FAMILY GUY

Tonight is the season finale of the Family Guy on Fox. This is the greatest show on TV. The best part of watching tonight's show is that I get paid to watch it because I am at work. This show is relatively crass and irreverent, but I appreciate it for what it is, an escape from reality.


For those of you who have never seen it, I will describe it and some of the main characters in the show. First of all, it is animated, so it is totally fictional. It was created by Seth MacFarlane, who does a large amount of the voices. He was scheduled to be on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, but he was hung over and missed the flight, so the story goes.


The show is based on a family in Quahog, R.I. named the Griffins. Peter is the father, he has a wife named Lois (who is pretty hot for a cartoon woman) and three kids named Chris, Meg and Stewie. Stewie is a baby with an English accent and a great vocabulary. The Griffins have a dog named Brian and he talks and drinks and smokes too.


The show creators do a great job of personifying Brian and making the viewers forget that he is a dog. He went to Los Angeles on one episode to become a director of porn movies. On another episode, he tried to enroll at an Ivy League college and get his degree.


Every once in a while, the show will have him do something that normal dogs do like drag his ass on a carpet, or he will be unable to stand in the back of a van. The genius of this show is great.


Well the season finale is about to start and I don't want to miss it, so until next time, enjoy Family Guy.