Well folks, as of May 1st, Family Guy is back on the Fox Network. It is about time that Fox finally put some useful programming on it's air waves. Ever since the DVDs for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd seasons came out, they have been selling like hot cakes. This prompted Fox to put Family Guy back on the air. Fox made a even better decision in finally giving Family Guy a decent time slot. It starts at 8:00 central time on Sundays on it's animation block.

Now I was always a fan of Family Guy, but never really watched it on TV when it was on. Mainly that was Fox's fault because they kept moving it around so no one really knew what time it was actually on. So when the DVDs came out, I snatched those up in a heart beat. As I watched the old episodes over and over, I longed for new ones. Then when Fox announced it would be showing new Family Guy episodes starting in May, I almost jumped for joy.....wait, I did jump for joy. I waited and waited until finally May 1st came and the new episode was shown.

The new episode of Family Guy, which kicked off it's fourth season, was a work of genius by Seth MacFarlene. It had everything that I loved about Family Guy. The pop culture references were just amazing and the jokes left me laughing the entire time. Brian and Stewie were always two of my favorite characters and in the episode they delivered their classic greatness. The Star Trek joke while Brian is changing Stewie just made me, and hopefully every other nerd just smile with glee.

I was kind of disappointed that Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire were not in the episode however. Jeff figured that the voices for Cleveland and Joe were off doing other projects, so that is why they did not appear. The episode does not lose anything with the absence of those characters. I am also hoping that they bring back good ol' Adam West as the often odd Mayor of Quahog.

I enjoyed the return of Family Guy extensively. I caught the follow up episode, which was good, but was not as good as the first episode of Season 4. I am very interested to see were MacFarlene takes this show now. It has already continued the greatness it had back from 1999-2002. I encourage everyone to watch MacFarlene's original masterpiece at 8:00 central time on Fox.

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