Family Guy

I came late to the Family Guy party and have been catching up thanks to my trusty Tivo. It is truly a boon for my pop-culture-saturated psyche. This evening I was particularly impressed by the totally random reference to "You can't do that on Television", a Canadian kids show that ran on Nickelodeon back in the early 80s. Sadly, my wife was deprived and missed all of these shows growing up on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania.

Watching Family Guy is a lot like playing poker with my friends from back in my first years at Microsoft --- basically an exhausting rapid-fire contest of who can make the most obscure references. Dave generally wins (hi Dave).

I think my favorite episode is when Brian (the family dog) goes to California to make it in the movies and ends up directing porn (and winning an award at AVN!). But jeez, it's so hard to pick just one.

(Oooh, looking through Amazon results for Nickelodeon, I just remembered another great afternoon-waster --- Clarissa Explains it All. Definitely give that one a peek too ... Melissa Joan Hart in her younger days!)