GREAT ep! I don't think I've laughed so hard in ages and I can't believe I've never seen it before now.

I always just yell this out at random times. I've yet to meet one person who knows what in hell I'm talking about. So not gonna stop me though.

I love that jackal line, especially Stewie's response. Another fave

"Oh, let me guess. You picked out another colorful box with a crank that I'm supposed to turn and turn until, ooh, big schock, a jack pops out. And then you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside."

HEE!

I love how Stewie is so out of touch with normal one year-olds. From Mind Over Murder:

Random Guy: Hey, it's a time machine!
Stewie: No, no, no it's a...blast, what the devil do children draw these days? It's...it's a pheasant!

Heh. What are you talking about - I've heard many a one year olds discuss international politics, like in Love Thy Trophy

Indian Child: Stewie, would you like to learn how to wrap a turban?
Stewie: Why don't you teach it to the Chinese girl, or perhaps she can learn when her people invade your country.
Indian Child: Li, would your people really do this?
Stewie: Try and stop them. And try and stop Pablo's people from using drug money to buy arms from Li's countrymen who will inturn sell them to Yuri's people so they can ethnically cleanse the rest of this nauseatingly diverse grab bag of genetic party favours you call yourselves a family.

I'm sorry of this is wrong, but it was from memory. Also I'm sorry if this too long, but I just love this quote and crack up every time I hear it.

Lois: Peter, what did you promise me?

Peter: That I wouldn't drink at the stag party.

Lois: And what did you do last night?

Peter: Drank at the sta--Whoa, I almost walked right into that one.

Classic, but a good one.

Wonder why they decided to air the pilot randomly yeasterday. Looks like they're back in order tonight. Next week, FG reclaims the 11 pm spot.

No smurfin way!

I love the TV parodies.

Girl on picnic blanket: Mom, do you ever have a problem feeling fresh?
Mother: What do you mean, sweetie?
Girl: You know, do you ever have a problem with freshness?
Mother: I'm not getting what you....I don't understand.
Girl: Do you ever feel unfresh? Down there?
Mother: Oh....OH!!!...Oh...Oh, God no. No!

Yeah, they are really funnny. I enjoyed the Star Trek one, where it acknowledges that the ensign always dies on the away missions.

One that always gets me is from the pilot, where they are in the courtroom...

"Oh No"
"Oh No"
"Oh No"
<Kool-Aid jug bursts in>
"Oh Yeaaaaahhhhhhh"

That momented cemented my love of the series, and that was just the first episode.

Peter goes searching for books on potty training.

Peter: Well, we're Catholic.
Clerk: Oh! Then you'll want, You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back Of You.

Nearly died laughing at this. Never, EVER, drink and watch this show. Or Arrested Development, but that's for another thread. :-)

Best Family Guy tv parody: Peter Griffin is -- That Guy!

My favorite parts from Brian in Love

Stewie: Isn't it ironic how Rogers almost rhymes with...eliminate?

Lois: Maybe it's time for Stewie to start potty training.
Peter: Isn't he a little young for that? You remember what happened to the Lindbergh baby?
Mrs. Lindbergh: Charles, he's only six months old.
Charles: Honey, would you relax? I flew across the Atlantic myself. I'm a national treasure for God's sake. I think I know how to ...(flush) awww. Oh, God. Oh, God. All right he was kidnapped. You call the police. I'll write the ransom note.
Mrs. Lindbergh: What about Amelia? She saw everything.
Charles: You leave her to me.

I love how they alter historical events into something that hilarious. When I saw Amelia Earhart, I nearly shit my pants. The Stewie line was so great because of the fact that "Rogers" doesn't rhyme with "eliminate".

My favorite is when Peter talks about some really obscure British guy, then there's a cutaway to him telling us "You don't even know who I am."

The obscure British guy is Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister and a big figure in English history. It's a great joke that just points out Peter's (and by extension, the common American's) ignorance about things outside of pop culture (which form the backbone of most of FG's jokes).


stepping off my soapbox now...

::stare:: "You don't even know who I am." I love that.

My favorite (of the ones I've seen, anyway) is the Homicide: Life on Sesame Street one. "You're yelling at me Bert."

