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For those of you who'll take anything that's free (you know who you are), have we got a find for you! Up for grabs and sitting in someone's yard for immediate pickup, the couch above, according to eBay has "been rained on like once or four times, and a couple bunny rabbits have tried to nibble on it, but then were like Whoa this isn't tender chutes this is a Couch, hop hoppity, hoppy-hop."

If the description isn't enough of a sale, the owner notes that this "brownish" sleeper couch looks a lot like the one in Family Guy. Lifestyles of the middle class and animated — who wouldn't want a piece of that? (For the record, this couch looks nothing like the one in Family Guy. See the pic below.) To read more on the couch, click here.

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• The Hollywood Reporter announced that Bryce Dallas Howard will replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in the fourth Terminator installment.
• American Idol winner David Cook's recording deal is official, and he's still setting all kinds of iTunes records, USA Today reports.




• Variety reports that Family Guy will compete as a regular comedy at the Emmys — not just an animated one — for the first time.
• Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley are set to star together in the indie psychological drama The Storyteller, reports ComingSoon.

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If The Matrix was a bit too metaphysical for you, here's a version that might go down better: Family Guy Reloaded. If Peter Griffin wants to look as cool as Keanu did in the original, however, he might wanna hit the treadmill and get a new wardrobe.

How could wisecracking Stewie — the see-all, hear-all, know-all toddler on Family Guy — have no knowledge of the "2 Girls, 1 Cup" Internet gross-a-thon? But he didn't. So Brian pounced on this naivety, conned the tyke into sitting in front of a computer, put a webcam to work, and hit play. Stewie's "reaction" was pretty darn adorable, of course. In a twisted sort of way.

The following may seem unlikely — but think again. A while ago, we overheard an immature 911 dispatcher crack a joke in the middle of some woman's urgent call for help. Funny? The makers of Family Guy thought so. They seized the opportunity to make a mockery of a necessary (not to mention life-saving) public service and came up with their own 911 debacle. Funny? When it happens in cartoon land, damn straight!

It looks like Cleveland Brown, neighbor to Family Guy's Peter Griffin, will be the star of his own show. Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, along with Cleveland's voice actor Mike Henry and former Simpsons writer Rich Appel are collaborating on the project, tentatively titled Cleveland.

As Hollywood Reporter puts it, "Cleveland, who plays off black stereotypes, is the most levelheaded among Griffin's trio of friends." That's for sure. In fact, I'm probably more likely to tune into this spinoff than I am to watch Family Guy these days, as I sometimes get tired of Peter Griffin's outrageousness.

Cleveland seems like an ideal choice for a show's main character; as the gentle, slow-speaking, everyman, there's probably a lot of funny stuff to be found in his life.

What do you think about Cleveland? Will you check it out, or are you about done with Seth McFarlane and his animated series?

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And apparently, I'm not alone. Both The Simpsons and Family Guy have written Mr. JELL-O into their episodes, with some pretty hilarious outcomes. If my gym offered a Cutting Calories With Cosby class, I'd sign up in a zip zop zoobity bop heartbeat!

It's day 10 of the Hollywood writers' strike, and people — from Family Guy's creator to blogging writers from Late Show with David Letterman's staff — are starting to get punchy. Here are some of the recent developments:

• Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is not pleased that Fox is planning to complete written episodes of the show without his input, calling it "a colossal d*ck move" by the network. He admits, though, that Fox is within its legal rights to do so.
• There's a report that Letterman will pay his staff out of his own pocket through the end of the year.
• Ellen DeGeneres, who's been under fire for crossing picket lines, has canceled plans to tape her show in New York next week.
• What we'll be watching if the strike continues: a whole lot of game shows and a Supernanny spinoff called Supermanny.
• There's a small (so far) movement to send unsharpened pencils to the networks.
• This new blog tracks strike-related job losses.
• The studio executives have said they don't know how much money there is to be made online, but this video currently making the rounds would, um, strongly suggest otherwise.

Many TV and movie actors — including Ben Stiller, Lily Tomlin, Zach Braff, Lisa Kudrow, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus — visited the picket lines on Tuesday for a "Picketing with the Stars" event. To watch some clips and interviews, just read more