https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86-9sQgK30
If you have been craving an old school Sci-Fi show that takes place in Outer Space, then The Orville that debuts on Fox tonight at 8p is for you. Seth MacFarlane loves Space and he perfectly pays homage to the genre with this show.
The series starts off with Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) walking in on his wife cheating on him with an alien (since it takes place in the future) before skipping forward a year. That is when he is the given the job to be the captain of The Orville. This is the first time he is going to lead a spaceship and he does not get the best crew.
First he asks his BFF Gordon Malloy (Scott Grimes) to be the helmsman. Malloy loves playing videogames, and even the future gamers are the same as they are today. If you know what I mean. Alara Kitan (Halston Sage) is Xelayan, who are known for their strength, and she is in charge of security even though she is just 23 years old and has no experience. Dr. Claire Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald) is a very experienced doctor who does not have a lot of faith in Mercer as the Captain, which is why she is there to help him. Isaac (Mark Jackson) is from a machine society who hates humans and took the job to study Earthlings. Lt. Commander (Bortus Peter Macon) is from a single-sexed species and he has no sense of humor. Finally, Mercer’s ex-wife (Adrianne Palicki) is the first office and Mercer has no sense of humor about that. Do you blame him?
Tonight The Orville gets her first test, and we will find out if this not-so-perfect crew can do the perfect save. Next week, they take a chapter from a classic The Twilight Zone episode. While in week three they take on a social issue in an original way that will really get you thinking.
If you are thinking you are going to get MacFarlane’s normal sense of humor with this show, then know now you will not. There is humor, but it is more about the journey of The Orville in space protecting the Union, which is like what they have in Star Wars.
While this is normally not my type of show, I find myself wanting more. It is our Star Trek and we have been needing one since the last version of Star Trek.
Apple Music picked up The Late Late Show’s Carpool Karaoke to series. Instead of having James Corden in the driver’s seat, they have several other celebs chauffeuring around musicians. Coming up Seth MacFarlane and Ariana Grande tour Hollywood while singing duets from Broadway musicals like Little Shop of Horror. Here is the two of them belting out the climatic ballad Suddenly Seymour like they were that Seymour and Audrey finally declaring their love for each other in that heartwarming scene. All while Audrey II sat in the backseat thinking how yummy their blood would taste!
While Grande gave a grand performance, she is no Ellen Green. But she has come the closest I have ever seen anyone woman who has tried to sing her part. Maybe Greg Berlanti should watch this Carpool Karaoke and cast Grande as Audrey instead of Rebel Wilson, who is so not the lead. Yes Grande is too young for the role, but the donut licker is a million times better than Rebel. And while they are at it, they also need to dump Josh Gad for another Josh as in Groban. They would be a better Audrey and Seymour than the two that they are talking to for the big screen remake that does not need to happen.
Sorry, Little Shop and Hair are my favorite musicals, so I am very sensitive whenever anyone tries to mess with them. And casting those two would totally be messing with the feel of the show. Rebel is no temptress, she is more cute than sexy. While Gad might be a nerdy, nebishy Jew, he is just not Seymour. At this rate they will probably cast Seth Rogen and James Franco as the Dentist and his patient who is a masochist.
OK, now I am pissed. Time to relisten to MacGrande sing Suddenly Seymour again to make me happy. And try to forget that Seth forever ruined Somewhere That’s Green for me thanks to what he did with the tune on Family Guy.
https://youtu.be/uiVg3cifmJs?t=9m6s
Just when I thought I saw everything on television, turns out I did not. Yesterday, on American Dad, Klaus the fish and Roger the alien had sex several times in many different ways. I just do not know how to react because it is so unexpected and yet so freaking hilarious.
Which makes you wonder what it was like in the writers’ room when they came up with this episode and how much further they wanted to take it. Much further than they could have on Fox, but not as far as they would have liked to because it is on TBS and not Showtime. On that note, I am so happy the animated sitcom is on TBS because they get to take it to levels they never could have on the broadcast network. Levels, I am not always sure they should go to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQSEMCQr0DQ
It seams like almost every season of Family Guy, Peter Griffin gets into an epic fight. This upcoming 15th season, it is his kids Meg and Chris who are going to do the gun slinging. Actually that is the only thing they do not do in that scene. Either way, that moment all the rest are why we are still watching the show that was uncancelled and continues to go strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYn4tnWzgI
Adam West has appeared in over 100 Family Guy episodes. Even though he is no longer with us, he will still be heard in five more episodes. Entertainment Weekly spoke with EP Steve Callaghan, who told the magazine that his episodes will air as is because they are respectful to the beloved late actor.
The executive producer also said that they do not know how they are going to write off the Mayor of Quahog. Along with his untimely death, they are also working on how to deal with Carrie Fisher’s sudden passing last last year, who played Peter’s boss Angela. This is their third death, last season they dealt with the passing of Frank Sinatra Jr, who passed away in 2016.
Instead of ending this post on a sad note, here is what we can expect West’s finale episodes, “At one point, Mayor West comes into possession of the $1 bill as he is hover-boarding through town with a rat in his pocket. Mayor West riding a hoverboard with a rat in his pocket — that’s certainly something to look forward to…. Later in the season, Mayor West is called upon to preside over a ceremony for a group of millennials. It does not go well.”
