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110-460: The episode's title is a double entendre , being both portmanteau between "Peter" and "Retarded" and also a reference to the Shakespeare -coined phrase " hoist with his own petard ". This title practice would later be used on a few more episodes, namely " Peterotica " and " Petergeist ". " Timer ", a character from the 1970s Saturday morning public service announcements, made an appearance in

220-416: A CIA officer and was initially portrayed in the series as an old-fashioned conservative bigot but has since grown out of these traits (the show is known for its story arc elements and other distinguishing plot techniques ); Stan's paradoxically moralistic yet simultaneously inappropriate, corrupt wife, Francine ; and their two children, new-age hippie daughter Hayley and nerdy son Steve . Accompanying

330-599: A distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off"; the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that "Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit"; or is told the time by Mercutio : "for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon"; and in Hamlet , Hamlet publicly torments Ophelia with

440-1038: A homophone can be used as a pun. When three or more meanings have been constructed, this is known as a "triple entendre", etc. According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression comes from the rare and obsolete French expression, which literally meant "double meaning" and was used in the senses of "double understanding" or "ambiguity" but acquired its current suggestive twist in English after being first used in 1673 by John Dryden . The phrase has not been used in French for centuries and would be ungrammatical in modern French. No exact equivalent exists in French, whose similar expressions ( mot/expression à ) double entente and ( mot/expression à ) double sens do not have

550-420: A "very, very simply, crudely animated film—with just enough to get the tone of the show across" to present to the executives, who loved the pilot and immediately ordered the series. In July 1998, they announced the purchase of Family Guy for a January 1999 debut. Family Guy was originally intended to be a series of shorts on MADtv , much in the same way The Simpsons had begun on The Tracey Ullman Show

660-463: A $ 100-million agreement with Fox to keep Family Guy and American Dad! until 2012. It made him the world's highest paid television writer. MacFarlane's success with Family Guy opened doors to other ventures relating to the show. On April 26, 2005, he and composer Walter Murphy created Family Guy: Live in Vegas . The soundtrack features a Broadway show tune theme, and MacFarlane voiced Stewie in

770-472: A Shadow ", " Family Guy Viewer Mail 1 ", and " North by North Quahog ", MacFarlane voices Family Guy ' s main male characters of Peter Griffin , Stewie Griffin , Brian Griffin , and Glenn Quagmire , as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake Tucker, and other characters. Bolstered by high DVD sales and fan loyalty, Family Guy developed into a $ 1-billion franchise. On May 4, 2008, after approximately 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years of negotiations, MacFarlane reached

880-486: A career in animation, and began by creating flip books after his parents found a book on the subject for him. Four years later, at nine, he began publishing a weekly comic strip, Walter Crouton , for The Kent Good Times Dispatch , the local newspaper; it paid him five dollars per week. MacFarlane said in an October 2011 interview that as a child he was always "weirdly fascinated by the Communion ceremony". He created

990-461: A character from 1970s Time for Timer Saturday morning cartoon public service announcements. Seth MacFarlane attempted to hire Lennie Weinrib, the actor who provided his voice for the character to appear in "Petarded" but, as MacFarlane describes in the DVD commentary, "he was a little old ... and he didn't remember doing it". Weinrib died one year after the debut of "Petarded". In the original draft of

1100-506: A decade earlier. Negotiations for the show's MADtv connection fell through early on as a result of budgetary concerns. At age 24, MacFarlane was television's youngest executive producer. Family Guy first aired January 31, 1999. MacFarlane's work in animating Family Guy was influenced by Jackie Gleason and Hanna-Barbera along with examples from The Simpsons and All in the Family . In addition to writing three episodes, " Death Has

1210-458: A feature film, although "nothing's official". In September 2007, Ricky Blitt gave TV.com an interview confirming that he had already started working on the script. Then in TV Week on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released Family Guy feature film sometime "within the next year". He came up with an idea for the story, "something that you could not do on

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1320-566: A fish body; and Jeff Fischer , Hayley's boyfriend turned "whipped" husband, known for his infatuation with Hayley's mom, Francine. Together, the Smiths and their three housemates run what is only at a first glance the typical middle-class American lifestyle, but is anything but. MacFarlane provides the voices of Stan and Roger, basing Roger's voice on Paul Lynde (who played Uncle Arthur in Bewitched ). His sister Rachael MacFarlane provides

1430-694: A frequent critic. It organized a letter-writing campaign to remove it from Fox's lineup, and filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission alleging that some of its episodes contained indecent content. MacFarlane has responded to the PTC's criticism by saying, among other things: "That's like getting hate mail from Hitler . They're literally terrible human beings." Family Guy has been cancelled twice, although strong fan support and DVD sales have caused Fox to reconsider. MacFarlane mentioned how these cancellations affected

1540-738: A great time. A Family Guy video game was released in 2006. Two years later, in August 2007, MacFarlane closed a digital content production deal with AdSense. He takes cast members on the road to voice characters in front of live audiences. Family Guy Live provides fans with the opportunity to hear future scripts. In mid-2007, Chicago fans had the opportunity to hear the then upcoming sixth-season premiere " Blue Harvest ". Shows have played in Montreal , New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. On July 22, 2007, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter , MacFarlane announced that he might start work on

