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"The single most asked question about the show. They can , they can hear him and understand him, its just that he's a baby and for that reason they just don't take what he says with any seriousness." - Seth MacFarlane

From the commentary of Family Guy: E. Peterbus Unum (#2.18): "The way I always looked at it was they treat him like, how in real life you'd treat... if a four-year-old who can speak told you to F off, you'd laugh because it's cute even though... even if he was deadly serious" - Seth MacFarlane

"We are well aware that the labeling of the seasons on these DVDs are confusing, but for some reason FOX in the UK has decided to categorizes the episodes differently to FOX in the States."

"Originally "Family Guy" was only available on DVD in the UK and were sold as seasons 1, 2 and 3. Then the States caught up by selling those seasons as two volumes. Since then FOX has opted for global releases, which seems to have resulted in the UK DVDs (as well other non-region-1 areas) continuing to be labelled as seasons despite not being complete seasons."

There's really is no reason for confusion when it comes to the dvd sets. After Season 3, the sets have been released as identical "Volumes" for all regions but remain labeled as "Seasons" (or "Series") outside R1, despite NOT being complete seasons. In fact with the exception of Season 3, there has never been a complete single season set for any region.

All information below is based on how Family Guy aired originally & presently on FOX in the U.S.

Region 1 ......................................................Region 2,3,4

"Volume 1" (Complete Seasons 1 & 2) = "Season 1" (Complete Season 1 & Seven episodes of Season 2)

"Volume 2" (Complete Season 3) = "Season 2" (Remaining 14 episodes of Season 2)

N/A = "Season 3" (Complete Season 3)

(Sets now become identical but named differently)

"Volume 3" (First 13 episodes of Season 4) = "Season 4" (First 13 episodes of Season 4)

"Volume 4" (Remaining 14 episodes of Season 4 (minus "Stewie B. Goode", "Bango Was His Name-O" & "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure")) = "Season 5" (Remaining 14 episodes of Season 4 (minus "Stewie B. Goode", "Bango Was His Name-O" & "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure"))

"Volume 5" (First 13 episodes of Season 5) = "Season 6" (First 13 episodes of Season 5)

"Volume 6" (Remaining 5 episodes of Season 5 and the first 7 episodes of Season 6 (minus "Blue Harvest")) = "Season 7" (Remaining 5 episodes of Season 5 and the first 7 episodes of Season 6 (minus "Blue Harvest"))

"Volume 7" ("Back to the Woods", "Play it Again Brian", "The Former Life of Brian" & "Long John Peter" and Season 7's episodes - "Love Blactually" to "The Juice Is Loose!") = "Season 8" ("Back to the Woods", "Play it Again Brian", "The Former Life of Brian" & "Long John Peter" and Season 7's episodes - "Love Blactually" to "The Juice Is Loose!")

"Volume 8" (Season 7's episodes: "FOX-y Lady", "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", "420", "Stew-Roids", "We Love You Conrad", "Three Kings", "Peter's Progress" & Season 8's episodes: "Road to the Multiverse", "Family Goy", "Spies Reminiscent of Us", "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", "Hannah Banana", "Quagmire's Baby", "Jerome is the New Black" & "Dog Gone"), it does not contain the 'banned' episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" = "Season 9" (Season 7's episodes: "FOX-y Lady", "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", "420", "Stew-Roids", "We Love You Conrad", "Three Kings", "Peter's Progress" & Season 8's episodes: "Road to the Multiverse", "Family Goy", "Spies Reminiscent of Us", "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", "Hannah Banana", "Quagmire's Baby", "Jerome is the New Black" & "Dog Gone"), it does not contain the 'banned' episode "Partial Terms of Endearment"

"Volume 9" (the rest of Season 8: "Business Guy", "Big Man on Hippocampus", "Dial Meg for Murder", "Extra Large Medium", "Go Stewie Go", "Peter-assment", "Brian Griffin's House of Payne", "April in Quahog", "Brian & Stewie", "Quagmire's Dad" & "The Splendid Source") minus "Something Something Something Dark Side" & the first 3 episodes of Season 9: "And Then There Were Fewer", "Excellence in Broadcasting" & "Welcome Back Carter") = "Season 10" (the rest of Season 8: "Business Guy", "Big Man on Hippocampus", "Dial Meg for Murder", "Extra Large Medium", "Go Stewie Go", "Peter-assment", "Brian Griffin's House of Payne", "April in Quahog", "Brian & Stewie", "Quagmire's Dad", "Partial Terms of Endearment" & "The Splendid Source") minus "Something Something Something Dark Side" (& the first 3 episodes of Season 9: "And Then There Were Fewer", "Excellence in Broadcasting" & "Welcome Back Carter")

The U.S. banned episode, "Partial Terms of Endearment" is included in the U.K.'s "Season 10" but since it was released as a stand alone DVD in R1, it is not included in "Volume 9"

