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Family Guy's Stewie to Host Talk Show
blake3737 writes "Stewie, of Family Guy Fame, will be joining the ranks animated talk show hosts, such as Space Ghost (Tad Ghostal). He will be hosting an internet talk show. " Somewhere Brak is crying.
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I wonder if he'll allow Bill Cosby to come on as a guest. :)
I don't get it.
Hey, mother, I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint. It's in my diaper and it's not a toaster.
Nah, no one will ever buy that...
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Depends upon your perspective on Stewie and/or Family Guy. At first Stewie was a megalomaniacal infant with Peter Lorre's voice, now he's some amalgamation of sleazy teenager/adult in an infant body with some of the imagination of a toddler (i.e. holding a phone call with Grover while Brian sits in a cubicle outside his office.)
I dunno. I don't think I can come up with any real questions other than, "Why is this a good idea?"
I find myself constantly challenged to actually turn on the TV to watch Family Guy
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I mean, its stewie - which is great, but if McFarlen makes up the questions for the interviews, it would be fabulous, becuase hes a very deep guy and a brilliant philosopher.
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If he does get his own talk show he'll have ample opportunity to unleash his mind-control device on an unsuspecting populace!
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Stewie rules. He's a modern day edition of The Brain (from Pinky and The Brain) without all the bumbling.
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This may be a way for writers to work out some jokes, etc. before they hit prime time. Additionally, they can use feedback from the web-based show to drive the overall direction of the TV series. It's good to see that they know who their audience is, to some extent...
Come on, they can't put "peanut butter jelly time" into a cartoon on TV without realizing that they should reciprocate with some TV character-based internet cartoons.
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I don't really see this lasting long... The first few episodes will be catchy, cause it's something new (particularly something new involving Stewie Griffin) - but after a while, where can you go with it?
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
A talk show hosted by Brian, on the other hand, that would be great.
Hopefully, the rumors of resurrecting Futurama are true. Same scenario- Fox cancels show, rabid fanbase interests another network in ordering more.
oh please oh please oh please oh please....
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And it's basically been cancelled by Fox after three seasons. Like Futurama they really didn't give it much of a shot:
Cancelling episodes in season 2
Cutting back to 13 episodes in season 3 and yanking it from sweeps
ABC and Showtime have both made overtures of interest, so naturally Fox hasn't said "it's cancelled". I wish they would; it's obvious they can't market the show worth a damn.
But how would you? It's smart, funny, and many of the jokes require knowledge of current events. And it's on Fox. What's going to lead in to it, Meet Your New Mommy? Reality Makeover Tour?
Anyone who was a Simpsons fan when it was a good show abandoned it a long time ago so it couldn't even hold viewers in a Sunday 8:30 timeslot.
To paraphrase David Cross: A show that wins critical acclaim and multiple awards that can't keep viewers. Perhaps the problem isn't the show, but the people in marketing who don't know how to sell it.
It was much nicer the way I put it.
Basically Fox needs to drop it so Showtime or ABC can pick it up and give it the chance it should have.
It's funny; any hard core Seinfeld fanatic I know picked up on Arrested Dev immediately and have loved it from the get-go. Fox never understood that.
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I think you have him confused with this man.
" efficient programmers in india and china don't care about your stupid nerd things, and that's why your jobs are going there.
You'd be a fool to mod me down."
Trust me, they care about entertainment in india too, why do you think there movies are all 4 hours long and contain a bit of everything in them.
Also, they are not magically efficient, just cheaper, and your probably inefficient, I'm a faster programmer then most the indians I know who develop, and there are a lot of them.
Maybe so, but given your .sig, can we really trust your judgement regarding humor?
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Ahh, the warm glow of "Flamebait" down-mods for ripping a TV show for not being particularilly funny.
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Because everybody knows that differing opinions are always flamebait, especially on really important matters like cartoons.
Fanboys are so predictable sometimes.
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Sorry, I'm just not into Family Guy. The Simpsons it's not. (Please be gentle!)
That's like saying, "I'm just not into genital herpes, it's no syphilis!"
so stewie as a host is going to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Bill Mahr. I think it has potential, but to be honest i would prefer to see one with Quagmire and only female guests. Well maybe he could interview the guy who started "Girls Gone Wild."
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I must disagree that Family Guy has sold out. I was an avid fan before it was canceled and have remained such ever since. As such, I must say that Family Guy is funnier than ever. The recent episode about the FCC was quite possibly the funniest episode of anything I have seen in a long, long time. Now Simpsons, that's a different matter. They have definitely sold out.
Ah yes Brain, didn't congress vote to stone him.
Speaker:All in favour of stoning Brain.
Congress:Aye!
Brain:Wait congress doesn't have the right to stone.
Speaker:All in favour of giving congress the right to stone.
Congress:Aye!
It's funnier when a pixelated alien with 5000 dimensions says it.
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