Here’s the latest information about the first Family Guy episode, titled “Something, Something, Something, Dark Side” of Family Guy Season 8:

• Air Date: Sunday September 27, 2009
• Production Code: 6ACX21/6ACX22
• Episode Summary: Peter makes good on another power outage at home–by entertaining his family with a retelling of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Newcomers to the story include Mort as Lando Calrissian, Chris’ boss Carl as Yoda, and the Giant Chicken as the nefarious Boba Fett.
• Director: Dominic Polcino
• Title: The title is a joke from Season Five’s Family Guy episode, ‘Barely Legal’, in which “the emperor figured out the formula for perfect Star Wars dialogue”, which was “Something, something, something Dark Side. Something, something, something, complete.”

Here’s two promo spots for upcoming Family Guy reruns; sponsored by”Tasty Juice” for Family Gay on June 28. First, Stewie gets orally violated by a horse:

And Peter names his horse after a cancelled Fox show:

According to the NY Times, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has landed a dramatic role in a new ABC series titled “Flash Forward”, a series in which everyone in the world gets a two-minute glimpse of their futures. Seth is “FBI Agent #3″; this will be a recurring role. You can see him at about the 2:48 mark in the video below, he does have a speaking part.

Happy Father’s Day from Family Guy:

And the Simpsons:

And the rest of the Fox Animated dads!

Fox has just released their official dates for all their animation shows, and here they are:

Sunday, Sept. 27
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT THE SIMPSONS (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT THE CLEVELAND SHOW (Series Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT FAMILY GUY (Season Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT AMERICAN DAD (Season Premiere)

Hopefully, I’ll have images from each premiere to share with you soon.

In episode 4 of Family Guy Season 1, “Mind Over Murder”, we see Peter punch a pregnant woman he thought was a man during a soccer game and end up being placed under house arrest (to his credit, the lady really didn’t look pregnant OR like a woman). Looking for something to do, Peter builds a bar in his basement where Lois ends up stealing the spotlight singing torch songs in her underwear. During all this excitement, Stewie attempts to build a time machine to avoid the pain of teething, which actually is a pretty good idea. Here are a few clips from this episode:

New Teeth

Teething

Soccer Mom

House Arrest

Lousy At Housework

Naked Priest Joke

Nice Melons

Lois Loves Her Family

Here’s what we can expect this Sunday from Fox:

King of the Hill:
When Luanne loses her main source of income, she turns to her aunt for career guidance. Peggy helps Luanne tap into her natural talent for entertaining children with puppets she bought for baby Gracie. After several successful performances at local fairs, Luanne is discovered by up-and-coming agent/manager John Redcorn. He decides to invest time and money into Luanne’s career, but Luanne soon realizes how fickle the children’s entertainment industry can be in the “Manger Baby Einstein” episode of KING OF THE HILL airing Sunday, June 7 (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (KH-1309) (TV-PG)

American Dad:
After Steve buys a highly sophisticated fart machine, his girlfriend Debbie (guest voice Caplan) decides that she needs a man, not a boy, and agrees to join Snot’s friend Etan (guest voice Green) at his upcoming bar mitzvah. Feeding his hunger for revenge, Steve assembles a crack squad of professionals to ruin Etan’s Super Sweet 13. When things go terribly wrong, Snot finds that his own bar mitzvah dreams, as well as his manhood, are threatened. Meanwhile, Stan and Francine use a firm handshake and a power ‘stache to pitch a big idea in the “Bar Mitzvah Hustle” episode of AMERICAN DAD airing Sunday, June 7 (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DAD-406) (TV-14 D, L)

The Simpsons:
Bart is informed that he and a select group of students have received perfect scores on a practice test for the upcoming Vice President’s Assessment Test. As a result, he will be exempt from taking the real exam and will be transported by helicopter to a pizza party. Shocked at how Bart could have performed better than she did, Lisa freezes up when it comes time for her to take the exam. However, Bart and the others soon realize their trip is not what it seems, and their day turns into an adventure all its own. Meanwhile, when Homer is late on making an insurance payment, he must avoid bodily accidents at all costs until his insurance check is cashed, making for one very tense afternoon in the all-new “How the Test Was Won” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, June 7 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2002) (TV-PG D, L, V)

King of the Hill:
When Hank tries to be realistic about Bobby’s below-average baseball abilities, he is vilified by Bobby’s over-enthusiastic Little League coach. Hank realizes the coach is trying to build Bobby’s self-confidence and help him become a better baseball player, so he turns to a team volunteer for some guidance on how to get back into good graces with the coach in the “Bad News Bill” episode of KING OF THE HILL airing Sunday, June 7 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (KH-1310) (TV-PG L)

Family Guy:
After Brian gets thrown in the slammer for drug possession, he launches a campaign to legalize marijuana. Mayor West passes the law, and the whole town goes to pot in the “420” episode of FAMILY GUY airing Sunday, June 7 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FG-616) (TV-14 D, L, S, V)

American Dad:
After Steve shows a lack of interest in Stan’s job, Stan replaces him with Barry, Steve’s malicious friend. Barry frames Steve to eliminate him from the household, but when Steve discovers Barry’s weakness, he relies on his CIA skills to save the family. Meanwhile, Roger takes an impressive keg-stand and uses it to become a fraternity brother in the “With Friends Like Steve’s” episode of AMERICAN DAD airing Sunday, June 7 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DAD-203) (TV-14 D, V)

via Fox Flash

Just noticed that Family Guy Volume 7 is available for pre-order at Amazon. It will be released on June 16. Here’s what this set includes:

• it will be a 3-disc DVD set
• Episodes will be shown unrated as the default, but you can also get the watered down version if you really want to
• Price will be around $40.00 (pre-order it for $25.99)
• Audio commentary and a Comic-Con featurette are among the supplementary materials
• First episode will be “Back to the Woods“, going right up to Family Guy Season Seven with “Ocean’s Three and a Half“. No word so far on whether more Season 7 episodes will be included.

I’ll have more information as it becomes available.

One of my favorite sites on the Web, TorrentFreak, has released a great list of the most downloaded shows this past week, and Family Guy was third on the list. This is pretty much standard for our favorite Quahog family as far as torrents go. Which begs the question: have you downloaded a Family Guy torrent? (votes are completely anonymous):

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Here’s what we can expect for Family Guy the next three weeks:

Not All Dogs Go To Heaven: May 31

Stewie builds a transporter and beams the entire cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” to his bedroom so they can spend a fun-filled day together in Quahog in the “Not All Dogs Go To Heaven” episode of FAMILY GUY originally airing Sunday, March 29 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Guest voices by the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” including Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes.

420: June 7

After Brian gets thrown in the slammer for drug possession, he launches a campaign to legalize marijuana. Mayor West passes the law, and the whole town goes to pot on the all-new “420” episode of FAMILY GUY originally airing Sunday, April 19 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FG-616) (TV-14 D, L, S)

Road to Germany: June 14

Brian and Stewie take a trip back in time to rescue Mort, but when they discover they’re in Poland on the day of the Nazi invasion, things go from bad to worse and the trio has to find a way back to Quahog safely in the “Road to Germany” episode of FAMILY GUY originally airing Sunday, Oct. 19 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.