That’s be kickedinthenuts.com. It features a guy in a big red afro wig sneaking up on people and kicking them in the nuts, spliced with audience reactions from celebrity roasts. Meh. I’d rather watch an hour-long episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos: Nut Kicking Extravaganza, 'cause I need my wacky voiceover (“Ow! My groin!”)
OK, can I suggest that before y’all answer one of these you take the extra minute to read through the rest of the thread to see if it’s already been answered?
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That should be: Family Guy Reference Archive
Ah, thanks, bouv, I’d seen them both recently and mixed them up.
At one point stewie comments about Peter (I think)
“He runs like a Welshman, doesn’t he?”
Do Welsh people run funny? What am I missing here? 
I think it might be jsut a joke about Stewie having an unexplained quasi-English accent, as well as some English mannerisms. So his comment is funny, because to him, it makes sense that he would comment that someone runs like a Welshman (whethoer or not Welshmen run any differently than Englishmen I son’t knw,) but no one else knows what he is talking about.
So basically, just another “Stewie is/pretends to be higher class than the rest of the family” joke.
What’s the joke behind “Shakespeare’s Fried Chicken”?
There was a bucket of Shakespeare’s Friend Chicken in an older Simpsons episode. If you saw tonight’s, I think it was just a callback.
It’s just an absurd thing to say, because only Stewie (not the family and not you) knows what he’s thinking.
The joke is that her name looks like Crabapple, yet they’ve been going out of their way to never make a joke out of that for the entire first 8 seasons, so just when you think Homer’s about to break the streak, he says Krandel instead. I think a couple seasons ago (after season 9 they all blend together into one big ball of crap), they finally did do a Crabapple joke.
This happens on Family Guy quite a bit, and it seems to have crept over to the Simpsons, too -
Basically, a standard joke will be set up where the character might do something funny for a few seconds, but instead of cutting to the next thing, the gag goes on forever - a whole minute or longer. Family Guy seems to do this a lot - I can immediately think of Peter’s ecstacy moment the other night, or Stewie nagging Brian about his unfinished novel (there was a particular part of that that actually went on for over two minutes - I timed it!) with Stewie just saying things like “How about that novel, hmm?..You were going to finish it, hmm?..It was going to be great…etc.” for over two minutes.
It seems to have crept over to The Simpsons, maybe as a reference to Family Guy. Recently, I saw Homer get hurt or something, and then he did an “ouch! ow! ooh! ahh!” jump around the screen for more than a full minute.
What’s going on there? What’s the meaning of this?
There’s no meaning. They’re just violating your expectations. You’re kind in the mode of “Event, set up line, joke, next event” when they only have a 22-minute show, and instead they’re taking some inconsequential thing and dragging it out. It messes with your sense of comic rhythm. Family Guy, sometimes, made this pretty funny. In the more recent episodes I’ve seen, they seem to be thinking “if we drag something out, it automatically becomes funny.” They’re wrong. It’s turned into a crutch. Or a way to fill up airtime when you don’t have enough material, I don’t know which.
The Simpsons were doing this before Family Guy came around; maybe they’re doing it more these days. The ‘Sideshow Bob steps on rakes’ thing from Cape Feare, way back in season five (circa 1995 I think), was funny only because he just. kept. stepping on rakes. And grumbling. And the writers admitted they only threw that gag in there because the episode wasn’t quite long enough.
I was wondering if there some chicken-related entry in a Shakespeare play.
Guess not.
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Sorry, but in fact they can hear him, even thought it depends upon who is writing the episode. According to/in episodes written by the series’ creator, Seth MacFarlane, everyone can hear him, but reacts any normal person who hears a baby talking would.
They sell him to a circus.[/spoiler] But no, Really, [spoiler]what they do is ignore him, and attribute it to his repeating random words, not actually meaning it. There actually one example of Lois reacting to what he said , in FG104 “Mind over Murder” (Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not a Superrman comic!).
This is known as comedy torture. You drag the joke out so long so it’s not funny anymore, and then it becomes funny again because of how long it is.
Futurama: In the episode, Less Than Hero, Bender says something I haven’t understood no matter how many times I see the episode.
What in the world does that last bit mean?