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Family Guy Season 2
Season 2
File:Family Guy Volume 1.jpg
Family Guy Volume 1 DVD
No. of episodes21
Release
Original networkFox
Original releaseSeptember 23, 1999 (1999-09-23) –
August 1, 2000 (2000-08-01)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

Family Guy's second season aired 21 episodes from September 21, 1999 to August 1, 2000. The entire season is included within the Volume One DVD box set, which was released on April 15, 2003.

Production

After only two episodes of the second season, Family Guy was taken off the network's permanent schedule and shown irregularly thereafter. The show returned in March 2000 to finish airing the second season which contained 21 episodes. The third season contained 21 episodes and began airing from July  11, 2001 to February  14, 2002. During its second and third-season runs, Fox frequently moved the show around different days and time slots with little or no notice and consequently, the show's ratings suffered. When Family Guy was shown in the UK, and when the DVDs were subsequently released there (November 12, 2001), the seven episodes of the second season that were produced for season one were included with the first season, balancing them out with 14 episodes each. This resulted in later DVD releases to be labeled inconsistently as compared with original American season (e.g. the Family Guy: Season 6 DVD features Season 5 episodes).[1]

Fox publicly announced that the show had been canceled at the end of the second season in 2002.[2] In spite of the announced cancellation, in 2003 Fox decided to make the third season.[3] Family Guy also had to deal with a very tough time slot (Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET), competing with Survivor and Friends. The situation was later referenced in the show in an episode titled Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.[4][5] During the third season, Fox announced that the show was canceled for good.[6][7]

Reception

Overall, Family Guy's second season was well-received among critics. Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk said "Often brilliant, extremely witty and darkly hilarious, Family Guy was unfortunately canceled after Fox bumped it around six or seven different time slots. Fans of the show should definitely pick up this terrific sets, while those who haven't seen it should consider giving it a look."[8]

Fewer critics responded negatively to the season. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly has frequently panned the show, grading it with a "D",[9] and naming it the worst show of the 1999-2000 television season.[10] Tucker responded to a reader's question in 2005 that he continued to dislike the series.[11] Mark Graham noted "MacFarlane's incredibly rocky relationship with both the magazine and its lead television critic, Ken Tucker" in a blog on the New York magazine website.[12] Tucker has also criticized the show for perceived anti-Semitism.[10] L. Brent Bozell III expressed in a column of his written in 1999 that he felt that the episode "Holy Crap" promoted anti-Catholicism.[13]

The Parents Television Council, a watchdog and frequent critic of Family Guy had initially speculated that Family Guy would be "pushing the envelope" before the series' 1999 premiere.[14] In May 2000, in its weekly "E-Alert" email newsletter, the PTC launched a letter-writing campaign to the Fox network to persuade the network to cancel Family Guy following a return from a long hiatus in the show's second season, due to what the PTC claimed were "strong advertiser resistance and low ratings".[15] In addition, Family Guy made the PTC's 2000 "worst prime-time shows for family viewing".[16]

List of episodes

See also: List of Family Guy episodes
Key
  • In the # column:
    • The first number refers to the order it aired during the entire series.
    • The second number refers to the episode number within its season.


# Total Title Directed by Written by Original air date Prod.
code
18"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater"Jeff MyersChris SheridanSeptember 23, 1999 (1999-09-23)1ACX08
29"Holy Crap"Neil AffleckDanny SmithSeptember 30, 1999 (1999-09-30)1ACX11
310"Da Boom"Bob JacquesNeil Goldman & Garrett DonovanDecember 26, 1999 (1999-12-26)2ACX06
411"Brian in Love"Jack DyerGary JanettiMarch 7, 2000 (2000-03-07)2ACX01
512"Love Thy Trophy"Jack DyerMike Barker & Matt WeitzmanMarch 14, 2000 (2000-03-14)1ACX13
613"Death Is a Bitch"Michael DiMartinoRicky BlittMarch 21, 2000 (2000-03-21)1ACX14
714"The King Is Dead"Monte YoungCraig HoffmanMarch 28, 2000 (2000-03-28)1ACX15
815"I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar"Monte YoungChris SheridanMarch 28, 2000 (2000-03-28)2ACX02
916"If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'"Swinton O. Scott IIIChris SheridanApril 4, 2000 (2000-04-04)1ACX12
1017"Running Mates"John HolmquistNeil Goldman & Garrett DonovanApril 11, 2000 (2000-04-11)1ACX09
1118"A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks"Gavin DellCraig HoffmanApril 18, 2000 (2000-04-18)2ACX07
1219"Fifteen Minutes of Shame"Scott WoodSteve CallaghanApril 25, 2000 (2000-04-25)2ACX08
1320"Road to Rhode Island"Dan PovenmireGary JanettiMay 30, 2000 (2000-05-30)2ACX12
1421"Let's Go to the Hop"Glen HillMatt Weitzman & Mike BarkerJune 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)2ACX04
1522"Dammit Janet!"Bert RingMatt Weitzman & Mike BarkerJune 13, 2000 (2000-06-13)2ACX09
1623"There's Something About Paulie"Monte YoungRicky BlittJune 27, 2000 (2000-06-27)1ACX10
1724"He's Too Sexy for His Fat"Glen HillChris SheridanJune 27, 2000 (2000-06-27)2ACX10
1825"E. Peterbus Unum"Rob RenzettiNeil Goldman & Garrett DonovanJuly 12, 2000 (2000-07-12)2ACX13
1926"The Story on Page One"Gavin DellCraig HoffmanJuly 18, 2000 (2000-07-018)2ACX14
2027"Wasted Talent"Bert RingDave Collard & Kevin Goin (story)
Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman (teleplay)		July 25, 2000 (2000-07-25)2ACX15
2128"Fore Father"Scott WoodBobby BowmanAugust 1, 2000 (2000-08-01)2ACX16

