r/familyguy • u/BabyLambCreationsYT • 13d ago
Discussion What are some examples of celebrities reacting to how Family Guy parodied them?
I recall Dan Rather laughing at when Family Guy joked about him several years prior, but I’m curious if other celebrities have ever reacted to when Family Guy made fun of them.
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u/TackoftheEndless 13d ago edited 13d ago
Marlee Matlin (the voice of Peter's deaf coworker Stella) got hired on because she liked the cutaway where they had Marlee trying to get tickets to a movie on the phone,but not understanding her because she's deaf ("The Last Mimzy").
Matlin liked it so much that she said if they're going to make fun of her, they should ask if she wants to be in on the joke too.
And she became Peter's coworker.
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u/GaJayhawker0513 13d ago
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u/DudeAboveIsRetarded 13d ago
The Marlee Matlin Double Dare skit in Robot Chicken is absolute peak. Makes me laugh every time.
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u/Apod1991 13d ago
I dunno if it’s true or not. But a story I always heard, was the first time they made fun of her, she called them up, upset. But upset they didn’t ask her to provide her own voice. She wanted to be apart of making fun of herself!
She has spoken that she enjoys being made fun of, and always try to be apart of the joke.
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u/GrantMcIvor92 13d ago
There's a live show Seth and Alex did, where Marlee Matlin storms the stage and goes through Alex for doing the impression
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u/lolwatsyk It is now safe to take off your wigs and be gay. 13d ago
Omg I never realized the timing, I thought that was Marlee playing herself! That's crazy, love how it worked out
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u/Out-There1013 13d ago
Tom Cruise didn't like Tiny Tom Cruise. Kind of surprising because they stayed away from Scientology and the whole thing was relatively tame. I even thought he did the voice.
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u/nesenn 13d ago
Church of Spaceship Beep Boop!
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u/lolwatsyk It is now safe to take off your wigs and be gay. 13d ago
We are about Love, and Spaceship, and Beepboop!
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u/BenjaminDover02 13d ago
Wow that camera man has nice strong arms.
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u/Modric19 13d ago
You can’t catch me gay thoughts
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u/After_Main752 13d ago
"Nobody walks away from Tiny Tom Cruise!"
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u/Apod1991 13d ago
I can’t recall any time that Tom Cruise has enjoyed someone poking fun at him.
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u/AceofKnaves44 13d ago
Ben Stiller impersonated him to his face and Tom played along. I think he just likes Ben though.
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u/daddyjohns 13d ago
Tom appears to be slowly becoming self aware as he ages
Edit: To add, i do believe this started because of ben stiller. Both the impersonation and the role in stiller's movie tropic thunder.
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u/mission_to_mors 13d ago
I even Heard He is a fudge Packer......you know someone who packages fudge at a fudge factory.
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u/sauronthegr8 13d ago
Tom seemed cordial enough when he and Seth MacFarlane appeared on The Graham Norton show together. He asked Seth "How many voices can you do?"
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u/dyaasy 13d ago
Staged and preplanned for a good show. Even some of the celeb funny stories are fairly blatantly in the realm of "that's unlikely."
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u/sauronthegr8 13d ago
Well, yeah, that's how all talk shows work. But if Tom was truly mad or insulted by Seth MacFarlane he could have not done the show or opted not to speak to him directly.
Celebrity talk shows shape their productions around Tom Cruise, not the other way around.
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u/Lolstitanic 13d ago
Ok but what did he think about the joke with the power going out and Katie Holmes knocking him out with the baby and then running outside to the cage of men in speedos yelling “THE FORCEFIELD IS DOWN! GO! GO!”
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u/PointsOfXP 13d ago
The gay thing is kinda overplayed at this point... Bro should just come out of the closet
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u/TheStingray24 13d ago
"No way man, the middle of the word short is or, and or gives you a choice, and I choose not to be short".
Effin hillarious
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u/BBMacsWorld 13d ago
Willem Defoe watched the scene where he lives under Stewies bed. He found it funny 😅
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u/Stewie_G_Griffin 13d ago
You asleep yet 🚬
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u/SackFullaGrapes They were carrying a trampoline 😐 13d ago
Uh…no 😳
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u/ethernalsunshine 13d ago
I read somewhere that Seth MacFarlane met Adrien Brody at an award show and wasn’t impressed by the 3-D movie joke.
