The ultimate battle between cutouts and cutaways.

The talkback threads at Ain't It Cool News can be a never-ending source of amusement. This one, about the recent "South Park" episode that takes several potshots at "Family Guy" while poking fun at itself, is a particularly good one.

Now, "Family Guy" can be amusing when it's not stretching out gags way past their natural parameters or needlessly picking on Meg, perhaps the least cartoony of the Griffins. Unfortunately (along with the hit-or-miss cutaway gags), that seems to be all the show is nowadays. Shame, really.