Family Guy’s 16th season is set to include appearances by cast members Carrie Fisher and Adam West. This was revealed by the creative team has revealed at New York Comic Con. The season will include a farewell for Angela and Mayor Adam West, longtime characters by Fisher and West.
Hosted by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, the animated comedy’s New York Comic Con panel included Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Patrick Warburton and Mike Henry with John Viener, executive producer Alec Sulkin and Rich Appel. Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane, tending to post-productions on The Orville, joined by Skype.
Chevapravatdumrong had introduced one episode airing in
November, “Three Directors.” This episode has three segments telling “famous directors’ versions” of Family Guy story: Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay.
Blending the parodies of Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, Kill Bill, Con Air, and Transformers for 22 minutes, this includes Carrie Fisher and Adam West who had passed away. Michael Bay spoof segment of this episode has a bulked-up Peter making out with a sexed-up Angela.
“We have a couple more episodes with them coming up,” Sulkin said, adding Fisher’s and West’s deaths “will be addressed” moving forward.
“That will be Carrie’s last episode, but not Adam West’s,” Appel said.
“The last direction we were able to give her was, ‘it’s a deep French kiss with Peter Griffin, go wild.’ She was as game for this as she always was over the years, and we’re going to have a farewell for Carrie in a little while and another for Adam West later on this season.”
When he was asked if filmmakers will replace Adam West as Mayor, Borstein joked, “We had replaced him with Tom Petty, but…”
“Adam West has recorded many episodes into this new season, so you’ll be hearing his voice a lot this year, thank God,” Sulkin said.
“He’s so funny. We miss him, obviously. Somewhere down the line we’re gonnahave an episode where we get a new mayor, we’re working on that. But we won’t be replacing Adam.”
The Family Guy team teased what is ahead for Season 16, like Herbert running into trouble with law, Brian and Stewie re-imagined as Sherlock and Watson, and their 300th episode as a Stewie and Brian friendship story and “a love letter to one of the greatest film franchises of all time, The Fast and the Furious.”
“Really, I think you guys will love it,” Appel said, pointing to the 300 milestone as his favorite episode.
Family Guy debuted Season 16 on October 1st. The 300th episode airs January 2018 on Fox.
