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Family Guy is an animated television sitcom, created by Seth MacFarlane,for the Fox Broadcasting Company, and regularly on other television networks in syndication. The series centers on a dysfunctional family called the Griffins which consists of Peter, Lois, Chris, Meg, Brian and Stewie. The show is set in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The show uses frequent "cutaway gags," jokes in the form of tangential vignettes. and lampoons American culture, society and television, and many aspects of the human condition.

The family was conceived by MacFarlane shortly after the shows predecessor Larry shorts was canceled. MacFarlane created a dysfunctional family by changing the design of the protagonist Larry and devolved it into Peter, and also changed the design of Steve, and it developed into Brian.

Family Guy has been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards, in which it won Outstanding Voice-Over Performance – Seth MacFarlane for "Stewie Griffin", Outstanding Music and Lyrics – Walter Murphy (composer), Seth MacFarlane (lyricist), Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation – Steven Fonti (storyboard artist). The show has also been nominated for ten Annies, and won three times, twice in 2006 and once in 2008. The show has also been nominated for a Golden Reel Award three times, winning once. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. This was a significant accomplishment considering that the last animated program to be nominated was The Flinstones and that The Simpsons has never been nominated in this category.

On July 22, 2007, in an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter", Seth MacFarlane announced plans for a feature film, although at that stage "Nothing was official." In September of that year, Ricky Blitt gave TV.com an interview confirming that he had already started working on the script. In TV Week on July 18, 2008, Seth MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released Family Guy movie sometime "within the next year".

Family Guy was canceled in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced Fox to resume the show in 2005. It was the first of only two cancelled shows to be resurrected based on DVD sales.

The show has had a spin-off called named The Cleveland Show and will be created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry (the voice of Cleveland) and American Dad! showrunner Rich Appel.

History

Family Guy was created in 1999 after the Larry shorts caught the attention of the Fox Broadcasting Company. Its cancellation was announced, but then a shift in power at Fox and outcry from the fans led to a reversal of that decision and the making of a third season, after which it was canceled again. Reruns on Adult Swim drove interest in the show up, and the DVD releases did quite well, selling over 2.2 million copies in one year, which renewed network interest. Family Guy returned to production in 2004, making four more seasons (for a total of seven) and a straight-to-DVD special, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. The show celebrated its official 100th episode during its sixth season in autumn of 2007, resulting in the show's syndication. The show is contracted to continue producing episodes until 2012.

Production

Executive producers

Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane as well as Daniel Palladino, Lolee Aries and David Zuckerman have all been the executive producers through all the show's history. Another executive producer is David A. Goodman joining the show as a co-executive producer in season three. Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois, has also worked as a producer, both executive and supervising, for the fourth and fifth seasons.

Writing

The Family Guy writing crew plot episode ideas together and decide which characters to use. If the most of the writers agree on an episode idea, it is then approved by McFarlane and must then be approved by Fox before production can begin. For the first months of production, the writers shared one office lend to them by the King of the Hill production crew. Since the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, the writers have been required to tone down the show's crude humor for the television broadcasts.

Voice actors

Family Guy has five main cast members, most of whom play several roles. McFarlane performs as Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Carter Pewterschmidt as well as many other minor recurring characters. Alex Borstein plays the voices of Lois Griffin, Loretta Brown, Barbara Pewterschmidt, and Tricia Takanawa. While working on MADtv, Borstein met MacFarlane, who was then preparing to launch the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX. MacFarlane cast Borstein as the voice of key character Lois Griffin. Seth Green plays primarily as Chris Griffin and Neil Goldman. Before going on the audition, Green was practicing the voice using of Buffalo Bill as inspiration, he went to the audition, and MacFarlane liked it and he got hired.Mila Kunis and Lacey Chabert have both played the voices of Meg Griffin. When Kunis went for the audition of Meg, she said that after her audition she was told that she had to come back and speak slower, and then she was told to come back again later and to speak slower again, and she said that she had it under control, and then MacFarlane hired her. Mike Henry plays the voices of Cleveland Brown and Herbert, as well as some minor recurring characters. Recurring cast members include Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson; Adam West as the mayor Adam West; Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson; John G. Brennan as Mort Goldman; Carlos Alazraqui as Jonathan Weed; Adam Carolla as and Norm Macdonald as Death; Lori Alan as Diane Simmons; and Tara Strong as many additional voices, most notably Meg's singing voice.