I still love that Mentos commercial starring John Wilkes Booth.

There's an article about TV shows on DVD in the new issue of "Entertainment Weekly," mentioning that "FG" was the biggest seller of 2003. Now, I had thought the prospects for a revival were still a little bit iffy, but the writer of the article seems firmly convinced that new "FG" episodes will air later this year on Cartoon Network. Very good news if it's true, obviously.

Wicked, I was expecting Jan 2005. Sadly, being in Canada I doubt we will get it at the same time as the US, so 2005 is still a likely first viewing for me :(

LOVED that! And then he gets embarassed and backs away from the room.



I laughed for five minutes straight when I saw that. Only this show and MST3K can make me laugh like that.

So the new eps might be ready by the end of the year? Jebus, that's fast work. Not that I'm complaining. I know they had a bunch of unused scripts completely written & ready for production when the show was originally cancelled.

If they ever made a live-action Family Guy, Seth McFarlane could play Peter. All he'd need to do is put on a fat suit. The same goes for Seth Green, if he were willing to play Chris.

Now that I'm actually at home where my magazines are, here's the exact quote: "Thanks to 'Family Guy's' success on DVD, all-new episodes will likely be produced by year's end for the Cartoon Network. 'Family Guy' creator Seth MacFarlane is happy with his show's return, even to a lower-profile channel: 'Networks don't cancel shows and pick them up again, no matter how big the fan push is. If that were the case, the original 'Star Trek' would have stayed on the air.' Hey, it might not be too late -- we're guessing Shatner would be up for it."

Now I see the word "likely," so I guess it's not a 100% sure thing yet.

The article also gives the figure "nearly 1 million sold" for the FG DVDs.

Even better than Disraeli, says I, is:

Peter: I am Neptune, God of the Sea! I sink ships and cause earthquakes!
Neptune: No, you're not! I am! And you know nothing of my work!

Did anyone else think of Annie Hall and the Marshall McCluhan cameo at that joke? Just me? Okay. /slinks away

Sorry Ernos, not here.


Peter on a raft in a Castaway spoof:

Peter: Wilson! What are we going to do?!? Wilson! Wilson!

Volleyball: My name is Voit you jackass! Voit!

And one more fave, when Quagmire and gang show up to be Peter's crew on his new boat:

Quagmire: You've always been there for us Peter.

[cut to spoof of Pulp Fiction with Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe bent over and pants down. Peter comes in and knocks the bad guys out]

Peter: Yeah, it's a shame I got there after the sodomy.

But how about some favorite Quagmire lines? Some of my faves:

(seeing a girl tied up in the bathroom stall) Dear Diary, Jackpot!

"I felt bad once, but then she woke up halfway through."

"In the 80s, I was always in bed by 8, and home by 10."

Woman in Quagmire's bed after sex: Quagmire honey, what do you do for a living?
Quagmire: I have a question for you, why are you still here?

The new episodes are going to be on Cartoon Network? Not on FUX? I simply assumed that the funding for the episodes came from Fucking FOX and so they would have first go at the episodes. But Yay! if the episodes go straight to Cartoon Network. Or is Cartoon Network simply a small arm of the FUX conglomerate or something.The further away from FUX, the better.

Does anyone else find the funniest part of the "Give Up The Toad Now" song, the non-sequitor cut to Brian reading the newspaper and stopping to sing along? 'Doing Kermit'. Hee.

I personally like the riff on the Tootsie Pop commercial:

How many licks of a toad does it take to get to the Rhode Island State Correctional Facility? JUST ONE.

Cartoon Network is owned by Time Warner. It has no connection whatsoever to any part of Fox. As for why new Family Guy episodes would air on CN instead of Fox, it's because it's a sucess by cable standards. A lot has been made of the first DVD collection selling nearly one million copies, but if the same number of people watched a TV show, it would get a rating of about 0.9. (One rating point equals about 1.08 million households.)

Yup. 1.08 is no where near The Simpson's 14 million-ish. Plus CN is willing to pay through the nose, since it's their highest rated show.

