Seq. 34C - "Wile E. Coyote/Wizard of Oz"

COMEDY

We needed a clever yet brief showcase for Wizard of Oz world. I suggested wryly poking fun at the original 1939 film's fake looking flat backdrop of Emerald City by having Road Runner speed down the yellow brick road and enter the painting, only to have the pursuing Coyote slam into it.  An oldie but a goodie.

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"Forget-Me-Not"

DRAMA/COMEDY

Everyone in Quahog has disappeared except for Peter, Brian, Joe and Quagmire.  To add to the mystery, their minds have been erased so they don't even remember who they are themselves.  The guys retrace their steps hoping to piece together their true identities and discover what happened to everybody.

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"Blue Harvest" (Star Wars: A New Hope parody)

COMEDY

Originally only meant to be a one-off regular 22-minute episode spoofing Star Wars, "Blue Harvest" quickly became recognized as something special during production and was expanded to an hour-long DVD release.  Family Guy crew even flew up to Lucasfilm and screened it for the man himself, George Lucas. 

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"Blind Ambition" (Peter vs. Giant Chicken fight sequence #2)

ACTION/COMEDY

This was my very first storyboarding assignment when I starting working on Family Guy.  Talk about being thrown into the deep end!  Chicken Fight sequences are mini episodes-within-an-episode, having nothing to do with the larger storyline.  This was only the second installment in the series.

Sequence selected by FOX for submission to 2005 Emmy Awards in consideration for
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Storyboard Artist) category

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"No Chris Left Behind" (Peter vs. Giant Chicken fight sequence #3)

ACTION/COMEDY

The ultra-violent Chicken Fight saga has been a running gag on Family Guy for 25 years.  It was my honor to storyboard two of the brawl's early installments: Fight #2 in "Blind Ambition" (Season Four) and Fight #3 here (Season Five).  FOX submitted both storyboards for award consideration.  This one won, twice!

2007 Primetime Emmy Award - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Storyboard Artist)

2007 Annie Award - Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production

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"Children of a Lesser Bog"

ACTION, COMEDY

When Futurama was revived on Hulu in 2023, I returned to the Matt Groening series after having storyboarded on the show's original run twenty years earlier.  This episode tackles parenthood as Kif must decide between spending time with Amy and the kids, or rescuing Zapp Brannigan from a hostile planet.

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"Related to Items You Viewed"

DRAMA

Fry and Leela's relationship is put to the test after moving in together, as Fry goes overboard ordering multiples of the same items from behemoth on-line retailer Mom-azon, like five refrigerators and seven mattresses.  Meanwhile, Bender is tricked into forced labor at Mom-azon's robot sweatshop factory.

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"Rage Against the Vaccine"

COMEDY

If you thought Futurama wasn't going to tackle the Covid vaccine controversy, then you don't know the show.  Hermes' brilliant wife LaBarbara finds the antidote for a flu-like virus that causes Earth's population to suddenly become pissed off at everything.  But first she needs to test it on her husband.

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"The Prince and the Product"

ACTION, DRAMA

This Romeo & Juliet inspired fairytale takes place in a plastic Fisher Price toy universe inhabited by two feuding societies: bathtub rubber duckies and egg shaped Weeble Wobbles.  Duckie Fry and Egg Leela are star-crossed lovers caught in the middle as their clans go to war over their forbidden love.

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