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Summary: best DVD EVER!!!!!!!
Review: Family guy is the greatest show ever... when they stopped airing it i cried several nights.... ...just recently i have bought the dvd... this is easily the best show on television right behind the simpsons.. this dvd is well worth the [price]... because it comes with 4 dvds filled with great things such as commentary and just the show itself.. if you buy this dvd i will guarantee you that you will spend endless nights laughing and crying
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Summary: Will NOT PLAY on PS2
Review: Someone should be fired for that,,, morons. Am I the only one using a PS2 to watch movies,,, I think not! It's a shame since it is one of the greatest series ever!
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Summary: GREAT show,,,,, but,,,
Review: Am I the only one who uses a Playstation2 to watch DVD's?!? Now I have to buy a DVD player just to see these hilarious treasures. Feh
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Summary: Family Guy: dead before it's time, but finds life on DVD
Review: You can chalk FAMILY GUY up with The Job, The Young Ones and Greg The Bunny among others as a great show that were cancelled for no good reason or ended way before their time. Not to mention that they were all some of the funniest shows to grace TV. On the surface, FAMILY GUY isn't the greatest show due to the mold it was in which was a wannabe Simpsons mode; Peter the dad, Lois the Mom and Meg the daughter could be modeled after Homer, Marge and Lisa from the SIMPSONS. Homer and Peter are both fat, insensitive dumb fathers, Lois and Marge are both suffering wives who stay with their husbands for no good reason. Meg and Lisa suffer through unpopularity through school. Chris is the only original character of the mainstream family, and by himself is annoying. Too bad he wasn't modeled after Bart. Only the shows two standout characters were of any sort of new ground; Brian the Dog who imbibes cocktails, smokes cigerettes and dispenses advice to his dolt owner and baby Stewie who at the age of one builds laser weapons, blow guns and other weapons to destroy the oblivious Lois and later on became a mean prankster. At the end, lessons would usually be learned that would only make the SIMPSONS creators roll their eyes and think "You know we used to do that too, remember when Bart cut off the statues head?" One episode even has a character have a hallucinitory dream the way some Simpsons characters did early on. With all of that negativity out of the way, the shows brisk writing is what saved it and made it hilarious and broke it out of the mold. Plots could start out on one topic and end on a completely different story (one episode has Peter planning on spending his tax money, after he is audited plans to build his own pool, to get a permit though he discovers his house isn't part of the US and forms his own country.) Jokes sparkled with glorius lines (Peter tries potty training Stewie by offering him beer, since it makes you pee. Stewie responds by saying while they were at it they could "light up a doobie and watch porn". Peter considers it.) The show was sprinkled with nonsequitors throughout that would be right out of the blue and hilarious. (Peter sneaks out to go to a school function but falls off the roof, he is saved by Spiderman, who promptly leaves.) The shows best part though came from the surreal flashbacks that characters would have for the purpose of telling a joke and I can't even start on those. The show also had the same kind of cutting, harsh, shock humor that the Simpsons used to have and South Park still achieves at times. It was sadly the shows downfall. One show (not on this DVD set but has been reported to be on the next release) was banned by Fox due to such content. Religon and Race would be the butt of some jokes and other times the humor would get too blue (Lois and Peter dress up in Bondage gear during a casual conversation). The show took chances, was funny and sadly was ended but it's place as a cult show has been cemented and will live on in the fans. If I may coment on the commentary of the show on the DVDs, even though only a few discs get commentary, they are all hilarious and the shows creator who provided the voice for Peter, Stewie and Brian does voices and it's great to hear (especially with swearing, and the voice of Lois during the first episode commentary is a standout). The only demerrits are not enough special features and that my favorite episode (Road to Rhode Island) has a scene cut out which featured Stewie sining showtunes to distract a airport guard so that he can smuggle weapons on the plane and even mentions Osama Bin Laden. However the pilot episode did gain a scene, so it kind of evens out. Bottom line is that if you love South Park and the Simpsons, FAMILY GUY is a must own. There is no excuse for not owning it if you like either of those shows. If you decide not to get it, then as Stewie would say, BURN IN HELL!!!! (remember, he's one years old and wants to kill the mom.)
