MarkHastings
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Johnny Brennan, one of the Jerky Boys does the voice of Mort Goldman.Well, that explains lots. Thanks
Johnny Brennan, one of the Jerky Boys does the voice of Mort Goldman.Well, that explains lots. Thanks
Peter is at church and drinks the wine then asks the pastor, "is this really the blood of Christ?" The pastor replies, "yes," the Peter says "damn, he must of been wasted wasted 24/7."According to the remnants of the commentary, that scene was cut from the first episode when it originally aired, and was restored in the DVD. (After it was cut from the first episode, it was used in another episode. So it ends up on the DVD set twice.) I wonder why they decided to restore this scene and then remove or modify at least three other scenes. (There is another thread where the edits were discussed in detail.)
I can kind of understand the removal of the Bin Laden scene (although I don't agree with that decision), why were references to JFK and Hitler removed? Bin Laden was removed because 9/11 happened between when the show aired and the release of the DVDs. But the JFK assassination and WWII happened a long time before Family Guy was even created. What has changed since the episodes aired that made FOX decide to remove these scenes?
Another (unrelated) thing I am curious about. I keep seeing people calling the show The Family Guy. I thought the title was just Family Guy. Was the "The" there at one point and then dropped or something?
I can kind of understand the removal of the Bin Laden scene (although I don't agree with that decision),I can't understand it at all! What, they're afraid of offending Bin Laden?!??! Are they afraid of hurting his feelings?
I thought the title was just Family Guy. Was the "The" there at one point and then dropped or something?I don't think it's anything more than we just put "The" in front of it because it sounds better.
Off Topic: Kind of like when Caldor used to be open in CT, people would always say "Let's go to Caldors". Adding the 's' to the end just sounded better, so we always said it wrong.
Yeah, that came up at one point. I said, "Look, I'm probably as close to that incident as anybody at Fox." There was one point where I was arguing to keep that scene in. Yeah, I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes. It was a very close call for me.
It was the episode where, in a blatant ripoff of a classic "Simpsons" episode...I know that this wasn't said to imply ;-) that FG ripped off the Simpsons, but it brought back some memories. I am a Matt Groening fan since 1986, and I tuned into the Tracy Ullman show specifically for the Simpsons vignettes. That said, there were several times during the Simpsons when I would say "That happened on Family Guy." I know that it happened at least three times. The one case that I can remember was when Peter had the endangered birds nesting in his beard, and he wasn't allowed to get rid of them. The Simpsons in a later episode had the Screamapilliar, an endangered species that they weren't allowed to get rid of.