But did you get the sense that they would rather you not take on the most powerful person in America, who’s shown himself to be vindictive?ĪPPEL: I don’t really remember them asking us to make any changes, besides the typical standards issues or legal issues that come up in any episode. When we last talked, you said that Fox executives didn’t have significant changes on the script. And then it worked perfectly because we threw in Roger Stone before the last little boomlet of Roger Stone news about a month ago, and we thought, “Now it will seem like we were timely.” There are a couple of these dark figures in Trump’s circle who you can bet on, and they won’t disappoint you. Michael Flynn, in the meantime, has pled and cooperated, and it was like, “God, the news is just so happening in huge waves,” so late in the game we switched it. ”ĪPPEL: It originally was to Michael Flynn. When they’re having dinner at the White House, we have a character off-camera who says, “What will you have?” to Roger Stone, and he says, “I’ll take the fifth. Looking across all the jokes that you pitched and what made it in and what didn’t, how did the news cycle impact that process?ĪPPEL: At different points, as in the news cycle, jokes about the wall became either fresh or dated. We know he’s going to be larger-than-life still when this comes out, and we don’t think it will seem like, “Oh, they finally got to this?” It’s an ongoing story that we feel like now we’re finally getting to cover.ĪPPEL: I think you could say: As Americans, we’re horrified. So we just had to lay into that aspect of it. We knew that he was never going to be out of the news, and people wouldn’t be like, “Oh, yeah! I remember that Trump guy!” Of course he’s still here - and still embarrassing himself on a daily/weekly basis. RICH APPEL: Yes! I guess the challenge is keeping it and fresh, and making what we put on the air seem like a comic take on what often seems emphatically unfunny.ĪLEC SULKIN: We knew, writing this episode, that what we were writing we weren’t going to see on television for a year and a half, so we just had to lay into the fact that luckily Trump has been consistently a disaster, so that hasn’t changed at all. “Or the actual porn star your lawyer paid hush money to?” Trump, however, stumped Peter with a question of his own, asking, “If Peter Griffin gets to be jerk all the time, then why can’t Donald Trump?”ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was the biggest challenge in bringing this episode to life? Animation production takes place so far in advance, so keeping up on the ever-changing Trump news cycle probably made you want to tear your hair out. “What would your third wife, the soft-core girl-on-girl porn lady, think about this?” he said. As Lois apologized to Meg for not believing her, Peter went after Trump. ( And Family Guy has taken that on, too.) Lois and Peter were initially dismissive of Meg when she told them that he assaulted her, but soon after, they walked in on Trump (now imagined as a gross Jabba the Hut figure) preying on their daughter again. well, you’ve heard the Access Hollywood tape. : Oh, that's what gay is? Oh yeah, I could totally get into that.Things turned particularly disturbing after Ivanka Trump gave Meg a makeover (“When I’m done with you, you’ll be pretty enough to marry an Orthodox Jewish son of a felon who’s too stupid to get into Harvard the normal way,” she told Meg, referencing her husband, Jared Kushner) and introduced her new friend to Trump, who proceeded to leer at Meg and then reach for…. Just do what you would do with women, but with your buddy, you know? Why don't guys just do that?Brian: They do, it's called being gay.Stewie: Oh, that's what gay is? Oh yeah, I could totally get into that. It's like, it's like, why can't you just hang out with guys, you know? Just live with someone of your own sex. Women, Brian.what a royal pain in the ass. (Brian and Stewie sitting at table)Brian: So what happened?Stewie: Well, you wanna know what I learned this week? Being a grown-up sucks. Stewie: (cries) Why is it so hard? I didn't know it was going to be so hard. Stewie: Don't do this to me man, not you man.
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