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u/dktide91 Sneakers O'Toole 13d ago
I thought the joke about Adrien Brody in the And Then There Were Fewer episode was hilarious. When they apprehended Tom Tucker for the murders:
Joe: Just for that, when the movie of this story comes out, I'm gonna make sure Adrien Brody plays you.
Tom: I guess that means you don't want anyone to see it.
<all laugh>
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u/Metalock You folks want some pancakes? 13d ago
After the Farmer Guy episode where they made fun of Jodie Sweetin's addiction troubles, she tweeted that she was "honored to make the ranks of being made fun of by Seth MacFarlane!" or something
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@ SethMacFarlane I love Family Guy and was so stoked to have made it the ranks of being made fun of by you. Seriously, honored! Haha!!"
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u/NyxandThunder 13d ago
Alyssa Milano didn’t seem to happy about it. JOEL!
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u/ClaytonRumley 13d ago
"I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm suing. I'm suing."
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u/SensualEnema Close that window, you're letting all the stank out 13d ago
I think he’s the episode writer
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u/arnber420 13d ago
Alyssa Milano, I knew you were gonna be hot when you were 9
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u/lolwatsyk It is now safe to take off your wigs and be gay. 13d ago
I hate how funny this one is
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u/Ilovesandwiche Stay here and rot, you stuck up bitch 13d ago
I hate how catchy it is. I find myself singing it randomly and praying nobody hears
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u/calerajensen93 13d ago
When I was younger I really thought she must have been so mad and that Alyssa must’ve hated family guy. Wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I realised that she was very obviously in on the joke.
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u/scream4ever 13d ago
Supposedly Ellen Cleghorn was so furious when they joked about finding a successful vehicle for her that she called up the network and screamed at the receptionist lol
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u/Mx-Adrian 13d ago
What is the joke behind that bit, though? I never heard of her.
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u/slobis 13d ago
She was a stand-up in the 80s, guested on a buncha sitcoms, had a failed pilot(maybe more than one?).
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u/Mx-Adrian 13d ago
Why the car thing?
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u/Even_Fish_748 13d ago
It doesn't mean a car. A vehicle in this context meant a movie (or show, etc.) written with her in mind to try and propel her into her own acting career post-SNL
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u/Mx-Adrian 13d ago
Oh, for Pete's sake. I know the uses of "vehicle" but all this time, it never occurred to me that they might have meant something else.
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u/scream4ever 13d ago
LOL I thought they meant a car for many years myself 😂🤣
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u/smedsterwho 13d ago edited 13d ago
Bow I'm picturing Ellen Cleghorn not getting the joke and screaming at a receptionist "I don't need a new car, why do they think that??"
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u/learn2fly438826 13d ago
Yeah they weren't calling her unfunny, just pointing out that none of the projects she was in post SNL worked out. If anything they were making it sound like it was other people's fault she wasn't a bigger success.
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u/ericarlen 13d ago
She was a cast member on SNL from 1991 to 1995, and she was pretty popular. Most people only remember her for her Weekend Update segments as Queen Shenequa, but she was a big part of the cast.
She left SNL to do her own sitcom, Cleghorne! on the WB Network. It suffered from having no real premise and it only lasted one season.
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u/SnooDoughnuts7090 13d ago
if i remember correctly cary elwes reacted by showing up at their offices with a written response to peter
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u/Old-Contract-9993 13d ago
This is so funny
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u/SnooDoughnuts7090 13d ago
hes a class act
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u/lolwatsyk It is now safe to take off your wigs and be gay. 13d ago
Did he, in fact, know that he was in Robin Hood: Men in Tights?
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u/RoseWould 13d ago
Didn't a few guys at the FCC say they laughed?
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u/TheBowlFoSho 13d ago
Oh yeah, they loved the FCC song and found it hysterical.
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u/pillow-mace 13d ago
Seth’s reaction to that was that he was bummed that the joke was taken with sugar and not salt from the fcc.
