Anyone watching Family Guy? They just had a Broadway sequence. They had a little cartooned marquee for Wicked. And they had a bit about David Mamet on "American Dad."
Updated On: 9/24/06 at 09:01 PM
i bet you anything that the creator of family guy is gonna write a musical. he has to, you can already tell with all the tributes and songs and stuff. i bet it would be a hilarious and awesome show, too.
Keep in mind that the creator of the show has talked about how he is a fan of stuff like big band and sanatra. There has even been an episode that was a take off of My Fair Lady. And There was a scene in one episode where Brian is talking about a problem he has with Lois during one of her piano lessons. It ends up being done the same way it was in the music man. It ends with Brian saying "I don't know if I can talk abot this amilodicaly." So, yes Seth Mcfarlane does know about theatre and is a fan. I cannot even count the refrences he has made to different shows. A couple that come to mind are one of the cut scenes is Stewie as Maria singing I have confidence. Another one is when peter and his friends go to jail and they are practicing for the jail talent show. They do a little chicago esq dance. When Lois gets her dead aunt's mansion the stff in there go into a song "this house is pretty firggen sweet" which is a spoof of I think I'm Going to like it here from Annie.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
My favorite Family Guy/B'way moment is a tossup between "La-la-la-la-la-Miss Saigon la-la-la-la-la Miss Saigon..." and Herbert's fantasy sequence featuring Somewhere That's Green, straight out of the movie.
I liked the one where Peter was in the football game and he got the entire stadium (audience, players, cheerleaders, refs) to sing "Shipoopi" from "The Music Man." They sang the entire song and were doing the dance and everything. It was hilarious.
There was also one where Peter was in a barber shop quartet. I don't really remember the premise, but they were in some guys hospital room telling him he had AIDS and they were singing it. . . the only thing I really remember is at the end the last guy, in his really deep voice, finished off with, "I'm sorry it wasn't something less serious."
the miss saigon one is priceless.... i have friends that i introduced to miss saigon and when they saw that episode they were laughing because they understood the humour in it...
as much as i love the miss saigon one... my vote has to go for the episode when Peter is officially retarded and they do this number right from BYE BYE BIRDIE.... CLASSIC!
My roomate and I (both of us MT majors) were watching FG last week and talking about how much we savor the fact that there are a bunch of frat boys across town who have no clue why it's funny.
And, I have nothing against frat boys, and yes i'm playing into a stereotype.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
I love Family Guy. I like the spoof on Music Man where Lois is argueing with Brian while teaching a piano lesson and they do the who piano lesson sequence from MM. I also like the Miss Saigon spoof too.
It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours. Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Didn't Peter sing a version of "Everything's Coming up Roses" during an earler episode? When Chris is an artist?
Yep, in "A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Bucks" He sang a parody of it to Meg.
Gotta appreciate the episodes Dan Povenmire directs (this past weeks, "Patriot Games" with the Shipoopi number, and "Road to Rhode Island" and "Road to Europe" which had those Crosby/Hope parodys in them).
As for whomever said something about Seth MacFarlane creating a musical, honestly he doesn't have the time. What with Family Guy, American Dad, and working on another show with Ricky Blitt he is a very busy man. But gotta appreciate all those musical references thrown in, right? Of course right.
I saw that Wicked thing too and... I just met a guy who played for the Family Guy band, the theme song for this season. He also is in the orchestra of Wicked in Chicago
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I <33 Anthony rapp and Kristoffer Cusick!