Family Guy

JammerJammer Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">DVD, maybe more!</div> Anyone else here have the Family Guy dvd? I've seen all the episodes on it, but I'm still watching them all. I love that show. Somewhere around 400,000 have been sold, which is very suprising consider how poorly it did. Seth MacFarlane said it was vindication that the show was as popular as they thought, but the numbers didn't reflect it. Fox is so suprised with the numbers, as well as its Cartoon Network rating (About a 1.4 nightly average. Network blockbuster shows usually get about 30 rating, cable, 1+ is considered good, especially in key demographics.) that they are considering doing more with it. 1 Possibility is a straight-to-DVD movie, or even another season!

I love this show. Buy the DVD! Support it!
More info at <a href='http://www.planet-familyguy.com' target='_blank'>http://www.planet-familyguy.com</a>
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  • SycophantSycophant Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7092Members
    I've got the first volume, and it's easily the best DVD purchase I've made in a loooooong time. I've gone through each disc <i>at least</i> five times each - just about every time people stop by my place, they want to put on the Family Guy episodes!! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • JefeJefe Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15734Members, Constellation
    I got it a couple days ago, I love it. Family guy is one of the best shows ever made. Period. (see, the period's right there)
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    i thought they discontinued it becasue it was too vulgar? everyone loved it, so that had to be the reason, right?

    theres one episode unaired, (i think, anyway) it was the last one made but never got to see broadcast, and it was chock full of jewish jokes, so i jsut assumed the series got canned on the basis of morality.
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    Thats my favorite show in its catagory. i tihnk it beats the simpsons hands down. Even the old simpsons.

    Im definitly getting the dvd. I alraedy have several episodes on CD in avi files.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Dont forget about futurama too!!!!!
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  • JammerJammer Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
    It was booted because it got bad Neilsen ratings. Its creators suspected a larger fanbase, but the numbers didn't back it up. The show was also terribly mismanaged by fox (3 years, 7+ timeslots) so it never developed a regular viewing niche. Its been pulling nearly a million a night on Ctoon Network, esp. in the key 18-34 male demographic.
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  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Zel+Jun 16 2003, 08:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Jun 16 2003, 08:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i thought they discontinued it becasue it was too vulgar? everyone loved it, so that had to be the reason, right?

    theres one episode unaired, (i think, anyway) it was the last one made but never got to see broadcast, and it was chock full of jewish jokes, so i jsut assumed the series got canned on the basis of morality. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I have that episode. Not especially as funny as the other ones.
    Family Guy points out some racist jokes, but they're hilarious! Such as the one where Chris (the older son) starts talking street talk and everything, and Peter thinks he's possessed, haha.
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Was that episode with all the Jew jokes the one with Optimus Prime?
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  • BroodeBroode Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9605Members
    edited June 2003
    Thats the one Inf. That episode was never aired because the sensors thought the whole thing was just one big, offencive racist joke. There was also another unaired episode starring a family of nudists, however I'm not sure why that didn't make it to air as all the nudity is cleverly covered up.

    I love family guy. The moment I first saw an episode, I fell in love and was dissapointed to find out that it had been cancelled. I have downloaded every single episode, including the two unaired episodes and also a lost scene from the episode "Brian in Love". If the DVD was availiable here in Australia, I would buy it in an instant.

    Everyone I know loves Family Guy, and grabs any chance they have to watch it. The show could have been much more popular if it had the chance, there was even a petition once on PetitionOnline to save family guy which had about 40,000 signitures, IIRC. That said, I still have no idea why FOX pulled it. :/

    [EDIT]That petition is <a href='http://www.petitiononline.com/savefg2/petition.html' target='_blank'>here</a>, not bad at 113000 signitures.
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  • HawkeyeHawkeye Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1855Members
    edited June 2003
    Futurama was never officially canceled by the FOX network. It was syndicated to the Cartoon Network to come on at 11 o'clock for a long while. There are yet still unshown episodes of futurama out!

    What happened was the FOX network interrupted futurama episodes by football games and such. So fox ended up with almost a full season of new futurama episodes. While FOX was showing these episodes, the futurama team didn't have to make anymore episodes in the meanwhile. In essence, they weren't getting paid. So they all basically caught jobs in the meanwhile.

    It wasn't that futurama wasn't a hit, but more like the FOX network got a little too loose.

    However, FOX is showing new episodes on futurama back at 7 on Sundays next to simpsons now.

    That was the best show ever if you ask me. Simpsons and Family guy come in a close 2nd and 3rd.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Leela:  "Who has been to the Bureaucrat planet before?"
    Professor:  "Oh, I've never been, but a friend of mine went to do laundry there, and he went CRAZY!"
    Leela:  "Okay, then we're going to need a guide."
    Professor:  "Oh, I've been there plenty of times!"  *Crazy laugh*<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Leela: Bender, are you jacking on in there?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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