1650-524: A little too hard to top himself with faux-scandalous gags about race, Jews in Hollywood, and the killing of Abraham Lincoln." Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter praised MacFarlane's performance saying that he did "impressively better than one would have wagered." He also noted that he added "plenty of niceties with a little bit of the Ricky Gervais bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you thing and worked

1760-559: A live-action sitcom called Dads . The series, revolves around Eli, played by Seth Green , and Warner, played by Giovanni Ribisi , two successful guys in their 30s whose world is turned upside down when their dads move in with them. MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild executive-produced the series, with Sulkin and Wild writing. In 2014, MacFarlane executive produced a two-season, 20-episode series called Blunt Talk for Starz . The series followed an English newscaster who moves to Los Angeles with his alcoholic manservant and

1870-454: A man named Glen discussing the time he matured at 32 and has him pursuing his only love after she moves in next door. Glen meets her son and both become good friends. The show ran on Fox for six episodes in Spring 2007. In August 2011, Fox ordered a 13-part updated series of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey . MacFarlane co-produced the series with Ann Druyan and Steven Soter . The new series

1980-406: A mysterious woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage. But when her outlaw husband arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test. The film was met with mixed to negative reviews from critics. On January 27, 2014, MacFarlane announced that he wrote a companion novel based on the film's script, which was released on March 4, 2014. An audio-book version

2090-534: A possible second pitch for the series. Fox offered the young writer a strange deal: They gave him a budget of $ 50,000 (equivalent to $ 95,000 in 2023) to produce a pilot that could lead to a series (most episodes of animated prime-time productions cost at least $ 1 million). Recalling the experience in an interview with The New York Times , MacFarlane said: "I spent about six months with no sleep and no life, just drawing like crazy in my kitchen and doing this pilot." After six months, MacFarlane returned to Fox with

2200-406: A second season. The second season premiered on December 30, 2018, and received better reviews. The series was renewed for a third season by Fox, however the series would move over to Hulu . This season is the show's first on Hulu, after airing its previous two seasons on Fox, as well as the first to premiere since The Walt Disney Company's March 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox . The season

2310-499: A sentence said by another which was not intended as a double entendre but nevertheless could be interpreted with a double meaning, one of them sexual. Seth MacFarlane Seth Woodbury MacFarlane ( / m ə k ˈ f ɑːr l ɪ n / ; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series Family Guy (since 1999) and The Orville (2017–2022), and co-creator of

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2420-511: A series of sexual puns, including "country matters" (similar to " cunt "). The title of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing is a pun on the Elizabethan use of "no-thing" as slang for vagina . In the UK, starting in the 19th century, Victorian morality disallowed sexual innuendo in the theatre as being unpleasant, particularly for the ladies in the audience. In music hall songs, on

2530-530: A strip with a character kneeling at the altar taking Communion and asking "Can I have fries with that?" The paper printed it and he got an "angry letter" from the local priest; it led to "sort of a little mini-controversy" in the town. MacFarlane received his high school diploma in 1991 from the Kent School. While there, he continued experimenting with animation, and his parents gave him an 8 mm camera. After graduating from high school, MacFarlane attended

2640-607: A term for the vulva ). The title of Sir Thomas More 's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek -derived words that would have identical pronunciation. Spelled as it is, or especially spelled as "Outopia," the title means "no place"; meanwhile spelled as "Eutopia," with the same English pronunciation, it would mean "good place". Shakespeare frequently used double entendres in his plays. Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night says of Sir Andrew's hair, that "it hangs like flax on

2750-510: A touchdown while attending a New England Patriots game, but they were not deemed funny enough and scrapped. Various scenes in the episode were changed or removed because of broadcast censors. Originally, just after Peter hands Brian his test results from the MacArthur Program, Peter was to ask "Would a retarded person have peed in their pants?", then urinate in his trousers. However, because broadcasting standards prohibited this, it

2860-463: A white book and a blue book, and would ask his audience which book they wanted to hear stories from. If they chose the blue book, he could blame the audience for the lewdness to follow (in the UK, "blue" colloquially refers to sexual content, as in "blue jokes", "blue movies" etc.). In the United States, innuendo and double entendre were only lightly used in radio media until the 1980s when

2970-508: Is a long tradition of double entendre songs in American blues music of the 1920s and 1930s, called hokum . Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers. By one interpretation, the person being talked to is asked if they would be offended; by the other interpretation, they are asked if they would press their body against

3080-474: Is a phrase that can be understood in any of three ways, such as in the back cover of the 1981 Rush album Moving Pictures which shows a moving company carrying paintings out of a building while people are shown being emotionally moved and a film crew makes a " moving picture " of the whole scene. In Homer 's The Odyssey , when Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus , he tells