Chabert voiced Meg Griffin for the first production season (15 episodes). However, because of a contractual agreement, she was never credited. It is unclear why she left the series, but Kunis won the role after auditions and a slight rewrite of the character and because of her performance on That '70s Show. She was eventually credited at the end of The Family Guy 100th Episode Special, which featured clips of her voice work on the show.

Characters

The show usually revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin, a bumbling, but well-intentioned, blue-collar worker. Peter is an Irish American Catholic with a prominent Rhode Island/Eastern Massachusetts accent. His wife Lois is a stay-at-home mother and piano teacher, and has a distinct New England accent from being a member of the Pewterschmidt family of wealthy socialites. Peter and Lois have three children: Meg, their teenage daughter, who is frequently the butt of Peter's jokes due to her homeliness and lack of popularity; Chris, their teenage son, who is overweight, unintelligent and, in many respects, a younger version of his father; and Stewie, their diabolical infant son of ambiguous sexual orientation who has adult mannerisms and speaks fluently with what some consider an upper-class affected English accent and stereotypical archvillain phrases. Living with the family is Brian, the family dog, who is highly anthropomorphized, walks on two legs, drinks Martinis, smokes cigarettes, drives a car, and engages in human conversation, though he is still considered a pet in many respects.

Many recurring characters appear alongside the Griffin family. These include the family's colorful neighbors: sex-crazed airline-pilot bachelor Glenn Quagmire; mild-mannered deli owner Cleveland Brown and his wife (ex-wife as of the fourth-season episode "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire") Loretta Brown with their hyperactive son, Cleveland Jr.; paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson, his wife Bonnie and their baby daughter Susie; paranoid Jewish pharmacist Mort Goldman, his wife Muriel Goldman and their geeky and annoying son Neil; and elderly homosexual ephebophile Herbert. TV news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, reporter Tricia Takanawa and Blaccu-Weather meteorologist Ollie Williams also make frequent appearances. The possibly deranged and ethically challenged Mayor Adam West (voiced by and named after the real Adam West) rounds out the recurring cast.

For its first three seasons, Family Guy did not use an especially large cast of recurring minor characters. Since returning from cancellation, many one-shot characters from prior episodes have reappeared in new episodes, although most of the plotlines center on the exploits of the Griffin family.

Setting

MacFarlane resided in Providence when he was a student at Rhode Island School of Design, and leaves distinct Rhode Island landmarks from which one may infer intended real-world locations for events. MacFarlane also often borrows the names of Rhode Island locations and icons such as Pawtucket and Buddy Cianci for use in the show. MacFarlane, in an interview with local WNAC Fox 64 News, has stated that the town is modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island.

Several times every episode, the actual Providence skyline can be seen in the distance. The three buildings that are depicted are, from left to right and furthest to closest, One Financial Center, 50 Kennedy Plaza, and the Bank of America Tower. This ordering of buildings and the angle at which they are viewed (see figure at left) indicates that Quahog is primarily west of downtown Providence if it is to have a real-world counterpart. However, in a few episodes Quahog is shown to have a coastline (see "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", "Fore Father" and "Perfect Castaway"), which only Cranston and Providence possess. This is supported by the fact that the real-world "31 Spooner Street" is located in Providence, immediately west of Roger Williams Park. This could be a coincidence, as MacFarlane has said in a DVD commentary that the street was named after Spooner Hill Road, along which is his boyhood home.

Reception and achievements

Cancellation and renewal

After only two episodes of the second season, Family Guy was taken off the network's permanent schedule and shown irregularly thereafter. The show returned in March 2000 to finish airing the second season which contained 21 episodes. The third season contained 21 episodes and began airing from July 11, 2001 to February 14, 2002. During its second and third-season runs, Fox frequently moved the show around different days and time slots with little or no notice and consequently, the show's ratings suffered. When Family Guy was shown in the UK, and when the DVDs were subsequently released there (November 12, 2001), the seven episodes of the second season that were produced for season one were included with the first season, balancing them out with 14 episodes each. This resulted in latter DVD releases to be labeled incorrect to their original American season (e.g. the Family Guy: Season 6 DVD features Season 5 episodes).

