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Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" is the 11th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series ''Family Guy''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March29, 2009. The episode was directed by Greg Colton and written by Danny Smith. In the episode, Quahog hosts its annual ''Star Trek'' convention and the cast members of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' are guests. After he was unable to ask the actors any questions at a Q&A session, Stewie builds a transporter in his bedroom to beam the cast over and spend the day with them. Meanwhile, Meg becomes a born-again Christian and tries to convert the atheist Brian to Christianity. The episode received mixed reviews from critics and received a 4.8/7 Nielsen rating. ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''s Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, and Marina Sirtis all guest-starred as themselves, and Adam West and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Guy
''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on January 31, 1999, following Super Bowl XXXIII, with the rest of the first season airing from April 11, 1999. The show centers around the Griffin family, Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter Griffin, Peter and Lois Griffin, Lois, their children, Meg Griffin, Meg, Chris Griffin, Chris, and Stewie Griffin, Stewie, and their anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian Griffin, Brian. Set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, Quahog, Rhode Island, the show exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway (filmmaking), cutaway gags that often lampoon Culture of the United States, American culture. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after he developed two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, ''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve''. MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and entertainment host. Following numerous television roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with starring roles in ''The Outsiders (film), The Outsiders ''(1983), Class (film), ''Class'' (1983), ''The Hotel New Hampshire (film), The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), ''Oxford Blues'' (1984), ''St. Elmo's Fire (film), St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985), ''About Last Night (1986 film), About Last Night...'' (1986), and ''Masquerade (1988 film), Masquerade'' (1988). Lowe was involved in a sex tape scandal in 1988, which stymied his career for many years afterward. His notable credits during this time were supporting roles in comedy films such as ''Wayne's World (film), Wayne's World'' (1992), ''Tommy Boy'' (1995), and ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999). By the turn of the millennium, his career saw a resurgence when he ventured back into television, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quahog, Rhode Island
Quahog ( ) is a fictional town, fictional city, capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Rhode Island that serves as the primary setting of the American animated sitcom ''Family Guy'' and Family Guy (franchise), other related media. The town is located in Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County, and is modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island, part of the Providence metropolitan area. The Griffin family, the Browns, the Swansons, and Glenn Quagmire live on Spooner Street, with the Griffin family residing at 31 Spooner Street. As revealed in the Family Guy season 7, seventh-season episode "Fox-y Lady", the Town's ZIP code is 00093. Peter Griffin, Peter's birth certificate in the Family Guy season 13, thirteenth-season episode "Quagmire's Mom" gives Peter's birth location as Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County. Fictional history In Early modern Britain, 17th-century England, an ancestor of Peter, Griffin Peterson, founds Quahog after being exiled to the New World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffin Family
The Griffin family is a fictional family and main characters in the animated television series ''Family Guy'', and who also appear in ''The Cleveland Show''. The Griffins are a dysfunctional family consisting of the married couple Peter and Lois, their three children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic dog Brian. They live at 31 Spooner Street in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. Their family car resembles a red seventh-generation Ford Country Sedan. They were created by Seth MacFarlane, in model of his two animated films, '' The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve''. The family and the show itself debuted on January 31, 1999, after Super Bowl XXXIII, in the episode " Death Has a Shadow". Alongside the six main family members, there are a number of other major and minor characters in their family. The most common recurring characters are Lois's parents Carter and Barbara Pewterschmidt, and Peter's now-deceased parents Francis and Thelma Griffin, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumps
MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for managing patient medical records and hospital laboratory information systems. MUMPS technology has since expanded as the predominant database for health information systems and electronic health records in the United States. MUMPS-based information systems, such as Epic Systems', provide health information services for over 78% of patients across the U.S. A unique feature of the MUMPS technology is its integrated Query language, database language, allowing direct, high-speed read-write access to permanent disk storage. History 1960s-1970s - Genesis MUMPS was developed by Neil Pappalardo, Robert A. Greenes, and Curt Marble in Dr. Octo Barnett's lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston during 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of August 2024, it is the primary part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a marketing research firm founded in 1923. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella for years. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. NMR was separated again from Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is a fictional character from the American animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. He is one of the main characters of the series and a member of the Griffin family. Created, designed, and voiced by Seth MacFarlane, he is an anthropomorphic white labrador retriever who is the best friend of both Peter and Stewie Griffin and comic foil with the ability to speak, sing, drive, and stand on two legs. Brian first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in the series premiere " Death Has a Shadow" on January 31, 1999. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company, based on ''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve'', two shorts made by MacFarlane featuring a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. These two characters were redesigned and renamed Peter and Brian, but they retained similar voices and personalities. Brian has been featured in many items of merchandise for ''Family Guy'', and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born Again (Christianity)
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a Regeneration (theology), regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by the operation of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, Holy Spirit, and it occurs when one is baptized in water (John 3:5, Titus 3:5). While all Christians are familiar with the concept from the Bible, it is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Anabaptism, Anabaptist, Moravian Church, Moravian, Methodism, Methodist, Baptists, Baptist, Plymouth Brethren and Pentecostalism, Pentecostal churches along with evangelical Christian denominations. These Churches stress Jesus's words in the Gospels: "Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’" (John 3:7). (In some English translations, the phrase "born again" is rendered as "born from above" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Griffin
Megan "Meg" Griffin is a fictional character from the American animated television series ''Family Guy''. She first appeared in the show's pilot episode, " Death Has a Shadow", on January 31, 1999. The character was originally voiced by Lacey Chabert; however, she has been voiced by Mila Kunis since the show's second season. Writer Seth MacFarlane created and designed Meg after his 1995 student film, '' The Life of Larry'', was picked up by 20th Century Fox for a series order. Meg is the eldest child and only daughter of Peter and Lois Griffin and the sister of Chris and Stewie. A social outcast, Meg is typically depicted as being mistreated and neglected by her family, though this has been downplayed in later seasons. Despite this, she is shown to be extremely talented and resourceful, having a kinder personality compared to the rest of her family. Personality Similar to Lois, Meg has gone through numerous personality changes since the debut of the show in 1999. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transporter (Star Trek)
A transporter is a Teleportation in fiction, fictional teleportation machine used in the ''Star Trek'' Cinematic universe, universe. Transporters allow for teleportation by converting a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called "dematerialization"), then sending ("beaming") it to a target location or else returning it to the transporter, where it is reconverted into matter ("rematerialization"). The command often used to request activation of the transporter is "Energize." Introduced in ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' in 1966, the transporter had predecessors in teleportation devices in other science fiction stories, such as the 1939 serial ''Buck Rogers (serial), Buck Rogers''. The name and similar concepts have made their way to later science fiction scenarios, in literature (such as the John Barnes (author)#Thousand Cultures series, ''Thousand Cultures'' series), games (''SimEarth''), etc. The transporter was originally conceived as a device to convey char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the Star Trek: The Original Series, series of the same name and became a worldwide Popular culture, pop-culture Cultural influence of Star Trek, phenomenon. Since its creation, the franchise has expanded into List of Star Trek films, various films, List of Star Trek television series, television series, List of Star Trek games, video games, List of Star Trek novels, novels, and Star Trek (comics), comic books, and it has become one of the most recognizable and List of highest-grossing media franchises, highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise began with ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' (''The Original Series''), which premiered on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV Television Network, CTV network. In the US it debuted on September 8, 1966, on NBC. The series followed the voyages of the crew of the Starship Enterprise, starship USS ''Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC (commonly known as Fox; stylized in all caps) is an Television in the United States, American commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast television broadcaster, television network serving as the flagship property of Fox Corporation and operated through Fox Entertainment. Fox is based at Fox Corporation's corporate headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it hosts additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and at the Fox Media Center in Tempe, Arizona. The channel was launched by News Corporation on October 9, 1986 as a competitor to the Big Three (American television), Big Three television networks, which are the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the NBC, National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network; it was also the highest-Nielsen ratings, rated free-to-air netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
