Cleveland show teaser

In this, the fifth year of the second reign of lord Seth MacFarlane at Fox, the lines seem clearly drawn between those who revere the "Family Guy" creator and those who view him as a pox on TV comedy, animated or otherwise. The "Family Guy" season premiere Sunday at 9 p. Cleveland and his portly, shy teenage son Cleveland Jr. We also have, at the center of our show, a pretty strong dynamic between Cleveland and his son.

To illustrate the intended tonal differences between the two, he pointed to a "Family Guy" episode he wrote last season where Peter is injected with "the gay gene" and leaves Lois to move in with another man. His presence allows the writers many of them white like Henry and Appel to tell meta jokes about white people in Hollywood producing entertainment for a black audience, and occasionally some of the racial humor lands.

In one episode, Cleveland is sitting in a truck with a bigoted hillbilly who feels compelled to cut the tension by admitting that he liked Flip Wilson and Ed Bradley, and was attracted to Halle Berry in "Swordfish. From Survivor to The Amazing Race to MasterChef , reality shows that involve competition and even those that don't frequently abuse the teaser trailer. Invariably, these trailers either spoil major plot points of the next episode, or they purposefully mislead the viewer into thinking there will be more drama or suspense than there actually is.

Here's an example:. Narrator: Next week, things heat up on MasterChef. Has Chef Ramsay gone too far? When you watch the episode, you're anticipating a huge blow-up on the part of Chef Ramsay, maybe one that involves throwing pointy metal objects at the contestants. Instead, what you get is Chef Ramsay allowing the contestants to cook using his top-secret recipe for Beef Wellington.

The worst part about these reality show teasers are the clips that air during the actual episode. Not only do the networks spoil what will happen next week, now they spoil what happens after the next commercial break. When you're about to find out who gets eliminated in the episode and the "up next" clip shows a tearful contestant hugging the others, the answer becomes rather obvious. After the departure of main character Cleveland Brown for the creation of spin-off series The Cleveland Show , the executives at FOX managed to spoil a reunion between the main characters of Family Guy during a promo teaser.

In the season eight Family Guy episode " The Splendid Source ," Peter and the gang travel across the country in search of the source of an especially dirty joke. Along the way, they meet up with Cleveland. Show creator Seth McFarlane used the reunion as an opportunity to poke fun at FOX's promo blunder with some fourth-wall shenanigans:.

Peter Griffin: Holy crap! Who knew we'd run into you, except everyone 'cause FOX ruined it in the promos. While we're on the subject of animated shows, certain anime series exported from Japan and some live-action ones , too have particularly awful teasers. Others would have trailers so indecipherable or badly translated that you had absolutely no idea what the narrator was talking about we're looking at you, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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