Talk:Family Guy/Archive 2

message: Many people are missing from the posted family tree, including Juarez Griffin (Peter's diminutive grandfather), and Angus Griffin (Peter's great great uncle, the man who invented golf). I'm quite sure there are more than this as well, and I question the purpose of having such a family tree on this page if not everyone is to be included. Wouldn't it be much easier to create a heading for those in the Griffin family, and those in the Pewterschmidt family? Until this family tree is complete, I am removing it. --Ottovonguericke 01:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Family Guy Family Tree

message: : Some of us Family Guy fans believe Lois Griffin's ethnic/religious origin isn't limited to WASPs. She reminds me of popular Jewish female characters on movies and TV shows, her accent, the way her facial features are, and the "dominating" matriarchal liberal (i.e. Jewish mother) traits are her personality. Can anyone confirm the show's writers are subliminaly adding "Jewishness" to Lois' personality? She reminds me of Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, powerful (and reportedly Jewish liberal) urbanite women in politics (I doubt Pelosi is, but who knows and who cares). Let me get it straight, Lois Griffin's ethnicity is Anglo-Saxon and New york Dutch, then she reminds me of those "educated" or sophisicated and affluent New Yorker-Reform Jews, according to popular stereotypes, spout vocal opposition to anything conservative, rightist and bigotry. Lois tries to straight out Peter Griffin's masculine and chauvinist behavior around her, then the show makes her a neurotic thinking feminist type...and notice Lois has "semitic-mediteranean" features with the "big nose". Are the writers and animators try to convince most fans that Lois the "Jewess"? I knew Peter exhibits stereotypes of blue-collar small town white men, as well a drinking, dancing and cheerful Irish catholic. Family guy is politically incorrect, but a racist or sexist humor show? I hope not or there would be protests, lawsuits or boycotts by now. + 207.200.116.202 13:09, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subliminal stereotype: Lois the "Jewess"?

message: I laughed my ass off as I watched the episode about Stewie travelling to Europe. I think that some special jokes should be listed somewhere. I know that it's hard (maybe impossible) to agree on some, but for me as a German the joke about all the Germans being on holiday during the war was incredibly funny... Our comedians just start making fun of that part of our history, but there should be more stuff like this.  172.182.227.243 22:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That one was funny. I actually adore all of them, but my top two would have to be PTV and Deep Throats. --S-man 04:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia?

message: DavidNS1128 - There have been numerous references to Indiana Jones throughout Family Guy's history but most of these have been featured in the recent episodes.  I believe this has to do with Fox's new Indiana Jones movie coming out.  This is unfounded, but there have been a ridiculous amount of Indy references of late.
:There are a number of them in the movie, "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.
Link9er 19:34, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Indiana Jones References

message: ssteedman - Banned in South Africa?  I can't guarantee you that this is not the case.  Please cite references for this.  I know that SABC decided not to air it because the content was too American, and therefore not relevant to South African viewers.  I will remove the South Africa reference.
:"Due to the controversies within the show many nations have banned Family Guy, including Armenia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Iran, Thailand, Belarus, South Africa, Egypt, Serbia and Montenegro, Vietnam, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, People's Republic of China (PRC), Albania, Portugal, and South Korea."
This is ridiculous.  There are no banned tv shows in Portugal, no matter how offensive or controversial.  The last time that happened, as a result of pressure from the Catholic Church back in 1987, it sparked a major controversy and only got the show (Herman José's Humor de Perdição) cancelled two episodes before the end.  (At least one of these "objectionable" episodes was still aired a few years later.)  Family Guy just hasn't been bought by anyone yet. --Goblin ›talk 06:47, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: According to IMDb Family Guy has been banned in Portugal. I haven't found another source but I do consider IMDb credible. - murder1 23:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  IMDb's list of supposedly banned movies in TV shows in other countries is NOT accurate. I have crosschecked a number of things with people living overseas and found a multitude of errors Elijya 20:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Banned?

