Animation Q&A Thread (Jokes We Don't Get, Which Episode, etc.)

[Jesse Pinkman]

i have yet another family guy question (i really got to stop watching random clips on youtube). i saw a clip on youtube a little while ago, it showed two kids on their bikes trying to get away from herbert, who was on meth or something and chasing them. which episode was this from?

[Bella Drape 'er]

^
And Then They Were Fewer

[Jesse Pinkman]

really? i just watched that episode a couple weeks ago on TV. is it like cut or am i just having a bad memory?

[Bella Drape 'er]

All the youtube clips say it's from that.

So maybe you just forgot? Or your brain didn't want to remember?

[Jesse Pinkman]

i love herbert because everytime i see him, i think of one of my friends who does an imitation of him from time to time.

but i guess i got to watch the episode again sometime

[Flimpson Tide]

I've got an interesting question here. When is the last episode a character on Family Guy or American Dad didn't shed blood?

[Swoony]

I don't remember seeing any blood on "Meg and Quagmire." But I wasn't pay full attention to the whole episode so I could be wrong.

[Flimpson Tide]

There was some pretty fucked up violence at the Teen Choice Awards, like the band getting executed onstage with brains spilling out. And the girls bashing their heads on the stage.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Fuckin' droppin' newborn babies everywhere.

[Swoony]

Why do all Mcfarlane shows have talking animals in them?

[Bella Drape 'er]

And movies...

He's making that live action film about a talking teddy bear isn't he?

[Swoony]

Well that's terrifying....does he have a fetish for that or something?

[kupomog]

This is just an educated guess, but he used to work at Hanna-Barbera which I'm sure most people know love their talking animals. So I'm guessing this style of character cast stuck with him, and he feels the need to always have a talking animal because that's what he knows, likes, and finds funny. With The Cleveland Show he decided to just have a family of bears around because he didn't want to just have "two random weird people" living with the normal family again, and some writer randomly threw out "bears" for the actual characters and he liked it. But you can see that all his shows have a The Flintstones style formula as far as family goes...hot wife, oaf husband, kid, talking pet/animal/whatever. He probably chose to have two kids because of The Simpsons, though, since Pebbles and Bam-Bam didn't really do anything.

[Jesse Pinkman]

i was watching the tan aquatic with steve zissou and a couple jokes confused me:

-Brian finding the mole on Stewie and suggesting it may be the "C" word, and Stewie thinks he means something else. What other word would Brian have meant? I honestly have no idea and this is bugging me.

-Stewie goes to the art museum and continuously stares at a picture, and the view keeps going closer and closer on Stewie and the picture he is looking at. is this a parody? What is he looking at in the picture in the first place?

[kupomog]

Stewie has a dirty mind. So the first one could be one of three bad words that start with C. It's probably cunt, but it could also be cum or cock. Given his reaction, it's probably the first one. Regardless, it all turns out the same.

The art museum thing is from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He stares because it's a pointillism painting by a very famous pointillist artist. It's art made by a series of mostly unrelated colored dots forming a unified picture. The closer you get, the more it looks like nothing. He's fixating on the dots. Ferris himself has a deeper reason for staring...Stewie might share the same reason. Ferris stared because he worried the closer people looked at him, the more they would see nothing.

[Swoony]

I'm really enjoying your detailed and informative answers there kupo. Kudos to you (You are most likely correct on everything you have said too, may I add).

[Jesse Pinkman]

what was the episode of family guy where they show a cutaway to lois on the couch, crying, after 9/11, and peter walks in and says "Musta been a female pilot, huh?" in a joking manner?

[lolcats]

"Padre de Familia"

[musa]

American Dad question: In White Rice, what did Francine mean when she said she could "get off"?

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

I'd need to see the quote in context but just a guess, orgasm?

[musa]

"Maybe once in a while, I can get off too."

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

That still doesn't help in the area of context though. I mean who is she speaking to and what was the conversation about? Still, I'm guessing she meant have an orgasm...

[musa]

She was talking to Stan in bed. It was in one of her repressed memories.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

On the DVD it says "Maybe once in a while I can have an orgasm". So yes, that is what she's talking about.

[musa]

Another American Dad question: In Hurricane why doesn't Stan just use his gun to shoot the shark instead of using a complicated plan requiring a lot of coordination?

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Because I think they were trying to show just how extreme he was.

[musa]

American Dad question: In 1600 Candles in one of the flashbacks of Hayley's puberty, how come Stan and Francine are so scared just because she took a seat on the couch?

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Maybe it's a period joke? Get blood on the couch? Just a guess.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Maybe she's sitting in Sheldon's spot.

[Lance.Uppercut]

Brian finding the mole on Stewie and suggesting it may be the "C" word, and Stewie thinks he means something else. What other word would Brian have meant? I honestly have no idea and this is bugging me.

@Takes_Life_Soony , In the German dub, Brian says something like, "You could have gotten something pretty dangerous." To which Stewie replies, "But she said she had herself tested but... uh, oh! Oh no!" this is in lieu of any comments about "the big C" So who knows what Stewie's been up to?