Family Guy

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i recorded sunday's ep, but haven't watched it yet.
i really thought it was funny the week before when they made fun of radio station ads.
those are just so cheesy, but sadly they are really like that for the top 40 pop stations.

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Family Guy to Retell Star Wars: Episode IV
Source: Variety

Fox's animated hit "Family Guy" will kick off its fifth season this September with an hourlong episode that retells the "Star Wars" saga using "Family Guy" characters.

Variety says Lucasfilm has blessed the event, which will have the Griffin family acting out all the key scenes and narrative from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is a major "Star Wars" fan and was personally involved in getting Lucasfilm on board.

Not surprisingly, family patriarch Peter Griffin will play the role of Han Solo, while mom Lois will appear as Princess Leia. Evil baby Stewie will be Darth Vader, natch.

Brian the family dog will serve as Chewbacca, while son Chris is Luke. Robots R2-D2 and C-3PO will be handled by Cleveland and Quagmire, respectively, while creepy old guy Herbert gets the Obi- Wan character.

The plot of the episode has the Griffin family stuck at home during a blackout. With no TV to entertain them, Peter decides to tell a story --- leading to the "Star Wars" flashback.

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The plot of the episode has the Griffin family stuck at home during a blackout. With no TV to entertain them, Peter decides to tell a story --- leading to the "Star Wars" flashback.

What the fucking fuck.

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The plot of the episode has the Griffin family stuck at home during a blackout. With no TV to entertain them, Peter decides to tell a story --- leading to the "Star Wars" flashback.

Someone's been watching The Way We Was.

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Family Guy already had an episode not too long ago where intruders came into their house and they got into a panic room. While stuck in there, Peter tells the Griffin family history.

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The plot of the episode has the Griffin family stuck at home during a blackout. With no TV to entertain them, Peter decides to tell a story --- leading to the "Star Wars" flashback.

Someone's been watching The Way We Was Muppet Babies.

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10 minute preview of Star Wars episode:

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'Family Guy' pic possible, MacFarlane says
Source: Hollywood Reporter

MONTREAL -- The team behind Fox's hit animated show "Family Guy" has been looking at possibly working on a "Family Guy" movie down the line, creator Seth MacFarlane told The Hollywood Reporter here Saturday. He also said Fox comedy "The Winner," on which he serves as an executive producer, may not be dead yet after new developments in recent weeks.

"It is looking like there could be a future life for 'The Winner.' I hope it pans out," MacFarlane said, without providing specifics. "We have been trying to figure out how to do that and the series at the same time without the series suffering," he said about a potential "Family Guy" feature, adding that this is a challenge that also caused the "Simpsons" film to come about so late.

One possible solution, according to MacFarlane, is to have Ricky Blitt, the creator of "Winner" and a longtime ex-writer for "Family Guy" who has since moved on to other work, start on the movie script.

However, he emphasized that he had no plot ideas yet, and Fox studio executives would have to sign off on a film project as well. "Nothing is official," he said, adding that if all things come together, a movie could be ready in a couple of years.

MacFarlane also said he would like to find a small story about the Griffin family that can be explored in a feature-length film. "I don't want to do 'The Griffins must save the world,' " he said. Asked if the success of the "Simpsons" movie would affect his interest in a big-screen version of "Family Guy," MacFarlane said no, predicting that "Simpsons" will make good money. "But it will be interesting to see if it works," he added.

MacFarlane talked to The Hollywood Reporter after a press conference with many of his "Family Guy" colleagues here. They are in town for some "Family Guy Live" readings as part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival.

Asked in the press conference about some Sept. 11 and terrorism jokes on "Family Guy" and how difficult it is to pull them off, MacFarlane said he feels enough time has passed for comedians to slowly explore the issue carefully.

"People are sort of trepidatiously dipping their toe in it," with skits on "Saturday Night Live" and the like, he said. Asked about gags that never made the air, MacFarlane said the team once had a Last Supper scene written. In it, when Jesus tells his disciples to drink the wine for it is his blood, "there is this huge comedy spit thing" that ensues, he said.