There was a great deal of debate and rumor during the second and third seasons about whether Family Guy would be canceled or renewed. Fox publicly announced that the show had been canceled at the end of the second season. In an attempt to convince Fox to renew the show, dismayed fans created websites, signed petitions, and wrote letters—some even sent diapers and baby food to the network to "save" Stewie.

A shift in power at Fox resulted in the ordering of thirteen new episodes forming the basis of the third season. Family Guy also had to deal with a very tough time slot competing with Survivor and Friends having aired on Thursday nights at 8:00 PM ET, which was later referenced in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

During the third season, Fox announced that Family Guy was canceled for good. The series was renewed later in 2005 for its fourth season due to DVD sales and its syndication on basic-cable networks.

Critical reception

Family Guy has been panned by certain television critics. The show is criticized for using story premises and humor similar to those used in episodes of The Simpsons. The Simpsons depicts Peter Griffin as a "clone" of Homer Simpson in a Halloween special, and as a fugitive accused of "Plagiarismo" in the episode "The Italian Bob". Family Guy is also mocked in a two-part episode "Cartoon Wars" of South Park, in which characters call the show's jokes interchangeable and unrelated to storylines; the writers of Family Guy are portrayed as manatees who write by pushing rubber "idea balls" inscribed with random topics into a bin. Seth MacFarlane responded to the criticism on the Volume 4 box set DVD commentary, saying it was completely founded and true, even giving reference to many skits and jokes that were meant for previously scripted episodes and later cut and recycled in future episodes.

Other cartoonists who have publicly criticized Family Guy include John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy: "If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you do not have to aim very high. You can draw Family Guy when you're ten years old. You do not have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low".

The show's penchant for irreverent humor led to a controversy over a sequence in which Peter Griffin dances, in musical revue fashion, around the bed of a man with end-stage AIDS, delivering the patient's diagnosis in song.

Lawsuits

Carol Burnett

In March 2007, comedian Carol Burnett filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming that it was a trademark infringement for her Charwoman cleaning character to be portrayed on the show without her permission. Besides that, Burnett stated that Fox violated her publicity rights. She was asking for $6 million in damages. On June 4, 2007, United States District Judge Dean Pregerson rejected the lawsuit, stating that the parody was protected under the First Amendment, using Hustler v. Falwell as a precedent.

"I Need a Jew"

On October 3, 2007, Bourne Co. Music Publishers filed a lawsuit accusing the show of copyright infringement upon the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" by a parody song entitled "I Need a Jew" from the episode When You Wish Upon a Weinstein. Bourne Co., the sole United States copyright owner of the song, alleged the parody pairs a "thinly veiled" copy of their music with antisemitic lyrics. Named in the suit were Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Broadcasting Co., Cartoon Network, Seth MacFarlane, and composer Walter Murphy; the suit sought to stop the program's distribution, and unspecified damages. Because "I Need a Jew" uses the copyrighted melody without commenting on that song, Bourne argued that it may not be a First Amendment–protected parody per the Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. ruling.

On March 16, 2009, U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Family Guy did not infringe copyright when they transformed the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" for comical use in an episode.

Art Metrano

In December 2007, actor/comedian Art Metrano filed a lawsuit accusing the show of copyright infringement over a scene in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story in which Jesus performs Metrano's signature "magic" act which involved absurd faux magical hand gestures (such as making a finger "jump" from one hand to the other) while humming the distinctive tune "Fine and Dandy". Metrano's suit claims this performance is protected under terms of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Named in the suit are 20th Century Fox, show creator Seth MacFarlane, and collaborators Steve Callaghan and Alex Borstein. Metrano performed this routine on programs such as The Tonight Show, where he made several appearances.

