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Have you all heard?
That the bird is the word?

This episode was so good.  I don't think I stopped laughing through the whole thing, and then for a bit after.

I like the Ramones cover best, though.  Well, that and I love the Ramones in general. 

A good Family Guy?  I'll have to check the TiVo.

EVERYBODY's talking about the bird.

One of Seth's best efforts for sure. I still don't find family guy laugh-out-loud funny though.

I'm not a huge family guy fan.. it was great at the beginning but it got old quick.  There are some diamonds in the rough though, like this last episode.  The only thing I didn't like was the whole Jesus part put into the story, if they would have made it all about the bird it would have been a totally  :awesome_for_real: episode.


American Dad imo is Mcfarlane's best work.

Dang, missed last night's ep.  Does Cartoon Network still re-run these a week or two after they air on Fox?

They're on hulu.com now.

I was rolling for the first 10 minutes of the show. It was indeed pure  :drill:

Depends on how the AS folks feel that week.  That's got to be the most undermedicated office staff anywhere in Television.


But then you know, the bird is the word.

I see you've heard.

Hasn't everybody?

Hasn't everybody heard what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcrfcK93zY

Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow

Your link is fail!

Wrong. Still works. Your net connection is fail.

They took it down. Bastards.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/37768/family-guy-i-dream-of-jesus#s-p1-so-i0

Perhaps they hadn't heard.

What haven't they heard? :awesome_for_real:

About the word!

Well I mean.. everybody's heard that the bird is the word! 

I thought it was Thunderbird.

wut

SURRRRFFFINNNNG BIRRRRRRRD

 :ye_gods: :uhrr: :grin: :why_so_serious: :ye_gods: :drill: :grin:

What a great avatar.

I wanted to make one of that whole table scene, but figured it'd be way too large.   Going for just the dance, we should find him one with the hip shake and the arm movements.

http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html

Too much Jesus.

Baby Not on Board is an amazing episode. Wowwowowowow.

This one's finally off my DVR. The Jesus episode was funny, but I'm just not feeling the funney out of 90% of the episodes.

So they're just fucking with us tonight full out, eh?  They've now blown about 7 mins between the Christian Bayle bit and showing Stewie's Music Video.  I don't even remember what the story is supposed to be.

The Bale thing was pretty funny though.

I'd agree if I hadn't heard it done by 3 other places in the exact same fashion over the last week.  :grin:

I doubt they pulled out the "you punch your mother with that mouth?" line.

True, that was a nice little gem.

WATCH NOW.

Jesus, the season opener was awesome.

It didn't get me until the Disney part. Goddamn that was brilliant.

Edit: Everything after it was amazing.

The Mayor McCheese bit was  :ye_gods:

If by  :ye_gods: you mean  :drill:

I think the only multiverse I didn't get was the real blocky, poorly animated one. I thought at first it was a jab at Gennedy Tartikof's style but figured it was aping something else after I watched it again. Was it supposed to be a parody of some bad Flash animation?

My governess drowned me in a well. 

Holy crap the amnesia episode is amazing.

Agreed. The Dwayne Johnson bit had me rolling.

The adult swim bump was probably one of the awesomest things ever.

Yes.

I've really not been that impressed with this season so far.  Until the Amnesia episode.  I thought it was hysterical.

Anyone seen Something, Something, Something Darkside?

My ex got it for me.  On Blu-Ray.  Which I don't have.  So no, sadly...

Want to send it to me? I'll send it back.  :grin:

I left it at her place and told her to just return it.

We rented it this weekend, it was pretty damned funny, definitely good family guy.

I have to admit, it threw me for a few seconds. Granted I was dividing my attention between FG and WoW, but for a second or two I really had to think hard as to what day and time it was. I was thinking 'Wait, did I change the channel at the commercial break? I don't think I did...'

My TV changed the channel automatically because of the DVR, and I didn't know it was a new episode, so when that [adult swim] thing happened I literally didn't know what channel it was on until the end of the commercials. I WAS FREAKING OUT!

Yeah, I got it for Christmas.  Not as good as Blue Harvest, but still pretty funny.  I'll have to watch it a few more times to really form a firmer opinion of it.

