# Family Guy - 7/24
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984 "2005-07-25T01:10:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/1 "2005-07-25T01:10:11Z")
Poor Meg.
I liked the Jodie Foster bit. The “special announcement” for members who’s children are stationed in Iraq was mean.
The secondary headline:
“DVD’s Paused for Headline Joke – Millions Disappointed”
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/2 "2005-07-25T01:18:40Z")
I guess I missed the Iraq thing, can you elaborate?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/3 "2005-07-25T01:22:29Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
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> I guess I missed the Iraq thing, can you elaborate?
When everyone arrives at the marina, the announcer says, “Newport would like to extend a special welcome to all those here today who have children stationed overseas in Iraq”, there’s a pause and then says, “Ha ha ha, I’m just kidding” and then the crowd (all rich upper-class whites) laugh, too.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/4 "2005-07-25T01:26:25Z")
They’re over-doing the long joke thing (Peter on X) lately. I called “rock climbing” a bunch of times tonight.
Lots of Lois T & A and lots of “they didn’t go there” jokes (the last scene, eww). Cool!
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/5 "2005-07-25T01:29:37Z")
When Lois announces that she just got a wax and Peter is “cleared for landing”, you hear Quagmire say “giggidy” in the background.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/6 "2005-07-25T01:33:50Z")
Can someone explain the greasy guy running around in the grocery store?
I liked Stewie making a verb out of Shawshank. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/7 "2005-07-25T01:45:44Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Can someone explain the greasy guy running around in the grocery store?
He was a character in a sketch about the company picnic. To win a day off with pay (or something) you had to catch the “greased up deaf guy” and he’s just randomly appeared ever since.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/8 "2005-07-25T01:53:56Z")
> [@Wolfian](#):
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> They’re over-doing the long joke thing (Peter on X) lately. I called “rock climbing” a bunch of times tonight.
I gues that would have been funnier if I knew what a person on X was supposed to act like.
Was that close?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/9 "2005-07-25T01:58:02Z")
> [@Wolfian](#):
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> They’re over-doing the long joke thing (Peter on X) lately. I called “rock climbing” a bunch of times tonight.
They’ve been over-doing that for a long time, but yeah. We were yelling at the TV to get that scene to end.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/10 "2005-07-25T01:58:10Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> I gues that would have been funnier if I knew what a person on X was supposed to act like.
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> Was that close?
Dead on.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/11 "2005-07-25T02:06:01Z")
A shame about Cookie Monster.
I wonder which Sesame Street character gets the treatment next?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/12 "2005-07-25T02:07:10Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Dead on.
:eek:
Well, sign me up!
Kidding!
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/13 "2005-07-25T02:07:22Z")
They _really_ hate Meg.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/14 "2005-07-25T02:22:46Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Dead on.
I’ll second that. Especially Peter’s rolling around on the carpet and wriggling out of his clothes.
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/15 "2005-07-25T02:29:01Z")
OK, not great. The Iraq joke was probably the biggest laugh. They’re overusing the Greased-Up Deaf Guy. (I have to be the first person to ever type that sentence.) Once again, the best stuff comes from Brian and Stewie. The jokes involving Meg are becoming downright cruel.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/16 "2005-07-25T03:25:58Z")
I was kinda disappointed that they didn’t really do anything with the Lois on diet pills aspect of the story. Also disappointed in the painfully obvious Pez bit.
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### Author:  [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/17 "2005-07-25T03:35:02Z")
I thought there would be more of a pay off to the Stewie hires Brian bit.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/18 "2005-07-25T03:37:21Z")
Now that we have an explanation of the greased-up deaf guy, can get the history on the evil monkey? Where did he come from? What does he want? I mean aside from “A Room of One’s Own.”
I like to describe it that way because it puts me in mind of Virgina Woolf smoking pot and listening to Foghat.
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/19 "2005-07-25T03:45:42Z")
> [@saoirse](#):
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> Now that we have an explanation of the greased-up deaf guy, can get the history on the evil monkey? Where did he come from? What does he want? I mean aside from “A Room of One’s Own.”
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> I like to describe it that way because it puts me in mind of Virgina Woolf smoking pot and listening to Foghat.
He came home from work to find his wife cheating on him with another monkey. Apparently he’s projecting his anger onto Chris.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-7-24/313984/20 "2005-07-25T04:44:33Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> They _really_ hate Meg.
From the interview with Seth MacFarlane in the August 2005 issue of _Blender_:
> [@](#):
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> With Meg, what we’ve kind on landed on is a sort of Jan Brady thing where she’s just constantly being shit on by the rest of the family. And it’s turned out to be very funnt.
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