 A more negative review came from <unk> 's Ken Tucker , who called the animation clunky , which he said made Hanna @-@ Barbera 's animation look like state @-@ of @-@ the @-@ art . Tucker also said in his review that he hoped that smart people would use the Family Guy half @-@ hour to turn off the television set and start a debate over the air strikes in Kosovo . He also called the show " The Simpsons as conceived by a singularly sophomoric mind that lacks any reference point beyond other TV shows " . Even before it aired the pilot had received some criticism from the Parents Television Council , a watchdog ; the creator of this website L. Brent Bozell III wrote that he initially speculated that Family Guy would be " pushing the envelope " . 
