Family Guy is out on DVD

Gotta get me that DVD!

I loved one scene where the dog and kid (haven’t seen it enough to memorize entire episodes or names) were on the run from the cops. They were standing on the side of a street as a bus passed between the viewer and them. After the bus passed, they were gone. Everyone assumes they had jumped on the moving bus to elude the cops. Then, the camera pans left and they are still standing on the sidewalk jsut a few feet further down from their original spot. The kid says, “Hmmm…perhaps we should have gotten on that bus?”

LOL!

Long suffering wife married to buffoonish slob, with a sensitive, misunderstood daughter who stands in sharp contrast with her less-gifted brother (though Bart is a freaking–or is that effing?–genius compared to what’s-his-face), and a baby that’s probably smarter than the whole clan combined, though the Simpsons is way subtler on that last point. In fact, the Simpsons is way subtler on every point. The Family Guy is just so loud and obvious compared to the Simpsons. What’s more, the Simpsons practically invented the whole “juxtapose character’s mundane statement with quick cut-away to outrageous joke” device that the Family Guy shamelessly, obviously, loudly, crudely, and lamely employs scene after scene after scene. But, hey, if that’s what floats your boat :slight_smile:

Apparently, from what I’ve read, they continually explicitly state that it has always been “laugh and cry” from day one.

As for the lyrics bugging blainer, they are “Lucky there’s a family guy…”

Hasn’t every sitcom for the past twenty years featured that?

Lisa, an eight-year old genius vs. Meg, a homely, awkward teenager who may be misunderstood (what teen isn’t, at least on TV?), but is certainly no genius. Her interests seem to be centered around boys and popularity rather than math problems and spelling bees.

Yes, the brother/sister combo is a contrast, but that’s about all it has in common with the Simpsons. Again, Chris is in high school, not a 10-year old like Bart. He’s really dumb, but sweet and well-meaning. He doesn’t have street smarts OR book smarts. Of course, Bart lacks the book smarts, but has street smarts and he’s a hell raiser, totally unlike the innocent, almost childlike, Chris.

You’re seriously comparing Stewie to Maggie? Oh, come on! Maggie sucks on a pacifier and shoots somebody every 5 years or so. She’s said a grand total of one word in 14 seasons. She’s boring.

Stewie, OTOH, has a better grasp of the English language than most adults I know. He’s fond of archaic words, scathing insults, and frequent death threats. He’s even made me reach for a dictionary a couple of times. Truly one of the funniest characters to every grace a TV screen.

The Simpsons may have invented it, but Family Guy refined and perfected it. The absurd, laugh-out-loud humor of some of those situations has tickled my funny bone in ways the Simpsons never did. And no, that’s not because I didn’t catch the Simpsons’s subtle humor. I just thought that the Family Guy did a far better job with that kind of thing. They also had a tendency to reach far deeper into their big bag of obscure references than the Simpsons ever did. They did this so much that foreign people I knew didn’t like the show because, having not grown up in the U.S., they didn’t get half of the jokes.

Thank you, mobo85 !

I think this was in the first episode, but one of my favorite lines was when Peter was talking about the “new Fox reality show–Fast Animals, Slow Children” and the TV showed a cheetah chasing a toddler. Hoo, good stuff!

Family Guy may be a lot more “in your face” than The Simpsons, but I think that’s why I like it. And more of the jokes on The Family Guy have more of a WTF? factor to them. Like when Peter spontaneously started singing and dancing to “Neutron Dance” by the Pointer Sisters. WTF?

Any show that can make me say “That’s f’ed up!” at least once per episode is okay in my book!

I love family guy although they only put it on tv over here a few times (to my knowledge) so i haven’t seen that many of them. I wish we had more of this kind of tv, futurama is hardly ever on, whenever i watch the simpsons its always one i’ve seen countless times before and unless spongebob squarepants is on twice a day im just not happy. It made my day when i ran into a guy dressed as spongebob at universal studios!

Laugh and cry. Two opposites, demostrating the full range of emotions the Family Guy puts you through. “All the things that make us fucking cry”. Yes, the sentence by itself is technically a group of words with a complete thought, but it comes out of nowhere. The lyrics go:

It seems today that all you see is violence and movies and sex on tv,
But where are those good old fashioned values,
Of which we used to rely.

Lucky there’s a family guy
Lucky there’s a man who positively can do all the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Now tell me how “'effin cry” would make sense there.

