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Wednesday, April 1
The Indiana Daily Student

Cartoon DVD funny but lacks extras

('Family Guy' - TV PG/14)

"Family Guy" is one of the most underrated shows in recent memory. Luckily, the animated adventures of the Griffin clan established a cult following and Twentieth Century Fox finally saw it fit to release the first two seasons of this much lamented and impeccably hilarious cartoon on DVD.\n"Family Guy" centers on the sordid misadventures of the Quahog, Rhode Island-based Griffins: Peter, the patriarch is cut from the mold of a dumber Homer Simpson, and Lois, his doting and incessantly patient wife. Their daughter Meg is a whiny high schooler who longs for little more than social acceptance and a lack of familial embarrassment. Chris, the eldest son, is a 13-year-old overgrown, idiot man-child. Stewie, the family baby, is a megalomaniacal one-year-old hell bent on world domination. Brian, the Griffin's dog puts a whole new spin on being a "booze hound."\n"Family Guy" is well-worth adding to any DVD library. Despite minimal extras (though, the commentaries are funny) and an impending televised resurrection via the Cartoon Network, the show's just that funny. "Family Guy" melds the best elements of "The Simpsons" and "South Park" into a comically cohesive whole. It's a modern cartoon classic.

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