3190-418: Is erect and tall––I stand up in bed––and whiskery somewhere down below. Sometimes a countryman's quite comely daughter will venture, bumptious girl, to get a grip on me. She assaults my red self and seizes my head and clenches me in a cramped place. She will soon feel the effect of her encounter with me, this curl-locked woman who squeezes me. Her eye will be wet. This suggests the answer "a penis " but also has

3300-621: Is hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and began airing on the channel in March 2014, with repeats airing on the National Geographic Channel on the next night. In addition to serving as one of the executive producers, MacFarlane provided voices for characters during the animated portions of the series. MacFarlane returned to executive produce and provide voices to its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds , which aired in 2020. In 2013 and 2014, MacFarlane produced one season of

3410-456: Is the only person to serve as roastmaster for more than one roast. In 2010, he filled this role for the roast of David Hasselhoff . The following year he was roastmaster at the roasts of Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen . On October 1, 2012, it was announced that MacFarlane would host the 85th Academy Awards on February 24, 2013. He also presented the nominees with actress Emma Stone , on January 10, 2013. In addition to hosting, MacFarlane

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3520-608: The 85th Academy Awards in 2013 and was nominated for Best Original Song for " Everybody Needs a Best Friend " from Ted . MacFarlane was executive producer of the Neil deGrasse Tyson -hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey , an update of the 1980s Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan . He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2020. MacFarlane

3630-593: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, MacFarlane and Elizabeth Gillies collaborated on a series of songs, eight in total, on a playlist entitled, Songs from Home on Spotify . MacFarlane was featured in Meghan Trainor ’s Christmas album, A Very Trainor Christmas and did a cover of " White Christmas ". The single debuted at number 24 on the Adult Contemporary chart issued dated November 14, 2020,

3740-562: The Howard Stern Show began to push the envelope of what was acceptable on the radio through use of double entendre and ironies. This garnered so much attention it spawned an entire genre of radio called " shock jock radio" where DJs will push the limits of what is an "acceptable" double entendre to use over-the-air as the Federal Communications Commission has been known to hand out large fines for

3850-526: The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he majored in animation. As a student, he intended to work for Disney , but changed his mind after seeing The Simpsons . During his time at RISD, he performed stand-up comedy. He also starred in many student films, meeting future Family Guy cast member Mike Henry , whose brother Patrick was MacFarlane's classmate. In his senior year, he made his thesis film, The Life of Larry , which became

3960-809: The Webby Award for Film & Video Person of the Year. MacFarlane has performed as a vocalist at the Hollywood Bowl , Carnegie Hall , and the Royal Albert Hall . He has released eight studio albums, in the vein of Frank Sinatra , with influences from jazz orchestrations , and Hollywood musicals beginning with Music Is Better Than Words in 2011. MacFarlane has received five Grammy Award nominations for his work. He has frequently collaborated with artists such as Sara Bareilles , Norah Jones , and Elizabeth Gillies on his albums. He hosted

4070-568: The 10th-century Exeter Book , or Codex exoniensis , at Exeter Cathedral in England . In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. Answers to the riddles were not included in the book, but have been found by scholars over the years. Some of these employ double entendres, such as Riddle 25 : I am a wondrous creature: to women a thing of joyful expectation, to close-lying companions serviceable. I harm no city-dweller excepting my slayer alone. My stem

4180-559: The Bond films were parodied in the Austin Powers series. Bawdy double entendres, such as (from the movie Sextette ) "I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night", and (from the movie Myra Breckinridge ) "I feel like a million tonight – but only one at a time", are typical of the comedy writing of Mae West , for her early-career vaudeville performances as well as for her later plays and movies. There

4290-478: The British broadcast media, including sitcoms and radio comedy , such as I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue . For example, in the 1970s TV comedy series Are You Being Served? , Mrs. Slocombe frequently referred to her pet cat as her "pussy", apparently unaware of how easily her statement could be misinterpreted, such as "It's a wonder I'm here at all, you know. My pussy got soakin' wet. I had to dry it out in front of

4400-487: The Cyclops that his name is Oudeis (ουδεις = No-one). When Odysseus attacks the Cyclops later that night and stabs him in the eye, the Cyclops runs out of his cave, yelling to the other Cyclopes that "No-one has hurt me!", which leads the other Cyclopes to take no action under the assumption that Polyphemus blinded himself by accident, allowing Odysseus and his men to escape. Some of the earliest double entendres are found in

4510-502: The Horne depended heavily on innuendo and double entendre, the show's name itself being a triple entendre, a play on the name of its central actor Kenneth Horne and those around him, the sailor's expression "going round the horn" (i.e. Cape Horn ), and the fact that "horn" is slang for an erection . Spike Milligan , writer of The Goon Show , remarked that a lot of "blue" (i.e. sexual) innuendo came from servicemen's jokes, which most of

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4620-627: The Roger character and set from his birth planet—is in the works and partially written. However, at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022, Weitzman revealed plans for the film were scrapped. MacFarlane has described the initial seasons of American Dad! as being similar to All in the Family , likening title character Stan Smith 's originally bigoted persona to Archie Bunker . MacFarlane has also stated that his inspiration to create American Dad! derived from his and Weitzman's exasperation with George W. Bush 's policies as former United States President. After

