What makes this especially hard to swallow is that Family Guy is, at heart, a crap Simpsons. The Griffins are coming to Springfield and there's nothing we can do about it. And while that episode had its moments – notably ' I was saying Boo-Urns' – it tore the production team apart, with Matt Groening and James L Brooks publicly airing their dirty laundry about whether or not it compromised the integrity of the Simpsons' universe.īut that was almost 20 years ago, and quality control has dipped enough to render these concerns null. The 1995 episode A Star is Burns brought in Jay Sherman from The Critic, for example. The Simpsons has featured characters from other animations before.