Talk:North by North Quahog/Archive 1

Statement Contradiction and Question
Trisha Takanawa says that Mel Gibson barely uses his room in the brand new hotel. How could he use the room if the hotel's brand new? Also, what did Stewie mean when he said 'Look at that Yosemite Sam Mud flap, Brian. Don't get to close' or something like that? --IdLoveOne (talk) 22:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Any evidence of anyone upset by this episode?
A Google news search turns up nothing for "north by north quahog" "asian american."

That Christians would be upset by Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify This sounds plausible, but again, I can find no evidence for this. Cromulent Kwyjibo 22:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I have to agree. I've deleted the "Controversy" section.  It had no citations and was very badly written.  Henrymrx 04:05, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The controversy section (apparently not deleted) says that "the FCC demmed [sic] this episode to the "worst show of the week"." Do they mean the conservative Family Guy-hating PTC?  If so, shouldn't this be cited?

Furthermore, the PTC nomenclature is wrong — it should be "Worst TV Show of the Week" or just "Worst of the Week" (Family Guy proudly claims the title again here for the 'Anal Point' gag: http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2008/0125worst.asp). (69.204.242.138 (talk) 04:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC))

Who Knows This Stuff?
Honestly, WHO knows that a certain character was introduced in a certain book of Garfield comics? o__o;; Wow. 70.16.94.96 03:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't, but I am very grateful and appreciative that Wikipedia knows and I can look it up when I want to know stuff like this. Cromulent Kwyjibo 21:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

List of cancelled shows
Should there be a list of the shows that Peter listed in the opening, that were aired then cancelled while Family Guy was off the air? I thought their used to be a list. Itsmeiam 00:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I could have sworn I remember a list somewhere to. There should be a list here, not in quoutations here.
 * I just found it here. --ProdigySportsman 22:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Here is the list

 * Peter lists the shows Family Guy was canceled to make room for. All of these FOX shows were cancelled after short runs, usually not even airing their first season. Some of these shows (most notably Firefly, Wonderfalls, and The Tick) have found cult status through DVDs.


 * When Peter gets to Greg the Bunny on the list he shoots a quick glance at Chris. This is in reference to Seth Green who was the star of Greg the Bunny, and the voice of Chris on Family Guy.  Though he makes no nonverbal remarks, he also mentions The Tick, which starred Patrick Warburton (a.k.a. Joe Swanson) as the title superhero.

--ProdigySportsman 22:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know who provided this list, but the series Eyes doesn't belong. It was not on Fox, but ABC. Roger 15:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok i just added it~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.96.241 (talk) 19:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

95
The opening scene that was a spoof on all the canceled shows on FOX was made the 95th most shocking scene in television history in the TV Land and TV Guide 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments. Thought it should be mentioned. 67.140.14.140 (talk) 21:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Future reception
This is just a little directory I'm building up to use in the article. Obviously, it'll be converted in to prose when I create the reception section.

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Qst (talk) 19:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You could always pre-convert them to properly formatted cites, using WP:CIT, and add it right into the article as a Further reading section, and then move stuff to cites as it gets used/referenced/sourced. Cirt (talk) 20:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I might. I was just generally plonking links here for later usage (of course, they'll be formatted correctly later.) I'm quite messy in that way. :) Qst (talk) 13:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Recently added link
Is that link for real? Does the thing exist? Believe me, I'm not removing the redlink, I have been busted for removing redlinks in the past, when I thought redlinks harm articles, now I know they encourage more. So is that thing recently linked for real? TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 12:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Intro
"Critics reacted mostly positive to the episode, and praised the opening sequence in particular." There are no references to support this statement. Wiki Roxor talk  15:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Typos or sic template
I fixed some typos, but I left 3 unchanged because they occur in quotes, so I don't know whether to correct them or use the [sic] template. At North by North Quahog, "character's" should be "characters" (or "character's [sic]). At what is currently Reference 38, "irrevent" should be "irreverent" or "irrevent" (I used the nolink=y parameter because you need it when using [sic] inside a template). And at Reference 49, "chumbs" should be "chums", "chumps" or "chumbs" (nolink parameter again). Art LaPella (talk) 16:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Infobox image
Why is there no infobox image? I know there was one a while ago, but it was deleted as it was not used. But I don't see why it was removed. I'm aware that it would be a non-free image, but I still think it should be included to help illustrate the episode described in the article. – Dream out loud (talk) 00:39, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Reading the article, there's no sourced commentary on anything that would require the use of copyrighted material to facilitate the reader's understanding. While I can't speak for those editing this article, that would be my rationale for it.  In fact, I came to the talk page to laud this article's contributors and promoters for not needlessly using copyrighted images (or other media) in an article whose type seems to be rife with NFCC violations.  Way to go!  —   pd_THOR  undefined | 04:32, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Sentence in lead needs clarification
The sentence
 * "The episode contains many cultural references; in the opening sequence Peter lists 29 shows that were canceled by FOX after Family Guy was canceled and says that if all of those shows were to be canceled, they might have a chance at returning. "

is a bit confusing / ambiguous, for an "I'm not-so-sure reason." The best way I can explain it would be to say there's an issue with the logical construction of the sentence in a temporal post hoc sense. Normally I'd just stick a "Clarify" inline warning on it; but, as this is article of the day, I'll just drop the comment here and hope someone who knows more about this article will be able to slightly re-structure or re-word it for clarity.
 * Thanks for your time on this one, Peace and Passion &#9774; ''("I'm listening....") 17:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

good choice
Good choice of featured article. Well done everyone.

Please may I have my baked beans on toast now. 62.232.34.3 (talk) 17:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

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