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Author Topic: Movie in the recent Family Guy episode? Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 02-06-2007 04:45 AM                        That's the dynamic I would almost expect. Each of those shows, in their own youth, were given crap all over the place. Family Guy comes along, the newbie, and all the long-running animated shows have to take a dump on it, just like high-school seniors have to dump freshmen in the trash can.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-06-2007 05:54 AM                     Hopefully I don't have to choose between them for my allegiance. I saw that South Park episode (the two parter "Cartoon Wars") and found it very funny. Bart's cameo was amusing but I was hoping for more from him. The whole plot revolved around Cartman's indignation that people found his humor like the show "Family Guy" but tried to have the show canceled saying instead that if they depict the prophet Mohammed in an upcoming episode as planned, the United States would be attacked. Apparently, at one point a few years ago, "Family Guy" actually DID depict Mohammed on one of their episodes. Of course this was before 9/11 and that Danish artist's cartoon that inspired that part of the SP episode. At first, "Family Guy" seemed like a ripoff of "The Simpsons" but from the get-go, it had it's own style. I still like "The Simpsons, but the last few years have been but a thin shadow of the show at it's peak. Let's hope the movie captures some of that original wit.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-06-2007 10:11 AM                     Hmm, well Family Guy has "dumped" on the Simpsons before, during the parody of Naked Gun 1 opening, where stewie crashes into Homer at the end and Peter says "who's this guy". So they're not exactly saints themselves in that aspect. I'll agree with Hillary that the last few seasons of Simpsons have been kind of lame, but on the occasion they kill with a great episode. I'm not a huge Family Guy fan but I like how the humor is more risque. And I've never really watched South Park after that horrible movie that I walked out of.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-07-2007 08:21 PM                     I think Cartman said it best: "Don't you ever, EVER compare me to Family Guy, you hear me Kyle? Compare me to Family Guy again and so help me, I will kill you where you stand! Do you have any idea what it's like? Everywhere I go: "Hey Cartman you must like Family Guy, right?" "Hey, your sense of humor reminds me of Family Guy, Cartman!" I am nothing like Family Guy! When I make jokes they are inherent to a story! Deep situational and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a point, not just one random interchangeable joke after another!" Family Guy does have its yuks from time to time, but it is not in the same class as South Park or The Simpsons or even King of the Hill. Like Mike said, Simpsons does still have its great episodes, but any show that is on for almost two decades can have that not-so-fresh feeling. Mike, I wish you would give South Park another try. Their movie was pretty rough, but their episodes since 2000 or so have steadily improved to what I would consider near-genius status. They attack current events like none other and still mix in fart jokes. I think it goes down as one of the top 10 funniest shows of all time.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-07-2007 09:25 PM                     I'll probably check them out on the DVD sometime... I initially hated FG after the first episode because of stewie, but then got into it again after they brought it back on the air. What's weird is that I love Parker/Stone's Baseketball and Team America somewhat.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 02-08-2007 12:15 AM                        Hey, I like Family Guy. Especially the overdone scenes, that's part of the joke. Eh, some people shout "Star Wars!", some people shout "Star Trek!", I say "Shut up and sit down!"  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-17-2007 12:05 PM                     Thats R for Robert Loggia. O for Oh My, its Robert Loggia. B for Baby it's Robert Loggia. E for Everybody, its Robert Loggia. R for Robert Loggia. T for Tim its Robert Loggia. Space. This bit had me dying on the last episode... but it was a pretty blatant takeoff of the Simpsons episode from last season where Homer finds out he may have another dad that's a treasure hunter.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-19-2007 07:53 PM                     That was a pretty funny sequence. He actually "showed up" on an episode of Tom Goes to the Mayor last year.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-19-2007 08:54 PM                     Did he do his own voice or was it a parody, I missed the credits of that episode.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-21-2007 06:59 PM                     I don't think it sounded like him and I couldn't find any site giving credit to him as a guest voice.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-25-2007 08:35 PM                     A funny dig at FG during tonights Simpsons... marge remembers why she couldn't say no because of a childhood experience, and when its back to present day Homer says "Marge how was I supposed to know what you were thinking" and she says "I really dont know"(something along that line)...  |  IP: Logged Patrick Dunn Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: newark, DE, United states Registered: Aug 2005 posted 02-26-2007 08:16 PM                        I think Family Guy is the greatest show ever, it's my all time favorite. I even got my girlfriend and her older brother into it.  |  IP: Logged

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