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"It's worth the risk, Lois; to save the world another two hours of torture. We gotta get rid of this thing for the sake of Jesus and Snoopy and all the other beloved children's characters!" - Peter Griffin

This week, we're breaking format to discuss the reboot of Family Guy, which kicked off 21 more years (and counting) of Seth MacFarlane's famous cartoon sitcom, and also helped launch Fox's successful Sunday night Animation Domination block. Nearly three decades after the show's initial debut, we embittered Simpsons fans finally have to ask ourselves, "Are we truly lucky there's a Family Guy?"

Our guest: Chris Plante, host and founder of Post Games

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NewKillerStar

Hell yes, love to see you guys cover family guy. Also, not sure if you were joking, but, would love to hear you guys cover Family Guy Live in Vegas, really enjoy the music episodes.

Bodhi

New idea for a show: Talking Laugh and Cry

Patrick McClafferty

Had the Family Guy Live in Vegas CD. Mostly remember it being kind of mediocre. Also getting sick of the Jim Cavezil Christian themed action movie trailer on too many movies lately. Will be glad when its release on Veterans Day passes.

Jeremy Hawkins

I think that these Asian American female journalists were playing off Connie Chung. Millennials would know her best as the second most recurring Asian American female character on Mad TV, as portrayed by Bobby Lee.

Jim Gullickson

Might be time for Talking Family Guy fellas…….

Dylan Sludge

Its really great to see you guys cover a "back from cancelation" episode of Family Guy. This era is where FG was at its peak, and I feel like you guys have come away with a better appreciation of it now. This era of like 4-8 are FG firing on all cylinders and it may be nostalgia bias talking but this era really rivals the simpsons in some ways to me. Its just joke after joke fired off and so many have stuck with me and the culture and my fellow 25 year old-ians. I liked hearing you guys like it a little more!

Sara Syd

IMDb Parents' Guide for Bird on a Wire

PurpleComet

For Bob's Burgers memes, I immediately thought of the gif of Louise in a hoodie laughing in front of a wall of flames.

Andrew Link

I had that Family Guy Vegas album. You guys should cover that. I remember Jason Alexander being featured on it. I haven't listened to the whole thing since it came out, but I remember Brian and Stewie singing TV sitcom themes together for like 9 minutes on a single track.

Thad Komorowski

Come on, the fact that Seth MacFarlane did a Muppets album without any actual Muppets tells you what kind of a self-fart-huffer this guy is.

Tyler M.

In regards to The Passion of the Christ 2 being a MadTV joke, you're really on point. Though their version specifically is Jesus being protected by the Terminator. Featuring Dave Herman as Jesus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIeuBPDUzB0

Dennis K

As a former employee of Bed Bath and Beyond, let me set the record straight. It's Housewares and Lifestyles. Those are the two departments "beyond" Bed and Bath. I still remember the summer "Click" came out, and everyone came in asking where the Beyond department was like they were the first person to ever make that joke.

Rob Z

I found out about Family Guy coming back from my first major girlfriend in my first year of uni - I remember she'd put some episodes from her dorm's file sharing network (2005 was weird huh) on as we made out and then I'd force us to rewatch them as I missed scenes from us kissing lmao. We've long since been broken up but I still have the DVDs of these seasons anyway

CarterOfCourse

As a fan of MacFarlane and a MUCH BIGGER, lifelong fan the Muppets, I picked up a CD copy "Seth MacFarlane Sings the Muppets" album and found another Simpsons/Family Guy connection in the arranger's foreword: Andrew Cottee (composer for The Orville and arranger for the ted Peacock show and sometimes Family Guy) writes, " ... Most of the songs are chosen from the first three Muppet films: The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, and The Muppets Take Manhattan. With their range of graceful waltzes, wistful ballads, and exhilarating Broadway showstoppers, written by some of the finest songwriters in the industry, these sit comfortably alongside any in the Great American Songbook. The wonderful composer and arranger Alf Clausen said that music for comedy should reflect the underlying emotion of the story, and not to try to be funny in of itself. That's the approach I took in arranging the songs for this album..."

Mario.

I was 9 years old when this premiered. I remember the “viewer discretion is advised” being scary, long and warning about “nudity” and “adult situations” and my sister yelling at me to “leave the room, you’re not allowed to watch this” which made me more eager to watch FG. I wouldn’t call Family Guy a Simpsons RipOff, just the “Edgier” alternative to it and nothing more .

Dennis K

I always took Trisha to be a Connie Chung pastiche, yeah.

Kaelan Ramos

As someone who grew up with all these Connie Chung parodies, I still have to ask: what was the joke? The audience would be laughing and I'd just be like "????"

Jeremy Hawkins

I think it is that to a racist, the ultimate truth about an asian american is that they can never really assimilate and be American. So seeing Connie Chung sit next to Dan Rather on the evening news was this reality breaking thing in the 90s. I went back to look at those mad tv parodies of her and some Tricia Takanawa it really was unbelievable what they got away with. I also saw clips of Connie sitting with a dozen asian american women journalists and it was very sweet.

Kaelan Ramos

Oof, yeah that's a good way to put it. Appreciate the reply.