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It's my favorite TV family,
the Griffins.
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Victory is mine!
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Go on, get out!
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Housekeeping.
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Bing bong!
Mommy! Mama!
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You're a phony.
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Meg?
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What do you want,
a Cleveland steamer?
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All right.
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Bringing the
good news today?
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It's gonna rain!
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Yes!
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No...
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Ah, that's right!
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♪ Family Guy 11x05 ♪
200 Episodes Later
Original Air Date on November 11, 2012
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I think at one point
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I thought we would
get to 200 episodes,
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and then when
we got canceled,
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I thought, "No, we won't
get to 200 episodes."
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And then,
when we came back,
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I thought, "Yeah, maybe
we'll get to 200 episodes."
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And now, it's like,
"Oh, crap, 200 episodes."
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I'm so proud of you.
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Way to go, Dad.
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Yeah, you're
a smart fella, Dad.
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And you're
a fart smeller, Meg.
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Wait. We've been on
for 200 episodes?
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Wow.
I'm actually almost...
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What I've done is
I wanted my weight
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to equal how many
episodes we have.
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So I'm almost
just about at 200 pounds.
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And I plan to continue
to rise with the episodes.
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So if the show goes
500 episodes, I will
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not be able to leave my house.
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I've always found it really
funny and I was excited when
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so many other people did
'cause it meant that
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was something that we
all have in common.
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We all find this funny.
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This is a show
that has never tried
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to be anything more
than something that
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makes you laugh as often
and as loudly as possible
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within the course
of a half hour.
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== sync, corrected by elderman ==
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Damn it!
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Oh, my God.
Peter, are you okay?
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No! I am not okay.
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Nothing about
this is okay.
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Inherently, like,
in the show's DNA,
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has the ability to go a lot of
different directions.
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We could tell conventional family
stories that are very character driven.
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I say it's four o'clock,
away with you.
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Stewie!
Change it back!
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No, forget it.
Jolly Farm Revue is on.
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It's the latest
indoctrinating pabulum
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for children with
not enough to do.
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Hey! Shut up.
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And also, you could tell
buddy comedy.
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You could do
buddy comedy episodes
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with Peter and Quagmire
and Joe.
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Would you rather get
a massage from a man
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or a surgery from
a female doctor?
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Wow!
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An then beyond that, Stewie's got
this sort of scientific bent, where
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it opens the door
to tell all kinds of sci-fi stories.
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Da Vinci must be
my ancestor.
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Good Lord!
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That's who Bertram's
here to kill.
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So, that means
you're Italian.
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Of course, my love for SpaghettiOs
and smoking on the toilet.
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It all makes sense.
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You know, it really helps
having all those avenues to pursue.
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Creatively, I've always said
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this is the closest I've ever
come to writing Monty Python,
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where any funny idea
that you have
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you can somehow fit it
into an episode of Family Guy.
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It doesn't even have to serve the story
as long as it's funny enough.
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I got something for you here.
What is it?
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I caught you
a bullfrog outside.
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Poked some holes in its back
so it can breathe.
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See, look at this...
Oh, boy.
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All right, hang on,
hang on.
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I also feel like this show
is unique in that...
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Because it's animated we can
push boundaries a little bit further.
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Some of the things that
our characters say,
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if they were coming out
of a live actor or actress,
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would seem
sort of off-putting.
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Are you telling me that you have
a problem with me being handicapped?
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As a matter of fact, Joe,
yes, I think it's immoral.
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It's a lifestyle choice
you're forcing on America.
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We handicapped
are a proud people.
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Yeah, when you're not drinking and
gambling on your reservations,
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which we gave you.
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There are things
about the show that are
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maybe gratuitous.
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But the show doesn't
set out to shock for shock's sake.
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It also has to be funny.
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Hey, what are you guys
bellyaching about?
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Sir, we are doing all
that we can
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to stop the killing of
millions of unborn babies.
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If you have a few moments,
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I'd like you to watch this
video presentation.
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Yeah, I got a few minutes.
