when a character from the show makes a cameo or Cleveland mentions a moment from the show,but that wasn't a good sign that does moments are the ones I loved the most,because it shows that I had to be reminded of a different show to enjoy.I watched to Cleveland Show because I watch anything they Seth MacFarlanes involved with,but the show is very hit and miss and it's watchable if there's nothing else on,but not worth buying a box set or anything like that.

Cleveland leaves Quahog with his son Cleveland Jr. to star a new life with in his hometown Stoolbend,where he meets Donna Tubbs,an old love interest of his.They get married,but now Cleveland is forced to deal with her disrespectful children,Roberta and Rallo.

Best Episode: Die Semi-Hard Worst Episode: Dancing with the Stools

Watching the latest episode right now, and there are /so/ many clever jokes, far more clever than the jokes on "Modern Family", which I am also a fan of, so no, I'm not hating on that show. It's better than that new show with Christina Applegate (which I tried and hated), or "The Mindy Project", which I really wanted to like and couldn't. Honestly, from a writing perspective, "The Cleveland Show" is excellent, so much so that I almost feel like it really is racism that prevents this show from being more popular (either that or the time slot). I honestly DVR this show and watch it during "Bob's Burgers" so I don't have to watch that, and while I will admit I am in the minority on this, I like it more than "Family Guy" and "American Dad" too. Just never understood why this didn't catch on. Bugs me that it's now in danger of ending.

i am a massive fan of family guy and i'll admit that Cleveland was one of my favourite characters.

when they announced that there was gonna be a show that would be his i was thrilled.

after hearing some bad reviews from the critics i was a little curious of why because i thought it would be really similair to family guy.

it was a good job that i didn't listen to the critics because it was absolutely brilliant i thought it was really funny and was one step below family guy.

if you haven't watched it yet and your'e a real good fan of family guy i strongly recommend you to watch it. and i don't usually give 10 stars if it isn't brilliant

Well the only reason that people are hating on this show so much is the fact that they continue to compare it to the likes of Family guy and possibly American dad.

This show isn't bad, it is entertaining and the humour is smart. As a fan of Seth Mcfarlane I knew I would enjoy the show anyway.

Yes the family structure is the same as Family guy and American dad, and may lack some ambition, but needless to say, I don't laugh at much shows these days, buy this manages to squeeze quite a few giggles out of me.

No, it's not better than family guy, but if people watched it with an open mind and stopped comparing it, I reckon it would be enjoyed a lot more than what it is.

I don't understand why people don't like this series - it's essentially family guy from Cleveland's POV. It's so funny

Alot of people hate this show. Why so much hate. It was a very funny show. Better than Family Guy honestly.

I have never been a huge fan of either Family Guy or American Dad, but both are far superior over this, which I dislike with an intense passion. In fact, The Cleveland Show is one of my least favourite shows ever, animated or not. I have nothing against animation whatsoever, some of my favourite films and shows are animated, but this show is awful in my opinion and a disservice to this fine art.

Family Guy and American Dad may not have impressed me that much, but they actually did have moments of solid animation, voice acting and writing, more when they started than now. The Cleveland Show has none of those things and never did. The show is for me not that good animation wise. The characters are poorly drawn, and the backgrounds and colours are so flat it's painful. The voice acting is annoying on the whole, Seth McFarlane is usually terrific but even he sounds bored here.

The stories are also predictable and contrived, with constant moments of lethargic pacing and lazy direction. But what really hurts The Cleveland Show are the humour and characters. The writing is terrible, it is hugely unfunny and borders on offensive, while the jokes rely too much on pop culture which I think will date quite quickly. I also hate the characters, none of them are likable and they are little more than stereotypes(quite insensitive ones at that). Cleveland did have his likable and funny moments on Family Guy, but he isn't a strong enough character to warrant his own show, and that is a big part of the problem.

In conclusion, I love animation but I really hate this show. 1/10 Bethany Cox

The Cleveland Show is a spin off of the popular and hilarious Seth McFarlane TV series "Family Guy".I have been a Family Guy fan since even before it got cancelled in 2002.I have seen pretty much every episode and it's one of my favorite shows.When I heard about The Cleveland Show I was sceptical.Cleveland is hilarious at times, but I did not know how a spin off concentrating on him would turn out.It's been on for a few months now and it's decent.Still not as hilarious as Family Guy, but does have some clever jokes, funny characters and situations just like Family Guy did.It's a bit better than American Dad in my opinion.If you like Family Guy, this show is worth a look!

some episodes are utterly brilliant pieces of animated comedy that have non stop jokes about the television industry, it feels entirely meant to be this little cheesy spin off that is cancelled after a largely forgettable run where it's constantly poking at it's own inception, process and delivery.

people need to understand that the family guy universe is like monty python where it's about catching people off guard with horizontal humour, it absolutely doesn't make sense that there's a Spanish inquisition in modern day London or a telemarketing bear named Tim that's afraid of the woods. comedy is a pleasant surprise, not always the logical path, that's boring because because people that know comedy see every joke coming where family guy and cleveland show catch you constantly off guard. it's mostly a funny show if you realize that it's intended to be ridiculous and if you know your television, not just sitcoms but process and general history of how things were made from scripts to on television or film because all of it's best jokes are meta references

the second episode of the second season of Cleveland Show (which is the first live airing of the taping of an animated series) is one of the funniest animated episodes of anything ever. (i can entirely see it being conceived as a Family Guy episode and adapted for Celeveland Show but it was still brilliant)

When The Cleveland Show first aired my wife and I gave it a "Meh". We didn't think it was horrible, but we weren't surprised when it was cancelled. Recently, I was given the DVDs and we decided to watch it again, using it as filler for nights when nothing else was on TV.

