The producer duo Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett (Miller-Boyett Productions), who'd already made Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley, took a shine to Frederick and Salvay and commissioned theme songs for their big '80s hits from them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
They're the ones who wrote the Perfect Strangers theme ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"), the Full House theme ("Everywhere You Look"), the Family Matters theme ("As Days Go By"), the Step by Step theme ("Second Time Around")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The theme to Perfect Strangers really stands out for me as being so absurdly over the top triumphant for the garden variety sitcom it's attached to that I kinda love it
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Replying to @autogynamelia @arthur_affect
The frustrating thing about Family Guy and American Dad is that you would THINK the content of those theme songs exists to lampoon the dissonance between the theme songs and the content in previous shows but nope Seth just loves showtunes and doesn't give a fuck about aesthetic
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @autogynamelia
Well no it's obviously an ironic reference, the lyrics of the Family Guy theme decry "violence in movies and sex on TV" and preach a return to "good old-fashioned values", when the actual nature of the show is the exact opposite of that
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The lyrics and the opening with Lois playing the piano are clearly a nod to All in the Family Peter Griffin is a jab at the idea of Archie Bunker as a lovable racist conservative dude (Peter is thoroughly NOT lovable for reasons that go beyond politics)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia
yeah I guess that makes sense It's mostly that the presentation is really weird idk, like watching the sequence makes it feel like Seth WANTS the show to be sincere even though he ultimately will not do so
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @autogynamelia
Family Guy was never particularly thematically coherent but it's notable that at first it was very clearly trying to follow the Simpsons model (Peter is a jerk, the rest of the characters are decent, the sitcom model of "learning a lesson" is followed if not firmly respected)
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And then it just went off the rails as the jokes got meaner and meaner and they started giving the lolrandom humor free rein
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Until we get to the point of "Meg is actually an openly abused child, Peter punches her randomly for no reason" And "Quagmire is an actual rapist and everyone tolerates it"
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It's funny because Quagmire did not start as a rapist Seth actually said in a commentary that when he drew Peter's drinking buddies as a sketch he had no idea what the Quagmire character was about, just that he's kind of a sleazy corny Disco Dan '70s dude
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And then he said they workshopped this one joke with him and then "it all fell into place" Quagmire in bed with a girl "Glenn, I have a question... where did you grow up?" "I have a question -- why are you still here?!"
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It all clicked -- what is the thing we are most uncomfortable about when we think about '70s pop culture The overt horniness Why does it make us uncomfortable? Because they had no fucking line between "horny" and "rapey" And so the actual running gag with Quagmire was born
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