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...American Dad” is also a sitcom-esque animated comedy with enough obscure pop-culture references and cringe-inducing ethnic jokes to give “Family Guy” a run for its money. MacFarlane provides the voices for both Peter Griffin, the loveable, overweight father-figure in the older series, and Stan Smith, the paranoid, flag-wavingly patriotic father (and, again, the inspiration for the show’s name) in “American Dad,” as well as a number of major supporting characters in both shows...
Although “Family Guy” often features political comedy, it is part of a larger pop-culture-parody whole. “American Dad,” on the other hand, is firmly centered on modern politics. “This is a much more polarized political climate, and so it seemed like the right time to do a show like this,” says MacFarlane, likening the political atmosphere to the 1970s frustrations that birthed to “All in the Family...
Sadly, HRO members say, if someone has grown up around exclusively pop music, the whole idea of classical can seem intimidating and alien. Members of HRO, collectively indistinguishable from their “normal” classmates except for their devotion to classical music, insist that such fears should be shed. The music, they plead, should not be thought of as academic but visceral—appealing for the same reasons as, say, something like “Signs...
...other words, while pop music has fans among the youth, classical only has practitioners, which renders the scene rather insular and arguably stagnant...
...fear that I’d only find granny-pants or that I’d get caught in flagrante dilecto, there’s a Hong Kong action film that I decided not to see because I was afraid that it would be full of plot conventions and pop-culture references that would bewilder my Western mind...