My wife's getting an abortion.
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The "Partial Terms
of Endearment" episode,
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the thing to me that's most
significant about the fact
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that it couldn't air was
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that it was really
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the closest we've ever come
to a true modern day
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All in the Family episode.
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It's a women's responsibility
to carry it to term.
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Well, what if
a woman is raped?
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Maybe she should have thought of
that before she asked me for directions.
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Huh?
What about incest, Peter?
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What's incest?
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You know how cousin Lou
has that kid whose eyes touch.
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So what, you're saying
Touch Eyes doesn't deserve to exist?
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Well, you don't mind him
when you want a needle threaded.
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I'm just saying that they should
have at least have the option.
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How can you say that?
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Think of all the love he's given
to Uncle Mom and Aunt Dad.
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Okay, this argument
isn't working.
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Peter, what if
carrying the baby to term
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would endanger
the mother's life?
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I don't know what seven of
those words were.
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What if you look
at the ultrasound
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and see that the baby is going
to be born with no arms and no legs?
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You name it Mat.
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Even in our crazy venue,
which is Family Guy,
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we felt we'd brought, you know,
a relatively balanced
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and sort of
intelligent discussion
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of a very, very
difficult subject.
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That episode was not
controversial at all.
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It's just like "When You Wish
Upon a Weinstein,"
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was an episode they felt
that it was too controversial.
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And it's not at all.
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It's, you know...
It's one of the nicer episodes actually.
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Max, Max, Max,
let's not deny our heritages.
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You're Jewish,
you're good with money.
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I'm Irish, I drink
and I ban homosexuals
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from marching
in my parade.
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This is a story
of love and loss,
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fathers and sons,
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and the foresight to retain international
merchandizing rights.
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This is the story
of Star Wars.
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We had done a number of Star Wars
gags on the show and, uh...
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They were so frequent
that Fox Legal said to us,
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"If you're gonna keep
doing these
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"we have to get clearance
from Lucasfilm
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"because there's just no way
we're not going to get sued."
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This will keep you warm
until I get the shelter built.
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You're sure
this is okay?
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Yeah, you're just
cutting into the fat.
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And we said, "Ah, well, God,
that's the end of it."
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You know, "We're not
going to be able to do these anymore."
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And Lucasfilm surprised us
by saying,
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"Yeah, no,
we like this."
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What started
as a small idea became
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a one hour parody of Star Wars
that Alex Sulkin wrote.
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Beep boop beep.
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He says there are several creatures
approaching from the southeast.
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That's not
what I said.
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I said there ain't
a pack of menthols on this planet.
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I'm a huge Star Wars fan
from way back as a kid,
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as many of us are.
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Okay, so the door's going to open and
you guys say, "Freeze,"
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and point your guns
at 'em.
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Or, you know...
Or should it just be me?
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Yeah, you know what,
I think that'd be better.
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Get out, go, go, go.
Just me.
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Oh, I wasn't ready...
Hi!
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Those were very fun
for me to work on.
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Knowing every line
of those movies inside and out,
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it was fun to kind of
go through it and make fun of it.
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You know, tell the jokes
that you'd always think of saying.
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Where am I?
Jabba's Palace.
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Who are you?
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Someone who loves you.
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Whoa, you are smothering me
and I need my space.
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Some of my favorite gags
from the series
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come out of some
of those episodes.
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I love in the first
Star Wars episode
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when they're
in the trash compactor
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and Peter finds
an old ratty couch.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa,
stop, stop, stop, stop.
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What? What? What?
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What?
No, no, no, twist it.
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I am.
No, no, no, no.
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No, no, no, other way.
You're twisting it the wrong way.
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Which way?
What do you want me to do?
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Just look down, all right?
Just look at me, look what I'm doing.
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Yeah.
All right, see the way I'm twisting it?
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Yeah.
All right, turn it that way from your end.
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Okay.
Okay, just...
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No, no, no, no...
What?
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All right, hey,
just put it down.
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Put it down,
just drop it. All right.
