I don’t know why Fox likes holding Family Guy until the midseason. Therefore, I can’t wait until the network announces their midseason schedule. And today they did just that. So now I know when Seth MacFarlane takes over Sunday nights with The Griffins and American Dad!
Tuesday, Jan. 6
8:00-9:00 PM Best Medicine (Series Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM Doc (Winter Premiere)
Wednesday, Jan. 7
8:00-10:00 PM The Masked Singer (Special Two-Hour Season 14 Premiere)
Wednesday, Jan. 14
9:00-10:00 PM Fear Factor: House of Fear (Series Premiere)
Monday, Jan. 26
8:00-9:00 PM Extracted (Season 2 Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM Memory of a Killer (Series Premiere)
Thursday, Jan. 29
8:00-9:00 PM Next Level Chef (Season 5 Premiere)
Sunday, Feb. 15
8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons (Special 800th Episode)
8:30-9:00 PM The Simpsons (New Episode, Season Finale)
9:00-9:30 PM Universal Basic Guys (New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PM Family Guy (Season 24 Premiere, 450th Episode)
Sunday, Feb. 22
8:00-8:30 PM Family Guy (Time Period Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM Universal Basic Guys (New Episode)
9:00-9:30 PM American Dad! (Season 20 Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM Family Guy (New Episode)
Sundays, Mar. 22, 29, and Apr. 5 (Easter Sunday)
8:00-10:00 PM The Faithful (New Event Series)
One of the good things about an animated show is that no one ever dies. Well, almost no one. There have been a few deaths, and now there is one more character who has been erased.
Family Guy said goodbye to someone who has brought us a lot of laughs throughout the years. Who is it? It is Ernie, the Giant Chicken.
You might remember him from all of the epic fights that he has had with Peter Griffin since season 1. The ones that went on and on and on.
However, it was not Peter who took him out. Who was it? It was Meg, and we didn’t even see the fight that left Ernie without a head.
You see, she was dating his son, Nugget, and decided to move in with them when her father disapproved of their relationship. Then, when Ernie turned out to be like her dad, she turned him into Hot Ones food.
Now, you might be saying, but how do we really know he went to the chicken coop in the sky?
Executive producer Alec Sulkin told TV Line, “I think that the chicken has gone the way of all flesh. Honestly, I feel like we got so many great set pieces out of the giant chicken fighting with Peter that they became hard to top. It’s a lot to ask of our production crew, and we may have just gotten the best out of that character.”
While we might be saying goodbye to him, I hope that Nugget becomes obsessed with revenge and goes after the Griffins. Just so we can hear him say, “Hello! My Name is Nugget Chicken. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
For the second year in a row, evil Fox is holding Family Guy until the midseason. So does that mean we will not get a Halloween special? Nope! It will be streaming on Hulu.
Since it is not a broadcast network that trump can intervene and threaten to pull the license on, they can say and do almost whatever they want. And they will, as we can see from the trailer for the episode, that is both a trick and a treat!
We will see Chris have an America Pie moment with a pumpkin, Brian will learn what p-word rhymes with Halloween, and Quagmire’s sex dolls are handing out candy to other boys besides himself.
I get that peen is a bad word, but imagine what Brian and Stewie can do with a lean, mean, green, teen queen, on a trampoline who tried to wean himself off of that fiend Dean Gene in a limousine on Halloween by putting his one good bean in a guillotine. There is nothing clean about those words together, so I get why they are not keen on that obscene rhyme.
Anyways, the Animated Sitcom wants to be seen on October 6th. Don’t be a Meg, and watch it on your TV, computer, or phone screen.
For some reason, I feel the need to convene to get my routine vaccine. Oh, that is the bad word…
Someone hide the gasoline and kerosene because I am on fire. Right, Seth MacFarlean, I mean MacFarlane?
When I heard that Liam Nesson was cast in a Naked Gun reboot as Frank Drebin’s (the role perfected by the late Leslie Neilsen) son, I thought it was going to suck. And not in a good way.
Then, when I watched the teaser trailer, I only laughed at the O.J. Simpson joke. I thought I was right.
Today, I watched the full trailer and laughed a few times. But it is not enough for me to go see it on August 1st. I will wait until it is on Paramount+.
American Dad is the little show that could, so much so that it is filming its 400th episode.
The animated comedy debuted on Fox in 2005. Then it was cancelled in 2013, only to be saved by TBS, where it aired until this year. That is because they axed the show, only to have Fox take it back. Because of that, it is now getting to turn 400 episodes.
American Dad follows the Smith family. Stan is an uptight CIA agent, his wife Francine is a stay at home mom, their daughter Hayley is the opposite of her dad, and Steve is the nerdy son. Oh, and they have an alien named Roger, who makes ALF look boring.
I love Cinderella stories like this one that get a happy ending.
