Family Guy’s eighth season is a strange, transitional beast. It’s the last full season with Cleveland Brown before he spins off into The Cleveland Show , and it features some of the show’s most meme-worthy moments (“Bird is the Word” is seared into my brain) alongside a few clunkers. But let’s talk about this BD50 release specifically.
The BD50 packs a few commentaries (Seth is only on a couple tracks, but the writers’ room banter is fun), deleted scenes, and a featurette on the Road to… episodes. No digital copy (this is an older release), and the menu system is that standard, slow Fox interface. But the picture-in-picture trivia track is a nice touch for hardcore fans. family guy season 08 bd50
If you’re a collector who wants the best possible presentation of Season 8—before streaming compression ruins the visual punchlines—the BD50 is the way to go. The season itself is a 3.5/5, but the disc quality bumps it to a 4. Pick it up for “Multiverse” and “Something, Something, Something Dark Side” (the Empire parody), and forgive the filler. Family Guy’s eighth season is a strange, transitional
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