Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy"

wo1verin3 writes: "USA Today is reporting that all is not lost and due to exceptionally strong DVD sales Family Guy may return with as many as 35 new episodes! A DVD set of the show's first 28 episodes, released in April, has sold nearly 1 million copies, making it this year's top-selling TV show and the No. 4 television title ever, according to Video Store magazine."

Comments

Hmmmmm

[ziggy_zero]

Maybe they could save us all a little time and release them straight to DVD instead of on TV first....If I remember correctly part of the reason they got cancelled was they gave it a shitty timeslot so nobody watched it.

Re:Why Family Guy?

[cK-Gunslinger]

Let me try present this little equation for you:

Family Guy == (The Simpsons)^2

Family Guy is an outrageously funny and fairly original show. It achieves a near-perfect blend of "stupid" humor, "intelligent" humor, and "wacky" humor. It's one of the few shows that is truly LOL funny. It is slightly "controversial" at times, but not so blatantly insulting as South Park. Also, it does incorporate a *lot* of pop/sub-culture and geek humor.

Cartoon Network envy

[gad_zuki!]

>gave it a shitty timeslot so nobody watched it.

Which timeslot? I remember being moved at least twice.

Also, let's toss in Futurama while we're at it.

All the cartoon network did is take these gems and give them a consistant timeslot and *gasp* did some advertising. Now Rupert Murdoch et al are all scracting their heads at how much money CN is making and why dreck like "King of the Hill" isn't the cash cow it used to be.

I think you're right, I'd rather just buy the DVD than deal with FoxVision - where the shows you expect to see aren't there! Here, have some football instead.

Hell, if Cartoon Network had Fox-like money they'd be doing this too and with Futurama.

(above message from a Tivo owner and I still couldnt record Futurama because of football, for shame Fox)

Re:The ANSWER is...

[tipsymonkey]

They are a cable channel that cuts the Professor on Futurama when he says "sweet zombie Jesus", at a time that is supposed to be only adults watching. I wouldn't look to them for controversial programming. They also cut out the "although they killed our Lord" from the Wish Upon a Weinstein episode. And the Osama Bin Laden references are cut of adult swim and the dvd.

Re:Better Than The Simpsons?

[nosredna]

I've always been of the opinion that the jokes that drag on and on for considerably longer than sanity might dictate are done that way for a reason. Watch Adam West talking about Taffee in 'E Peterbus Unum' It's worth a little laugh, but it drags on until it's not funny, then drags on even longer until it's actually funny again. Same thing with the 'Wasted Talent' when Peter falls and hurts his knee. Then you laugh even harder when he does it again later in the episode.

Re:Not Curiosity/Firefly DVD

[ucsckevin]

Not to be rude, but it's not like the makers of Firefly are some children's charity. They'll do fine just on their own.

Fox has got you in the palm of their hand if you think the firefly release is like some indie band from your college town that you want to help promote.

I like firefly a lot (fyi)

Re:Family Guy..

[ShadowBlasko]

*amazed to here something good has come out of this incredibly bad day*

I enjoy Family Guy for its spot-on grasp of the sense of humor of its target demographic. There was always something to make me laugh out loud at least three times an episode.

There is truly some genius in that show. Same for (IMHO) The Oblongs. Or perhaps it is just my twisted sense of humor.

The scene in Family Guy S2E14 "Let's Go To The Hop", where Lois and Peter are slipping into their BDSM gear while dicussing the problems facing kids today may well be the funniest thing I have ever seen in animation. And, *laughing* I'm pretty sure done by someone who knew what they were talking about at the time.

YMMV.