i apologize if this has been posted 251617 times before...

http://www.damnyouall.net/cgi-bin/ik...=ST;f=22;t=140

discussion re: the missing 20 commentary tracks, and how the included 8 have been edited.

it may be time to start pestering FOX, Bart & Lisa style:

"can you give us the commentaries?"

"no."

"can you give us the commentaries?" (ad infinitum)

If it wasn't for them swearing while doing the voices of the family the commentaries would of been competely worthless.

It's very clear that a few of the gaps were censored since they start up again mid sentence. I don't see why they are hacked up if there is a disclamier on the DVD. That's just plain stupid. I bet if they were left alone I would of found them far more interesting.

got this from the link above.
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?30960

which says....

Consisting of 28 episodes -- including two of MacFarlane's favorites: "Death Is a Bitch" and "Road to Rhode Island" -- MacFarlane, assorted writers and some of the show's vocal talent (including Alex Borstein and Seth Green) provide commentary for eight of them. However, MacFarlane says they recorded tracks for them all, meaning there's 20-episodes worth out there waiting to be bootlegged.

"Most of them were deemed too offensive for the home video audience, if you can believe that," he laughs. "I never really understood why -- there was a lot of stuff on the commentary that would have passed legal on the network front, so I'm not quite sure what went wrong there."



The other article....

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/articles/seth.cfm

mentions....

Interviewer : What did you think of the DVD set? I'm assuming that you've seen it.

Seth : I thought they did a fantastic job. I actually didn't have a whole lot to do with the packaging, I didn't have anything to do with that. We went in and did commentary.

Interviewer : How was that?

Seth : That was fun, it was just pure enjoyment.

Interviewer : You guys didn't talk enough!

Seth : Well, they actually cut a lot of stuff out.

Interviewer : Really?

Seth : Yeah, we were pretty much yakking from start to finish and there was a lot edited for content, which I don't really understand on a DVD release because it's strictly for the fans. That would be my only complaint about how the release was handled, but otherwise the transfers were incredibly crisp, the colors look great, the sound is great and the way they packaged it, I think they did a really terriffic job.

What? Did he see the final dvds?

I'm sure he did. If you're talking about the problems I think you are, those are inherent to the Family Guy series; they have nothing to do with DVD. It's mostly due to the fact that FG was one of the first digitally-animated shows, combined with some mistakes by the overseas animators. The same problems were there in the broadcast versions, but because the DVD transfer is so clean, it makes the issues much more noticeable. There is some edge enhancement, but as a whole they did a good job.

*cough*

They need to just release these for download or something, in mp3 format.

That way we could just download them, and convert them to wav files if you wanted to.

nuts! commentary is one of the things i was really looking forward to in this set. i'll still pick it up, and if they get around to releasing the full commentary in any form i'll pick that up too.

I would like to upset about this, but the bottom line is, I haven't listened to the commentaries on the SIMPSONS or South Park (on CD).

i dunno... i love my commentaries, esp the Simpsons and Futurama ones. it really upsets me as a FG fan to read that so much insight went missing.

just another in the long line of asinine FOX decisions.

So much went missing, I'm wondering why they even bothered to include commentaries! Seems like they're going 5 minutes without saying anything! (2nd episode on disk2)

Nothing they said could be more offensive than what the characters are saying on the actual show!

Truly mind-boggling.

Has anyone heard any news on the complete comentaries coming out?

Forget the commentaries! The US release of Family Guy has THREE scenes that are censored in the ACTUAL EPISODES!!! The UK release has 2 of those 3 censored and one left intact.

The commentaries that are included are horrible IMO. I listened to a few of them, and was very dissapointed. No desire to hear anymore of them...

The Simpsons & South park commentaries are very good. The Family Guy commentaries are just okay. I'd rather just watch the episodes. Wow, I cant wait for Volume 2, sooo many funny episodes.

If we could get unexpurgated versions, along with the commentaries for episodes that were just plain left out, I'd be happy as hell.

The Futurama commentaries are pretty rockin'.

Well, at least one was removed due to request by Seth MacFarlane (the Osama bin Laden one).

Nor this nor the other two were removed die to his request. It was all Fox. However, thanks to the Internet these scenes will never be lost because you will always be able to get them from the Internet. And on the net, the people that distribute them do NOT take the extra step to butcher them!

But they also don't take the extra step of paying the talent involved. Not that I really care, these scenes shouldn't be lost.

right. The people involved when this extra step is taken don't care to release intact footage, why should I care to take this step?

No, he has stated that the Bin Laden seen was removed because he asked for it to be removed, if you want to hate on Fox or whatever, don't buy this set, or the next Family Guy set.

So what if Osama bin Laden asked to be taken off the box set? We shouldn't allow terrorists to censor our DVDs.























That was a joke, by the way.

You couldn't be more wrong.

Read this interview with Seth and you'll see that he had nothing to do with the removal of those scenes:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/articles/seth.cfm

From the interview:

- What did you think of the DVD set? I'm assuming that you've seen it.

I thought they did a fantastic job. I actually didn't have a whole lot to do with the packaging, I didn't have anything to do with that. We went in and did commentary.


- How was that?

That was fun, it was just pure enjoyment.


- You guys didn't talk enough!

Well, they actually cut a lot of stuff out.


- Really?

Yeah, we were pretty much yakking from start to finish and there was a lot edited for content, which I don't really understand on a DVD release because it's strictly for the fans. That would be my only complaint about how the release was handled, but otherwise the transfers were incredibly crisp, the colors look great, the sound is great and the way they packaged it, I think they did a really terriffic job.



- I noticed "Road to Rhode Island"...there's some footage missing; an Osama bin Laden joke was cut.

There was some debate over that. I kinda stayed out of that debate because I didn't really have a strong opinion one way or the other. There are arguments for keeping it in and arguments for taking it out. The argument to keep it in is that's how the show aired and it was broadcast this way and it aired two years before September 11, and so there's a bit of entertainment historical value there. And obviously the argument for taking it out was that because it was one of the biggest tragedies, there was some thought that it might bring down the rest of the episode when that comes up. There was some thought at one point of putting it on separately at the end, and that was really...I guess it was a legal decision that Fox made to leave it out. It's unfortunate in that it's a part of the episode that was produced and was aired and is sort of gone forever, but it's a small loss in the grand scheme of things.


- Now, you were almost involved in that whole tragedy...

Yeah, that came up at one point. I said, "Look, I'm probably as close to that incident as anybody at Fox." There was one point where I was arguing to keep that scene in. Yeah, I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes. It was a very close call for me.


- How has that affected you?

The only reason it hasn't really affected me as it maybe could have is I didn't really know that I was in any danger until after it was over, so I never had that panic moment. After the fact it was sobering but people have a lot of close calls; you're crossing the street and you almost get hit by a car....this one just happened to be related to something massive. I really can't let it affect me because I'm a comedy writer. I have to put that in the back of my head.


- Well, I'm glad you got drunk the night before.

Yeah, alcohol is our friend. I think that's the moral of that story.


- Yeah, drinking can save your life.

Absolutely.