4730-488: The Smith family are three additional main characters, two of which belong to non-human species: zany, shocking, blithely cruel and rascally alien Roger, who's full of disguises/alter egos and has few if any limits on his behaviors. He was rescued by Stan from Area 51 ; Klaus , the man-in-a-fish-body pet. Klaus's unenviable situation came about from the brain of an East German Olympic skier being shrunk and transplanted into

4840-478: The admissions office at South Kent School . She later worked in the college guidance and admissions offices at the Kent School , a selective college preparatory school , where Ronald was a teacher. As a child, MacFarlane developed an interest in illustration, and at the age of two he began drawing cartoon characters such as Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker . By age five, he knew he wanted to pursue

4950-461: The album. Like his previous four albums, he recorded a majority of the songs at Abbey Road Studios . However, much of the albums post-production work was done at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2022, he released his seventh studio album, Blue Skies . In November 2023, MacFarlane released a collaborative Christmas album with Gillies titled We Wish You the Merriest . The lead single of

5060-483: The animated short Larry & Steve —a loose precursor of Family Guy —for What a Cartoon! . In 2008, he created the online series Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy . MacFarlane has also made guest appearances as an actor on live action shows including Gilmore Girls , Star Trek: Enterprise , The War at Home , and FlashForward . MacFarlane has won several awards for his work on Family Guy , including five Primetime Emmy Awards . In 2009, he won

5170-460: The appearance of the Naked, Greased-Up Deaf Guy gave hope that the creators still had that sense of the bizarre in them." John Nigro of The Pitt News considered "Petarded" one of volume 3's best episodes along with " Breaking Out Is Hard to Do " and " Perfect Castaway ". The Sydney Morning Herald critic Marc McEvoy commented "Petarded" to be "a real thigh-slapper". Kim Voynar of TV Squad gave

5280-415: The atmosphere at Hanna-Barbera as resembling an "old-fashioned Hollywood structure, where you move from one show to another or you jump from a writing job on one show to a storyboard job on another". MacFarlane worked on three television series during his tenure at the studio: Dexter's Laboratory , Cow and Chicken , and Johnny Bravo . Working as both a writer and storyboard artist , MacFarlane spent

5390-539: The baggage of several failed marriages to host a sanctimonious talk show. In 2009, MacFarlane began work on the animated series Bordertown . The series is set in Texas and follows a border patrol agent and a Mexican immigrant, satirizing America's changing cultural landscape. It ran for 13 episodes in the first half of 2016, on Fox. MacFarlane has participated in the Comedy Central Roasts . MacFarlane

5500-595: The cast understood (they all had been soldiers) and many of the audience understood, but which passed over the heads of most of the Senior BBC producers and directors, most of whom were "Officer class". In 1968, the office of the Lord Chamberlain ceased to have responsibility for censoring live entertainment , after the Theatres Act 1968 . By the 1970s, innuendo had become widely used across much of

5610-407: The chorus "we've got big balls" can be read as referring to either formal dances or testicles . During the 1940s, Benny Bell recorded several "party records" that contained double entendre including "Everybody Wants My Fanny". Double entendres can arise in the replies to inquiries. The clichéd phrase " Said the actress to the bishop ", as well as "that's what she said", can be used to remark on

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5720-467: The early couple of seasons however, the series discontinued using these elements of political satire and began to serve up its own brand of entertainment and humor. MacFarlane was described as having difficulty understanding the series in its early going; however, he heavily warmed up to the series after its early seasons once he felt the show truly came into its own. His fellow co-creators have sensed this through MacFarlane's greatly increased attention to

5830-705: The early- to late-'50s era of orchestration". The album featured duets with Norah Jones and Sara Bareilles . It was nominated in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical categories at the 54th Grammy Awards . It received a score of 52 out of 100 on Metacritic 's compilation of music critic reviews. In 2014, he released his second studio album and first Christmas album Holiday for Swing . It received mostly positive reviews. In 2015, his third studio album No One Ever Tells You

5940-558: The episode " He's Bla-ack! ". This is the only animated series created by MacFarlane that does not have him voicing the main character. MacFarlane did, however, play the character Tim the Bear until season 3 episode 10. Jess Harnell voiced Tim from season 3 episode 11 onwards. In 2008, MacFarlane released a series of webisodes known as Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy with its animated shorts sponsored by Burger King and released weekly. In 2016, MacFarlane began producing

6050-405: The episode a mixed review, saying "... it just seemed to wrap up a little too quickly for me, like they ran out of time and were like, 'Oops, let's wrap this up now'. Other than that quibble, though, it was a fairly funny episode." Tom Eames of entertainment website Digital Spy placed the episode at number five on his listing of the best Family Guy episodes in order of "yukyukyuks" and described

6160-403: The episode as "one of the best episodes ever" for fans of offensive humor. He also noted that the episode did not "go down all that well at the time with censors and charity groups". Double entendre A double entendre (plural double entendres ) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and

