Review Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)

Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2) Best Review

There are two reviews here: One for the old Boxed Set. One for the new Slim Set.

BOXED SET:
This box set comes with the first two seasons of Family Guy. The front cover shows the Griffin Family together having a fun time. The back cover shows and alternate Stewie photo and a description of the Volume One boxed set with bonus material and such. Inside there three thin plasitc cases for the discs. The front of each case has the main cover photo of the griffins on a different colored background. The backside of the cases have Episode Descriptions and what features are on the disc. Each disc has different artowork with different characters on them.

SLIM SET (you get this if ordered from Amazon now):
This slim set comes with the first two seasons of Family Guy, just like the original. The front and back cover's artwork is unchanged. However, the inside is much different. The inside has no episode descriptions. Just the disc number and episode title. There is little to no artwork inside. The discs artwork is the exact same, though.

FINAL THOUGHTS:
If you would prefer to get the boxed set with artwork and such go for it. But order it from another site. Amazon only ships the slim sets now. If you don't mind. Go for the slim set. The outer appearence is still nice overall.

Thanks for reading.

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Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2) Overview

Meet the Griffins: Peter, the big, 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-old who wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless it landed on his hot dog. Stewie, the maniacal one-year-old bent on world domination. And Brian, the sarcastic dog with a wit as dry as the martinis he drinks. The animated adventures of his outrageous family will have your whole family laughing out loud.

Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2) Specifications

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 animated 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 Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air"). That the Fox network 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 following, who may be moved to echo the words of infant Stewie Griffin, the megalomaniacal 1-year-old 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?" asks his long-suffering wife Lois in one episode. "That I wouldn't drink at the stag party," he replies. "And what did you do?" she asks. "Drank at the stag part--oh ho ho, I almost walked into that one," he cackles. Other family members include teenage daughter Meg, a desperate high school social pariah; 13-year-old son Chris, a chip off his father's blockhead; and Brian, the family's sarcastic talking dog. But this series' true 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 fast 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 network executives, Family Guy can be appreciated at last on its own profane, sacrilegious, and irreverent terms. Welcome to the DVD family, Griffins. --Donald Liebenson

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Customer Reviews

Seth McFarlane? More like Puke McRipofferton - Tough Guy -
Hey Stewie, Jimmy Corrigan (smartest kid on Earth)called, he wants his face back. I started watching Family Guy several years ago until I realized how much random pop culture references that in no way had relevance to the plot were unfunny. Here's a setup scene

Brian: "Hey Peter, it's hot outside"
Peter: "Hot like the time I played darts with Ghost Rider and Don King was there?"

Plus my DVD player broke when I vomited all over it after 12 minutes of this tripe.



Family Guy Vol.1 & 2 - Wiggy -
Good video. Have only been watching Family Guy for a short while.
Good to see the beginning of when the show started.



Where it all begins... - jlawler - Maine
Some of the funniest animation ever put on television. Althought the series is pretty lack-luster now, the first two season were ground breaking, smart, and constant laughs.

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Review All in the Family: Complete First Season

All in the Family: Complete First Season Best Review

Although the packaging leaves a little to be desired, just "take one for the team" and enjoy this for what it is. Along with its analogue look (it looks like video tape) and old-time TV sound, you will quickly forget these drawbacks as you are catapulted back to 1971, to see the complete, uncut episodes, from the beginning, of quite possibly the funniest program in all of TV.

See what happens when you throw "the rules" to the four winds? Things are SO crippled by political correctness today, and that is why most "modern" TV programming can't hold a candle to this bonfire. Nobody's feelings were spared, and guess what? People laughed anyway! Today's television exec's can learn a thing or two from releases like this. Guess what? PEOPLE LIKE THIS STUFF!

"All In The Family's" cast is populated with people I wouldn't like if I knew them: Archie Bunker is a loud-mouth bigot, Mike is a loud-mouth bleeding-heart liberal, Edith is an air-head, and Gloria is a whiny, spoiled brat. But basing your like or dislike of a program on liking the people in the show, is fatal to the viewing experience. All four key cast members are top-notch actors, and they do a magnificent job. They are 100% believable. Most households have several high-volume arguments a week, and this is one reason the show has such enduring popularity: the fights, particularly between Mike and Archie, are legendary. And funny. EXTREMELY funny. And the irony is, the presence of Edith. On the surface, she's downright stupid. But, watch a little closer; she's got a certain worldly wisdom to her, and actually, she's the glue that holds the family unit together. The shrill voice and rambling conversations, annoying as they are, are downright hilarious, especially when Archie is trying to make her stop.

