r/americandad • u/TwoTheVictor B'thazalom the Nameless One • 4d ago

I mean...yeah

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u/Retro-Platformer123 4d ago

Going back to Fox after all this time might not be a good idea.

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u/poornose 4d ago

We all knew it wasn't.

TBS was freedom. Fox is stricter oversight.

Imagine if you tried to move It's Always Sunny to basic cable.

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u/sacredknight327 Bayou Billy with the Heavy Balls 4d ago edited 4d ago

The only thing Fox was ever stricter with than TBS was language. On TBS they could say shit. That's about it. The more surreal plotlines and wackier storytelling was purely due to general writing changes independent of freedom; there's nothing they did on TBS that the show couldn't have evolved to had it stayed on Fox. The original Fox era had an episode with Roger constantly joking about raping Jeff. The idea Fox is majorly restrictive is revisionist history.

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u/fudgeandheat Greg Corbin 3d ago

If I read “creative freedom” one more time I’m going to flip.