The "Family Guy" team didn't discuss in detail any other new projects they are looking at, but Alex Borstein said "some of us are developing some TV stuff." Mike Henry has been producing weekly videos for KickedInTheNuts.com, which he runs with his brother. Joked Seth Green: "I'm starting an online casino to get kids and their families together and make money for myself."

[Stefen]

wow. cool.

*sigh*

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last thursday i was completely bored and i started watching clips of family guy in youtube. i think the randomness of family guy fits like a glove to the silly internet video format. you don't have to see the entire excuse of a story they put. that explains why everytime you log on to youtube and see the bar of videos being played ,3 out of 10 videos will be something from family guy. i have to admit i was laughing a lot with some stuff, like stewie beating up brian, but it's still very true what   john kricfalusi said, if you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today and you're looking at family guy, you don't have to aim very high, the standards are extremely low. i also saw the 10 minute preview of star wars family guy and the jokes were dreadful. some of the effects were kinda cool, though. they made the spaceships with the cell shading thing and added some shadows to the dudes.

i do like some of the character design , i honestly think the way peter and brian are drawn is cute,  but still, it's a shame this show is so big. it's incredible that some of the dialogue is so careless and could obviously use a couple of rewrites, and yet they go and animate it.

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'Family Guy' spinoff in works
Source: Hollywood Reporter

"Family Guy's" Cleveland Brown might be getting his own show.

Fox and 20th Century Fox TV are developing a spinoff from its hit animated series centered on Peter Griffin's bathtub-accident-prone neighbor, sources said.

The project, tentatively titled "Cleveland," is being written by "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry -- who voices Cleveland and serves as writer-producer on the series -- and "The Simpsons" alum Rich Appel, executive producer/showrunner on MacFarlane's other animated comedy for Fox, "American Dad."

Cleveland, who plays off black stereotypes, is the most levelheaded among Griffin's trio of friends.

Once canceled by Fox, "Family Guy" triumphantly returned on the network in 2005. It is Fox's top-rated comedy and has grown into a $1 billion franchise with red-hot DVD and merchandise sales.

Fox brass had made it a priority to find another hit animated comedy to complement its Sunday comedy lineup. It has several cartoons in the works, including an animated version of its 2003 short-lived live-action comedy "The Pitts," from "Simpsons" veteran Mike Scully; "Relative Insanity," executive produced by Jack Black; and "Mothballs," from "Drawn Together" creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser.

In addition to "Cleveland," Fox and 20th TV also are developing a spinoff of the drama series "Prison Break," set at a female prison.

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The project, tentatively titled "Cleveland," is being written by "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry -- who voices Cleveland and serves as writer-producer on the series -- and "The Simpsons" alum Rich Appel, executive producer/showrunner on MacFarlane's other animated comedy for Fox, "American Dad."

What?! How did i not know this. I heard he was working on Family Guy but this is much better. He must be the reason that show is so good right now...but this cleveland new show will sill suck

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Fox brass had made it a priority to find another hit animated comedy to complement its Sunday comedy lineup.

I wonder if this means King of the Hill is officially dead?
They already killed off Cotton and I saw an article about Judge creating another show.

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So, I've been catching new episodes now and then on Hulu of Family Guy and it is certainly shaping up but in a way I doubt it will continue.  That is to say, they've been experimenting (finally) with the narratives.

There's an episode called "Brian and Stewie" that is (other than musical numbers tacked on the end to make it a 40 minute slot) a full episode with no cutaways, all one location, and it's just Brian and Stewie.  It's very Waiting For Godot and it just works really well because of their sadomasochistic friendship.

But their new episode "The Splendid Source" is about them searching for where dirty jokes come from and the entire episode is almost entirely devoid of cutaways in that it is one long cutaway, a far fetched story that keeps going and going, with plenty of action movie cliche zingers.

Of course, it also tacked in David Lynch briefly and Cleveland shows up in it, but hell, I liked the four of them together better anyway.