Family Guy, minus MacFarlane

During the WGA strike, Fox is producing new episodes of Family Guy without creator Seth MacFarlane, who does most of the voices:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071114/tv_nm/family_dc_1;_ylt=AgfNf9E1fh0b3BEQ32UohpIE1vAI

Terrible, terrible idea.

 

Fox is continuing work on several episodes that are in various stages of completion. Don't they generally record the voice tracks before they do the animation on a show like this? Perhaps the partly-finished shows already have MacFarlane's voice, so we viewers won't really notice.

 

Who the hell is "Stewis" Griffin?

 

John Kricfalusi says this will not work.

 

Does this make anyone think of that Family Guy aside where Peter complains that all the voices on the Muppet Show were off after Jim Henson died?

 

Maybe that's like Bizzaro Stewie. He's kind and loving and doesn't want to kill his mom.

 

I gotta agree with Seth McFarlane: "It would just be a colossal dick move if they did that."

http://www.dose.ca/tv/story.html?id=d70b0ce4-207d-4979-9ee4-5ec7ff659d73&k=34607

 

Link ain't working, Perry.

 

Wow...what a completely horrible idea.

 

Or the end of the Family Guy episode where Peter starts complaining about violence and bad stuff on TV, Lois warns him about pissing off the network, and Peter says "waht are they going to do? Cut our budget?"
Then the ending is Peter going for a beer, but only every third frame of animation is shown and the characters are all cheap looking.

 

Peter: Everybody, I got bad news. We've been canceled.

Lois: Oh, no! Peter, how could they do that?

Peter: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows, like "Dark Angel", "Titus", "Undeclared", "Action", "That '80s Show", "Wonder Falls", "Fastlane", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "Skin", "Girls Club", "Cracking Up", "The Pitts", "Firefly", "Get Real", "Freaky Links", "Wanda at Large", "Costello", "The Lone Gunmen", "A Minute with Stan Hooper", "Normal, Ohio", "Pasadena", "Harsh Realm", "Keen Eddie", "The Street", "American Embassy", "Cedric the Entertainer", "The Tick", "Louie", and "Greg the Bunny".

Lois: Is there no hope?

Peter: Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.

 

that was hilarious.

Now, if FG makes it to 200 episodes, maybe MacFarlene can sign off the clips show by saying "Here's to another 200 episodes. Maybe this time there won't be a fucking writers strike that inspires Fox to hire a bunch of fucking scabs to voice the characters."