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this show is awesome FULL SKULL BABY!

family guy is the best since south park and better then futurama seth mcfarlene is a comical genius, stuey and peter steal the show they make it all worth your money and while. with the wise words from stuey " giddy up you stubby little steed to the pancake house YAh!" and peters ability to get fired from his job every week and his stupidity is insanely funny, the show also features his wife lois, son chris, and daughter meg. so all in all i give this show 5 stars because it deserves it.

The funniest show not on television... FULL SKULL BABY!

Well, ok, Family Guy still airs on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" from Monday - Thursday at 11:00 p.m (E.T.), though the powers that be at FOX had the show cancelled. Personally, I think they shot themselves in the foot. Anyway, now you can own all three outrageously funny seasons on DVD and never worry about missing it again. I own the first and second season and still have not grown tired of watching it. I've seen every episode (except the unaired one featured on the season 3 collection), and though I loved the first two seasons, the third is, in my opinion, the hands-down best season. Along with all the episodes, you have the option of selecting the commentary option which allows you to watch the episode and hear what the creator of the series, Seth Macfarlane as well as a few guests have to say about the episode.

Before I finish, I have to adress one issue that irked me a little :I read another review that stated that Family Guy as well as Married With Children was just a "knock-off" of the Simpsons. First of all, you have it in the wrong order. Married With Children first aired in 1986, The Simpsons in 1989, so wouldn't that make The Simpsons a knock off of M.W.C? But that's besides the point I'm trying to make. Don't get me wrong I love The Simpsons, though it seems the writers for the show now seem to be pulling for original material as well as lacking the brilliant ideas the had a few years ago. But just because a television show is based around a family does not necessarily mean it is a Simpsons knock off. Family Guy offers a wide variety of plot twists and several different forms of humor, not just in the entire series, but in each episode. For example: Family Guy incorporates a wide array of different forms of humor which can please any audience and does not limit itself to slap-stick only. Brian the dog, who was used as the main basis for comparison to M.W.C in that poorly informed review provides for a portion of the dry, synical wit used in the show as well a important story lines. What did Buck the dog ever do?

In my opinion, Family Guy is (or was) one of the most original shows on television. I mean, what other show can you think of that offers an ambitious, homocidal, well-spoken, extreamly intelligent baby who's goals in life are to destroy his mother and conquer to world? This show has some of the most well developed characters and story lines of almost any other show I've seen, animated or otherwise. Simpsons imitation indeed... Believe me when I say that buying all three seasons on DVD and watching every extraordinary episode will be time and money well spent.

should be nicknamed HBO 'cause it's "Simply the Best" FULL SKULL BABY!
While cutting-edge comedy shows like "All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," heck even "Soap" -- couldn't make it to tv today because of their lack of political correctness, Fox quietly put on a show called "Family Guy", which is perhaps the funnies animated series in the history of television. With sarcastic wit, quick writing full of innuendo and dead-on pop culture references (or jabs), this show about the Griffin family -- dimwitted Peter, forgiving Lois, and their children: butch Meg, chunky Chris, and James-Bond-villain-in-diapers Stewie -- made millions of happy viewers fall off their sofas with laughter every week. But Fox caved a bit to the pressure of conservatives, who found the show distasteful, and began juggling the show or skipping weeks without showing an episode, until even the most die-hard fan couldn't find it in their TV Guide. Thankfully, this "Simpsons"-style-as-it-used-to-be-funny show has found its niche on Cartoon Network -- and every episode (including the never-aired, hilarious -- and Emmy-worthy -- "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein") is now available on DVD. Like the aformentioned "Simpsons" in its early days, "Family Guy" was never truly offensive because it offended everyone: Jews, Mormans, Catholics, Protestants, gays and lesbians, Blacks, Whites, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, politicians, the rich, rednecks, the disabled, Margot Kidder, Martha Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, William Shatner, The Pope, Britney Spears, 'N' Sync, the porn industry, the tobacco business, Kool-Aid, Raisin Bran, Mentos, "That Girl", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "One Day at a Time", "60 Minutes" -- for real, NOTHING and NO ONE was out of bounds for this show. Which is why it was so brilliant, so funny -- and so tragic a loss when Fox wussed out and finally took it off the air.

But thanks to DVD, all the episodes are available, thank God. Easily one of the best-written, best-acted, and funniest shows the idiot box ever played in my home. And, thanks to DVD, forever will.

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