Imagine if a season of Family Guy was stripped down from having narrative and resigned to nothing more than the pop-culture cut-scenes it’s become known for. No Peter, Lois, Meg, Stewie, Brian or Chris, just a long random sequence of unrelated comedy bits – that’s Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Confessing to having gotten the idea from Jackie Gleason’s Cavalcade of Characters (1994), Seth MacFarlane has taken aim at making no sense at all and found wild success in the process. Even while the formula for Family Guy’s cut-scene additions has been parodied and mocked by South Park, MacFarlane went ahead and unabashedly made a feature out of it all. At times it feels like the rejects that Seth couldn’t fit into the show, but considering it’s only about 54 minutes long it doesn’t ask much from the audience in terms of dedication, so...
- 5/17/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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