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| "Iii Kings" | |
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| Family Guy episode | |
 Promotional poster for "Three Kings" | |
| Episode no. | Season seven Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Dominic Bianchi |
| Written by | Alec Sulkin |
| Featured music | "Everyday" by Buddy Holly |
| Production code | 6ACX15 |
| Original air date | May ten, 2009 (2009-05-10) |
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"Three Kings", alternatively spelled "3 Kings", is the 15th episode in the seventh flavor of the American animated television serial Family Guy. It originally aired on Play tricks in the United states on May 10, 2009. The episode is split into iii segments, parodying films based on three Stephen King stories: Stand past Me, Misery and The Shawshank Redemption.
The episode was written past Alec Sulkin and directed past Dominic Bianchi. The episode received mostly positive reviews for its break from the usual storyline in the series, in addition to receiving some criticism from the Parents Television Council. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in half dozen.47 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and George Wendt, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.
Plot [edit]
The episode opens with Peter Griffin sitting in a report, explaining that "Lois has been bitching that I sentry too much Television receiver and don't read enough books." He and so picks out three novels by "the greatest author of the final thousand years", Stephen King, and proceeds to share them with the viewer.
Stand by Me [edit]
In the summertime of 1955, four 12-year-erstwhile boys — Petey LaChance (Peter, with Richard Dreyfuss' voice in his caput narrating the story), Quag Chambers (Quagmire), Joey Duchamp (Joe with Roy Scheider's voice in his head, who starts talking with Dreyfuss until Joe stops them), and Cleve Dark-brown (Cleveland) — set out to find a dead body in the woods, following a set of railroad tracks to find it. At the start of their trip, they try going through Sometime Man Pressman'southward (Stewie) junkyard, only to exist chased out by Pressman and his dog Chopper (Brian). As they travel farther downwardly the tracks, they are chased beyond a bridge by a railroad train, which ends up running over Joey'southward legs, as does some other train that follows closely backside, which effectively cripples him. The others end up going all the way back to Pressman's junkyard to go him a wheelchair.
Upon finding the body (which turns out to be Million Griffin), they are confronted by the town bully Ace (Mayor West) and his gang, consisting of Beast-Man, Mer-Man, and Norm from Thanks, who come up to take credit for finding the body. Ace threatens the boys with a pocketknife, but Petey pulls out a gun to intimidate Ace, who swears he will come up back for revenge and could get a gun tomorrow. However, since their side by side coming together will be inevitable, as they live in the same neighborhood, Petey lets Ace have the body to avert farther consequences. Upon returning home, the boys get their split ways; Joey comes to terms with being crippled and creates a new wheelchair rugby game called "Don't-Feel-Sorry-For-Us-Ball", Cleve grows up to marry Rebecca Romijn (who is the existent-life wife of Jerry O'Connell, who played the character of "the fat child" in the actual film), and Quag grows up to become a famous Hollywood actor who eventually dies of a drug overdose (a reference to the fact River Phoenix, who played Chris Chambers in the actual film, went the same manner and the unseen adult version of Chris dies, only in a different manner), while Petey'south fate becomes a mystery.
Misery [edit]
Famed writer Paul Sheldon (Brian) has just finished his latest and concluding installment in his series entitled Snuggly Jeff, a series of children's books, in which he kills off the titular character so he can focus on more serious work, despite objections from his agent, Marcia (Lois). While driving through a snowstorm, Paul accidentally hits Stephen King with his car, causing Paul to swerve off the road and crash into a snowbank. Paul is knocked unconscious in his car, while King, thrown aside past the bear on, manages to conceive and write an entire novel in midair before hitting the ground completely unscathed.
Paul is rescued by Stewie Wilkes (Stewie), a cantankerous-dressed toddler and Paul'southward cocky-proclaimed number-one fan, who takes the injured Paul to his remote motel. Upon finding and reading the manuscript of Paul's latest Snuggly Jeff book, Stewie is infuriated most the master character'south death and forces Paul to rewrite it and bring Snuggly Jeff back to life, holding him earnest until he manages to do so. Stewie rejects the idea of bringing Snuggly Jeff back to life with a child'due south wish, calling it bad storytelling and comparison information technology to a plot hole in the moving picture Contact.
Later sending Stewie out for more paper, Paul finds several news articles in an album that imply Stewie is really a serial killer. Simply and so, the local sheriff (Joe) appears, and is surprised to discover Paul there. Before he can help him, still, Stewie blows his legs off with a shotgun. The sheriff so complains that he will now have to spend the residuum of his life in a wheelchair, only to be shot again and killed past Stewie. Paul finally finishes the volume and demands Stewie let him become, but Stewie refuses, knowing he could try to plough him in to the law and tell them he kidnapped him, held him hostage, and fondled him in his slumber, which Paul did non know originally. Paul's ultimate fate is left ambiguous as the story ends with a Magnum, P.I.-way credits ringlet.
Back in Peter's study, Peter begins to depict the iconic sequence in The Shining in which Danny Torrance steers his tricycle through the halls, asking "Can't you run into Stewie doing that?" but tricks the audition by finishing with "Well, hither's the Shawshank Redemption".
