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Family Guy: Volume Five (Season Five, Part 1)

5 star:		(68)
4 star:		(24)
3 star:		(26)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(38)

 

 

I always wanted to know what episodes I was looking to buy, so here. Hope this helps.

Stewie Loves Lois - Lois saves Rupert and Peter gets a prostate exam.

Mother Tucker - Peter's mom starts dating TV's Tom Tucker.

Hell Comes to Quahog - Meg gets a job at a store just like "Wal-Mart."

Saving Private Brian - Stewie and Brian join the Army.

Whistle While Your Wife Works - Lois has to help an injured Peter at work. This is also the first episode with Jillian.

Prick Up Your Ears - Lois teaches sex ed at Meg's school.

Chick Cancer - Peter makes a chick-flick. Stewie and Olivia reunite.

Barely Legal - Meg falls for Brian. Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland become policemen.

Road to Rupert - Brian and Stewie go to Aspen to save Rupert. Meg becomes Peter's personal driver.

Peter's Two Dads - Peter accidentally kills his "father" and learns that his REAL father is an Irish drunk.

The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Stewie gets his tan on. Peter becomes a bully.

Airport '07 - Peter gets Quagmire fired, so he must get him rehired.

Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey - Peter and Bill Clinton partake in shenanigans. Lois has a "meeting" with Clinton.

All good episodes, especially Whistle While Your Wife Works, Peter's Two Dad's, Tan Aquatic..., and Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey. Enjoy.

This review wil not be helpful to other readers, but I just wanted to voice my displeasure with the repeated release of half seasons. This is an unacceptable format and is just one little screw you that the target audience of the show (college age - 35 year old males) will put up with for awhile. This will and has inspired resentment in friends of mine and has caused them to view recent seasons more harshly. This is still a great show, but when half a season costs $39.99, the listed price, that means the price of a full season would be 80$. With other shows, such as the simpsons, selling COMPLETE seasons for 20$ it makes it dificult to shell out cash for another half season of Family Guy. The goodwill the show has built up with its hilarity won't last much longer when it continually screws its fans. Either release full seasons or sell the half seasons at $20 or less.


In summary buy this DVD if you love Family Guy, which I do, but beware that your only getting half a season. You may want to buy some Simpsons seasons instead and get twice the length of entertainment.

Buying half a season for what you would pay for a full season of any other show just encourages the jackasses who put this together to do it again. Wait until the price drops then buy.

I think the show is still quite funny, and almost all of the episodes in this set are worth having, but come on. Thirteen episodes for $40? That's absurd. Especially for a show that owes its resurrection to supporting fans and DVD sales. This is a spit in the face. They should be selling 4 discs for the price of two, not the other way around. They should be making Dane Cook look like Kurt Cobain as far as fan appreciation goes. They shouldn't be selling a three-disc set (that should, by all rights be a two-disc set, as the third is entirely special features that would've fit onto the other two quite easily, thus saving the packaging fees) for an outrageous sum. This is another egregious misstep after the "movie" debacle, in which they strung three episodes together, tossed a few curse words in, and marketed it as an uncensored, saturnalian romp. It's ridiculous and unfair.

Family Guy Vol. 5 is as hilarious as ever but what's certainly not funny is the price. For a retail price of $39.99 you get just 13 22-minute episodes making it a not-so-good deal. Sure quality is more than quantity, but quantity still counts. Regardless this volume contains some very funny episodes but you may want to the consider the overpricing before you buy it.

Come on, this is Family Guy we are talking about. A truly great show, no question and the DVD's are great too. THE PRICING IS WHAT SUCKS!

This is just another FOX, Inc. Rupert Murdoch screw you good for your money ploy.

You are not getting the full season. You are getting half a season. Just like they did with Season 4. Two different DVD sets, 2 huge prices.

I do not blame anyone behind Family Guy, this is a real ripoff tactic by the scumbag Rupert Murdoch himself and his Fox executives (evil minions).

I will not buy this until I find it on sale at a drastically lower price. Of course, there is always NETFLIX!

I was a huge fan of Family Guy and I was until recently. I have my reasons, but here we go:

Since Family Guy came back, the jokes have been horrible. The episode where Peter's dad dies is just awful. That was fine, I can deal with some subpar episodes, but how much is this DVD for that amount of episodes?

Eric Cartman was right. Family Guy must be stopped. Wait...Lets just place the blame on Fox. They cancelled 3 great shows in their prime...Arrested Development, Futurama, and Family Guy. Plus they charge up these DVDs...Fox is just a horribly run network.

Well, half season or not, this collection consists of some of the finest material ever produced for this show. Sometimes quality is more important than quantity.

One of the episodes consists of Stewie dancing with the legendary Gene Kelly which is not only an oddity for ANY cartoon but qualifies this episode to be a classic and worth the price of this set.

The episode where Peter has a prostate exam and thinks he is a victim of sexual harrassment as a result is one of the funniest episodes Family Guy ever had. This one also ranks at the top and is worth the price.

All in all, there is nothing negative about this set, except perhaps, it's rather dull cover. The cover of the last issue was a blast. This one's a bit dull by comparison.

Here is a a suggestion for those who are concerned about the price. After this set is released, in a matter of months it will be available from Amazon for about half the price as a used copy. You can pay less and still enjoy it.

All five stars

Shame! The makers of "Family Guy" have a huge debt to their fan base. Who saved their butts when the show was cancelled? The very people they're now gouging with the shameful product division. You owe us, you Fox ingrates! I don't know if it's Seth and his buds or the money-hungry leeches that run Fox or the subsidiary video release company who's responsible for this, but remember, what goes up (Family Guy's popularity) certainly must come down. Along with the less and less funny material you're slinging over the airwaves, this scrimping of episode releases stunt could certainly be the bell tolling for your fall. If this is how you're willing to treat the people who made you rich and famous, then it couldn't happen to more deserving folks.

Shame!

The reason for the full price for half a season is simple. When Fox realized they made a mistake when they cancelled it, they basically begged the creator to come back. The show was already picked up by Cartoon Network, so McFarlane raked Fox over the coals to get as much money as possible. And I don't blame him a bit. In an effort to recoup some of their losses, Fox decided to split the seasons to double their profits. Why do you think the first 3 seasons were NOT broken up? Because the show was not picked up by anyone yet. Typical Hollywood theivery, plain and simple.