For whatever reason, this time around, we found it really funny. It's not easy for a TV show to get me to laugh out loud (The Simpsons hasn't for a couple of seasons) but we were really enjoying the show.

Maybe the timing wasn't right for the show's original run. Maybe binge watching (which we started to do) helps. Or maybe it's because we were watching the show late in the evening as a bit of light- hearted junk food before bed.

Easily a 5/10 during the original run, but we're bumping it up to a 7/10 for the laughs.

Give it another go if you get the chance.

When I first watched this show which was when it first came out it just seemed like a poor self-imitation of the main show. It went for a similar set of family characters as family guy which they'd already done with American dad, and selling us all those characters was pretty painful. The whole 'black show' thing seemed doomed to failure by simply being insulting to the audience it might also be trying to appeal to. It didn't make a lot of sense.

So I didn't watch it.

However, I don't know what happened in-between, but I watched a couple episodes the other day which were perfectly good! I don't know how late in the series they were (which was canceled after 88 episodes) but it looks like the show got comfortable with its characters and learned how to use them right. Perhaps the show suffered from its early poor image and never recovered, hence it being canceled.

I therefore recommend to you and myself to give later seasons a try. Avoid the first few episodes maybe even the first season though, but I do need to watch more comprehensively to be completely accurate in season terms. In the meantime...

Honestly this show is one of my favorites. I started Family Guy last year and my friend told me this show wasn't worth watching, so I didn't. However I wanted to see for myself and I love Cleveland. I absolutely love this show! I don't know why people don't like it. It's so hilarious and I am so sad it was cancelled.

Shortly after the second episode, I sat down to write a scathingly bad review, but, there were so many others that I thought it a waste of time to share my views about a soon-to-be-canceled show. Also, like trying to fairly judge a new restaurant on opening night, I thought that my negative opinion may have been premature. I have since recorded and attempted to watch portions of several other episodes. Last evenings Christmas show absolutely crossed the line and established a new personal definition of "awful". I am a huge "Family Guy" fan and near-famous for my warped, sick and twisted sense of humor. I just find nothing funny in a constant and disgusting reference to genitalia and perverted sex. The attempted African American humor is lame, racist, and sexist to an almost criminal degree. I have noticed that there have been some recent rave reviews about this comedic abomination, and while respecting the right of everyone to express an opinion, these sick bastards will not be invited to sip eggnog this holiday season.

I'm genuinely surprised at how many seriously negative reviews this got. What is going on here?? I don't think it's as good as American Dad or Family guy so far ( I've only seen the first 6 or so episodes of season 1), but I think it's quite funny and has a lot of charm. I'm thinking maybe people are giving this negative reviews because they aren't quite relating to the show as well... or perhaps they're having trouble with a pretty regular character from Family Guy completely removed from that show? I don't know, but this is a great addition to Seth's work.

The bears are just hilarious (I love their inexplicable accents) and the redneck neighbors are great. The dynamics between Cleveland and his new family and neighbors are still developing, but I think it's already making for a good show. I personally would rate American Dad as number one, then Family Guy, and then the Cleveland Show, but they are all deliciously funny and well done. Definitely give this show a chance. Seth MacFarlane is amazingly funny and is a man after my own heart!

I usually love animated sitcoms, from "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" in the 70's thru to "South Park", "Family Guy" and "American Dad".

But with "The Cleveland Show" something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. The creative well has run dry. I find this show dull, derivative and offensive. Its worst crime is simply that it is not even remotely funny.I find it hard to believe that the writers and creators of the excellent "Family Guy" and "American Dad" had anything to do with this travesty, let alone CREATED it!

Please Fox, put us out of our misery and cancel this appalling show ... NOW!!!

This show suuuuuucks,i was never really excited about it in the first place and when I watched it my brain almost melted with boredom,its pretty obvious that all Seth cared about was money when thinking up this show so he decided to take the lamest character in family guy and give him a spin off,and the reason for this was because family guy fans would automatically watch this lame show. It is a non funny black version of family guy and that is it.the funniest thing about the pilot was when the family guy characters where in it, Cleveland can not carry a show.

The thing that annoyed me most was the fact that the just took the family guy formula and applied it to Cleveland,the even use the stupid cut aways which I hate more than anything,its destroys the story and is a sign of shoddy writing, cant think of anything to say...put in a crappy cut away or a gag joke,but apart from that the jokes are lame as hell.the only funny thing is the little afro kid. This show completely falls apart after the first 5 minutes of an episode,out of the two I've seen.

Watch American dad instead because that is funny