Some features from Windows 7 are promoted through “Family Guy” when Stewie is trying his hand on installing the new Microsoft program on Brian’s laptop. This sort-of-new way to do an advertisement had been reported last week but a sneak peek from the cartoon’s episode has just been released.
Brian does all the talking, boasting the program’s abilities such as recording TV programs with DVR, organizing photos in the media center and easily switching between programs with the user-friendly interface. Underneath it all, Stewie only attempts to do his first Tweet.
FOX struck a deal with Microsoft to include the sponsorship in an episode airing November 8. As part of the deal, the special will run at 8.30/7.30c without commercials. Instead, it will feature Microsoft-branded programing that “blend with the show’s content” such as original animation, live action performances of “The Family Guy” musical numbers, comedy sketches and celebrity guests.
Windows 7 itself will be launched on October 22.
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Peter soon discovers he no longer has to fight with Lois for the bathroom for his bowel movements, he can just go next door at Clevelands’s old home! Well, that is until Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase (guest starring as themselves) move in next door. Peter invites them over for dinner and tries to prove to them he’s funny, but when they don’t agree, he goes to Joe and Quagmire, who agree that he’s funny. In fact, the guys decide to start a improv group known as Room for Improv-ment. The guys try to put on a show and Peter keeps relying on his [blank] at Thanksgiving bit and they end up giving up.
Meanwhile, Stewie and Brian find it suspicious that Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase would move in next door and to spy at their house and find themselves in the middle of a big spy base. Soon, the boys discover the famous actors are actualy undercover spies like their movie Spies Like Us. The guys are on a mission in Quahog to find the undercover Russian spy, who turns out to be Mayor West. Once West is reactivated as a spy when the guys say the secret phrase, he heads to Russia, and the spies, plus Stewie and Brian, head to Russia after them. They manage to catch Adam West, but it’s too late, he’s launched an old Soviet missile at the US, but the boys reprogram it and the day is saved.
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In typical Family Guy fashion, last night’s episode began with Peter having an affair with a Kathy Ireland cutout and somehow led to Lois finding out she’s Jewish.
During the appropriastely named episode, “Family Goy,” Lois was initially reluctant to change things and begin to accept her new religion, while Peter was all about it until the novelty wore off and his father’s ghost told him to stop.
In the end, Lois decided not to switch religions, but not before we got some classic Family Guy quotes out
of the episode. Here’s some of our favorites:
Chris: Hey dad, where you going with that cutout?
Peter: Oh hey kids, this is Kathy, we’re designing lifestyle products together. It’s completely legitimate, but don’t tell your mother!
Lois: Peter, stop that! We’re not having sex, I just told you I have a lump!
Peter: I have a lump too and mine’s easier to get rid of
Lois: Mom, you’re Jewish?
Barbara: I’m sorry we never told you dear, when we were married, your father made me conceal the fact so we could get into country clubs
Meg: Mom, is sodomy illegal if you’re Jewish?
Lois: I hope so meg, I really do
Peter: It’s not, Lois…. it’s not
Peter: This family believes in the Easter bunny. He died for our sins in that helicopter crash
Jesus: I am a Jew
Peter: Prove it. What’s a 9% tip on a $200 dinner?
Jesus: It’s $18, which is very fair
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A County Tyrone councillor’s alleged resemblance to Family Guy character Peter Griffin could soon be appearing on election posters. Omagh councillor Ross Hussey said he was told about his cartoon lookalike by his nephew and a young party colleague. The Ulster Unionist said he was not flattered but it did amuse him.
Ross Hussey said he cannot see any resemblance to Peter Griffin
“Personally I can see no resemblance, but I have watched it and we would have certain similar traits - that’s all I’m prepared to admit to,” he said. “To be perfectly honest, I didn’t know who this Peter Griffin was until my 23-year-old nephew and young Ryan who works here pointed out a resemblance.” Mr Hussey said they would have to wait and see if the poster was approved by his party. “Really it’s a bit of fun, and anything that could get young people interested in politics is good.
