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Summary: Family Guy - One of the funniest shows ever created.
Review: Family Guy is quite possibly the funniest show ever created, moreover it is definatly the funniest cartoon. Its rapid fire comidic style won't let you catch your breath. The humor ranges from the low-level slapstick all the way up to rather sophisticated humor that is very cleverly done. Though Family Guy may be seen as a South-Park-like politicly incorrect cartoon, I'm here to say it is far from it. Most of the jokes never cross the line, as the Fox censors never let them, but this adds more humor. Carefully manuvering around the zone of going too far, Family Guy pushed the boundaries but did it tastfully. This Vol. 2 collection of season 3 is the high point in Family Guy's short life. While seasons 1 and 2 were funny, season 3 hit on all cylinders. The humor is jam packed in these episodes and if you watch them multiple times you will begin to notice subtle jokes and inuendos never before seen. This is definatly a must-buy if you like to laugh and are not looking to be offended.
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Summary: Funny the first couple times around
Review: What can you say about a family unit consisting of two adults laughing at toilet humor, a foolish, overweight oldest son, an overlooked, and unpopular middle child daughter, a megolomaniacal, in the closet baby, and a liberal minded talking dog with a thirst for booze?. Eventually tiresome. While it's probably nothing that can be helped, this particular kind of humor is simply drolling after repeated watchings. The types of jokes Family Guy centralizes on, forgoing the usual punch line, and moving in some random tangent for comical value. While this can be disarming and hysterical the first time, after repeated viewings you begin to ask yourself "Why couldn't they think of a real punch line? Is it really that funny, just because it's silly?" The animation/physical comedy can also be a drag, as the view will flash to a totally unrelated scene, usually directed by a characters dialog, where something outrageous or involving the dialogue will happen. The Simpsons did this first, much better in my opinion, mostly because they didn't over-do it. All in all the first couple times around maybe a 4/5, with each repeat viewing you may find yourself less and less entertained. I know I did.
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Summary: Funnier than the Simpsons
Review: I don't understand some of these children who say that they know anything about the Simpsons. How dare you say that Family Guy is a ripoff of the Simpsons just because it is a cartoon. How superficial is that? This is because basically, the Simpsons was made to be a ripoff of every sitcom ever made with the oafish father/husband that has a new problem every episode and partakes in "get rich quick" schemes. Matt Groening made the Simpsons because he wanted to do things edgier and more ridiculous than a live-action sitcom did, much like the Flinstones did in the middle of the century. Family Guy is simply a retread of the same idea, but more edgy than its tired 13-year-old counterpart, which has become the very thing that it set off to satirize. So before you say the Simpsons is a ripoff of the Simpsons, just know that the Simpsons is a ripoff of the Flinstones, which is a ripoff of the Honeymooners, and so on. Just quit yer bitchin'. Otherwise, Family Guy is absolutely hilarious, and even if you don't like this kind of humor, you will at least chuckle at the absurdity. And what kind of loser writes a review of something they don't have just to dis it.
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Summary: A fantastic "final" season...
Review: Thank God FOX is putting "Family Guy" back on the air. Between the two DVD releases, it makes about 50-odd shows available at your fingertips. I selfishly say that 50 episodes is not enough. The show had potential and if it were still continuing, we'd be up to about Season five or six by now. Ah, well. Fortunately, FOX checked out the sales receipts of these DVD's and suddenly decided that the show was worthy enough to get back on the air. Funny how that works. Regardless, fans are getting exactly what they want. Outstanding. This particular volume covers Season three; arguably the show's best. My favorite "Family Guy" episode, "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows" is located on this set. Not only is this episode hilarious, it's sweet and has a rousing musical number towards the end entitled "You've Got A Lot To See" sung by none other than Brian, the family dog. Seth MacFarland has a knack for this kind of stuff. Whenever someone sings in this show, it's always a highlight. Great big band instrumentals and terrifically choreographed. In my opinion, what makes "Family Guy" so hysterical is not so much the scripts themselves (though they are definitely well-penned and funny); it's the way the voice actors say the lines that makes it so much different from other animated comedies. It doesn't even sound scripted because the dialogues flow so naturally. That might sound a bit silly since it is, in fact, a cartoon; but you'll see what I mean if you haven't watched the show yet. Each season has at the very least one moment where I find myself literally trying to gasp for air as I'm laughing hysterically. Season three's moment comes when Margot Kidder is eating dinner at the Griffin's house. Lois tells her, "Oh, we loved you in the Superman movies. You were just great." Margot Kidder suddenly starts wailing and drooling. She flips tables, chairs and suddenly jumps out of a closed window. She gets back on her feet, screams as she pulls her hair, and runs away while Peter and Lois look at each other, flabbergasted. Hilarious. If you're not a total aristocrat and have a great sense of humor, "Family Guy" may well become your new favorite show. It's certainly up there for me. HIGHLY recommended.
