Which of Seth MacFarlane's Movie attempts did you enjoy the most 🤔

fun fact: the part at Comic-Con where everybody was dressed up as pop culture characters and start fighting each other, there was one guy dressed up as Peter Griffin fighting a guy dressed up as a Chicken, of course referencing the chicken fight

If there’s one thing I can appreciate about the Ted films is the CGI on Ted himself. Despite being obviously animated, he looks so much like an actual teddy bear, I almost thought they used an actual doll and just animated the face.

The original Ted is the only rated R movie I got to see as a kid in theaters. I have no idea why but not only did my parents encourage me seeing it, but my grandmother and GREAT GRANDMOTHER actually WENT AND WATCHED IT WITH ME! As a kid seeing my 90 year old great grandmother dying laughing in the theater was a definite highlight.

I heard a talk by a visual effects guy whose company did half the animation for the Ted movie (the other half being done by the legendary Tippett Studios). He said out of the dozens of films he’d worked on Seth MacFarlane was by far the best Director he’d ever worked with. He knew EXACTLY what he wanted, did not waste their time with vague direction and showed enormous respect for the level of effort the animators put into the work. He spoke to everyone like an equal at all levels of production, just a genuinely nice person by all reports.

I remember my grandma renting Ted for us and she was horrified. She still talked about it years later but called it “the little nasty bear movie” R.I.P. grandma 😔

"There is no limit to what Seth MacFarlane can do. He’s a master at doing voices, he’s got a beautiful Frank-Sinatra singing voice, he’s awesome at the piano, he created some epic animated shows, and has great humor." - Lois Griffin

The Orville is actually a really solid show. It doesn’t lean on the comedic aspect nearly as much as you would expect and is actually really engaging.

A Million Ways to Die in the West can best be described as “the movie where all the actors try except for Seth himself.”

Not gonna lie, Liam Neeson buying Trix cereal was legit one of the funniest things I'd ever seen in a movie. Played it so straightforward. Laughed for several minutes.

At least Seth will always have his role in the cinematic masterpiece Sing

I actually quite enjoyed A Million Ways to Die in the West and Ted. Never saw Ted 2, but I'd say Seth did pretty decently with his movies. I think Ted even had an academy award nomination for the opening song.

As an avid family guy fan you’re wrong. The first 3 seasons of family guy actually do have lots of heartfelt stories almost every episode ends with a wholesome family moment. I’d say up to about season 7-8 there’s still plenty of wholesome moments in the series but yeah after about season 10 they completely canned any serious storylines and the show just seems like the family all hate each other. This is likely cause Seth started moving on to other projects more commonly like his heavy focus on the Orville

I honestly kinda disagree about Ted's ending. The whole conflict was about Mark Wahlberg's character having to choose between completely leaving his childhood behind for the sake of his relationship and future, or choosing to remain an irresponsible man- child for the rest of his life. And I think the ending we got was pretty good, with all three characters learning and growing. Ted had to learn to let Wahlberg's character live his one life and accept that he was no longer his priority, Mila Kunis' character needed to learn that while her boyfriend did need to grow up to some extent, she shouldn't push him to the point where he's sacrificing his prior relationships for her sake and completely abandon who he is, and Wahlberg's character needed to learn that he needed to find a way to balance his friends and girlfriend because the nature of both relationships will change over time and he needs to change with them. It's not great, but I think it was pretty good.

The original Ted is a guilty pleasure comedy for me,I got a few laughs out of it and it had good effects and soundtrack, I cannot say the same for the sequel or a million ways to die in the west.

I'm surprised that Illumination's Sing wasn't mentioned especially after the Minions movie comment. Seth had a prominent role as Mike in the movie essentially playing a variation of Brian Griffin. He was notably missing in the sequel.

The Orville is actually a really well made show that showcases seth macfarlane at his highest potential both comedically and character wise.

