'Family Guy' offers sneak peek at a new script
Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:44 PM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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TV critics were treated to a table read by the "Family Guy" cast, meaning the people who voice the characters sat at a table in front of us and read their way through an upcoming script. How Seth MacFarlane can seamlessly switch from snooty l'il Stewie's voice to goofy Peter to dog Brian is amazing to me. I only caught a slight, millisecond-long slip-up once.
After the script (part one of a very funny two-parter) was read, MacFarlane and the cast answered critics' questions and discussed the show.
--What did MacFarlane think of "South Park's" episode mocking "Family Guy"? (Trey Parker and Matt Stone's show suggests "Family Guy" is written by manatees.) Said MacFarlane: " I am a fan of "South Park," actually. I think that show is very funny, and I think that the movie was hysterical. ... But, you know, they busted our balls a lot about the cutaways. And, you know, the cutaways they sort of see as a deviation from the story. We sort of see them as, in a weird way, kind of these animated versions of, like, one-frame "Far Side" cartoons."
--The episode read to critics features a live-action sequence with James Woods and Rob Lowe shown sharing a bedroom, Bert and Ernie separate beds style. MacFarlane said it was his belief that Woods and Lowe had agreed to do the scene, which isn't the first-ever live-action scene on the animated show. (The episode, called "Stewie Kills Lois," involves an angry Stewie taking revenge on his mother after she goes on a cruise without him.)
--When asked if she wanted more lines for Meg, Mila Kunis (Jackie on "That '70s Show") said that no, she knows that her voice-over job is already pretty cush. "This is probably
the easiest job you can ask for," Kunis said. "I really don't want more lines because I kind of get paid whether I say one word or four or ten."
--MacFarlane, whose comedy is often called offensive by many, was asked what offends him personally. "I don't know. The Bush administration, I guess," he said."
