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Summary: Greatest Show EVER!!!
Review: The Family Guy is the best show ever made. Some of the reviews I've read lead me to belive they have never seen these dvds. One moron's post said the set is a rip off because there are only 2 episodes per dvd. There are 7 per dvd. 4 dvds in the set. 7 x 4 = 28. 14 hours of comedy gold. As for the "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" episode, it's on Vol.2(the season 3 set).
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Summary: Good News Flappy, I've decided not to kill you
Review: Thus spake the immortal Stewie, the homicidal/matricidal baby with the mind,attitude and accent of a geriatric English baron. In the world of Family Guy it all makes perfect sense, as does Brain, a talking alchoholic dog with many existential issues and a wicked sarcasm. This show had a ton of talent behind it, both in the writing and the voice-overs. Unfortunately, they got a little to bawdy and un-PC for network TV and we must be satisfied with three short seasons of brilliance that will never be duplicated. This show is totally unique and so chock full of gags and one-liners that you will watch it over and over. The animation is hilarious too.
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Summary: Wit Beyond Wit
Review: Family Guy is the funniest show ever made. Period. This is a show that while maybe infantile and crude was firing on all cylinders at all times and never ceased to be hilarious. Every character from any sitcom ever made from Ralph Kramdan to George Jefferson to Jack Tripper to Homer Simpson to Eric Cartman is represented here in some way, shape or form...only with the volume turned up way past ten.Everyone and their grandmother was ready to jump all over Family Guy from the moment the first commercial aired with the inevitable "Simpsons-rip off" comments in tow. However, NO ONE expected the barnburner of a show that they received when Tom Tucker stated upon Quohog's TV tower on the fritz "I'm gonna go get drunk and beat up some midgets." followed by his co-anchor Diane stating "And I just plain don't like black people.". Where the Simpsons took its time and built it's momentum, Family Guy jumped out from the start with racy humor that was offensive, brutal, outlandishly strange and most of all, absolutely hysterical. Family Guy pulled no punches, left no stone unturned and left you in tears with it's uncanny pop culture references that seemingly came out of nowhere and left me with trouble breathing and a bright red face from uncontrollable laughter. Despite Fox's idiotic cancellation of Family Guy, the DVD's are a welcome addition to planet Earth. I can only guess that Fox is kicking themselves daily for letting this show go out the window the way that they did, only to replace such an amazing show with idiotic dramas like the OC and brain-numbing reality TV. No thank you, I'll take Family Guy on DVD and continue laughing.
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Summary: Better than any other comedy cartoon
Review: I have not yet bought this DVD, but I have seen a whole bunch of the episodes. Just like The Simpsons and South Park, two of the funniest shows ever, it has funny characters and hillarious plots. Seth McFaine can make any situation seem funny, and unlike The Simpsons and South Park, every scene in the episode has something hillarious. I think this is one of the best shows Fox has aired and since they took it off Fox, I am now watching it every night on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The characters are just one reason that this cartoon is one of the best out there. There is Peter Griffin, the beefy, borderline alchoholic, dumb father and husband, Meg Griffin, the drama queen daughter of Peter, who seems like Peter's least favorite of them all, Chris, the second image of Peter, Stewie, the talking, evil, baby genious who wants to enslave the human race and kill Peter's wife, Lois, who is the most normal of the Griffin family. And we can not forget Brian, the articulate talking dog. This show is one of my favorites, and one of the most random comedy shows of them all. (That's what makes it so funny) Let me just tell you one thing, if you know how to laugh, you'll love this show.
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Summary: Simpsons knock-off
Review: The Family Guy has to be one of the most blatant TV shows to come down the line that rips off The Simpson. Aside from the Dog, it almost a character-for-character rip off of that classic series. The "hook" for this series was supposed to be that "The Family Guy" would push buttons that "The Simpsons" could only dream about, and they succeded at it. However, while "The Simpsons'" wit and great writing have prevented the characters (for the most part) from devolving into stereotypes; "The Family Guy" desperately tried to be more shocking with each episode and eventually collapsed under the weight of its own hype. In addition, simply because a show "pushes buttons" doesn't automatically make it funny. The true redeeming value of the Simpsons (and more recently South Park) is that the shows make you think and have dynamic characters that the viewer actually cares about while either dancing (or sometimes trampling) on "the line" of what's socially acceptable. "The Family Guy," while containing some genuinely funny moments, simply could not compete with either the Simpsons or South Park. The deathblow to the show came with Fox's juggling of the time schedule (which ironically hurt the Simpsons ratings when they put it up against The Cosby Show in the 2nd season). However, the cult that surrounds this show still continues to be resilient online, thus resulting in the DVD's that have been recently released. My guess is that while "The Simpsons" will continue to age like a fine wine, "The Family Guy" will age like a can of Natural Light that goes flat when you open it and finally be tossed on the ash heap of history with the several other shows that were either good or ok and that were in some way or another Simpsons knock-offs (such as "Duckman" and "Dinosaurs!").
