Dear Family Guy,I love you so much, please don't ever leave me for more than a month again. If I did something to anger you, just let me know. I can change. I'd do anything for you. Play with rubber chickens, eat red carpet, look at David Hyde Pierce's testicles. I'll do it. I swear I will. I just... I just don't know what I'd do without you. Where else can I see a dog, a baby and a fat bastard singing about the "feakin FCC", no where else but you baby. So please, please don't leave me again. If life without you is what hell is like, I'll never sin again.
Love,
-Ryan j Budke
PS: On with the show!
The opening sequence, with Osama Bin Laden's blooper real from his latest "threat to the infidels" and Stewie suscinctly taking him out, should be required reading for all animation schools. I loved the new opening with Stewie's "world tour", pedaling his big wheel through Doom, Star Wars, and The Shining among many other pop references, and hope that it remains as the new permanent opening.
After an "incident" involving a fomer cast-member of Frasier's genitalia being exposed on the Emmy's, the FCC starts cracking down on any and all offenses being broadcasted. This leads to The D--- Van D--- Show, edits of The Honeymooners and Peter being extrememly pissed off. In retaliation, he starts his own television channel: PTV. Peter starts by airing unedited shows but quickly moves on to original programming such as Cheeky Bastard, Midnight Q hosted by Quagmire and The Peter Griffin SideBoob Hour.
Lois can't take the smut that her husband is putting on the air though and reports him to the FCC. Her plan backfires on her when the FCC comes to Quahog and starts censoring everything that happens everywhere in the town. After admitting that Peter was right, she travels to Washington DC with him and they convince congress to "loosen up".
Holy Crap! This may have been my favorite episode of Family Guy ever. This episode was done in response to the PTC naming Fox, and Family Guy specifically, as the worst "family friendly" television programs out there. It goes probably further than any of it's episodes ever have before. It has some of the best stupid humor ("Why thank you tinkly-fairy") and some of the best smart quick humor ("Brian stop writing jokes for Peter") out there. As I said in my opening, I am in love with this show.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
11-06-2005 @ 10:53PM
Josh said...
The Stewie tricycle opening will not be permanent; it was a reference to the Naked Gun films; just an homage, like the Law & Order-style opening from one of last spring's episodes.
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11-07-2005 @ 12:09AM
Mikey c said...
That first sequence with stewie running over stuff was a naked gun refrence, classic!
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11-06-2005 @ 11:02PM
Ryan j Budke said...
Hey guys, just a reminder, you have to activate your comments by the email that's sent to the email address you submit.
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11-06-2005 @ 11:04PM
Tweaq said...
Awesome episode. and I think the Stewie tricycle scene was a slight homage to Bobby's World (with howie mandle, anyone remember?? lol)
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11-06-2005 @ 11:22PM
Brad said...
This was one of the best episodes that I've seen this season. I thought that the past few had been alright, but this was great. It pushed the limits more than I've seen from any show in a while.
And the FCC song was excellent. I had a rant from one of my teachers about the FCC and radio broadcasting and how the FCC is quite horrible now. I hope he watched this show tonight. If not, I'm going to need to torrent it and give it to him.
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11-06-2005 @ 11:57PM
Dave Caolo said...
Wow. By far, hands down, the best Family Guy so far, across all seasons. The opening alone was replete with so many references it's hard to even keep up. I may be crazy, but I think the Stewie/Bin Laden duel had the same choreography as Yoda and Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II (there size difference would certainly lend itself to such a comparison). Stewie's "World tour" was an homage to Police Squad, which followed a roof-mounted police siren through a series if improbable locations (yes, Police Squad spawned the Naked Gun films).
And I agree that Lois reprimanding Brian for writing jokes for Peter was great, but even better was Brian guiltily hiding his face behind the newspaper at her admonishment.
This so is so brilliantly funny. I love it.
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11-07-2005 @ 12:46AM
kyle said...
it was funny, yes. it had me laughing many times, but i thought that a lot of the gags went on too long. they should have cut the osama scene in half, i was getting really sick of it by the end. the whole ep just seemed a little too political for me. they should leave the politics for american dad
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11-07-2005 @ 3:36AM
Natrino said...
The first thing I thought of during the intro was Bobby's World. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. What a great show.
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11-07-2005 @ 5:37AM
forzaq8 said...
the blooper reel was realy funny
but then follwed by police squad intro i t went into dangerous laughing rate
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11-07-2005 @ 7:29AM
Justin said...
Best family guy ever.
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11-07-2005 @ 9:48AM
tully said...
Does anyone else find it somewhat amusing that a blog devoted to "all things TV" can't recognize an homage to 'Police Squad'...complete with the PS theme song?
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11-07-2005 @ 9:55AM
Ryan j Budke said...
Tully, where does it say that I didn't recognize that it was from Naked Gun/Police Squad? Just because I didn't say it doesn't mean I didn't get it.
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11-07-2005 @ 10:25AM
tully said...
From your post, it just seemed that you didn't. Thus, I found it somewhat amusing.
Not "Family Guy" amusing, but ha-ha all the same.
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11-07-2005 @ 12:17PM
Keith McDuffee said...
I'm also wondering where we claimed, as tully quotes "all things TV". Where did we claim that?
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11-07-2005 @ 1:18PM
tully said...
Geeze...mention a little something you find amusing...
Sorry, I should have said "Blogging Television".
You know guys, I wasn't trying to be critical, just sharing something I thought was slightly amusing. I follow the site, and find it to be a lot of fun, so I thought I'd comment for once.
In the future I'll keep such things to myself as I seemed to have touched a nerve.
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11-07-2005 @ 1:22PM
Ryan j Budke said...
Tully, we're just messing with you. I certainly wasn't offended. I just *sniff* take my TV very seriously and that's more or less like slapping my girlfriend in front of me, I have to defend her.
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11-07-2005 @ 1:46PM
tully said...
Attack TV? Heavens no. Nothing else keeps the voices in my head at bay.
OK, we'll just say "no blood, no foul" here and proceed to bask in the warm cathode-ray glow of our eternal friend.
And yes, I found it to be one of my favorite episodes as well. ;)
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11-08-2005 @ 10:32AM
Lynda Kay said...
Yeah, that Naked Gun music really made me think of Bobby's World! ;)
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11-18-2005 @ 10:42AM
Lynda Kay said...
Yeah, that Naked Gun music really made me think of Bobby's World! ;)
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11-09-2005 @ 9:32AM
Jason Anderson said...
DOOOOOOOM!!!!
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