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‘The Cleveland Show,’ premiering Sunday on Fox

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[25.Sep.09] :. REASON TO WATCH: Seth MacFarlane continues his slash-and-burn conquest of the Fox Sunday schedule with this “Family Guy” spinoff. Get used to this, by the way. Fox has already ordered a...

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American Dad! Vol. 4

by Andrew Winistorfer

[13.May.09] :. This has carved out a nice niche for itself as the only reliably funny show during “Animation Domination”.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film DVD Review

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (3 Disc Special Edition)

by Shaun Huston

[5.Dec.08] :. This limited “3-Disc Special Edition” is as much a tribute to the writer-director as it is a showcase for the film.

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TV DVD Review

Family Guy: Vol. 6

by Andrew Winistorfer

[11.Nov.08] :. It’ll take a new animated show to call Family Guy out for its indiscretions, much like Family Guy did for The Simpsons.

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TV Review

Family Guy: Season 7 Premiere

by Leigh H. Edwards

[26.Sep.08] :. Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy features gross-out humor with a mean-spirited kick.

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Family Guy: Blue Harvest

by Marc Calderaro

[8.Feb.08] :. This is like watching Gus Van Sant’s Psycho screened on Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- confusing and annoying.

 

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

 

‘Family Guy’ continues to push the television envelope

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Sep.07] :. LOS ANGELES—The cast of the Fox Network animated comedy “Family Guy” has just completed a reading of the script for the 100th episode in front of a group of television critics. That...

 

American Dad: Volume 1

by Bill Gibron

[24.Mar.06] :. It's all Family Guy's fault. Had that cult cartoon not been cancelled and proven its mantle by becoming a phenomenon on DVD, we wouldn't be stuck with American Dad, its jaded jingoistic cousin.

 

Family Guy, Volume 3

by Dan MacIntosh

[6.Jan.06] :. Whereas All in the Family was all about the troubling racism and personal politics of the time, Family Guy takes on many of these same topics and then blurts them out like a tactless guy at a party that says exactly what he's thinking, without even a second thought about self-censorship.

 

Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

by Terry Sawyer

[30.Sep.05] :. Stewie's time-continuum meddling focuses on insuring that he ends up with a non-retail job and a more tastefully decorated apartment. This is not 12 Monkeys.

 

Family Guy / American Dad

by Kevin Wong

[13.Jun.05] :. The timetable for studio animation is slow, which means that American Dad's political jokes are dated as soon as they're written.

 

American Dad

by Dan Devine

[14.Feb.05] :. When Seth MacFarlane plumbs the depths of the U.S. political system for American Dad, all he manages are weak shots at conservative caricatures.

 

The Family Guy, Vol. 2 (Season 3)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[3.Nov.03] :. While The Family Guy's humor often obliterates the boundaries of good taste, it also espouses faith in the American Family.

 

American Dad!

by Todd R. Ramlow

American Dad! skewers its all-American dad Stan to impel its critique of Bush America.