Family guy
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Family guy |
| Original title | Family guy |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1999–2003, since 2005 |
| Production company |
20th Century Fox , Film Roman , Fuzzy Door Productions |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 349 in 18+ seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Comedy , satire |
| idea | Seth MacFarlane |
| music | Ron Jones , Walter Murphy |
| First broadcast | January 31, 1999 (USA) on Fox |
| German-language first broadcast |
August 17, 2002 on ProSieben |
Family Guy (English for family man ) is an American cartoon series that has been produced under the direction of Seth MacFarlane since 1999 . The series revolves around the life of the Griffin family in the fictional American town of Quahog in the state of Rhode Island .
Plot and style
The Griffin family consists of the married couple Peter and Lois, their children Meg and Chris, baby Stewie and the dog Brian. Typical of the series is the sometimes absurd exaggeration of everyday problems and a multi-layered, often very daring to sarcastic humor. Often the gags are played in the form of short cutscenes or flashbacks . Parodies of celebrities, television series, films or other reminiscences of American pop culture are also often incorporated.
The drawing style of the series is kept simple. The figures have large eyes, some of the faces are exaggeratedly wide and generally embody many stereotypes .
characters
Peter Griffin
Peter, the head of the Griffins family, is spoiled, drinkable, overweight, sexist, addicted to television, and retarded. He regularly causes embarrassment and brings his family and friends into the most absurd situations. He is of Irish descent, as Peter's mother had an affair with Mickey McFinnigan, the local drunk in his Irish hometown, where he is also highly regarded. However, he was raised by Francis Griffin, a devout Catholic who died in Season 5 when Peter crushed him while doing a failed circus trick. In the third season, you learn that he also has African American ancestors. He was born in Mexico , where his mother Thelma originally wanted him to have an abortion.
In the course of the series, Peter worked in numerous professions. First he worked in a toy factory, then as a fisherman and then as an office worker in the city brewery. In the meantime he also works as a tobacco lobbyist in Washington, as a knight at a medieval market or as an author of erotic literature. In flashbacks one learns that Peter already had various other (side) jobs, for example as a towel boy, pilot and ghostbuster . Peter is also a passionate KISS fan, loves the song "Surfin 'Bird" by The Trashmen and adores Star Wars . He appears to be bisexual since he once had sex with Bill Clinton.
As the running gag of the series, Peter is at odds with a giant chicken ( The Giant Chicken ), which, as an advertising mascot, was handing out vouchers from a restaurant chain. After this gave Peter an expired voucher, a fight broke out, which was continued over and over again in the course of the series and was taken up in other ways. During the ever escalating and long fighting, the two often cause massive destruction.
Lois Griffin
Lois Griffin, née Pewterschmidt, comes from a wealthy, decadent family and was raised Protestant . She met Peter at the Newport Country Club , where he worked as a towel boy. Her parents, especially her father, find it difficult to come to terms with their overweight, stupid, and only moderately successful son-in-law.
Lois is the caring wife and mother who often struggles with her family. Not infrequently she is the good conscience and the voice of reason in her family. Occasionally, darker aspects of her come to light: for example, in the episode Diebesglück (4ACX12) she discovers her kleptomaniac streak . In addition to her work as a housewife and mother, Lois gives piano lessons; she once dreamed of becoming a successful concert pianist herself. In addition, allusions are regularly made to other former careers, such as an Olympic jumper, porn actress or model. In the more recent episodes, Lois also shows a bisexual streak.
In the episode Der Fettwanst-Würger (4ACX19), her mentally ill brother Patrick appears with his imaginary wife Marian. He has suffered trauma since watching his mother in a precarious position with actor Jackie Gleason as a child , and has lived in an asylum ever since . Lois also has a sister named Carol West (nee Pewterschmidt) and a nephew named Sebastian Mevers, Carol's son.
Megan Griffin
Megan, called Meg, is the daughter of Peter and Lois. She always suffers from unpopularity, neglect and lack of integration, both in school and in her family. She embodies the typical problems of the young outsider , who always struggles with herself and her appearance and desperately seeks to connect with her "cool" classmates. However, none of these “hip” girls want to have anything to do with her, and neither does any of their male classmates want to go out with her. Meg is usually perceived by other characters in the series as extremely ugly and therefore repulsive. Even her own family keeps making fun of the fact that she has no friends. Only Brian and Stewie treat them relatively normally. The only other exception is the student Neil Goldman, who constantly tries to prove his love for Meg, but is always rejected by her.
The movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story shows that Meg will undergo gender reassignment in the future and will henceforth be called "Ron". Also, in the course of the series (alluding to Meg's role as an outsider in the family) it is suggested that she may not be Peter's biological daughter. Instead, according to Brian, her father should be Stan Thompson and Lois should still be her mother.
Chris Griffin
Chris is the older son of the Griffin family. His only talent is painting, but he turned down a career as an artist that was subsequently offered to him by Knallbunt (2ACX07) out of love for his father. Chris admires his father, who dwarfs him in almost every way. In contrast to his father, Chris is basically honest and actually very good-natured, but he doesn't seem to have any friends. Chris is portrayed as absolutely stupid. Among other things, he shows very infantile features. He has a very overweight appearance, but is only rarely referred to as fat by other characters - in contrast to his sister Meg, who, although she appears to be of normal weight, is constantly called fat. He masturbates a lot and rarely has a girlfriend.
Chris attends Buddy Cianci Junior High School , later James Woods High School, and in his spare time carries out newspapers, much to the delight of the ancient pedophile neighbor Herbert, who shows an increased interest in the boy.
Chris is afraid of an evil monkey who lives in his closet, but none of the parents wants to believe in its existence - one of the running gags of the series. In season eight, however, it turns out that the monkey in Chris' closet is actually of a friendly nature and only bitter because he caught his wife in bed with another monkey. At the end of the episode, he leaves the Griffins and moves into Tom Tucker's son's closet.
Stewie Griffin
Stewart Gilligan Griffin, called Stewie, is the baby of the Griffin family. He can read, understand other characters, and talk to Brian and Chris. Stewie occasionally speaks to other characters in the series, but rarely gets a reaction - it is therefore hardly clear whether they generally cannot or do not want to understand him.
Noticeable external features are its peculiarly shaped head, which is roughly the shape of a football , and its red dungarees. Stewie is still in the diapers (with conviction), but is actually a diabolical genius who tries to usurp world domination. For this purpose he has already developed a time machine, a miniaturization device and mind control rays, among other things. However, because of his harmless appearance, he usually has problems being taken seriously in this endeavor. It is the same with his mother, who stands in the way of his plans with her care and constant attention. That's another reason Stewie tried to kill her since the first episode. But in the episode Stewie Loves Lois (5ACX01), Stewie falls in love with Lois because she has sewn his teddy bear Rupert back together, to whom Stewie confesses a complete personality. At the end of the episode, Stewie hates Lois again because Lois ignored him.
