Family Guy Thread (& other MacFarlane shows)

[Jaq]

Game of Thrones made it cool.

Game of Thrones is adapting a fantasy novel series written on the premise of overturning existing fantasy tropes, chiefly in areas of characterization-there's reasons why most of the villains are villains-and in the ability of the heroes to survive. No one is safe in that series.

Deciding to kill off a long running character "just to shake things up" is creatively bankrupt and is usually a sign of trouble for a show. Completely different things.

[Kotowboy]

Plus they can just bring him back lickety split if things aren't working out.

[SomeoneLikeHim]

Game of Thrones made it cool.

Game of Thrones is adapting a fantasy novel series written on the premise of overturning existing fantasy tropes, chiefly in areas of characterization-there's reasons why most of the villains are villains-and in the ability of the heroes to survive. No one is safe in that series.

Deciding to kill off a long running character "just to shake things up" is creatively bankrupt and is usually a sign of trouble for a show. Completely different things.

I have read and love the books, I was just joking.

[BlobVanDam]

Plus they can just bring him back lickety split if things aren't working out.

And it's not a big deal given that they're not losing the voice actor from it.
The plan may be to bring him back anyway, and this was just to create some publicity and ratings. Despite them making a point of getting rid of the time machine, it still stands to reason that Stewie is the most likely person to bring someone back from the dead, and the character he'd be most likely to go through that for is Brian.

Or maybe it's just wishful thinking after the disappointment of his replacement. He just doesn't feel like a well thought out full time character. He seems like any other "character of the week" type deal, good for a few stereotype jokes and that's it.

[SeRoX]

https://www.briansannouncement.com/

So it's fake. Countdown came to end but no announcement.

[Zydar]

https://www.briansannouncement.com/

So it's fake. Countdown came to end but no announcement.

Maybe that's the announcement

[Ħ]

I bet Stewie gets Brian back during a Christmas special.

[Progmetty]

Good news all over from Comic Con a couple weeks ago in case somebody doesn't know yet:
- The Cleveland Show cancellation finally confirmed and Cleveland is moving back to Quahog which is awesome but I don't know if he's bringing his family from his show over or not, some say he is but I can't imagine getting 3 new regulars on Family Guy's pay roll at once.
- Major FG Spoiler: One of the Griffins is getting killed and replaced with a new character, my money is on Meg since Mila Kunis voice keeps getting rougher and rougher fast and also she probably thinks she has moved on to movies and the sorts, no idea who the new character could be, hopefully not someone moving in from The Cleveland Show.
- One hour cross over episode with The Simpsons! I'm optimistic about this.
- FOX is not renewing American Dad after the next season but TBS picked it up so it's all nice and good and we're gonna have American Dad for a while longer.

So I was wrong there to assume it was gonna be Meg they kill off, well Mila stays then. Brian has been lame since season 7, they've got everything they could out of him.
Might be too early to tell but I think the Italian dog is pretty funny.

[Ben_Jamin]

Good news all over from Comic Con a couple weeks ago in case somebody doesn't know yet:
- The Cleveland Show cancellation finally confirmed and Cleveland is moving back to Quahog which is awesome but I don't know if he's bringing his family from his show over or not, some say he is but I can't imagine getting 3 new regulars on Family Guy's pay roll at once.
- Major FG Spoiler: One of the Griffins is getting killed and replaced with a new character, my money is on Meg since Mila Kunis voice keeps getting rougher and rougher fast and also she probably thinks she has moved on to movies and the sorts, no idea who the new character could be, hopefully not someone moving in from The Cleveland Show.
- One hour cross over episode with The Simpsons! I'm optimistic about this.
- FOX is not renewing American Dad after the next season but TBS picked it up so it's all nice and good and we're gonna have American Dad for a while longer.

So I was wrong there to assume it was gonna be Meg they kill off, well Mila stays then. Brian has been lame since season 7, they've got everything they could out of him.
Might be too early to tell but I think the Italian dog is pretty funny.

I was thinking Brian can make an appearance as a ghost or dream sequence.

[Bolsters]

The way this show flashes back all the time, there's plenty of opportunity for them to show Brian there aswell from time to time.

[rumborak]

Yeah, flashbacks are always an easy way to bring a character back into a show. Or, a "Search for Spock" episode.

[Ħ]

What is this Search for Spock thing you keep referencing and how does it apply to what they are doing with Brian?

[BlobVanDam]

What is this Search for Spock thing you keep referencing and how does it apply to what they are doing with Brian?

Maybe use the search for wikipedia and find out? Obviously it's Star Trek related, so if you really didn't know, it's not that hard to find out!

The Search For Spock is the 3rd Star Trek movie. At the end of the 2nd Star Trek movie, Spock dies. In the 3rd movie they find out they can save him, and they manage to bring him back at the end of the movie.

[Ħ]

Thanks.

I asked because I wanted to give rumborak an opportunity to show off his vast scope of knowledge. Forgive me!

[MetalJunkie]

It could be fun watching a Brian clone go through the the stages of a dog's life in a matter of minutes.

[ReaperKK]

This family guy episode is great. The songs were hilarious and the comfortably numb clip was great too.

I hate vinnie.

[black_biff_stadler]

SPOILA UHLOYT!



Well that got tied together in a predictable way. Oh well, whatever it takes to get Brian back. Still feels weird that I've yet to see any of the episodes from the time of his "death" until his revival tonight. Not that I feel like I missed out on a shitty new character but just because this is a rare moment in FG history where knowledge of prior episodes would help things make better sense.

[BlobVanDam]

I've never been so glad to have such an awful character back. I'm glad they didn't milk it longer. I thought it was clever the way they tied it into the cutaway gag from the other episode.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

"I mean, you didn't really think we'd kill off Brian, did you? Jesus, we'd have to be fucking high". /Seth MacFarlane

 

[ReaperKK]

Awesome to have him back.

[SeRoX]

I'm so happy to see him back.

[Ben_Jamin]

Awww....I was gonna praise them for being daring,  but now eh....

[Nick]

Awww....I was gonna praise them for being daring,  but now eh....

I'd rather them have good characters than be daring for the sake of it. It would be one thing if they killed off Brian and made the resulting cast better or had a great replacement, but what they had simply was not going to work well.

[Progmetty]

Bart Simpson's cameo in this week's American Dad episode was hilarious.

[ReaperKK]

I still can't wait for the cross over episodes. . .

[Nel]

That Krampus episode of AD was awesome. The songs, man, the songs!

"Sheila said that kid was mine, but it looked just like Dennis! That damn Dennis!"

[countoftuscany42]

That Krampus episode of AD was awesome. The songs, man, the songs!

"Sheila said that kid was mine, but it looked just like Dennis! That damn Dennis!"

plus their use of The Sword during the battle scene 

[ReaperKK]

Cleveland is back! Great family guy today, probably the best of the season.

[Progmetty]

I've surprisingly enjoyed the Family Guy/Simpsons crossover episode, very well written for something like this.
Roger cameo FTW!
I only watched the first episode of the new American Dad season, turns out since the show has moved to TBS; Hulu won't be streaming new episodes anymore :/