Posts with tag brian
Posted May 4th 2008 10:39PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Video, Family Guy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E12) As a result of adopting (and by adopting, I mean bird-napping) a parrot from the veterinarian's office, Peter becomes a pirate. The sad part was that it wasn't even
International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day.
Actually, that's not really what the episode is about. It's more about Chris' pursuit of a vet intern named Anna. While Chris' pursues Anna, he gets advice from Peter and the gang (which, as the history of the show has proven, is never a good idea).
The pirate segment of the episode wasn't very good and seemed out of place. Fortunately, it was very short. Despite its use in the promos, it was kind of forgettable. I did enjoy the car chase bit involving "sugar cane, tobacco and spices". The car chase itself seemed like something of a cross between a pirate movie and a video-game.
Continue reading Family Guy: Long John Peter (season finale) - VIDEO
Posted Apr 28th 2008 1:11AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Family Guy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E11) Brian learns that he had an illegitimate 13-year-old child from a previous relationship (voiced by Harvey Fierstein). The child is dropped off at the Griffin household and Brian now has to raise him.
It should be noted that this season has been shortened to 12 episodes, most likely due to the writer's strike. The season finale will be shown next week. The remaining unfinished episodes will be part of next season's broadcast.
Continue reading Family Guy: The Former Life of Brian - VIDEO
Posted Sep 30th 2007 10:40PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S06E02) This is the 100th episode of Family Guy (if the three edited-for-TV episodes of Stewie Griffin: the Untold Story are counted). Not bad for a show that was canceled for a few years.
The plot involves Brian moving in with his vapid sometimes-girlfriend Jillian (voiced by Drew Barrymore). Stewie then joins them to help with the rent. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job at a convenience store and helps Chris get a job there which leads to bad repercussions.
Continue reading Family Guy: Movin' Out (Brian's Song)
Posted Feb 25th 2007 12:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Animation, Web
A little over one year ago I mentioned that Brian and Stewie of Family Guy would be starring in their own online talk show. Tonight, before you settle in with a bag of Skittles and jar of moonshine (or whatever snacks you happen to enjoy) to watch the Oscars, head over to FOX.com to see Up Late with Stewie and Brian, a ten-minute, online-only talk show featuring an interview with Rob Corddry about his new show, The Winner (also created by Family Guy's Seth McFarlane and Ricky Blitt). The show will be available starting at 5 p.m. PST.
If you haven't had a chance to check out The Winner, you can watch some of the episodes online before they air on TV in March. I caught one episode, and while it wasn't perfect, I think the series might have potential. I like the premise of a developmentally arrested thirty-two year old with a teenage best friend, and Corddry is a goofy and likable leading man. I'm willing to give it a chance to grow on me.
Posted May 14th 2006 10:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E17) What can you say about an episode of a cartoon that shows that the universe was invented by God farting?
This episode had a big
Simpsons vibe to it, where one character tells a historical story and the characters from the show serve as the historical characters as well. This one had Peter telling the rest of the family the story of the Griffin family as they all hide out in a panic room while robbers break into the house. It all starts with the dinosaurs, and the show helpfully gives both the theory of evolution and the intelligent design theory (Jeannie blinked everything into existence).
Continue reading Family Guy: Untitled Griffin Family History
Posted May 7th 2006 9:49PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E16) So I'm sitting in my new apartment, all alone, it's quiet as hell, and I'm watching the opening of
The Family Guy and they show a scene from
JAG. And I laughed, very loudly, all alone in my apartment. I felt kinda silly, but when Mac asks Harm if anyone even watches the show anymore and he says, "not really, they don't really pay attention" then looks at the camera and says "Remember the forties?" I just lost it.
Sure,
JAG isn't even on anymore, but it was still funny.
Continue reading Family Guy: Petergeist
Posted Apr 30th 2006 9:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E15) Hahahahahahahahahaha. Hahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahaha.
Sorry, I just laughed throughout this entire episode. I guess there's just something really funny about gay dogs getting married and a giant gold statue of Dig 'Em, the Sugar Smacks mascot.
Continue reading Family Guy: You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives
Posted Apr 23rd 2006 10:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E14) For some reason, Peter
starts writing his own porn stories after finding the writing in a porn book to be lacking. This leads to a truly
bizarre scene involving some sort of rat (dog?) couple who can't afford to pay their landlord, and the landlord (Peter)
says he'll let it go if he can have sex with the rat (dog?) wife.
