We’ll See…

Posted on July 14, 2008

Watching this with a side-eye. It could go either way.

The Cleveland Show

I’m a fan of Family Guy… admittedly I’ve probably seen every episode (thank you Adult Swim) but I dunno about this one.
My heart was a little hurt when I found out that Cleveland was voiced by a white guy. But I guess I should be reassured that Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long and Kevin Michael Richardson have signed on to voice some of the characters? I’m giving Seth McFarlane the benefit of the doubt for, like, three episodes before I make the final judgement. Get the full story here on Yahoo.

Also getting the side eye is Tropic Thunder. Lord knows that Robert Downey Jr is one of my white boy crushes but he’s pushing it with the new age blackface…

What do you think about all these “colorblind” casting choices? Hit me up in the comments.

Comments

6 Responses to “We’ll See…”

  1. Marcus LANGFORD on July 17th, 2008 3:06 pm

    “how you doin’ peeeeeter???”…lol. cleveland cracks me up. i may tune into this show to see what’s really good. family guy makes me laugh, so this show may do the same.

  2. The Socialite on July 21st, 2008 10:20 am

    I hope that it isn’t another case of Baldwin Hills, where they try to make the Black version of The Hills. I don’t think they did a good job with that show. But Cleveland could be funny, can’t wait to watch it and see.

  3. Tayo on July 21st, 2008 12:10 pm

    Like I said, I love FG… I’m not sure if the Cleveland character can carry his own show, but we’ll see. I’m sure it’ll be funny, but it still gets a side-eye…

  4. Sincere on July 27th, 2008 1:09 pm

    Wassup with the bears?

  5. Theo J. on August 6th, 2008 11:10 pm

    Seriously? I like Cleveland and I’m glad he got over Loretta. So I guess they are going to change his whole family. It’ll be interesting to see how they pull this off.

  6. Tayo on August 9th, 2008 8:22 pm

    Theo - yeah, I just realized that he has a whole new family… what happened to his son (from Family Guy)?

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