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Family Guy, Vol. 1 – Seasons 1 & 2

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Meet the Griffins: Peter, the huge, lovable oaf who always says what’s on his mind. Lois, the doting mother who can’t figure out why her baby son keeps trying to kill her. Their daughter Meg, the teen drama queen who’s constantly embarrassed by her family. Chris, the beefy 13-year-ancient who wouldn’t hurt a glide, unless it landed on his hot dog. Stewie, the maniacal one-year-ancient bent on world domination. And Brian, the sarcastic dog with a wit as dry as the martinis he drinks. The full of life adventures of his outrageous family will have your whole family laughing out loud.Amazon.com
To the ranks of shows too brilliant and outrageous for prime time (The Ben Stiller Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), add Seth McFarlane's Family Guy. This full of life series, which debuted after the 1999 Super Bowl, simply sparked too much controversy and offended too many sensibilities to survive (Entertainment Weekly dubbed it "the Dreadful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air"). That the Fox arrangement also played hackysack with its schedule, ensuring viewers would not be able to find it, sealed its fate (it was cancelled in 2002). This boxed set containing all 28 episodes from the first two seasons is payback for the show's devoted cult subsequent, who may be went to echo the words of infant Stewie Griffin, the megalomaniacal 1-year-ancient bent on matricide and world domination: "Victory is mine!"

The dysfunctional Griffins of Quahog, Rhode Island, invite comparisons to The Simpsons. The testicular-chinned father, Peter Griffin, is a clueless oaf in the Homer mold. "Peter, what did you promise me last night?" questions his long-suffering wife Lois in one episode. "That I wouldn't drink at the stag party," he answers. "And what did you do?" she questions. "Drank at the stag part--oh ho ho, I nearly walked into that one," he cackles. Additional family members include teenage daughter Meg, a desperate high school social pariah; 13-year-ancient son Chris, a chip off his father's blockhead; and Brian, the family's sarcastic talking dog. But this series' right inspiration is football-pated Stewie (voiced by McFarlane, who earned an Emmy), who was born to be a Bond villain once he escaped his mother's "ovarian bastille." Family Guy recklessly ventured where The Simpsons feared to tread. In one episode, Meg's one and only friend turns out to be the member of a suicidal cult. In another, Death (voiced by Norm McDonald) becomes an unwanted houseguest. Each episode plays quick and furious with surreal flashes (in one episode, Peter turns his house into a puppet) and pop-culture references and TV, movie, and commercial parodies that invite repeated viewings. Freed from its own family-hour bastille and the whims of dim arrangement executives, Family Guy can be appreciated at last on its own profane, sacrilegious, and irreverent terms. Salutation to the DVD family, Griffins. --Donald Liebenson

Family Guy, Vol. 1 - Seasons 1 & 2