Peter Griffin has yet to make a run for office
“If they can see that we are human and realise that we’re not all God’s gift, why not? There’s enough serious things out there without adding to the worries of the world.” Although Mr Hussey’s doppelganger has not yet run for office in the cult US comedy, Peter Griffin’s wife Lois was elected mayor in an episode titled It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One.
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Every three months the Federal Communications Commission comes up with its Quarterly Report on indecency complaints, and we sit around scratching our heads. How come the latest stats, in this instance for the first quarter of this year, show the viewers relatively calm at 578 complaints in January, then 505 in February, followed by 179,997 in March?
179,997? Um, did we miss something? Did television really get that much more indecent in March? No worries. In these situations, we know what to do. We go over and check out the Parents Television Council’s website. And sure enough, there’s a plausible instigator—a PTC viewer action alert crusade against a March 8 episode of the animated comedy show the PTC just loves to hate, Fox TV’s Family Guy.
PTC’s parental advisory system rates Family Guy “red for sex,” it should be noted. “Should a Sunday night cartoon show YOUR children bestiality, gay orgies and babies eating sperm?” the PTC alert declared. “Fox thinks so.”
Well, that definitely got our attention. So we ran over to another institution that the PTC keeps sharp eyes on, youtube.com, and got some clips of the episode. Frankly, it’s not one of the better Family Guy episodes, but here goes.
Welcome home surprise
Man of the house Peter Griffin has decided to take in a horse, a brain damaged one, in fact, that isn’t good for much except licking dad’s derrier at night (PTC objection number one here). The next morning the Griffins are sitting at the breakfast table. “Why are there so many bottles of milk in the refrigerator?” Lois the housewife asks. “Oh. Thanks for reminding me,” her husband Peter hurriedly responds. “It’s not milk. It’s horse sperm. I’m a horse breeder now.”
Next thing you see is baby Stewie very reflectively sampling his bowl of breakfast cereal and equestrian protein (PTC gripe number two).
But the horse breeding project doesn’t pan out, Peter finds himself in debt, so for cash he submits to a series of genetic injections that turn him first into a squirrel, then into Seth Rogan, and, finally, gay. Suddenly he’s swishing around at a party being thrown for him by the guys. “Guess what? I have a welcome home suprise for you,” one of them tells Peter. “Dish dish dish!” he exhales. “Remember how you told me your ultimate fantasy was to have an eleven way?” his friend reminds him.
Anyway, to make a short story shorter, out come a dozen-minus-one limp-wristed volunteers, and they all rush into the room on the left. You never actually see anything happen, just a lot of oohing and mumbling. But unfortunately for Peter, the effects of the gay gene wear off just as the action is getting hot, and he runs out of the house in his birthday suit screaming homophobic screams.
This, as you’ve doubtless surmised, is PTC objection number three. We won’t ruin the ending, but it does involve Peter helping his son with some math homework by conjuring up a word problem involving “glory holes.”
“Bestiality. Glory holes. Circuit parties. Gay orgies. Eating horse sperm,” PTC’s rant concludes. “This is the kind of ‘entertainment’ Fox thinks is ideal for your kids to see on a Sunday night cartoon.”
Take action now
As is usually the case with these campaigns, PTC gave its readers the chance to “take action now” by filling out a pre-scripted FCC Web complaint with details about the show, enabling a potentially limitless number of champions of decency to file objections with the Commission. And as we’ve noted in the past, it’s easy to pile the gripes on, because the FCC does not require complainers to certify that they’ve actually seen the program in question.
And that, Ars readers, could very well be how we got the horses’ share of 179,997 indecency complaints in March.
