Family Guy Tonight

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:01pm

Anyone watching Family Guy? They just had a Broadway sequence. They had a little cartooned marquee for Wicked. And they had a bit about David Mamet on "American Dad." Updated On: 9/24/06 at 09:01 PM

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:05pm

I saw it... I was the only one here who noticed the Wicked marquee, my family had to rewind it to believe me.

[Zenachick]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:34pm

yup I got excited when I saw that. I love Family Guy and its tributes to Broadway

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:35pm

Yeah, was pretty funny. I love the Goonies reference too.

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:49pm

I saw the WICKED Marquee. WOW!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 9:51pm

Um, naw, it just aired here in the central time zone, so prob. not.

[wickedbway]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 10:01pm

i bet you anything that the creator of family guy is gonna write a musical. he has to, you can already tell with all the tributes and songs and stuff. i bet it would be a hilarious and awesome show, too.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 10:54pm

I missed it!!

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 9/24/06 at 10:57pm

I loved it on FG when they were gonna do The King and I and then Peter goes: "If you want to do a crappy musical, why don't you just do RENT?"

[winston89]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 12:22am

Keep in mind that the creator of the show has talked about how he is a fan of stuff like big band and sanatra. There has even been an episode that was a take off of My Fair Lady. And There was a scene in one episode where Brian is talking about a problem he has with Lois during one of her piano lessons. It ends up being done the same way it was in the music man. It ends with Brian saying "I don't know if I can talk abot this amilodicaly." So, yes Seth Mcfarlane does know about theatre and is a fan. I cannot even count the refrences he has made to different shows. A couple that come to mind are one of the cut scenes is Stewie as Maria singing I have confidence. Another one is when peter and his friends go to jail and they are practicing for the jail talent show. They do a little chicago esq dance. When Lois gets her dead aunt's mansion the stff in there go into a song "this house is pretty firggen sweet" which is a spoof of I think I'm Going to like it here from Annie.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 1:41am

I noticed the Wicked logo, but I was much more amused by "Red Dawn: the Musical."

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 2:19am

My favorite Family Guy/B'way moment is a tossup between "La-la-la-la-la-Miss Saigon la-la-la-la-la Miss Saigon..." and Herbert's fantasy sequence featuring Somewhere That's Green, straight out of the movie.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 2:35am

Herbert is a pretty priceless character. I wish the greased-up deaf guy would sing something.

Where do you see the cut scenes?

[Janelle188]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 3:15am

I liked the one where Peter was in the football game and he got the entire stadium (audience, players, cheerleaders, refs) to sing "Shipoopi" from "The Music Man." They sang the entire song and were doing the dance and everything. It was hilarious.

There was also one where Peter was in a barber shop quartet. I don't really remember the premise, but they were in some guys hospital room telling him he had AIDS and they were singing it. . . the only thing I really remember is at the end the last guy, in his really deep voice, finished off with, "I'm sorry it wasn't something less serious."

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 3:28am

the miss saigon one is priceless.... i have friends that i introduced to miss saigon and when they saw that episode they were laughing because they understood the humour in it...

as much as i love the miss saigon one... my vote has to go for the episode when Peter is officially retarded and they do this number right from BYE BYE BIRDIE.... CLASSIC!

[singtopher]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 10:18am

My roomate and I (both of us MT majors) were watching FG last week and talking about how much we savor the fact that there are a bunch of frat boys across town who have no clue why it's funny.

And, I have nothing against frat boys, and yes i'm playing into a stereotype.

[Kgshrauder]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 10:22am

I love Family Guy. I like the spoof on Music Man where Lois is argueing with Brian while teaching a piano lesson and they do the who piano lesson sequence from MM. I also like the Miss Saigon spoof too.

[bwaymizfit]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 12:42pm

I remember the one where the kids sing all of "So Long, Farewell" complete with choreography

[folkyboy]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 2:12pm

nothing tops the Somewhere That's Green skit :)

[JKM2159]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 2:29pm

Didn't Peter sing a version of "Everything's Coming up Roses" during an earler episode? When Chris is an artist?

[WickedScoundrel]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 3:24am

Didn't Peter sing a version of "Everything's Coming up Roses" during an earler episode? When Chris is an artist?

Yep, in "A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Bucks" He sang a parody of it to Meg.

Gotta appreciate the episodes Dan Povenmire directs (this past weeks, "Patriot Games" with the Shipoopi number, and "Road to Rhode Island" and "Road to Europe" which had those Crosby/Hope parodys in them).

As for whomever said something about Seth MacFarlane creating a musical, honestly he doesn't have the time. What with Family Guy, American Dad, and working on another show with Ricky Blitt he is a very busy man. But gotta appreciate all those musical references thrown in, right? Of course right.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 4:35pm

I only catch episodes now and then, but "This House is Freakin' Sweet" was a scream.

[Aqualline2]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 4:39pm

Does anyone know if i can find a clip of it on the "voldemort" site

[Wanderingchild5]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 6:39pm

I saw that Wicked thing too and... I just met a guy who played for the Family Guy band, the theme song for this season. He also is in the orchestra of Wicked in Chicago

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 6:47pm

I always enjoyed "This House is Freakin' Sweet", obviously parodied from Annie.