FOX creating new episodes without the writers.

[icarus]

Holy fucking cow.

I don't give a flip about Family Guy, I've never even watched the show. But Fox is producing fresh episodes of its animated comedy Family Guy without theparticipation of its striking creator Seth MacFarlane, who does many of the main voices.

*jaw-drops*

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!

You know, Fox is really racing to cement itself as the most fucked up, asinine, flat out ridiculous network out there. Their practices make no sense and destroy any chance they might have of surviving on more than American Idol. I count my stars they allowed House and Bones to show pretty much unimpeded.

[roaringmice.livejournal.com]

In most animation, they record the voices, then do all the in-betweens (most of the animating). They need to do the voices first so they can time it, and make the animation fit the sound (mouths moving and etc.) It sounds like these three or so episodes were close to being finished - they'd definitely had the voices already done. So that's how they're doing it.

Is it right? Well...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Is it right?

Nope.

Is it legal?

Yep.

Are they assholes?

Oh, hell yeah.

[florahart]

My kids watch this. As K1 has already discontinued watching Robot Chicken via the website (cos it airs at stupid o'clock in the morning) once I explained about the whole "networks calling it promotion and therefore not paying the writers" thing, I think he will also stop watching this. He may actually write a letter.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Pom-poms for K1, tell him keep up the good work.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

Geez. That's hitting some sort of bottom.

Too bad all of their minima are local ones.

[roaringmice.livejournal.com]

Uuuuummmm... That really sucks. Wow. Seth is a strong personality as well. I wonder how all this will pan out.

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

Just when you thought Fox couldn't possibly be more screwed up....

[wymsie.livejournal.com]

o.O

Fox is all sorts of effed up.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

Ethical concerns aside [cough] I could see them doing this, logistically, with the last couple of episodes in the pipeline -- if they had a couple that only needed a bit of final editing and clean-up or whatever. But if they have episodes that need further writing or voice recording or both, this could turn into a major trainwreck for them, even with fans who don't care about the strike. People will notice if they mess with the voices; they're very distinctive.

Angie

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

It--what. That.

Jeez.

[thereallyle.livejournal.com]

Yuck! What the hell are they thinking? (I also don't care about Family Guy, but still.)

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Whaaat? How can they do that when he's the creator as well?

....*jaw drop*

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

It's Fox so I shouldn't be surprised, but that is sooooooooooo beyond the pale

[skipmcgee.livejournal.com]

I love how everyone at Fox isn't content to be just another asshole in the crowd - they really seem to work for that title of World's Biggest Douchebag.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

FTW! Ooo, ten points and swish in the basket.

[skipmcgee.livejournal.com]

I feel that I should always have someone with a snare drum and cymbal back and to the left, just so people can fully appreciate my rim shots.

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

UGH.

[sffan.livejournal.com]

That goes so far past stupid I have no words. ARGH. 98% of the awesomeness of Stewie and Brian (2 of the characters he voices) are their voices.

I'm a fairly greedy, selfish person (I admit it, it's a huge character flaw), but this just goes beyond comprehension.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see Fux is trying to cancel the show for a second time.

Asshats.

[melodyunity.livejournal.com]

What? I mean...WHAT?

This does not compute.

[moojja.livejournal.com]

Here something to make you feel better about the plagiarism and fox. (and I hope to inspire more Out of Bound.)

Rodney swears he is just adjusting John's stance in the second picture.



It's funny, Lysacek's coach actually has a similar build to Rodney. You really did pick the perfect combination of skater and coach, physically at least. This photo manip turned out a lot better than I hoped for.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You know, I never even noticed Frank Carroll's build is like Rodney's, but you're right. Thank you. Funny how their warm-up jackets match, too. *g*

Icarus

[jaig.livejournal.com]

well, it is fox.