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Summary: No words can describe the birlliance of Family Guy
Review: Do you have an extra pair of underwear? I hope you do because you will be peeing your pants with laughter after you enter the delightfully twisted town of Cohog Rhode Island... Of course we owe it to the Griffons for twisting it so delightfully, as well as they twist delightfully everywhere else they go as you can tell because where every they are is.. you know, well... Delightfully twisted... Anyway... I could only give it a rating of 5 stars...Pffft... it deserves 1,000,000,000 Stars... No show on earth makes me laugh, cry, think...as Family Guy does... WORDS I CHOOSE TO BEST DESCRIBE FAMILY GUY: Brilliant, Smart, Sexy, Hillarious, Super-dooper-gooper Good, Ingenious... If you have not yet had the delight of being brialliantly disturbed by Family Guy... You do not know what you are missing... Family Guy is as good... NAY! better then S3x! When I think "Family Guy", I think "Greatest show on earth that makes me laugh my butt off day in and day out"... Before I watched family guy I had No friends... But then I started watching it and... well, I still have no friends, but now I have something to do on weekends... Watch Family Guy... ;)... Family Guy is brilliant, and take it from me... a verie smert purse on... when I say It is Brilliant... Did I mention its brilliant? I love Famill Guy... I think it is one of the greatest Shows In the universe... Family Guy Fan USA, OUT...
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Summary: BACK ON THE AIR!!!!!
Review: Family Guy fans...it's back! The show is starting production any day now for new episodes. The best show that WAS on TV will once again reclaim the title as best show ON TV.
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Summary: Hilarous!
Review: This is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. This season continues to follow the lives of Peter, the stupid, fat father. Lois, the hot, smart, sometimes crazy mother. Chris, the REALLY stupid son. Meg, the ugly teenage daughter. Stewie, the youngest son who dreams of world domination. And Brian, the talking family dog. If you want a laugh, you should definately pick this up.
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Summary: Errr... Louis.. Where's stewy?
Review: Family Guy!!! Skip the action on to the laughter. Family guy has places it's third season on the dvd. now even funnier than ever with deleted scenes and commentary. This is grade A work from a cartoon and beats the new simpsons seasons and is tied equally with Futurama and South Park. Why isn't there North Park of PrehisRama. That should give me a kick. FAmily guy is a real jewwl and any dvd player will be sad and lonely without it and kill itself by burning its circuits. This is a super Dvd and I love it. Buy it. You won't regret it. Unless you hate family guy or just a hardcore pornfan or a jackass.
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Summary: fits the mold
Review: Family Guy isn't a rip-off of anything. It's in the same archetypal mode as the Simpsons, the Flinstones and the Honeymooners. A dimwitted husband married to a smart and attractive women has been a television mainstay since its creation. The Family Guy is just the latest, and one the greatest. While some of the jokes may not be that funny, or may be too obscure, they come at such a rapid pace that the next one is sure to make you laugh out loud. But if you're reading this review I'm surely preaching to the choir. Just go out and buy it. I wish the prices were cheaper on these dvds, especially season three, but it's worth it.
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Summary: Better DVD than the first
Review: Content wise, this is more of the same Family Guy from the first volume: a decent cartoon comedy. DVD wise it is much better than the first volume. The packaging is the same, but there are two, more current, featurettes and delete animatrics. As someone who was looking for more extras the first time around, it is very pleasing.
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