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Family Guy Assistants FIRED during Writer's Guild Strike

Variety posted an article recently taklking about the effects of the recent WGA strike, and had this to say about Family Guy."Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane touched a nerve Friday when he elicited perhaps the angriest response among the 4,000 attendees at Friday's WGA rally at Fox Plaza. Invoking the ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | November 14, 2007 at 11:07 PM | Comments (0)

SouthPark Breaks Records with Imaginationland Trilogy

Southpark Studios has posted an article that doesn't surpise me in the least bit. b>"Star Wars," "The Godfather," "Indiana Jones." Historic trilogies all, and now they have company. The exciting conclusion to "South Park's" "Imaginationland" trilogy aired Wednesday, October 31 and drew almost 4 million total viewers, making it COMEDY ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | November 14, 2007 at 11:03 PM | Comments (0)

Captain N and the New Super Mario World coming to DVD

ToonZone reports that the near-forgotten Nintendo cartoon Captian N is coming to dvd!"Captain N & The New Super Mario World originally aired for one season on NBC in the fall of 1991. Each half-hour episode was split into two unrelated segments. Captain N aired on its own for 2 seasons ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | November 14, 2007 at 10:59 PM | Comments (0)

Family Guy Star Wars Continues

Cinematical just blew my mind! Well, now, because of the success of that show, Seth McFarlane and his gang are stepping up to target The Empire Strikes Back next. Speaking to IESB at the 100th episode party, the very hot Mila Kunis (who voices Meg on the show) said that ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | November 7, 2007 at 7:52 PM | Comments (0)

Treehouse of Terror 18

Wanna know what Halloween goodness the Simpsons are delivering us this year? Simpsons Channel gives us this: Mr. and Mrs. Simpson - Homer and Marge in a Mr. and Mrs. Smith parody. E.T. Go Home - Bart and Lisa try to help Kodos return to his home planet, or at ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | October 22, 2007 at 10:26 PM | Comments (0)

Simpsons Guest Stars

Interested in who's guest starring on The Simpsons this season or even the next season? Well I got this from TV.com:"Further into the season, the list of guest stars includes Steve Buscemi as a bank robber, Jack Black as a comic-book store owner, Kelsey Grammer reprising his role as Sideshow ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | October 15, 2007 at 3:16 PM | Comments (0)

Adult Cartoon Network

This forum entry made my day! Apparently, there are two Cartoon Networks. The well-known one that sold out it's target audience, and ditched all the older (and better) cartoons to another channel to fill their line-up fart-filled, Nicheloadian-style cartoons (except that Adult Swim totally makes up for that betrayal). And ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | October 13, 2007 at 11:53 AM | Comments (2)

Family Guy Lawsuit over Its a Small World Parody

Another day, another lawsuit. IGN reports:FOX's The Family Guy is being sued for a parody of the classic song "When You Wish Upon a Star." According toe E! Online, the lawsuit, brought by Bourne Co., the owner of the rights to the Oscar winning song, alleges that the parody used ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | October 8, 2007 at 4:45 PM | Comments (0)

Family Guy Star Wars

Family Guy's new season started out with a bang. Of course, it was the Star Wars episode, which has become one of my favorite episodes of the show. Ten times funnier than the Robot Chicken special, Family Guy's impression of Star Wars is top notch. The animation and use of ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | September 26, 2007 at 10:44 PM | Comments (1)

Leave Britney Alone Parody by Seth Green

In case you were under a rock and missed Chris Crocker being elevated to his 15 minutes of fame on YouTube, here is the link. His viral video has been getting more attention than the NumaNuma guy as he has an emotional breakdown in front of his camera in support ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | September 18, 2007 at 9:28 AM | Comments (1)

Family Guy Star Wars and Next Season

I was reading through my latest issue of Entertainment Weekly and caught a small little article on upcoming season. Here's what they had to say about their take on Star Wars: EW says:"We are remaking Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope." Nice start. Who's who? "Peter is Han Solo, Lois ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | September 12, 2007 at 10:28 PM | Comments (1)

Mark Hamill voices Futurama Movie

Cant Get Enough Futurama has given a little tidbit about a special voice we will be hearing on the upcoming "movie".Another character voice was revealed to us: Chanukah Zombie is voiced by Mark 'Luke' Hamill!I know this may mean nothing to any of you, or maybe it does, but it ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | September 5, 2007 at 6:21 PM | Comments (2)

Robot Chicken is Back

Robot Chicken is back and I'm sooo glad! The latest episode is up on Adult Swim.com, and it is absolutely fantastic. It's not one of the funniest episodes I've seen, but it did make me laugh out loud. My personaly favorite moment was the Dick Tracy spoof. The Halloween one ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | August 27, 2007 at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)

First Futurama Movie

IGN posted an article giving away details on the plot. As expected, the plot seems much like something you'd see as an episode for the show. Of course, this is just a big dvd-direct episode of the show. IGN says:As Xmas 3007 approaches, the Futurama crew must fight to save ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | August 13, 2007 at 5:46 PM | Comments (0)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Video Game

Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad have hit the big screen, so now it seems reasonable that they hit the game consoles as well...ok, maybe not, but it's happening anyway. The game seems to be a spoof of the Mario sports games and features not only golf sessions but explores the ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | August 7, 2007 at 10:38 PM | Comments (0)

Adult Swim Shows Should Never Be Movies

On our way to see The Simpsons Movie yesterday, me and my friend were having a coversation about tv shows being turned into movies, and after explaining disapointment of the so-called "Family Guy movie" (which was actually just three episodes edited together), he said "you know what should never be ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | July 30, 2007 at 6:33 PM | Comments (1)

