Review: Family Guy Season 9 DVD
Buy Family Guy Season 9 on DVD
The 9th installment of Family Guy arrives in the UK tomorrow (1st of November 2010), and sees Peter, Louis, Stewie, Brian, Chris (and Meg), back for another bunch of crazy adventures. Confusingly the Family Guy DVD ‘seasons’ run differently to the Family Guy tv airing. The Family Guy Season 9 DVD is actually the 2nd half of season 7, and the 1st half of season 8. I’m not entirely sure why they’ve gone down the route of naming the DVD ‘seasons’ rather than ‘volumes’, but then it is released by FOX, which should explain somewhat why it makes absolutely no sense…
Despite the wacky naming conventions, the season 9 3 disc set does include some great episodes. Season 7 episode ’3 Kings’ shows Family Guy parodying the classic movies Stand by Me, Misery and The Shawshank Redemption, with guest voices from Richard Dreyfuss and the late Roy Scheider. Season 8 episode ‘Hannah Banana’ not only sees Stewie become obssesed with Hannah Montana who’s coming to give a concert in Quahog, but also brilliantly reveals the origins of evil monkey from Chris’s coset.
Road to the Multiverse
The stand out episode for me though is the season 8 opener, ‘Road to the Multiverse’. This episode sees Stewie and Brian travelling through parallel universes seeing varying versions of Quahog and the Griffin family. Along with finding a universe where Christianity didn’t exist, and a universe where humans are subservient to dogs, I just loved the changes in art styles as they change worlds. They jump from a Flintstonesque Hanna-Barbera universe, to a stunningly drawn Disneyesque world, to the twisted universe of Seth Green’s (voice of Chris Griffin) ‘Robot Chicken’, all superbly animated.
All 15 episodes on the Family Guy Season 9 DVD are extended with too rude for TV scenes. The discs also include 48 deleted scenes, a Road to the Multiverse featurette and 12 creator, cast and artist commentaries.
For clarity, the episodes on the ‘Family Guy: Season 9 DVD’ are as follows:
Season 7 – episodes 10-16
- Fox-y Lady
- Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
- Episode 420
- Stew-Roids
- We Love You Conrad
- Three Kings
- Peter’s Progress
Season 8 – episodes 1-8
- Road to The Multiverse
- Family Goy
- Spies Reminiscent of Us
- Brian’s Got a Brand New Bag
- Hannah Banana
- Quagmire’s Baby
- Jerome is The New Black
- Dog Gone
Buy Family Guy Season 9 on DVD now!
9/10 – Frickin’ Sweet!
JOIN SARAH MILLICAN FOR DAVE’S ONE NIGHT STAND
This week on Dave’s One Night Stand Sarah Millican performs brand new and exclusive stand-up comedy in her hometown of Newcastle, with special guests Jarred Christmas and Alun Cochrane. Next week Russell Kane returns to Essex.
10:00 pm on Sunday 31st October on Dave.
You can now watch the first two episodes of Dave’s One Night Stand online at www.joindave.co.uk with alternative comedy legend Ben Elton and cheeky young scamp Jack Whitehall! From this Sunday (31st), Johnny Vegas’ performance can be seen again.
Where to find Dave: Sky channel 111, Virgin TV channel 128, Freeview 19.
Caprica Canned!
Caprica Cancelled
This is a pity, but not a massive surprise… SyFy (US) have cancelled the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica due to its rather lack lustre ratings, saying “despite its obvious quality, Caprica has not been able to build the audience necessary to justify a second season.”
SyFy have actually gone as far as to pull Caprica off air completely, saying the remaining 5 episodes of season 1 will now air in the new year.
It is a bit of a shame as I rather enjoyed Caprica, however if your also a fan of BSG universe, you can look forward to the next potential spin off – Blood & Chrome - which is a prequel following the young William Adama as he takes his first assignment on the shiny new Battlestar Galactica, 40yrs prior to the events of BSG. Lets hope Blood & Chrome grabs the US audiences attention more than Caprica did…
Competition: Win a £100 Amazon voucher, but Don’t Go Zombie!
Don't Go Zombie
With Halloween just around the corner we have teamed up with Virgin Trains’ ‘Don’t Go Zombie’ Google Street View game to offer GeekTown residents the chance to win a £100 Amazon voucher! The lovely folk at Virgin have even zombified me to feature in the game which you can play by visiting http://www.dontgozombie.com where you will be able to Zombify yourself and share with friends on Facebook.
To be in with a chance of winning £100 Amazon voucher all you need to do is complete at least one of the following (obviously the more of these you do, the more entries and chances to win you’ll have!)…
Competition Closed.
The competition closes on 7th November 2010 and is open to UK residents. There will be 1 winner picked from entries on geektown.co.uk, Twitter and Facebook. By entering this competition, you are agreeing to the rules of this competition. Full rules can be read here.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
I’m actually in the process of playing through the first Star Wars: The Force Unleashed at the moment in preparation for the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Looking pretty awesome from the trailer:
There’s no tricks to the Halloween treats on Sky Movies Sci-Fi & Horror/HD
Halloween
Been a bit short on Halloween related posts this week (must try harder), however, if you have Sky Movies, you can get ready for a weekend of vampires, werewolves, ghosts and ghouls on Sky Movies Sci-Fi & Horror/HD this Halloween Weekend. There is a great range of films to suit all horror tastes including four films from the Hannibal Lecter Boxset.
The horror fest kicks-off from 5.30pm on Friday 29th October with three recent chilling releases featuring demons and possessions with The Unborn, The Haunting In Connecticut and Drag Me To Hell. On Saturday afternoon, teen horror titles such as The Faculty and The Final Destination will be screened before leading into a Hannibal Lecter double-bill from 9pm of Manhunter and five times Oscar-winner, Silence Of The Lambs. And on fright night itself, there is a selection of vampire, werewolf and Frankenstein movies before Dr. Lecter returns for another double-bill from 9pm with Hannibal and Red Dragon. Titles will be shown back-to-back throughout the weekend.
Sky Movies Sci-Fi & Horror/HD – sky channels 309/337HD
(Fri 29th – Sun 31st October)
Highlights include:
Fri 29th October
- The Unborn 5.30pm
- The Haunting In Connecticut 7.10pm
- Drag Me To Hell 9pm
- Saw V 10.40pm
- Friday The 13th (2009) 12.25am
Sat 30th October
- The Uninvited 2.45pm
- Tormented 4.15pm
- The Faculty 5.50pm
- The Final Destination 7.35pm
- Manhunter 9pm
- Silence Of The Lambs 11.10pm
Sun 31st October
- Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant 1.20pm
- Lesbian Vampire Killers 3.20pm
- The Lost Boys 5pm
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 6.50pm
- Hannibal 9pm
- Red Dragon 11.15pm
- Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans 1.30am
For full listings, go to www.skymovies.com