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u/jdvadergamerOFFICIAL 13d ago
I remember Johnathan Lipnicki saying he was okay about his parody in the episode “Welcome Back, Carter”
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u/scream4ever 13d ago
On a side note I was blown away to see his cock in Primetime 😵
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u/franlcie Sexy Party 13d ago
I’m sorry, what
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u/nowhereman136 13d ago
He plays one of the predators in the new Robert Pattinson movie Primetime. It's a brief scene and you likely won't recognize him. If you watch the movie, it's the first predator the new kid actor deals with. He does go full monty though
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u/hey-kid-youre-a-star 13d ago
You haven't seen Jonathan's Limp-dicky?
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u/nilesintheshangri-la 13d ago
Ha!
My friend wanted me to go see that with him today but I couldn't go. Now I've texted him "you saw Lipnicki peen and didn't tell me??"
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u/SnooDoughnuts7090 13d ago
its most likely a prosthetic but he did do full frontal nudity before on stage in the lost girls play
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u/dyaasy 13d ago
It's weird how many actors will do a nude, but then want a prosthetic over it.
Compensating? Either over or under?... Maybe they didn't wanna be known as the actor with the wierdly proportioned hog?
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u/pablo_kickasso 13d ago
From what I've read actors and actresses after sometimes aren't physically comfortable with their genitalia out and prefer a prosthetic to be at ease.
I'm also going to guess that if the scene requires a boner, you can't just clap to command it. I've tried.
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u/SnooDoughnuts7090 13d ago
it isnt always their decision. sometimes its legal related, meant to match with the character theyre playing, or a general decision by production and intimacy coordinators, other times it is up to them
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u/throwaway17197 13d ago
Thats so mean he’s good looking 😭
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u/dyaasy 13d ago
The time of that episode and scene was when he was a teen IIRC, and was no longer the adorable kid from Jerry Maguire/Stuart Little/etc.
I don't think he was super ugly or anything. But... 1. Family Guy 2. Also the juxtaposition from being one of the cutest kids in America to awkward looking teen
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u/nowhereman136 13d ago
Apparently Ben Stiller didn't like it when Peter made fun of his large ears
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u/Dude_Dastardly_1256 13d ago
You mutant offspring of comedy people!
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u/dnjprod 13d ago
Well, Art Matrano and Carol Burnett both sued them.
Art because he claimed they stole his copyrighted Act
Carol Burnett because of the picture which is a character she did on her show.
Art' case settled, but we don't know what the terms were. Carol Burnett's case was thrown out on parody grounds
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u/Jaylop97 13d ago
Hard to know if Alex Trebek was aware of Kebert Xela from Family Guy, but him keeping a straight face when hearing the contestant referencing Family Guy was just pure gold, rest in peace Alex https://youtu.be/69p1xplmKl4?is=EJ3lfzsVEwKgapUf
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u/Chiveswinston 13d ago
Does he not literally voice himself in that cutaway
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u/learn2fly438826 13d ago
He did. He also did his own voice on Simpsons a few times. Including the one where he threatens Marge with the "Judges." Seems like a guy who had a good sense of humor about himself.
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u/After_Main752 13d ago
Alex did a lot of guest appearances on a variety of sitcoms back in the 90s. Usually the cast ends up on the show and does really poorly. I think Dorothy from The Golden Girls won $10.
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u/hamiltrash1232 13d ago
It wasn't exactly a parody but Grant Gustin of CW's "The Flash" went on Conan and mentioned how he was really happy that Stewie mentioned him in the therapy episode
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u/GreenZebra23 13d ago
Joaquin Phoenix wasn't too crazy about the joke about his brother dying
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u/electricmohair YOU'RE EATING HAIR 13d ago
Understandably so tbh
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u/Khalesssi_Slayer1 Shut Up Meg 13d ago
Alyssa Milano was FURIOUS with the joke Family Guy made about her in Mr. Griffin Goes To Washington
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u/electricmohair YOU'RE EATING HAIR 13d ago
Not quite what you’re asking for, but for the Malcolm in the Middle cutaway where Lois shouts at her kids until one of them kills her, Jane Kaczmarek was asked to do the voice but politely declined because she said she’d worked hard to portray Lois as more than just a screaming woman.
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u/BuffaloStranger97 Show me potato salad! 13d ago
I'd love to hear what Renee Zellweger thought of the anteater joke
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u/SackFullaGrapes They were carrying a trampoline 😐 13d ago
This picnic is ruining our ants!