6270-473: The episode were removed by broadcast censors, including one musical number ("Peter is Slow"). It features the guest performances of LeVar Burton , Gary Cole , Barclay DeVeau, Indigo , Phil LaMarr , Cloris Leachman , Len Maxwell , Natasha Melnick , Nicole Sullivan , and Lisa Wilhoit , as well as several recurring voice actors for the series. The Griffins invite their neighbors over for game night. While playing Trivial Pursuit , Lois uses questions from

6380-516: The episode's DVD commentary, MacFarlane addressed what viewers perceived to be a rather abrupt ending to the episode. As Peter has lost all hope in getting custody of his kids back, Lois walks through the front door, returning from the hospital, and has brought the kids home with her. MacFarlane stated, "Some of the fans actually noticed, commented on the fact that this was a very abrupt resolution, but, to that I would say, you're not watching CSI ... wouldn't you rather we throw in more jokes and fill up

6490-460: The episode, Peter being asked easy questions during Trivial Pursuit was meant to be by chance, but executive producer David A. Goodman proposed the storyline of easy questions being given to Peter by Lois. Prior to the episode broadcast, several sequences were shown after Peter discovers he can get away with anything on the basis that he is mentally challenged including a "how loud can I yell" experiment, as well as tackling down an opponent going for

6600-439: The episode. On June 19, 2005, the episode was first broadcast on Fox . It gained a Nielsen rating of 4.4, making it the 42nd most-watched show of the week of June 13 to June 19. In 2014, to celebrate the show's 15th anniversary, IGN published a list of the 15 best Family Guy episodes, with "Petarded" ranked the best, saying: "The show is at its comedic best with this episode, with musical numbers and family drama to back up

6710-483: The episode. Series producers tried to get Lennie Weinrib , the actor who had voiced him in the original cartoon segments, to make a guest appearance in the episode. However, Weinrib declined reprising the role as he could not accurately recall the character. "Petarded" gained a Nielsen rating of 4.4, making it the week's 42nd most-watched program. Critics and news sources responded with high praise and many regard this episode as Family Guy ' s best. Various scenes in

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6820-442: The fact that Lois will smell like French fries for the next six months. "Petarded" was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by former The Goode Family director Seth Kearsley before the conclusion of the fourth production season . Despite Sulkin and Wild writing the episode, the idea for "Petarded" came from series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane . The episode featured an appearance by " Timer ",

6930-482: The fire before I left". Someone unfamiliar with sexual slang might find this statement funny simply because of the references to her sodden cat, whereas others would find further humour in the innuendo ("pussy" being sexual slang for vulva ). Modern comedies, such as the US version of The Office , often do not hide the addition of sexual innuendos into the script; for example, main character Michael Scott often deploys

7040-411: The first time that the word "fuck" has been heard uncensored in a Family Guy episode. The Family Guy orchestra sung and recorded a song for a sequence which showed several Quahog citizens learning and talking about Peter being declared as "retarded". However, this was removed from the episode because broadcasting standards believed it used the word "retarded" too many times. After Peter loses custody of

7150-603: The following year. MacFarlane made his directorial live-action film debut with the release of Ted in 2012. He announced that he was directing it on an episode of Conan that aired on February 10, 2011. Along with directing the film, he also wrote the screenplay, served as producer, and starred as the title character. Ted tells the story of John Bennett ( Mark Wahlberg ) and his talking teddy bear (MacFarlane) who keeps John and his girlfriend Lori Collins ( Mila Kunis ) from moving on with their lives. The film received generally favorable reviews from both critics and audiences, and

7260-419: The grounds that Peter is mentally unfit to look after them. The three are placed in the care of Cleveland . When Brian tells Peter that he just has to show that he is a good parent, Peter thinks that the best way to do that is to show what a bad parent Cleveland is, so he brings seven prostitutes into Cleveland's house. This does not work as Agent Jessup sees through the plot and Cleveland orders Peter and five of

7370-532: The innocent answer "an onion ." Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales (14th century), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres. These include her use of the word "queynte" (modern spelling "quaint") to describe domestic duties while also alluding to genitalia ("queynte" being at the time an alternate form of " cunt ",

7480-481: The inspiration for Family Guy . A professor submitted his film to the animation studio Hanna-Barbera , where he was later hired. He graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. MacFarlane was recruited during the senior film festival by development executive Ellen Cockrill and President Fred Seibert . He went to work at Hanna-Barbera (then Hanna-Barbera Cartoons) based on the writing content of The Life of Larry , rather than on his drawing abilities. He

7590-544: The juxtaposition rather nicely." He stirred up controversy in the form of a musical number titled "We Saw Your Boobs". On October 29, 2014, it was announced that MacFarlane would host the Breakthrough Prize ceremony. The event was held in Silicon Valley and televised on November 15, 2014, on Discovery Channel and Science , and globally on November 22, 2014, on BBC World News . He returned to host

7700-407: The kids, Chris was originally to stay with Mort Goldman , Stewie with Cleveland and Meg with Quagmire. During this original sequence, Mort was to tell Chris that he has two anuses, causing Quagmire to force Meg to lock him in a safe room as he could not trust himself around Meg's friends, but the series was prohibited from broadcasting it by an unknown authority, presumably broadcasting standards. In

