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Premiered
on FOX - January 1999
Created by:
Seth MacFarlane
Starring:
Seth MacFarlane .... Tom
Tucker/...
Alex Borstein .... Lois Griffin/...
Seth Green .... Chris Griffin/...
Mila Kunis .... Meg Griffin/...
Mike Henry .... Cleveland Brown/...
Patrick Warburton .... Joe Swanson/...
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Family
Guy is an American animated television
series - created by Seth MacFarlane - featuring
the adventures of the Griffin family.
Peter and Lois Griffin have three
kids - the youngest is a brilliant, sadistic baby
bent on killing his mother and destroying the
world. Their talking dog Brian keeps baby Stewie
in check while sipping martinis and sorting through
his own life issues.
This show has often received criticism for premises
and humor too similar to those featured in The
Simpsons.
The Griffin
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Although Family Guy sometimes
maintains a rough sense of continuity, complicated
plots are most often traded for a concentration
on comedy that is based largely on pop culture
references and non sequiturs.
Though this style is often played within the characters'
world, the series is also known for its use of
cutaways, where the plot is interrupted and segues
into unrelated sketches of variable length. Often
initiated when a character refers to a past event,
these sketches are wildly divergent in topic -
ranging from historical events to contemporary
television commercials to classic film scenes
including moments from Raiders
of the Lost Ark.
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Fifteen Minutes of Shame - 2.12
While on the Diane Show, Peter says to Meg:
Peter: "Maybe now I
won`t give you the antidote."
Meg: "To what?"
Peter: "To the poison
you just drank."
Making a reference to the opening scene of Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom. |
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Stuck Together, Torn Apart - 3.19
Peter goes into the attic, takes out a length
of wood, attaches the headpiece of Ra, waits for
a beam of sunlight shining through the round attic
window and parodies Raiders'
Map Room scene. |
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When You Wish Upon a Weinstein - 3.22
When Peter hears someone talking about "going
to a temple" he links the concept with the
idol-grabbing scene from Raiders
of the Lost Ark - but funnier. |
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Blind
Ambition - 4.03
Peter gets in a fist-fight with a giant chicken
which moves through a number of film parodies
before coming to a climax on an airport tarmac
where they are fighting under the wings of that
Nazi 'flying wing' airplane from Raiders. |
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Breaking
Out is Hard to Do - 4.09
Lois takes off in her car. Joe lasso's the garden
hose over the car's tow-ball and is dragged along
the road behind the car. He climbs the hose under
the car and emerges onto the hood, much like the
truck-chase in Raiders. |
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Peter's
Got Woods - 4.11
At the end of the episode Peter rids his household
of James Woods by trapping him in a wooden crate.
When asked where Woods went, Peter replies with
"We've got top men
working on it. Top Men." Cut to a
huge government warehouse full of similar wooden
crates, with Woods' crate being placed among the
multitude; replicating the ending of Raiders. |
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Jungle
Love - 4.13
The ending of this episode, including the music
played, is an edited reenactment of Raiders
of the Lost Ark's opening scene. |
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The
Courtship of Stewie's Father - 4.16
After Peter and Stewie save slave children from
a Disney World attraction a chase follows that
is a short reenactment of Temple
of Doom's mine-cart chase. At the end Michael
Eisner appears and tries to take out Peter's heart.
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Stewie
B. Goode - 4.28
Stewie thinks back to the time he was in India
with Indiana Jones, and Stewie was Short Round.
The flashback is the spike-room scene from Temple
of Doom in which Indy says "Whatever
you do Short Round, don't touch anything."
When Willie starts screaming Stewie comments that
"Lady only here because
she humping director." |
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