"Volume 10" (The rest of Season 9: "Halloween on Spooner Street", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Brian Writes a Bestseller", "Road to the North Pole", "New Kidney in Town", "And I'm Joyce Kinney", "Friends of Peter G", "German Guy", "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", "Trading Places", "Tiegs for Two", "Brothers & Sisters", "The Big Bang Theory" & "Foreign Affairs" ) Minus "It's A Trap" = "Season 11" (The rest of Season 9: "Halloween on Spooner Street", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Brian Writes a Bestseller", "Road to the North Pole", "New Kidney in Town", "And I'm Joyce Kinney", "Friends of Peter G", "German Guy", "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", "Trading Places", "Tiegs for Two", "Brothers & Sisters", "The Big Bang Theory" & "Foreign Affairs") Minus "It's A Trap"

"Volume 11" = "Season 12" | Release Dates Unknown Both sets will presumably contain all or most of the episodes that aired as Season 10 | Lottery Fever | Seahorse Seashell Party | Screams Of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q | Stewie Goes for a Drive | Back to the Pilot | Thanksgiving | Amish Guy | Cool Hand Peter | Grumpy Old Man | Meg & Quagmire | The Blind Side | Livin On A Prayer | Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Be Careful What You Fish For | Burning Down the Bayit | Killer Queen | Forget-Me-Not | You Cant Do That On Television, Peter | Mr. and Mrs. Stewie | Leggo My Meg-O | Tea Peter | Family Guy Viewer Mail #2 | Internal Affairs

Although it should be noted that the releases tend to only contain 13 to 15 episodes, it's unlikely all 23 episodes will be included in the next set, but of course, time will tell.

No, they don't. After finally standing up for herself in Family Guy: Seahorse Seashell Party (#10.2), she realizes the abuse is actually the glue that holds her family together, otherwise they would turn their anger on each other and the family would be torn apart.

Although closed captions have written "effin' cry,"Seth MacFarlane maintains on the DVD commentary that the lyric has always been "laugh and cry." Seth MacFarlane re-recorded the lyric for season 4 and enunciated the words more clearly.

Listen to the intro of Family Guy: A Fish Out of Water (#3.10) for an excellent example of the "Laugh and Cry" line (at least on the DVD anyway)

Peter fights the chicken in Family Guy: Da Boom (#2.3), Family Guy: Blind Ambition (#4.3), Family Guy: No Chris Left Behind (#5.16) and Family Guy: Internal Affairs (#10.23).

In Family Guy: Meet the Quagmires (#5.18) they meet, but a fight is prevented. In Family Guy: The Juice Is Loose! (#7.9), the chicken is in the mob confronting O.J. Simpson, but there is no fight. In Family Guy: Big Man on Hippocampus (#8.10), Ernie hits him several times with heavy objects. He also shows up in Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (#8.20), but again there is no fight. He played Boba Fett in Family Guy: It's a Trap!} {{SUSPENDED}.

The basic plot of Family Guy: Partial Terms of Endearment (#8.21) is Lois agrees to be a surrogate mother for a couple. The couple dies and Lois must decide whether to get an abortion.

FOX released a statement on 29 July 2009, this episode would not air but it would get made and be released on DVD. The assumption was it would be released on Volume 8 but that was not the case.

As of June 2010, it won't air in the States (on FOX), however, it made its world premiere on the UK channel BBC Three on 20 June 2009.

The DVD titled "Partial Terms of Endearment Banned from TV!" was released on September 28, 2010. http://jaredandkyal.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/release-news-family-guy-partial-terms-of-endearment/

"Partial Terms" does appear on the non-region 1 DVD releases of "Season 10" but not on region 1's "Volume 9"

Richard Marx - "Hold On To The Night"

Annie Lennox - "Why"

Family Guy: Whistle While Your Wife Works (#5.5)

"Family Guy: Ready, Willing and Disabled (#3.15)."

Interview with Brandon Voss, from The Advocate February 26, 2008:

"Stewie arguably is the most complex character. He originally began as this diabolical villain, but then we delved into the idea of his confused sexuality. We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, and he's in the process of figuring it out for himself. We havent ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat him oftentimes as if we were writing a gay character." - Seth MacFarlanehttp://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=51793&page=1

So will Stewie ever come out of the closet?

"Not yet," Seth MacFarlane told Playboy magazine. "We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out. It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination.' ... But we decided it's better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he's a one-year-old. Ultimately Stewie will either be gay or be a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he's so hell-bent on killing Lois and taking over the world. He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation." http://www.playboy.com/articles/seth-macfarlane-playboy-interview

Stewie also has several heterosexual romances: with Janet in Family Guy: Dammit Janet (#2.15); with Olivia in Family Guy: From Method to Madness (#3.18), Family Guy: Chick Cancer (#5.7) and Family Guy: The Juice Is Loose! (#7.9); with

Kenny Loggins's "Mr. Night".

