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The Cleveland Show, FOX, Sundays 8:30pm
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This is a spin-off of Family Guy. At some point after his divorce, Cleveland Brown moved from Quahog, RI, to his hometown of Stoolbend, VA, with his son, Cleveland Jr. In the first episode, he married his high school sweetheart, Donna Tubbs. She has a couple kids of her own, a teenaged daughter named Roberta, and a young son named Rallo. Also there are some new neighbors for Cleveland to hang out with, including a talking bear named Tim, a redneck named Lester, and um... at least one other guy.

There's not really much else I can say at this point, except that, aside from the premise of Cleveland and his son having to get used to the new combined family, the show plays pretty much the same as Family. Each week there's just some basic plot going on, interrupted occasionally by these random flashes to... stuff characters mentioned having happened before, or bizarre comparisons of the current situation to some other imaginary situation, which most likely could never happen. I dunno how else to describe it. But at least that device seems to be used less here than it is in Family Guy. Even if it's often the funniest part of either show.... Anyway, I'm not sure at this point how much I'm going to end up liking this show, but it's okay.


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