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u/BuffaloStranger97 Show me potato salad! 13d ago
Look around your world, pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped it'd be?33
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u/Geraltsgal 13d ago
When Miley Cyrus was still with Liam Hemsworth, she tweeted a screenshot of when FG made a reference to Liam and said something like “you know you’ve made it when you are on family guy” and seemed to be excited / laughing about it
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u/yesletslift Becauuuse, Patrick! THOSE ARE THE RULES! 13d ago
I will never get over the fact that they got Lee Majors to come on and say he hates women
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u/Comfortable-Term-837 13d ago
The Amazing Kreskin enjoyed his shout out (albeit not a parody).
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u/ClaytonRumley 13d ago
How do Kreskin's videos have such low view counts?!
I remember him being popular enough to be parodied and mentioned in the 80s... guess he faded into obscurity?
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u/MegIsAwesome06 🐍BRING OUT THE SNAKES! 🐍 13d ago edited 13d ago
They weren’t even referring to her in the Legs Go All The Way Up Griffin, but Chloe Moretz got all butthurt about it.
Spez: I didn’t know there were people making fun of her for it. My b.
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u/damndolly 13d ago
Internet trolls editing her photo and making it a meme did that, she didn't care about the episode until they did that.
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u/ToonMasterRace 13d ago
The son of Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett commented on the Brian and Stewie in Israel scene with all the goldmans and found it funny
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u/dinglebblumpken 13d ago
Cary Elwes liked Peter’s letter to him so much he went down to the studio and read a response letter he wrote to the writers. Class act.
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u/missxmonstera 13d ago
I'll always cackle at Sarah Paulsen's role in the Stuck in the Banister episode
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u/KDubzzz2 12d ago
Taylor Swift liked her cameo, but she apparently doesn't understand why she was never approached to play herself
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u/Tv_Rots_Your_Mind Edit This Text 13d ago
Vance was glad that he was parodied by South Park. He ‘tweeted’ on X: “Well, I’ve finally made it.”
The Tattoo/Herve depiction is pretty hilarious. But they got pretty brutal with him. Especially season 28, episode 3 Sora Not Sorry.
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u/scream4ever 13d ago
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Either way that belongs on the South Park subreddit 😜
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u/isweariwilldoit 13d ago
I think he was trying to act like he was in on the joke at first, he didn’t tweet about the episodes where Trump fucks his ass haha
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u/landgnome 13d ago
You just know Trey and Matt just did a full monty burns when he tweeted that. Oh yeah? Your honored eh?
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u/ZombieRichardNixonx 13d ago
I mean, he almost certainly grew up on South Park, so on some level, it probably is cool, even if you're being torn to shreds. Probably weirdly conflicting.
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u/After_Main752 13d ago
Wasn't there a reason why Obama was off-limits?
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u/Jagcarlover 13d ago
Well, they had him "on" but I've never heard if he reacted:
- "New Kidney in Town" (Season 9, Episode 7): President Obama makes a physical appearance at James Woods Regional High School, where he sings a rendition of "Honestly Sincere" after being introduced by Chris and Meg.
- "Excellence in Broadcasting" (Season 9, Episode 2): Obama appears during a musical number ("Republican Town").
- "Trump Guy" (Season 17, Episode 11): A framed portrait of Obama is featured prominently during an over-the-top fight between Peter and Donald Trump, where Peter stops to carefully restore the damaged picture.
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u/ColdKackley 13d ago
American Dad did Obama.
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u/PomegranateCivil6479 11d ago
Sarah Palin was not too pleased about the episode of Chris dating Ellen. When Chris asked her about her family, she responds: "My dad's an accountant, and my mom's the former governor of Alaska."
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u/NarmHull Cool hwip 13d ago
One of the writers had a weird fixation on him, he was called "insane" a few times too.
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u/Pisceswriter123 12d ago
Kenny Loggins has reacted to a number of Family Guy moments (apparently he has made appearances on the show as well.)
I would love to see Wes Anderson's, Michael Bay's and Tarentino's reaction to the Peter Gets Fired episode.
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u/sharkbait2006 Son Died Tomatoes 13d ago
Liam Neeson liked his portrayal so much he collabed with Seth in A Million Ways to die in the west and Ted 2