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Family Guy Season 3
Family Guy Season 3
Season 3
	File:Fguy vol2.png Family Guy, Volume 2
No. of episodes	22
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	September 13, 2001 –; ; November 9, 2003
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Family Guy's third season aired from September 13, 2001 to November 9, 2003. The entire season is included within the Volume Two DVD box set, which was released on September 9, 2003. The episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" is included in this season list as Fox decided to wait almost a year after the previous episode to finally air it on network television. The series was canceled for the second time towards the end of the season. The final episode of the season aired on May 23, 2002. However, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", a previously banned episode from the third season, was aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on November 9, 2003 and eventually on Fox on December 10, 2004.

Production

Dan Povenmire, who became a director on Family Guy during the series' second season,^[1] took a more prominent role in directing by the third season, having directed five episodes. Creator Seth McFarlane granted Povenmire substantial creative freedom. Povenmire recalled that McFarlane would tell him "We've got two minutes to fill. Give me some visual gags. Do whatever you want. I trust you." Povenmire praised this management style for letting him "have [...] fun."

Povenmire brought realism, and material from his own experiences, to the visual direction of Family Guy.^[2]^[3] For "One if By Clam, Two if By Sea"^[4], several characters carried out fosse moves in prison — Povenmire went into the office of a color artist, Cynthia MacIntosh, who had been a professional dancer, and had her strike poses in order for him to better illustrate the sequence.^[3] In the episode "To Love and Die in Dixie"^[5] Povenmire drew on his childhood in the deep south to sequence a background scene where the "redneck" character nonchalantly kicks a corpse into the nearby river.^[2]

Reception

"Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" won an Emmy Award for Best Song. Creator McFarlane, the recipient of the award, noted that the episode's director Dan Povenmire^[6] deserved to have received the award for the contribution the visuals made to the episode's win. Povenmire jokingly responded "That's a nice sentiment and all, but did he offer to give me his? No! And it's not like he doesn't already have two of his own just sitting in his house!"^[7] In his review for the Family Guy Volume 3 DVD, Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk stated "Often brilliant, extremely witty and darkly hilarious, Family Guy was unfortunately cancelled after Fox bumped it around six or seven different time slots. Although this third season wasn't as consistent as the first two, it's still hilarious and fans of the show should definitely pick up this terrific set."^[8]

List of episodes

#	Total	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	29	"The Thin White Line"	Glen Hill	Steve Callaghan	July 11, 2001 (2001-07-11)	2ACX17
2	30	"Brian Does Hollywood"	Gavin Dell	Gary Janetti	July 18, 2001 (2001-07-18)	2ACX20
3	31	"Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington"	Brian Hogan	Ricky Blitt	July 25, 2001 (2001-07-25)	2ACX11
4	32	"One If by Clam, Two If by Sea"	Dan Povenmire	Jim Bernstein & Michael Shipley	August 1, 2001 (2001-08-01)	2ACX19
5	33	"And the Wiener Is..."	Bert Ring	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	August 8, 2001 (2001-08-08)	2ACX22
6	34	"Death Lives"	Rob Renzetti	Mike Henry	August 15, 2001 (2001-08-15)	2ACX21
7	35	"Lethal Weapons"	Brian Hogan	Chris Sheridan	August 22, 2001 (2001-08-22)	2ACX18
8	36	"The Kiss Seen Around the World"	Pete Michels	Mark Hentemann	August 29, 2001 (2001-08-29)	3ACX02
9	37	"Mr. Saturday Knight"	Michael DiMartino	Steve Callaghan	September 5, 2001 (2001-09-05)	3ACX04
10	38	"A Fish Out of Water"	Bert Ring	Alex Borstein & Mike Henry	September 19, 2001 (2001-09-19)	3ACX05
11	39	"Emission Impossible"	Peter Shin	Dave Collard & Ken Goin	November 8, 2001 (2001-11-08)	3ACX01
12	40	"To Love and Die in Dixie"	Dan Povenmire	Steve Callaghan	November 15, 2001 (2001-11-15)	3ACX09
13	41	"Screwed the Pooch"	Pete Michels	Dave Collard & Ken Goin	November 29, 2001 (2001-11-29)	3ACX08
14	42	"Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?"	Scott Wood	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	December 6, 2001 (2001-12-06)	3ACX06
15	43	"Ready, Willing, and Disabled"	Andi Klein	Alex Barnow & Marc Firek	December 20, 2001 (2001-12-20)	3ACX07
16	44	"A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas"	Brian Hogan	Danny Smith	December 21, 2001 (2001-12-21)	2ACX03
17	45	"Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows"	Dan Povenmire	Allison Adler	January 17, 2002 (2002-01-17)	3ACX03
18	46	"From Method to Madness"	Bert Ring	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	January 24, 2002 (2002-01-24)	3ACX11
19	47	"Stuck Together, Torn Apart"	Michael DiMartino	Mark Hentemann	January 31, 2002 (2002-01-31)	3ACX10
20	48	"Road to Europe"	Dan Povenmire	Daniel Palladino	February 7, 2002 (2002-02-07)	3ACX13
21	49	"Family Guy Viewer Mail #1"	Pete Michels Scott Wood Michael DiMartino	Gene Laufenberg Seth MacFarlane Michael Shipley & Jim Bernstein	February 14, 2002 (2002-02-14)	3ACX12
22	50	"When You Wish Upon a Weinstein"	Dan Povenmire	Ricky Blitt	November 9, 2003 (2003-11-09)	2ACX05

References

General

Callaghan, Steve (2005). Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide, Seasons 1-3. HarperCollins. ISBN 006083305X.

Specific

^ Strike, Joe. (2008-02-01). "From Swampy & Dan Emerges Phineas and Ferb", Page 3". Animation World Magazine.
^ ^a ^b Callaghan (2005), pp. 174
^ ^a ^b Callaghan (2005), pp. 142
^ Callaghan (2005), pp. 140
^ Callaghan (2005), pp. 171
^ Callaghan, pp. 192
^ Callaghan, pp. 194
^ Beierle, Aaron (2003-09-05). "Family Guy — Vol. 3". DVDTalk.com. Retrieved 2009-09-22.

External links

Season 3 at TV.com

[AM3-1] Strike, Joe. (2008-02-01). "From Swampy & Dan Emerges Phineas and Ferb", Page 3". Animation World Magazine.

[P174-2] Callaghan (2005), pp. 174

[P142-3] Callaghan (2005), pp. 142

[4] Callaghan (2005), pp. 140

[5] Callaghan (2005), pp. 171

[6] Callaghan, pp. 192

[7] Callaghan, pp. 194

[FG_DVD-8] Beierle, Aaron (2003-09-05). "Family Guy — Vol. 3". DVDTalk.com. Retrieved 2009-09-22.

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