I don’t really talk much on my blog about my obsession with the animated tv series Family Guy. I’m not really sure why. I guess because it’s not quite as fun to quote the show on a blog as it is to in real life. I remember back when the show first came out and Gene would watch it and I just thought it was another one of his “stupid cartoons.” :) Hah.. I never imagined that I would end up completely in love with the show.

I can’t even describe the hilarity of the whole thing. The entire show is built off of references and parody. There are a lot of people who believe the entire show is plagiarism, but I think they’re just jealous of the pure genius of it all. They just wish they were the ones who came up with it first and so naturally, they diss on it to make themselves feel better.

Tonight’s episode was the Star Wars episode. It was an hour long (or around 40 minutes if you have a DVR and fast forward through commercials and yes we are officially one of those people now) and it was packed full of laughs. I have only seen one, possibly two Star Wars movies but I still got most of the references. I am anticipating the release of the DVD that will have that episode on it! I’m sure they are going to promote it to hell with it having the Star Wars episode on it. One little tip if you watch Family Guy.. be sure to pay close attention to this one. There are “surprise” appearances by a few characters from other shows. I spotted Bender from Futurama, a character from Home Movies, and even Roger, the alien from American Dad.

And my only other Family Guy comment is that today I finally went out and bought Vol. 5 DVD set. I went to Best Buy, where it was $32.99 and it had a holographic type cover on it. Woopteedoo. So I decided to go buy the same thing from Target so I could use my Mom’s employee discount card and get it cheaper! Well, to my surprise Target had the normal version and they also had a colletor’s edition that was $34.99. It has a few story board cards in it as well as a picture book. Pretty freakin’ awesome! I’m a little disappointed that they chose to split Season 5 into 2 DVD releases. More money for them and less left in my pocket. However, since I am a dedicated FG fan and I think Seth MacFarlane is a genius, I will continue to fork over buckaroos for the show.