Family Guy
This is the official "Family Guy Page!" Enjoy the fascination of what everyone knows is true....that Stewie will be in our lives forever! *Echoes* *Forver forever**
Bios:
- Lovable Peter: the dad who isnt afraid to speak his mind about anything, he lacks in common sense and good judgement. he has a wife lois, with 3 children, Meg,Stewie, and Chris...with his best buddy the well spoken mr. brian...yes the family dog.
- Lois...modern day housewife, and loving mother...but is there more to her than that? gave up her priveliged life to the towel boy she fell in love with...a mothers love runs deep...which is why she doesnt seem to notice her little baby boy stewie...well lets just say he's not at all what he seems now is he? :P
- Yes Here we are at "Coniving Stewie...1 year old with a passion of 1 single goal in life: TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION. yes there you have it. he hates his mother and has made several attempts on her life...dont you think sweet lois would learn by now?....
- Yes We Have Quagmire..the local spoon street sex addict. he loves his share of local hookers. he has a crazy foot fetish and is known for his trademakr statement "Giggety Giggety Goo"
Yes there you have it......"Family Guy" To your hearts content!
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Family Guy is an animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. The show was cancelled in 2002, but positive response to the show's release on DVD and reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim led FOX to resume production of the show in 2005 (see Return to television). To date it is one of only a handful of shows in television history to be canceled and later revived by the power of their fan bases.
The title character is Peter Griffin, an inept blue-collar worker head of a middle class family frequently beset by the consequences of his foolish antics. Family Guy's brand of humor is notable for the (usually) brief, frequently nonsensical cutaways and flashbacks to various points in history, geography, and reality involving the characters and their ludicrous actions (see "Structural and comedic approach" below).
MacFarlane also serves as a writer on the show, and voices many of the characters. Other voice actors include That '70s Show star Mila Kunis, actor Seth Green, MADtv star Alex Borstein, and comedic actor Patrick Warburton.
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| Format | Animated Sitcom |
| Run time | 21 – 23 minutes |
| Creator(s) | Seth MacFarlane |
| Starring | Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis |
| Country | USA |
| Network | FOX and Cartoon Network (USA) |
| Original run | January 31, 1999 – February 14, 2002; May 1, 2005 – present |
| No. of episodes | 69 (85 by end of the season) (1999 – 2002, 2005 - present) |
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Characters
Main article: List of characters from Family Guy
The show revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin and his family. Peter is an incompetent blue-collar worker, and a bumbling, drunken father, yet still a dedicated family man.
Peter is Irish-American and is also directly descended from an African-American slave owned by his wife's ancestors. His wife, Lois, a stay-at-home mom and piano teacher, is the daughter of the Pewterschmidts, a wealthy socialite family. Their children are socially awkward: status-conscious Meg Griffin, whose supposed ugliness has driven people to set themselves on fire and jump out of windows upon seeing her for the first time; the mentally slow yet artistically gifted Chris Griffin; and the diabolical, super-intelligent, Napoleonic and potentially matricidal baby, Stewie Griffin. The family also lives with an intelligent, cynical, alcoholic, talking dog named Brian Griffin. Even though Brian has been completely anthropomorphized, several episodes show that the Griffins still consider him a pet.
Other common characters include the Griffin family's eccentric neighbors: paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson, his perpetually pregnant wife Bonnie and their teenaged son, Kevin; sex-crazed bachelor Glenn Quagmire; mild-mannered deli owner Cleveland Brown; Brown's ex-wife, Loretta and their hyper-active son, Cleveland Jr.; the local mayor, Adam West, (modeled after and voiced by the actor of "Batman" fame) who is portrayed as paranoid and slightly mentally ill, as well as other various coworkers and town personalities. Unlike The Simpsons, Family Guy does not have an especially large cast of recurring minor characters (though this has changed in season 4, with many one-shot characters from prior episodes making appearances in new episodes), and most of the episode plotlines center chiefly around the exploits of the Griffin family.
There are also some semi-regular characters whose appearances basically tell the same joke over and over; examples include the Evil Monkey in Chris's closet, the old man that enjoys watching Chris, and the Giant Chicken, Peter's nemesis, whose fights usually end up causing huge amounts of damage to the city.
