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"We counted how many successive episodes we could watch before we found one that didn't involve an act of violence against a woman. We managed 14. That's 14 episodes of Family Guy before a 20-minute episode that didn't feature Meg, Lois, or another female character being knocked to the ground, murdered, or slapped." [64]
Like Game of Thrones, Family Guy was already known for being controversial when it aired this 2010 episode in which Lois gets an abortion. During the show, Lois agrees to be a surrogate for a ...
Seth MacFarlane, shown here in 2012, created Family Guy, which premiered on January 31, 1999. Family Guy is an American adult animated television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the dysfunctional Griffin family, which consists of father Peter (MacFarlane), mother Lois (Alex Borstein), daughter Meg (Lacey Chabert in Episodes 1–9, then ...
Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. Season nine was the debut of the series' eighth production season, which was executive produced by Chris Sheridan , David Goodman , Danny Smith , Mark Hentemann ...
The scene, which references the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, shows the character Peter Griffin standing beside a protester in front of Chinese tanks, mirroring the iconic “Tank Man” image.
The show's popularity in DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest, [98] and, on May 20, 2004, Fox ordered 35 new episodes of Family Guy, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales. [97] [85] "North by North Quahog", which premiered May 1, 2005, was the first episode to be broadcast after the show's hiatus.
"There isn’t a big change I would make," MacFarlane said of 2010's "Quagmire's Dad," which GLAAD once deemed "incredibly offensive to transgender people."
Family Guy is an American animated comedy multimedia franchise originally conceived and created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company, primarily based on the animated series Family Guy (1999–present), its spin-off series The Cleveland Show (2009–2013), and the film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005), based on his 1995–1997 thesis films The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve.