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Jess
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Tue Feb 20th, 2007 01:48 pm |
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Am I the only person that watches this show? I never miss an episode and I have all the seasons on DVD. I was mad when they cancelled it but remarkable DVD sales is what brought it back on the air.
Some information about the show from Wiki:
Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the suburb of Quahog, Rhode Island. It was created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999.
Family Guy's humor is famous, or even sometimes infamous, for its use of non-sequiturs, usually in the form of flashbacks. The show was cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced FOX to resume the show in 2005. It is the first cancelled show to be resurrected based on DVD sales.
Creator Seth MacFarlane voices many of the characters (Peter, Brian, Stewie, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, and others), and works as a gag writer. Other voice actors include Mila Kunis (Meg Griffin), Seth Green (Chris Griffin), Alex Borstein (Lois, Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown), Mike Henry (Cleveland, Cleveland Jr, Performance Artist, Herbert, and Greased-up Deaf Guy), and Patrick Warburton (Joe Swanson). Lacey Chabert voiced Meg Griffin for the first production season (14 episodes); however, because of a contractual agreement, she was never credited, and FOX has never officially acknowledged that she was ever the voice of Meg.
The show revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin, a bumbling but well-intentioned blue-collar worker. Peter is an Irish-American Catholic with a Rhode Island / Eastern Massachusetts accent. During the course of the series, he discovers he is part African-American and has been known to have Spanish, Mexican, Scottish, Irish and German ancestors. He is known for his trademark laugh. His wife Lois, who has a similar accent, is a stay-at-home mom/piano teacher, and is a member of the Pewterschmidt family of wealthy Protestant socialites. Peter and Lois have three children: teenage daughter Meg Griffin, who is frequently the butt of jokes for her ugliness; goofy and low-intelligent teenage son Chris Griffin, in some respects a younger version of his father; and diabolically evil infant son Stewie Griffin bent on world domination and the death of his mother. Stewie speaks fluently and eloquently, with an Upper Class English accent and stereotypical arch-villain phrases. Even though the family can hear his ambitions of world domination and of Lois' demise, all but Brian (the intellectual talking pet dog) dismiss it as baby gibberish. Brian is the only family member who really understands Stewie, and does treat him like an infant, although background characters also converse with Stewie in different episodes. Stewie refers to his mother and father as "Lois" and "the fat man" respectively. Brian is anthropomorphized in that he walks on two legs, drinks Martinis, owns his own car (a Toyota Prius, circa 2004) and engages in human conversation, though he is still considered a pet in many respects. Occasionally, Brian will act in a stereotypically canine manner, usually for comedic effect (such as his inability to stand up in the back of a car, chasing tennis balls, fear of vacuum cleaners and barking uncontrollably at black people—which he blames on his father's side of the family). On his pride, he does not, however, engage in overly submissive "domesticated" behavior.
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sloppyseconds
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 08:56 am |
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| Family Guy is pure heaven to me. It's scantily clad tv for the inner kid in all of us.
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shay
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Fri May 18th, 2007 01:48 am |
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I LOVE Family Guy!! I've seen a lot of the episodes, but I know I haven't seen them all. I watch it every night on Adult Swim. Stewie is my absolute FAVORITE! (obviously! lol) I can't figure out though, if they can understand what he is saying most of the time or not?? Sometimes, it seems like they DO understand him, and at times, it seems that they don't?? Does anyone know??
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 05:40 am |
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| Does anyone know the going rate for the DVDs? I've seen them in Wally World (Wal-Mart), but they sell for like $70 a pop. That strikes me as a bit high.
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davebob
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Fri May 18th, 2007 10:56 pm |
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| Family Guy is awesome, problem is that down here in Australia it's on like 11pm on a school night. Might just pick up some DVD's of it though.
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Glen
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Posted: Mon May 21st, 2007 01:16 am |
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I had to watch the first 4 series on peekvid to catch up, loved every episode
Its on BBC Three now and again but not till late but i still try to catch it
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lamborgini8
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Sun Jul 1st, 2007 11:42 pm |
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| Funniest show ever! A lot better than the simpsons or anything like that!
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soundboy
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Posted: Mon Jul 2nd, 2007 08:45 am |
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if family guy was vanished then i would kill myself :p
i seriously love this show!!!!
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Wed May 14th, 2008 05:45 pm |
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| fox cartoons make life alright.. especially family guy
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