|
Book Home  Books Information Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an
animated television series originally created by Seth MacFarlane
for FOX in 1999. The show was cancelled in 2002, but after unprecedented
positive response to DVDs and reruns on Cartoon Network, production
of new episodes for FOX resumed in 2005.
The title character is Peter Griffin, head of
an Irish-Catholic, middle class family frequently beset by the
consequences of his foolish antics. Family Guy's brand of humor
is notable for the brief, frequently nonsensical cutaways and
flashbacks to various points in history, geography, and reality
involving the characters and their ludicrous actions (see "Structural
and comedic approach" below).
|
 |
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, also serves
as a writer on the show, and voices many of the characters. The cast
also includes That '70s Show star Mila Kunis, actor Seth Green, MADtv
star Alex Borstein, and comedic actor Patrick Warburton.
Episodes
In keeping with the humorous tone of the series, most episode titles
of Family Guy are parodies of popular television shows, movies, and
mottos.
For the first half of the first season, the writers
tried to work the words "murder" or "death" into
the title of every episode (i.e., "Mind over Murder" and
"Death has a Shadow"). On a DVD commentary, creator Seth
McFarlane says that the writers stopped doing this when they realized
they were beginning to get the titles confused.
The film
The first Family Guy film, due for release as a direct-to-video movie
on 27 September 2005, focuses on Stewie seeing somebody he believes
to be his real father and setting off on a road trip to find him.
Originally three separate (though continuous) episodes as part of
the fourth season, the DVD puts them together and includes additional
materials. You can currently see a one minute scene from the movie
here.
|
|