message: I don't know about the guys who wrote this article, but in all the Simpson guides I've read they've all told me that people who make the Simpsons are fans of Family Guy, and that the jokes against the show are actually tributes to it (similar to when they showed the "Ren and Stimpy: Season Premier" on the Simpsons, and it said that was a tribute to Ren and Stimpy, because they love it) and I've read invterviews with Matt Groening, and he says he likes the show. As for Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and John K., I've never heard anything about that. Somebody please change the Simpsons thing. I don't want to edit it, because my edits are always deleted.
:Well Matt Groening isn't cited as a person who thinks negatively of the show, and he hasn't had much to do with the Simpsons for about a decade now anyway. But I think it would be nice to see some sources for a lot of this information. I do know that Kevin Smith wasn't a fan, and the source is cited accurately for him. --TheMidnighters 06:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I just tried to find some verification through google for remarks made in interviews by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and John K in regards to Family Guy and couldn't find anything. I'll remove those bits for now until there are some sources. --TheMidnighters 06:27, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

text: As for the Simpsons staff hating Family Guy that is verified by Seth himself in his Onion A. V. Club interview  which references a quote from a member of the Simpsons staff. Just search for the phrase "staff hates" on each page. I've seen other quotes in the past from Simpsons writers inwhich their main complaint is that Family Guy copied them somehow. --TheMidnighters 06:43, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Great. Thanks a lot. --TheMidnighters 23:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Come on now, do you honestly think they're being serious? I honestly doubt if they were truly saying they hated Family Guy, they would have used "Fucking hurts so bad" and "kick in the balls" to describe their unhappiness. They're both well educated, and when heard in a serious interview they come off very well. 154.20.135.89 00:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

text: He is, and that's what the article states. --TheMidnighters 09:01, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons people hate Family Guy? 

message: If you want to say somthing about this song, write here.
:Preferably here: Breaking Out Is Hard to Do. --TM  (talk)</font> 11:43, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Who else but Quagmire?

message: The article says in "Criticisms from From Peers and Critics":
"In one of the recent Treehouse of Horror episodes, Homer creates an army of clones of himself that are each progressively dumber than the real Homer. One of the clones is shown to be Peter Griffin."
The article describes this as a "blatant potshot" at Family Guy. I don't think this can be classified as a blatant potshot, in fact I don't think it's a potshot at all, it seems more like a reference to Family Guy. Opinions anyone? Should that statement be in the article? Akamad 08:47, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd qualify it is a potshot to label another character a dumb clone of another character. I'd say it can be called blatant considering how open Simpsons writers have been concerning their belief that Family Guy copied them. --TM  (talk)</font> 11:39, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh yes. I see what you are sayig. I stand corrected. Akamad 20:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

text: You have a point - I've removed that line, too, as it doesn't have a cite. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 03:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons vs Family Guy 

message: Does anyone know the rest of the Extended lyrics?--The Republican 00:35, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended Lyrics 

message: I would like to redo the DVD release section to make it look cleaner.  I'd like to set it up in a table format similar to the DVD releases for these television shows: 24, Friends, Nip/Tuck and Survivor.  I could include an additional column for extra information that is currently there such as special features. Jtrost 15:28, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If no one is opposed to this I will go ahead and clean up the section. Jtrost 21:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How would you feel about me creating an entire article for Family Guy DVDs a la The Simpsons DVDs and King of the Hill DVDs? I'd obviously use a lot of the info you used in the article so that we don't use any valuable information, but I feel that FG is significant enough to warrant such a subpage. - Wezzo 20:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that amount of detail considered encyclopedic or fancruft?  Listing the episodes is repetitive because we already have a detailed episode guide.  And many of the special features are already noted. Jtrost 22:44, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'm borderline on the idea, but considering how important DVDs are to FG's history I thought it may be worth it. - Wezzo 07:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD Releases 

message: Anyway related to the simpsons, of is family guy it's own show? Pece Kocovski 09:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, Family Guy is made by completely different people, although they're both shown on the same channel in America. -- jeffthejiff (talk) 16:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Seth MacFarlane