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Summary: Great and sadly missed show
Review: Family Guy is quite possibly the best new show of the last ten years. No offense to such award winners as The Sopranos, The West Wing and Six Feet Under to name a few, but this show had everything. It was comical and satirical, sardonic and irreverent. It made fun of everyone and I mean everyone. It used sight gags The Simpsons and Futurama are afraid to use and goes beyond. Quite simply it is under appreciated. Season one was short but sweet. Peter cheats the government, feigns Homer Simpson with TV withdrawal, Stewie thwarts a cult leader, Peter punches a woman, builds a bar in his basement and turns Lois into a famous lounge singer, Peter exploits the handicapped, Lois pulls a Marge Simpson and becomes a gambling junkie and finally Brian steals the show. It sound a lot like The Simpsons, but it had more guts. It wasn't afraid to make you laugh by offending anyone and it did it so well. Season two only got better. Peter's piano talent is accesbiel only through imbibing alcohol, he turn the King And I into a cyborg kill fest, breast feeds Stewie in the shows funniest sight gag to date, leads his family in rebellion and it thorws in plenty of other song and dance numbers, the signs of a great cartoon. The dialogue is superb, just the right amount of plot advancing script as making fun of someone script. The characters are hilarious. Quagmire is easily one of the best supporting cartoon characters since Moe, Brian is the smartest of the lot and he's a dog, martini sipping, chuck wagon chasing, golden voiced Brian. Better than Astro, Dino and Santa's Little Helper combined. Stewie is hilarious. He easily eclipses Maggie as the best baby from a cartoon series. Move over Pebbles and BamBam. The Griffins as a whole are like the Bunkers on steroids. They're like The Simpsons on crack. They're the King Of The Hill meets South Park. They were a perfect hybrid of everything that makes a cartoon successful. It had great writing, great voice talents, perfect matches for the characters, simple story lines made complex by the dynamics of the characters in them. Stewie can turn even a simple love story at a day care center into a mature story line with witty dialogue delivered with adult emotion, but then expose the cold hearted Janet for just wanting his cookies. Great symbolism! In the end, this show got the short of the stick. It got a raw deal when television needed a show like this. It is wildly popular, thank God for this boxed set and it's revival on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim. I know many people that want to see this show back on Sunday night amid The Simpsons, Futurama and King Of The Hill, where it belongs. But now it can live on forever and thank the Fox Corporation for giving us this treat. Buy it and watch it as often as you can! I give it my highest recommendation possible.
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Summary: I thought this DVD was absolutely, fantastically done!
Review: I thought this DVD was absolutely, fantastically done! Some of the best things on this DVD are: The commentary given mostly by Seth Macfarlane and writers of the episode, was hilarious and it showed you things that you wouldn't normally notice; on the first disc of the DVD they have a series of the commercials that aired during the Super Bowl in preparation for the first episode that premiered after it; and on the still screen that comes up when your are selecting your episode there are bubbles with images and audio that float across the screen depicting the funniest part of the episodes that appeared on that disc. The only thing that was not as great as I expected it to be was the "behind the scenes" clip. It was very well, done but it was short and did not contain many interviews with the characters. I say this on the standpoint that I really wanted to see them do the voices in person but if you are in to animation, you will like it. I also thought there should be more "behind the scene" clips than one. All in all it is a must have.
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Summary: Missing Weinstein Episode!
Review: This "set" is missing the unaired second season episode called "When you wish upon a Weinstein"!!!!! This is an hilarious episode, widely viewed over the Internet, and AVAILABLE on the British region 2 release of season 2. Unfortunaetly for most Americans, all DVD players sold in this country are intentionally crippled with a region code, preventing you from playing "unapproved" content. This prevents you from importing the discs from Great Britain, where they were available for months before their American release. If you are a true fan, I suggest you write to FOX and demand they release this episode in the United States. Until FOX does so, I can only give this otherwise wonderful DVD set 2 stars. Aside from the missing episode, the set is wonderful. The picture quality is slightly better than its British counterpart, and the commentary is excellent. All in all, if you are a true fan, demand the episode. If you're a casual fan, go ahead and buy now. You'll probably never miss it.
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Summary: Phenominal Entertainment
Review: Fox's cancellation of The Family Guy can only be described as idiocy. I'm a long time Simpsons fan, but when comparing the first two seasons of the Simpsons with the Family Guy, I would have to note that the Family Guy was consistently hilarious right out of the gate, whereas the Simpsons took time to grow. Good thing, too, since Fox went out of its way with scheduling snafus to doom the show into oblivion. I watch a few episodes each night and am consistenly reduced to tears. It is nothing short of genius. Buy this DVD set. It is better than a petition for letting the Fox Network know what they have. We should all be so lucky as to have Fox release new episodes on DVD after it makes it through the surplus. Superb.
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Summary: To the morons, there are 7 episodes per disc, 7x4=28
Review: There are 4 Disks, 7 episodes on each of them. 14 hours of the Greatest show ever made. The best money you will ever spend.
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Summary: Best Show Ever?
Review: If you don't find the Family Guy to be one of the funniest things you have ever seen, you can rest assured that you have no sense of humor, at all. This show is the test. If you don't like it, you should continue to watch and enjoy "Friends".
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