Do you know what Family Guy has been missing these last 20 seasons? They have been missing car farts! But they will make their debut this year, and I can’t wait to smell of the jokes that the show’s writers give us. Now that the series is old enough to drink…legally.
Family Guy returns on Fox with all new episodes starting on September 25th.
The Orville has pulled off some excellent guest stars like Ted Danson, Liam Neeson, and Charlize Theron. However, on this week’s episode streaming now on Hulu, they had their most famous and unexpected cameo to date.
Who was it? Dolly Parton! I seriously couldn’t believe that Seth MacFarlane pulled that off, and no one knew about it until her scene came on that I actually thought it was fake. At first, I assumed she was a hologram (like her character). But it was really her in the flesh or projection.
“What an honor to be on @TheOrville with @SethMacFarlane and @RenaOwen. I might be as old as yesterday, but with all this new technology they make me look as new as tomorrow,” the beloved singer wrote. “I really hope the fans enjoy it as much as I enjoyed being a part of it.”
So my hat is off to MacFarlane for landing such a legend and keeping her appearance a secret until it was out.
When it comes to why Dolly Parton is in the future and what song she sings, I am not going to tell you. I am just going to tell you to watch this season to find out because what a powerful season it has been thus far.
And what makes it even better is the musical score that intensifies every scene they use it in. I never heard music better than they use it on the show.
Family Guy aired its best episode of the season yesterday. The type of episode that makes you cringe and laugh at the same time.
The episode deals with Lois going to her snooty high school reunion. She is too embarrassed to take Peter, so she asks Quagmire to go with her and pretend to be her husband. He says to her about the offer, “I am not used to wearing rings above the waist.” And that was just the beginning of is it OK to laugh at that.
When they get to the hotel, Quagmire changed out their suite to the honeymoon suite. Lois is so mad she says that she is going to angry tweet a celeb that looks like him. So she tweets to Quentin Tarantino, “You big headed creep, where do you get off?!” The director responded to her with “On feet.” Then followed it up with, “Toe pics?”
If that is not bad enough, Peter orders pizza, and the delivery man does an Elvis Presley on their toilet. Since they don’t want to get in trouble with Lois for ordering the pizza, they do a Weekend at Bernie’s with Meg sharing his clothes and controlling him from behind. It gets worse. During a police lineup, Joe asks the pizza guy to recreate the Michael Jackson Thriller Zombie dance.
And still, there is more. And shockingly, it had a heartwarming ending.
This is why I still watch Family Guy. To paraphrase Mae West, when it is bad, it is very good! At least Seth MacFarlane will get that reference.
Way back in 2019, Fox cancelled The Orville, even though they renewed it for another season, and Hulu saved it. After all of this time, you would have thought that we would’ve gotten new episodes by now, but we haven’t.
Things had been quiet for a long time, but then Seth MacFarlane announced in September that the third season would finally premiere on March 22nd. Well, things changed, and today, he revealed a new premiere date.
To all The Orville fans: Thanks for being so patient with us as we’ve navigated the production challenges resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As occasionally happens, our show has been repositioned amidst the ever-changing television schedule landscape, which means that the wait will be just a bit longer, and we’re now preparing for a June 2nd launch on Hulu.
We’ve always promised you a television experience that will make it worth the wait, and we’re not wavering on that. We understand the frustration you’re feeling over more delays, so we want to give you a little taste of what’s to come. Here’s a sneak peek at the first few minutes of our season opener, and our new main title!
At this point, it is more like a revival than a new season. I feel like Family Guy was off the air for less time when Fox cancelled it.
When the new episodes finally start streaming, I will need a refresher because I honestly don’t remember what happened. I think it takes place in space in the future. It has been so long it might be present-day at this point,
Am I mad? No, because I know he is going to give us a show that is out of this world. Get it? I will be here all week!
Fox renewed The Orville for a third season, but then they changed their minds. Thankfully, Hulu said we’d love to go on a ride with Seth MacFarlane in his bizarre spaceship and saved the show.
That was back in 2019. Since then, there has been no word when we will finally get new episodes. That was until today. The streaming service and the ship’s captain announced the series will be back on March 22, 2022. That is just six months from now.
That means I have six months to rewatch the first two seasons to remember what happened. I mean, it is not like we went through a global pandemic since then. So I might have forgotten what the show is about and what happened.
Anyways, I am happy that we are getting more of The Orville. I would say soon, but six months is still a long ways away during the time of COVID-19.