In later seasons, the character gained quite a bit of versatility and depth. So he mostly devotes himself to more modest projects than world domination, for example he has built a device with which he can travel parallel worlds . He has also come to terms with his mother to some extent. Despite the malevolence that Stewie is capable of, he is a personable and cute figure - especially because he often relapses (to his own annoyance) into childlike behaviors and thought patterns and it then becomes clear that he is despite all his genius and precocity is just a baby.
In the English original, Stewie (also spoken by Seth MacFarlane ) has a pronounced British accent. However, since this is lost in the German version, Stewie speaks in accent-free German and (apart from his tantrums towards Lois) expresses himself rather carefully. This language, which is often very high-pitched, gives Stewie's statements a special humorous note. Probably the only words that he pronounces incorrectly are the words whipped cream, yogurt and embarrassment , which he pronounces whipped cream , yoghocht and embarrassment . In the English original it is the word cool whip , also meaning whipped cream , in which he emphasizes the H excessively.
Brian is the only family member Stewie has grown intellectually. That's why they often tease each other. In many episodes (especially older ones), Stewie pretends to hate him. In fact, Stewie sees Brian as his best friend, but he usually never admits that. A deeper insight into the importance of Brian Stewie is provided by episode 13 of season 13: Stewie feels unnoticed and ignored by Brian, which is why he forges a plan to become pregnant by Brian by using a specially built "fertilization machine" induces an artificial pregnancy. Stewie manages to do this too, but in the end doesn't get him any pluses with Brian. An exceptional situation only arose in the episode Brian & Stewie in season 8, in which only the two characters appear. Here they are locked in a bank in a safe. At the end of the episode, Brian admits that he often has suicidal thoughts because his life seems pointless to him. Stewie replies that he finds it very selfish; after all, he didn't know what he would do without Brian. After all, Brian is his only friend in the family and the only one he likes and even loves. Stewie also expresses that he cannot exist without him, and that Brian's existence gives his life meaning in the first place. Stewie has an enemy in Bertram, who sprung from Peter's donated semen when he accidentally dropped an entire shelf of frozen semen and replaced it with new ones to cover up. Since Bertram is just as highly intelligent as Stewie, it is not uncommon for both of them to fight their disputes with state-of-the-art weapons.
There are frequent references in the series that Stewie may develop homosexual tendencies in the future. In the episode The Future Stewie (4ACX07), however, Stewie encounters his adult self in the future and is concerned that he is straight but still hasn't had sex. MacFarlane describes him in Playboy 2009 as "gay or very unhappy, uptight straight. […] He builds up a lot of aggression because he is confused and unsure of his sexual orientation . ”In a coming-out episode, written but never filmed , he has problems with the children at school and travels back in time to Creation of the 3rd book of Moses to prevent the Bible texts on homosexuality that are still used against homosexuals today . The decision was made not to produce the episode to keep Stewie's sexuality nebulous, which makes more sense given his age.
Brian Griffin
Although Brian is the Griffins' dog (a Labrador Retriever ), he speaks and acts like a human. He often sits on the floor when they watch TV evenings, but usually walks on two legs. He seems above average intelligent and has a much more elegant and chosen language as well as much better manners than the rest of the family. His political orientation is liberal, although for a short time he was a Republican and a good friend of the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh . In season seven, it was revealed that Brian is an atheist . As a rule, the other animals in the series cannot speak unless it is necessary as part of a gag - apart from the two dogs Vinny and New Brian (who both came on the scene as replacement dogs after Brian's absence - see below - Vinny here for multiple episodes). In this respect, Brian is quite an extraordinary figure, but is treated like a completely normal person by all other characters; he can also drive a car. He owns and drives a Toyota Prius . In the meantime Brian was in a relationship with the very attractive but mentally limited Jillian Russel and already worked as a real estate agent and clerk in a hardware store.
Despite the big differences, Brian is also Peter's best friend. As a young dog Brian grew up on a farm and later lived on the streets, where he was found by Peter and integrated into the family. This created a strong bond between the two. Stewie claimed on one episode that their relationship was not a true friendship , but simply arose out of the circumstances. To prove that, he temporarily erased Brian, Peters, Joe, and Quagmire's memories to test what happens. But Brian and Peter actually become best friends again in no time. The depth of the friendship is also evident in the episode. Those who do not want to hear need kidneys . In this episode, Peter's kidneys fail. Brian then decides to donate a kidney to him. However, since his kidney does not have the capacity of a human kidney, he is ready to sacrifice his life for him by donating both of his kidneys to him. In the end, in the last second with Dr. Hartman an alternate donor.
Brian's particular preferences are operas and jazz music . Among other things, Brian is a member of Mensa and has also worked as a writer for magazines.
He attended Brown University , but failed to graduate. Brian also has a gay cousin named Jasper and a 13-year-old son named Dylan, as he found out about his childhood sweetheart in an episode (this is actually not possible because Brian was only 7 and 8 years old respectively when Stewie asked him to Paradox indicates, he just means, should it bother him, he should complain about it on the Internet). In addition, several siblings of Brian are shown in one episode, one of them is executed by Stewie to put Brian under pressure. He is also in love with Lois, but subsequently Dog Love rejected (2ACX01) of it before he in turn subsequently Robinson Griffin is even briefly married (4ACX15) with it is lost when Peter on the high seas, but they lead ( to Brian's chagrin) a purely platonic relationship, which is why Brian continues to have a high sexual interest in her.
Brian often takes on the role of the slightly frustrated intellectual. His advances in women usually end up as tragic-comic failures as well as his occasional attempts at self-realization. Among other things, he has worked for a short time as a substitute teacher at Chris' school, as an editor for the New Yorker or as an award-winning porn director. He has also been writing a novel for several years, with which Stewie occasionally teases him. He also sang with Stewie and Frank Sinatra Jr. in a Family Guy version of the Rat Pack .