This stuff pisses me off so much. Supposedly, you’re fans of the show because of it’s “clever writing”. Then you misinterpret a line into one that’s completely inappropriate, nonsensical and unfunny, insist that’s what’s being said, and then actually praise the stupid thing. I’d be embarrsed by my fanbase if they confused my real jokes with crap like that, and liked it. Give the writers more credit than that. And I say this stuff pisses me off because I see it so much. One time, somebody gave his interpretation of the joke of Bleeding Gum’s album title Sax on the Beach as being a play on words of “sex on the bitch”. As if the Simpsons writers are that clunkily vulgar. “Sex on the bitch”! That’s not even English! Why would you like a show if it had horrible jokes like that?! Then, some amature transciptor heard the second to last line of South Park’s “I’m Super”, which originally went “yes, he’s super and he’s proud to be fey” as “yes, he’s super and he’s proud to be gay”. Like South Park writers are so incompetent that they’d not only ruin the entire buildup of skipping the word “gay” just to end it anticlimatically in the second-to-last line, but then rhyme the same word with itself (the last line is “everything is super when you’re gay”).

Duh, I’m implying that these people are childish. And it’s true. It is only popular because it’s profane.

Easy. Do you really think Family Guy is about “those good old fashioned values on which we used to rely?” Doesn’t seem that way to me. I thought the song was poking fun at shows that really were about “good old fashioned values,” and saying that such shows make you fucking cry. Indeed, I always thought the whole theme song was kind of a strange joke. It didn’t really fit the mood of the show at all. I always saw it as something of a parody.

Then again, I must just be an idiot, laughing at (or at least being mildly amused by) things that weren’t even intended to be funny. Sorry to incite your ire. :rolleyes:

My favorite scene is the bit where the family is at the child welfare office, and the clerk pulls a baby out of the filing cabinet.

Son: Is this where babies come from?
Dog: (sarcastically) Yes, this is where babies come from…
Son to mom: You said I came from your vagina!!!

Pizza, “eff’in cry” works when you comsider the source: Stewie. His entire existance is one spoiled attempt at worlld domination after another. Couple that with, well, everything else in the show, and it isn’t muc of a stretch to believe that Peter routinely causes his family to cry to tears of doubt and sorrow on many an occassion. Now, I’m not saying that those are the words, just that it sometimes sounds that way. If that’s enough to get you, well then just skip the intro and enjoy the rest of the show.

Gr8, please refer to neutrons post directly following yours.

Anyway, still working my way through the set (4 DVDs in Vol 1) and I’m laughing all the way.

neutron star:

That is the joke. The song is played completely straight, and then contradicted within the first scene of the show. “'effin cry” just doesn’t sound good at all. It doesn’t flow, it doesn’t sound like anything anyone would really say.

thinksnow:

It’s not world domination, it’s matricide. MATRICIDE. Meaning he’s only bothered by Lois, not Peter, so there’s no reason that Peter would do all the things that make him “effin’ cry”.

And the number of times Stewie says something to the effect of “When the world is mine…” is just for kicks?

He’s a pint-sized meglomaniac! 'Course, he also has some of the best lines on TV.

Personally, while I’ve never heard it as anything else as “laugh and cry”, I don’t think it makes that much of a difference, really.

And what I’m waiting for is my DVD Daria.

Stewie’s showdown with broccoli always cracks me up…

“What do you say to that?..STOP MOCKING ME!”

It becomes clear then: the broccoli must die!

Well, broccoli, mother says you’re good for me. Well I’m afraid I’m no good for you!

Brian: If I remember correctly, this is the Physics department.
Chris: That explains all the gravity!

Doesn’t sound like anything anyone would really say? Do you read these boards? Just in browsing various threads last night, I saw two other posters say “f’in” in totally urelated threads. So the theme song is either completely a joke and the punchline is the first line of the actual show, or the punchline is what Stewie may or may not say near the end of the theme song. Is this what we’re arguing about? Geez.

It’s both. Stewie popped out of the womb with a map of Europe that had several X’s with the words “Bomb here” printed under them. Please explain how that would be an attempt to kill Lois.

The best gag is (I forget which episode, but I believe it’s in “Road to Rhode Island”) where Brian and Stewie are hitchhiking and they get picked up in a pickup truck full of migrant workers and Brian talks to one of them:

Brian: Uhh…Hola, me llamo es Brian.
Migrant worker: That was good, but you don’t need the “es” just “Me llamo Brian”
B: Oh, you speak English.
MW: No, just that little bit and this explaining it.
B: You’re…you’re joking, right?
MW: Que?

My friends and I have been repeating that one for years. Classic.

Holy crap this is hot.

just the way he said it, just thinking about it cracks me up.