Family Guy is again with one other vacation particular, this time with a musical Halloween twist. Seth MacFarlane’s irreverent animated comedy is in its twenty sixth 12 months, and the present continues to be well timed and topical with its humor.
Household Man: A Little Fright Music sees Peter Griffin take his son Chris on a trick-or-treating journey out of city, however when Lois finds out, issues rapidly unravel. In the meantime, Stewie and Brian are hard at work attempting to provide you with a brand new track to mark the vacation, and Meg is basically forgotten.
Household Man Delivers A Kooky & Topical Halloween Particular
The Halloween episode is identical size as a typical collection entry, however the time is used extremely successfully. All through the 22-minute run, there are two main storylines arrange, in addition to a handful of minor bits, and all the pieces is neatly wrapped up by the episode’s conclusion.
This seems like a vacation particular carried out proper, when so many different community reveals stumble over methods to successfully execute these tales with out getting utterly overpowered.
Consistent with the season, Household Man units this story throughout Halloween night time, and makes use of costumes and different issues to successfully inform a themed story. Past that, the present leans exhausting into its important model of irreverent humor. With jokes referencing fashionable celebrities and present occasions, it is an important episode, not only a swiftly pieced-together vacation particular.
And with many of the regulars from Quahog making an look all through, it nonetheless manages to really feel like extra of an occasion than the usual episodes. All issues thought of, this vacation particular is completed proper in the way in which it weaves collectively traditional Household Man with touches of Halloween that work properly collectively. When so many different community reveals stumble over methods to successfully execute these tales, Household Man does so with out getting overpowered or turning into disconnected from the remainder of the present.
Peter & Chris Are The Highlights Of A Little Fright Music
Whereas Brian and Stewie present the soundtrack that offers this episode its title, it is Peter and Chris that make this episode work. Chris has reworked from a bumbling and shy buffoon right into a charismatic and hilarious younger man who has quite a lot of depth. Nevertheless, he’s additionally his father’s son, and that depth usually goes unexplored when he and his father are collectively.
Household Man is again in full kind with this episode.
Peter Griffin is often selfish, thoughtless, and intensely spontaneous, and with quite a few bits all through the episode driving this level house, it’s a nice reminder of why he’s the star of this absurd animated sitcom. However seeing him distinction and join with Chris provides new layers to the humor of the present. Chris has an important sequence the place he tries on a number of Halloween costumes that’s sharp and witty, and this pairs properly with later moments as he has “deep” conversations along with his father in regards to the future.
Household Man is again in full kind with A Little Fright Music, and the standard of the vacation particular stands out from earlier efforts. All through, there are laugh-out-loud moments and fantastic visible gags that elevate the episode. And naturally, the musical skills of Brian and Stewie tie all of it collectively properly.
Household Man: A Little Fright Music is obtainable to look at now on Hulu.
- Launch Date
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January 31, 1999
- Community
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FOX
- Showrunner
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Seth MacFarlane
- Administrators
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Peter Shin, Pete Michels, John Holmquist, Greg Colton, Brian Iles, Julius Wu, Joseph Lee, Joe Vaux, Mike Kim, Steve Robertson, Dan Povenmire, James Purdum, Dominic Bianchi, Dominic Polcino, Bob Bowen, Monte Younger, Zac Moncrief, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bert Ring, Seth Kearsley, Scott Wooden, Chuck Klein, Brian Hogan, Gavin Dell
- Writers
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Steve Callaghan, Patrick Meighan, Mark Hentemann, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Tom Devanney, Alex Carter, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild, Gary Janetti, Andrew Goldberg, Mike Desilets, Anthony Blasucci, Matt Weitzman, Kirker Butler, Damien Fahey, John Viener, Brian Scully, Ted Jessup, Chris Regan, Matt Pabian, Garrett Donovan, Ricky Blitt, Aaron Lee, Julius Sharpe
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Seth MacFarlane
Peter Griffin / Brian Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Glenn Quagmire / Tom Tucker (voice)
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Alex Borstein
Lois Griffin / Tricia Takanawa / Loretta Brown / Barbara Pewterschmidt (voice)
- Nice use of the bigger solid.
- Glorious storytelling between two central plots that wraps up neatly.
- Excellent approach to make use of the Halloween theme throughout the context of the present.
- It might have been a bit longer as a particular episode.