I've been under the impression that FOX is bringing FG back, mainly to get another set of DVD's out on the market. They're probably not all that worried about the ratings for the show (or if it's on CN for that matter) so long as a new DVD box set can sell like the previous sets. For CN they're getting a (for them) big hit added to their line-up, something they can use to pimp their other adult shows ...

funniest scene: Stewie dancing shirtless in black pants in a gay disco club, yelling "I know the guy who owns this place! I said I know the guy--I'll tell you later, I love this song!"

There's an article in this weeks NYTimes' Mag about Adult Swim that seems to indicate that FG would come back as part of Fox's schedule, not CN's.

Here's another article about the return of FG. I would feel a whole lot better when there is an official announcement.

"From here I can tell you're a Pisces!"

That's one of those lines where a lot of must think, "How did they get away with that? Don't they have anyone under 75 at Standards and Practices?"

Pfft. If it goes back with FOX, they'll kill it just like they did the first time. CN knows how to treat a show that brings it unmitigated success. FOX doesn't.

"Optimus Prime???? Is Jewish???" complete with Optimus coming in and transforming and putting the yarmulke on his head.

Tricia Takanawa's report on sex:

"I've never done it with a Mexican chick before. O-le!"

Have either of you ladies ever been penetrated?

I was a little worried about living with a guy, but I knew my new housemate and I were going to get along fine when he unpacked the two DVDs he owns, and one of them was Vol. 1 of Family Guy.

Stewie is my favorite: "So, broccoli, you're very good for me? Well, I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" However, I live in Pittsburgh, where Fred Rogers is revered as a god, and I was aghast when Stewie went after Mr. Rogers with his raygun in "Brian in Love." Nobody fucks with Mr. Rogers! (But of course Mr. Rogers gets him back. Go on with your bad self, Fred.)

And sidebar to "Brian in Love, " is it uncool that I had a tear in my eye when Brian finally told Lois he was in love with her and she told him she wasn't in love with him, but loved him dearly as a friend?

I thought FOX treated FG awfully well... certainly better than Futurama. (The reason they moved FG around so often was that the ratings stank everywhere.) Gail Berman, one of the heads of programming, was apparently such a big fan that she almost single-handedly picked it up for a third season (during which the ratings still stank). It might do better now that so many people have discovered it on DVD, but on the other hand it might be another case of a show that appeals to the demographic that buys DVDs and watches cable, and not much else. At the time it was just a flop show that got renewed more times than the ratings and reviews (Entertainment Weekly's worst show of the year) warranted.

For the life of me, I can't remember what this is from. Some context, por favor? It doesn't sound so scandalous as y'all are implying...

The Pisces thing is a coy reference to a crude joke: That vaginas smell/taste like fish. Since Quagmire was on the floor, presumably looking up her skirt...

The funniest/dirtiest Quagmire line that I can remember comes from the episode where Peter and Lois want to have another child:
Quagmire walking up to two women: "Now I don't want to come between you, or do I?"

I never laughed so hard at him.

Yeah, but it was a genius flop show. Fox has had a lot of genius shows that never found its audience (Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Futurama, and Titus are current examples) that they cancelled pretty quickly so I'm glad that they at least attempted to give it a chance. Oh, and up yours Entertainment Weekly. Did anybody else find it funny in the "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" ep. that the clouds were talking to each other? To me, that's right up there with the trees singing 'Cats in the Cradle' and the candy tree.

I forgot the exact ep, but they were at a bar picking up chicks (or something) and this woman Quagmire pissed off punched him in the face and knocked him to the ground. He said the line while looking up her skirt.

My secret shame, but hearing Brian pour out his heart to Lois also got to me. That, and hearing those words come out of his incredibly sexy voice. Damn you, Family Guy, for making me think such twisted thoughts!

Ahh, just so much to love. I didn't start watching FG until the fall, but I watch it every night now. And I finally got through all the comments and quotes here! I love it!



Thanks to everyone who put this up here. I literally laughed out loud every time I read it.

One of my favs is when Peter is flashing back to when they were all young and he is kicking Tom and Diane out of their clubhouse and he yells to them

So wrong, and yet so funny.

Now, I don't feel ths Quagmire love as much; I'm mostly just uncomfortable when he's around. His doorbell is too much.

One of my very favorites:

Peter cracks me up.

Fucking Teletoon yanked it from the 9:00 spot for Futurama.