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My Christmas gift to me was seasons 1 and 2 of The Family Guy. My favorite joke on the DVD so far:
Peter comes home riding an elephant and says: Look, the two symbols of the Republican Party. An elephant and a fat white guy who is resistant to change.
December 9th, 2003 at 11:12 am
My favorite Family Guy joke:
Peter is daydreaming that he’s a contestant on Jeopardy.
Alex Trebek: This is the most popular dye.
Peter buzzes in: Diarrhea.
Peter: Oh, I’m sorry. What is diarrhea?
December 9th, 2003 at 11:14 am
And my other favorite is the scene where the new neighbor and lois are talking about the stain on her carpet:
Neighbor: No matter what i try, i can’t get it out.
Lois: what about lemon juice.
Neighbor: what about club soda.
Lois: what about vinager.
Stewie: what about shutting the hell up.
December 9th, 2003 at 12:00 pm
Peter to son Chris:
Mathematics is nothing more than the lesbian sister of Biology.
December 9th, 2003 at 2:09 pm
I like Stewie’s comment about his gestation being “nine months in this amniotic hell,” or something like that. Heck, anything Stewie said pretty much cracked me up. Great series.
Y’all know it’s coming back in 2005, right?
December 9th, 2003 at 2:27 pm
“Y’all know it’s coming back in 2005, right?”
Don’t tease me like that! Where?
December 9th, 2003 at 2:40 pm
On Fox. Apparently, the dvd release was the highest selling TV series ever so fox brought it back.
Fox killed the show with poor scheduling, just like they killed The Tick, Wanda At Large, Andy Richter, and some others.
December 9th, 2003 at 2:55 pm
I’ve been seriously considering getting those for my boyfriend for Christmas. He’s a big fan of the show, too. Guess I’ll make yet another trip to Amazon. sigh.
December 9th, 2003 at 3:00 pm
Fox killed the show with poor scheduling
I loved Futurama, and the scheduling totally killed it. “Don’t miss the season premiere of Futurama this Sunday at 7:00! Well, unless the 3:30 football game goes over by half an hour, in which case we’ll pre-empt Futurama. Bwhahahahaha!”
December 9th, 2003 at 3:50 pm
Family Guy was really hit or miss for me. The thing was, when it hit, it was the funniest thing on TV.
Stewie rocked. My favorite gag was him trying to remember a phone number, coming up with 867-5309, and then screaming “Damn You Tommy Two-Tone!”
And there’s one episode where the whole family gets into a five-minute, knock-down, drag-out brawl. And every time I see it, it makes me laugh until my sides hurt.
December 9th, 2003 at 3:53 pm
Also: The Tick still kills me. If Fox had put the Tick at 8:30 on Sunday, between the Simpsons and Malcolm, it would have killed. But they put in (rather inconsistently) on Thursday opposite Friends and Survivor….and sometimes you’d tune in, and without any explanation, they’d be showing a re-run of some show from earlier in the week…or Mrs. Doubtfire, out of the blue.
The Tick ruled. A secret message….From My Teeth!
December 9th, 2003 at 3:58 pm
I liked live action the tick but it was nothing compared to the cartoon version.
December 9th, 2003 at 4:11 pm
I could never get into The Family Guy – every time I’d watch it, it would just seem like they used a rejected Simpsons script.
Same kind of humor, sort of as funny, but not quite…
December 9th, 2003 at 5:18 pm
Uncle:
“My super-doorman sense is tingling!”
December 9th, 2003 at 6:24 pm
I loved the live-action Tick, too. But if you watch the DVD straight through, you can really sense the creeping “Seinfeld-isation” of the show. Still, it was really funny.
But the producers were skimming most of the production money for their salaries. The show was doomed.
That’s my favorite line, too, BST: “It’s secret message…from my teeth!” I almost fell over laughing at that one.