The Cleveland Show: Season 1

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FOX | Season Premiere Date: September 27, 2009

Starring: Nia Long, Nia Long, Kevin Michael Richardson

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.

Creator: Seth MacFarlane and Mike Henry (VI) and Richard Appel

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E21. You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown
Air Date: May 23, 2010
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S1:E20. Cleveland's Angels
Air Date: May 16, 2010
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S1:E19. Brown History Month
Air Date: May 9, 2010

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Clark Collis

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. Read full review

Rob Owen

Like "Family Guy," The Cleveland Show jumps from the main plot to tangential asides often built around pop culture. But the show's tone is different because Cleveland is such a well-meaning, likable character. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Actually the dimly befuddled Cleveland works pretty well as a foil to the collection of redneck psycho neighbors, oversexed stepchildren and Russian bears (don't ask) who make up the cast. Read full review

Michael Starr

I found myself smiling once or twice, but mostly thinking that all this is way-too-similar to "Family Guy" to carve out its own niche. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Cleveland isn’t an inherently interesting, or, worse, funny, character. His presence allows the writers (many of them white like Henry and Appel) to tell meta jokes about white people in Hollywood producing entertainment for a black audience, and occasionally some of the racial humor lands. Read full review

Tim Goodman

If you're a fan of "Family Guy," this is an easy sell....The guess here is that if you don't know anything about "Family Guy," you'll be watching another network anyway. Read full review

Tom Shales

One of the strangest things about these MacFarlane shows are the mean-spirited "cultural references," all of them shoehorned in as asides and rarely having anything to do with the plot or characters. Read full review

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JimmyDrama

Jan 18, 2011

Although The Cleveland Show is similar to Family Guy and American Dad, there are some differences. For starters Cleveland has grown as a character and is not as silent as he used to be in Family Guy. Also it introduces different characters to the show who can be funny in their own way. YesAlthough The Cleveland Show is similar to Family Guy and American Dad, there are some differences. For starters Cleveland has grown as a character and is not as silent as he used to be in Family Guy. Also it introduces different characters to the show who can be funny in their own way. Yes this show is not as funny as the rest of Seth MacFarlane's tv show's, but at the same time it has it's own style of humour and I think most of that comes from the relationship between Cleveland and the other characters, but also from the other characters relationships with each other.… Expand

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parrem

Oct 6, 2009

Surprisingly really funny and even more surprisingly warm hearted.

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lennm001

Jul 16, 2011

I very much like this show, better than American Dad imo, but not as good as family guy, there are some good jokes but only a few per episode

3 of 5 users found this helpful32

Justine

Jul 4, 2011

People who think this show is funny think that black tragedy is a joke. I got so bored watching it I had to force myself to continue. Lack of humor maybe?

4 of 6 users found this helpful42

Sep 28, 2009

This show wasn't at all funny. Why they would make a spinoff series with the most boring character on the show (besides Meg of course) is beyond me.

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RaulM.

Sep 27, 2009

I HATED this show. I find it hard to believe that the same people behind Family Guy created this show. Just unspeakably horrible. Offensively un-funny, stereotypical, straight-up WEIRD, ZERO chemistry between characters -- just a terrible debut. I don't see this picking up.

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MikeN

Sep 28, 2009

This was terrible. I'm going to watch a few more episodes in case it gets better but more to see how much of a lazy copy of the other two shows it ends up being.

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