The first Ted was a big thing back in the day, so many people quoting lines from the movie for months. I think it still holds up all these years later

Seth is a literal non fictional version of Brian, Physically, Mentally and Audibly

I admit it. I liked A Million Ways To Die in The West. I liked the stoner energy of the characters verbalising what audiences think. It's almost like Seth can hear you say "man why is everyone so dirty?" which is a dynamic I don't think has been played with all that much. There is of course action comedies and horror comedies but not many take the time to stop and say "hang on, what is actually going on here? Why are we all like this?"

8:37 certified hood classic line

I think keeping Ted alive was a way to say it's important to not entirely let go of childhood wonder.

The Orville started off as a Star Trek parody , but then quickly evolved into a Star Trek spiritual successor . Just to clarify , it’s a great show !

12:53 this hits too close to home.

You describing watching A Million Ways to Die in the West with your dad is exactly like what happened to me... I dragged my dad to cheapy theaters so I could watch South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and he promptly fell asleep about a third of the way through the movie. 🤣

It’s always pretty fascinating to me when creators from the animation industry branch out into live action films, like with Andrew Stanton making John Carter, or Brad Bird directing Tomorrowland.

My headcanon states that Butch Hartman and Seth Mc are the closest thing mark has to parental figures in his life.

I hope I'm fortunate enough to fail as successfully as Seth one day. He's doing pretty good for himself and I'm sure we will see more films from him soon enough.

I loved Ted 1 and Ted 2 as well as A Million Ways to Die in the West. He did not fail in my eyes.

The directors cut for A Million Ways to Die in the West was infinitely better than the regular version. The transition from Seth’s platonic relationship with Charlize to a romantic one felt way more natural in the directors cut since there was more time to flesh out their characters. The regular one felt more rushed and unnatural.

Fun fact: in the Italian Dub of both Ted movies he's dubbed by the same guy who dubs Peter Griffin. Sorta makes sense to me.

I could watch the first Ted movie a hundred times and still enjoy it, it took such a great spin on seth mcfarlane's comedic style to adapt it well into a live action film

Ted 1 will always hold a special place in my heart. My best friend had a babysitter when we were really young and one time the babysitter took us to the movies and let us watch Ted lmao

I feel with the success of their first Ted movie, Seth got a very overconfident and got too overindulge with the next two films. Ted 2 especially was a mess with turning up his style if humor with none of the charm of the first. Also you should watch the Orville, it's honestly really good and feels more Star Trek than the Recent Official Trek.

I honestly enjoy all 3 of his live action movies but the first Ted is by far the best one.

The Orville really surprised me. I checked it out expecting indeed a "Star Trek parody" along the lines of Galaxy Quest or even that Family Guy Star Wars they did, but it's actually a competently run, acted and scripted run sci-fi show with some humor and a lot of heart.

*Seth is such a legend, the beer man himself saved him from the mean old planes.*

“How the fuck does one man write, direct, produce, and star in his own film, have so much creative freedom, and have it turn out so bad?” Well, let me tell you about a couple blokes named Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen…

I totally recommend the Orville. It’s hands down one of my favorite shows, the comedy is there to enhance the story and not the other way around.

13:35 Funny you mentioned that. MacFarlane actually tweeted about Scott Pilgrim's bad box office. It said from word to word: "Scott Pilgrim 0, the World 2." It's really satisfying that Scott Pilgrim soon got a massive cult following when it got the home video release... unlike the other film.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is not a bad movie tho, it has comedy, it has historical facts made interesting, plot is good, flow of story is good

Ted 2 is literally an episode of family guy padded with filler. Seth already did the whole "realizing you are legally considered property and suing for personhood" thing with Brian Griffin.

I feel bad that "The Orville" didn't get the appreciation it deserved. EXCELLENT SHOW. It was funny, clever, payed homage to past sci fi wonderfully, was well made and it wasn't just a comedy, it was also a really compelling story and just super enjoyable to watch. That show did not get the appreciation it deserved. Edit: I've been informed that it hasn't actually been cancelled, so thanks.

23:42 bro did NOT know the show was actually gonna be peak

Seth has an AMAZING singing voice. So talented.

I remember watching all 3 of these movies at one point. Obviously, because I wasn't old enough to watch them at the time, I had just thought they were pretty good. Didn't think much about the fact that it was Seth, which was weird cuz I remember going in being excited since they were made by him. But yeah, I just thought they were alright. Of course, the first Ted was by far the best movie out of the bunch.

