"So put that on your bumper sticker."
 
Haha! I think that was my favorite part of the whole thing. Possible tagline for you, Tom?

First, let me say I really appreciate this review, as Tom was quite kind to a series which wasn't to his liking.
 
Actually, I've watched this series extensively in Japanese and it's pretty funny, but it's completely different in English.  It does sort of have some parallels to the cultural standing of the Simpsons, but it's quite different.  It's mostly about the kid saying very inappropriate things for his age, and his mother and father dealing with him, while being completely oblivious to their own shortcomings.
 
But the English version is so very different from the Japanese counterpart, mostly because the majority of jokes don't make sense unless you know the cultural of Japan.  So they went and changed the essence of the characters, causing them to be fowl mouthed and rude.  This really irks me, especially for the character Action Bastard (Action Kamen) who is very up right in the Japanese series.  On top of that, they added in American cultural references which have no counterpart in Japan.  With the exception of keeping the basic plots of most episodes, the dialogue has no connection to the original Japanese.  I have also watched the series with subtitles (on broadcast TV), but the jokes are not funny when they are explained in the subtitles.  (A common joke is where the kid, Shinchan, says a similar but slightly different word, changing the whole meaning of the conversation - such as once he mistook the Japanese word for beauty salon for hospital, and was telling some one his mother was going to the hospital).