Writers' strike

During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, official production of the show was halted for most of December 2007 and various periods afterwards. Fox continued producing episodes without creator Seth MacFarlane's final approval, which he termed "a colossal dick move" in an interview with Variety. Though MacFarlane refused to work on the show, his contract under Fox required him to contribute to any episodes it would subsequently produce. Production officially resumed after the end of the strike, with regularly-airing episodes resuming February&nbsp17, 2008.

DVD sales

Family Guy was the first show to be resurrected because of high DVD sales. The first volume, the first two seasons, sold a total $1.67 million, topping TV DVD sales in 2003, while the second volume sold another million dollars. The volume 7 DVD debuted fifth on the United States DVD, but the highest TV DVD, selling 171 thousand units by June 21, 2009.

Awards

Family Guy and its cast have been nominated for eleven Emmy Awards, with three wins; MacFarlane won the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance award for his performance as Stewie, Murphy and MacFarlane won the Outstand Music and Lyrics award for the song "You Got a Lot to See" from the episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", and Steven Fonti won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his story-board work in the episode "No Chris Left Behind".

The show has also been nominated for eleven Annies, and won three times, twice in 2006 and once in 2008. The show has also been nominated for a Golden Reel Award four times, winning once. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. This was a significant accomplishment considering that the last animated program to be nominated was The Flinstones and that The Simpsons has never been nominated in this category.

In the 1000th issue of Entertainment Weekly, Brian Griffin was selected as the dog for "The Perfect TV Family."Wizard rated Stewie the 95th greatest villain of all time.

Other media

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Originally released directly to DVD, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story comprises three episode-length segments with a wraparound story. Different edits, both adding and deleting material, were eventually televised as the three-part season four finale, "Stewie B. Goode", "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" and "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure".

Family Guy: Live in Vegas

On April 26, 2005, Family Guy: Live in Vegas was released under the collaboration between Murphy and MacFarlane. The soundtrack-DVD combo featured music from the show as well as original music and music videos. Macfarlane's performance was praised on the album. Barry Walters from Rolling Stone was impressed by his vocal talent as Brian, saying he "sings circles around many current professional performers".

Books

Several books have been released in the Family Guy universe. So far, six books have been published by HarperCollins since 2005. The first book based on Family Guy, Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination (ISBN 9780060773212) by Steve Callahan, was released in April 26, 2005. Written in the style of a graphic novel, the plot follows Stewie's plans on ruling the world, despite his only being a child. Other books include Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One (ISBN 9780752875934), which covers the entire events of the episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", and Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded (ISBN 9781405163163), a collection of seventeen essays exploring the connections between the series and historical philosophers.

Arcade and video games

Family Guy Video Game! is a 2006 action game released by 2K Games and developed by High Voltage Software. It appears on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles, and the handheld PlayStation Portable. The game's story reflects the episodic structure of the series with adventure gameplay. The game received very mixed reviews, averaging 52% on review aggregator Metacritic, receiving praise for its humor but being criticized for its short playtime and "uninteresting" and "simplistic gameplay".

A Stern pinball machine was also developed and released 2007 based on the Family Guy universe. Featured in the machine is a mini-pinball machine; the player controls Stewie as he plays a round of pinball in "Stewie Mini-Playfield" mode.

The Cleveland Show

The Hollywood Reporter announced that there are plans to produce a spin-off of Family Guy to be focused on Cleveland. The project, named The Cleveland Show, was created by MacFarlane, Henry and American Dad! showrunner Rich Appel. Cleveland references this at the end of the episode "Baby Not On Board". The series is set to premiere on September 27, 2009.

Feature film

On July 22, 2007, in an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter", MacFarlane announced that he may start working on a feature film, although "nothing's official." In September of that year, Ricky Blitt gave TV.com an interview confirming that he had already started working on the script. Then in TV Week on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released Family Guy feature film sometime "within the next year". He came up with an idea for the story, "something that you could not do on the show, which is the only reason to do a movie." He later went to say he imagines the film to be "an old-style musical with dialogue" similar to The Sound of Music, saying that he would "really be trying to capture, musically, that feel." MacFarlane recently announced that "Fox wants it. We know what we want to do with it," at an event celebrating the 100th episode of American Dad!."

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External links

• Official website
• Family Guy at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com
• FamilyGuy, an external wiki

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• Animated sitcoms
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