The Sex on the Bitch (you can talk dirty to me, but don’t talk ungrammatically to me) comparison was pretty lame! It’s just a play on Sex on the Beach.
I think it’s supposed to be both “laugh and cry” and “effin cry”! The joke is that it can be “read” both ways.
I always heard it as laugh and cry and thought the joke was how the intro stood out against the actual content of the show.
Local closed captioning of Family Guy showed it as both “eff’in cry” and “laugh and cry”. No need to be so militant about it, its both.
There are far to many hilarious moments in that show. Just to name a few:
Peter: I read it in a book somewhere.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn’t nothing? Nothing at all?
Adam West: I love this job more than I love taffy. And I’m a man that loves his taffy. (then about a minute of Adam chewing taffy)
<Adam West is going to the bathroom, he looks at the stalls, they read: Men, Women, Adam West. He head for the Adam West room>
Adam: No…They’ll be expecting that…
Stewie: I often wonder what it would be like if the family was more cultured…<cut to Stewie, Brian, Peter, and Chris sitting around in suits and top hats, talking really fast>
Peter: My what a lovely day.
Chris: Yes quite.
Peter: Fine Port.
Chris: Quite.
Stewie: What year is it?
Chris: '51
Stewie: Fine year.
<Peter bursts into flame>
Peter: Oh my.
Chris: What is it?
Peter: It seems I’ve spontaneously combusted!
Stewie: Oh dear.
Peter: Its quite all right, I’ve grown tired of living.
Chris: For the best then.
Brian: Quite.
Stewie: Is it raining in here?
The speed and oddity of that scene is truely classic. It takes all of 15 seconds.
How about Stewie reciting the Bible?
Yea, and God said to Abraham, “You will kill your son, Issac” and Abraham said, “I can’t hear you, you’ll have to speak into the microphone.” And God said, “Oh I’m sorry, Is this better? Check, check, check… Jerry, pull the high end out, I’m still getting some hiss back here.”
That and the “I never knew Biscuit as a dog, but I knew her…as a table” slays me.
I am going to completely ruin this, but I just have to share a favorite moment.
The one where the Dad is with the son at a pool and there is some reference to bulimia.
The dad is interested in this and so begins the slow, inexorable movement of his finger to his throat. The way they drag it out is so friggin’ funny. And then they end it with his mouth instantaneously filling with vomit. Hi. lar. i. ous.
Which reminds me of another episode in which we actually see Abraham (Lincoln) kill Issac (the bartender).
Some others I can think of off the top of my head that I still remember:
Another funny one from Road to Rhode Island: Stewie attempts to call home, first trying 867-5309, immediately knowing afterwards that isn’t it (“Damn you, Tommy Tutone!”). So he goes by process of elimination: “111-1111…Lois? Damn! 111-1112…Lois? Damn!..”
One from a recent CN episode I found funny: Stewie attempts to attack Lois with a sharpened candy cane after she comments on him playing Baby Jesus in the Nativity pageant. Something like “Oh, prance me around like a poodle, will you? Let me consult my agent, Mr. Irving H. Pointystick!”
That’s pretty much all my brain can remember at the moment…with the exception of a courtroom scene in which I believe was the very first episode: after some sort of shocking statement:
“Oh, no!”
“Oh, no!”
“Oh, no!”
“Oh, no!”
[All of a sudden, the Kool-Aid Man bursts through a courtroom wall]
“OH, YEEEEEAH!”
[Nobody responds. Kool-Aid Man looks around, walks away]
I just watched this one last night. When Kool-Aid Man looked sheepish and slowly backed out through the hole in the wall, my husband and I missed the next couple of jokes because we were still laughing.
Another favorite is when Peter mentions a “family of wasps” and they cut to an white, upper-class family eating dinner. The father complains about the “sub-par ham”, the mother retorts, then the father says, “Kids, you know your mother’s a whore.” Bwah!
Damn you people. Now I’m going to have to spend $40 I don’t have because this thread is bringing back some great memories.
Well, I’m very excited about this! In addition to it being the funniest show ever, I enjoy all the Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design references. They make it , like, twice as funny for me. Peter looks just like the former director of public safety here - I mean JUST like him. Like maybe that guy could sue Seth MacFarlane for using his image.
One of my favorite bits, and I’ve mentioned it in the SD before, is when Peter gets clipped in the nuts and stands there, doubled over, going “Ahhh, hssss…ahhh, hssss…” for about 40 seconds. It’s one of those things where you are expecting them to cut to commercial, but they just keep him on screen, “Ahhh, hssss…ahhh, hssss…”-ing away and you slowly start to realize that it’s been going on for a while and you can’t help but laugh.
Another is when Peter takes out the TV (blaming it on Meg) and they cut to the newcasters, who think they aren’t on the air any more. Between comments like someone deserving a spanking and “I just plain don’t like black people,” immediately followed by the cameraman telling them they are on in Baltimore or something, the looks on their faces and the cutaways are just fantastic
They just played the single BEST Family Guy moment EVER!
Peter
“Honey are you Pregnant?”
Louis
“No”
Then he pushes her down the stairs!!!
Oh man! That is soooo evil!!! I LOVE this show!
STEWIE SAYS " EFFIN CRY"
at the beginning of that episode
but at the beginning of the Lando Griffin episode he says " Laugh and Cry"
my closed captions picked it up
closed captioning is an even bigger sea of typos and garble than usenet.
“A dead Lois?”
“Show me potato salad…”
Remember, Closed-Captioning depends on that organ that many of us neglect, but is so, so important…THE HUMAN EAR! Remember that closed-captioners are human, too. They make mistakes.
It’s not the nuts, its his shin! The whole joke is the play on getting hit in the shin and acting like a 4th grader. It happens again later in the episode when he gets kicked in the shin.
I’m not a huge Family Guy fan – I enjoy it, but I never caught it regularly.
That being said, the OH YEAH Kool-Aid gag was one of the funniest things in my recent memory. I think I peed myself when I saw that.
Oh, I think they do a bang-up job for realtime transcription of TV shows… but Closed-Captioning isn’t anything I’d look to for settling a dispute about what was actually said.
true
but in one episode the closed captions had " Laugh and Cry", and on the other episode they had " Effin Cry". Of course, it could have been two different people making the captioning.
In all the recordings I’ve watched of Family Guy (presumably made when the episode originally aired) there hasn’t been a single one that had “effin’ cry” instead of “laugh and cry.”