See also

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References

General
  • Callgahn, Steve (2005). Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. Harper Collins Publishers.
Specific
  1. ^ Kaplan, Don (August 15, 2004). "Family Matters — Cancelled Show Resurrected". Factiva. Retrieved August 24, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  2. ^ Gilbert, Matthew (April 30, 2005). "Family Guy Returns, Just As Funny As Ever". Boston.com. Retrieved August 24, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  3. ^ Levin, Gary (November 18, 2003). "Family Guy may return". USAtoday.com. Retrieved September 27, 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  4. ^ Idato, Michael (January 23, 2006). "Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story". The Age. Retrieved August 3, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Family Guy: Stewie Griffin -The Untold Story (15)". Manchester Evening News. October 11, 2005. Retrieved August 3, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Family Guy has finally been officially cancelled by Fox". TKtv. May 16, 2002. Retrieved August 24, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  7. ^ McKinley, Jesse (May 2, 2005). "Canceled and Resurrected, on the Air and Onstage". New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  8. ^ Beierle, Aaron (2003-03-21). "Family Guy — Vol. 1". DVDTalk.com. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
  9. ^ Tucker, Ken (1999-04-09). "Family Guy". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  10. ^ a b Tucker, Ken (2001-12-21). "Television". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-07-22. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)"Here is a worthy successor to Arli$$ as The Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air, a phenomenon as inexplicable as where Larry King gets all his suspenders. As long as they keep bringing back Family Guy, a hunk of ugly animation, I'll keep using it to line the bottom of this barrel." Cite error: The named reference "ew worst 1999" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  11. ^ Tucker, Ken. "'Family' Matters". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  12. ^ Graham, Mark (2008-12-04). "Seth MacFarlane Named 'Smartest Person on TV,' Ken Tucker Promptly Keels Over". New York. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  13. ^ Bozell, L. Brent III (1999-10-06). "Again, Faith Flogged in Prime Time". Media Research Center. Retrieved 2007-09-08."...if a TV series contains a blast at religion that virtually no one knew was coming, it not only reaches millions, catching them by surprise, but also goes essentially unanswered. In the first two weeks of the new television season, that happened twice, on NBC's drama The West Wing and Fox's animated cartoon comedy Family Guy...[details of premiere episode of The West Wing]...Eight nights later came Family Guy. The villain, a sour, absurdly rigid Catholic, retires from a lumber mill and moves in with his son Peter and Peter’s family. The older man deems Peter 'a failure as a worker and as a father,' his daughter-in-law a "Protestant whore," and his granddaughter "a harlot" because she lets a boy walk her home from school. Especially tasteless is an exchange that begins right after his older grandson Chris exits the bathroom. The grandfather says, 'I know what you’re doing in there, and it’s a sin. If you ever do it again, you’ll burn in hell.' [Details of confrontation]" (episode cited: "Holy Crap")
  14. ^ Bozell, L. Brent III (1999-01-19). "WB: The Very Model of a Modern Network?". MediaResearch.org. Creators Syndicate. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  15. ^ Parents Television Council E-Alert. Vol. 4, No. 26. May 5, 2000. "In the two months since the show returned, creator Seth MacFarlane has aggressively sought to push the content envelope. Worse, Fox has permitted him to do so. Although Family Guy airs during the family hour, when children are likely to be watching, recent episodes have included animated nudity, vulgar references to genitalia, and references to pornography and masturbation." (Cited episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" as example)
  16. ^ "Top 10 Best & Worst Family Shows on Network Television, 1999-2000 TV Season". ParentsTV.org. Parents Television Council. Retrieved 2006-12-12. ...unbelievably foul...
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