Family Guy: A Little Fright Music Review

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 yr, 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 shortly unravel. In the meantime, Stewie and Brian are hard at work making an attempt to provide you with a brand new music 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 sequence 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 the whole lot is neatly wrapped up by the episode’s conclusion.

In line 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 onerous into its important model of irreverent humor. With jokes referencing fashionable celebrities and present occasions, it is a fantastic episode, not only a unexpectedly 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 finished proper in the way in which it weaves collectively basic Household Man with touches of Halloween that work nicely collectively. When so many different community reveals stumble over find out how 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. Nonetheless, he’s additionally his father’s son, and that depth typically goes unexplored when he and his father are collectively.

Peter Griffin is often selfish, thoughtless, and intensely spontaneous, and with quite a few bits all through the episode driving this level residence, 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 a fantastic sequence the place he tries on a number of Halloween costumes that’s sharp and witty, and this pairs nicely with later moments as he has “deep” conversations along with his father in regards to the future.

Household Man is again in full type 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 abilities of Brian and Stewie tie all of it collectively properly.

Household Man: A Little Fright Music is out there to look at now on Hulu.

Launch Date

January 31, 1999

Community

FOX

Showrunner

Seth MacFarlane

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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)

Execs & Cons

• Nice use of the bigger solid.
• Glorious storytelling between two central plots that wraps up neatly.
• Good approach to make use of the Halloween theme inside the context of the present.

• It may have been a bit of longer as a particular episode.