Production
The episode was written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and was directed by Brian Iles, in each of their respective first episodes for the series. Series regulars Peter Shin and James Purdum served as supervising directors. Chevapravatdumrong was also one of the executive story editors working in the episode, the other one being Patrick Meighan.
"Boys Do Cry", along with the four other episodes from Family Guy's fifth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 21, 2008. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Seth MacFarlane and various crew and cast members, a collection of deleted scenes, a special mini-feature which discussed the process behind animating "100th Episode Special", and a mini-feature entitled Family Guy Live.
The episode featured a guest performance by a cancer patient, Camilla Stull, who had wanted to do a voice on the show. She provided two lines for one of the competing pageant contestants. Stull has since died from the disease, but is still "immortalized" in the episode. In addition to Stull and the regular cast, actress Drew Barrymore, actor Bill Engvall and comedian Gilbert Gottfried guest starred in the episode. Recurring guest voices include Lori Alan, Alex Breckenridge, writer Kirker Butler, voice actor Chris Cox, actor Ralph Garman, writer Mark Hentemann, writer Danny Smith, writer Alec Sulkin, writer John Viener, and actor Adam West.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
—Debbie Taylor (20th century)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)