Posts with tag stewie griffin
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 12:02AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S06E10) Lois, Peter and Brian take a vacation to Martha's Vineyard. Peter drinks up a storm and Brian confesses his love for Lois. Hilarity ensues.
Seth McFarlane shows his Massachusetts background in this episode (his parents are from there). I saw references to Boston Harbor (the John Hancock building was in the background) and Six Flags New England (which is very close to Connecticut, the state where he was raised).
The show continues to explore Brian's artistic tendencies as he wins a writing award (we later learn the piece he wrote was mostly plagiarized). It's debatable if this is better or worse than the time he was a porn director.
Continue reading Family Guy: Play it Again, Brian - VIDEO
Posted Jan 14th 2008 9:42AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S06E08) In a mild parody of the movie
Super Size Me, Peter suffers a stroke after eating too many fast-food hamburgers. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes the most popular student at James Woods High School, despite being a baby.
Family Guy has such potential to be an original and funny series and so much of it is wasted. I saw hints of really good ideas in the episode but those were superseded by some hack writing and poorly executed material. Another reason to loathe the WGA Strike.
Spoilers after the jump.
Continue reading Family Guy: McStroke
Posted Nov 11th 2007 10:42PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S06E05) Lois has realized that she has given birth to a monster and knows what she has to do to resolve it. The world needs more mothers who take responsibility like this.
I never liked episodes which end up saying "the whole episode you just watched never happened", but the nice thing about
Family Guy is its tendency to call itself out on its own crap before the viewer can. I believe Brian described it best when he called it giving the audience a giant middle finger.
Continue reading Family Guy: Lois Kills Stewie (Part 2)
Posted Jan 29th 2007 6:59AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E09) For the first time in a month and a half, we finally have a new
Family Guy. I'm not sure I understand the thought process behind the programming at Fox, but the bright side is it means we'll have plenty of new episodes for the second half of the season.
The
FG team went back to familiar territory this week, bringing us another "Road to..." episode. If you close your eyes really tight, you can almost see the eventual special edition DVD commercial. Like "Road to Rhode Island" and "Road to Europe" before it, this one was split into two separate stories that had virtually nothing to do with each other. And also like those that came before, I preferred the Stewie and Brian story.
Continue reading Family Guy: Road to Rupert
Posted May 21st 2006 11:55PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E18)
Diane: In other news, after several grueling days of frightening uncertainty, I finally get my period.
Tom: Well, Diane, I'm sure you and your brother must be devastated by the loss of the two-headed offspring that might have been.
Hey, Bob's cable is out so I told him I'd cover this week's Family Guy review. If you want to fantasize about Bob while reading this I won't be offended. Okay, let's get to it:
Continue reading Family Guy: Stewie B. Goode/Bango Was His Name-O/Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure (finale)
Posted Feb 20th 2006 11:37AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Animation
Most readers know I'm a lover of comic strips both new and old, and when I say
"most readers" I mean those readers who are able to read my mind since I don't think I've ever mentioned it
before. Anyway, one of the best comic strips out there is "Get Fuzzy" by Darby Conley. If you caught
yesterday's strip, you might have noticed Robert's T-shirt features a familiar face. Yep, that's Stewie Griffin's
flaming head gracing Rob's torso. Now if only they'd make an animated series based on "Get Fuzzy." That would
be, in the words of Peter Griffin, "freakin' sweet."
Posted Dec 24th 2005 12:46PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Programming, TV on DVD, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
Next spring FOX plans on airing the recent
Family Guy DVD.
Stewie
Griffin: The Untold Story was released back on September 27th, but FOX believes there is still some worth in
televising the DVD months after it hit store shelves. The episodes, when aired, will be split into three parts, which
is how they are pieced together on the DVD. It tells the story of Stewie's search for his real father. When FOX begins
to air promos for these "episodes" next spring, there will be little to no reference that they are indeed
being drawn from the DVD. I don't really see a problem with this; I mean, it is
Family Guy, which people are
going to watch no matter what... even if this does seem a little backwards going from DVD to TV and not the other way
around.
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