Warbirds in Family Guy...

[TAdan]

I caught a commercial last night for this weeks new episode of Family Guy (The cartoon on Fox).

I spotted a nicely animated Lancaster and a few german fighters. The commercial shows Stewie and Brian in the Lancaster as it is being shot down by fighters.

I normally watch the show anyway, so it should be fun to see what the warbirds are about.

Edit: Found a brief summary...

Mort Goldman accidentally steps into Stewie's time machine, so Brian and Stewie go back in time to retrieve him. Things look bad when they discover that they've arrived in World War II-era Poland, so they must travel to Nazi Germany to save Mort and find a way to safely return to the present...

[BLR]

Another cartoon warbird sighting was on Futurama. I was watching it yesterday and was surprised to see a couple warbirds. In the episode the crew was tranported back to Roswell NM in 1947. In the episode they had what looked like a B-24 (with rear cargo ramp!) and some P-51's. Below is a screenshot of the P-51's and some info on the episode.

Too funny!

Episode Summary

The crew is sent back to the year 1947 when Fry puts metal in the ship's microwave while the rest of the crew is watching a supernova explosion. The resultant reaction causes the ship to travel back in time and crash in Roswell, New Mexico, causing a unsecured Bender to fly into pieces. His body is later reconstructed by the U.S. military to become the famous crashed UFO that brought Roswell, Area 51, and the related conspiracy theory into popular culture.

The U.S. military captures Dr. Zoidberg, who was gathering up pieces of Bender's body, and takes him and Bender's body to Roswell Airbase to conduct various experiments, including an alien autopsy and 'UFO reconstruction'. Meanwhile, Fry encounters his "grandfather", Enos Fry, who is stationed at the base. As Professor Hubert Farnsworth had previously warned Fry about causality, Fry becomes obsessed with protecting Enos from any possible harm. He is even more alarmed when Enos exhibits signs of latent homosexuality, making it look unlikely that he will actually father Fry's father. Inadvertently, Fry brings about Enos's death, by leaving him in a "safe" house on a nuclear weapon test range.

Fry then consoles his would-be grandmother Mildred, who was at the time engaged to his grandfather. He deduces that since he is alive, the man who died in the nuclear blast could not have been his grandfather. This leads him to believe that Mildred could not be his grandmother. Mildred then seduces Fry and they end up having sexual relations. The next morning, Fry discovers, with the prompting of the Professor, that Mildred is indeed his grandma. Fry actually becomes his own grandfather, and is now the father of his own father Yancy Fry, Sr.

The episode concludes with the crew discovering a way to return to their own time by stealing the microwave dish from the Roswell Airbase. They rescue Dr. Zoidberg and Bender's body (which was due to be sent to Area 51), destroy much of Roswell Airbase in the process, and then prepare to travel back to the future. However, Bender's head accidentally falls out of the Planet Express ship before the time warp, and is left behind in the year 1947. Back in the 31st century, Fry laments about the loss of Bender, but then hits on a brainwave and the Planet Express crew finds him in the approximate physical location of the Roswell Airbase around the Roswell desert in the 31st century, and re-attaches him to his floating 'UFO' body.

[TAdan]

I remember that episode.

The Simpsons also had an episode where Grandpa was flying an SBD and Mr. Burns was his lazy taillgunner. Grandpa's "brother" never heard of before or since that episode, Cirrus was flying a Corsair.

[Green Goggles]

Cool stuff!
I am a Family Guy fan, but somehow I missed this.

Need to pay closer attention!