I saw Ted in the theater when I was 8. My grandparents from Europe were visiting America for the first time in over a decade. They took me in and were horrified. My parents thought it was just some teddy bear show for kids. My grandparents said I laughed louder than anyone else in the theater

I remember only one joke from Ted and that was when Ted says "C'mon, I do _not_ sound that much like Peter Griffin" in the background of a party scene. It was funny because back then meta humor hadn't been done to death yet. So yeah, one laugh. Didn't even remember the plot like two weeks later.

His TV stuff is pure gold so I think he's alright.

The Orville is actually some of Seth's best work. Once you get passed the first episode, it's actually pretty clever

Thing is we know Seth has good emotional writing and acting chops but it feels like since he always tries to go for all-out comedy he never gets to fully embrace that talent. I’d love to see what he manages to come up with if he goes into films sgsin

The Ted TV show is amazing bro Seth def getting a comeback with this show .

4:13 They should make Brian Pregnant next.

I didn't even know he did film other than Ted, damn.

I mean, the fact that he was going to branch out and do other things shows that he has some kind of guts.

When Ted tv series review

Watching your videos always baffles me at how just 2 years age different changes our view of everything. Basically, I felt similar when ted released but wreck it Ralph was completely under my radar in middle school and I knew a million ways was bad from the second I saw the ice block scene in a trailer

The Orville is actually a really good show. I went into it with the mistake of thinking it was just going to be Family Guy, but space and live-action, and so I watched the first episode and was like "Well that wasn't funny at all". But I came back a couple months later and gave it another go and it actually turned out to be really good, and has only gotten better after season 1. It's important to know that it's not Family Guy, it's not a comedy, it's not a parody. There is certainly humour in the show and it can be very funny, but it's more accurate to say the show is a homage to Star Trek The Next Generation made by Seth MacFarlane. There'll be some funny moments, but you'll also just get invested in the story and characters. If you're looking for something like that and you go in with the right expectations, I think you'll enjoy it.

I actually like that Laurie isn't a straw-woman unreasonable betch. She knows how much Ted means to John. She wants Ted to move out because John does things like be late for work because he's smoking weed before breakfast with Ted. And Ted does do something egregious to prompt John asking him to leave. She even tells Ted he's not the problem and that it's John.

I usually never comment But the improv club bit in Ted 2 was so funny….”you peoplr are monsters” end of the bit is just so natural I loved it

I haven't seen any of these movies but the one thing I do remember is Ted being advertised a whole lot at the last year my city's comic con was affordable. It was £4-8 for a ticket, maybe an hour queue. Every subsequent year it was £20+ and if you didn't get there at 8am you'd be queueing for three hours (and barely anything changed with the con)

Hey Lois, remember that time that Family Guy was actually an interesting show with great characters and interesting stories and now is basically just really boring with nothing compared to a lot of the episodes from the early 2000s. I'm not saying that all episodes are bad, but comparing episodes from the first 7 or 8 seasons to the most recent seasons, the difference is night and day. There are good episodes after those seasons, but a good majority of them aren't in my opinion.

“Hey Lois, remember the time Seth Mcfarlane directed 3 theatrical live action films in the spand of thee years”.

18:13 So like... didn't your mum or your dad ever step in to say, "No, you're too young to watch that"?

LS Mark really didn't think about what could happen in 2024, with the new Ted show.

I haven't seen it yet, but that Orville show is supposedly Seth's best work in a long time, likely because, as with Ted, he's put all his other projects aside and fully committed himself to it.

The scene where Doc Brown hid his DeLorean to avoid being suspected by the cowboy protagonist in _A Million Ways to Die in the West_ gives me a good laugh which it's a nice touch of a cameo to be honest. What is this? A crossover episode?

