# Family Guy Delayed Until Summer '05 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853 "2004-05-30T23:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/1 "2004-05-30T23:15:11Z")
No idea for the reason behind it, nor very many [details](http://www.familyguyfiles.com/main.php) > [@](#): > > Family Guy Season 4 officially starting Summer 2005 (vice Jan 2005). It also appears that Fox will be running the shows first Let the countdown begin. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/2 "2004-05-30T23:22:12Z")
It takes a good eight months to produce a half hour animated show. Seeing as they just recently restarted production, that sounds like a reasonable timeframe. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/3 "2004-05-30T23:30:58Z")
While all you Family Guy followers are in here, I have a question. Is it “effin’ cry” or “laugn 'n cry”? It sounded like “effin’ cry” until Season 3 Disc 2. (I just watched all three seasons in the last few weeks, thanks to Netflix.) It was subtitled “laugh 'n cry”, of course, but really, what was it, and was it changed? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/4 "2004-05-30T23:38:41Z")
Nobody really knows. Supposedly Seth has said one thing in one interview, and another in a different interview. Why it was changed, I’ve no idea, but it definately _was_ changed to at least Stewie being more articulate about what he’s singing. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/5 "2004-05-31T01:42:23Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > While all you Family Guy followers are in here, I have a question. Is it “effin’ cry” or “laugn 'n cry”? It sounded like “effin’ cry” until Season 3 Disc 2. (I just watched all three seasons in the last few weeks, thanks to Netflix.) It was subtitled “laugh 'n cry”, of course, but really, what was it, and was it changed? It always sounded like “laugh and cry” to me. ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/6 "2004-05-31T02:06:23Z")
I just started catching this on cartoon network, couple of questions: Stewie and the dog, are they really talking? Or is it one of those ‘we can hear what they’re saying, but the characters are really just responding to coos and ahhs and barks and stuff’ Sometimes it seems that no one understands stewie as he plans death rays and other stuff, and sometimes it seems like no one is shocked by a talking 1 year old. Or for that matter, a talking dog. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/7 "2004-05-31T02:09:42Z")
Brian can definitely talk and can be understood by everyone. Stewie can talk, but whether or not anyone understands him depends on how important it is to the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/8 "2004-05-31T02:58:33Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Stewie can talk, but whether or not anyone understands him depends on how important it is to the plot. The default being no, except for Brian, who always understands him. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/9 "2004-05-31T03:18:18Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Brian can definitely talk and can be understood by everyone. > > Stewie can talk, but whether or not anyone understands him depends on how important it is to the plot. Except for the episode where they do the role reversals and Brian imitates Stewie, and nobody picks up on what Brian says. “I’m a pompous little anti-Christ, who’ll probably give up my plans for world domination and fall for a rough trick named ‘Jim.’” Stewie’s the only one who catches it. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/10 "2004-05-31T03:31:05Z")
In the DVD commentary, Seth and the other repeatedly say that Stewie says “laugh and cry” during the opening segment. As for whether anyone understands Stewie, it may be that they hear and understand him, but Brian’s the only one who ever really pays attention to what he says, with everyone else just passing it off as ‘baby talk’. In one episode, Lois stumbles upon Stewie’s secret weapon cache and command center and comments (more or less) “oh my god, my baby’s an evil genius trying to take over the world! All this time, I should’ve been listening to what he was saying!” It then turns out that it was just a dream, and Lois promptly forgets everything about it. Still, it seems that she’s aware, at least subconsciously, of what he’s saying. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/11 "2004-05-31T03:35:13Z")
while we’re at it, what are they saying (if anything) right before they sing Family guy? Souds sortof like[something is]the family guy Help? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/12 "2004-05-31T03:37:30Z")
Lucky is a family guy. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/13 "2004-05-31T03:52:03Z")
AH! Thank you! Who is Lucky? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/14 "2004-05-31T04:15:26Z")
Its “Luckily there’s a Family Guy”. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/15 "2004-05-31T04:17:44Z")
🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/16 "2004-05-31T04:19:31Z")
Lucky _there’s_ a family guy. Lucky there’s a man who, positively can do, all the things that make us _laugh and cry_. I always thought it was laugh and cry. Although it does kinda sound like effin’ cry, it doesn’t really make sense in the context of the song. But I guess enough people thought it sounded like effin’ cry so they rerecorded it for the 3rd season. For the record, whether they understand Stewie is I think intentionally left ambiguous. They just love to screw around with continuity (which is why we have “flash-backs” of Peter in Anne Frank’s attic, numerous instances where Peter dies, a third sibling that was killed by Meg, Meg having a different father, etc). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/17 "2004-05-31T04:33:31Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > Lucky _there’s_ a family guy. > > Lucky there’s a man who, positively can do, all the things that make us _laugh and cry_. I always thought it was laugh and cry. Although it does kinda sound like effin’ cry, it doesn’t really make sense in the context of the song. But I guess enough people thought it sounded like effin’ cry so they rerecorded it for the 3rd season. > > For the record, whether they understand Stewie is I think intentionally left ambiguous. They just love to screw around with continuity (which is why we have “flash-backs” of Peter in Anne Frank’s attic, numerous instances where Peter dies, a third sibling that was killed by Meg, Meg having a different father, etc). Your forgetting Peter being invited to Sharon Tate’s house and bringing his “other family” to the party, quitting Simon and Garfunkel to go to 'Nam, the giant chicken incident, Stewie introducing John Lennon to Yoko, and the episodes where Death shows up. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/18 "2004-05-31T05:34:20Z")
Stewie can be heard and understood by all, although he’s rarely **listened** to. Seth told a funny anecdote in an interview about how his four-year-old nephew was leaving their house after a visit and said to Seth’s mother, “I’ll see you in hell.” Nobody knew where he’d picked it up and naturally everyone had a good laugh over it. Stewie’s talking is a comic exaggeration of the truism that very small children can say the most outlandish things and get away with them, since of course they can’t possibly mean them … can they? ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/19 "2004-05-31T11:33:27Z")
There was at least one episode of Family Guy - maybe it was the one where they were on The Real World - in which lots of people asked just these questions. You know, “Hey, what’s the deal with that baby? Can they, like, understand him or what?” Made me chuckle. Because obviously the _real_ real answer is that they’ve just hit on a particularly entertaining balance of characters and comic asides, and it being a stupid cartoon they’re unlikely to justify anything unless it really, really needs justifying. And if they can turn it into witty self-referential gags it probably saves money or something. They love that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853/20 "2004-05-31T12:26:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Except for the episode where they do the role reversals and Brian imitates Stewie, and nobody picks up on what Brian says. I think that’s because they’re all too busy yelling at each other. There are instances where the other characters respond to exactly what Stewie says, and there are others where they ignore it for whatever reason. I think **Mr. Blue Sky** got it right. Everybody understands Brian, he talks to plenty of characters outside of the family. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-delayed-until-summer-05/247853.md?page=2)