Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
The Cleveland Show: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 27, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
The Cleveland Show Image
Metascore
57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
3.5 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 162 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
Rate this:
  • Summary: Seth MacFarlane spins off Cleveland Brown to his own show. He leaves Quahog with his son and makes a stopover to his Virginia hometown where he falls in love with his high school sweetheart.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Animation

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    83
    I never found the character that funny on Family Guy. But tonight's episode of the spin-off is quite a corker, as Cleveland runs over the family dog, with hilarious consequences.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    60
    Like everything else in the MacFarlane arsenal, The Cleveland Show relies heavily on pop-cultural references (and many of them are pretty funny), but the rhythm and pacing can feel like a slow-dripping faucet.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    25
    The characters here creak, including the talking bear who mirrors the alien in American Dad and the dog in Family Guy, and the watered-down setup now feels like a copy of a copy of a copy. What's worse, in three episodes, there's hardly a laugh to be found. Bad taste, we'll accept. Boring we won't.

See all 18 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 79
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 79
  3. Negative: 42 out of 79
  1. BobbyL.
    9
    This is funny! You haters are crazy.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. MichaelD
    5
    Not as funny as I thought it would be. Family Guy is lightyears ahead of this.
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. CoreyL
    0
    The only reason I gave this a 0 rating is because it was the lowest number available. I am a huge FAMILY GUY fan, and was hoping for the best. I didn't laugh once. You probably won't print this, but I believe MacFarlane was pressured into making this show to offset the off-color humor of FAMILY GUY. I don't think he'll lose any sleep when this show crashes & burns. Political correct- ness created this show, utter lack of humor will be it's demise! Long live FAMILY GUY!… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes

See all 79 User Reviews