FAMILY GUY {Complete Seasons 1-6} (DVD Review) - 27/5/08

Having seen a couple of episodes of "Family Guy" on BBC2 I noticed the current Boxset for sale at HMV with a pair of Bonus Discs of Special Features so decided to splash out! Steadily ploughing my way through to the end I suddenly realised that the disparity between the UK versions and the US are totally different in the context of the Series labelling. So the different versions have the US on Season 8 and the UK on Season 7 all listed differently. Fox has not helped by treating the DVD Movie "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story" as 3 separate back-to-back episodes (Which are not in this set!) and not adding them to their count of episodes. They have also treated "Blue Harvest" as 2 separate episodes wherever that falls in their listing system? Either way none of this matters - I found myself laughing numerous times at the sheer absurdity of it all and how anyone and everything is treated like a target from the first series onto the last. Totally offensive and completely outrageous this more than pushes the envelope - It kicks it in the nuts then runs away! So eagerly looking forward to the next season when it's out on DVD!

Spread across the whole Boxset is a vast collection of Special Features with Commentaries & voluminous Deleted Scenes. A couple of the later sets have a large selection of Extras with Featurettes & Animatics. One good thing about this set is that the covers (As below) clearly list the episodes on the Disc with a little blurb about the story next to a small photo from that episode. Most entertaining in so many ways!