Family Guy
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| Genre | Animated sitcom[1] |
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| Created by | Seth MacFarlane |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 426 (list of episodes) |
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| Original release | January 31, 1999 – present |
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| Related shows | The Cleveland Show American Dad! |
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Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show mainly focuses on the Griffin family, a badly functioning family. The parents are Peter and Lois, and their children are Meg, Chris, and Stewie. The family also has a talking pet dog, Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island. A lot of its humor uses cutaway gags to make fun of American culture.
The family was created by MacFarlane after making two animated movies, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve. MacFarlane changed the movie's main character, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian. MacFarlane showed a seven-minute pilot episode to Fox in December 1998, and the show then began on Fox. Family Guy's cancellation was announced shortly after the third season had aired in 2002, and one unaired episode was shown on Adult Swim in 2003. Good DVD sales and high ratings from reruns meant Fox to restarted the show in 2004. A fourth season began the following year, on May 1, 2005.
Family Guy has been given critical acclaim. In 2009, it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. In 2013, TV Guide said Family Guy was the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time.[2]
On May 11, 2020, Fox let the series have a nineteenth season.[3][4] On September 23, 2020, Fox said that the show would continue for a twenty-first season.[5] The twenty-first season started on September 25, 2022.[6] Currently, 426 episodes of Family Guy have been broadcast.
On January 26, 2023, Fox said that the series would have a season 22 and 23, taking the show through the 2024-25 television season.[7] The 22nd season premiered on 1 October 2023.
Main characters
- Peter Griffin is the show's main character. He is fat and not very smart. He used to work at a toy factory. He now works at a beer company called "Pawtucket Brewery", though he sometimes works at other jobs for short time periods.
- Lois Griffin is Peter's wife. She comes from a family that has a lot of money. She complains a lot about what the Griffins do in the house, though she also tends to keep the family connected.
- Brian Griffin is one of Peter's best friends. He is a talking dog who lives with the Griffins, and is smarter than any of them besides Stewie. He is also with Stewie alot. Brian was killed in an episode in the twelfth season, but he was brought back to life two episodes later.
- Stewie Griffin is Peter's and Lois' one-year old son. He can talk, and is the smartest person in the family. Most people in his family can not understand him, except for Brian and Chris. Stewie hates his mother Lois, and wants to take over the world.
- Chris Griffin is one of Peter's and Lois' sons. He is also fat and not very smart. For a long time, there was an evil monkey living in his closet who liked to threaten him.
- Meg Griffin is Peter's and Lois' daughter. She is the oldest child but is often made fun of, mostly by Peter. She is not very popular and everyone finds her very unattractive.
- Cleveland Brown is another one of Peter's best friends. He runs a deli and he was married to Loretta. He used to speak fast as an auctioneer but got hit in the head, so he speaks slower now. He left Family Guy for his spin-off television series, The Cleveland Show, but came back in the episode "He's Bla-ack!".
- Joe Swanson is another one of Peter's best friends. He is a police officer with a wheelchair because he cannot move his legs and feet. He has a wife named Bonnie who was pregnant until she had a baby in the episode "Ocean's Three-and-a-Half".
Episodes
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Matt Weitzman (left) is a former staff writer, and Mike Barker is a former producer and writer of the show. Both left the series to create the ongoing adult animated sitcom American Dad! with Seth MacFarlane. Barker later left American Dad! as well following production of the show's 10th season.
Seth MacFarlane at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Alex Borstein at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Seth Green at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Mila Kunis at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego.
Patrick Warburton at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Notes
- ↑ Known as 20th Century Fox Television until season 18.
- ↑ Known as Fox Television Animation until season 18. FTA later became 20th Television Animation during the 19th season. Took over animation from Film Roman after first two seasons.
- ↑ Episode 50, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", was first broadcast on Adult Swim and episode 147, "Partial Terms of Endearment", was first broadcast on BBC Three in the United Kingdom.
References
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Family Guy (1999)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 2, 2022. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
- ↑ "TV Guide Magazine's 60 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". TV Guide. September 24, 2013. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Family Guy Renewed Through 2020–21 Season". TVSeriesFinale.com. May 11, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ↑ "FOX Announces Fall 2020 Schedule". The Futon Critic. May 11, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (September 23, 2020). "'Family Guy' & 'Bob's Burgers' Get Two-Season Renewals By Fox". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ↑ "Breaking News - FOX Announces Fall Premiere Dates for the 2022-2023 Season | TheFutonCritic.com". The Futon Critic. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ↑ Petski, Denise; Andreeva, Nellie (January 26, 2023). "The Simpsons, Family Guy & Bob's Burgers Renewed For Two Additional Seasons Through 2024-25". Deadline Hollywood.