With all his charm and far-reaching thinking skills, Brian also has his own personal weaknesses; he seems to be an excessive smoker because he often sits with a cigarette in front of a full ashtray, and has a clear weakness for alcoholic beverages (especially martinis ). He even processes his obsessive affection for alcohol in his own love song Dear Bouze , which did not appear in the series itself, but on the CD Family Guy Live in Vegas . He is also open to other drugs (marijuana, magic mushrooms , cocaine), but does not seem to use any of these regularly. Much like Stewie, Brian is often caught up with who he really is. His cultivated, human demeanor is counteracted again and again by his animal instincts and behavior, for example when he compulsively runs after a tennis ball or barks at the vacuum cleaner out of fear. This contrast is particularly evident in those (rare) scenes in which he suddenly barks at strange African Americans, immediately followed by a very shameful apology on his part that at such moments his father, who comes from the south, speaks from him - a special one strong irony, since Brian is the perfect example of the liberal, cosmopolitan "man" in the series.
In the 6th episode of season 12, Brian dies after being run over by a car. Two episodes later, which first aired on December 15, 2013 in the US, Stewie uses his time machine to prevent Brian's death.
Glenn Quagmire
Glenn Quagmire is Peter's best friend and neighbor, playboy and woman-lover. He is mostly called Quagmire (English "morass, swamp", also "unpleasant situation") and is addicted to sex . In an episode in which Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire show each other their driver's licenses, Peter notices that Quagmire was born in 1948. As a fountain of youth , Quagmire claims to keep himself young with carrots. He never misses a sexual opportunity, is unmarried and has a weakness for Lois, which he often relaxes and of whom, in addition to numerous photos, he has hidden a doll made from a mop and a photo in a closet, which he has with Lois' hair and fingernail rests pasted. His house is a love nest in almost every corner, his trademark is the saying “Giggity Giggity Goo”. Quagmire feels an outspoken hatred towards Brian, which he openly shows and beats him extremely brutally in two episodes of the series. Peter and Glenn first met on an aircraft carrier where Glenn was a sailor. He is now a pilot. Quagmire has developed immunity to pepper spray . Quagmire also has a daughter, but she had her adopted because of his sex addiction. Known relatives by name are his brother Gary, his sister Branda, his mother Crystal and his father Daniel. The latter undergoes gender reassignment in the 18th episode of season eight and henceforth calls himself Ida Davis. Seth MacFarlane said fast-talking radio announcers from the 1950s inspired Quagmire's voice.
Joe Swanson
Joe is also one of Peter's friends and lives next door. The policeman was seriously wounded by a drug dealer during a former undercover assignment and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Despite his disability, he does not let any criminal escape and is an uncompromising and restless law enforcement officer with a weakness for Steven Seagal films. He has occasional outbursts of anger, in which he yells out key words in a sentence as forcefully as possible or shoots or beats wildly with his police weapons. After Joe's wife Bonnie was pregnant from season one, she finally gives birth to a daughter in season seven. Joe and his wife also have a teenage son who appeared to have died in the Iraq war but returned in the sixth episode of season 10 because he was faking his death.
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland is the fourth in the league of neighbors and African American. He's from the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia . He was married to Loretta and has a hyperactive son named Cleveland Jr. In season four, he separates from Loretta after she had an affair with Quagmire. FOX launched its own series about Cleveland in spring 2009 under the title " The Cleveland Show ", making it the first offshoot of Family Guy. In 2010 the second season of the 2013 Cleveland Show ran, in which the other Family Guy characters occasionally have guest appearances. He lived there again in Stoolbend, where he met his childhood sweetheart Donna Tubbs, whom he married a short time later. With Roberta and Rallo, she brought two children into the marriage. After the Cleveland Show ended, Cleveland moved back to Quahog with his new family.
Cleveland is the absolute counterpart to the lively Quagmire. He is always a bit phlegmatic and speaks almost annoyingly slowly. This is a swipe at Cleveland , Ohio residents who are known for their sluggish speech. Incidentally, the Cleveland football team is also called "Browns" .
In the episode Blinder Eifer (4ACX04) Cleveland is seen in the past as an extremely fast-speaking auctioneer, until an Indian torture stake falls on his head, making him so downright "slow".
Jerome
Jerome, like Cleveland, is African American and comes from Long Island , New York. He made his first appearance in the episode Jerome is the new black (8ACX07) as a "replacement" for Cleveland. He played LaCrosse in his youth and previously had a relationship with Lois, which is why Peter does not like to let him around Lois. In the 19th episode of the eleventh season, Jerome takes over the "Drunken Clam", the hangout of Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire after the previous owner, Horace, was hit by a baseball and died. Jerome has a daughter named Pam.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is the owner of the pharmacy in Quahog. He is a Jew of Polish descent and always tearful and insecure, and he also has hypochondriac features. Its external trademarks are the strong overbite and the square horn-rimmed glasses. He and his wife Muriel have a son, Neil, who is a typical nerd and who has fallen in love with Meg, but who does not reciprocate his feelings.
Adam West
Adam West is the paranoid mayor of Quahog. He suspects an opponent in everything and everyone, feels overheard and persecuted, and mostly spends his time heroically fighting against non-existent opponents. In season 10, he marries Lois' sister Carol.
Incidentally, not only the figure of that name, but was also in the original English until his death of Adam West speaking, the 1966 in the first Batman - television series gave the title hero. In episode 20 of season 17, Adam West High , the death of Mayor Adam West was announced.
Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons
Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, nee Seidelman, were the newscasters for local channel 5. Tom Tucker is arrogant, sexist, and self-indulgent, and prone to belittling his colleague Diane Simmons. As a running gag, embarrassing things happen to the two moderators in front of the camera. For example, Tucker insults Simmons because he thinks the duo are no longer on the air. Tucker has a son (Jake) who goes to school with Chris and whose face is upside down (eyes on his chin and mouth on his forehead), but everyone (apart from a few disgusted looks) treats him as normal. The duo from Channel 5 is complemented by the Asia correspondent Tricia Takanawa, who is never in Asia, but only of Asian descent and mostly reports live from Quahog. The weather report is presented by Ollie Williams, who only gives very brief and loud expressions.
In the first episode of season 9, Diane Simmons kills several people, including James Woods and Muriel Goldmann, as part of a classic “ Whodunit ”, manipulating the evidence so that ultimately Tom Tucker is arrested as a murderer. The motives for her actions were on the one hand the end of her relationship with James Woods, who left her after her 40th birthday, on the other hand Tucker had planned to replace her as a newscaster. After Tucker's arrest, Lois accidentally discovers who the real killer is. While trying to kill her, Diane is shot dead by Stewie. In the next episode, Joyce Kinney takes on her role as a newscaster.
Tricia Takanawa
Tricia Takanawa is an outside reporter for Channel 5 News. She is of Japanese descent but has never been there. Tricia is usually very emotionless and speaks in every situation, also in everyday life, like in a live broadcast. Tricia Takanawa has an extremely strict mother who mostly just yells at and maligns her. She also has a significant other named Tyrone.
