'Family Guy' Bounces Back Big for FOX

[CatWoman]

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) "Family Guy" fans put their eyeballs where their DVD money had previously been and turned out in droves to watch the show's return.

The animated series, returning to FOX more than three years after the network last aired an original episode, gathered some of the best ratings in its history Sunday (May 1). About 11.85 million people watched the fourth-season premiere, according to fast national ratings from Nielsen, and a huge number of them fell in the young-adult demographics FOX loves. (Final ratings will be out Tuesday.)

Sunday was a pretty good night in general for the broadcast networks. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" each drew their second-biggest audiences of the season, and the CBS movie "Riding the Bus with My Sister" also performed well.

It was "Family Guy," though, that provided the most eye-catching numbers of the night. The show scored a strong 5.7 rating among adults 18-49 -- second to "Housewives" and more than double FOX's season average (2.5) for the half-hour. It even beat the ABC hit among two of the demographics that helped resurrect "Family Guy," teenagers and men 18-34.

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[short bus president]

1. hee - I'm one of those demographics!

I counted! Woohoo!

:D

[Cush]

2. "this whole situation has turned his life upside-down face"

Stewie's reaction was priceless

[CatWoman]

3. I'm still laughing about the "Christians don't believe in gravity" line

:hi:

[name not needed]

8. He gonna get it!

[barackmyworld]

10. IT'S GON RAIN!

[CatWoman]

12. HEZBOLLAH!!!!!!!

[name not needed]

13. I don't have to listen to you! You're a dog! You don't have a soul!

:P

[CatWoman]

17. LOL

The one-liners just kept coming and coming :D

[WindRavenX]

5. I DIED watching that

Like, I was literally :rofl:

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. "Let he without sin, kick the most ass". LOL

:rofl:

[LynzM]

6. Loved it!

LMAO!! :rofl:

[goodboy]

7. Greatest Episode Ever! (nt)

[aeolian]

9. The opening of the show was awesome!

when Peter listed all the piece-of-shit shows that fox had aired, then saying "maybe if ALL those show's fail, we'll have another chance."

:rofl:

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. Hey, I liked Keen Eddie

[aeolian]

14. and I liked The Tick.

But the skit was still Hilarious, you must admit. :)

[Huckebein the Raven]

16. Without a doubt

:)

[Arkana]

15. I was one of them!

Yay! :woohoo:

[Cush]

18. What other episodes has the weather guy been in?

[CatWoman]

19. this was my first time noticing him

:shrug:

I thought normally they had a woman doing the weather? Or am I thinking about Asian Reporter Trisha Takanawa? :D

[Dukkha]

20. It's good to own land!