Family Guy

if anyone is interested there is an audio interview with the creator of family guy at planetfamilyguy.com its good stuff. 35 new episodes will be on fox or cartoon network early next year.

I love family guy, its such a good show, and Im so glad they're bringing it back!!

I shall kill you!

to me, the show just seems so incredibly derivative, with the funniest characters being almost clones of other characters:

the baby seems very reminicent of Dexter from Dexter's Lab (a top show when Family Guy was being developed)

The dog is an awful lot like Grommit from Wallace and Grommit. Or possibly Snoopy.

The Dad is pretty damn Homer-ific.

Am I just a total snob who should get over it? Educate me, what's so great about this show?

_Family Guy_ has one or two REALLY good laughs per show, then it tries too hard for the remainder. It seems desperate to show how ba-ad it is.

Personally, I don't care for Bob Marley or the Grateful Dead.

I don't listen much, but I sure respect him.

And where's my personal favorite DU image - the Loveless album cover? Those glorious sounds fill my head everytime I see one of your posts.

As for Marley, familiarity breeds contempt, I guess. I prefer Peter Tosh, Horace Andy and dub.

did William Gibson invent that too, or was he referencing something that already existed in "Neuromancer"? I can never tell with that guy.

To get half the jokes in "The Family Guy". There are jokes about specific episodes of old tv shows. Hilarious if you get it.

Plus, it had the crudest humor on network tv, which I really like. So glad they're bringing it back. Just one of many great shows the incompetents at Fox cancelled because they put it into timeslots of death.

Really, I just find the program desperately crude, as if McFarlane is aiming to rile everybody's parents. There's little continuity from episode to episode so long as they're gunning for a laugh--so all of the sudden Peter and Lois are into S&M, for instance. Oh, dear.

Other crass sitcoms (like _South Park_ and even _Married. . . with Children_) make better continuing sense.

On the other hand, yes, Fox did dump this one much too early. There are a number of really good shows (I'll even include _Family Guy_ along with _The Critic_, _Andy Richter_, _Futurama_, and, it appears, _Arrested Development_) that would've made Fox's Sunday night a classic for the ages if the network hadn't been so prepared to ditch at the first sign of a sputtering engine.

...that the creator of the Family Guy (Seth Mcfarlane?) was supposed to be on one of the planes that hit the WTC?

I read that somewhere.....let me try and find it....

or that other show theyre talking about that is family guy with other characters?