7810-488: The limits of what he can get away with, such as interrupting church attendants by throwing Bibles, kicking open the stall doors in a girls' bathroom, and saying "testicles" through a microphone at a fast food restaurant, Peter goes behind the counter and sees a " Fryolator " and wants to take it home. However, he accidentally drenches Lois with hot grease, scalding her. While she is recovering, Child Protection Services take away Peter's custody of Meg , Chris , and Stewie on

7920-494: The lineup of writers: "One of the positive aspects of Family Guy constantly being pulled off [the air] is that we were always having to re staff writers." During its sixth season, episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike . MacFarlane participated in the strike to support the writers, and Fox aired three Family Guy episodes without his permission. The strike ended on February 12, 2008, and

8030-798: The most time on Johnny Bravo . He found it easier to develop his own style at Johnny Bravo through the show's process of scriptwriting, which Dexter's Laboratory and Cow and Chicken did not use. As a part of the Johnny Bravo crew, he met actors and voiceover artists such as Adam West and Jack Sheldon of Schoolhouse Rock! fame. These meetings later became significant to the production and success of his Family Guy series. He also did freelance work for Walt Disney Television Animation , writing for Jungle Cubs , and for Nelvana , where he wrote for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective . Through strict observation of writing elements such as story progression, character stakes and plot points, MacFarlane found

8140-409: The offensive humor." In his review of Family Guy , volume 3, Francis Rizzo III of DVD Talk wrote "... I will say there are some very good episodes in this set, starting with 'Petarded', which sees Peter declared mentally retarded. The ways he takes advantage of this status is classic Family Guy material, while the musical montage here, involving phone calls all over town, is actually quite funny. Plus,

8250-503: The other hand, this kind of innuendo remained very popular. Marie Lloyd 's song "She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas" is an example of this. In the early 20th century restrictions were placed on lewdness in performances, including some prosecutions. It was the job of the Lord Chamberlain to examine the scripts of all plays for indecency. Nevertheless, some comedians still continued to get away with it. Max Miller had two books of jokes,

8360-411: The other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly. A double entendre may exploit puns or word play to convey the second meaning. Double entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning. They often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. Sometimes

8470-438: The person doing the talking. Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan , in his somewhat controversial song " Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 ", repeats the line "Everybody must get stoned". In context, the phrase refers to the punishment of execution by stoning , but on another level it means to "get stoned", a common slang term for being high on cannabis . In their song "Big Balls" on the album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap , AC/DC

8580-418: The phrase " that's what she said " after another character's innocent statement, to turn it retroactively into a sexual pun. On The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1 , listeners are asked to send in clips from radio and TV with double meanings in a humorous context, a feature known as "Innuendo Bingo". Presenters and special guests fill their mouths with water and listen to the clips, and the last person to spit

8690-819: The preschool edition for Peter in order to let him win. When Peter wins, he brags to everyone, believing himself to be smarter than everyone else. Irritated at Peter's arrogance, Brian challenges Peter to take the MacArthur Fellows Program test to prove he is a genius. The results of the test show that Peter is not a genius; in fact, the results show that, technically speaking, Peter is " mentally retarded ". Peter sinks into depression after being publicly labeled as intellectually disabled. While driving home with Lois, Peter accidentally knocks down Tom Tucker . Tucker, recognizing Peter as "the retarded fellow", does not press charges, and Peter realizes his condition means he can get away with anything. While testing

8800-448: The project. The project was put on hold while MacFarlane worked on Ted 2 . In 2018, Fox announced that a live-action/animated film based on the series is in development. MacFarlane stepped away from the series in 2011 to work on Ted and other projects, and has only been associated with the show as a voice actor since then. Despite its popularity, Family Guy has often been criticized . The Parents Television Council has been

8910-475: The prostitutes out. In a last attempt, he appeals to the court for custody of his kids, but he is denied and avoids imprisonment only because the judge forgets that prisons exist. After returning home and accepting that the Griffins may never be together again, Lois walks in, revealing she has completely recovered and reobtained custody of the kids. Peter is overjoyed that everything is back to normal, as well as

9020-453: The same name was dropped on the day of the announcement. He was featured on Calabria Foti's 2013 single " Let's Fall in Love ". In 2016, he recorded the song " Pure Imagination " as a duet with Barbra Streisand for her album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway . MacFarlane sang numerous show tunes with Ariana Grande on an episode of Carpool Karaoke: The Series in 2017. During

9130-514: The sci-fi comedy-drama series The Orville , in which he also stars as Captain Edward "Ed" Mercer . MacFarlane originally wrote The Orville as a spec script , which was given a 13-episode order by Fox in May 2016, making it the first live-action television series created by MacFarlane. The series premiered on September 10, 2017. Despite the first season receiving negative reviews, it was renewed for

