Family Guy Tonight

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

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

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

I missed it!!

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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.

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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.

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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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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