What I learned from watching "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story" with the audio commentary track

• Seth MacFarlane does it with David Goodman, Chris Sheridan, and Pete Michels for the first part.
• It was the second attempt to record an audio commentary track because the first time they did it with about a hundred people, it was chaos as they had liquor which didn't help.
• The three-part feature film came about during the three-year hiatus of Family Guy where Seth MacFarlane was in his continued efforts to get the studio to bring it back, got them interested in doing it from what was taken, and he started throwing around ideas for what would be a Family Guy movie story where Stewie tries to locate his real father. 
• In 2004, when Fox ordered 35 episodes to form a fourth season to revive it, they asked the staff for Family Guy to basically do three episodes that were a continuing story that they could also release as a movie. The staff used the story Seth MacFarlane came up with and there was a script consisting of Gary Janetti & Chris Sheridan writing Part 1, Alex Borstein writing Part 2, and Steve Callaghan writing Part 3.
• A little fact about Part 1 is that half of the script was an episode written for Family Guy's third season titled "Queer as Stewie" where Stewie has a near-death experience and starts realizing when he comes out of the closet. They thought they were cancelled and wanted tie up all the loose ends. They decided they can't do much what Stewie's all about as they get mileage on both sides of Stewie's sexual preferences.
• The staff rebroke the second half of the episode to fit the story as they used about half of Janetti's script which features Peter's story with a job at Quahog 5 News. A lot of it stayed and a lot was different as they had to come up with new stuff to link it into a movie. That's why there are elements in the first part that now had to link up with a three-parter. So they had to switch a lot of stuff around to make it fit and they lost the whole story about Stewie coming out of the closet obviously as he changes into something else which Chris Sheridan couldn't remember.
• When Stewie snaps the neck of the Entertainment Weekly journalist, it's a reference how they criticized Family Guy back then, but after the series was revived, they starting making amends and praising it.
• Pete Michels deserves a lot of credit for directing the feature at the same time he was working on the series and managed come out of it alive. He agreed to do the show as he was going to direct four episodes of Season 4 in one year, but he didn't know he was going to do all of them at once.
• A lot of the material is only available on the DVD which has never aired on TV which can't as it's "too damn filthy". It also gave them an opportunity to do things you can't do on TV such as saying "goddamn", but "damn" is allowed. You can't say "swiss pole smokers" on TV either even though it was used thirty years earlier. You can't say "dirt Sanchez" either. A lot of the writers contributed to the extra material on DVD. It was the hardest to squeeze into the schedule.
• Will Sasso from MADtv did his voice impression of Randy Newman which he had previously done six years earlier in the episode "Da Boom". 
• Every artist in the audio was working on the actual footage even as the writers helped out as the writers contributed to all episodes.
• In a show like Family Guy which is full of gags and joke heavy that you need all the writers' voices in each episode to sort of pack it in of who they have in it. At the time, there were approximately seventeen writers on staff which is about twice of the writing staff of a regular sitcom where you have to have three groups of writers working at the same time on different gags which is the only way to get it done on a weekly basis. They use sixteen of them everyday which makes it important to have that many.
• The opening theme composed by Ron Jones is wonderful. It uses a big splashy 55-piece orchestra.
• Pete Michels conceived the visuals for the opening sequence. They went back-and-forth with a couple of different lists while throwing some ideas out there. A lot of them had to be rearranged in the color stage as the type didn't fit so they had to pull out some elements and make some things bigger which wasn't exactly wrong as seen since they shifted things around the computer to make it work and fit. Seth felt it turned out great.
• Pete Michels considers himself to be more talented than Peter Shin as Chris Sheridan is infamous for turning members of the staff against each other saying such and such.
• David Goodman's contribution to the title cards is that the last one which is a Star Trek V reference when Kirk is on the rocket boots at the start. Seth MacFarlane has a little buddy from college who swears that in the scene where Dr. McCoy is looking the binoculars at Kirk that he has a boner. 
• The scene at the pool is when the actual episode starts for Part 1. 
• To draw the sequence at the pool with Peter, Meg, and Brian, Pete Michels had Chris Sheridan and Steve Callaghan act it out for him. The former kicked the latter in the face. It's one in the long line of scenes where Meg is abused.
• Peter's bathing suit matches Pete Michels' which is his little Alfred Hitchcock thing. When he first came on to Family Guy, there were two supervising directors which were him and Peter Shin where everybody was to get confused which Peter and which Pete so Shin started calling him "Lois".
• Pete Michels puts his swim trunks somewhere in every episode of Family Guy he directs.
• David Goodman was worried about the Indiana Jones gag for a while at that point as they were taking a shot at the Spielbergs and that kid goes to his kid's school and he was worried about precautions as he wouldn't use much.
• The clerk at Lackluster video is voiced by Ron Livingston who's appeared in Little Black Book, Office Space, Sex and the City and Band of Brothers with Scott Grimes.
• The phrase "grinds my gears" comes from a scene of the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles which is a classic film.
• They were concerned that the Family Feud bit wouldn't air on TV as it's a reference to Richard Dawson always touching the ladies he was exposed to on it. They amazingly got away with it. Pete Michels had to do that to himself as he couldn't trust it to anyone else. He was sitting in his office feeling up his own breasts via research.
• Gary Janetti voiced the swim instructor who co-wrote the first part.
• They were concerned the Gandhi gag wouldn't air on TV.
• Feces and shit-related humor is a huge problem today, along with showing anyone on toilets due to the FCC. You can show people getting up and off or sitting on the toilets, but the act of defecating is no longer okay.
• For the Casper gag, they went back and forth since there was a moment originally where the car crash sounds were way too horrific and horrified the staff so the sounds were toned down and the gag was kept.
• Alex Borstein voiced Roseanne Barr in the cutaway gag with her which she pitched in the writer's room and was able to act it out there. If you saw it on paper, it's a kind of gag you wouldn't get as it's all in the delivery.
• A lot of the Family Guy writers have some sort of acting side to them which really influences the show in a positive way.
• The first time Peter's news job is shown, a joke was cut where he did a really bad Polish joke why Polish guys pour waters on themselves or something like that. The Polish community is a very powerful lobbyist group.
• One of David Goodman's favorite gags is the Detective Scrotes gag which Chris Sheridan wrote in the first draft. They were on the fans since they nearly lost it and it was thought they wouldn't let them do it.
• When Family Guy was off the air for three years, Chris Sheridan had worked on a couple of other shows and when he was writing the first part, he typed in the words "Detective Scrotes" in his writing program that he was back on Family Guy and it was good. He worked on Yes, Dear for a while and the joke wouldn't have worked there. There was originally a hairier version of Scrotes and Sheridan had a Captain Ballsack on Titus once. Detective Scrotes originally wore the hat, but one of the notes from broadcast standards said to put a vest on him to make it okay and it was way more scrotal like. Sharon Ross designed him who is such a nice woman.
• Steve Callaghan actually posed for Sharon Ross for the scrotum with Steve being tall so Sharon had to get up on a stool to see it.
• Pete Michels mentioned about having to make nodes on a scrotum and make it a little bigger which made Seth MacFarlane mention about working with Ron Jeremy.
• When Stewie blows up the lifeguard chair, it's the first instance of trying to link all three parts together since it's an element that links into the third part.
• The Steve Allen gag was a very bizarre conversation with the censors where he originally took off his pants and said "All right, let's do this!" which they felt was too much so he just took off his jacket which still made it funny. It's a type of conversation they have with them a daily basis.
• The staff had a lot of trouble with deciding which TV show theme to use in the Steve Allen gag due to clearance issues as they wanted to do Friends, Sex and the City, The Golden Girls, Full House, Silver Spoons, or any old '80s shows. So they went with the one from Who's the Boss?.
• Using the song "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music was a very expensive joke to clear a song. Pete Michels said it was very tricky to get Stewie dance like Julie Andrews due to him not having the dancer legs as her.
• If you watch the opening credits closely of the show, you'll see Stewie's legs increase and decrease in length as he climbs up the stairs
• One of Chris Sheridan's favorite bits is Elmer Fudd killing Bugs Bunny. Pete Michels said it was a lot of fun to do as an animator as you watch these old cartoon and Bugs Bunny never gets it. Tuck Tucker storyboarded it. The colors looks like a piece of film that's a little faded and was made 50 years earlier. David Goodman felt it was necessary to for Elmer Fudd to break Bugs Bunny's neck just to ensure as he wouldn't freak out in the trunk and not waking up
• The joke of the family seeing Peter on the news was written for the third season where Lindsey Lohan was Britney Spears, but three years later, Britney Spears is not as current as Lohan. It's an example of why the Family Guy characters look so bizarre when you're looking at them dead on from the front. Seth MacFarlane blames himself for that when designing them back then. The same goes with seeing them from the side. Pete Michels said that Stewie resembles Linus from Peanuts when shown from the side.
• Chris' attraction towards Lois began in the aforementioned joke. It includes the first of many Star Wars references in it with a picture from the walls of the Death Star design being used when the stormtroopers are shown.
• The joke with Lara Flynn Boyle is about the fact she has in the past been a little underweight which was written from a place of worry.
• The scene where Stewie holds hands with Meg & Brian is when he starts to become insufferable. Pete Michels said it was fun to do the drawings of Stewie's acting physically in it since it's a change of character for him.
• Notice the food is unmodeled - once they design the characters, props, background and everything, it's a standard that every artist that draws and should draw it light the model in a key drawing.
• Every once in a while, you see Peter or Lois in an episode somewhere or somebody that doesn't look quite like they're supposed to as they slightly off-modeled as they ran out of time. 
• It was a challenge to get Stewie to ride a big wheel as his legs had to be stretched a little bit. If you freeze-frame, you can notice his feet don't reach as it's the only way to it. There are certain things he's incapable of doing and you just have to cheat it as they don't have to show how it works.
• In the episode, all the ancillary men appear to be gay. 
• In the restaurant scene, the couple who appears previously appeared in the Season 2 episode "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" when Peter's sued for sexual harassment.
• If you put a hat and beard on Peter, he'd resemble Michael Moore. They later share a scene in the episode "The Perfect Castaway".
• Pete said that Stewie's acting at the dinner table really helped with the Stewie story since they tried to place him in the past as being nice and it's hard to sustain that. What made him a lot funnier that time around was the some of the poses he has in and out of the scene.
• The scene with Brian destroys a spider web really disturbs Seth MacFarlane as it felt out of character to him. However, it's okay for him when Peter hits women.
• The advantage of writing an animated show is that you can actually take a one-year child and get him hammered which you can't usually do in live action shows, although the studio was concerned about Stewie being drunk as babies might copy that action. However, there are no rules for Stewie as he's basically a little old man when it comes down to it.
• Stewie dancing with the sexual women comes from the episode "From Method to Madness" from the third season. The music used is from the 1983 comedy film Casino Royale which Seth MacFarlane dislikes.
• Stewie being drunk was pretty fun to do due to Stewie's acting which gave the staff something to grab onto and they did the drawings which they thought was great drunk acting. Seth MacFarlane was wondering how to do one of the scenes actually drunk to see what would happen and figured how he'd do the rest of the recording sessions. He was a little drunk during the recording sessions because he was a little stressed out. He was drawing from past times when he was drunk.
• It was so funny doing something off-screen with an animated character because often times it's even funnier which is why you see a lot of blank stares from the characters and makes it funnier for an audience members to print their own ideas on what the characters are thinking. One of the funniest blank stares according to Pete Michels is when Tricia Takanawa is helping David Bowie's leg and it cuts back to Tom & Diane which says it all.
• When you look at earlier seasons, the news background never looks right so it was revised in Season 3 to just do the city background which really changed the lives of the staff.
• Early on, Seth MacFarlane was unaware that Stewie & Brian would have a close relationship. It's an interesting example of something that comes about when you get a bunch of people together to give their take on something. He really can't take credit for it It was something that emerged from the work until 3 in the morning every night while Seth Green was shaking his ass in the glass.
• It was really hard not to draw Tom Tucker without his mustache which is his identifying characteristic which racers are for according to Pete Michels.
• The line "to the Jew, thanks for running things as smoothly" was replaced with "to the black men". David Goodman was all for that joke.
• Pete Michels was amazed how many people in the studio didn't know there were words to the M*A*S*H theme despite it being the same studio. In the writer's room, they spent 40-45 minutes to decide what theme to use.
• Everyone has lived the moment at the horizontal Pac-Man table where the guy on the other is a backseat video game player especially when you're drunk.
• For Brian's car, they spent a lot of time at the start of the year when doing "North by North Quahog" which was the first episode of the year since Lois & Peter would be away on their trip if Brian should have his own car. After an extensive two-day discussion about Brian and his car, it'd be a Prius which seems to go very well with his personality.
• The man on the bottom in the shot when Stewie & Brian depart and Stewie crashes Brian's car is Ricky Blitt.
• There's a bumper sticker on Brian's car that said "Kucinich" before, but the Korean studio couldn't get it right and couldn't tell what it said as it wasn't in the Korean-American dictionary although spell-considered. It's a nice subtle little thing that Brian has not taken the Kucinich bumper sticker off even though the 2004 election was over already much like how people removed the Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers on their cars in the aftermath while driving around which was a little sad.
• The Prius was uninspired because Steve Callaghan bought a Prius at the time they gave it to Brian.
• Grant Goodeve played the oldest son on Eight is Enough and is big into Christian stuff which doesn't sit well with David Goodman as he's Jewish. There's a picture of him wearing a yamcha. 
• They didn't overdue having the characters swear which was nice as they only have them swear once or twice.
• There's an alternate ending in part 1 which connects to the other two parts. It didn't air on TV due to not being necessary. It involves Future Stewie in San Francisco. It was a different model of Stewie shown in a cutaway as an adult with gray hair where he's looking over his phone bill and wife is offscreen which was a hypothetical Stewie.
• Seth Green and Alex Borstein join Part 2, the latter of who wrote the second part.
• When Tricia Takanawa says to David Bowie about making Fish Mow Soup, it was inspired when Alex Borstein went to a wedding and the guy said "You're going to have "Fish Mow Soup." She said "Fish what?" and then "fish mow" three times. He then yelled at her over and over and she didn't eat it because it was disgusting. She never figured out it what it meant. She believe it means "fish bowel" which others believe it means.
• When Pete Michels was in Korea, he asked them who's their favorite character to draw was and they said Tricia Takanawa which shows the Korean animators love her.
• The staff thought the scene with TiVo would be funny as it's not product placement. It was a fantasy of Alex Borstein to speed things up in real life.
• For standards and practices before the storyboarding for each episode, they all get together and do the table read with the studios executives, network executives, and whole bunch of people are there as they read the whole script from start to finish with all the actors to tell which jokes work. In the case of Stewie Griffin The Untold Story, it was too dirty for them as they took out of some of the dirty jokes while taking out a whole character named Tammy the Prostitutor who Stewie and Brian meet the road who ends up becoming a stripper while stepping off the holler ladder which did have heart.
• The other reason the TiVo was used because of the news scene in San Francisco where Stewie & Brian notice Future Stewie on the TV which was the only legitimate way to pause the TV if they had TiVo which is a frame you could print out later.
• The actual cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 is featured in a bit with Tori Spelling, Brandon Walsh, and Jeannie Garth, but Gabrielle Carteris was voiced by Alex Borstein.
• Alex Borstein remembers when the Beverly Hills, 90210 joke was written as it was in Seth MacFarlane's office and she wasn't wearing any clothes which isn't wrong to say.
• Peter sings the Batman theme instead of the 1967 Spider-Man theme due to clearance issues.
• When the table read was first done at the episode, it's possible for a Family Guy script to be so on edge where people are horrified all the way through. Everyone is curious what's so dirty which were tiny diarrhea, shit, and sex jokes as there was so much sex jokes due to Quagmire's trip.
• In terms of the process, the gag with the Wacky, Waving, Inflatable-Arm Flailing Tube Man gag was done during a rewrite during production rewrite after the table read where the writers work on gags that don't work as well which was done by a small group of writers who went off and came back with it which replaced a sexual gag that was there before which was full of sex. Sometimes they'll send people out so they can talk crap about them.
• It took months for David Goodman to find out that Seth MacFarlane did an intimidation of himself. Seth was worried that David's feelings would be hurt.
• The joke where Stewie attacks the man in the knee and takes his wallet made Alex Borstein think they'd go too far, but it's not as violent once you see the animation.
• One of Seth Green's favorite things is Brian with the glasses writing checks and paying for cable at a girl's house which even shows Seth MacFarlane imitating David Goodman. It's one of a few times in TV you can play around with the area of pedophilia.
• Sarah from "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" can be seen for the second time in the film during the bit with Katie Couric which Seth Green points out she's everywhere. Pete Michels notices some characters you've seen before in the background of some shots.
• Alex Borstein loves the bathtub scene with Peter and Lois because of the candles and it's romantic. The content of it is so dull in so many ways they tried to think of ways to put him in a tub so they put him jam in it so he wouldn't fall asleep as it's exposition where the characters have to stand around explaining the plot to each other so the information you need can get out.
• Notice that Stewie's Big wheel is a different color in the second part.
• The sign on Quagmire's RV wasn't too dirty, but they got away with it since you never see the sign completely. They had to put the door on the other side of the van because of that, but it's on the opposite side later on.
• The beauty of animation is that Family Guy's first Christmas episode is the only one where the living room has a fireplace which they needed for that one episode.
• The idea that was passed with the robots was just from an idea on how the family would be okay with Stewie & Brian gone. There are episodes later on in Season 4 where it's just ignored, but they just have a Storebucks.
• One of Chris Sheridan's favorite bits is Stewie's reaction from winning chess which Pete Michels says the background has a refrigerator for the interior which isn't seen any other time the RV is seen.
• Alex Borstein would love to take a tally of how many sex scenes she and Seth MacFarlane have recorded.
• The reason any parts are dirtier than other ones is because of a Star Trek Deep-Space Nine reference that Alex Borstein wrote. Seth Green doesn't talk a lot about that stuff as he tries to make gems when doing so.
• When Seth Green was asked where Chris' voice came from, he said it came from the movie The Silence of the Lambs where he and his friend, Charlie Krosmo were big fans of Ted Levine's performance as Buffalo Bill who they call such a talented actor, but he has such a distinct voice. They laughed about the idea of Buffalo Bill working in all sorts of other jobs such as the drive-thru guy as they spent about a week doing voice impressions of him which killed him for a week straight. He then got a script for Family Guy, he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever read and hoped he could get a job on it and had no voice at all. So Charlie said he do Ted Levine in the room which he did. 
• Alex Borstein remembers seeing Seth Green at the audition where everyone else was coming in. She was there because she was re-auditioning after the pilot to keep her job as they were trying to fire her. It was like a presentation which Chris Sheridan remembers where MacFarlane was playing her tape for the writers and there were a couple to her and someone else and he had them vote on who they wanted while Sheridan voted against him. The way it works is they look at the drawing of the character and they come in and audition for what the drawing looks like it sounds like. A lot of actors were coming in and doing surfer dude voices for Chris. Then Green comes in and does the voice of Ted Levine which resulted in him being cast.
• There's a goof with the scene of Quagmire handcuffed to the bed that was never caught where he has the same crew cut from "Death Lives" during the flashbacks when Peter meets him which Pete Michels would have to tell Peter Shin on.
• Pete Michels reminded Seth MacFarlane of an early version of Chris before the pilot started who was a much fatter version of him where he twice the size and a lot of people felt it was too damn sad that the kid was so huge so he was made the same size as Peter which worked out well.
• Alex Borstein likes the shake that the RV enters.
• The shot of the RV crashing into the sand was something Seth MacFarlane was fighting for because he loves car chases such as The Blues Brothers.
• The second Star Wars reference involved Ron Jones going with Star Wars in his music.
• The joke of the Dr. Pepper machine changing to RC is the staff's way of saying they don't care for RC as they prefer Dr. Pepper as they know America dislikes RC and they don't have it in their fridge. You can't disparage brand names on it unlike a lot of other places.
• The scene with Brian comforting Stewie is an important grist for the story. The musical theme you hear is the same one heard in the main title. 
• Originally they were very worried how Stewie & Brian would get out of the desert as they had Mr. Softie fly through the air and then Dennis Hopper is chasing him on a Dune Buggy as he gives Stewie & Brian a lift to San Francisco, but they felt others wouldn't figure out how they got there.
• There was a joke where a guy in a chicken costume is meeting the jets out of Peter over a bridge which is what they called it. 
• The horse bit is such as classic Family Guy bizarre cutaway.
• Chris Sheridan brought the car on the license plate as they had replace every dune buggy with it according to Pete Michels.
• The actual voices of Lionel and Chatara are in the Thundercats bit, but Seth MacFarlane had to do Snarf's voice because his voice actor died who also did the voice of Frank and Barry. Seth Green had the rare treat of doing an animated film in the early 1980s. As a fan of all those shows, he was excited to work with them.
• For musical buffs, Ron Jones suggested the old Bernard Herman scores in the last cue.
• The scene with Stewie and the man in the elevator shows Seth MacFarlane's personal disdain for men on cell phones in elevators which Alex Borstein finds funny because he's on his cell phone 90% of the time while Seth Green says the other 10% is piss drunk in a corner somewhere. 
• They had to make Stu on the loose as he couldn't be dead in the other so it's okay to have a baby name about it.
• A lot of people thought the Stewie stunt double was Super Mario because of the red overalls and mustache.
• The third Star Wars reference is Alex Borstein's favorite.
• The Bullitt chase scene involves Stewie driving which is physically impossible. Alex Borstein thought it was fun as she rented Bullitt. The fun thing to her with writing these things is when you know you're going to do a parody, a sad tire or borrow from it you can get to rent these movies you never otherwise would've never seen which is a ripoff, a steel, and an homage which Seth Green calls a ninja move.
• When Stewie with the two old men, the one in the middle is Seth MacFarlane's father who looks likes a cross between several celebrities.
• The little twist of Stewie learning Stu is actually him was David Goodman's idea.
• The intermission is a nice old-fashioned something to kids where you could get up and stretch your legs. It was done to stretch time which they needed and it was a black screen so they wouldn't have to pay for animation which they tried to make funny.
• For Part 3, Steve Callaghan and Mila Kunis join the audio commentary while Chris Sheridan, Alex Borstein and Seth Green depart.
• Steve Callaghan is considered an official historian for Family Guy due to his episode guide book for the first three seasons and Stewie's guide to world domination.
• The song Stewie and future Stewie sing is Eight is Enough which Steve Callaghan heard when he rode on the bus to junior high school.
• When Seth MacFarlane got the call about doing about a three-part season opener, he called David Goodman and said with a fair amount of excitement that the studio wanted to do a three-part season opener and he was excited he had the second season of Deep Space Nine which has a three-part season opener.
• According to Steve Callaghan, it was a deliberate choice in part of the writing staff to not depict the future as it's commonly shown such as flying cars, people in silver suits or jumpsuits, but to do it some more realistic to make the future not much more advanced than today which is really kind of accurate when you look back at the 1970s and the cars were different, but if you look at photographs of city streets, the buildings are more less the same and it's not that really different.
• Steve Callaghan loves what Pete Michels did with the designs of the Griffins to make them older which was fun to do. Seth MacFarlane said they may have to revise Britney Spears' 30 years from now look. 
• Mila Kunis has Kevin Federline's number on speed dial and they're best friends as she jokes he has some of her children with him.
• You can't show women on an invisible toilet on TV. Pete Michels points out they seem to be putting a lot of women on toilet.
• Steve Callaghan noticed a lot in the episode and a lot of ones they did in 2005 when they did a cutaway with a man and a woman, it's usually Seth & Alex doing the voices.
• Alex Borstein voiced Chris' wife, Vanessa who in the original draft of Part 2 was Chris' blind date.
• David Goodman sounds like Ray Romano who he voiced in the episode "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" which had already aired as he's the only who sounds just like him. They tried getting Ray Romano himself, but he declined.
• In the gag where Peter's on a desert island with Bono, it was added at the last rewrite stage. What's nice about it is that the way they do the show is they have a couple of opportunities at various points to go back and rewrite.
• What's ironic about the part with Meg as a male named Ron in the future is that Mila Kunis didn't voice her, but John Viener did so.
• The prom picture is based on Pete Michels' own prom picture except his girl didn't have a club foot, but she did have a beehive haircut and braces. Pete himself had braces.
• Mila Kunis finds it sad that Brian died in the future, but Seth feels it's logical due to 30 years in the future.
• Mila Kunis always wanted braces while Steve Callaghan always wanted them until he had them as he had neckgear, he had the whole thing which was awful. Seth MacFarlane compared it to one of those things when you're a child and one of your friends has glasses and you want glasses too and they get to be on crutches. Pete Michels always wanted a broken arm which Mila Kunis says so people could sign it which is kind of cool.
• Seth MacFarlane thanks Pete Michels for aging the Griffins while still making them recognizable and aged enough.
• What was tough about doing the film is that for a whole sort of 1/3 of it, the Griffins aren't shown the way they look, Brian isn't shown so they try to make it up in some of the cutaways which was a conscious effort during the third part that during the cutaways, to try them about the Griffins in the present day and Brian in a couple of them.
• Pete Michels said in the future, they didn't change the house much which is realistic as his parents' house didn't change in 50 years while the food is same and unmodeled.
• According to Seth MacFarlane, the reason the Griffins always eat the same food for dinner is because early on at the start of Seasons 1 and 2, they'd send storyboards overseas vague images of what they were eating and the Korean animators wouldn't know what to make of it so they'd send back drawings of what look liked dogshit. Mila Kunis joked they were never invited to Korea because of that. Pete Michels threw up on Korea lows there.
• A lot of the Stu and Stewie exchanges is because Steve Callaghan really is a brilliant character-comedy writer which makes it really easy for Seth MacFarlane to do his job which doing the funny fucking things.
• There was a discussion on the voices if Seth MacFarlane whether change should Stu's voice from Stewie's or keep it the same as the network of the studio wanted it to be different. Pete Michels said it was a little confusing when they were listening to the tape with who was talking so they had to differentiate it on the storyboards and exposure sheets "Stu" or "Stewie".
• Alex Borstein voices Stu's co-worker, Fran. 
• Steve Callaghan says it's a subtle thing where they try to tie in the fact Stu works at a Circuit City type place that the Griffins start in Part 2.
• Seth MacFarlane loves the line where Stu goes "Oh, that's so twisted" because it always drive him kind of nuts when people will mention a gag on the show that is really not pretty mild or else if they were doing a Star Trek parody or something, they'll say "Oh my god, you guys, that's so twisted. Oh boy, that's your line? That's a lot worse than that! Have you watched the show?"
• Steve Callaghan wrote an upcoming episode at the time which was intended for Season 4, but aired in Season 5 called "Whistle While Your Life Works" where Brian gets involved in a relationship with a girl who's not particularly smart which is a lot of brilliant character commentary as he's very talented.
• Pete Michels said that getting storyboard artists to draw a diaper being put on a baby when none have attempted that before was pretty tough as they don't draw Lois holding a baby properly. Steve Callaghan corrects Michels was going to say that the storyboard artists who were trying to put a diaper on a baby when they've never even had sex before which he confirms a lot of them haven't
• When Mila Kunis tried out for Family Guy, she just went in and she was actually replacing somebody (Lacey Chabert), but she had never seen the show before or any television before and then she started dating her boyfriend who was obsessed with Family Guy who she was still dating at the point because of it and he brought all the DVDs and she was like "Oh okay I guess I'll watch this" and then she was like "Wow! What a brilliant show!". She had no idea funny the show was and it's not that she met the scripts before she came in, it's just that it's so different once you watch it and it's really and truly funny. The only reason she got the job was because she slowed down is the honest truth.
• The voice of the Stork is Michael Clarke Duncan who's the big guy from The Green Mile.
• When Stu and Stewie read "The Joy of Sex", there's a reference to when you see old nudity pictures which if you look at, it's full of hairy people such as those from the 1970s who are people you'd not want to watch.
• The decision was to take the three parts of the film and air them at the end of Season 4.
• The scene of Stu dating Fran is based on Seth MacFarlane's entire high school dating experience where you're just sitting there trying to an nervous wreck until you change a conversation back to work or to the fact you're both in the same class or the acquaintance you happen to have in common.
• Mila Kunis never dated in high school which is true and she wasn't allowed as she was always working too much as she had boyfriends who were all like 21 and over so she never had a real one.
• David Goodman was working so much in high school while Seth MacFarlane worked as a volunteer firefighter in high school.
• In the scene where Stu loses his job, Mila Kunis mentions about it being a funny minor trip. Steve Callaghan mentions about the establishing shot of Quahog Circuit Shack which Seth was talking about before with the Griffins' car being basically parked just outside always amused him as Chris had a little bit of dialogue for the fact the Griffins' car is parked right on the "no parking section". 
• When Peter's fired as the first director for Terms of Endearment, it has a nice little bit of animation which is a great shot and was added during the last rewrite stage. It's amazing how some episodes have really benefit from gags they could put in at the last minute.
• Chris seems really interested in Galaga. Mila Kunis says she loves Galaga.
• Steve Callaghan didn't keep track of the number of times Peter hits Lois in the first three seasons in his episode guide book which he would've had to add an extra chapter.
• When Stu's apartment burns down, the firefighter on the right is Steve Callaghan.
• When Stewie does Stu's apartment, his life and everything, they had to cut a gag that would've referenced Queer as Folk.
• The scene in the retirement where Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland are shown was kind of fun to check in and see what they're at in the future according to Steve Callaghan. He even thanked Pete Michels for imagining what they look like in the future such as envisioning his own father-in-law. Mila Kunis thinks Cleveland looks awesome in the future while Callaghan loves the little age spots on Quagmire's head.
• Danny Smith pitched the idea of Stewie mentioning the big wedge of cake from the fair to Stu shortly after returning to the series. He didn't return to Family Guy initially when production resumed in April of 2004, but came back in June.
• After Stu's apartment burns down, the dialogue between him and Stewie is how they connect the third part to the lifeguard tower falling in the first part which is another case of a lot of exposition to get out in the scene so that the big wedge of cake stuff really helped out as it kind of broke up what was otherwise just a lot of straight lines which they thank Danny Smith for.
• When Stu and Stewie talk on the sidewalk in the daytime, there's a lot of story going on as they had to explain why Stu couldn't just send Stewie back in time so they have to get money from Lois as they had a lot of logic to cover and they did a good job of addressing it all as it's like a science fiction story and covering time travel and all that was very difficult which Steve Callaghan feels they did a crappy job on.
• The assignment of doing a movie, but all three parts have to air separately is pretty brutal and tough as they would've conceived it differently if they were going to do a movie, but they're getting paid lots of money. 
• Seth MacFarlane changed Tom Tucker's voice in the future by aging him a little bit which David Goodman felt he did a nice job on.
• Seth MacFarlane had lost weight at the time of the recording session as he'd been using his gym and getting fit.
• The scene with Peter getting launched from the medieval catapult he spent via Meg's college money was originally a Lois joke. It's hysterical with the brilliance of the longshot of the timing Peter vaulting over the trees which isn't actually shown while not too many shows get away with a hemophiliac baby joke while Seth MacFarlane jokes the guy in the bit knows when he's been complicated and then he says "We'll take that compliment from you falling out of the sky, man". Steve Callaghan personally thought Peter would go through the window which Seth MacFarlane thought, but that's what they do on Family Guy where they play with expeditions.
• Mila Kunis questions if Seth MacFarlane drinks and smells pot when Seth says his parents should've beat him and they never did, but he can never forgive them while they introduced him to pot and alcohol and David Goodman mentions it's not getting hot.
• When Stewie's laughing for too long, it's one of the signatures of the show where sometimes a character will just sort of do something way longer than they should with Mila Kunis laughing for a extended period of time for no reason than she should as an example. Seth MacFarlane and Steve Callaghan find it almost always funny when a character or something goes on and on for much longer and has any right to which is kind of the easiest joke to write which goes through stages. Mila Kunis' favorite is when Peter falls and hurts his knee in the episode "Wasted Talent". Every time she watches it, it encongles her, she still finds it hysterical and she considers it to be the funniest stupidest thing ever which is so great. Steve Callaghan thinks she is laughing at the animators actually took the time to animate something that long that has no content whatsoever.
• Seth MacFarlane remembers as a kid and you skin your knee and it's like you have to sit there and let the pain subside and you have to do something like moaning.
• Alex Borstein voiced Condoleezza Rice which they feel she did a wonderful job with as it sounds spot-on. The guy in the background with the sunglasses can also be seen walking around San Francisco who Steve Callaghan thought looks like Neil Goldman which Pete Michels didn't notice until just that point. When the joke was written, Condoleezza Rice was only an advisor to NSA and by then at that point, she was United States Secretary of State. Seth MacFarlane questions where else can a Jewish actress portray a black woman on national TV while Pete Michels jokes they got her the promotion.
• Pete Michels' personal help is the parody of the climax of Ferris Bueller's Day Off which they had done in the Season 3 episode "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father... Brother?". The sequence was supposed to be right after the scene where Stewie's in the cafeteria with the cheerleaders, realizing he needs to get home before his mom knows he's gone. They went over it and did it several times and went back and forth to get it just right which was worth it as they did a hell of job. It was cut after the animatic stage which Pete Michels was bummed about. Then the show was cancelled, but three years later, Pete Michels comes back, gets the script and then uses the aforementioned parody in the third part of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story which Steve Callaghan considers to be a weird consequence.
• When Seth MacFarlane first saw the slo-mo jump from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he was so angry, which he felt was unfair as she's moving in normal speed while Ferris's getting screwed which made Seth say "Damn you, John Hughes!". Steve Callaghan said the same thing after he saw North which Roger Ebert hated so much.
• When Pete Michels was asked if he used any pieces from the original staging event of the climax for Ferris Bueller's Day Off for it, he said they couldn't find the original storyboards of it so they had to find an old tape of it and print it out. 
• When Future Stewie stops Past Stewie from breaking the lifeguard tower, it was confusing too since they had a couple of retakes on it as they kept making the wrong Stewie say the wrong voice. The irony of the scene is that none of the movie ever happened because the Stewie from the beginning now kills the Stewie who's just gone through the adventure which is basically like the ending of the second Terminator film or "Yesterday's Enterprises", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• When Meg finally speaks at the end of the third part back in the present day, the staff point that out to Mila Kunis as she's excited to be hearing Meg's voice in the movie.
• Mila Kunis had been petitioning for years to get rid of Meg's condom hat which she's always objected to as it was popular in 1991 according to her which was more than years later which will come back in style. It can be compared to Fred's ascot from Scooby-Doo! which is the only other thing you can compare to which is why Seth is always wearing ascots at the office which all makes sense.
• The extra material at the end was added to get it to time which would only air on DVD as they joke about the money.
• Mila Kunis said she's now a big fan of Family Guy which she loves and she's seen it so many times.
• The great thing about the extra footage is being able to throw in some extra characters that hadn't been seen in a long time. Among those include Francis, the nudists, the foley artist, and earlier at the beginning Drew Barrymore who voiced herself with Kool-Aid Man as she's a big supporter of the show who Mila Kunis assures she's seen it before which Seth confirms while you can hear the sound of Mila finishing her coke.
• There a lot of references to popular culture in the series such as Alan Alda, Dharma and Greg, Chevy Chase, and so many others. Seth jokes about being Alan Alda for a moment and David Goodman says they'd love it if he could be Stewie for a second.
• Pete Michels was worried about the scene where Peter's directing Lois and Cleveland whose holding a chicken and a fire is shown while Stewie questions missing his cue which horrified Steve Callaghan.
• Mila Kunis questions if they cleared up so far on whether if people can understand Stewie, but they didn't as everyone has a different take on that on staff based on whatever works best for the scene. There are rules where they infrequently bend them. They all now apparently what he likes. There's a weird standard which mostly applies to the family Peter, Lois, Chris, and Meg where they don't really understand Stewie until he gets outside the house as they can take a few more liberties from Steve Callaghan's POV as everyone kind of has their own take on it as he jokes about going out to the parking lot to fight Seth and beat the crap out of him.
• Mila Kunis questions if Stewie said "Laugh and cry" or "effin' cry" with the former being the one in the intro which they thank her for.
• When Lois is shown inside the hotel, the man with the glasses on the left is Ricky Blitt. It's one of the scenes that has both a clean version and a dirty version of it. When Seth was looking at the stripper in the scene, he was remembering a funny story from Mike Henry's Bachelor party that he couldn't tell there which has something to do with someone they didn't want to go over.
• The West Wing scene is an example of a scene with computer-generated backgrounds that started to be done in Season 4 which makes it possible to do a scene like that which would've been impossible to do beforehand as it would've looked too rough. The composer Ron Jones did a very convincing West Wing piece of score. The same little piece of cheese from an earlier scene with Stewie was used due to budgets being tight. Steve Callaghan says the designs of The West Wing characters are great.
• Mila Kunis talks when Meg speaks again which she points out for the second time as she's really big into the show. 
• In order to create the bit where Meg sings "If I Could Turn Back Time", the staff had to watch the Cher video of her singing at least a hundred times. Seth MacFarlane could never get into her, but Mila Kunis loves her who jokes that she has Sonny and Cher on speed dial. One great thing about it is when doing something like that, they're able to reference the exact source material and sometimes you do by watching it over and over again which gets so tiring while the ship shown is a battleship with jets on it which is okay as it's a cartoon. Meg's singing voice in it is done by Ali Hills instead of Mila Kunis.
• In The View bit, Joy Behar voiced herself. Seth notes Family Guy is very mean to The View. Mila Kunis co-hosted one time and she thinks they like the Family Guy staff and they love them as Joy Behar was very nice when she came in to record.
• The last scene was reminding people that they watch Family Guy which is how they were trying to figure how to end the extra footage and the way to beat another fart joke with the answer was with another one and another one.
• The closing score by Ron Jones is great which Seth MacFarlane is proud of due to the swing music.
• The staff loves Busy Phillips and they all worked very hard on the film.
• Seth MacFarlane loves saying Cherry Chevapravatdumrong's last name to show he can pronounce it.
• There's a Muppet Caper reference as there's a scene at the very beginning where Kermit, Fonzie and Konzo are all up in a balloon watching the credits in the sky.
• Seth MacFarlane had trouble remembering who his sister, Rachael voiced in the film except for Katie Couric while it's noted she voices Hayley on American Dad!.
• Seth MacFarlane says a joke in-character as Stewie for people buying the DVD which is "You know a lot of people buying this DVD would like to hear David A. Goodman shut the fuck up. There? Look here Stewie is now here isn't he? Yes, Yes, you've pushed his buttons enough his shirt down." Steve Callaghan then jokes Seth should say his name is "Stewie".
• The staff believes anyone from Sunwoo Entertainment won't listen to the audio commentary track as they won't understand it. It was a very interesting experience for Seth when he was over in Korea which he'll tell in the next movie.
• The staff thanks everyone for watching the movie, buying it on DVD, and putting Family Guy back on the air.