Francis Griffin
Francis Griffin is Peter's foster father. He is a devout Catholic and is portrayed as a hardworking worker who previously worked in a metal factory. Even when he retires, Francis wants nothing more than to get back to work. The relationship between Francis and Peter is bad. Even if Peter loves his father, he does not meet with approval.
Shortly after his retirement, at Peter's request, he moved in with the Griffins, but his religious views did not make a good impression on Peter's family. He hates Lois because she is a Protestant (which he made clear at Peters and Lois' wedding with a derogatory saying), and he unsettled Chris, who Francis suspects that he is masturbating in the bathroom, even though he only went to the toilet normally. This caused Chris to develop anxiety. Francis worked briefly as a foreman in the toy company that Peter also worked for, and drove the performance above the maximum. To get rid of Francis, Peter lures the Pope into his house, who is also annoyed by Francis' religious zeal. However, there is a clarifying conversation with Peter, who is already loved by Francis as a son, but he just doesn't want to show it. He then moves out and works as a bodyguard for the Pope.
Francis died in season 5 during Meg's 17th birthday party from the effects of an injury Peter inflicted on him when he fell down the stairs with a unicycle and fell on him. He reappeared as a ghost twice after his death, among other things to convince Peter not to convert to Judaism .
Carter Pewterschmidt
Carter Pewterschmidt is the father of Lois and the chairman of Pewterschmidt Industries. In character, he is portrayed as macho and self-centered. He is married to his wife Barbara Pewterschmidt, but has several affairs over the course of the series. He is portrayed as very wealthy. He is richer than he could ever spend all of his money. However, he is very stingy and rarely gives money to others. He tends to demonstrate his financial superiority by unnecessarily destroying his money in front of those whom he denies it - for example by smoking dollar bills or grinding them in a blender and then drinking them. He also hates Peter and wants him and Lois to get a divorce. In the 3rd episode of the 11th season it is learned that Carter has terminal cancer. However, he can cure himself with a cancer cure developed by his company. Lois learns of the drug's existence and urges him to sell it. But because of his cold-bloodedness, he keeps it a secret.
Seamus Levine
Seamus Levine is an elderly fisherman and fur seal. His main external feature is his crippling: Both arms and both legs are only in the form of wooden prostheses, he is one-eyed blind and wears an eye patch. He often emerges from the shadows and warns other figures of the dangers of the high seas. Even on land he constantly uses terms from the seaman's language.
Horace
Horace was the owner of Peter's hangout, Drunken Clam . In the episode The Brits Come (2ACX19), he sells his bar to one of the Brits after a hurricane that suddenly flooded the city, but buys it back at the end of the same episode. Horace dies near the end of Season 11 after being hit by a baseball. His bar is briefly owned by the bank, but is bought in the same episode by Jerome, who in turn was to blame for Horace's death.
Mr. Herbert
Herbert, who is dependent on a walking aid, has a keen sexual interest in middle-aged boys, especially - but not only - in Chris, despite his old age. The characters in the series only perceive him as a dear old man, apart from Stewie, as it turns out in the episode Brian takes off (5ACX14): When he takes over Chris' job as a newspaper boy, he only replies to Herbert's attempts at picking up, "Piss off, you perverted old freak! ” (“ Fuck off, you perverted old freak! ”) . Herbert has a dog, Jesse, who is also very old and unable to walk. In a later episode it is learned that he was a fighter pilot in World War II . He survived being shot down by a German fighter pilot, but was then interned in a concentration camp under Franz Schlechtnacht, who decades later moved to Quahog under a false name. Mr. Herbert's first name is John, but he is never mentioned and is only announced at the beginning of the 12th episode of the 11th season. In the same episode, Herbert has a great niece named Sandy who is in love with Chris.
Bruce
Bruce is a resident of Quahog, who has mostly short appearances in numerous episodes. His trademark is, next to his mustache, his noticeably calm and monotonous voice and exclamations like "Oh haaaay ..." or "Oh nooooo!". You won't find out his name until a later season. He's gay and has a partner named Jeffrey with a similar voice. A running gag that is associated with him as a character is his constantly changing professions, often of a spiritual nature, such as pastor, hypnotherapist, masseur or spirit medium. Other jobs he does during the series are knight, group leader at Alcoholics Anonymous, clerk in a clothing store, and leader of a first aid course.
Dr. Hartman
Dr. Elmer Hartman is a doctor at Quahog Hospital. His trademark is his big black mustache. He doesn't make a particularly competent impression, so in one episode he makes fun of Peter and Lois several times during a health check by mentioning false test results and relating them to unimportant circumstances in his environment. He is also hunted down by the police in one episode, claiming that the Griffin family are his last remaining patients. In the episode Stewie Loves Lois , Peter accuses him of rape, although he only performed a prostate examination on him. In a later episode, it turns out that he is an alcoholic.
Consuela
Consuela is a Mexican cleaning lady who, as a cliché of a Mexican cheap laborer, often appears in later seasons and was also briefly employed by the Griffins as a cleaning lady. She speaks very bad German (or bad English in the original version), in which she repeatedly uses Spanish terms. Typical for her is the exclamation "Noooooo ..." (in the original Noooooo ... ), which she gives as an answer to almost every question. She also has a nephew named Mikey who sells luminous yo-yos.
Theme song
| Original text | translation to German | |
|---|---|---|
| Lois : | It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on TV. | It seems like all you see these days is violence in movies and sex on TV. |
| Peter : | But where are those good old-fashioned values ... | But where are the good, traditional values ... |
| All : | ... on which we used to rely? Lucky there's a Family Guy! Lucky there's a man who positively can do all the things that make us ... | ... that we have always relied on? Fortunately, there is a family man. Fortunately, there is a man who can certainly do all the things that make us ... |
| Stewie : | … Laugh and cry! | ... to laugh and cry! |
| All : | He's a family guy! | He is a family man! |
Relationship with the Simpsons and other competitors
Family Guy is often accused of an overly striking resemblance to the Simpsons . In the course of this rivalry, there were already mutual allusions in the series: In the episode The Italian Bob (HABF02) can be seen in an Italian book about American criminals Peter, and Stan, the protagonist from American Dad , another series can also be seen Seth MacFarlanes . The crime committed as a caption reads in Peter "Plagiarismo" (pseudo-Italian, actually English with an appended -o, for " plagiarism "), while Stan says "Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo" (pseudo-Italian for "plagiarism of plagiarism"). In another Simpsons episode, Send the Clones in (DABF19), Homer tries to clone himself , one of the cloning attempts becoming Peter Griffin. At the end of another episode, the broadcaster PBS calls on viewers to donate if they do not want to watch other inferior programs. While the woman calling for donations was saying this, she switched off a television that had the words Family Guy on it. And in the movie Futurama: Bender's Big Score the Simpsons Makers, Fry hangs a Family Guy calendar with the title 12 Laughs a Year in his apartment.