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We were able to use
all that great John Williams music.
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I mean, they really gave us
the tools to do this right, and...
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And it was because
they trusted us.
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They knew that we were fans and
that we weren't gonna...
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We weren't gonna
destroy their property.
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I say, Brian, look, three rows down.
What?
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Is that Tom Bosley?
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What would Tom Bosley
be doing on a train in Switzerland?
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I'm almost certain.
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Tom!
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Did he look?
I don't know.
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Well, if I yell,
you have to watch.
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Tom Bosley!
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No, it's not him.
Huh.
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The Road shows have been
a lot of fun.
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We started with
"Road to Rhode Island" in season one.
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And, uh, Seth had this idea
to do an episode
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based on those Bob Hope,
Bing Crosby Road shows.
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Seth, as you probably know,
loves Bob Hope.
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And, you know,
is very familiar with those movies
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and the music from
those movies and...
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So, I think that
having "Road to..."
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with Brian and Stewie,
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they're sort of our
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
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Up until that point Stewie had
kind of existed in his own world.
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He would talk to Rupert
and hatch diabolical schemes.
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And Brian meanwhile was
kind of Peter's sidekick.
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And they were
kind of separate.
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And this was the first time
we kind of paired those two,
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and it just clicked.
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Okay, if everything
worked properly
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this should be the exact time and place
that Mort was sent to.
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Now, we've just got to
figure out where we are.
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Or when we are.
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Oh, that's such a douche
time traveler thing to say.
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From that point forward
we started
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pairing Stewie and Brian
together on stories,
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'cause they were
so good together.
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And it's a perfect example
of how you can
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create a show and then
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your writing style...
Other people coming in,
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in this case,
the writing staff,
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can find things in your characters that
you didn't see initially.
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The Brian-Stewie relationship
which now seems so obvious
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was not something
that I thought of when
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I was creating the show.
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They're always sort of
busting each other's chops
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and, uh, antagonistic
towards each other,
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but they're also...
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I think they've evolved
into their best friends.
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Can I just say before...
Can we just like take two...
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I love...
You're so brave.
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I just love how brave
you're being right now.
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This is like the closest
I've ever felt to you.
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Okay. Oh, my God,
I was thinking the same thing.
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We are so us
right now.
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Do you know that?
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And the Brian-Stewie episode,
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more than anything,
we did to explore whether or not
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two animated characters
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with just a single room
can sustain a half hour
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purely on the strength
of their characters.
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We thought that it might be
interesting to try an episode
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where it was almost
like watching a play.
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Where it was one location,
two people on stage,
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no cutaways, nothing, just dialogue
for 22 minutes.
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It was very polarizing.
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People either loved it
or they hated it.
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They thought
it was revolutionary,
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or they thought
it was just...
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You know, they couldn't get past
the Stewie diaper thing.
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Look!
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He's dead.
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Oh, my God.
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Nice.
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"And Then There Were Fewer"
was our first 16x9 episode,
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when we went from
this to this.
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And, um, we thought we'd do this big
splashy visual episode.
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I love that episode
because it's the first time
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we've really told
a story that complex.
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So James Woods murdered
Stephanie and then he murdered himself.
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Criss-cross.
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The animators
did an amazing job.
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The artists
and the directors
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and everybody
that worked on that.
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It looks so great
to watch
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and the score
is amazing.
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It's just a lush score
all the way throughout.
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We use anywhere
from a 50 to,
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in some cases, a 90-piece
orchestra for every episode of the show.
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Even if people don't know that what
they're hearing is live music,
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is a live orchestra,
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on a subconscious level
it classes up the show.
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I know that it happens to be one of
Seth's favorite episodes to this day.
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And I think he really
liked approaching it like a movie.
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Mr. Peter.
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Mr. Joe.
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Mr. Bonnie.
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She doesn't know
what "mister" means.
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Mr. Mort.
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Mr. Muriel.
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Mayor West Mister.
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Oh, my God, seriously.
