REVIEW: FAMILY GUY “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!”

Its Christmas time and Peter’s got a story to tell. The story follows a guy named Joseph and his pal Robbie. Joe eventually meets a girl named Mary of whom is unwilling to sleep with him, but will instead continue to lead him on a number of dates  with no home run in sight.  Eventually, Mary comes clean that God sent an angel of whom impregnated her with the Son of God.  After calling up their Great Aunt Helen to no avail, Peter tells the tale of how Joe and Mary are traveling to Bethlehem. Also travelling to Bethlehem are the three wise men of whom meet the King. Turns out the the wise men know all about the Son of God’s arrival and tells the King all about it and he isn’t too happy about the news.  Mary and Joe arrive to an inn but are declined and instead have to stay in a barn.

God picks a name for the Son of God, and the three wise men are on their way to the barn where ‘Jesus’ is about to be born.  When we get the new arrival, the King is on his way with a big ass army of which gets turned away by ‘Jesus’ space ship. Back in the present, the Griffins are interrupted by a guy with his pregnant wife looking to borrow a phone because their car broke down, but like Mary and Joe, are turned away.

Northwest Airlines, Two Turtle Doves, Title Sequence, Joe Mud Hut, Virginity Coach, Stonings, Oracle from Greece, Angel, A Christmas Carol, Ben Him and Her, Cashmere Sweater

Motherfucker, that was a good one. Similar to the Star Wars specials but not nearly as believable, Tom Devanney writes up a rather entertaining Family Guy inspired nativity scene. For whatever reason, I felt the episode felt very old-school Family Guy in terms of the writing style because old-school Guy had a bunch of jokes and gags that just hit and hit and hit both in the dialogue and in the cutaways. For example, we get ample lines about how people used to shit in the streets or how women getting stoned to death was more than just wishful thinking. We also had a bunch of great cutaway gags like Northwest Airlines to help kick off the show, and the Christmas Carol gag had me in stitches. In an apparent sign of things to come, Cleveland returns this time around and you get the sense that the chemistry between him, Joe, and Quagmire is probably sorely missed from both Family Guy and The Cleveland Show so much so that I was like ‘Damn, I want more of that!” Ryan Reynolds as the Overweight Guy was a bit of a, I wouldn’t say let down, but I really wanted to see more of it and I think when most of us heard the news that he was coming back for a guest star role that we would have. With this in mind, “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph” does a much better job at illustrating this fairy tale way more than all those years at church I wasted.