Structural and comedic approach
The characters live and work in fictional Quahog, Rhode Island (pronounced "KOH-hog", IPA /'kəʊhÉ‘g/), a hyperrealistic and intensely satirical version of a small Rhode Island town. ("Quahog" is a term for a New England hard shell clam, and also a New England slang term for an extremely stupid person. The term also doubles as a slang term for "vagina", similar to the term "clam.") Characters' lives largely revolve around items and ideas of popular culture, which are incorporated into everyday conversation and events. Some of these references have exaggerated grounding in reality  a paranoid and psychotic Adam West (voiced by West himself) serves as Quahog's mayor, and public schools are named for Rhode Island natives James Woods and Buddy Cianciâ€â€while others unabashedly delve into the realm of fantasy without being questioned.
Although Family Guy sometimes maintains a rough sense of continuity, complicated plots are most often traded for a concentration on comedy that is based largely on pop culture references and non-sequiturs. Though this style is often played within the characters' world, the series is also known for its use of cutaways, where the plot is interrupted and segues into unrelated, self-contained sketches - known as 'gags' around Family Guy - of variable length. Often initiated when a character refers to a past event (accompanied by phrases such as "like that time when…" or "I haven't felt like this since…"), these sketches are wildly divergent in topicâ€â€ranging from classic film scenes to historical events to contemporary television commercials  though many times they encapsulate twisted, humorous takes on reality, and sometimes they are completely nonsensical, like Peter being a magic mirror for Kevin Federline or using his bulk to provide warmth for Lara Flynn Boyle.
The show owes a lot to Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's Naked Gun/Police Squad! series, whose structural comedic approach has been homaged by Family Guy. Slapstick gags, dead-pan one-liners, non sequiturs, flashbacks, absurdity, and mainly parody on pop culture have been an influence on Family Guy. Family Guy finally parodied this ultimate parody movie in the fifth season episode called "PTV".
Though earlier animated series (such as The Critic) experimented with this style, few before Family Guy have wandered the line between reality and fantasy with such aggression. Indeed, the use of this style has been parodied by the show itself; an entire episode was revealed to have been a dream concocted by Pam Ewing, a character from the television series Dallas, which retconned an entire season to the same conceit.
Because of this approach, the series reverts to normality by the end of most episodes, and occurrences in past episodes are sometimes ignored. Some changes back to normality are accomplished by tortuous or unlikely means, while others are tacitly implied. The episode "He's Too Sexy for His Fat" offers examples of each: Peter's extensive liposuction and cosmetic surgery is reverted by having Peter have a car accident and land in a lard factory, where he consumes a whole vat of lard. Stewie's dramatic weight gain in the same episode simply disappears in the final scene.
But there are also cases of episodes making changes to continuity that are upheld and even elaborated on in later episodes, such as Peter's occupation being shifted from a toy factory assembly line worker to a fisherman, to a lowly worker at a beer factory, and the breakup of secondary characters Cleveland and Loretta. In a recent 4th season episode, Brian picked up a rock and hit Peter in the head, telling him that it was revenge for keeping the window rolled up when Brian tried to jump head-first into the General Lee (car), an event that took place in a Season Three episode, "To Love and Die in Dixie."
Being a native of Kent, Connecticut, and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, MacFarlane has written a number of in-jokes and references into Family Guy which allude to real life places in Rhode Island and the surrounding New England area, including Providence, Pawtucket, Newport, Natick, Framingham, South Attleboro, Webster, Warwick (Rhode Island), and Warwick (Massachusetts).
Episodes
Main article: List of Family Guy episodesIn keeping with the humorous tone of the series, most episode titles of Family Guy are parodies of popular television shows, movies, and mottos.
For the first half of the first season, the writers tried to work the words "murder" or "death" into the title of every episode (i.e., Mind over Murder and Death has a Shadow) to make the titles resemble those of old-fashioned radio mystery shows. On a DVD commentary, creator Seth McFarlane says that the writers stopped doing this when they realized they were beginning to get the titles confused.
The film
Main article: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!The first Family Guy film, released as a direct-to-video movie on September 27, 2005, focuses on Stewie seeing somebody he believes to be his real father and setting off on a road trip to find him. Originally three separate (though continuous) episodes as part of the fourth season, the DVD puts them together and includes additional materials. You can currently see a one minute scene from the movie (see here). The movie was a direct-to-video release because of a leak on the internet, causing too many viewers to see the movie before it was scheduled to be released in the theatres.