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♪ Take me out
to place tonight
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♪ To a bathroom
stall delight
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♪ Where a girl
will help you empty
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♪ Every last electrolyte
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♪ Now everybody gather 'round and
listen if you would
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♪ When I tell you every person needs
a way of feeling good
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♪ Every kitty needs a ball of string
and every dog a stick
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♪ But all you need is a bag of weed
to really get a kick ♪
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♪ Me and Jesus
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♪ Come and hug
and squeezes
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♪ 'Cause you know that
he's a simply Christ-errific dude ♪
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We do a lot of musical numbers
in Family Guy.
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Which is fun for us.
Seth is a big music fan.
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And he's very skilled
at executing them.
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♪ Now a woman who'll kiss
on a very first date
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♪ Is usually a hussy
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♪ And a woman who'll kiss
on the second time out
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♪ Is anything but fussy
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♪ But a woman who'll wait
'till the third time around
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♪ Head in the clouds,
feet on the ground
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♪ She's the girl
he's glad he's found
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♪ She's his Shipoopi
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Shipoopi
was so elaborately choreographed
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and then the visuals,
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which Dan Povenmire, the director, spent
a ton of time working on,
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really hit every point
in the orchestration.
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And the thing that I've always
loved about the show is...
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When I talk to my son
and his friends, you know,
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they don't know
what Shipoopi is.
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They might not know,
you know, who Gene Kelly was,
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but they're loving the musical,
you know, segments.
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And it's like,
how did Seth make
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10 million teenage boys
fans of musicals?
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♪ It's a wonderful day
for pie
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♪ You can ask
all the birds in the sky
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♪ And they'll tell you real sweet,
with a musical tweet
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♪ It's a wonderful day
for pie ♪
336
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Our season seven premiere was
an episode called "Road to the Multiverse."
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And there's this great
musical number called
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It's A Wonderful Day
for Pie,
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which is, you know,
as devoid of content as it sounds.
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It's just about Peter and Lois
singing about how much they love pie.
341
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But the animation
in that sequence is amazing.
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Visually, it was just fantastic to
see our characters
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animated
in a Disney style.
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I just thought
that was so well done.
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And it was
a lot of fun.
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Uh, and we
sort of improvised
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some of the lyrics
in the room.
348
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Seth just came out with...
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♪ It's a wonderful
day for pie
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And one of us goes...
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00:15:37,342 --> 00:15:40,678
♪ And it smells
so much better than I ♪
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It was Cleveland as a skunk
and it just came together.
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And, uh, that was a great piece.
One of my favorites.
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♪ I know you just
can't wait to stare
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♪ At all that
luscious orange hair
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♪ But, boy, before you
touch a single curl
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♪ You must impress
that ultra-bloomin'
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♪ All-consumin',
poorly groomin'
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♪ Down's Syndrome girl
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The Down's Syndrome Girl song
was fun for me because
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it was the first time
I had written lyrics and a tune.
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Which I basically went in
and sang for Walter Murphy
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who then arranged it
and actually made it >sound good.
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It's a lot of fun
for us to...
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You know, to write a song lyric
and have a great composer
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like Walter Murphy
or Ron Jones set it to music.
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♪ Each bell would peal
with a silvery zeal
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♪ As the holiday feeling
was filling us
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♪ But now instead,
all we're feeling is dread
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♪ Because Christmastime
is killing us ♪
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When we did our
Christmas episode,
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I had originally envisioned
something like Rudolph
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that had, like, four or five, six
musical numbers in it.
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We ended up, like,
doing two or three.
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And I had written
this lyric about how...
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I was making a comment
on how crazy Christmas has become
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and what it takes
out of us all.
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And when the smoke cleared,
it was a success.
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And we were nominated
for an Emmy.
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But also, a great
unexpected thrill was
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we were nominated
for a Grammy.
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♪ You have AIDS
♪ Yes, you have AIDS
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♪ Not HIV
but full blown AIDS ♪
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I think the first song that
the barbershop quartet did
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was the AIDS song.