This roller-coaster indecency statistics phenomenon is now a long-established pattern, with 543,255 protests coming in during the Febuary of 2004 that Janet Jackson had her famous 9/16ths-of-a-second wardrobe malfunction. But the outrage trickled down to 835 filed objections by the subsequent June. Sure, that half a million could have been a spontaneous outcry of righteous indignation. But how come two years earlier Cher’s famous Billboard Music Awards comment that “People have been telling me I’m on the way out every year, right? So fuck ‘em,” only provoked 17 complaints?
Our guess? The Web filing system hadn’t been perfected yet. As we’ve noted before, an Internet Archives scan of the PTC’s website circa 2002 reveals no database page where a consumer could go, look up a specific show, then file a grievance against a program. Then by 2003, parentstv.org offered a drop down option bar leading to ratings for dozens of TV shows. And, by 2004, the nonprofit had a sophisticated FCC complaint form, with options bars at the top displaying PTC TV program guides and movie reviews.
But let’s put the theorizing aside and end this story on a lighter note. If you haven’t seen Family Guy’s FCC routine, check it out here.
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There’s been a change at the helm of Fox’s top animated comedy, “Family Guy.”
Series veterans Steve Callaghan and Mark Hentemann have signed separate three-year deals with the show’s producer, 20th Century Fox TV. Under the lucrative seven-figure pacts, the two have been promoted to executive producers and named showrunners.
Former showrunners David Goodman and Chris Sheridan will remain on the show as executive producers alongside Callaghan, Hentemann, creator Seth MacFarlane and Danny Smith.
In divvying up responsibilities, Callaghan will focus more on running the writers’ room while Hentemann shepherds production.
In addition to running “Family Guy” under MacFarlane, Callaghan and Hentemann, who are not a writing team, each will develop new projects for the studio.
Both Callaghan and Hentemann have been on the Fox show through both of its incarnations — during its original run, cut short by a cancellation, and its current revival.
Callaghan was hired on Day 1 as the first writers’ assistant before being promoted to writer when the show first was renewed. Hentemann joined “Guy” in the second season as executive story editor.
Gary Newman, chairman of 20th TV, said the idea for elevating and pairing Callaghan and Hentemann came from MacFarlane.
“After a great run with David and Chris, he felt the show would benefit from fresh blood in a more supervising capacity,” Newman said.
Because of the lengthy production cycle for animated series, Callaghan and Hentemann are now overseeing the show’s next season. It will open with an hourlong whodunit episode in which, in Agatha Christie fashion, a variety of regular and ancillary “Family Guy” characters will be locked up together trying to solve murders.
(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)
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After bashing “The Office” and “Flight of the Conchords”, “Family Guy” turns the wheel to “Entourage“. This time Stewie said, “Am I supposed to care about a guy who has everything?” when Brian the Dog said that he was thinking about voting the HBO show as the winner of Best Comedy at 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
While beating Brian to bleed, Stewie yelled “Hug this out, Bitch!”. He refers to Ari Gold’s catchphrase in the first season when he asked Vince’s manager Eric Murphy whether or not he wants to hug it out in order to resolve the dispute. After done with his beating, Stewie left Brian and said, “It’s ‘Sex and the City’ with men.”
“Entourage” and “Family Guy” are both vying for Best Comedy at the upcoming Emmys. Creator Seth MacFarlane has uttered his doubt of “Family Guy” winning the title over the other non-animation contenders and thus launched a viral campaign that pin points the weakness of the other shows. Stewie said that “Office” revolves around the same space for six years while “Conchords” puts two foreigners as the main characters.
The other nominees under Best Comedy are “30 Rock“, “How I Met Your Mother” and “Weeds“. The winner will be announced through a gala aired live by CBS on September 20.
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It’s news that won’t be remotely shocking to anyone that’s been paying close attention. But Seth McFarlane has gone on record about Stewie’s sexuality: he’s gay.
In an interview with Playboy, the Family Guy creator said:
“We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out, [but] we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a 1-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hellbent on killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation.”
Again, any loyal Family Guy viewer, such as the one that compiled the video below, figured this out ages ago…
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