Bill Burr, Michael Price
F is for family

I don't know if you've ever played "It Could Be By."
The game is simple: it consists of identifying the recurring and/or peculiar characteristics of a certain - let me say - artist, enough to make the work attributable to them, to present them again in a new product to show to your teammates: if they spot the counterfeit by naming the correct artist, the team dies.

Obviously, this game doesn't exist, but in reality, we play it more than one might think because it is simple yet complex in analyzing the outcome.

Its complexity is often due to the very thin line between a style so characteristic and powerful that it can afford to use four or five key ingredients to be recognized, and a winning formula with its fixed elements.

Because if I'm around 110bpm, and like a whore, I play you the interval A-C, sliding up and down, 2/4 for A and two for C, hooray. We've done Nirvana. If I whistle a tune in a loop and underneath there's the bass drum in 4/4, we've done Bob Sinclair.

It doesn't just happen in music; there are recurring elements, recalls, citations, influences, dodges, similarities, sensations, hallucinations, circles, many circles, everywhere.

But what you need to know inside yourself is that playing "It Could Be By," you might want your teammates to guess Black Sabbath, but without knowing, you're actually pulling out Kyuss.

More or less that's what happens with F is for Family. An animated series featuring a typical American family. It could be, yes, but it's not. There are all the premises to talk about something derivative, but unlike all the series that are pointless to mention, where the dramatic and depressing condition of some stereotypes emerges thanks to gags and side jokes, here a persistent down situation is told, with sporadic moments of lightness. An inverted morality, the one we generally know as "my life may seem like crap, but in the end, I love it as it is," becomes "it seems things are going well, but in reality, I've failed everything and my life is crap."
In any case, if you happen to see it, and you dislike it, we can always play a round of itcouldbeby and smoke one, at least we'll surely laugh, since some came to complain that "oh, there's no laughter." But screw it.