Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Think of the dry cool wit of the Simpsons, combined with the provacative humor of All in the Family, and I think youll have a pretty good idea of Family Guy. There are parts where youll laugh out loud and immediately feel guilty about laughing at the joke. Stewie is by far the utlimate evil genius and closet drag queen, always foiled by Lois, his mother. Brian, the talking dog, seems to provide balance, despite being an alcoholic and recovering cocaine addict. Then of course there is Peter, the dad, who is your stereotypical stupid father and would be strongly compared to Homer Simpson on his worst days. This is perhaps the funniest two and a half seasons of a show that has ever been. However, with this collection you only get the first and second seasons. Adam West as the mayor is a great touch too. I think you can tell that Im a huge fan, since this review is all over the place. Before you sit down and purchase this, it might be a good idea to check out the Family Guy on television, I believe its on one of the Cartoon channels at night sometime. The show isnt for everyone, and some people might be a bit offended by the humor.

Im not much of a Family Guy fan, but am a Star Wars fan, so I had to give this a shot. The 3 disc set isnt cheap, and the replay value is average at best, but its pretty high quality. Maybe my favorite quality to these discs is that the filmmakers utilize actual Star Wars sound effects and music, and it sounds great. This is a precursor to the soon-to-be released BluRay Star Wars releases.

A consistently hilarious and original series that produced characters every bit as funny and memorable as any in the last 20 years. Comparisons to The Simpsons are inevitable, but where The Simpsons takes sharp jabs at a variety of cultural icons Family Guy beheads them with a guillotine. Many of the jokes are truly unique and no doubt horribly offensive to the sacred cows they are aimed at, but unlike many over-the-top animated series that seek laughs strictly from their ability to annoy, the satire, non-sequiturs and insane plot-twists of Family Guy are spot-on and brilliant. Owning the DVD is especially handy for catching many of the more subtle jokes that often fly by so quickly and mixed with so many subtexts at the same time that a single viewing wont come close to mining all the gems this show has to offer. In fact, the release of this series was my own primary motivation for buying a DVD player in the first place! Im serious, its that good.

Family Guy only had a three season run (I think after a year of silence its safe to say there wont be anymore). These two DVDs make up over half of the 50 episodes in the series. Despite what you may have heard, these 28 episodes entail every episode that aired in the first two seasons. Because of Season 1s late start, a lot of season 1 episodes were pushed into season 2, which in turn pushed some season 2 episodes into season 3. The series starts of very strong for a first-time viewer. The episodes are packed tight with jokes and often go off on wild tangents. The early stories are a little weak, but they pick up in the second season where the series gets even more creative. Definately something that keeps getting better through the second season. The third season was a little weaker, so if you were only getting one of the two sets, Id recommend this one. If youve never seen Family Guy, then be warned: its not for everyone. Its got crude humour, and isnt afraid to poke fun at just about anything, despite what popular opinion might be. The DVD set also comes at a relatively cheap price, considering youre getting 28 episodes of Family Guy goodness. The third season set would most likely entail the other 21 episodes (22 if they include the unaired When You Wish Upon a Weinstein) and thus in two purchases you can have all of Family Guy.

Best movie series ever. Huge Family Guy and Star Wars fan and this one is absolutely genius. Its like they animated the film side by side with the original. I love the parts when they started to question their actions in the premise of the movie. For example, how come in the Empire Strikes Back they have to fly into the Empire. The planet got a 360 degree escape options and they choose to go with the hardest?

Theres nothing really you can say except these are funny AF!

This is the story of Peter Griffin,his wife Lois,his children Meg,Chris, & Stewie (my favorite).They live in Rhode Island where they get into a lot of crazy situations.I discovered this show a couple years ago on dvd and it has been one of my favorite since.Im glad they are bringing it back.Its fun watching Peter being an idiot and watching the matricidal babys plans get foiled once again.If your a fan of raunchy and far-out humor I would highly reccomend this.There are so many great gags youll have to watch the episodes over because you will be laughing so hard you might miss one.Pick it up as soon as you can.

A Family Guy fan MUST have. I think this would be funny for those who are familiar with Star Wars, but this trilogy is a lot more funny if you are familiar with the characters in Family Guy (I watched the first part of the Trilogy prior to becoming a Family Guy fan. Once I became more familiar with the Family Guy television show, this Star Wars Trilogy was much funnier). My teenage son and I watch this when we need a good laugh!

I have not yet bought this DVD, but I have seen a whole bunch of the episodes. Just like The Simpsons and South Park, two of the funniest shows ever, it has funny characters and hillarious plots. Seth McFaine can make any situation seem funny, and unlike The Simpsons and South Park, every scene in the episode has something hillarious. I think this is one of the best shows Fox has aired and since they took it off Fox, I am now watching it every night on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The characters are just one reason that this cartoon is one of the best out there. There is Peter Griffin, the beefy, borderline alchoholic, dumb father and husband, Meg Griffin, the drama queen daughter of Peter, who seems like Peters least favorite of them all, Chris, the second image of Peter, Stewie, the talking, evil, baby genious who wants to enslave the human race and kill Peters wife, Lois, who is the most normal of the Griffin family. And we can not forget Brian, the articulate talking dog. This show is one of my favorites, and one of the most random comedy shows of them all. (Thats what makes it so funny) Let me just tell you one thing, if you know how to laugh, youll love this show.

Above all else, FAMILY GUY is a funny, funny show. I almost always watch TV, DVDs, or video when I eat my meals, but I have discovered that it isnt entirely safe to do so while watching this show. It is funny to a degree that simply isnt compatible with eating food. What is amazing about the show is that while on one level it will strike just about any viewer as a semi-ripoff of THE SIMPSONS (just check all the SIMPSONS references in other reviews--it is almost impossible not to compare the two), it nonetheless manages to come across as remarkably fresh and--paradoxically--underivative. Although the show uses a number of voiceover artists, the majority of the voices are supplied by only two actors: Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein (who will be familiar to fans of MADTV). It isnt fair to say that MacFarlane is the Matt Groening of FAMILY GUY, since Groening does so much less in the SIMPSONS. MacFarlane is the creator of the show, voices most of the male characters, and is one of the main writers. Alex Borstein voices most of the female characters and is also a writer. FAMILY GUY is THE SIMPSONS on speed and with a bawdy streak. Like the Simpsons, the show recreates a small town and introduces a host of characters. Like most people, my two favorites are Stewie, the one-year old evil super genius who also doubles as the youngest Griffin, and Brian, the talking family dog, who is also exceptionally literate and an alcoholic. Unlike THE SIMPSONS, where Lisa and (usually) Marge are voices of reason, absolutely no one on FAMILY GUY really has their stuff together. Brian, Meg, and Lois are relatively sane, but all can exhibit bizarre behavior at key times. Brian can serve as the voice of reason, but his drinking problem can get out of control at inopportune times. This show is absolutely NOT for the children. There is a huge amount of sexual humor, frequent references to genitalia, and the next-door neighbor is a sexual predator. The show was designed with a late nighttime slot in mind, and it shows. Much of the humor is scatological, and there really are no sacred subjects. To be honest, when the show goes off color, I generally find it to be less funny than in the more primetime moments. Much of the humor becomes ritualistic (a detractor might say formulaic). For instance, whenever any character uses the phrase like the time you know you about about to get a flashback. Transitions can be rapid, unexpected, and exceedingly weird. And unlike THE SIMPSONS, when they introduce a song, it is almost always exceedingly funny. Just dont try to eat and watch FAMILY GUY at the same time.