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Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Dell
EAN: 0024543069515
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Model: 3007wfp
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 15, 2003
Running Time: 624 minutes
Sales Rank: 854
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1999



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Product Description:
The misadventures of the Griffin family, their brilliant talking dog, and their maniacal infant son intent on ruling the world.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 15-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD

Amazon.com:
To the ranks of shows too brilliant and outrageous for prime time (The Ben Stiller Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), add Seth McFarlane's Family Guy. This animated series, which debuted after the 1999 Super Bowl, simply sparked too much controversy and offended too many sensibilities to survive (Entertainment Weekly dubbed it 'the Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air'). That the Fox network also played hackysack with its schedule, ensuring viewers would not be able to find it, sealed its fate (it was cancelled in 2002). This boxed set containing all 28 episodes from the first two seasons is payback for the show's devoted cult following, who may be moved to echo the words of infant Stewie Griffin, the megalomaniacal 1-year-old bent on matricide and world domination: 'Victory is mine!'

The dysfunctional Griffins of Quahog, Rhode Island, invite comparisons to The Simpsons. The testicular-chinned father, Peter Griffin, is a clueless oaf in the Homer mold. 'Peter, what did you promise me last night?' asks his long-suffering wife Lois in one episode. 'That I wouldn't drink at the stag party,' he replies. 'And what did you do?' she asks. 'Drank at the stag part--oh ho ho, I almost walked into that one,' he cackles. Other family members include teenage daughter Meg, a desperate high school social pariah; 13-year-old son Chris, a chip off his father's blockhead; and Brian, the family's sarcastic talking dog. But this series' true inspiration is football-pated Stewie (voiced by McFarlane, who earned an Emmy), who was born to be a Bond villain once he escaped his mother's 'ovarian bastille.' Family Guy recklessly ventured where The Simpsons feared to tread. In one episode, Meg's one and only friend turns out to be the member of a suicidal cult. In another, Death (voiced by Norm McDonald) becomes an unwanted houseguest. Each episode plays fast and furious with surreal flashes (in one episode, Peter turns his house into a puppet) and pop-culture references and TV, movie, and commercial parodies that invite repeated viewings. Freed from its own family-hour bastille and the whims of dim network executives, Family Guy can be appreciated at last on its own profane, sacrilegious, and irreverent terms. Welcome to the DVD family, Griffins. --Donald Liebenson



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - These seasons were terrible
I like Family Guy and apparently so does America since Seth was just signed for a pile of money throughout ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - No More Family Guy on DVD!
Fox is wasting money and time releasing Family Guy on DVD! The show should have ended during the writers strike. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Perhaps Fox was correct to cancel this show in the first place.
Mindless silliness that has no redeeming value but being mindless, silly, entertainment. No wait, one would have to ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great gift
i bought this for a Xmas present for a friend, the best choice, he love it


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Freakin' Great!
Thank God for this show. After a long day of work, I love watching an episode. It is a mindless show, yet the comedy ... Read More

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