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Summary: We watch these as a special treet- funniest cartoon ever
Review: This is possibly the funniest adult cartoon series ever written. And of course, it was misunderstood, so Fox deep-sixed the show, which subsequently became a cult hit. There are only three short seasons, sadly, and Mr. Macfarlane, the evil genius behind "Family Guy" needs some serious wooing --come back, Seth, we want more! The story looks oh-so-wholesomely-innocent. The opening features a song about Family Values in a Broadway vein, and the family is a classic, lives in Quahog, Rhode Island, dad, mom, son, baby and dog. But wait, isn't Rhode Island the butt of comedic jokes these days? (viz. "Me, Myself, and Irene" with Jim Carrey.) And as you watch this, you realize the kids REALLY should be in bed and never EVER have access to this DVD until they are well on their way to, say, graduate school. Like "South Park", this is not for tender ears. The jokes come thick and fast, and the timing is exquisite. The baby with the football-shaped head, Stewie, is a cross between Bill Buckley, Cole Porter and Saddam Hussein. Stewie hates his mom, so much so, he tries all kinds of nefarious methods to kill her. The real joke is that classical psychologists theorized that babies were a kind of monomaniacal creature that feared and resented Mother, an all-powerful, utterly controlling being in their lives, able to dispense or withhold food and love. Macfarlane had apparently read some of these texts to create a really funny situation. The neighbors and other minor characters are equally amusing and the plots are fun, with great little songs from time to time. If you liked the earlier Simpsons and the earlier "King of the Hill" and "South Park", this is all that and a lot more.
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Summary: Not to be missed...
Review: A consistently hilarious and original series that produced characters every bit as funny and memorable as any in the last 20 years. Comparisons to The Simpsons are inevitable, but where The Simpsons takes sharp jabs at a variety of cultural icons Family Guy beheads them with a guillotine. Many of the jokes are truly unique and no doubt horribly offensive to the sacred cows they are aimed at, but unlike many over-the-top animated series that seek laughs strictly from their ability to annoy, the satire, non-sequiturs and insane plot-twists of Family Guy are spot-on and brilliant. Owning the DVD is especially handy for catching many of the more subtle jokes that often fly by so quickly and mixed with so many subtexts at the same time that a single viewing won't come close to mining all the gems this show has to offer. In fact, the release of this series was my own primary motivation for buying a DVD player in the first place! I'm serious, it's that good.
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Summary: Enlightening Commentary on a Failing Nation
Review: Many folks will find this material offensive; enough certainly did to remove it from Fox. However, the humor is quite brilliant, politically incorrect, and brutally honest.
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Summary: Great Show
Review: Family Guy is by far the best animated comedy ever made. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the Simpsons, but Family Guy had an almost too good to be true feeling. I can remember many times laughing out loud histerically while watching Family Guy; I rarely get the same reaction from other comedies. It was the sort of show that you could talk about with your friends the next day, and still be laughing.
And now you can watch them any time you want on DVD. If your like me, you'll watch these episodes over and over, addicting all that watch it with me. I highly recommend purchasing this boxed set, as well as the second one (which will be available shortly).
To the Fox Corporation: Hang your heads in shame (that is, of course, unless there's a comeback in the future)
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Summary: Inconsistent Picture Quality
Review: This is my first cartoon DVD purchase and I must say I'm disappointed. When the picture quality is fine, then The Family Guy looks great. However, certain scenes have issues. In some scenes the backgrounds flicker as if they were paused on a VCR, and in others the picture is horribly interlaced. I'm watching this using a progressive scan DVD player and HDTV. The scenes that don't have either of these issues look FANTASTIC though, and I would say that's about 70% of them.
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