Average Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Total Number of Reviews: 110 Editorial Review: - Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
- Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen: 1.33:1
Disc 1: Back to the Woods 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Producer Kara Vallow, Writer Tom Devanney, Director Brian Iles and Actor Seth Green
Play It Again, Brian 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- CCommentary by Executive Producer David A. Goodman, Executive Producer/Writer Danny Smith, Consulting Producer Tom Devanney, Production Supervisor Charles Song, Director John Holmquist and Actor Seth Green
The Former Life of Brian 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Director Pete Michels and Actor Mike Henry
Long John Peter 22:30 - Uncensored Audio
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- Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Consulting Producer Tom Devanney, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Director Dominic Polcino and Actor Seth Green
Love Blactually 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producer Danny Smith, Producer Kara Vallow, Animation Producer Shannon Smith, Writer/Actor Mike Henry and Director Cyndi Tang
Disc 2: I Dream of Jesus 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producer Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer/Actor Alec Sulkin, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Writer Brian Scully and Assistant to Seth MacFarlane Spencer Porter
Road to Germany 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Chris Sheridan, Writer Patrick Meighan, Director Greg Colton and Composer Walter Murphy
Baby Not On Board 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer/Writer Mark Hentemann, Director Julius Wu and Actor Alex Borstein
The Man with Two Brians 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Alec Sulkin, Writer/Actor John Viener and Director Dominic Bianchi
Tales of a Third Grade Nothing 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Writer Alex Carter, Director Jerry Langford, Actor Frank Sinatra Jr. and Composer Walter Murphy
Ocean’s Three and a Half 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Mark Hentemann, Animation Producer Shannon Smith and Writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
Disc 3: Family Gay 22:30 - Seamless branching
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- Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Mark Hentemann, Writer Richard Appel and Director Brian Iles
The Juice is Loose! 22:30 - Uncensored Audio
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Deleted Scenes: - Ep 602 What Happened to You?
- Ep 602 Herpes
- Ep 603 World of Books
- Ep 604 Big Tease
- Ep 604 Good Night
- Ep 604 Where to?
- Ep 606 The Birds and the Bees
- Ep 606 Never Sleep with Peter Griffin
- Ep 606 Tears
- Ep 607 Quagmire’s Calls
- Ep 607 To the Grand Canyon
- Ep 608 Time Machine
- Ep 608 Beyond Inappropriate
- Ep 609 Brian’s MySpace
- Ep 609 Downer
- Ep 610 You Hate Entourage?
- Ep 610 I Earned the Money
- Ep 610 This Club is Dead
- Ep 610 Pope Poop
- Ep 610 Working as a Sheep Dog
- Ep 611 Loud and Confusing
- Ep 611 Crisscross
- Ep 611 You are My Best Friend
- Ep 611 This Isn’t Going to Work
- Ep 611 Fabulous Dustin
- Ep 611 Scale Model
- Ep 612 Don´t Flatter Yourself
- Ep 612 Hispanic Book Report
- Ep 612 Freezer Fort
Animatics With Commentary - 6ACX03 Love Blactually
- 6ACX06 Long John Peter
- 6ACX09 The Man with Two Brians
- Take Me Out to pLace Tonight
- Family Guy CRIBZ
- Comic-Con 2008
- Family Guy Art Show
Great as always 5 out of 5
Only 13 episodes, but every one of them is funny. Commentary is on every episode, but I wish Seth McFarlane/Seth Green was on it more. Another small complaint was at how cheap the package felt, the previous episodes each had its own case, but this one kind of jams them all three DVDs in to one case. They each have there own spot, and it doesn't affect the products rating in my opinion though. I love you Family Guy 5 out of 5
I have been watching this show since the very first episode and stood by it when it got canceled. I highly encourage people to watch the show just for the slap stick humor but the political and liberal ideas shine though no matter what. If you haven't gotten any of the seasons pick this one up or get the "World Domination Collection" that has all the volumes except the two most current ones. Packaging Problem Resolved 5 out of 5
I was initially hesitant to pick up this volume of the Family Guy because of the artwork/packaging problems some of the other reviews mentioned. But I really wanted to see that "Bird is the Word" episode again and it was at a nice price so I ended up ordering it. I think Amazon has gotten the packaging problem resolved as it arrived to me looking like you would expect. None of the flimsy casing others had mentioned. It was in a good looking case with all the artwork inside. wow, this show is REALLY lame... don't reward its creators by buying 1 out of 5
family guy is way overrated. just as the writers of south park so aptly put it, the writers of family guy are freakin lazy and unimaginative. i mean, come on... it's obvious mcfarlane has never put the effort into creating a coherent plot for his episodes. any fool with half a lick of talent can create a cartoon that consists of "flash backs" and music numbers strung together with no real purpose or message behind them... not to mention the fact that half of the episodes just copy the plot and characters from other well known shows/movies (e.g., willy wonka and the chocolate factory, the twilight zone, etc.).
that said, don't buy this family guy dvd. family guy freakin sucks. Post-Modern Humor at its Zenith 4 out of 5
"Family Guy" has many antecedents and ancestors. There are the obvious similarities to the absurdity and wierdness of "The Simpsons," "South Park," and "Seinfeld." But even these shows had narrative arcs and consistency of characters that made watching them a startling and striking but not disconnecting and alienating experience. There is nothing to hold "Family Guy" together, and the show's in a constant state of flux and instability. What can you say about a show in which a dog can write his own novel and matriculate at Brown and a baby can build his own time machine and take over the world but the two combined cannot flush a toilet?
There's no doubt that the team behind "Family Guy" are geniuses, far funnier, wittier, and smarter than the "Saturday Night Live" writers. The show's creater Seth MacFarlane voices the three main characters -- Peter, Brian, and Stewie Griffith -- so that some episodes it's literally him just talking to himself. The team of writers have collectively watched and memorized all the popular culture of the past fifty years, including movies, books (there's even a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in one of the episodes), video games, and news. There are some episodes which are just incredibly funny to watch, and they will skirt off randomly in different directions before coming back together again (one such episode is where Brian lobbies to legalize marijuana).
But it's also clear that "Family Guy" is firmly wedded to the present -- you need to be living today in America in order to find the show funny. It's instant gratification at its most extreme, and because there lacks a narrative arc it's hard to remember the episodes (although some jokes are truly memorable). In many ways, this is not post-modern humor (the self-referential irony, the pointlessness, the contradictions, the absurdity of it all) at its most extreme -- it's post-modern humor that's just fallen off the cliff.
"Family Guy" can be at times an exhilarating experience, but most of the time it's just dizzying and disorienting.
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