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What show would have the gall to run a Pope joke now? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Griffins are back, and the first episode of the fourth season of “Family Guy” airs Sunday, May 1 at 9 p.m. And the show’s creator is finding that these times of new popes and Oval Office dopes provide an abundance of material for its writers...
...order to do the show the way it was, you really can only do that with a [major] network,” claims MacFarlane. “Family Guy” required seventeen full-time writers to keep up with the joke demand for each episode, a stretch to fund on a cable show’s budget...
This interesting dichotomy may scare away some of the shows more “intellectual” viewers, but, as MacFarlane himself states: “There is that base of the brain thing, you hear a fart joke and you can’t help but laugh.” It’s tough to disagree...
Then again, Damon Albarn and company often remind me of that nerdy, sarcastic kid you’re always afraid to take seriously: it might be heartfelt truth, or it might just be a joke meant to make you look stupid in front of all your friends on the baseball team that summer when I was twelve. Anyway, whether self-revelation or mockery of others, a little summer-time prettiness is always worth a shot, especially when you’re about to enter rehab...
...elicited many loud “I’ve totally been there” chuckles, particularly when Krinsky gives us students slipping in the mud at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the hopeless tangle of crushes that enmesh a group of friends, or the occasional high intellectual in-joke: “Les autres, are, after all, hell—unless they are fucking you on your desk,” she says, describing the relationship between a philosophy major undergrad and her Sartre-loving TA. These are moments of sharp observation, even wit. But on the whole the book...