Entries Tagged as 'Family Guy'

FOX E-Valentine’s Day cards available

FOX is enabling fans to create personalized e-Valentines featuring popular characters from their “Animastewietion Domination” Sunday programming block (The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy and American Dad). The inside of the card can be personalized, while the outside features the character and a witty line, such as:

STEWIE (Family Guy) – “Love, like potty training, is messy, but rewarding.”; or “We all die alone. Happy Valentine’s.”; or “No one’s into you.” [Read more →]

“Family Guy” cast appears on new “Actors Studio”

By Jeff Pfeiffer

A few years ago, Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio brought on the voice cast of The Simpsons for a very memorable inteactors-studiorview, with each cast member alternating between his or her real identity and animated alter-ego. Things should be similarly entertaining in a new Actors Studio this Monday, September 14, when Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mike Henry and Seth Green (pictured left to right) talk to host James Lipton as both themselves and their respective Family Guy characters. Sorry, Meg fans (if there are any) — Mila Kunis will not be there. But we can expect to hear from Peter, Brian, Stewie, Lois, Chris and probably Cleveland, since Henry is there (although Cleveland is spinning off into his own series this fall). Henry also talks about the origins of Greased-Up Deaf Guy, and chats as Bruce the performance artist. And hopefully MacFarlane will do a little Quagmire as well.

Here are samples of what to expect. Some good stuff, although the little bit of MacFarlane doing Peter here sounds a bit off to me. And c’mon, Bravo — why are you labeling these videos as The Family Guy?

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 16 Recap: Peter’s Progress

by Sarah

The season finale didn’t disappoint — hooray!

The guys are at the Clam waiting for Cleveland to arrive and claim his beer, which is just sitting there looking lonelier than Alan Rickman’s answering machine (“Hello, Alan Rickman, this is Alan Rickman reminding you to move the pork chops from the freezer to the fridge so they defrost properly. Do not disappoint me. Remember that turtle joke for the party tomorrow. Ha ha.”). When Cleveland finally gets there, he brings his new friend, Madame Claude — a psychic! She tells everyone who they were in a past life: Joe was an octopus who got all his legs torn off by a shark, Quagmire was Jack the Ripper, and while Peter believes he was a strawberry, it turns out that he was Griffin Peterson, the true founder of Quahog.

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 15 Recap: Three Kings

by Sarah

Peter, seated comfortably in front of the fireplace in a library, announces that this episode will be a retelling of three stories by the greatest author of the last 1,000 years: Stephen King.

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 14 Recap: We Love You, Conrad

by Sarah

Gillian’s getting married, and all the Griffins except Brian are invited, and she wants Peter to give her away. Despite Brian’s insistence that he’s over Gillian, he’s still hurt by being left out, and Stewie suggests that he and Brian have dinner with Gillian and her fiancé. Turns out Derek speaks French (and orange! Mandarin. Mandolin.) and is something like Superman and Mr. Miyagi in one. Worse, Brian follows him to the bathroom and finds that he has no apparent shortcomings at all. Distraught, he gets wrecked at a bar and ends up in bed with Lauren Conrad of MTV’s The Hills.

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 13 Recap: Stew-Roids

by Sarah

At Joe’s barbecue party, Lois and Bonnie get a little frisky by the pool, Peter comments on the meat while Joe grills it, and Stewie’s off playing with Barbies. When Susie takes one of them, Stewie’s attempt to teach her a lesson just gets him a beat-down. Peter’s humiliated that his son got beaten up by a girl, but when his attempt to man-ify Stewie with insults and Spike TV fail, he takes him to the gym to bulk up. Meanwhile, Meg’s popularity idol Connie has decided that she’s done with popular boys and sets out to date and makeover the least popular kid in school — Chris.

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 12 Recap: 420

by Sarah

While the guys are hanging out at the Drunken Clam, Quagmire calls and tells them to get over to his house right away. Turns out, he’s got a cat named James. And he’s crazy about him. Even after James uses Joe’s leg as a scratching post. Quagmire’s cat fancying gets out of hand, and when he goes to Vermont to buy James a birthday present, the guys decide to sneak into his house and shave the cat. But because they gave the straight razor to Peter, the cat ends up dead and Peter and Brian end up on an inebriated drive through the Rhode Island backwoods to hide the body. How could this not end well?

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 11 Recap: Not All Dogs Go To Heaven

by Sarah

In the words of Brian, “Ah, the annual Quahog Star Trek convention — where once a year, sci fi buffs take their lips off the barrel of a loaded gun and spend half a day adjusting their eyes to sunlight.” Since Peter was kicked out of last year’s convention for insulting Shatner, he brings the whole reluctant family this time. Stewie buys blueprints of the transporter, professes his love of Picard over Kirk, and attends the cast Q&A session in which the only questions people ask are about buildup on household sponges, skin conditions, and low pressure in artesian wells. Which Stewie thinks is horse@#$%.

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David Goodman Talks About The Upcoming “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Cast Reunion On “Family Guy”

by Sarah

Yesterday, showrunner and executive producer David Goodman held a conference call to talk about next week’s episode of Family Guy, called “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven,” which features a reunion of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

One of the big thrills for Goodman is that he actually gets to be in the episode as a convention-goer who not only gets a scene with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes, but who also gets into an age-old Trekkie argument about the questionable canon fidelity of the episode “Relics.”

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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 10 Recap: FOX-y Lady

by Sarah

While the guys are all at The Drunken Clam comparing driver’s license photos and discovering that Quagmire is 61 years old (carrots), FOX News comes on with its hot new anchorwoman, Rhonda, and the guys drool over her for a while. When FOX announces that it’s going HD, Peter gets an enormous new HDTV, and it turns out that HD Rhonda is a hag. She’s fired. Lois wants the job, despite Brian’s moral objections about working for a fake news network that’s in the Republican party’s pocket. Lois’ audition goes so well that she gets the job. She runs home as fast as she can to “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket” and trips on the sidewalk, doing Peter’s “hsssssst…aaaaaaaah…hsssssst…aaaaaaah….” for a while.

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