Hilarious episodes, great added features, massive content
Disadvantages:
Based on US culture, have to be vaguely familar with US culture
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Undoubtedly one of the best comedy programs about today, the complete boxset of Family Guy gives you nearly 100 episodes to laugh over for a price that is pretty cheap considering the amount of content it gives you, over 700 mins worth.
Family Guy is a cartoon comedy about a family living in the fictional town of Quahog. The family includes Peter (dad), Lois (mum), Meg, Chris and Stewie (kids) Griffin and their intelligent pet dog Brian.
Peter is a guy who spends most of his time down the pub with his friends Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe instead of paying attention to his family. Lois is the typical housewife who juggles housework, kids and a social life in a busy daytime schedule. Chris isnt the brightest of kids, and has an evil monkey living in his bedroom closet. Meg strives to be popular and beautiful but is ridiculed by classmates, and sometimes her family. Brian is a talking dog who shows a lot of intelligence. Stewie is a talking one year old baby with an american football shaped head who is obsessed with killing his mother, Lois. He too shows great intelligence at times, but also shows that he is still a baby.
The show generally makes fun of popular culture and tends to cut away from the plot often to show a totally unrelated scene usually delivering a funny one-liner. Even though the show focuses around the Griffin family, there are many more characters involved in the show, such as Sexual Pervert Glen Quagmire, Wheelchair bound cop Joe Swanson and and Pharmaceutical Store owner Mort Goldman, all with distinctive personalities and all regularly shown in episodes.
One of my favourite episodes is in Season 2 called 'The story on page 1' where Meg manages to gain an exclusive interview with the Mayor of Quahog, Adam West (Yes, Batman) and discovers that he has been wasting tax payers money. However, Peter decides that political corruption is 'old news' and makes up a 'much more interesting story' and replaces it with Meg's story. The story Peter had wrote claimed that Luke Perry was gay, which led to Luke Perry sueing the family before eventually dropping the lawsuit.
This episode opitimises all that Family Guy is, with Peter messing things up unintentionally and getting the family in a very awkward situation, Meg's life being 'ruined' by Peter's actions; as she loves Luke Perry and the classic cut away jokes.
The boxset which holds 15 discs and 5 full seasons of Family Guy also has some interesting extras. They have added an extra episode in the boxset, called 'When you wish upon a Weinstein', and has deleted scenes of other episodes. Another interesting feature is the commentary by creator Seth Macfarlane and others involved in the making of Family Guy.
There is also a mini featurette called 'World Domination: The Family Guy Phenomenon' and many other added features to explore. So, Family Guy is one of the funniest comedies around and the boxset provides you with over 700 mins in nearly 100 episodes and other features of this great animated Series, making it well worth the money to buy it.
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Outstanding
How does it compare to others by the same director?
Outstanding
Value for Money
Excellent
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