The Return of Family Guy

[jrs]

Family Guy could return with as many as 35 new episodes for January 2005. Go to USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm) for further details. :cool:

[megalith]

Family Guy could return with as many as 35 new episodes for January 2005. Go to USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm) for further details. :cool:

That is the best news I have heard all week. Thanks for sharing!! :D

[projectMayhem]

It was only a matter of time before Fox realized that they are a bunch of idiots for letting it go.

[Jackie Malfoy]

That is the best news I have heard all week. Thanks for sharing!! :D

I watch that show over and over again every night at elven in Adult Swim!I just saw the one that they would not show on tv until now it is called "When yu wish upon a HeinBurg!It is so funny even if it does mock out jews.
Anyway I can't wait for more new shows I mean they made more Simspons and Futuma why not family Guy?
Beside the school dance!This is the best news I heard all day yea!JM :eek: :cool: ;) :p :D :)

[Garrett]

That would be the greatest thing. EVER.

[Richard Hell]

its about time. but wasa better on fox, or on adult swim.
hey for the adult swim one

[James_Bond]

Yes, i love family guy. It was and still is one of my favorite shows. I own all of the episodes on Dvd!

[Philmster]

They are also making a straight to DVD film, which is in production now. Family Guy really is a breath of fresh air, just as South Park and Simpsons were running dry, family Guy comes along and re-ignites the screen. Great Stuff.

[Jackie Malfoy]

I been watching the same Family Guys on Adult swim over the past mouths and I had not seen
a new one yet! Please let me know the date so I can watch out for it!
I can't wait!They finally showed "Wish a upon a WeinStein (When Peter gets a jewish friend)that is so funny!See you ar ound!JM :cool: ;) :p :D :)

[jrs]

20th Century Fox Television has committed to producing a minimum of 22 new half-hour episodes of Seth MacFarlane's Emmy Award-winning animated comedy series Family Guy more than two years after the series aired its last original episode.
The new episodes will be available in early 2005 to be shown on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late night block of animated programming for adults on which Family Guy currently ranks as the #1 show. The Fox Broadcasting Company has an option to license the original runs of those new episodes.

For the full article, go to comingsoon.net (http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4071)

[higgy]

Good news, but do you know when it will return in Britain?

[Garrett]

Thank you, God.

[mothish]

that's great. family guy has to be one of the best cartoons, ever.

[LTwedge]

Yay! More Mayor Adam West!

[FILMFREAK087]

I think the show has been alot better since it returned, the Simpsons however, have been dying a very, very slow death since the late 90's.
I think the Family guy writers have really got a handle on the characters better now, and know what direction to take it.

[Equilibrium]

lol, way to dig up a very old thread. but yes....family guy is doing better than simpsons in terms of material. The only thing is though, simpsons has also managed to stay popular for a very long time. So they have less material to work with than Family guy.

[FILMFREAK087]

Very true...that's the crux of the problem almost everything has been done, there isn't much material left. I think Family guy was re-energized and the writing has become much more precise.

[Hattori_Hanzo]

have you guys seen the episode on Family Guy from South Park? Cartman has some pretty good points and I think about how dumb and really off base family guy is. It doesn't stop me from watching and enjoying it but I really do wonder if walrus'(i cant remember if it was the walrus', seals, or dolphins) help create this random show

[CaptHowdy]

i think that the comedy that show puts out is what would make this world a better place if everyone could appreciate how great that it really is. I remember an episode were there was a reference to something be cool like the other side of the pillow! freakin great!!

[mesomewhere]

It is good that family guys coming soon. thanks for sharing news.i am pretty excited to watch them and can't wait.

[globalbpo]

thanks for sharing, i've always liked this show

[FILMFREAK087]

I like the absurd humor of Family guy, South Park is just a different kind of humor, more of a social satire. The randomness of Family guy in a way makes fun of pop culture in general, and the country's obsession with it. I think the references have definately improved the past couple of seasons.

[Sedai]

Terrible show. Probably one of the worst on television, for exactly the same reasons Freak says he likes it. Pop culture references are a cheap, untalented, totally uncreative way of doing comedy. The show is indeed completely random, like maybe some 5th grader cobbled the episodes together on his Mom's Mac.

Stewie is THE WORST character ever created for television. He has no character. There is no Stewie. Just an animation for sophomoric writers to tack silly pop culture references to. He is simply there to impersonate other people or concepts. Formulaic, juvenile, and totally uncreative. Not to mention the fact that the character design itself was totally lifted from an older, and much funnier comic strip, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, created by Chris Ware in 1991. Google it, and check out the character design...

Peter is just Homer with a different shape. Another rip-off.

All the characters are either totally lifted, or some weak amalgam of sitcom characters of the past. IOW, more totally beat pop-culture references, even in the shows character design. Completely unoriginal, in every way.

People say the show takes chances with offensive material. Too bad it isn't offensive at all, because none of the people in the demographics they rag on will ever watch the show. Its fan base is a comprised mostly of college students, and college students don't get offended very easily. This supposed cutting edge show has absolutely no balls at all.

The animation sucks. Shallow, expressionless, and lifeless. Don't believe me? Here, I dug up a quote from a veteran Hanna Barbara animator that worked on the show for a while:

"When I'd suggest some sort of minor gag... [the director] just looked at me and, deadpan, asked "why"? The designs of the characters were murder to draw, so bland and expressionless, but I was somehow expected to get more "acting" out of them. Believe me, Peter's model sheet poses for "happy" and "depressed" looked practically identical! I was told not to add eyebrows, not to distort eye-shapes, not to draw "cartoony" poses...but still, somehow, creating "acting". Yeah, right."



I will say, the show was timed well, as it hit right when all those 80s references were rally hitting people with nostalgia. But, really, how many times can you go "Oh...haha, I remember that" before it just gets OLD. Also, In 20 years, the show will have no comedic value, at all. Once the 80s references become overly dated, the lack of actual satire, or for that matter, any sort of plot points, will expose the show for what it always was; a bunch of random filler thrown together with overused sight gags.

Hopefully, by then, the show will be long forgotten.

Family Guy 0.5

[FILMFREAK087]

I think you're just looking specifically at the references themselves, when really it's a swipe at American's fascination with popular culture. I think now they have balanced the humor well, unlike the initial seasons which were hit and miss. I see alot more character driven humor e.g. Quagmire's perverse nature, and Meg's black-sheep status. I don't think the references are the driving force of the comedy, but more just placed in there for comedic pacing.

[Swedish Chef]

Terrible show. Probably one of the worst on television, for exactly the same reasons Freak says he likes it. Pop culture references are a cheap, untalented, totally uncreative way of doing comedy. The show is indeed completely random, like maybe some 5th grader cobbled the episodes together on his Mom's Mac.

Family Guy 0.5

Wow, that rating is way harsh. To be fair, I've only caught three or four episodes since the restart and they were a little disappointing. But those first three seasons (which I own and watch fairly regularly) are very, very funny. I get that it's an easy show to hate on because of the seeming ease of pop culture reference bombardment. But the Family Guy staff actually do (or did) it well. It may not have the emotional resonance or narrative strength of something like The Simpsons, but it's definitely majorly hilarious. I defy you to watch that episode with Norm MacDonald as Death without cracking at least a few smiles.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/FGDeathisBitch.jpg/250px-FGDeathisBitch.jpg

[n3wt]

Family guy is awsome.

[FILMFREAK087]

I always remember seeing this back in 1997 on cartoon network's Cartoon Cartoon film festivals. Essentially it's the prototype for what would become Family guy. For those of you who haven't seen it, here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2F2pLEwfRQ