The late great Carrie Fisher lent her voice to over 20 episodes of Family Guy where she portrayed Pawtucket Brewery boss and friend of Peter Griffin’s, Angela. Tonight’s episode on Fox in the US, the residents of Quahog will bid farewell to Angela with a funeral that doesn’t turn out the way you’d imagine.
Family Guy‘s executive producer Steve Callaghan said of Carrie’s work on the show (via Entertainment Weekly): “It would be easy for a less capable actress to make that character kind of one-note, gruff, and yelling all the time. But Carrie brought to it a depth that I don’t think just anyone could have.
“We’re incredibly grateful to her for that, and we all feel the loss of that now that we’re writing episodes that don’t have Angela in them.”
But what of the episode itself?
“It’s very much intended and a respectful goodbye to both the character of Angela and also Carrie Fisher,” explained Callaghan. “Peter has a speech in there where he’s talking about Angela, but we the audience know that he’s also quite deliberately talking about Carrie Fisher.
“It’s not like the entire episode is about Angela’s departure, but it does introduce Peter’s new bosses that then sets the stage for what the episode is about.”
We look forward to seeing it.