9240-438: The series after its early seasons. MacFarlane has also revealed he is an American Dad! fan himself. He has taken note of the positive reaction to the " Roger " character by fans via his Twitter. The show focuses on the Smith family: Stan Smith, the endangering, dog-eat-dog , rash and inconsiderate head of the household. He has an exaggeratedly large chin and masculine manner about him. As the family's breadwinner , he works as

9350-472: The series for a 15-episode 12th season . The purpose of the network relocation was originally to make room for new comedies on FOX, such as Mulaney and another animated series from Seth MacFarlane called Bordertown on Fox's now-defunct " Animation Domination " programming block. While MacFarlane does extensive voice acting work for American Dad! , he has left much of its creative direction up to Matt Weitzman and Mike Barker , feeling it helps give

9460-469: The series its own voice and identity. It was announced on November 4, 2013, that Barker would depart American Dad! after 10 seasons as producer/co- showrunner . American Dad! was first shown after Super Bowl XXXIX , debuting with the episode " Pilot ", which MacFarlane co-wrote. This February 6, 2005, series premiere was somewhat of an early sneak preview as the program did not begin airing regularly until May 1, 2005. Because of atypical scheduling of

9570-568: The series resumed airing regularly, beginning with " Back to the Woods ". MacFarlane has a second long-running, successful adult animated series in American Dad! which has been in production since early 2005. To date, it is his only animated series that has never been cancelled, though it did undergo a network relocation from Fox to TBS on October 20, 2014, following its 11th season . TBS announced on July 16, 2013, that they had picked up

9680-462: The series, MacFarlane reprises his role as Ted. Due to its prequel nature, Wahlberg and Kunis do not reprise their roles. MacFarlane co-wrote and starred in his second film, A Million Ways to Die in the West . Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild were also co-writers for the film. The film follows a cowardly sheep farmer (MacFarlane) who loses a gunfight and sees his girlfriend leave him for another man. When

9790-509: The show's first 7 episodes , American Dad! has a controversial season number discrepancy in which many are divided as to how many seasons the program has had. Beyond division between media journalists and fans, there have been conflicting reports as to what season the show is in even between American Dad! creators and the show's official website—both from its original Fox website and now from TBS website. At San Diego Comic-Con in 2013, Barker hinted that an American Dad! movie—centering on

9900-460: The show, which [to him] is the only reason to do a movie". He later went on to say he imagines the film to be "an old-style musical with dialogue" similar to The Sound of Music , saying that he would "really be trying to capture, musically, that feel". On October 13, 2011, MacFarlane confirmed that a deal for a Family Guy film had been made, and that he would write it with series co-producer Ricky Blitt. On November 30, 2012, he confirmed plans for

10010-409: The suggestiveness of the English expression. A person who is unfamiliar with the hidden or alternative meaning of a sentence may fail to detect its innuendos , aside from observing that others find it humorous for no apparent reason. Innuendo is often used in sitcoms and other comedy where some in the audience may enjoy the humour while being oblivious to its secondary meaning. A triple entendre

10120-551: The television series American Dad! (since 2005) and The Cleveland Show (2009–2013). He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films Ted (2012) and its sequel Ted 2 (2015), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied animation. He was recruited to Hollywood as an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera 's television series Johnny Bravo , Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory ; during this time, he created

10230-641: The time, and then hustle to the finish line at the last minute?". In addition to the regular cast, actor LeVar Burton , voice actor Gary Cole , actress Barclay DeVeau, actress Indigo , voice actor Phil LaMarr , actress Cloris Leachman , actor Len Maxwell , actress Natasha Melnick , voice actress Nicole Sullivan , and actress Lisa Wilhoit guest starred in the episode. Recurring guest voice actors Johnny Brennan , Ralph Garman , writer Mike Henry , writer Danny Smith , writer Alec Sulkin , and writer John Viener made minor appearances. Recurring guest cast member Patrick Warburton reprised his role of Joe Swanson in

10340-498: The track "Stewie's Sexy Party". A fan of Broadway musicals, MacFarlane comments on using musicals as a component of Family Guy : I love the lush orchestration and old-fashioned melody writing ... it just gets you excited, that kind of music", he said. "It's very optimistic. And it's fun. The one thing that's missing for me from popular music today is fun. Guys like [Bing] Crosby, or [Frank] Sinatra , or Dean Martin , or Mel Tormé [...] these are guys who sounded like they were having

10450-622: The use of double entendre on radio if they deem it to be in violation of their standards. In Britain, innuendo humour began to transfer to radio and cinema in the late 1950s. Particularly significant in this respect were the Carry On series of films and the BBC radio series Round the Horne ; although some of Round the Horne appeared to be nonsense language, the protagonists were sometimes having "rude" conversations in Polari (gay slang). Round

10560-428: The voice of Hayley. MacFarlane developed a Family Guy spin-off called The Cleveland Show , which focuses on the character of Cleveland Brown and his family. The idea for the show originated from a suggestion by Family Guy writer and voice of Cleveland, Mike Henry. Fox ordered 22 episodes and the series first aired on September 27, 2009. The show, which was picked up to air a first season consisting of 22 episodes,

