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Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)

Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Greatest Show Ever!
Review: Family Guy was cancelled. Such a travesty. Every show was funny.......hilarious! I found out about this DVD set and I got filled with ecstasy! Peter Griffin represents animated comedy. If you watch an episode of Family Guy, you will fall in love. You must buy this DVD set and realize the bliss of Family Guy.
As a huge fan to hopefully others, BUY IT ON APRIL 15TH!!!

thank you

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was too smart & too good a show for TV....
Review: "Family Guy" required attention, but it was well-worth the "effort." Smart, funny, sometimes even offensive, it never, ever disappointed. But quality TV doesn't always mean good ratings; this show will go on the long list of shows that died premature deaths because it was too hip for TV. Moments of this show pop into my mind from time to time, and I always find myself smiling and laughing when they do. Check this set out and get the same enjoyment that I have. This was one of television's very best.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Funny and different, but destined for oblivion
Review: Family Guy was a very humorous addition to broadcast TV, although fans may have had a hard time keeping up with its constant schedule changes. It has never failed to make me laugh, and often raise an eyebrow asking "Did they really say that?" Unfortunately, the humor in it is highly topical and dated, and many of the references will become more obscure as time passes. Unlike the Simpsons, who balanced topical humor with parody and tributes to many classics, Family Guy is destined to be a footnote in animated television.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Too Right!!!
Review: As often happens with the truly amazing shows, propper recognition is posthumously awarded. Well, "Family Guy" is not the exception to the rule. For so long I thought I was alone in my love of this show. It warms my heart to find others who mourn its loss. First, I'd like to say that the other reviews were Too Right!!! There is little I could add ... but, I'll try. Yea; the closest analogy would be the illigitimate love child of the Simpsons and South Park, but as has been stated, there is so much more to it. The show's format is not so much a structured program, as a train of thought. As in a daydream (or, I'm told, a good trip), it wanders from one random subject to another, swinging back to a psudo-reality only when absolutly necessary. Add that to its razor wit and a PC reverence on a level with an Eminem -book on tape- reading of The Idiot's Guide to The Satanic Verses, and you have a gem that fans cherish and networks cancle...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Funniest Animated Fox Show Yet!
Review: I am a long-time Simpson fan...ever since the Simpsons first came on the scene back in the late 80's I would watch the show every chance I got. But over the years the Simpsons started getting a little stale. And that's when Family Guy came in.

Family Guy is, by far, the funniest animated television series since the Simpsons were in their prime. We're weighing in alot of shows here...Ren and Stimpy, Futurama...but there's something about Family Guy that just warrants gut-busting laughs. Maybe it's Quagmire's ridiculous attempts at picking up women, Peter's wealth of ignorance, little Stewie's attempts at world domination, or just the random silliness thrown in to all of the episodes, such as appearences by the Kool Aid man, the 'Two Scoops' sun from the old Raisin Bran commercials, references to the old Incredible Hulk television series...and alot more.

Family Guy is definitely not for the kids...all of the situations are adult and sometimes are borderline risque (which got the series cancelled, unfortunately). The network censors and committees have no idea what they've done...they threw away a gold mine.

While it could never truly replace the Simpsons, Family Guy was well on its way to becoming the new dominant animated series on Fox. The Simpsons have been stale the last few years...Family Guy breathed new life into prime time animation that you just don't see anymore. It's too bad, really. In any case, don't pass up the opportunity to own every episode on DVD!!

Fans will love to have all episodes on dvd, I know i'm looking forward to it. And even if you've never seen it, then take my advice: Pick it up anyway! You will not regret it! The extra features are a little bare bones, but it doesn't matter. The show has enough laughs to keep you coming back...even watching the same episode twice won't lessen the amount of laughs you get from it. Definitely a great idea to put this classic but short lived series on DVD!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Funnies and Best Cartoon Ever
Review: I swear this is the best show ever! I have downloaded all the shows on Kazaa and watch them all the time Multiple times. You can watch the shows over and over and still laugh like crazy. I have been waiting for these to come out on DVD for years. I guarentee this is a DVD you won't regret buying.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Should be the funniest release of 2003!
Review: This is going to be great! A cartoon with with an insensitive husband, an alcoholic talking dog and a talking baby who wants to kill his mother and rule the world! Chances are you did not catch Family Guuy when it sporadically aired on Fox. This show gives the Simpsons a run for it's money in terms of freshness, edginess and humor. It actually beats the Simpsons! This is one twisted show and I have been waiting for this release for a long time. This show was absolutely brilliant. You will not be disappointed by this animated gem!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I can't believe it!
Review: I can't believe this is already coming out on DVD! I figured because FOX was so back and forth with the series that it would never find its way to DVD. I hope the 3rd season and I believe there was an abbreviated 4th season, come out on DVD as well!

This DVD is a must have!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Better than South Park! Well, ok, as good as!
Review: This cartoon was SO good it was cancelled. It was even funnier than the Simpsons (and I am a long-time fan) and funnier even than "South Park", which had me gasping for air and flailing helplessly the first time I saw it.

No, "Family Guy" is, in my opinion, the funniest cartoon TV show for adults ever. The Rhode Island setting doesn't hurt either, for this former New England resident. (Rhode Island is as naturally funny to New Englanders as words starting with "K". See "Me, Myself and Irene" or the cartoons of Don Bousquet if you want to know why Rhode Island is funny.)

What's so funny about "Family Guy?" It's hard to list the best points because it is all so good, but really, the high point for me are the escapades of Stewie, the infant-terrible with the football-shaped head. He is cleverly done--the writers seem to have read Freud and other psychological theorists who believe that babies have both a megalomania complex and at the same time, fear their mothers as some kind of dreadful, all-powerful but necessary being who cruelly controls their happiness and even survival. Stewie's conniving to rule the world and dispatch his despised mom are hysterical.

Not that Peter, head Family Guy, Brian the Brown-educated, dipsomaniac pet dog, and Lois and her dysfunctional kids aren't funny, too. They are. Sometimes it is so funny, I can't even laugh--just have to gasp with astonishment. If we are feeling low or bored, we put these on. In fact, we save them for special occasions as they are so good they are a real treat.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The least FOX could have done for all the "Family Guy" fans.
Review: Cancelling "Family Guy" was a stab in the back from FOX to all the fans of this hilarious show.

Family Guy combines the American satirical comedy of "The Simpsons" with the sick and tasteless humor from "South Park". Added to this, there's an originality to "Family Guy" of its own which makes it a very special show.

Thanks to the greedy executives from FOX, "Family Guy" was cancelled, but at least we have this upcoming DVD, which includes audio commentaries and the banned episode "Wish Upon a Weinstman"


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