Comm 300: The Cleveland Show

Sunday night was the pilot for the Cleveland show. I rather liked it, though it will take some getting used to having Cleveland as the main character, because I absolutely loooove Family Guy. I don't quite understand why the next door neighbor is a russian bear who hides his smoking from his wife, but I suppose we will find that out in later episodes. It was actually quite interesting that this pilot mentioned something that we had read about in Gray's book.
The daughter, Roberta, is talking to Cleveland about television shows and mentions that white people never make television shows that black people want to watch. And then, as if to prove the point a clip a show comes on entitled "That's what I was saying before." I don't get the reference but perhaps that's a line from an older black comedy??