Thursday, 6 September 2012

A Brief History on The Family Guy


Family Guy originates back to two shorts of around ten minutes each made by Seth MacFarlane during the mid-1990s, featuring two main characters: Larry, a fat, old, balding idiot man, and Steve the dog, a talking dog who was much smarter than most people. The second of these shorts was broadcast on Cartoon Network in 1997. Fortunately the executives at Fox saw both shorts, and MacFarlane was offered the opportunity to develop a show based on them, which evolved into Family Guy. 


The first episode of Family Guy was aired in the United States on January 31, 1999, after Super Bowl XXXIII. The show premiered as a regular series in April and ran for six more episodes until the season finale in the middle of May. The first season contained seven episodes and introduced viewers to the show's main characters. That was only the beginning! It was canceled on February 14, 2002 and brought back in May 1, 2005. 

Family Guy Cast

It is undoubtable that Seth MacFarlane was the inspirator of Family Guy and the leader persona of the show. He voices Peter, Brian and Stewie. He cooperated with Mila Kunis (voices Megan Griffin), Seth Green (voices Chris Griffin), Alex Borstein (voices Lois Griffin) and Patrick Warburton to complete his concept. 

Family Guy Characters

The Griffins are a model family but each member is distinct, complex, and yet a noticeable individual. Peter Griffin, an Irish American, is a master in the art of embarrassing, but is not productive enough. He is the head of the family. His dog, Brian, is his best friend. Brian is not a common dog. He talks, he is smarter than more of the people and he prefers his martini dry. His wife, Lois Griffin is a daughter of a rich family, and she used to have many boyfriends before she marry Peter. She teaches piano, she is a modern housekeeper and she loves her children. Their children are completely distinct., Meg Griffin, a 17 year old teenager with low self esteem and the dream of being popular, Chris Griffin, a 13 year old kind hearted boy, who idolizes his father, and then 1 year old Stewie Griffin, a maniac infant who tries to dominate the world. Not the most common children that a family could grow. Besides the 6 Griffin family members, there are other characters, such as sexually charged Quagmire, deli owner Cleveland Brown, paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson, crazy Adam West., etc. The characters of Family Guy reside in Quahog, Rhode Island, a satirical version of a small Rhode Island town. Quahog also is a slang term for vagina. 

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