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Family Guy Volume 2 (Season 3) (2000)

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NOTE: Some episodes from these season that don't have commentaries on this release do have commentaries on the Family Guy: Freakin' Sweet Collection.

Commentaries on this disc:

Commentary 1: "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:6.9/10 (9 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by aph86 on July 10th, 2007:Find all reviews by aph86
They talk about nothing and are funny.
Commentary 2: "Death Lives" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:7.6/10 (10 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by aph86 on July 10th, 2007:Find all reviews by aph86
Worth a listen. Very funny.
Commentary 3: "Mr. Saturday Night" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:6.9/10 (9 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by aph86 on July 10th, 2007:Find all reviews by aph86
One of the better commentaries on the set.
Commentary 4: "Ready, Willing and Disabled" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:6.8/10 (9 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by aph86 on July 10th, 2007:Find all reviews by aph86
Very funny. But too many silence movements.
Commentary 5: "Brian Wallows" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:7.0/10 (9 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by aph86 on August 14th, 2008:Find all reviews by aph86
There is almost no taking on this track. A waste of time, stay away.
Commentary 6: "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" -- Creator Seth MacFarlane, and writers and cast Rating:7.9/10 (9 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by Brian Thibodeau on June 15th, 2004:Find all reviews by Brian Thibodeau
As with the Simpsons commentaries, the tracks on the Family Guy discs routinely devolve into the participants playing audience and laughing at their own material, with little in the way of serious background info. Of course, after the first few episodes of any series like this, there really isn't much to say.

The commentary for this "controversial" unaired episode starts off well, with MacFarlane and his writing/producing cronies (no actors are present), one of whom is Jewish, discussing the genesis of the episode (a bit), freely slagging the network for its spinelessness over this episode (a lot), and growing exceedingly - and rightfully - pissed off with the religious right ("I'm so sick of their shit" says MacFarlane of uppity Catholics at one point). Eventually, though, the session reverts to the participants laughing (with some sense of frustration) at their own gags, which are admittedly bang-on throughout this episode, but ultimately you'll wish they provided more insight into its creators' views on religion, censorship, how the episode came to be, etc. As such, it's probably the closest to an insightful commentary to be had either of the box sets for this series. The rest, as with those on the Simpsons box sets, largely consist of everyone laughing at the jokes and offering little by way of context or production history. My advice: check this one out to learn how frustrating it is when creativity is stifled; skip the others.