Peter Griffin Goes To Ireland

gucci

Did anyone see todays STAR newspaper, they're american writer (think its niall odowd) basically had a huge rant about how the new family guy is a disgrace and it portrays ireland as a pile of drunks. also how his irish father is a drunk and stupid and the intelligent one in the family speaks with an upperclass english acent.and is UNFUNNY!!someone obviously reading WAAAAY too much into things.obviously he dosnt realise that family pretty much has slagged off everybody at this stage and wouldnt be "anti-irish"

the clip his here, and i think its very good.
"ireland has more drunks per capita than people"

Mossy Monk

The Star are a few months late on this one. And all they have done is promoted it. Tools. Pretending like they actually give a ****.

Mr E

Wow... must be a slow news day in the Star.
I just watched that clip (saw the original episode a few months ago), its its very very funny. Even the musical number is entertaining.

He needs to get a life.

jor el

Did that guy not realise that taking the piss and taking a stereotype waaaay to far is what Family Guy does? He's obviously never watched the show, or if he did then he wasn't paying much attention.

I can't really remember the episode now, it's been so long since I watched it. From what I remember it was all fiddles and begorrah and drinking. What other kind of Ireland would a show like FG portray? Skangers on the streets of Dublin mugging everyone that walks by, stabbings in Limerick, Nigerians putting skimmers in Pass machines? Wouldn't be nearly as funny.

gucci

jor el wrote:

What other kind of Ireland would a show like FG portray? Skangers on the streets of Dublin mugging everyone that walks by, stabbings in Limerick, Nigerians putting skimmers in Pass machines? Wouldn't be nearly as funny.

hahaha that would be quality actually.....although he probably would be whinging about it too!!

Mossy Monk

Let's hope he never discovers South Park.

r3nu4l

Anyone remember the episode of the Simpsons where Bart gets drunk on St. Patricks day and the British Fish and Chip shop gets blown up and the crowd yell "Yay"?

Did the Star ever complain about that one? I thought it was hilarious.

gucci

r3nu4l wrote:

Anyone remember the episode of the Simpsons where Bart gets drunk on St. Patricks day and the British Fish and Chip shop gets blown up and the crowd yell "Yay"?

Did the Star ever complain about that one? I thought it was hilarious.

yeah that was a great episode, homer waiting for the pub to open etc i seem to remember the last time i seen it (forget of it was on rte or channel four) but they had that exact scene with the chip shop blowing up cut from it

tman

I was more offended by them showing a black cab in Ireland...
If you're gonna use racial stereotypes, at least get the country right:p

Lunar Junkie

I was cringing at the idea of this, pretty glad the trip to Ireland section lasted all of 5 minutes. Obviously they had to show a satirical version of "Ireland" that a largely American audience who've mostly never been over here would get, so it ended up being one straight out of a 1950s movie and playing on the most obvious drinking culture stereotype (which, in fairness, we can't say is exactly untrue).. Most of the accents were way off, sounded more Scottish than Irish. Thought the slurred conversation between Peter and his Irish father ("Why aren't you good looking like most Americans?") was the high-point.. Really, the whole thing was less offensive than most of the humour they have in there and The Star is just groping for any kind of controversy that they think might sell papers.

ixoy

I found it more offensive that they didn't do anything with the stereotype - put a spin on it or some such. It made a stereotype boring and that's more offensive! Much better is when they had us discover alcohol millennia ago and bring the downfall of our advanced civilization or the automatons in the museum...

Still think "South Park" has the lead on delivering offence. "The Star" should never watch it. The fact the show gets away with showing Jesus and Bush defecating on an American flag will always demand the utmost respect.

weeder

i found iit quite funny actually and its not the first time they took the pi9ss out of ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKBCCDOUS9U&NR=1

InFront

Did anybody catch Sean O Rourke's uncontrolled laughter on Radio 1 yesterday? The played a clip from the show, and he could hardly stop laughing, and this was during an interview with that journalist who had taken offense. I don't think he was impressed, the interview might have been cut a bit short, it didn't last very long.

Mossy Monk

gucci wrote:

yeah that was a great episode, homer waiting for the pub to open etc i seem to remember the last time i seen it (forget of it was on rte or channel four) but they had that exact scene with the chip shop blowing up cut from it

UK showings always had that cut. RTÉ never cut it anytime I have seen it. In fact they rarely cut anything from what I can see. They showed topless ladies on a beach in Police Academy a few weeks back. Showed it at 6.30.