The scene is virtually identical to the scene in Caddyshack with Lois replacing Cindy Morgan's character

The Purina Chuck Wagon dog food commercials from the 1970's; see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BBqgMQluDM

Kenny Loggins - I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)

As for the scene, it does not parody anything. Seth says in the episode commentary, "It's just 80's movie bull(sheet)"

It's a reference to The Meaning of Life.

Kevin Swanson? The writers couldn't think of anything interesting to do with him. In Family Guy: Stew-Roids (#7.13), Joe says that he died in the Iraq War. Though Kevin does return in Family Guy: Thanksgiving (#10.6), revealing he faked his death and went AWOL after deciding he couldn't stand what the United States was doing to the Iraqi population.

Cleveland Brown, Junior? He is now fourteen years old and is a main character on The Cleveland Show, where he is now extremely obese.

Loretta Brown? She separated from Cleveland in Family Guy: The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire (#4.5) and died in The Cleveland Show: Gone with the Wind (#1.17).

Yes, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong is of Thai ancestry and her surname is pronounced "Chee-vuh-pra-va-dum-rong." She is one of the writers for the show.

Lacey Chabert.

"You know, it was just purely a contractual thing. Lacey Chabert, I think there was a mistake in her contract, and I guess she had not intended to be involved for, like, the full run of the show. I don't even remember. To be honest, I don't really, to this day, know what it was. It was nothing there was no tension or anything. She wanted to go, and she was very cool about it. We obviously don't want to keep anyone there who doesn't want to be there. So, you know, it was early on enough in the show that it wasn't a huge that happens from time to time, you've got to replace a voice actor. Fortunately, what Mila Kunis brought to it, Mila Kunis, was in a lot of ways, I thought, almost more right for the character. I say that Lacey Chabert did a phenomenal job, but there was something about Mila Kunis something very natural about Mila Kunis". -- Seth MacFarlane

In November 2012, On mtvU's "Stand In", Seth once again stated, "It's just a matter of when. It's hard to do that while you have the series going on at the same time; I think that's why it took The Simpsons 20 seasons to figure out how to do it."

He added: "We do know what the Family Guy movie will be. The Simpsons movie, I thought, was hilarious, but the one criticism I would have is that its a story they probably could've done on TV. There could've been an episode that had that plotline. That's the challenge with animation. You pretty much can do any story you want, so what is the reason for the movie? We finally hit on the answer to that question, and it will be something that would be impossible to do on TV." http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=97571

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At the 2011 ComicCon, Seth MacFarlane said "We've actually had meetings about it, which makes it real", but explained that the challenge is trying to put it together while running a series at the same time.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/2011-comic-con-family-guy-spoilers

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On 16 April 2009, Seth MacFarlane appeared on the Adam Carolla podcast, saying "I can say with definitive assuredness that it will be out within the next few years. We already know what it's gonna be. We've been trying to lock into something that makes it so that it has to be a movie, as opposed to an extended Family Guy episode. And I like The Simpsons Movie but that's something they could do with animation on TV because they're not constrained by sets. You have to find some way to make it so that it has to be a movie."

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"We want to do it. And it is time. In the past six months we have seriously started talking about it. And my hope is that we will get it going within the next year. Doing the show is a seven-day a week process, so I don't know how we will squeeze in a movie. But we will figure it out. I have an idea about what it will be. It is definitely something you wouldn't be able to do on the show. That's the only reason to do a movie." - Seth MacFarlane - from TV Week - July 16th, 2008

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/07/tca_video_family_guy_spoilers.php

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"We are in talks with the Fox Feature Dept to do a Family Guy movie yes, we're excited, it's been a long time..." - Seth MacFarlane - from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, July 31st, 2008

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"Yes, actually we've been talking about it seriously. We have very unconventional ways to approach it I cant reveal yet, but we have one extremely unexpected approach to the movie. There is no way you could do this on TV, lets put it that way."

"Honestly that's a good question and I was about to talk out of my ass there but I don't know. I would hope within the year that it would begin."

"The movie would have to be something that exists on its own and doesn't interrupt the flow of the series. What we have in mind for the movies is in some ways the universe of the series and in some ways not. We don't want to do just a long episode we want to do something that could only be done in a movie."- Seth MacFarlane - from Crave Online, October 6, 2008. http://www.craveonline.com/articles/humor/04651833/interview_family_gu y_creator_seth_macfarlane.html

Several episodes of Family Guy are featured in longer versions on DVD due to censorship issues. Sometimes, special cuts were released on DVD as well, because they were too long for regular TV airings. Detailed comparison between the TV versions and DVD versions with pictures can be found here.

According to a recent episode in which we are shown Peter's driver's license, the Griffin household is at 31 Spooner St. Quahog, RI 00093.

"I Can See The Want To In Your Eyes". It's from a 1975 episode of Hee Haw.