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00:17:15,423 --> 00:17:19,210
And that's a perfect example
of another reason
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00:17:19,244 --> 00:17:24,081
for using that orchestra
and trying to be so musically legit.
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00:17:24,115 --> 00:17:26,550
Because it allows you
to get away with content
389
00:17:26,585 --> 00:17:28,502
that you wouldn't otherwise
be able to get away with.
390
00:17:28,537 --> 00:17:33,190
Yeah, talk about making a subject matter
a little more palatable.
391
00:17:33,225 --> 00:17:36,096
People love the absurdity
of these guys singing such
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00:17:36,121 --> 00:17:37,494
an outrageous lyric,
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00:17:37,495 --> 00:17:40,214
but what Seth
appreciates about it is
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how unbelievably talented
these guys are and were
395
00:17:43,850 --> 00:17:45,640
in these pieces, musically.
396
00:17:45,937 --> 00:17:48,439
It provides
a musical cushion
397
00:17:49,724 --> 00:17:53,727
that prevents you from
being completely crass,
398
00:17:53,778 --> 00:17:55,629
if you're being that crass
in the first place.
399
00:17:55,664 --> 00:17:59,216
♪ You'll never have
to wear a condom
400
00:17:59,251 --> 00:18:03,420
♪ When you do it
with your wife
401
00:18:03,455 --> 00:18:05,656
♪ Or anyone else
you do it with
402
00:18:05,690 --> 00:18:07,675
♪ We promise not to tell
403
00:18:07,709 --> 00:18:10,160
I also like the little
things that we do here and there,
404
00:18:10,195 --> 00:18:12,863
like, Stewie singing
little folk songs,
405
00:18:12,898 --> 00:18:16,267
Stewie making up his own,
you know, little songs,
406
00:18:16,301 --> 00:18:18,636
talking about, you know,
"Playing the G-chord
407
00:18:18,670 --> 00:18:20,871
"and here we go
to the D-chord."
408
00:18:21,006 --> 00:18:25,409
♪ Then Brian comes in
and I change up the tempo
409
00:18:25,443 --> 00:18:29,179
♪ Brian comes in
and it changes the song
410
00:18:29,214 --> 00:18:32,783
♪ Looking at me like
he thinks I'm a douche bag
411
00:18:32,817 --> 00:18:36,020
♪ But he's gonna learn
pretty fast that he's wrong
412
00:18:36,054 --> 00:18:39,924
♪ Hey, Brian, why are you
bringing me down, man?
413
00:18:40,141 --> 00:18:42,443
♪ Why are you
bringing me down?
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00:18:42,477 --> 00:18:44,228
♪ Don't bring me down!
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00:18:44,262 --> 00:18:46,280
Music and lyrics
by Stewie Griffin.
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00:18:52,717 --> 00:18:54,985
It's amazing to me
that the show has had
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00:18:55,019 --> 00:18:57,337
the cultural impact
that it has.
418
00:18:57,372 --> 00:19:00,874
For a long while, The Simpsons
was really the only show
419
00:19:00,892 --> 00:19:03,443
that had broken out
in this way
420
00:19:03,478 --> 00:19:07,102
and I always hoped
we would have a prayer of
421
00:19:07,127 --> 00:19:09,066
maybe doing that as well.
422
00:19:09,067 --> 00:19:10,200
And I think
we've done that.
423
00:19:11,936 --> 00:19:13,070
Ah!
424
00:19:13,471 --> 00:19:16,256
One of the great things
now is that we're syndicated.
425
00:19:16,391 --> 00:19:18,892
So, we're on all the time.
426
00:19:18,926 --> 00:19:20,861
And old people
like us now.
427
00:19:21,045 --> 00:19:23,380
I have an Auntie Philly
who's 92.
428
00:19:23,414 --> 00:19:24,581
She loves Family Guy
429
00:19:24,632 --> 00:19:27,884
and she won't let any of her friends
in the room when it's on
430
00:19:27,919 --> 00:19:30,087
because old people
talk back to the television.
431
00:19:30,138 --> 00:19:31,338
She wants to hear it.
