Well....I enjoy the show, i dont overthink it. I just let the show be what it is, a show. Im black and dont mind that the show isnt written by black people or is even intended for a particular audience.

I love Cleveland, but what made the character pop out for me in Family Guy was how tastefully he was used. Having an entire show which only accentuates debauchery in regards to a character that was the most docile in the original is rather ironic. The writing is second-rate at best in the Cleveland Show, and having seen all the episodes available now it is clear that Seth MacFarlane is just jumping the shark.
Perhaps Macfarlane should have really taken a page out of Matt Groening's history book before launching this series; in parallel examples, The Simpsons to Family Guy and Futurama to American Dad. When Groening made Futurama, he improved his writing and geared a much thicker plot into a much bigger world (as MacFarlane did with American Dad). The Cleveland Show is unnecessary and almost unentertaining.

Many people don't realize that The Cleveland Show is what you would call a Racially specific satire. Though I don't think that it will have an impact as a satire, being written by someone that isn't black. The show itself may be a black racial satire, but the comedy really isn't set for(or by) a black audience. I don't see this show lasting two seasons and hopefully not two more episodes.
Like many animated sitcoms done by Mr. McFarlane the cast of the show is very similar. (i.e A father, two younger male characters, a wife, a daughter, and along with various other characters, an out of the ordinary character). With the theme of each character rotating in each sitcom, meaning in all three of the sitcoms, one of the characters in each has an accent from another country, a more annoying than funny character, and of course, the idotic character that you love to hate.
In conclusion, American Dad and The Cleveland Show should have never been made. A good show is one like Family Guy, to where it could go through the adversity of moving from one station to another and having the fan base to keep it going. Neither American Dad or The Cleveland Show will never have that popularity with it's fans. Written By: Carlton Wheatley

i like the cleveland show. much morethan family guy. it has slightly cleaner humor, at least in my opinion from the episodes i've seen. and it isn't just a family guy rip off, as so amny people are saying. it is different. the characters have different personalities. the teenage daughter is a popular one, not a unpopular one like meg. and cleveland isn't incredibly stupid, like peter. overall, i love this show.

When I heard there was going to be a spinoff about Cleveland, I wasn't terrible excited. I figured it for a Family Guy ripoff just there to get Seth whatshisname some easy money. A friend watched the pilot and said it was crap.
The first episode more or less confirmed all that. I chuckled maybe once during the pilot, max. I was a little disappointed, even a straight Family Guy knock off written by the same guy should have been more funny.
Out of boredom I checked out the 2nd episode, and these days I keep up on them with my old friend Hulu. Although the 1st episode was a real flop in my opinion, the characters are starting to take on a lot more personality and I look forward to watching the show each week.
The formula is very similar, yes. There's a baby who is way too smart to be a baby, an older brother and sister, and the father is more or less the main character. But the characters are really quite different from FG and - dare I say it - show signs of a different brand of humor at times.
The christian bear has produced some of the first dry humor I've yet noticed in Seth's creations, I like him alot. The afro wearing baby unsurprisingly serves as the mechanism for the more edgy black jokes (more to come on that front, you can be sure), but despite being predictable they're still amusing.
My hope is that the show will quickly shift the focus onto the supporting characters and off of Cleveland. He's a pushover and a flat character, was on FG too.
Seth, if by some turn of fate you actually read this crap once in awhile, here's my 2 cents. The show is developing its own character now, stop the cut scenes to FG. If you want it to be a different sort of humor, and you should, the constant throwbacks to FG-style laughs and memories isn't helping.
^^^^ I'll contradict myself by saying you had better make a fight scene between Stewie and the other baby at some point. Don't let me down!

I absolutely love this show. Cleavland was always one of my fave characters. Though the show is very "Family Guy-ish" the new characters are great. So far so good in my book.

I've always loved Cleveland. If you love Family Guy, expect more of the same. Greatness!

This show is without a doubt one of the worst shows i have ever seen. Its a complete ripoff of Family Guy. You can tell Seth is getting lazy. I mean come on, within the first half hour he has a teenage son, a teenage daughter, and an infant son. Are you kidding me??? It took them less then 30 mins to copy the Griffins entirely. I was willing to give this show a shot against my better judgment, but it turned out exactly like i thought. What makes it worse is this piece of crap has been picked up for 2 full seasons.