Family Guy Volume 12

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

This is pretty standard fare for what Family Guy has been the last few years. I would not say it is necessarily as edgy or funny consistently as it was in the first few seasons (although it does have its moments). One thing you do get with the DVD version is the uncensored dialog that either is changed or bleeped out on the broadcast version. As has pretty much always been the case there is no subject that is too taboo for the show. They joke about everything. Some work and some do not, but that has pretty much always been the case with the show. It does lean heavily on the Stewie-Brian buddy episodes. The main one this season is the two of them traveling to Vegas. The big highlight of the season is the fact that the show made it to 200 episodes, and the actual episode has time reversed so we see many of the famous moments from throughout the series occurring in reverse.

For extras there are deleted scenes for every episode, animatics for a couple of the episodes, the comic-con panel leading into the season, a featurette on the 200th episode, and the table read for the 200th episode. Not a ton of material, but good for what is there.

Ultimately the show is not right for everyone. It has a distinct brand of humor that you will either like or not. Also, it is entirely possible to feel the show is running out of steam and becoming repetitive. If you have been in that camp for the prior seasons this one is not really going to get rid of that feeling. That said, if you are a die hard fan of the show there are certainly entertaining moments. If you love the show and/or collect the DVDs I think the DVD sets are worth picking up. If you are more lukewarm to the show and do not really care about the extras then you may just want to stream it.

– Mike S.

This is incredible. Volume 11, which included the entirety of Season 10 (all 23 episodes from 2011-12; and without censored dialogue, either) just came out in September of this year (2013). Now Fox continues to exceed expectations by turning out yet another full season, Season 11 (with the 22 episodes shown 2012-13), just three months later! After many years of their bizarre tradition of putting the last half of one season and the first half of the next season into the same set, and never having a logical system for releasing the “seasons” or partial-“seasons” in a timely manner, and sometimes only releasing a partial season at full price, they are now making up for a decade of frustration by twice in a row–TWICE!–putting out complete seasons in the same box. The price is no higher than the incomplete volumes they used to give us, and it’s almost a certainty that Amazon will give you a nice price break if you pre-order. The last volume, for example (DVD Volume 11, Season 10) was also priced around $35 in June, but then it very temporarily dipped down to $19.99 just before it’s release in September, so that lower price was locked in for me and that’s what I ended up paying.

-JOHN B. LEROY

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Dubbed: Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: PG-13-Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: June 23, 2015
Run Time: 486 minutes
ASIN: B00FR81Z40