Family Guy - Season 1 [1999] | ![Family Guy - Season 1 [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516KRQ21TQL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Seth Macfarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 493
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 312
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
EAN: 5039036007801
ASIN: B00005OL9E
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1999
Release Date: November 12, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Family Guy shouldn't work at all. Even by the witless standards of modern television, it is breathtakingly derivative: does an animated series about the travails of a boorish, suburban yob with a saintly wife, a hopeless son, a clever daughter and a baby sound familiar at all? Even the house in Family Guy looks like it was built by the same architects who sketched the residence of The Simpsons. However, Family Guy does work, transcending its (occasionally annoyingly) obvious influences with reliably crisp writing and the glorious sight gags contained in the surreal flashbacks which punctuate the episodes. Most importantly, the show's brilliance comes from two absolutely superb characters: Stewie, the baby whose extravagant dreams of tyrannising the world are perpetually thwarted by the prosaic limitations of infanthood, and the urbane family dog Brian--Snoopy after attendance at an obedience class run by Frank Sinatra. Family Guy does not possess the cultural or satirical depth of The Simpsons--very little art in any field does. But it is a genuinely funny and clever programme. --Andrew Mueller
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 Brilliant first season. June 24, 2008
When family guy was original. This season is brilliant funny and different all the characters are funny, the episodes are funny. Best characters for me are brian and peter, stewie is funny, and i thinks it's hilarious the way they neglect meg thats funny. Great show until it got boring unfunny and annoying. I still need to check out season six but season 5 & 4 were good but it was just the same. So good buy if you want to buy a season.
 The Simpsons...who're they? June 23, 2008
So many times, Family Guy is compared to the Simpsons, and with the every increasingly old and boring feel about The Simpsons, Family Guy comes out on top more often than not. Anime/Manga had already proven that cartoons could be for grown ups too, and Family Guy nails that home. It's rude, crude and often amazingly offensive jokes have me in stitches plenty of times. The family is the perfect mix - A bad dad who tries his best...sometimes, a wife who's always trying her hardest for the family, a smart but unpopular daughter, a goofball son, a 1 year old baby with plans of world domination...and an alcoholic dog. Couldn't get better.
(On a technical side, watch out for some moments of pixel breakup through the first season set)
Familiar but funny January 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Family Guy is quite blatantly influenced by the Simpsons. It features an overweight, drunken buffoon of a father, a patient mother, underachieving son, angsty daughter and a baby. It even goes so far as to steal whole episode ideas (father's works baseball game, daughter trying to make friends with cool kids, mother's gambling problem, father and son in wilderness etc....). Normally this would be reason enough for me to give this a wide berth but after catching a few episodes on TV, I realised Family Guy still has a lot to offer.
It's very well written and despite it's obvious plagiarism of Simpsons gags, the show is very funny in it's own right. It features a lot of adult humour (it's more risque than the Simpsons) and sight gags. It can be a little surreal but overall it's well worth buying on dvd especially since the Simpsons is officially not that funny any more.
AWESOME! November 1, 2007
Family Guy is a great cartoon comedy for older teenagers and adults. It is very funny to watch and have some great stories! The humour can be a bit rude, but thats what makes it so great to watch. All the characters are great to watch and I now prefer this to the simpsons as the simpsons are not that funny to what it used to be.
Family guy is well worth it.
One of the most hilarious comedies on TV for years October 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Family guy is a rip-off of The Simpsons, but it's a superior rip-off that not only exceeds it's 'inspiration' but also pretty much every other comedy out there.
The series follows the (mis)adventures of a lower-middle-class American family with a stupid slobbish father and a nagging mother, so-far so-Simpsons, but they also have a psychotic baby intent on world-domination and the murder of his mother, a dog that's clearly the best educated one there, and a neighbor whose sexual practices are so perverted he's built up an immunity to mace spray.
Family Guy is a very adult show, with regular swearing and sexual references many will not be happy exposing to children (who won't get the jokes anyway since the humor is actually very intelligent for the most part). So if you are easily offended you really should think carefully and look up some clips of the show before buying this. To that end there is currently a 'Freakin Sweet Collection' available that contains a few choice episodes and at the time of writing this review was a little under a tenner on amazon.
For those of you who are not put off by the adult and occasionally offensive material, you are in for an real treat here. Every episode is cleverly written, extremely funny and very re-watchable, the first series doesn't contain a single bad episode and it's continued hilarity on repeat veiwings makes it well worth the price tag.
A highly recommended, highly entertaining show.
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