To be honest, I'm not even sure what the
hell was going on there, it was so disturbing.
Continue reading Family Guy: Peterotica
Posted Apr 23rd 2006 9:44AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, Family Guy, Animation, Web
I watched
this
earlier today and I can't stop thinking about it. I don't know, I just find it funny. It's not every day that you get
references to the Olympics, eye boogers, and Mac computers all in one 30 second clip of a TV show.
You can
also check out preview clips from this week's
24 and
Big Love, but they're not as funny.
Posted Apr 9th 2006 9:47PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, OpEd, Family Guy
(S05E13) There aren't many shows - ever - that
would make a
Scarecrow and Mrs. King joke. One more reason to love this show.
Brian gets a job as a
cabbie ("It's about time I got a job. For God's sake, I'm seven!"). Peter and Lois find out about the
community talent show coming up (long story how they find out - it involves Peter and Brian shooting at Lois' car from
the taxi and the car crashing), and decide to bring back their folk band (A Handful Of Peter).
Brian gets a
$400 parking ticket for parking in a handicapped spot. Meanwhile, Mayor Adam West goes for a pizza and finds the
Domino's Noid in his office. He kills him ("Maybe the Domino's Noid should have avoided
me").
Continue reading Family Guy: Deep Throats
Posted Mar 26th 2006 9:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
Well, if there's one reason I'm glad I watched tonight's ep
is because I learned exactly how a vasectomy is done. Thanks to the barbershop quartet singing about the procedure and
the handy diagram of the scrotum, I now know exactly what it entails.
Peter is going to have a vasectomy, so
he decides to freeze is sperm before he does it. This leads to an hysterical yet truly gross scene where Peter knocks
over an entire shelf of sperm samples, and has to refill them, um, himself. Flash forward nine months, and a woman
gives birth to another Stewie, named Bertram.
Continue reading Family Guy: Sibling Rivalry
Posted Mar 12th 2006 9:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
Finally: an entire
Family Guy
episode revolving around Lois' breasts! Well, OK, maybe not an entire episode - I do remember something about Quagmire
proposing to someone on a beach - but this episode had one of the more hysterical/disturbing images of this TV season:
Lois flashing her breasts to Brian after giving Stewie his lunch. I don't know, I just find a naked talking dog being
mesmerized by breasts pretty damn funny.
Continue reading Family Guy: I Take Thee, Quagmire
Posted Jan 30th 2006 5:14PM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
I
was just telling some of my friends that I can't wait until next football season because, hopefully, just hopefully, we
won't be inundated with stupid commercials, with stupid Tom Brady from the stupid New England Patriots. Then, out of the
blue,
Family Guy has to go and sneak attack me with more of it. Now granted, I
guess The Patriots would be Peter and the rest of the
Family Guy's
"hometown" team, but good grief, is there anyone who isn't sick of him yet? I mean, I never thought I'd
actually agree with Jay Leno on anything, but his relentless attacks on Tom Brady may have actually had some validity.
Other than the special guest star, this episode was absolutely stellar. On with the show!
Continue reading Family Guy: Patriot Games
Posted Jan 25th 2006 1:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Animation, Web
Two Family Guy characters, Stewie, the evil pansexual baby genius and
Brian, the erudite family dog will be hosting their own "online only" talk show called Up
Late with Stewie
and Brian. The show will be launched on
FamilyGuy.com later this year. Right
now that's all that is known about the show. As a devoted but cautious
Family Guy fan, I think this show could
be pretty cool. Of all the characters on
Family Guy, Stewie and Brian have always had the best dynamic.They
each have different personalities, but also a kind of odd mutual respect in that they're the two members of the family
who shouldn't speak but do. Props go to
Ryan for hepping me to
this news.
Posted Jan 9th 2006 2:42PM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
I've been catching up on episodes of
The Sopranos in preparation for the new
season, and I just got done with the second season. I also received a great Rat Pack CD set for Christmas, which has
been getting heavy play here at Casa De Budke. So, between those two things and last night's episode of
Family Guy, I've gotten an unexpectedly large dose of Frank Sinatra Jr. over the
past couple of weeks. Not a bad thing per se, just an odd thing. If I were to create a "New Rat Pack" from
animated characters on TV now, I'm almost certain that Brian and Stewie would be on it as well, (and probably Timmy
from
South Park, and Bender from
Futurama
just for good measure). On with the show!
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