Watching these classic shows, the time really does fly by. I could have knocked a star off because the discs are stacked in the case, one on top of another, on yet another, and you have to navigate to each show individually (unless you have a programming feature on your disc player), but in this case, the sum is way more than its parts.

Again, this was quite possibly the funniest show ever to air on TV. Today's programmers could learn a thing or two.

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All in the Family: Complete First Season Overview

The complete All in the Family seasons are now available in stacking hub packaging. The same great All in the Family DVDs that you've come to love are now available in new space-saving packaging that is the same size a normal Amaray, just greener. Enjoy the complete series today at one low price!

All in the Family: Complete First Season Specifications

Boy, the way the Beaver played. Ricky Nelson made the hit parade. Voices they were seldom raised. Those were the days. And then, on January 12, 1971, America met the Bunkers, and sitcoms would never be the same. The Bunkers were TV's first dysfunctional family: blue-collar bigot Archie (the late Carroll O'Connor in his iconic role), his long-suffering but loving wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), "little goil" Gloria (Sally Struthers), and her liberal husband "Meathead" Mike (Rob Reiner). Series creator Norman Lear broke near every rule and taboo in adapting the British series "Till Death Do Us Part" for American television. The series pilot, "Meet the Bunkers," was a bracing shocker that dared to find humor in prejudice. Archie dispenses racial epithets and ethnic slurs. Mike and Gloria clearly have an active sex life, while Edith, in the pilot at any rate, is more "pip" than "dingbat." In its first season, the series refused to, in Archie's words, "stifle" itself, tackling such hot-button topics as homophobia ("Judging Books by Covers"), racism ("Lionel Moves into the Neighborhood"), feminism ("Gloria Discovers Women's Lib"), and the generation gap (the touching "Success Story," with William Windom as Archie's former army buddy, a successful man who is revealed to be estranged from his son). All in the Family was a rich human comedy. Brought to life by a peerless ensemble, these characters would come to feel like family. Their foibles produced some of television's biggest laughs. They could also make us cry, as with the heartbreaking "Gloria's Pregnancy." Another series landmark is the season finale, "The First and Last Supper," in which we meet Isabel Sanford's Louise Jefferson (but, hilariously, not her husband, George). All in the Family was an instant lightning rod for controversy but went on to earn the comedy Emmy Award in its first year. This three-disc set has no extras (future sets will hopefully contain commentary by Lear or surviving cast members), but each episode is presented complete and uncut, restoring the funny, sometimes touching codas that were cut for syndication. --Donald Liebenson

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Customer Reviews

all in the family - froggybaby -
25 euros lost in the wind of amazon who does not advise the consumer
of the of the DVD zoning...
So Im looking at the jacket everyday straight in the eyes
and good bye all in the family!
thanks amazon



Fantastic, Groundbreaking Show.....Worst DVD Release Ever! - Timothy R. Beldock - Madrid, NY United States
I've never submitted a review on Amazon, although I've purchased hundreds of DVD's. I hate to have my first review be a complaint, but in this case I feel that it's absolutely necessary. This series is unquestionably a classic, an American institution, the epitome of 70's pop culture. Sony, who by the way has had many shoddy, incomplete releases in the past, has finally outdone themselves. The discontinued versions of the first six seasons of this show have now been replaced with cheap casings that might as well be covered with plastic wrap. The three discs of each set are STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER (apparently Sony couldn't shell out to supply an additional piece of plastic for an extra tray!). Two of the discs could have been placed on either side of the inner case, and that wouldn't have cost anything. Instead, we get this....

The video quality is horrendous. I have to squint to distinguish faces. Take my advice and simply videotape the first six seasons as they re-run on TV Land. You'll have a much better quality collection that way. Pretty sad in 2010 when we are adorned with every series known to man, with exceptional video quality on DVD and now Blu-ray.

Luckily, thanks to Shout Factory, we will now (after what, five years of waiting?) have the last three seasons of this show available. Hopefully they will do a better job of "remastering" the episodes. The only down side is that since Sony has already released the first six seasons and destroyed the series for collectors, Shout probably can't obtain the rights to the full series run to release a decent "Complete Series" set. Thanks alot Sony. Please stop releasing TV shows on DVD, because you are only wasting buyers' time and making a lot of fans of great shows like this very upset!






All in the Family season 1 - Vincent D. DiFranco -
One of the greatest shows of all time! The great acting and writing keep you laughing and nodding. A must see for all and the show that started the "Jeffersons".

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