Opening song
Its music composed by Walter Murphy, the familiar theme music of the show begins as a parody of the opening theme of All in the Family, where Peter and Lois sing at the family piano, Ã la Archie and Edith Bunker. The song then breaks from the Griffins' living room into a giant chorus-line performance by the rest of the immediate family and a line of Rockette-like dancers.
Lyrics:
Lois: It seems today, that all you see,
is violence in movies and sex on TV
Peter: But where are those good, old-fashioned values
Family: On which we used to rely?
All: Lucky there's a Family Guy.
Lucky there's a man who'll positively tell you, all the things that make us
Stewie: Laugh 'n' cry.
All: He's a Family Guy!
There has been some confusion over Stewie's solo line of "laugh and cry". Because it immediately follows a music sting, "laugh and cry" has been mistaken for "effin' cry" by both viewers and closed-captioning transcribers. This may be due, in part, to the aggressive facial expression he holds while saying the line, and the general viewer's perception of Stewie as a rude, angry and malignant being, both factors suggesting he could have been swearing (even though technically he wouldn't have been swearing anyway). Although a clearer recording of the line was featured during the third season, MacFarlane maintains the lyric has always been "laugh and cry". From season 4, the line was once again changed back to its original recording. There has also been confusion over the line "Lucky there's a man who'll positively tell you, all the things that make us...". It was thought that the lyric was "Lucky there's a man who positively can do...", but the DVD subtitles say otherwise.
In keeping with the series' malleable comedy, the traditional opening song has been occasionally dropped in favor of different themes, including parodies of Law & Order, Police Squad!, and the Hope-Crosby Road movies.
An inside joke regarding composers Walter Murphy and Ron Jones occurs when Brian is nominated for a "Woody" for his work directing adult films. Walter Murphy, Ron Jones, and John Williams are nominated for "best original score" in an adult film.
An extended version of the theme song is featured on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas CD.
Murphy has also produced a Renaissance version of the original Family Guy theme for the episode "Mr. Saturday Knight."
Portion of extended lyrics:
Brian: It used to be, a big time star,
Was elegant as Garbo or Hedy Lamarr,
Stewie: Now we get whores like Jenny Lopez –
You wanna curl up and die!
Pop Culture References
Family Guy often includes references to pop culture.
The following television series and movies have been referenced on the series:
The following music artists have been referenced on the series:
- The Allman Brothers - talking poster
- Peter Frampton - "Baby I Love Your Way"
- Elton John - "Rocket Man"
- Journey - "Don't Stop Believing"
- KISS - "KISS Saves Santa" is Peter's favorite holiday special, and Lois slept with Chaim Witz before he became Gene Simmons
- MC Hammer - "Can't Touch This"
- Randy Newman - parody
- Billy Ocean - "Get Out of My Dreams (Get Into My Car)"
- Simple Minds - "Don't You Forget About Me"
- Ashlee Simpson - spoof of her Saturday Night Live mishap
- The Thompson Twins - grafitti
The following comic book characters have been referenced on the series:
History
Creation
While studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, Seth MacFarlane created a short film entitled The Life of Larry about a middle-aged slob named Larry Cummings, his cynical talking dog, Steve, his wife Lois and oversized son Milt. This film includes many of the same gags that would end up on Family Guy.
After being hired at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., MacFarlane was given a chance at the age of 22 in 1996 to direct a sequel to the short entitled Larry and Steve, a nine minute short which was broadcast as one of Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons. The short featured two main characters: Larry, a fat, old, balding man who did idiotic things, and Steve, a talking dog who was smarter than most people. The short features Steve in front of a camcorder recording an SOS tape for someone to come and save him from his bumbling owner, Larry. Steve recounts for the tape the misadventures that have ensued ever since Larry bought Steve from the dog pound, focusing on a series of misadventures and hijinks that ensued when the pair went to the mall to buy items for Larry's apartment. While at the mall, the two destroy nearly everything. For example, Larry is looking for a lightbulb for his bedside lamp. He puts in a high-wattage bulb and critic
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