You know you were raised bad when you could watch Ted at 10 years old

The biggest problem with AMWTDITW is the complete opposite of usual unfunny, bad comedies. Instead of the creator or director not having enough creative control, Seth had too much control. He had so many talented people working on the movie with him and decided to do everything for no reason

Ah yes, Ted, that one movie series that had a cross-promotion with Danganronpa in Japan. (I’m not joking, look it up)

I love how people put compliments of your analysis before they’ve had time to watch the video 😂

22:27 Hazbin Hotel be like:

19:20 there is now going to be a ted tv show

The thing about Ted 2 is that it’s paced like a Family Guy episode starting over and over again. A bunch of jokes leading up to discovering something that becomes plot leading into bunch of jokes then discovering something that becomes a new plot leading into a bunch of jokes… etc.

I remember when everyone in my primary school though Ted was the funniest thing ever because it had swearing

Seth's character IS what Brian is in Family Guy.

Ted 1&2 were both very enjoyable to me 😂

Well, if Seth's TV career fails too, he can always go to Broadway.

10:30 Mark REALLY likes seth.

I remember watching A Million Ways to die in the West with my dad and we both enjoyed it as a spoof of westerns. But I mean, my father and I enjoy a couple of B movies and neither one of us I don’t think would watch it again. A few gags were really good in it, but most of it was largely forgettable. Now The Orville me and my father really adore. It’s got some good jokes and makes fun of some things in Star Trek and such. The characters are fun and actually well written, and it often combined a serious moment with a short, well timed joke. But considering I was reminded of A Million Ways to die in the West by the clothes Seth wears in one episode where they are in a simulator doing a kind of western standoff (which had a really good joke imo where one of the three characters modified the program so they do a dance off.) and me and my father were like “oh yeah. That movie exists. Neat.” Speaks to the sheer forgettability of it.

0:12 AAAA

i can relate to the days when I had to wait till I was old enough to watch a movie like this 😂

I love how half the movies were (need to wait much later to watch until finally adulthood) Lol!

Can you do a video for American Dad like Family Guy? It's really solid from what I remember

Definitely not a failed career

Hey Lois remember when LS mark explained all of Seth McFarlands failed film careers?

It’s kinda coincidental that Seth MacFarlene started making movies right when Family Guy’s quality started to decline. No wonder his movies weren’t that good.

The Orville is one of the best Star Trek series that isn't Star Trek. It's beautifully done. Several episodes are very well written and they are just fascinating.

I really liked the first ted i wont lie. It might sound funny but it was one of the best theater experiences i ever had I had never seen a movie theater that packed, they had to have extra staff standing outside of the theater entrance cause there was so many people sneaking in and sitting on the theater steps, i'll never forget thag

I remember Ted being so huge at the time that even my English 2 teacher mentioned that the ending was so dramatic and insane lmao

Considering how much of a Family Guy fan I was in 2012, I was surprised that I wasn’t interested in seeing Ted despite the film advertising itself from the guy who made Family Guy. Maybe it was because I saw the R-Rating and I knew my parents wouldn’t let me see it

The Orville is actually the complete opposite of A Million Ways to Die in the West because all Seth does is talk about is how *GREAT* the 20th century is (except for the one time he goes to the 20th century, in which he cant complain enough about how terrible it is, which would have made me punch him in the face, after listening to 2 & a half seasons of 20th century envy).

i remember seeing the previews of Ted in the argentine evening news back in the day. the old lady who did the film section said seth mcfarlane was famous for "family guy and other kids cartoons". shoutout to you, old woman from Telefé Noticias.

Doesn't hurt to try something new, which Seth isn't afraid of

It's been awhile, but I remember the Orville being pretty damn good. It's continuing soon, so It'll be a good time to see how well it holds up to how I remember.

Only at 2:57 so far. I may be a little bias because I’m from Massachusetts myself. But I still think it’s pretty funny because Marky Mark brought all of the mannerisms of people I’ve known my whole life

10:37 June 6th my birthday.

I’ve only binge-watched a few clips of Family Guy, but Seth MacFarlane, while not as talented as Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson, sure is a great voice actor and creator! 😃😃😃✊

Seth Macfarlane has been the GOAT since he avoided his 911 plane trip

The reason why Liam Neeson was in a million ways to die in the west is because in family guy, Petter say’s that he Liam could never be in a western movie