To recap, here’s what we’ve got for December:

December 7, 2008: Love Blacktually
December 14, 2008:Baby Not On Board
December 21, 2008: The Man With Two Brians
December 28, 2008: Tales of a Third Grade Nothing

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Oy vey. According to the official Fox schedule, December 14’s episode will be Baby Not On Board, which originally aired a whopping three weeks ago. Are they hoping we forgot it and will be surprised or something?

Then on December 21, we’re getting The Man With Two Brians. After that will be Christmas specials, so obviously no new Family Guy episodes until after January 1.

At this point, I think we can pretty much count a new Family Guy episode out until 2009. I’ve got an email into my Fox contact, and I’m hoping to have some official information for you all very soon.

To recap, here’s what we’ve got for December:

December 7, 2008: Love Blacktually
December 14, 2008:Baby Not On Board
December 21, 2008: The Man With Two Brians

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• Family Guy
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage
• Flight of the Conchords
• The Office
• Pushing Daisies
• Two and a Half Men
• Ugly Betty
• Weeds

Official Emmy nominations will come out July 17.

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The time when Peter Griffin was doing a stand-up comedy routine in a hospital full of terminally ill children.

Making fun of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Sick.

Michael J. Fox and Parkinson’s.

Quagmire finding the tied-up cheerleader in the bathroom.

However, here’s the thing: Family Guy is going to offend everyone eventually. That seems to be their main goal. So even though they do push the envelope a wee bit too far sometimes, that’s why we keep watching.

The only bad part is when the really poor taste jokes are not done well – like the Prom Night Dumpster Baby. That was just stupid. Also, when they do the same joke a hundred times in one episode – that’s just lazy writing! What do you think – are there any moments or jokes in Family Guy that made you go “oh, they went too far!”?

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First, Brian.

Luke Chueh vs The Family Guy by ~Luke-Chueh on deviantART

I would actually buy this one and hang it up somewhere. It’s pretty good.

More Family Guy art after the jump:

I had to look at this one for a while to figure it out.

Lucky There’s A Family Guy… by ~Chibi-Lianna on deviantART

I guess that’s Family Guy as anime? Peter looks about 15.

Next, we go with Sexy Lois.

Family Guy: Lois by Dawn by ~tosaints on deviantART

And an interesting Scooby Doo version of the Griffin family:

Scooby Doo and Family Guy by ~bloodymoon100 on deviantART

Family Guy vs. The Simpsons – Chris with an axe? I don’t think so. Maybe Stewie would be more believable.

Family Guy Vs. The Simpsons by ~GlxyDs on deviantART

The Superhero Griffins. This one needs to be on a t-shirt.

Teen Titans and Family Guy by ~bloodymoon100 on deviantART

Last, Lois. This one made me feel weird.

Family Guy – Lois by ~h4xx0rz5upr3m3 on deviantART

Which one is your favorite?

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On the show’s humor: “The thing that I try to do with ‘Family Guy’ is to have this balance between the classic and the edgy. We do a lot of poop jokes, but at the same time, we use a 45-piece orchestra every week with a full string section. And, you know, we don’t try to shock for shock’s sake. If something is just shocking and not funny, then we’ll cut it out. And we have these table reads every week, which we do for each episode, in which we have a very good cross-section of artists and people from the outside and writers, and the studio network is there. And no one is shy about gasping in horror if we have crossed the line, and so it’s a very good barometer.”

On the show’s cutaway scenes: “We see them as, in a weird way, these animated versions of one-frame ‘Far Side’ cartoons that are something you can only do really, I think, effectively in the animation medium. And they’re just laughs for laughs’ sake. You don’t have to know what’s going on with the plot. You don’t have to know what’s going on with character drive. It’s just pure comedy, we hope.”

Image credit Newscom

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If you’ve watched Family Guy or the Simpsons for any length of time, you’ll notice some pretty glaring similarities. Let’s list a few:

• They’re both, uh, “big-boned.”
• They both have long-suffering wives who for some reason put up with all their stuff.
• Each man has three kids.
• Both men have issues with their fathers.
• They’ve both had a ton of very odd jobs.
• Both are heavy drinkers.
• Both count watching TV as their favorite thing to do.
• Both have small attention spans and think of other things when their wives are talking to them.
• Homer and Peter both had strokes; Peter from eating thirty hamburgers at once, Homer from eating a giant feast including a turkey.

I know there are a lot more similarities; can you think of any others?

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