Posts with tag stewie
Posted Oct 11th 2008 5:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Family Guy, Reality-Free

This news sounds like it could be an episode of
Family Guy, but actually it's going to be
two episodes of
Family Guy.
The show has booked
two evenings at Carnegie Hall. The cast and crew from the show will perform two uncensored episodes of the show, along with various musical numbers. It's called
Family Guy Sings! and will run on November 24 and 25.
The show has done these shows before, at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal and cities around the U.S., but hey, this Carnegie Hall! I think it would be funny if the place insisted that everyone dress in black tie and formal dress.
This seems to be a trend. During the writers strike, the cast of
30 Rock did a staged reading of one of their episodes. Maybe this is something that TV shows can do during the off-season, when the shows are in repeats. I wonder what
24 would be like on Broadway?
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 Feb 3rd 2008 10:09PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Sports, OpEd, TV Sports

On a cool Thanksgiving morning old (Underdog) and new (Stewie from Family Guy) parade balloons battle it out for a inflatable bottle of Coca-Cola. As they cross the skyline of New York City fists fly and heads are butted. But, in the end, neither is the one who claims the prize. That honor goes to the honorable Charlie Brown, who seems to have finally won something in his life.
This was a cute and gentle commercial by Cola-Cola, which rarely disappoints when it comes to Super Bowl ads. I never realized that the Underdog and Stewie Thanksgiving Day balloons had such angry looks on their faces. That was an advantage in this commercial as we saw the two balloons battling it out. I enjoyed when Underdog slammed Stewie against the building. Nice job overall.
Continue reading Coca-Cola: "Dueling Parade Balloons"
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 Jun 23rd 2007 10:25AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Web, Celebrities
OK, so we've all seen that surreal video of William Shatner "singing" Elton John's "Rocketman" at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards (and Stewie's version), but I bet you probably haven't seen Kojak taking a shot at Bread's "If."
I'm not sure what's scarier: Telly Savalas coming off as Blofeld trying to sing a love song (it's like he's going to announce his plans for world domination, but he has to sing this ode to his girlfriend first) or the giant head of the actress who is on the screen in back of Savalas. It must have been kind of odd to be her, just being told to "just stand there and look like Loretta Swit's sister." Full video after the jump!
Continue reading Telly Savalas "sings" - VIDEO
Posted Mar 16th 2007 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, TV Royalty, Family Guy, Animation, Celebrities
This isn't a very good day for companies under the Fox banner. First Zsa Zsa's husband, and now this.
Veteran comedienne Carol Burnett is suing Twentieth-Century Fox because they used her animated "charwoman" character (the cleaning lady with the mop and bucket from The Carol Burnett Show) in an April, 2006 episode without her permission. She's asking for $2 million.
I think I have to start taking law classes or something, if these celebrity lawsuits keep coming at this pace. I think I remember this episode. It showed the charwoman as the maid at a porn shop. If the show can be sued for pop culture references like this, the lawsuits will never end, since the show has about 20 of them in every episode, and some aren't too flattering.
[via TV Tattle]
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 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 Jun 4th 2006 7:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, TV on DVD, My Name Is Earl

The news about September TV on DVD releases
just keeps coming! This time it's the first season of
My Name Is Earl, but wait til you hear about the extras.
This is going to be a 4 DVD superset, and extras will include not only the usual commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes, and gag reel, but also the never used alternate pilot episode, where Earl was changed not by watching Carson Daly on TV, but by watching Stewie from
Family Guy. It was supposed to be sort of a crossover ep, but they went with Daly instead.
That should be pretty cool, as will guest commentaries from Jon Favreau and Juliette Lewis.
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.
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