10670-526: The water out with laughter wins the game. Double entendres are popular in modern movies, as a way to conceal adult humour in a work aimed at general audiences. The James Bond films are rife with such humour. For example, in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), when Bond is disturbed by the telephone while in bed with a Danish girl, he explains to Moneypenny that he is busy "brushing up on a little Danish". Moneypenny responds by pointing out that Bond

10780-537: The work for Disney was, from a writing standpoint, very valuable in preparation for his career (particularly on Ace Ventura ). He also created and wrote a short titled Zoomates for Frederator Studios ' Oh Yeah! Cartoons on Nickelodeon . Executives at the Fox Broadcasting Company saw both Larry shorts and negotiations soon began for a prime-time animated series. Although MacFarlane enjoyed working at Hanna-Barbera, he felt his real calling

10890-493: Was a box office success, opening with the highest weekend gross of all time for an original R-rated comedy. Internationally, the movie is currently the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time, beating The Hangover . A sequel, Ted 2 , was released on June 26, 2015. It was announced in June 2021 that Peacock had given a straight to series order for a prequel series. In addition to serving as executive producer for

11000-512: Was also made available, narrated by Jonathan Frakes . MacFarlane wrote the book on weekends during shooting for the film, partially due to boredom. In 2010, MacFarlane signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records . He released his debut album, Music Is Better Than Words , in 2011. The album is a big band / standards album drawing on his training in and attraction to "the Great American Songbook and particularly

11110-473: Was also nominated in the Academy Award for Best Original Song category for co-writing the theme song " Everybody Needs a Best Friend " for his film Ted with Walter Murphy. Critical response to MacFarlane's performance was mixed. Columnist Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented "By calling constant attention to the naughty factor," MacFarlane created "an echo chamber of outrage, working

11220-665: Was born and raised in Kent , Connecticut. His parents, Ronald Milton MacFarlane (b. 1946) and Ann Perry (née Sager; 1947–2010), were born in Newburyport , Massachusetts. His younger sister Rachael is also a voice actress. His maternal grandfather, Arthur Sager , competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in track and field . MacFarlane's parents met in 1970 when they lived and worked in Boston , Massachusetts, and married later that year. They moved to Kent in 1972, where Ann began working in

11330-414: Was changed to "Well, would a mentally retarded guy have hired a bulldozer with a drunk driver to level half of his house in celebration of his fantastic test results?". Brian stating to Peter "In your fucking face, Fuckwad" after Peter performs poorly on the test was censored from television broadcasting and on the censored track on the DVD, but can be heard uncensored on the uncensored audio track. This marks

11440-493: Was for prime-time animation, which would allow a much edgier style of humor. He first pitched Family Guy to Fox during his tenure at Hanna-Barbera. A development executive there, who was trying to get back into prime-time business, introduced MacFarlane to Leslie Kolins and Mike Darnell, heads of the alternative comedy department at Fox. After the success of King of the Hill in 1997, MacFarlane called Kolins once more to ask about

11550-628: Was known as "a cunning linguist", a play on the word " cunnilingus ". In the final scene of Moonraker , while Bond is taking Dr Holly Goodhead "round the world one more time", Q says to Sir Frederick Gray, "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir". In The World Is Not Enough (1999), while in bed with Dr Christmas Jones , Bond tells her "I thought Christmas only comes once a year". Other obvious examples include Pussy Galore in Goldfinger and Holly Goodhead in Moonraker . The double entendres of

11660-423: Was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In 2016, he was honored by Barbara Sinatra at the 28th annual Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational. He released his fourth studio album, In Full Swing , in 2017, again featuring songs composed by Joel McNeely . Three singles were released from it: "That Face", " Almost Like Being in Love ", and " Have You Met Miss Jones? " The album

11770-405: Was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals . In 2019, for his fifth studio album Once in a While , MacFarlane worked with composer Andrew Cottee. In 2020, MacFarlane released his sixth studio album, Great Songs from Stage & Screen , with composer Bruce Broughton , who he works with on The Orville , to compose

11880-414: Was one of only a few people hired by the company solely based on writing talent. He worked as an animator and writer for Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons series. He created a sequel to The Life of Larry entitled Larry & Steve , featuring a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. The short was broadcast as one of Cartoon Network 's World Premiere Toons . He described

11990-511: Was originally scheduled to premiere in 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The third season titled as The Orville: New Horizons premiered on June 2, 2022. Due to the pandemic, an episode of third season was scrapped, which MacFarlane subsequently turned into a novel, titled The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil . MacFarlane was the executive producer of a live-action sitcom starring Rob Corddry called The Winner . The plot has

12100-497: Was picked up by Fox for a second season, consisting of 13 episodes, bringing the total number to 35 episodes. The announcement was made on May 3, 2009, before the first season even premiered. Due to strong ratings, Fox picked up the back nine episodes of season 2, making a 22-episode season and bringing the total episode count of the show to 44. The series ended on May 19, 2013, with a total of 4 seasons and 88 episodes. The character of Cleveland and his family returned to Family Guy in

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