If you caught Family Guy on Sunday, you may have noticed that they tried an atypical introduction for show (they had done this once earlier this season with a Law & Order-themed intro). The latest Family Guy intro was a sendoff to the Naked Gun movies of old: a first-person perspective of Stewie on his tricycle zooming through various pop culture scenes: The Shining, Simpsons, Star Wars...Doom?
Yes, Family Guy made a Doom reference, which is not entirely newsworthy, except that one of the animators has made a few comments discussing the Doom inclusion. Dan Povenmire, via comments on his personal blog (sorry, you are going to have to search on the page for them, there is no directly link) on the latest episode, confesses that the Doom footage came from the Super Nintendo version and NOT the original PC version of the game. Dan further elaborate that he had to buy both the console and the game off of EBay, and "spent a week of trying different wiring set ups before we were able to get what you saw on the TV."
It's an interesting look behind-the-scenes at the effort took to add this 3-second allusion. What did you think of the episode?
[UPDATE: Gotta give credit where credit is due - although Naked Gun had used a similar montage, the originators were Police Squad. Sorry about that, and thanks everyone who let me know!]
[via Press the Buttons]