432
00:19:31,372 --> 00:19:32,506
- What?
- Huh?
433
00:19:32,507 --> 00:19:33,740
What?
Huh?
434
00:19:33,841 --> 00:19:35,409
What?
I forget.
435
00:19:35,576 --> 00:19:38,495
I said it before,
but we're so thankful to our fans
436
00:19:38,546 --> 00:19:40,097
for bringing the show
back from the dead,
437
00:19:40,131 --> 00:19:42,249
that I almost feel like
we owe it to them
438
00:19:42,283 --> 00:19:45,702
to give 110% every day
to every episode.
439
00:19:45,837 --> 00:19:48,388
I try to interact with
the fans as much as I can.
440
00:19:48,422 --> 00:19:49,890
I don't know if you
can see right now,
441
00:19:49,924 --> 00:19:51,525
but I'm actually
eight months pregnant.
442
00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:53,126
And this is a fan's baby.
443
00:19:53,161 --> 00:19:54,795
You get crazy when
you're pregnant.
444
00:19:59,650 --> 00:20:02,380
I feel like if you love me
from afar then the least I
445
00:20:02,405 --> 00:20:04,410
can do is love you back.
446
00:20:04,505 --> 00:20:07,724
And if that means
carrying your child, so be it.
447
00:20:08,476 --> 00:20:09,960
I love my fans.
448
00:20:09,994 --> 00:20:11,288
Keep digging, you know?
449
00:20:11,313 --> 00:20:13,393
It feels like there's
no more stories to tell
450
00:20:13,514 --> 00:20:15,886
and then we dig for a while
and something pops up that,
451
00:20:15,911 --> 00:20:17,601
"Oh, we haven't done that."
452
00:20:18,836 --> 00:20:21,654
What's next is, I guess,
episode 300.
453
00:20:21,672 --> 00:20:23,423
And I'll have
even more gray hair
454
00:20:23,458 --> 00:20:25,142
and bigger circles
under my eyes.
455
00:20:25,293 --> 00:20:27,577
I'm here for
the early bird special.
456
00:20:27,612 --> 00:20:30,514
A Family Guy movie
would be a logical extension.
457
00:20:30,548 --> 00:20:33,734
But, with an animated show,
you can do pretty much anything.
458
00:20:33,901 --> 00:20:35,018
There's nothing
you can't do.
459
00:20:35,053 --> 00:20:37,320
So what is the reason
to make a movie?
460
00:20:37,388 --> 00:20:39,089
Without giving
anything away,
461
00:20:39,140 --> 00:20:41,208
I think we've hit on
the answer to that.
462
00:20:41,242 --> 00:20:44,211
So when that Family Guy movie
does come around,
463
00:20:44,312 --> 00:20:45,779
sufficeth to say,
464
00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:50,167
it will be something that
is not do-able on TV.
465
00:20:54,238 --> 00:20:56,356
Sorry. It's been building up
for a while.
466
00:20:56,824 --> 00:21:00,026
I don't have a favorite
character at this point.
467
00:21:00,094 --> 00:21:03,029
I'm recoding voices so much.
468
00:21:03,197 --> 00:21:06,099
Hiya, pardner.
I'm a cattle rustler.
469
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,767
I rustle cattle.
470
00:21:07,785 --> 00:21:09,052
Oh, that's turning out good.
471
00:21:09,087 --> 00:21:10,871
I'm partial to Brian.
472
00:21:10,972 --> 00:21:13,140
Brian.
Brian Steele.
473
00:21:13,508 --> 00:21:15,041
Ooh, good heavens!
474
00:21:15,076 --> 00:21:21,281
He's the only character that I
don't leave the booth with a sore throat.
475
00:21:21,315 --> 00:21:23,450
Seems to me you should
send less time working for the paper
476
00:21:23,484 --> 00:21:25,986
and more time working
on that novel you've been working on...
477
00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:27,120
Ah!
478
00:21:27,145 --> 00:21:32,145
== sync, corrected by elderman ==