The subversive, crude, ironic comedy of Family Guy has taken over the world. With its creator and chief voice actor Seth MacFarlane overseeing 3 TV shows and recently directing the hilarious movie Ted, Family Guy has become a show highly regarded as funnier than its inspiration, The Simpsons. Now 10 seasons in, the show has been on the end of 12 Emmy Primetime Awards nominations, including one for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2009. While the show has arguably dipped in quality in the last couple of series, it’s best episodes remain absolute laugh riots, showing the best of animated comedy and what it can do.
So now, without further delay, here are the top 20 episodes they have given us over the years.
20. I Take Thee, Quagmire
In one of the few episodes when we see Quagmire as someone with real emotions, as he falls for Peter’s maid Joan. The episode kicks off with a fantastic sketch,...
So now, without further delay, here are the top 20 episodes they have given us over the years.
20. I Take Thee, Quagmire
In one of the few episodes when we see Quagmire as someone with real emotions, as he falls for Peter’s maid Joan. The episode kicks off with a fantastic sketch,...
- 8/18/2012
- by Matt Volpi
- Obsessed with Film
Countless movies over the years have dealt with the exploits of fictional characters that have brought things to life-from Doctors Frankenstein to Herbert West ( the Re-Animator flicks ). With the new documentary Being Elmo we learn about a real-life re-animator named Kevin Clashwho,instead of body parts or mechanical men, gives life to stitched together bits of foam and felt. More importantly, he’s the guy behind the pre-k superstar of Sesame Street, Elmo.
Clash’s journey to that TV street began on a real, urban street in Baltimore in the early 1970′s. He was fascinated by puppets and marionettes and was encouraged by his family ( his father was not upset that he used the lining of his trench coat for one of his first puppet creations ). Entertaining the children in his mother’s day-care service in the back yard ( a blanket tossed over the clothes line was his stage ) to...
Clash’s journey to that TV street began on a real, urban street in Baltimore in the early 1970′s. He was fascinated by puppets and marionettes and was encouraged by his family ( his father was not upset that he used the lining of his trench coat for one of his first puppet creations ). Entertaining the children in his mother’s day-care service in the back yard ( a blanket tossed over the clothes line was his stage ) to...
- 12/2/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Most Jim Henson fans will find it hard to compete with Kevin Clash, a puppeteer who almost literally followed in Henson’s footsteps. Like Henson, Clash built his own puppets in his parents’ house when he was a boy, and launched his career on a local kiddie TV show when he was still in his teens. (And all in the DC/Baltimore area, no less… same as Henson.) Clash eventually graduated to Captain Kangaroo and The Great Space Coaster, and then—thanks to the mentoring of Muppet-builder Kermit Love—was invited to work on Sesame Street. There, Clash took over ...
- 10/20/2011
- avclub.com
When you consider that Stephen King movies during the Eighties boasted theme songs performed by the likes of AC/DC and The Ramones, having the guy most famous for singing “Everything Is Beautiful”, “Ahab the Arab”, “Gitarzan”, and “Mississippi Squirrel Revival” provide one probably seemed like a strange choice.
And you’d be correct. Because the Ray Stevens that recorded the titular theme song to the 1986 anthology film Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye was Not that Ray Stevens.
No, the title song to this collection of short films based on Stephen King short stories was performed by a different Ray Stephens, whose biggest claims to fame included a short stint as lead vocalist for The Village People on their final 1985 album Sex Over the Phone and his role as ‘Roy’ on the cult early Eighties children’s program “The Great Space Coaster”.
Ray Stephens’ “Cat’s Eye” is a...
And you’d be correct. Because the Ray Stevens that recorded the titular theme song to the 1986 anthology film Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye was Not that Ray Stevens.
No, the title song to this collection of short films based on Stephen King short stories was performed by a different Ray Stephens, whose biggest claims to fame included a short stint as lead vocalist for The Village People on their final 1985 album Sex Over the Phone and his role as ‘Roy’ on the cult early Eighties children’s program “The Great Space Coaster”.
Ray Stephens’ “Cat’s Eye” is a...
- 7/30/2011
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Please someone tell me why I can't stop singing the title to The Great Ghost Rescue to the tune of the failed northeastern children's television show "The Great Space Coaster"? It's been like an hour now, and it just will not go away! Somebody make it stop! Please!
In any event, according to Screen Daily Affinity International has acquired the sales rights heading into Cannes to The Great Ghost Rescue, which is set to begin eight weeks of principal photography in the UK and Hungary next week.
Casting for this kid-friendly slice of spookery thus far includes Georgia Groome, Steven Mackintosh, and newcomer Toby Hall, who will play Humphrey, the ghost of a child whose family has been ousted from their home when their castle gets modernized into a holiday camp.
Yann Samuell (Love Me If You Dare) is on board to direct this big screen adaptation of the Eva Ibbotson book.
In any event, according to Screen Daily Affinity International has acquired the sales rights heading into Cannes to The Great Ghost Rescue, which is set to begin eight weeks of principal photography in the UK and Hungary next week.
Casting for this kid-friendly slice of spookery thus far includes Georgia Groome, Steven Mackintosh, and newcomer Toby Hall, who will play Humphrey, the ghost of a child whose family has been ousted from their home when their castle gets modernized into a holiday camp.
Yann Samuell (Love Me If You Dare) is on board to direct this big screen adaptation of the Eva Ibbotson book.
- 4/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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