Family Guy to mock its new owner with three Disney-inspired "reboots" - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 10-16-2019, 02:36 PM

https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/16/family-...boots-episode/

In Sunday's “Disney’s The Reboot" episode, Fox executives commission three new reboots of Family Guy in an attempt to keep the long-running animated comedy fresh and "Disney-fied." “One of them is Family Gal — it’s Lois-centric, very timely and pandering,” executive producer Rich Appel tells EW. “Another is our version of something like Riverdale or a teen-angst drama, called The Q. And the final one is After Family Guy, which, as we explain, is starring the only actors who didn’t go on to bigger movie careers. The premise is Chris is now married to Tricia Takanawa, and they’re raising Joe.” Each of the pilots will then be subjected to "focus-group hell" while Peter Griffin is watching. “Peter storms in angry at the focus group and they say, ‘I don’t get who Family Guy is for,’” teases executive producer Alec Sulkin. “And he says, ‘It’s easy! You just have to be a teenager, but born in the ’80s.'" Sulkin adds: “It’s always fun to have an episode that breaks the fourth wall. We do that fairly regularly, but we rarely do it sustained for an entire episode. It was fun to be in that space, looking at the show from a different place.”

king of comedy · 10-16-2019, 08:32 PM

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TMC · 10-21-2019, 11:41 PM

Family Guy tells a gay joke, then jokes about phasing out gay jokes in meta episode

In Sunday's “Disney’s The Reboot" episode mocking Family Guy's new Disney ownership, a focus group is shown a scene with jokes about Peter's sexuality. “I thought I read you guys were phasing out gay jokes,” one focus group member asked. To which Peter Griffin replied: “That quote was taken out of context and widely misunderstood.” Which begs the question: "Has Family Guy reversed its decision to 'phase out' gay jokes?" asks Andy Swift. As he notes, executive producers Alec Sulkin and Rich Appel said in January that they were indeed being phased out because "the climate is different."

10-16-2019, 02:36 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,737	Family Guy to mock its new owner with three Disney-inspired "reboots" https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/16/family-...boots-episode/ In Sunday's “Disney’s The Reboot" episode, Fox executives commission three new reboots of Family Guy in an attempt to keep the long-running animated comedy fresh and "Disney-fied." “One of them is Family Gal — it’s Lois-centric, very timely and pandering,” executive producer Rich Appel tells EW. “Another is our version of something like Riverdale or a teen-angst drama, called The Q. And the final one is After Family Guy, which, as we explain, is starring the only actors who didn’t go on to bigger movie careers. The premise is Chris is now married to Tricia Takanawa, and they’re raising Joe.” Each of the pilots will then be subjected to "focus-group hell" while Peter Griffin is watching. “Peter storms in angry at the focus group and they say, ‘I don’t get who Family Guy is for,’” teases executive producer Alec Sulkin. “And he says, ‘It’s easy! You just have to be a teenager, but born in the ’80s.'" Sulkin adds: “It’s always fun to have an episode that breaks the fourth wall. We do that fairly regularly, but we rarely do it sustained for an entire episode. It was fun to be in that space, looking at the show from a different place.”

10-16-2019, 08:32 PM	#2
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10-21-2019, 11:41 PM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,737	Family Guy tells a gay joke, then jokes about phasing out gay jokes in meta episode In Sunday's “Disney’s The Reboot" episode mocking Family Guy's new Disney ownership, a focus group is shown a scene with jokes about Peter's sexuality. “I thought I read you guys were phasing out gay jokes,” one focus group member asked. To which Peter Griffin replied: “That quote was taken out of context and widely misunderstood.” Which begs the question: "Has Family Guy reversed its decision to 'phase out' gay jokes?" asks Andy Swift. As he notes, executive producers Alec Sulkin and Rich Appel said in January that they were indeed being phased out because "the climate is different."