Family Guy - "Ocean's Three and a Half" - Talkback [2/15]

I think I know, and this is just a guess that has to do with last year's writer's strike. Is it possible that season 6 was just cut down to 13 episodes?

According to production codes, we've got 11 S6 episodes aired of tonight, which would leave two. (I'm guessing)

Now, I believe I read somewhere that the next Star Wars special 'Something Something Dark Side' was intended to be the S7 finale because that's the way Seth wanted it. What if 'Dark Side' was the proper S7 premiere?

Maybe that's why we've got the delay, because they're saving that episode for the end of the season.
 
I'm not going to argue that any chicken fight other than the first one was brilliant, so you're pretty much on the money. But at least none of them are dated by a reference that will be obscure within a few months. It's almost old news already. Even when South Park does this, they usually try to put it in a context that will keep it funny for future viewings, although as seen with the YouTube all-stars scene in "Canada On Strike", sometimes they fail even more horribly.
 
I liked the appearance of Megatron at the end.

Why use a reel to reel tape recorder for the conversation between Peter Griffin and Christian Bale?
 
South Park - because of its "let's start an episode a week before it airs" production schedule - tends to do a lot of things in response to something currently happening in the news. And while the "Yahoo Video Celebrity War" episode is a good example of painfully dated references there have been many occasions (at least in my opinion) when entire South Park episodes are designed to immediately parody something that's just happened in the news that will be forgotten about within a few weeks.

I personally have wished for a long time that Stone and Parker would just cut out this type of production schedule and work instead on giving us original plots that don't reference current news stories or parody drama or action films. They're always complaining in the DVD commentaries about how they get a couple episodes into a half season and are already hitting walls. That's really sad when you spend two thirds of a year doing absolutely nothing.

Family Guy is guilty of the same sins, but I've found they don't waste entire episodes on this sort of thing like South Park does. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide that there's some news story they want to parody you can bet we're getting 30 minutes of that parody and not a five minute cutaway that's easier to ignore like it would be on Family Guy.
 
Same for me. What gives?

Considering how long that baby has been in there--in its third trimester--I think they should have saved Susie for a bigger event than a random episode. Like the 150th show, or the Family Guy movie. Why NOW?

Oh, and the dearth of new episodes has nothing to do with the strike, otherwise all the other shows would be suffering. It's Seth dragging his feet, and Fox powerless to stop him.
 
They must have removed it.

Meh, it's something happening in the life of a tertiary character we hardly ever see. I don't see this as much of an event. Now Luanne's baby...that should have been an event episode.

That's what I think too. Although the lack of new Simpsons episodes sort of pokes holes that that theory.

Either way, when was The Cleveland Show supposed to air?
 
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