David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. "Family Guy:" Making Idiots, everywhere, proud
What to say about Fox’s fall season that hasn’t already inspired many late-night solitary sessions involving Fox executives cradling straight-razors?
Well, Fox always has its reliable Sunday-night lineup, bolstered by “The Simpsons� and “Family Guy.� And tonight, “Family Guy� returns with one of its typically tautly sculpted, boxes-within-boxes storylines.
Wait: We’re clearly thinking about some other –any other – show on TV. “Family Guy,� its episode is as randomly plotted as ever.
By the way, next time any of you have the occasion to meet “Family Guy� creator Seth MacFarlane, be sure to ask him: Since Brian the Dog not-so-secretly suffers from an unrequited love for Peter’s wife Lois and Stewie is hellbent on killing her, how do they get along so well?
After all, in Brian’s recent book, “Brian Griffin’s Guide to Booze, Broads and the Lost Art of Being a Man,� the hellbent hellhound observes of Stewie, “People are always asking me, ‘Is Stewie gay?’ And my standard answer is, ‘Not yet. But be patient,’� while his assessment of Lois is: “There’s an uncommon air of sensuality in everything she does, from folding the laundry to applying her makeup in a short, clingy robe.�
A most obsessive gaze into the private life of an animated character, and yet, tonight’s episode of “Family Guy� fetishizes Lois even further. After Peter, thoroughgoing moron that he is, blows the fingers off one of his hands playing with fireworks, he forces his wife Lois to do his work for him at the beer factory and becomes obsessed with sexually objectifying his new secretary. More bizarrely: Lois kinda likes it.
Meanwhile, Brian is mortified when Stewie discovers he’s dating a beautiful woman whose voice is provided by Drew Barrymore – no, that’s not the reason he’s filled with umbrage; Brian’s embarrassed because his lover and her friends belong on an alpaca farm, where they might actually be able to keep up with the level of intellectual discourse. As one of her friends notes, “Gloss rhymes with hair!�
Family Guy, 9 p.m. (8 central) on Fox (Channel 11 in L.A.).