Farewell Clips for Harvey Birdman

The last episode of Harvey Birdman:Attorney At Law has aired. Sadly, I missed it as I was actually on my way back from a friend's wedding in South Carolina. From what I understand, the episode would have delighted fans. As you all may know, I am sad to see this ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | July 30, 2007 at 6:31 PM | Comments (1)

Robot Chicken Season 2 UnCensored

According to Movie Web, Robot Chicken:Season Two Uncensored will be hitting stores September 4th!"This uncensored, 2-Disc DVD set features 20 uncensored episodes and one bonus Christmas episode, in addition to a whole slew of uncensored special features including: - Deleted Scenes - Deleted Animatics - Commentaries on every episode - ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | July 18, 2007 at 11:53 PM | Comments (0)

Breckin Meyer on Season 3 of Robot Chicken

IGN has an interview with Robot Chicken Voice Actor/Writer Breckin Meyer. Most of the information isn't newsworthy, and stuff we've heard from Seth Green before, but Meyer was asked about the third season. IGN TV: What can you tell us about Robot Chicken Season 3? Meyer: It's just getting better. ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | July 12, 2007 at 7:31 PM | Comments (1)

Harvey Birdman - The Final Episodes

TV Squad posted a similar story to the ones that IGN has been running about the new Friday nights, but this sneaks in not only a look at the scheduling grid (veiwed here) but a small bit of information on when the final episodes of Harvey Birdman:Attorney At Law air:Look ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | July 5, 2007 at 5:46 PM | Comments (2)

Adult Swim - The Soundtrack

According to IGN.com Adult Swim is pimping out a soundtrack. I was completey unaware of this, but this what the article gives us:Swim has just released Warm & Scratchy, a downloadable album of 14 tracks by such sonic luminaries as TV On The Radio, The Good, The Bad & The ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 29, 2007 at 5:16 PM | Comments (2)

Adult Swim Grants us a Family Guy Marathon

News talking about how Adult Swim will reign Fridays for now on. Most of it really isn't news. Inf act, the article I posted about a few days ago gave more new information than this one did. But it does give us a very interesting tidbit over at IGN:off Adult ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 29, 2007 at 5:13 PM | Comments (1)

Adult Swim Takes Over Fridays

This is a bit of old news, but it was news to my ears. According to IGN, Adult Swim has now conquered Friday nights! "In the past few years Cartoon Network has had great success with their Adult Swim late night branding. Now Cartoon Network has announced that they will ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 25, 2007 at 7:28 PM | Comments (1)

Robot Chicken Star Wars Special: Audio Commentaries

This is my last post about the Robot Chicken Star Wars spectacular. I swear! The beautiful thing about the internet (besides the over-abundance of porn, pop-ups, 12 year old shittalkers, and online casinos) is that if you miss your favorite show, you could always (well, at least sometimes) find it ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 25, 2007 at 7:26 PM | Comments (0)

Homestar Runner Denies Adult Swim

According to Wired.com nutty cartoon website Homestar Runner was in brief talks with Comedy Central and Cartoon Network, but have backed away from both cable networks in favor of just staying on the web."There was a brief flirtation with Comedy Central and Adult Swim," Matt said. "The whole TV thing ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 19, 2007 at 8:38 PM | Comments (2)

Robot Chicken Star Wars Special

I have been longing for Robot Chicken's late night raping (or tribute?) to the Almighty Star Wars ever since I first sensed it's forthcoming (a.k.a. read about it on the internet), and guess what my friends! It does not to satisfy! For a show that was supposedly made in cohorts ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 19, 2007 at 6:38 AM | Comments (3)

Metalpocalypse on DVD

According to TVShowsOnDVD, heavy metal show Metalocypse's Season One has a release date:" The next story: we're told that Metalocalypse - Season 1 is coming to stores on October 2nd, as a 20 episode set on 2 DVDs. Also included are special features, but we haven't gotten the details on ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 12, 2007 at 9:06 AM | Comments (0)

Robot Chicken Star Wars Special - Official Site

As you may know, Robot Chicken is putting together a Star Wars special, and unlike The Phantom Menace, this time the laughter will be an intentional reaction. They will be taking familiar situations and just desecrate them with Robot Chicken’s patented brand of stupidity, and, as a result, probably doing ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 10, 2007 at 8:50 PM | Comments (1)

ADULT SWIM DVDS OVERPRICED?

I never really hear this said, but having television shows on dvd is quite a luxury. It allows us to watch our favorite episodes when we want to watch them, not to mention, giving us in-depth looks at how they are made without having to wait for the E! True ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | June 10, 2007 at 8:45 PM | Comments (0)

Carol Burnett Sues Family Guy - Dismissed

For those of you old enough to remember, the 60s-70s Carol Burnett show always closed with an animated version of Carol as a cleaning lady mopping the stage and scratching her behind, occassionaly stopping to read the credits as they scrolled by. The deliberate parody of this bit was used ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | May 26, 2007 at 9:36 PM | Comments (1)

Robot Chicken Star Wars - Insider's Look!

As I mentioned before I just LOVE Robot Chicken, some of the skits are hit and miss, but there is a whole lot more hitting than missing. Even if the hitting does happen with a SuperMario doll to the crotch. But when I heard about Robot Chicken Star Wars, I ... Read the full story.
Posted by Rodney Brazeau | May 14, 2007 at 9:20 PM | Comments (1)

What Homer Simpson Would Look Like In Real Life

Quck glimpse of what Homer Simpson would look like in real life ... Read the full story.
Posted by John Campea | April 8, 2007 at 3:09 PM | Comments (13)