I bet if I told you last year that American Dad and Bob’s Burgers would one day virtually match The Simpsons in the ratings, you would think that I was insane. It was only a couple of years ago that some thought that American Dad would get cancelled, and Bob’s Burgers was fighting tick for tack with Allen Gregory and Napoleon Dynamite for the 8:30pm EST time slot. Well, according to Deadline.com. See what I mean here:

Fox’s Animation block started off with a repeat of Bob’s Burgers (0.9/2) at 7 PM. A new episode of The Cleveland Show (1.4/3) followed.Cleveland was even with its last original on December 16.  Without football as a lead-in for the night, The Simpsons (2.4/6) was down 43% from last week. The new Bob’s Burgers (2.3/5) of Sunday night was also down 26% from January 6. New episodes of Family Guy (3.1/7) and American Dad (2.4/5) were both down 14 from last week’s originals.

The Cleveland Show looks about cooked in terms of any chance of a renewal by FOX, but look at the numbers for all of the programs not named Family Guy. Bob’s is only a decimal number away from matching The Simpsons in the ratings, and American Dad is 99.9% locked with the long time Animation Domination mainstay.  Your thoughts???