If you are looking for some more laughs between seasons of Family Guy then look no further than www.sethcomedy.com - the new internet comedy series from the man himself, Seth McFarlane.
Starting this week Seth is putting online new comedy shorts (much in the same style as the famous Family Guy cutaways).
With new comedy shorts every week this should be well worth watching. I know I'll be tuning in!
Showing posts with label Family Guy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Guy. Show all posts
Friday, 12 September 2008
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Family Guy - Full Episodes Online
It is getting more common these days to be able to view full episodes of TV shows online - legally.
The only problem tends to be that most of the good stuff is locked to a particular geographic region. The BBC IPlayer for example only plays in the UK. Conversely trying to watch Star Trek in the UK doesn't work. So it is nice to find something that works in multiple regions, and Fox has done that with Family Guy.
If you head over to www.familyguy.com you can view five full episodes of Family Guy, as well as clips of their musical numbers.
The only pity is that if you follow the links through to the "Fox on Demand" side you get that old message that "This service is currently available to viewers living in the United States."
Arse!
Still, at least we can get to watch the episodes on the main Family Guy site. Which is nice.
The only problem tends to be that most of the good stuff is locked to a particular geographic region. The BBC IPlayer for example only plays in the UK. Conversely trying to watch Star Trek in the UK doesn't work. So it is nice to find something that works in multiple regions, and Fox has done that with Family Guy.
If you head over to www.familyguy.com you can view five full episodes of Family Guy, as well as clips of their musical numbers.
The only pity is that if you follow the links through to the "Fox on Demand" side you get that old message that "This service is currently available to viewers living in the United States."
Arse!
Still, at least we can get to watch the episodes on the main Family Guy site. Which is nice.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy is set to have its own spin-off series when Cleveland Brown leaves Quahog, Rhode Island to set up house with his childhood sweetheart Donna and her family in Stoolbend, VA.
The new show is set to air in Spring 2009.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Tonight on Family Guy
"Movin' Out (Brian's Song)"
"When Peter convinces Brian to move in with his dense girlfriend Jillian, she ends up smothering him, but he keeps her around for the lovin'. Stewie moves in with them to help pay the rent, but he tries to get Brian back on the playing field by throwing him a drunken party and interfering with their relationship. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job at the local convenience store, as does Chris, who gets chummy with the manager, Carl. While Chris and Carl talk about their favorite movies, Meg is saddled with all the hard work. She eventually stands up for herself and as a result gets fired."
(description "borrowed" from the Damn You All forum)
Hopefully this will be as good as last weeks Star Wars special, although that might be a tall order to follow.
"When Peter convinces Brian to move in with his dense girlfriend Jillian, she ends up smothering him, but he keeps her around for the lovin'. Stewie moves in with them to help pay the rent, but he tries to get Brian back on the playing field by throwing him a drunken party and interfering with their relationship. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job at the local convenience store, as does Chris, who gets chummy with the manager, Carl. While Chris and Carl talk about their favorite movies, Meg is saddled with all the hard work. She eventually stands up for herself and as a result gets fired."
(description "borrowed" from the Damn You All forum)
Hopefully this will be as good as last weeks Star Wars special, although that might be a tall order to follow.
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Family Guy - Blue Harvest
A long time ago, yet somehow in the future. . . . .
The new season of Family Guy kicked off on Sunday with a double-length special parody of Star Wars episode 4.
I've got to admit that I had some concerns as to how well this would work, but they have managed to tread that fine line between parody and homage without going too far into either.
The animation is excellent (and that is something that you can't usually say about Family Guy) as were the music and sound effects. In fact you can see the amount of effort that has gone into getting this episode to be just right rather simply presenting a selection of Star Wars jokes.
Leia: Aren't you a little fat to be a storm trooper?
Luke: Then stay here and rot, you stuck up bitch!
That isn't to say that every joke is comedy gold (do we really need another Herbert musical number?) but overall it is certainly well worth watching - if only to see Darth Stewie.
The plot follows the original very closely with plenty of shot-for-shot remakes and some excellent casting, such as Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin, Cleveland and Quagmire as R2D2 and C3PO, Stewie as Darth Vader. On the other hand some characters, like Joe Swanson and Meg are under-used (in fact I don't think Joe even appears).
There are plenty of cameo appearances and digs at other sci-fi series which gives the episode some replay value (especially in the Cantana scene). The musican cues are well used, and the scene with the crew sneaking out of the Millenium Falcon to the sounds of Minnie the Moocher was simply inspired, as was the elevator music version of the Empire theme.
Lets hope that the rest of the series keeps up the high standard set by this one.
The new season of Family Guy kicked off on Sunday with a double-length special parody of Star Wars episode 4.
I've got to admit that I had some concerns as to how well this would work, but they have managed to tread that fine line between parody and homage without going too far into either.
The animation is excellent (and that is something that you can't usually say about Family Guy) as were the music and sound effects. In fact you can see the amount of effort that has gone into getting this episode to be just right rather simply presenting a selection of Star Wars jokes.
Leia: Aren't you a little fat to be a storm trooper?
Luke: Then stay here and rot, you stuck up bitch!
That isn't to say that every joke is comedy gold (do we really need another Herbert musical number?) but overall it is certainly well worth watching - if only to see Darth Stewie.
The plot follows the original very closely with plenty of shot-for-shot remakes and some excellent casting, such as Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin, Cleveland and Quagmire as R2D2 and C3PO, Stewie as Darth Vader. On the other hand some characters, like Joe Swanson and Meg are under-used (in fact I don't think Joe even appears).
There are plenty of cameo appearances and digs at other sci-fi series which gives the episode some replay value (especially in the Cantana scene). The musican cues are well used, and the scene with the crew sneaking out of the Millenium Falcon to the sounds of Minnie the Moocher was simply inspired, as was the elevator music version of the Empire theme.
Lets hope that the rest of the series keeps up the high standard set by this one.
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
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