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Posted Oct 27th 2006 2:10PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, Industry, Programming, Animation, Celebrities
Say it isn't so!
OK, I'll say it: it isn't so.
Seth McFarlane is
currently under negotiations with FOX about his new contract. The current contract runs out in early 2007, and McFarlane still hasn't finalized a deal with the network even though the new season is supposed to start filming (um...drawing?) very soon. Variety reports that the production offices are currently closed.
But I say the network and McFarlane make a deal. The show has been a hit and an important show for FOX since coming back, and I don't see them letting it slide away (again). Though wouldn't it be interesting if FOX for some reason didn't renew the contract and NBC picked it up? I don't see that happening, but that would be a cool twist and an instant hit for the Peacock network.
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 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 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
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