Family Guy, Vol. 7 |  | Directors: Brian Iles, Cyndi Tang-Loveland, Dominic Bianchi, Greg Colton, Jerry Langford
Actors: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  110 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 305 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 024543589365
UPC: 024543589365
EAN: 0024543589365
ASIN: B001VFM0ZG
Release Date: June 16, 2009
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Product Description
Follows the misadventures of the Griffin family, their brilliant talking dog, and their maniacal infant son intent on ruling the world.
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Like John Waters' shock-value comedies of yore, Family Guy keeps moving the taste-be-damned line. "You laughed at that?" these episodes spanning seasons six and seven challenge viewers. "Okay, then laugh at this!" AIDS, cancer, incest, September 11, and the films of Matthew McConaughey are all grist for the mill. Though it has taken its lumps from the South Park contingent, Family Guy merrily stays true to its absurdist, arbitrary muse. The stories are ludicrous: James Woods steals Peter Griffin's identity; Brian discovers he has a son; Stewie, Brian, and nebbish pharmacist Mort time travel back in time to Hitler's Germany; and Peter discovers Jesus Christ working at a used record store. You got a problem with that? "Go on the Internet and complain," Brian suggests. The pop-culture references are as ever arcane. "That's more of a letdown than Fruit Stripe gum," Peter remarks at one point. And the politically incorrect jokes can be jaw-droppingly wrong, as witness the game show Are You Smarter Than a Hispanic Maid, the flamboyant gay stereotypes flaunted in the episode "Family Gay," and a bit in which hearing-impaired actress Marlee Matlin tries unsuccessfully to connect with Moviefone. And how does a series on Fox get away with the moment when Stewie finds a McCain/Palin campaign button on a Nazi uniform? From Dane Cook to Jay Leno, Family Guy is always up for celebrity bashing, but some are in on the joke. In "Family Gay," Meredith Baxter spoofs her signature women-in-crisis Lifetime movies, and Seth Rogen good-naturedly supplies his own voice when Peter is injected with the Seth Rogen gene that "gives you the appearance of being funny even though you haven't actually done anything funny." And kudos to Andy Dick for his room-clearing cameo in "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing." Each episode can be viewed as originally televised or uncensored with F-bombs and other crudities unbleeped. Curiously missing in action from "Ocean's Three and a Half" is one of Family Guy's most inspired bits in which Peter's voice is mixed in to the now-infamous Christian Bale rant tape (you can find it on YouTube). Loyal Family Guy viewers are also rewarded with deleted scenes, lively episode commentaries, an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the episode "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing," featuring Frank Sinatra Jr., and the Family Guy 2008 Comic-Con panel discussion. Family Guy, observes Mr. Sinatra, "is not comedy. It's satire." What it is, still, is way more often than not flat-out funny. --Donald Liebenson
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 Great as always August 17, 2010
Nicholas Eggers (Portland, OR USA)
Only 13 episodes, but every one of them is funny. Commentary is on every episode, but I wish Seth McFarlane/Seth Green was on it more. Another small complaint was at how cheap the package felt, the previous episodes each had its own case, but this one kind of jams them all three DVDs in to one case. They each have there own spot, and it doesn't affect the products rating in my opinion though.
I love you Family Guy July 21, 2010
Dallas Winters (Maryland)
I have been watching this show since the very first episode and stood by it when it got canceled. I highly encourage people to watch the show just for the slap stick humor but the political and liberal ideas shine though no matter what. If you haven't gotten any of the seasons pick this one up or get the "World Domination Collection" that has all the volumes except the two most current ones.
Packaging Problem Resolved July 19, 2010
Uncle Salty (Las Vegas, NV)
I was initially hesitant to pick up this volume of the Family Guy because of the artwork/packaging problems some of the other reviews mentioned. But I really wanted to see that "Bird is the Word" episode again and it was at a nice price so I ended up ordering it. I think Amazon has gotten the packaging problem resolved as it arrived to me looking like you would expect. None of the flimsy casing others had mentioned. It was in a good looking case with all the artwork inside.
 wow, this show is REALLY lame... don't reward its creators by buying June 30, 2010
moulton8
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
family guy is way overrated. just as the writers of south park so aptly put it, the writers of family guy are freakin lazy and unimaginative. i mean, come on... it's obvious mcfarlane has never put the effort into creating a coherent plot for his episodes. any fool with half a lick of talent can create a cartoon that consists of "flash backs" and music numbers strung together with no real purpose or message behind them... not to mention the fact that half of the episodes just copy the plot and characters from other well known shows/movies (e.g., willy wonka and the chocolate factory, the twilight zone, etc.).
that said, don't buy this family guy dvd. family guy freakin sucks.
 Post-Modern Humor at its Zenith June 29, 2010
Jiang Xueqin (Toronto, Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Family Guy" has many antecedents and ancestors. There are the obvious similarities to the absurdity and wierdness of "The Simpsons," "South Park," and "Seinfeld." But even these shows had narrative arcs and consistency of characters that made watching them a startling and striking but not disconnecting and alienating experience. There is nothing to hold "Family Guy" together, and the show's in a constant state of flux and instability. What can you say about a show in which a dog can write his own novel and matriculate at Brown and a baby can build his own time machine and take over the world but the two combined cannot flush a toilet?
There's no doubt that the team behind "Family Guy" are geniuses, far funnier, wittier, and smarter than the "Saturday Night Live" writers. The show's creater Seth MacFarlane voices the three main characters -- Peter, Brian, and Stewie Griffith -- so that some episodes it's literally him just talking to himself. The team of writers have collectively watched and memorized all the popular culture of the past fifty years, including movies, books (there's even a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in one of the episodes), video games, and news. There are some episodes which are just incredibly funny to watch, and they will skirt off randomly in different directions before coming back together again (one such episode is where Brian lobbies to legalize marijuana).
But it's also clear that "Family Guy" is firmly wedded to the present -- you need to be living today in America in order to find the show funny. It's instant gratification at its most extreme, and because there lacks a narrative arc it's hard to remember the episodes (although some jokes are truly memorable). In many ways, this is not post-modern humor (the self-referential irony, the pointlessness, the contradictions, the absurdity of it all) at its most extreme -- it's post-modern humor that's just fallen off the cliff.
"Family Guy" can be at times an exhilarating experience, but most of the time it's just dizzying and disorienting.
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