"family guy" question

SoCal · May 12, 2009

Ok, so for the second night in a row... I get home from work and I turn on the tube whilst stuffing my face with take out grub. I am so hungry I just watch whatever comes on first, unable to put the fork down. Both days in a row It's been "family guy", the cartoon show. I have never watched before until yesterday and today.

What is the premise behind the dog named "Brian" that is being treated like a human member of the family? They have this dog character dating a ditzy blonde and the writers are making insinuations of sex. Kinda pushing the envelope for 6:30 pm TV, isn't it? A cartoon dog character banging a chick?

I'm guessing there is more to this show than meets the eye? What is the deal with this Brian character that appears to be a dog? WTF?

tld1962 · May 12, 2009

Brian is a dog who happens to have a lot of characteristics of a person.
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Most of the time he functions much more as a person—in fact an unusually suave, intelligent, sane, reasonable person who provides something of a counterweight to the loons in the family—but much of the humor of the character is that periodically he’ll do stereotypical “dog” things that remind you he’s a dog after all, like ride in a car with his head hanging out the window, eat his own puke, bark uncontrollably at African American people, slide around rubbing his butt on the carpet to scratch it, etc.
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People treat it as a mildly interesting novelty that he talks and such, which also is part of the humor of the show since that’s obviously wildly understating how big a deal it would really be for an animal to be almost fully human-acting like him.

barman · May 12, 2009

Family Guy's Brian also teaches viewers important life lessons.

Like, Why You Should Never Stiff Your Bookie

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SoCal · May 12, 2009

Thanks for the insight. Seems like a good show to watch at a local bar during happy hour. Entertaining. I amazed the writers are pushing the envelope to the degree I saw.

ZJP6050 · May 12, 2009

barman said:
Family Guy's Brian also teaches viewers important life lessons.

Like, Why You Should Never Stiff Your Bookie

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one of my favorites. isn't that when peter plays for the patriots?

barman · May 12, 2009

Yes.

Here's a recent interview with FG creator Seth McFarlane that discusses how the show pushes the envelope

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sumday · May 12, 2009

Love Family Guy. One thing always bugs me, can they hear the baby(Stuy) or no? I am pretty sure not, and only Brian can hear him but sometimes they make it ambiguous. I think the writers do it on purpose to F with your mind.

tld1962 · May 13, 2009

Evidently Brian can understand Stewie fully. So can most people outside the family, like Brian's girlfriend Jillian. They again treat Stewie's ability to talk and function as an adult as a mildly interesting novelty, like with Brian.

The other members of the family seem to get the gist of what Stewie is saying, but they kind of brush it off as the gurgling of a baby. With his mother Lois for instance, if he explicitly insults her and evinces a desire to kill her, she reacts like he's angry and having a generic tantrum. So she gets the emotion, but she doesn't react to the specific content. She treats it like he's just kind of babbling words he probably doesn't fully understand himself, so she's not really paying attention to the specifics of what he's saying.

RobFunk · May 13, 2009

tld1962 said:
Evidently Brian can understand Stewie fully. So can most people outside the family, like Brian's girlfriend Jillian. They again treat Stewie's ability to talk and function as an adult as a mildly interesting novelty, like with Brian.

The other members of the family seem to get the gist of what Stewie is saying, but they kind of brush it off as the gurgling of a baby. With his mother Lois for instance, if he explicitly insults her and evinces a desire to kill her, she reacts like he's angry and having a generic tantrum. So she gets the emotion, but she doesn't react to the specific content. She treats it like he's just kind of babbling words he probably doesn't fully understand himself, so she's not really paying attention to the specifics of what he's saying.

Yeah. Pretty good. Lois always reacts after Stewie's little bits of speech or rants but not in a way like she understood the actual words. Well played TLD!

Brian on the other hand seems to understand everything Stewie says.

But as mentioned before, that's part of what makes the show so fun to watch.

tld1962 · May 13, 2009

One of the classic "pushing the envelope" moments in Family Guy is that they managed to get the slang phrase "Cleveland steamer" past the sensors. The story is that because there's a character on the show named Cleveland, the censors assumed it was just a nonsense phrase related to him, so they didn't bother looking it up on Urban Dictionary or anywhere.

al_corona · May 13, 2009

family guy is probably the funniest cartoon ive ever seen lol

barman · May 13, 2009

tld1962 said:
One of the classic "pushing the envelope" moments in Family Guy is that they managed to get the slang phrase "Cleveland steamer" past the sensors. The story is that because there's a character on the show named Cleveland, the censors assumed it was just a nonsense phrase related to him, so they didn't bother looking it up on Urban Dictionary or anywhere.

1) TLD obviously a Star Trek devotee

"censors"

2) Shit...now "I" have to go look up Cleveland Steamer in that urban dictionary

brb

barman · May 13, 2009

:lol:

The best part is that they use it in a sentence so you can better appreciate the proper context in which to use it

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</td> <td class="text" colspan="2"> The cleveland steamer is far more specific than the listings I have seen here. A sexual act by nature (fetish) the cleveland steamer is when one person craps on another person's chest and (very important) then sits down and rocks back and forth like a steam roller.

Billy had just gotten out of the shower, so me and John gave him a cleveland steamer.
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barman · May 13, 2009

Am I the only one reading this here thread who believes that there is absolutely no fucking way in the world that original poster SOCAL honestly had his first exposure to Family Guy just a couple days ago and this thread was created simply as bait for some resets of great FG moments?

barman · May 13, 2009

My favorite note from the McFarlane interview is his sharing that they are not permitted to use the words "Jesus Christ" unless they also involve a caricature of Jesus Christ within the scene.

SoCal · May 13, 2009

barman said:
Am I the only one reading this here thread who believes that there is absolutely no fucking way in the world that original poster SOCAL honestly had his first exposure to Family Guy just a couple days ago and this thread was created simply as bait for some resets of great FG moments?

I'm innocent, I swear ! I watch SNL, 24, 30 Rock, and I just got turned on to reruns of 2 1/2 Men with C.Sheen from 7-8pm. I am truly amazed there is a cartoon TV show on at 6:30 in the evening suggesting a man-like dog having sex with a blonde bimbo. It truly is noteworthy and remarkable that this kind of material is on TV before primetime!

gynecologist · May 13, 2009

By far my fave show on right now.. Love how they make fun of different nationailties..

steaktartar · May 13, 2009

best show ever

cocktailsnlongshots+ · May 13, 2009

jillian=drew barrymore.....perfect role 4 her

MinnesotaEconMajor · May 13, 2009

I always thought this show was overrated. Weak plot with a bunch of random flashbacks. I prefer King of the Hill or South Park. To each their own, though.

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