In return, Family Guy also had attacks or allusions to The Simpsons . For example, Stewie drives his tricycle home from Afghanistan (a parody of the opening scene of The Naked Cannon ) and runs over Homer Simpson in his garage at home, who, analogous to the opening sequence of the Simpsons , wants to flee from Stewie. When Peter then enters the garage and sees Homer there, he utters a derogatory "Who the hell is that?" Another example is episode 7.09, in which an angry mob tries to drive O. J. Simpson out of Quahog. Mayor Adam West only calls him "Simpson" and tells him that they don't want him in this city because they don't love him anymore, as was the case in 1993. Then you see Homer Simpson briefly, who reacts with a typical “D'oh!” (In the German version: “No!”). In the season six pilot of Family Guy ( Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest ), Chris (he plays Luke Skywalker in the film ) beheads Danny Elfman , the creator of the Simpsons theme song . Another allusion can be found in the episode Lois kills Stewie (II) : Stewie sings about a man who has been watching the Simpsons since 1994 and "does not admit that the stuff is no longer funny." In the eighth episode of the tenth season, Peter and arrested and detained his friends on a road trip. In the trial you can see a jury made up exclusively of protagonists from the animated series Simpsons, whereupon Peter says: “I knew we were in trouble when I saw the jury.” (Eng .: “I knew we were in trouble when I saw the jury. ”). In the 22nd episode of the tenth season, Stewie answers the audience question, what Family Guy is based on, but self-ironically by saying that it is the Simpsons. Furthermore, in the second episode of the 16th season, Peter introduces himself to the 1997 George Clooney as the second best homer.
The rivalry between the Simpsons and Family Guy, however, is generally considered to be amicable, which is documented, among other things, by the fact that Seth MacFarlane in the Simpsons episode Dangers on a train (German title: Glück aufzüge ), which first aired on May 19, 2013 was when the speaker appeared in a major guest role. He also sings the theme song That Was Then (And This is Too) in Futurama: Leela and the Encyclopods .
A three-quarter-hour crossover episode of the Simpsons and Family Guy was produced under the title Simpsons Guy , which the creators of both series created together. In this, the Griffin family takes a trip to Springfield and visits Homer and his family. The episode was first broadcast in September 2014.
In Blue Harvest (S06E01), Bender from Futurama and Roger from American Dad are briefly shown in the bar in Mos Eisley (Chalmuns Cantina) talking to another alien at the bar.
In the cartoon series South Park, there are much more direct attacks on the competitor. In the double episode Cartoon War (episode 10x03 and 10x04) broadcast in April 2006 , Eric Cartman, one of the protagonists, tries by all means to get Family Guy removed. A parody can then be seen, and the accusation is made (including in alleged speeches by Al-Qaeda greats Al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden ) that the gags in the series are interchangeable and have no relation to the plot. It is later learned that the authors of Family Guy are manatees who create the gags by randomly selecting key terms. When Cartman arrives at the broadcaster's headquarters to have Family Guy dropped, he meets Bart Simpson, who also wants to drop the series. The series' creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone , had said in an interview that it was like "a kick in the balls" when South Park was compared to Family Guy .
In the series Drawn Together , The Lemon-AIDS Walk also gives a swipe at Family Guy: While a ball of wool sits sadly on the street, Peter and Lois (their heads cannot be seen) walk past him. They can be recognized (next to their clothes) by the fact that (at least in the English version) the voice actress Alex Borstein was used for Lois.
In all three episodes of the Family Guy Star Wars series, both the Robot Chicken series and its creator Seth Green are targeted. This happens in several conversations between Chris (voiced by Seth Green) and one or more characters voiced by Seth MacFarlane , always at the end of the episode, but also in the middle of it. At the same time, Chris also deals several times against Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane . In the first two episodes, Chris and Peter always end up debating which of the two series would have more viewers (although there is a reference to the Star Wars episode of Robot Chicken in Blue Harvest ), in It's a Trap! Chris then goes to Seth MacFarlane's throat himself, whereupon Brian and Stewie (both also occupied by MacFarlane) join in.
Charisma
The series Family Guy has been running on the US broadcaster FOX since 1999 . In 2002, production was temporarily suspended after the third season due to poor audience ratings in the United States. Even during the broadcast of the second and third seasons, there were constant rumors about the imminent end. These were also fed by the fact that the series was removed from the broadcaster's regular program schedule after the second episode of the second season and was only shown irregularly. Bad ratings - fans suspect that these were mainly caused by the irregular broadcasting - led FOX to consider discontinuing the series at the end of the second season. After personnel changes within the station, however, a third season was commissioned and broadcast. After that, FOX again announced the final end of the series and planned not to have any further seasons produced.
The cancellation of the series in the United States led to an unexpected wave of protests from fans. An online petition was launched that included 10,000 digital signatures within a few days and even 100,000 at the end. However, this action initially failed, as did numerous letters and e-mails to the manager of the television station.
Only when the repetitions of old Family Guy episodes achieved surprisingly good ratings in 2003 and the DVD releases proved to be bestsellers with over 2.2 million copies sold did FOX begin to think about resuming production. According to a survey commissioned by Cartoon Network , Family Guy was already the most popular animated series among viewers aged 18 to 35 at the time.
On November 19, 2004, the website of the television station E! Entertainment that FOX is negotiating with Seth MacFarlane, the inventor of the series, about the resumption of production and wants to revive the series with initially 35 new episodes. On March 26, 2005, FOX officially announced that 22 more episodes of Family Guy would be produced and broadcast on May 1, 2005. On September 23, 2007 the 6th season started with a 40-minute Star Wars special, on September 29, 2013 the twelfth season started.
The first episode of season 4 began with a little swipe at the FOX program managers: At the beginning of the episode, Peter tells his wife Lois that they should be canceled, that there is simply not enough time on the schedule and they have to make room for other great programs on FOX - whereupon he lists a very long list of flopped programs from the last five years as an example. The sequence ends with Peter's statement: "Well, I guess if all these series flop, we might have a chance."
In Germany, the first two seasons were broadcast on ProSieben between August 17, 2002 and May 17, 2003 . After the sixth episode of the second season ( The Grim Reaper ), the series paused for three months. Only after a two-year break did the third season follow, which was shown at night on ProSieben. Season 4 had its premiere on pay TV ( Sat.1 Comedy ) before it was shown on ProSieben from February 9, 2008. This was also followed by repetitions on MTV Germany , Comedy Central and VIVA Germany .
ProSieben broadcast the 5th season for the first time from May 16 to September 12, 2009; the 6th season followed from February 14th to May 30th 2010 always on Sundays at ProSieben. The seventh season was broadcast on Saturdays from July 30, 2011 to November 12, 2011.
The German version of the 8th season had its premiere from July 10, 2012 to August 28, 2012 on the Austrian channel Puls 4 and was only shown on ProSieben from August 11, 2012 to December 22, 2012. Puls 4 showed a few episodes of season 9 at the turn of the year 2012/13. Most of the episodes were then seen for the first time from July 27 to August 29, 2013 on ProSieben, where the series was mostly shown on Saturday at lunchtime. Some episodes were previously shown on pay TV ( ProSieben Fun ). Season 10 was initially also on pay TV (ProSieben Fun) and only about a year later, from October 18, 2014 on ProSieben, again on Saturday lunchtime. The last episode of the 10th season ran on March 7, 2015. As in the previous season, the 11th season only ran after about a year on free-to-air television and was initially shown on pay TV (ProSieben Fun). The season started on September 4, 2015 on ProSieben and was shown on Friday around midnight until November 20. The 12th season ran from April 15 to June 10, 2015 on ProSieben Fun and ProSieben showed it on Tuesday evening as a free TV premiere from November 24, 2015 to March 8, 2016. Shortly before, on August 25, 2015 ProSieben the crossover episode with the Simpsons from the 13th season as a German premiere, before the remaining episodes were first broadcast on ProSieben Fun from April 13 to June 8, 2016. The free TV premiere on ProSieben ran again on Tuesday evening from September 20 to December 27, 2016 and on Saturday noon from June 24 to July 8, 2017. The last episode of the 13th season then ran again during the night July 18, 2017. ProSieben Fun broadcast the 14th season from April 2 to June 4, 2017, the free TV premiere followed shortly thereafter from July 18 to November 14, 2017 on ProSieben. In the 15th season, ProSieben first broadcast the first ten episodes from January 2 to March 6, 2018, then ProSieben Fun continued with the first broadcast of the second half of the season from June 24 to July 15, 2018. Since July 19, 2019, the 16th season has been broadcast for the first time on Friday evening on ProSieben Maxx.
synchronization
The German version of the first three seasons was directed by Ivar Combrinck , who was also responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction . Matthias von Stegmann has been responsible for dubbing Family Guy since the fourth season , but was replaced by Manuel Straube in the middle of the 9th season. The previously unsynchronized episode A Star of David in the Sky (22nd episode, 3rd season) was also translated into German by Stegmann.
In June 2020, Mike Henry announced that he was leaving his role as Cleveland. Colored figures, in his opinion, should only be spoken of by colored people.
| role | Original speaker | German speaker (season 1–3x20) | German speaker (from season 4 & 3x21) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main characters (Griffin family) | |||
| Peter Griffin | Seth MacFarlane | Jan Odle | |
| Lois Griffin | Alex Borstein | Katharina Lopinski | |
| Meg Griffin |
Lacey Chabert (episode 1-9) , Mila Kunis (from episode 10) |
Christine Stichler | |
| Chris Griffin | Seth Green |
Butz Combrinck (episode 1–38) Benedikt Gutjan (from episode 39) |
Benedikt Gutjan |
| Stewie Griffin | Seth MacFarlane | Manuel Straube | |
| Brian Griffin |
Frank Engelhardt Joachim Höppner (season 3; episodes 12-16, 18-20) |
Frank Engelhardt | |
| Friends and Neighbors of the Griffins | |||
| Cleveland Brown, Sr. | Mike Henry (seasons 1-18) | Thomas Rau | Peter Musäus |
| Glenn Quagmire | Seth MacFarlane | Ivar Combrinck | Hans-Georg Panczak |
| Joe Swanson | Patrick Warburton | Thomas Albus | |
| Bonnie Swanson | Jennifer Tilly | Mara winemaker |
Natascha Geisler (season 4–5) Claudia Lössl (from season 6) |
| Loretta Brown † | Alex Borstein | Inge Solbrig |
Eva-Maria Bayerwaltes (episode 53) Inge Solbrig (episode 55) Michèle Tichawsky (episode 111) |
| Donna Tubbs-Brown | Sanaa Lathan | No appearance | Susanne von Medvey |
| Mort Goldman | Johnny Brennan | Fritz von Hardenberg | Tobias Lelle |
| Horace † | Hans-Rainer Müller (season 2–11) | ||
| Muriel Goldman † | Nicole Sullivan | Inge Solbrig | Eva-Maria Bayerwaltes (episode 101) Claudia Lössl (episode 148) |
| Neil Goldman | Seth Green | Niko Macoulis | Matthias von Stegmann |
| Family members | |||
| Barbara "Babs" Pewterschmidt | Alex Borstein | Inge Solbig |
Manuela Renard (season 4) Christina Hoeltel (from season 5) |
| Carter Pewterschmidt | Seth MacFarlane | Thomas Rau (episode 8) Ivar Combrinck (episode 21) Ulf J. Söhmisch (season 3) |
Klaus Guth |
| Francis Griffin † | Charles Durning | Horst Raspe | Michael Rüth |
| Thelma Griffin † | Florence Stanley (episode 9) Phyllis Diller (seasons 3–6) Alex Borstein (from season 16) |
Inge Solbrig (episode 9) Sonja Reichelt (season 3x05) |
Ilona Grandke |
| Dan Quagmire / Ida Davis | Seth MacFarlane | no appearance | Christoph Jablonka |
| watch TV | |||
| Diane Simmons † | Lori Alan | Mara Winzer (episode 1–6) Christina Hoeltel (from episode 7) |
Christina Hoeltel (Season 4–9x01) |
| Joyce Kinney | Christine Lakin | no appearance | Kathrin Gaube (from season 9) |
| Ollie Williams | Phil LaMarr | Hans-Rainer Müller |
Christoph Jablonka (episode 51) Gudo Hoegel (episode 62) Hans-Rainer Müller (from episode 66) |
| Tom Tucker | Seth MacFarlane | Ivar Combrinck | Walter von Hauff |
| Tricia Takanawa | Alex Borstein | Sonja Reichelt | |
| Recurring characters | |||
| Adam West † | Adam West | Fritz von Hardenberg (seasons 2-3) Ulrich Frank (episode 39) |
Reinhard Brock (season 4–11x05) Walter von Hauff (from season 11x06) |
| Angela † | Carrie Fisher | no appearance | Eva-Maria Bayerwaltes (season 4–10 and 14–16) Ilona Grandke (season 12) |
| Bruce | Mike Henry |
Manfred Trilling (Season 1) Bernd Simon (Season 3) |
Matthias von Stegmann |
| Consuela | no appearance | Ilona Grandke (from season 6) | |
| Dr. Elmer Hartman | Seth MacFarlane |
Willi Röbke (2 episodes in season 2) Fritz von Hardenberg (2 episodes in season 2 and 3 episodes in season 3) Manfred Trilling (season 3x21) |
Christoph Jablonka (season 4x03.4x07.4x22.4x25.8x20, from season 14) Hartmut Neugebauer (season 4x14–13x15) Klaus Guth (season 6x03) |
| John Herbert | Mike Henry | Horst Raspe (two episodes in season 3) | Reinhard Brock (season 4–11x04) Michael Schwarzmaier (from season 11x12) |
| James Woods | James Woods | no appearance | Gudo Hoegel |
| Jonathan Weed † |
Butch Hartman (Season 1) Carlos Alazraqui ( Seasons 2-3) |
Hans-Rainer Müller Ivar Combrinck (episode 9) |
no appearance |
| John Shepherd | Gary Cole | Fritz von Hardenberg (1 episode in season 2) Hans-Rainer Müller (2 episodes in season 3) |
Hartmut Neugebauer (season 5–13) Gerhard Jilka (from season 14) |
| Seamus Levine | Seth MacFarlane | Ulf J. Söhmisch (Season 3) | Michael Rüth (season 4–11x04) Hans-Rainer Müller (from season 11x10) |
| Jerome | Kevin Michael Richardson | no appearance |
Ekkehardt Belle (season 8–15) Christian Jungwirth (from season 16) |
| Jillian Russell | Drew Barrymore | Stephanie Kellner (from season 5) | |
| Other | |||
| God | Seth MacFarlane | Peter Musäus (Season 1) Thomas Rau (Season 2) Ulf J. Söhmisch (Season 3) |
Hartmut Neugebauer (beginning of season 4, season 7-13) Hans-Rainer Müller (season 4–6) Thomas Rauscher (season 16) |
| death |
Norm MacDonald (first appearance) Adam Carolla (from second appearance) |
Hans-Rainer Müller | Ekkehardt Belle (season 4x12) Tobias Lelle (middle season 4–5) Gerd Meyer (season 9–12) |
| Voiceover | - | Butz Combrinck | |
Family Guy Presents: The Incredible Story of Stewie Griffin
Three unsent episodes of the fourth season were cut into an 83-minute feature film, which was released on September 27, 2005 exclusively as an English-language DVD. It is titled Family Guy presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story and contains various extras, English, French and Spanish subtitles. The episodes it contains, which have been expanded to include a framework, are:
- Stewie's Miraculous Transformation (4ACX05)
- Stewie is looking for his father (4ACX06)
- The future stewie (4ACX07)
All 3 episodes were shown on Sat.1 Comedy on October 10, 2007, in the course of the first broadcast of the 4th season, and repeated in December 2008 on Pro Sieben and 2011 on VIVA. The German DVD Family Guy presents: The Incredible Story of Stewie Griffin was released on October 23, 2009.
German DVDs
Season releases
Family Guy is officially distributed on DVD in Seasons in Germany . However, these only contain parts of a season and thus correspond more to volumes, similar to the releases of the American Dad series .
| Surname | Released | consequences | Brief information | Season | FSK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First season |
November 4, 2004 | 14th | The double DVD set contains all episodes of the first season and the first of the second season. | 1 & 2 | From 12 years |
| Second season |
April 21, 2005 | 15th | This double DVD contains all the remaining episodes of the second season and a bonus episode in the original English version with German subtitles. | 2 | From 12 years |
| Third season |
September 10, 2007 | 21st | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the third season except for the episode A Star of David in the Sky (2ACX05). This was already released as a bonus episode in the Season Two DVD set. | 3 | From 12 years |
| Fourth season |
January 30, 2009 | 13 | The 3-DVD box contains the first 13 episodes of the fourth season of the episode The Passion Griffin to Jungle Love . It also contains extras such as a deleted scene or production documentary. | 4th | From 12 years |
| Fifth season |
April 9, 2009 | 14th | The 3-DVD box contains the other 14 episodes of season four, as well as deleted scenes and audio commentary by Seth MacFarlane and his production team. | 4th | From 12 years |
| Sixth season |
January 8, 2010 | 13 | The 3-DVD box contains the first 13 episodes of season five, from Stewie Loves Lois to Peter and Bill Clinton on the Big Trip . It also contains extras such as deleted scenes and audio commentary on all episodes. | 5 | From 12 years |
| Seventh season |
July 23, 2010 | 12 | The 3-DVD box contains the 5 remaining episodes of the fifth season, the first seven episodes of the sixth (excluding Blue Harvest ) and the first TV special of the series. It also contains extras such as deleted scenes and audio commentary on all episodes. | 5 & 6 | From 16 years |
| Eighth season |
November 25, 2011 | 13 | The 3-DVD box contains the 4 remaining episodes of the sixth season and the first nine episodes of the seventh season. Furthermore, extras will be included such as audio commentary, omitted scenes, animatics and some documentaries for the series. | 6 & 7 | From 16 years |
| Ninth season |
December 14, 2012 | 15th | The 3-DVD box contains the 7 remaining episodes of the seventh season as well as the first eight episodes of the eighth season. The DVD box also contains extras such as omitted scenes, Family Guy karaoke, the making of the episode “Road to the Multiverse” and audio commentary | 7 & 8 | From 16 years |
| Tenth season |
April 12th, 2013 | 15th | The 3-DVD box contains the twelve remaining episodes of the eighth season and the first three episodes of the ninth season. The DVD box also contains extras such as audio commentary, The Lost Call from "Brian and Stewie" as a comic, pre-animation vs. final episode, omitted scenes, a making of of "And then there was less", the story of the world à la Family Guy, Family Guy at Comic-Con 2010 | 8 & 9 | From 16 years |
| Eleventh season |
February 28, 2014 | 14th | The 3-DVD box contains the 14 remaining episodes of the ninth season. | 9 | From 16 years |
| Twelfth season |
December 12, 2014 | 23 | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the tenth season. | 10 | From 12 years |
| Thirteenth season |
19th November 2015 | 22nd | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the eleventh season. | 11 | From 16 years |
| Fourteenth season |
November 24, 2016 | 21st | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the twelfth season. | 12 | From 16 years |
| Fifteenth season |
6th July 2017 | 18th | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the thirteenth season. | 13 | From 12 years |
| Sixteenth season |
August 16, 2018 | 20th | The 3-DVD box contains all episodes of the fourteenth season. | 14th | From 12 years |
Other publications
| Surname | Released | consequences | Brief information | Season | FSK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Guy Presents: The Incredible Story of Stewie Griffin |
October 23, 2009 | 3 | The DVD contains the three episodes Stewie's Miraculous Change , Stewie Looking for His Father and The Future Stewie in their original uncut version with a new framework. As extras there is an audio commentary on the "film" and a filmed scene book (animatic version) of the same on the DVD. | 4th | From 12 years |
| Family Guy presents: Blue Harvest |
March 14, 2008 | 2 | The DVD contains the pilot from the sixth season and as a bonus episode The Passion Griffin from the fourth season. It was also released as a collector's edition with a Blue Harvest T-shirt (size L), two 3D glasses for a 3D flight scene that was also included, 12 limited-edition trading cards, a 20-page booklet with illustrations for the film and a conversation with George Lucas . | 4 & 6 | From 12 years |
| Family Guy Presents: Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime on the Dark Side |
March 5, 2010 | 1 | The DVD contains the episode Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime on the Dark Side in an expanded version. In addition, there are various extras on the DVD such as the documentation “Family Guy Fact-ups”, a sneak peek on the third Family Guy Star Wars parody and much more. As the only one of the three episodes, this part is also available individually on Blu-ray , the content of which corresponds to the DVD. | 8th | From 12 years |
| Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap! |
March 31, 2011 | 1 | The DVD contains the episode It's a trap! in extended version. As a bonus, it includes an audio commentary on the episode as well as outtakes, the features "Drawing with Peter Shin" and "A very special message from Darth Stewie" and much more. | 9 | From 12 years |
| Yeah, just laugh, you stupid, furry animal: The Family Guy Trilogy |
March 18, 2011 | 3 | This release features three Star Wars spoofs, Blue Harvest , Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime on the Dark Side, and It's a Trap! . It is a complete box with three DVDs, which summarizes the previous individual publications.
The DVDs contain the three episodes in an expanded version. The bonus material corresponds to the individual publications. The box is also available as a Blu-ray version. |
6, 8 & 9 | From 12 years |
Episodes
literature
- 2005: Steve Callaghan: Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide: Seasons 1-3 , It Books, ISBN 978-0060833053
- 2007: Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Alex Borstein: Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One , Orion Books, ISBN 978-0061143328
Awards
Family Guy and his cast was nominated for 18 Emmys , five of which were won: MacFarlane received the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Award in 2000 for his portrayal of Stewie and in 2002, together with Walter Murphy, the Outstanding Music and Lyrics award for the song You Got a Lot to See from the episode The Swallow's Nest , Steven Fonti won the 2007 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for the storyboard of the episode Second Education for Chris , Greg Colton won the same category for the storyboard from Road to the Multiverse in 2010 , and Jim Fitzpatrick and Patrick S. Clark 2011 the category Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation for the episode Road to the North Pole . In 2009, Family Guy was the first animated show since the Feuerstein family to be nominated as an Outstanding Comedy Series . Previously, in 1993, cartoons were banned from nomination in this category when the Simpsons were considered.
The show was nominated for eleven Annie Awards and won twice in 2006 ( Best Directing in an Animated Television Production and Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production ), once in 2008 ( Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production ). There were also eleven nominations and three wins for the Teen Choice Award (2006, 2008 and 2010 for best animated show). The Saturn Award was won in 2008 in the Best Presentation on Television category with the episode Blue Harvest . The series received six nominations and three awards for the Golden Reel Award .
Also for the Grammy Awards , the People's Choice Awards , the BAFTA Awards , the Satellite Awards and the VES Awards was Family Guy nominated. Empire appointed Family Guy for zwölftbesten TV show of all time.
According to the Guinness Book of Records , this series sold the most DVDs, the majority of which were the 2008 Emmy-nominated special episode Blue Harvest and the subsequent season 7 DVD. This makes Family Guy the most commercially successful TV show or sitcom of 2009 in the USA.
Web links
- Family Guy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for Family Guy
- Official page for Blue Harvest
- Episode guide at Animation Series
- Comparison of the Cut Versions Three-part TV Version - Feature film DVD Version presented by Family Guy: The Incredible Story of Stewie Griffin at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is proven in the episode Petarded (season 4, episode 10).
- ↑ Dennis Klein: Family Guy: Baby Stewie is gay. In: queer.de . August 14, 2009.
- ↑ Andy Swift: "Family Guy" Shocker: Did They Really Kill Off [Spoiler] Griffin? on HollywoodLife.com, November 24, 2013 (English).
- ↑ Resurrection in Advent. "Family Guy" dog Brian is back! on express.de, December 16, 2013.
- ↑ "MacFarlane explains Quagmire's voice in the video from 1:26 min." The Graham Norton Show: Series 15 - BBC One; Video from May 30, 2014.
- ↑ Family Guy's Farewell to Adam West: How Did the Mayor Say Goodbye? , tvline.com, May 12, 2019
- ↑ Christian Kresse: Simpsons vs. Family Guy & Co - Everything just stolen? (No longer available online.) December 20, 2009, archived from the original on February 17, 2010 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
- ↑ The "Simpsons" and "Family Guy" do something together on news.de, May 13, 2014.
- ^ Questionnaire Trey Parker and Matt Stone - South Park / Team America. (No longer available online.) June 2005, archived from the original on October 5, 2008 ; Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Family Guy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy": White speakers step back from their roles. June 27, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ https://twitter.com/mikehenrybro/status/1276631712949317639. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ de.americandad-familyguy.wikia.com
- ↑ a b c Family Guy Awards . IMDb . Retrieved October 28, 2015.
- ^ Scott Collins: Family Guy breaks the funny bone barrier with Emmy nod . In: Los Angeles Times , Tribune Company, July 17, 2009. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
- ↑ Diane Holloway: Simpsons get Emmy's respect - Academy lets series drop cartoon status to compete as sitcom , Austin American-Statesman . February 2, 1993, p. B4.
- ^ The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time-12-Family Guy . In: Empire . Retrieved August 26, 2010.