The Shawshank Redemption [edit]
Andy Dufresne (Peter) is sent to Shawshank Prison, though none of the inmates retrieve much of him, particularly Cherry (Cleveland, who narrates the story). A calendar month passes before Andy literally says two words to Ruby ("Vagina boob"), and later asks him for a rock hammer, claiming he carves Star Wars figurines out of rock. He also suggests in a poorly veiled manner that he will use the hammer to tunnel out of the prison house. Andy and Red end up becoming fast friends, and Carmine provides him with the rock hammer. 1 day, the prison house's stern warden Samuel Norton (Carter) takes a liking to Andy's figurines and offers to sell them and then he can accept all the money for himself, crippling Bogs (Joe), one of the inmates who had raped Andy in the shower, as a sign of skillful will (despite Andy maxim that he liked him). Andy is then given permission to clean Norton'due south office, and, while doing so, plays a tape of "Hollaback Girl" beyond the whole prison, which utterly confuses all the inmates and infuriates Norton, who calls Andy into his part and places him in lonely confinement for two months afterwards Andy indirectly insults him.
Afterward, Andy grows determined to escape from Shawshank, and informs Red that he is going to Zihuatanejo in Mexico, telling him that if he should always get out of prison, he should go to a hayfield in Buxton, Maine, and there volition be a volcanic rock that would have "no earthly business being there", and a gift for him under it (although he admitted that his retention had been from 25 years prior and could be outdated, and a Walmart could have been built on the site, request Cherry to buy some "nice cheap pants" instead if that is the case). During an inspection the next day, Andy has disappeared without a trace. In a fury, Norton throws 1 of Andy's rocks at a suggestive poster of David Cassidy on the wall of Andy's jail cell, fierce a hole through Cassidy'due south rectum. Norton then pulls the affiche off, discovering a tunnel that Andy had fabricated his escape through the night before. Andy is and so shown breaking into a sewage pipe while Norton is distracted by watching an episode of Friends, allowing him to crawl out to freedom. Sometime later, Red is brought before a parole board and complains that the concept of rehabilitation is just a manner for the board members to make themselves feel important, and declares he will start killing people as before long as he is released; for no apparent reason, Red is put on parole anyway and released from Shawshank. Cherry goes to the field in Buxton with the volcanic rock to fulfill his promise to Andy, finding a box beneath the rock containing coin and a postcard asking if he remembers the proper name of the Mexican village Andy told him about; unfortunately, to Ruddy's annoyance, he does non. Andy is then shown preparing a gunkhole on a beach in Zihuatanejo, eagerly waiting for Cherry-red to get in, though Red never does.
At the end of the show, Peter cheers Stephen Rex and says they will run across him in courtroom, then tells the viewers to "stay tuned for whatever Trick is limping to the barn with."
Product [edit]
Author Stephen Male monarch was approached past the Family Guy production team.
In his 2d episode for the season, the offset being "Stew-Roids", the episode was written by serial regular Alec Sulkin, and directed by Dominic Bianchi before the conclusion of the seventh production season. It was the last episode to be handdrawn in animatics.
The three stories were chosen, according to series creator Seth MacFarlane, mostly due to their "iconic" film stature. Before producing the episode, author Stephen King was approached by the Family unit Guy production squad to create the episode, and obtain his written permission to create it; with King agreeing to allow the testify to create the parody. King later stated that he enjoyed the episode and found it funny.[ commendation needed ]
In addition to the regular cast, thespian Richard Dreyfuss, thespian Roy Scheider (who recorded his office in the episode presently before his death in Feb 2008), and player George Wendt invitee starred in the episode. Recurring guest vocalisation actors Chris Cox, actor Ralph Garman, writer Danny Smith, writer Alec Sulkin, and writer John Viener also fabricated pocket-sized appearances. Player Adam Westward guest starred in the episode besides.[2]
Reception [edit]
In its original airing in the United States, "Three Kings" was watched past 6.47 million homes and acquired a iii.ii rating in the 18–49 demographic, beating The Simpsons, American Dad! and King of the Hill.[three] The Parents Television Council named Family Guy the Worst Tv Testify of the Week considering of the episode's "violence, sexual references and contribution to the coarsening of contemporary culture."[4]
The episode received generally positive reviews from television sources and critics. Ahsan Haque of IGN rated the episode an eight.4/x, calling the change of pace from the show's usual random storytelling "pleasant". The Misery segment was criticized as being flat, but was made upwards for past the other two, especially The Shawshank Redemption.[5] Steve Heisler of The A.5. Club gave information technology a B- and chosen the Stand by Me story "too hostage to turn into much of a comic romp" and that the gags in The Shawshank Redemption were "too expected". He called Misery a "hoot", stating: "Anything where Brian is held in the palm of diabolical Stewie works wonders for me".[6]
References [edit]
- ^ "Family Guy – Three Kings Cast and Crew". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 2011-09-xxx. Retrieved 2010-06-16 .
- ^ Gorman, Beak (2009-05-11). "Sunday May 10, 2009 ratings". Telly by the Numbers. Archived from the original on May 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-26 .
- ^ "Family unit Guy on Fox 5-15-09". Parents Goggle box Council. 2009-05-xv. Archived from the original on 2009-05-19. Retrieved 2009-05-15 .
- ^ Haque, Ahsan (2009-05-11). "Family Guy: "Iii Kings" Review". IGN. Retrieved 2009-12-26 .
- ^ Heisler, Steve (2009-05-11). ""Three Kings" Review". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2009-12-26 .
External links [edit]
- "Three Kings" at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_%28Family_Guy%29
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