 My take away from the first viewing was that the source material was treated with too much reverence, and that there wasn't as much corny stuff to mine jokes from since it's such a tight movie.   I can't even remember a lot of the jokes because they weren't as amusing as Han taking off with the couch from the Death Star.  (They do question the same thing I've always questioned, though. WTF is Lando wearing Han's clothes at the end?!)

Yeah it had some nice moments and funny bits but it really seemed more like an homage, mild pastiche of Empire than Family Guy but with the Star Wars plotline.

SSSDS is pretty good. It got better the 2nd time I watched it (I missed the R2/Cleveland 'running with this' joke the first time through since I wasn't looking at the screen). Wish they would have done better with Yoda, though.

Well Han was captured and Lando escaped with only the clothes on his back.  So his wardrobe choices are limited to what's on the Falcon. 

I'm just making this shit up though.

That actually makes perfect sense, and adds an extra level of depth to the character.  :ye_gods:

I mean really, Han and Lando grew up together, they both went through a dirty rotten smuggler phase, then grew into respectable adults. And yet, when the chips were down, Han was willing to be tortured and killed for his beliefs, while Lando just sold out.

Lando tried to make ammends by getting Leia and others out of there, but in the process, left everything he had behind; figuratively and literally.

Next thing we see, Lando has taken Han's place, looking up to his old friend, following in his footsteps, and donning the shell Han wore in the past.

NECRO!

The season opener was last night, and it was a parody of "And Then There Were None" where most of the town shows up at a mansion for a dinner party in their honor. Then, people start getting murdered. I liked the episode, but it was going for suspense as much as it was going for funny. It really tried to hit on a lot of the stupid mystery cliches while still tossing in the penis jokes. If you like Family Guy, you like a penis/fart joke. I would give it a solid B. Good pacing, good story, but it was trying to do a lot of things at once without hitting all the funny highlights.

Fun, but just like the second Star Wars parody, they almost played this TOO straight.  The camera angles and things like that were very clever, as was the opening- in a subtle homage sort of way.

And I guess since the episode was "canon" they couldn't .


There was one unresolved mystery-

I think they did play a lot of it pretty straight as well, but there were some very good moments. The balcony scene tongue-in-cheek dialogue from the killer POV shot was awesome, as well as the huddling, the reasons they all hated the host, and Consuela as the butler/maid. It was very creative in their adaptation even though they stayed on the rails without any of the usual cutaways.

The hot new blonde, obv.

I guess, but will it be edgy and/or funny? I guess Tom can make fun of her for being a brainless idiot, but we'll see.

I was mostly joking...I bet Diane is back and we just ignore this ep.

It would be like them to just completely ignore it, true.

I'd have a quick reference to her wearing a Martha Stewart ankle bracelet thing and then continue as if nothing happened.

Yeah that would probably work. They shot Lois like 40 times in dumped her in the Ocean, and she still lived in that "simulation."

They did indeed replace Diane with the blonde chick. Also, the Rush Limbaugh episode was complete crap and painfully unfunny. They really REALLY need to stay out of political stuff because it comes off as ham-fisted schlock rather than witty or incisive indictments of American politics. When we get to "messages" the comedy gets tossed out the window.

Also, it broke continuity.  It's already been established in the Family Guy universe (and it is known to the Griffins) that Rush Limbaugh is Fred Savage.

Yeah and they brought it up that anything on Fox News must be a lie, even if it's true.  :oh_i_see:

I managed to see this episode and thought how it was an arena that Family Guy should have stayed the fuck out of. I kept trying to figure out what it was they were trying to say since it was clear to me they wanted to say something, but all I got was "putting a positive spin on Rush in time for the mid-terms."

Essentially, this is the same feel I got. I was pissed first because it wasn't funny, but I was also pissed because the timing was so obvious and it was completely transparant that they were trying to make a point. I totally agree with you as well that whatever point they tried to make was lost. I also don't think for a second that Seth could stop his own politics from dominating the episode, which killed the comedy.

This is what happens when Family Guy strays too far from manatee gags and the Chicken and Peter fighting for 15 minutes straight.

The sad part was they even included a song, which is usually gold, but this one was just vanilla.

My take on it was Mr. Murdoch caught an episode and said "Wtf is this bullshit.  This isn't in-line with what I want on our networks. GIVE ME WHAT I WANT."  So they did a throw-away episode to counter all the left-sided stuff that the show usually does and let Rupert go back to ignoring them while reaping the profits.    (I'm still waiting for them to catch on that Stewey's homosexual imaginary friend & teddybear is named the same as the chariman of the board.)

I've switched to watching Rubicon.   I've watched FG since it started but it's just ran out of gas.  The mystery episode got ONE good laugh out of me (the Jew in Texas).  One laugh an hour isn't worth my time.

While it is getting stale, my biggest gripe w/ FG is when they drag gags out way too long.  Like Peter and the Chicken fighting. 

Speaking of Peter.  I know he's supposed to be a bumbling dumbass, but it's to the point where it's so obnoxious that I just want to punch McFarlane.

They did the same thing to Homer Simpson too.  He went from being a bumbling guy who at least tried (but usually failed) to such a drooling idiot you wonder how he remembers to breath.  I see Peter moving this direction too and it's not that thrilling to me.

I thought the last episode where he finds out Carter is having an affair had some funny moments. The attempt to blackmail him by treating his hot tub as a toilet, the stab at French police sirens sounding like a gay threesome, and Peter trying to develop catchphrases were all really funny.

I liked it more than the last two. Got some laughs out of me.

Oh and I forgot about him singing a toned down version of Bird is the Word while holding the jukebox over his head to reconcile Carter and Babs. That was awesome.

Caught the Limbaugh ep last night on Adult Swim. Mostly unfunny, but there were a couple of laughs. Also, I was wrong about Diane- She is 'DEAD!', according to Ollie.

Halloween episode was predictable and not good. I was very on board with the idea since I've loved all the FOX animated takes on Halloween over the years, but this one fell on it's face.

Funniest moment, Stewie firing wildly into the crowd of trick-or-treaters with a machine gun before he figures out that they are not under attack by real monsters.

Dragging this thread back from the dead because....

I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop... and then it didn't. 

I think they run with it for a half season or so before they go the time travel route...

They explicitly broke the time machine with no way of fixing it.

Many a blogger is speculating this is McFarlane sabotaging the show so he can move on.  He's made it known he's tired of it and wants to do other things, and I'll admit I had the same thought when I realized this was 'for realz.'   It'd be incredibly stupid of him since all his other endeavors have been flops, but hey, everyone makes rash decisions.

Given the angst and rage and whining I've seen around it, this certainly could be the final nail in the coffin.  I said earlier in this thread it felt like he was doing more and more to flip the viewer the bird with the random non-narrative tangents.  (i.e. the whole Conway Twitty number, later followed by the entire "Dancing in the Streets" vid)

 None of those did anything but strengthen the remaining viewers, though.  This doesn't seem to be getting the same 'ha ha, way to break TV expectations' forgiveness.

Vinny is a complete Italian stereotype, too. He's a legitimate bit player character, like Quagmire, but as a full time family member? I would need more depth that didn't come off well in the first episode.

If this is Seth sabatoging the show, it's an odd way to do it. If that's what he's doing, it's also very strange that he would kill off the character that actually holds his real voice, almost like he's killing a part of himself.

Q&A about this with executive producer Steve Callaghan:

Meh, he's got another new show coming to Fox next year.  I doubt Seth is tired of all the wheelbarrows of money that he's making, that he'd intentionally kill off Family Guy. 

Ted was the exact opposite of a flop.  A budget of $50,000,000 and a US box office of over $200,000,000.  That's not counting DVD or international. 

American Dad is also on its ninth season, and he has Bordertown about to premier.  He's also currently directing/acting/writing in his second feature film.

He isn't sabotaging anything.  Even with Family Guy he's been able to do all of the above and more.

It got enough attention to resurrect a 3 year old thread!

Welp, Merry Christmas Brian.

Did nobody else see this? I thought it was very funny. The Christmas Story Chinese Guys were one of the best parts of the gags.

Sorry, I was watching The Good, The Bad, and The Randy. :why_so_serious: