Family Guy "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (partially found early draft of Fox animated sitcom; 1999)

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When You Wish Upon a Weinstein early draft script cover.png

The cover of the script.

Status: Partially Found

Family Guy is an animated sitcom on FOX created by Seth MacFarlane that premiered on January 31, 1999.

The Episode

On November 9th, 2003, the formerly banned episode of Family Guy that was planned to air in the second season but was banned from airing until the third season titled "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" aired, in which Peter Griffin gets assistant of Jewish accountant Max Weinstein to help him retrieve money he was conned out of, and from this comes to the conclusion to convert Chris to Judaism, thinking it will help the latter be more successful in life.

However, in earlier drafts of the episode, moreso its table draft, the episode went far differently than the televised episode. Including the main story being told via a flashback Peter tells Chris - as well as Chris not having a major focus like in the final - Max having a more Jewish personality mentioning Yiddish terms and more additional scenes of helping Peter, a scrapped musical number, and the conflict coming from Peter being insecure from seeing Max having more confidence than he does, and tries to prove he has it by taking on Man Mountain Mike in a wrestling match. For unknown reasons, the episode was rewritten and retooled to the more finalized version found today.

Since then, the original cut of "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein has been mostly forgotten, aside from mentions of some of the content found in those drafts from the DVD commentary and Seth MacFarlane himself talking about one of the scenes at one of the PromaxBDA Awards.[1]

Availability

For the longest time, this lost cut of the episode went under the radar until April 26th, 2020, when Twitter/X user ClassicSwim revealed to have one of the copies of the script, and showcased a majority of the script's scenes[2], however it should be noted that there's scenes and lines found on underneath the page images that are not fully seen in this thread. On May 25th, 2020, he converted the script to a PDF and shared it via Google Drive[3], but the file is lost and unretrievable, making the full cut of the early version still not entirely found.

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Seth MacFarlane mentions a scene from the alternate version of "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". Retrieved 12 Aug '24
  2. ↑ [https://x.com/ClassicSwim/status/1254455215081824256 ClassicSwim's thread on the early draft
  3. ↑ ClassicSwim announcing the converting of the script to PDF

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