Lunar Junkie

weeder wrote:

i found iit quite funny actually and its not the first time they took the pi9ss out of ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKBCCDOUS9U&NR=1

That one was funnier, but note the Scottish\Irish accent confusion again!

gucci

Mossy Monk wrote:

UK showings always had that cut. RTÉ never cut it anytime I have seen it. In fact they rarely cut anything from what I can see. They showed topless ladies on a beach in Police Academy a few weeks back. Showed it at 6.30.

they have been doing that for years too...seem to remember aged abour 10 always tuning in to police accademy for boobies

qwertplaywert

ian o dorrety was taking the mike out of it in the indo today......was brillant

AlmightyCushion

gucci wrote:

they have been doing that for years too...seem to remember aged abour 10 always tuning in to police accademy for boobies

Good old RTE giving us young ads our fix of soft core porn

Plissken1

I see this is back in the papers again today.


I think the Scottish\Irish accent and the black cab were just thrown in for fun not by mistake. But the rest of it reminds me of Ireland in the 80's, so they pretty much got it right ! haha very funny episode

county

r3nu4l wrote:

Anyone remember the episode of the Simpsons where Bart gets drunk on St. Patricks day and the British Fish and Chip shop gets blown up and the crowd yell "Yay"?

Did the Star ever complain about that one? I thought it was hilarious.

classic alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3TT8R57Jc

qwertplaywert

county wrote:

classic alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3TT8R57Jc

man.....i remember watchingh that on rte 2 once..i believe they censored the chip shop bit

kaisersose77

peter griffin has a sex change......

http://www.totallycrap.com/?ACT=24&fid=7&aid=9276_quKSKQG1yn4sRfaHtum1

Mossy Monk

qwertplaywert wrote:

man.....i remember watchingh that on rte 2 once..i believe they censored the chip shop bit

I have seen the chip shop bit on RTÉ.

Captain Smiggy

Originally Posted by county
classic alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3TT8R57Jc

Look at all the angry(and inaccurate) posts by americans? Their boards are so aggressive.....And the occasional irish person railing at them....it's qvite hilarious

Lafortezza

Anyone know what Series and Episode numbers this one is?

Jurassic_chili

i saw that episode a couple of months ago and thats just what family guy, southpark and the simpsons [to a lesser extent] do and it was hilarious:D like most of the episodes of those three shows:) , you can't get carried away in the politics of the programs you just have to sit back and laugh:D

BlitzKrieg

my main complaint of the family guy episode is that its stereotyping is as ixoy puts it very boring.

its nothing clever or new.

I mean their earlier one is much funnier because it takes obvious stereotypes (drinking) does something great with it, and then sprinkles in less known or more risky stereotypes (the role of the wife/religion etc)

Even Francis, peters *dad* for the previous 3 seasons was the best pisstake of Ireland in family guy.

This one is just plain lazy, it doesnt have the same attention to detail and it went for a cheap laugh.

Ruu_Old

lafortezza wrote:

Anyone know what Series and Episode numbers this one is?

Season 5, episode #90 I think.

watna

qwertplaywert wrote:

man.....i remember watchingh that on rte 2 once..i believe they censored the chip shop bit

I've never seen the chip shop bit. I couldn't understand why I couldn't remember it because at this stage I know manu simpsons episodes off by heart!

I can't believe I've alwasy seen it censored.... now I really really want to see it!

egan007

gucci wrote:

Did anyone see todays STAR newspaper, they're american writer (think its niall odowd) basically had a huge rant about how the new family guy is a disgrace and it portrays ireland as a pile of drunks. also how his irish father is a drunk and stupid and the intelligent one in the family speaks with an upperclass english acent.and is UNFUNNY!!someone obviously reading WAAAAY too much into things.obviously he dosnt realise that family pretty much has slagged off everybody at this stage and wouldnt be "anti-irish"

the clip his here, and i think its very good.
"ireland has more drunks per capita than people"

One of the Things we do good as Irish is laugh at ourselves....
That's why you don't see people burning flags in the street...
So we get drunk, If more races had a sense of humour about themselves there would be a WHOLE lot less tension around.

cooperguy

watna wrote:

I've never seen the chip shop bit. I couldn't understand why I couldn't remember it because at this stage I know manu simpsons episodes off by heart!

I can't believe I've alwasy seen it censored.... now I really really want to see it!

RTE always try there best to show things uncensored so you dont watch enough simpsons on RTE!!

I like that about Irish tv actually they treat the viewer with some bit of common sense and dont blur/beep out everything that might offend 0.0001% of the population. In fact a couple of months ago they had some policy released on this area and they said that they will never consider beeping things out, they will show it at an appropriate time uncensored.

aequinoctium

i saw the episode, i didn't mind