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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 ...
As of March 2, 2025, 429 episodes of Family Guy have aired, currently in its twenty-third season. The series remains Fox's second-longest-running program, behind The Simpsons. It also remains the fourth-longest-running scripted primetime series in North America. [13]
The show's popularity in DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest, [100] 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. [99] [87] "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.
This TV episode, which even star Barbara Eden attributes to killing the show, is not inappropriate, but it was definitely controversial. It's the episode in which Tony and Jeannie get married.
At the time of its premiere, according to overnight ratings from Nielsen Media Research, the first episode of The One was the lowest-rated series premiere in ABC history, and the second-worst such episode in the history of American broadcast television, scoring only 3.2 million total viewers (1.1 rating in the 18–49 demographic), and fifth ...