Compared are the TV Version and the extended DVD Version (both available on the DVD Box "Volume 8").


2 new / extended scenes, of them with alternate footage
+ 2 audio modifications

Difference: 1.3 sec



Family Guy is a huge success on FOX. But some modifications need to be made to get permission to air it on FOX because some gags are too rude for TV. Other gags have only been removed to reach the appropiate length for an episode on TV, which means not all the differences were made due to censorship. Nevertheless there are still enough hilarious, outrages gags in it so that fans are gonna have lots of fun with watching the TV Version on FOX. (I'm speaking from experience.)

BTW It airs every sunday evening on FOX. That's really nice because you can also watch the new American Dad episode and new episode of The Cleveland Show. So you've got a terrific triple feature. And when you're watching FOX anyway, you can also watch the latest Simpsons episode. I can really imagine worse evening than watching the latest episodes of the series by Seth MacFarlane plus some new adventures of Homer & Co.


The latest DVD box of Family Guy is available since 06.15.2010 in the US. "Volume 8" ignores the regular counting again and contains the episodes 10 to 16 from season 7 plus episodes 1 to 8 from season 8. To make it more cunfusing, the equivalent UK release is called "Season 9" and was released 01. November 2010. But then again the fans should already be familiar with that confusion. So let's cut it out and talk about the DVD release itself, which contains longer DVD Versions again (with an average of 1 - 2 more minutes of footage per episode). As in the previous seasons, some of the scenes needed to be removed for time reasons, other were just too rude for TV. That's why they either got cut out or modified. The Original TV Version is also on board.

The differences in episode 7x16 ("Peter's Progress") aren't even wirth being mentioned even though several scripts and as a result of that several alternate versions are being mentioned at the beginning of the audio commentary.
But in the end, there aren't any spectacular differences: two beeped words are changed back and the two scenes with alternate footage can't either be considered censorship nor removal for time reasons because the scenes are pretty short.

Audio modification
06:25-06:27

King Stewart III / Stewie swears uncensored: "You're gonna be fucking dead in 5 seconds"

screen for orientation

Alternate
13:43-13:48

Different headline in the newspapers.

no difference

TV Version	DVD Version

13:58

Additional comment from court jester Brian about King Stewart: "He's a real fit head."

1.3 sec

Audio modification
18:28-18:29

Brian swears uncensored "What the fuck?"

screen for orientation