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Seth McFarlane shows new FAMILY GUY material to Washington U and this frickin' lucky guy adores it!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a look at some of the upcoming goodies for all us FAMILY GUY fans out there concerning the next season. I'm a huge, huge FAMILY GUY fan... matter of fact, I just recently picked up Mutant Stewie and Quagmire toys that are sharing places of honor around some new STAR WARS: UNLEASHED toys in my living room. I'm so damn happy to see this series returning, I can't tell you. Apparently, Seth McFarlane has been running around to colleges showing off bits and pieces from this upcoming season and it sounds like the team hasn't lost any steam since they were dropped a couple years ago. Throw into the mix the fact that the entire voice cast is going around doing Live Shows in April (read more about it here!!!) I'm about in a Family Guy frenzy! Enjoy the brief account on McFarlane's appearance at Washington U!
Hey Harry,
Long-time reader, first-time whatever. Just thought I'd drop you guys a line
about Seth MacFarlane's Wash U appearance. This guy is freakin' hilarious in
person, but we got an added treat by being able to see the first act from the
first episode of season 4 ("North by North Quahog" was the name of the
episode).
Now, I'm not really the hugest "Family Guy" fan out there. I don't really like
any of the episodes outside of season 3. But I have to say, this was really,
really funny. The show seems to have really focused on its strengths (comedic
timing, Peter's irreverent personality) and left all of its weaknesses behind.
The tone was set perfectly by the pre-credit joke, which is Peter telling the
family that Fox cancelled them. He rationalizes it by listing about 30 or so
shows that Fox needs to make room for, every single one of them cancelled after
about 1 season. After that, man, I knew I was in good hands.
The plot of the first episodes appears to concern problems with Lois and
Peter's love life, which leads them to take a second honeymoon and leave Brian
in charge. It was only the first act, mind you, and this show has a habit of
abandoning some plotlines in favor of new ones half way through.
Seth MacFarlane himself was very, very funny. The event was held in a giant,
spacious church (crammed to the gills), which is a great irony in and of itself
(compounded further by this great "Passion of the Christ" joke from the first
episode). He answered all kinds of questions from "what's the deal with 'Wish
Upon a Weinstein'" (apparently half the studio was for it and half against,
resulting in one executive actually singing the song a capella to the standards
and practices guy and asking what was wrong with it) to "how do you respond to
criticisims that you steal a lot of jokes from 'The Simpsons'" (To which he
half-jokingly responded, "If I'm stealing jokes from The Simpsons, I hope it's
not from the later seasons"-- that got a huge laugh) to "what's your most
obscure pop-culture reference" (he considers the most obscure, self-indlugent
one to be Stewie's singing of "rocket man" just like Shatner-- a gag that has
to last a solid minute and a half).
But here's what I'm sure will be most interesting. He dropped some hints about
some of this season's episodes: Chris will join the Peace Corps, Brain will go
on a reality TV show, and there will be a gay marriage episode dealing with
Brian's cousin Jasper (from The Thin White Line episodes). He also gave a few
details about the FAMILY GUY MOVIE, which will be direct to video and
called "The Family Guy Photo Album." The story will deal with Stewie's quest
to find his real father, and he let on that there will be a pretty big
revelation in the third act. He also mentioned that there would be two
versions-- a PG one and an R one, the latter one recieving his endorsement. He
went as far as to say that the R-rated Family Guy Photo Album goes about as far
as he wanted to push the show.
If you're going to use this, call me Orson Welles' Fat Flap.
Fo' Shizzle.
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Fuckin' A! may 1st can't get here fast enough. Good news about the movie, i tthought it had been scrapped when Fox renewed the show.
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how cool
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...but he sure knows a lot about the show.
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That pre-credit bit sounds great. In spite of how making fun of Family Guy has been somewhat cool lately, I still find it hilarious. However I was more pleased when it was a cult show as opposed to this huge thing. However this, Futurama, and Arrested Development have warranted some great laughs. All in jokes such as "Anyone remember Big League Chew?" and "...Roman Polanski's house" is fine by me.
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Cause if its Washington State University I'll be pissed, since I live right by there and I totally missed this.
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That would've been THE thing to do when choosing a late night showing.
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from the episode where he's a hooker and offers Lois a "Cleveland Steamer". I'll put it right next to my "Muumuu Homer".
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Mar 30, 2005 9:28:43 PM CST
Sounds better than the original plan for the movie: stringing 3
by frankdrebin
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/539/539467p4.html?fromint=1
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Family guy rocks and i cant wait til may 1st. Thats when it airs right? =)
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Mar 31, 2005 12:03:30 AM CST
Can't wait, such a huge fan! We haven't heard that one in a whil
by monkey butler
But I figure this is as good a place to ask as any - Why all the hating for Americann Dad? "Oh Francine, I can see your mutzplatsen"
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Ah, Family Guy.... come back to Daddy, I need a new fix....
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...Family Guy's entire last season. And how McFarlane's new show was bought over Phil Hendrie's is a freakin' crime. I hope Family Guy's new season lives up to the hype. No amount of DVD sales will bring it back from another cancellation.
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Hey, I just grabed this from BT, now that is some funny shit. When does it start airing?
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Which I read somewhere. James Woods is also doing a guest voice, which is cool because Meg's school is James Woods High. YES fun times are ahead. Giggity.
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Series continues with Family Guy at the end of April. Most people, me included, thought it sucked.
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...the feeding tube on The Simpsons. They're just sad now. And American Dad is apparently where all of Seth's unfunny goes to fester and stink. Family Guy has yet to let me down. Looking forward to the news season.
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Mar 31, 2005 10:35:14 AM CST
You know what I haven't had in a while? Big League Chew.... LMAO
by mr. profit
No one I know got that joke. It was the funniest thing. I can't wait for season 4 and the R rated movie..... I am amped for May. I love Family Guy. It's funny when people tell me, have you seen a show called Family Guy before.... Idiots.
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I thought all the 'Incredible Hulk credit music' stuff was a little more obscure than Shatner's Rocket Man ...
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No obscure reference can compare to South Parks "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" episode, and their "fighting the frizzies" reference to the very recopied bootleg tape of the SW Holiday special. Now THAT is obscure.
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Family Guy Live?! Holy shite. I just e-mailed all of my friends to schedule a trip. Yes, BOTH of them!
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Holy crap this thing is completely sold out.
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To be getting all this great "Family Guy" news. Can't wait!! And I hope the perverted, elderly, homosexual neighbor is back. Just sitting here thinkin' bout the muscly armed paper boy." "Ah, you starting to piss me off you piggly sumbitch. Call me!" Absolute genius!!
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Mar 31, 2005 5:11:11 PM CST
family guy is the reason quality shows like arrested development
by joestokowski
family guy is not funny. at all.
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Yeah, I have tried watching that show. I knew it got all this critical praise and awards and what not, so I gave it a shot. But the few times I tried to watch it I always ended up changing the channel. It just didnt do it for me. Now, there's nothing wrong with "smart" comedies.. its just that some of us prefer the mindless, stupid funny form of entertainment that is F.G.
In MY OPINION (and all of my close friends') A.D. is just highly overrated. Which is not to say that its bad...its just not for everyone; especially me.
Now, who's leg do I have to hump to get new episodes of Family Guy around here? -
For my dollar, the episode the had the old CREST TEAM (superhero toothbrushers) and the CAVITY CREEPS ("We Make Holes In Teeth! We Make Holes In Teeth!") gets my vote as most obscure reference. Cavity Creeps...geeze that takes me back!
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