Family Guy

Family Guy
Genre	Comedy
Format	Animation
Created by	Seth MacFarlane
Developed by	Seth MacFarlane David Zuckerman
Voices of	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis Mike Henry Patrick Warburton Jennifer Tilly Butch Hartman Lacey Chabert Tara Strong
Theme music composer	Walter Murphy
Composer(s)	Walter Murphy Ron Jones
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	11
No. of episodes	201 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lolee Aries David A. Goodman Seth MacFarlane Daniel Palladino David Pritchard David Zuckerman
Running time	20–22 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	Fox
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original airing	January 31, 1999–February 14, 2002 & May 1, 2005–present
Status	Returning series
Age rating	TV-14 TV-PG
Chronology
Related shows	American Dad! The Cleveland Show
Other websites
Official website

Family Guy is an American animated comedy television series created by Seth MacFarlane. It first was shown on FOX in 1999. The series did not become popular until shown again on Cartoon Network and TBS, and episodes were sold on DVD & Blu-rays.Fox chose to cancel the series because it was not very popular. After many DVDs were sold, Fox started showing it again on May 1, 2005.

The series is about the lives of Peter Griffin, his wife Lois, and their three children: 19-year old Meg, 16-year old Chris, and very smart 3-year-old Stewie; and also their dog, 27-year old Brian, who talks and acts like a human. The Griffins live in a fictional city named "Quahog", Rhode Island. The show puts humor into common everyday situations and is famous for their style of comedy that always makes fun of past American culture. These scenes are called "cutaway gags", because they have unrelated stories, and they do not affect the show's stories in any way. The show also uses a lot of profanity and sex scenes.

Characters

• Peter Griffin is the show's main character. He is fat and not very smart. He used to have a job in a toy factory. He now works at a beer company called "Pawtucket Brewery", though he sometimes works at many other jobs for short time periods.

• Lois Griffin is Peter's wife. She comes from her family with a lot of money. She tends to complain about a lot about what the Griffins do in the house, though she also tends to keep the family connected.

• Brian Griffin is Peter's best friend. He is a talking dog who lives with the Griffins, and is smarter than any of them besides Stewie. He is also seen with Stewie many times.

• Stewie Griffin is Peter's and Lois' one-year old son, and the show's most well-known character. He can talk, and is the smartest human family member. He hates his mother Lois, and wants to dominate the world.

• Chris Griffin is one of Peter's and Lois' sons. He is also fat and not very smart. There is an evil monkey living in his closet that everyone does not believe is there, who likes 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 very unattractive and everyone finds her very unattractive.

• Glenn Quagmire is one of Peter's best friends. He is a bachelor and a pilot. He almost always thinking about women and sex.

• Cleveland Brown is another of Peter's best friends. He runs a deli and was married to Loretta. He used to speak fast as an auctioneer but due to a hit to the head he speaks more slower now. He has left Family Guy for his spin-off television series, The Cleveland Show.

• Joe Swanson is another of Peter's best friends. He is a police officer in a wheelchair because he is cannot move his legs and feet. He has a pregnant wife named Bonnie who is pregnant until she had her baby in the episode "Ocean's Three-and-a-Half".

Voice cast

• Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Mr. Pewterschmidt, Additional Voices (1999 – present)
• Alex Borstein as Lois Griffin, Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown, Mrs. Pewterschmidt, Additional Voices (1999 – present)
• Seth Green as Chris Griffin, Additional Voices (1999 – present)
• Mila Kunis as Meg Griffin (1999 – present)
• Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown, Herbert the Pervert, Additional Voices (1999 – 2011) (spin-off series 2011 – present)
• Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson (1999 – present)
• Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson (1999 – present)
• Wallace Shawn as Bertram (2001 – 2011)
• Charles Durning as Francis Griffin (1999 – 2011)
• Phyllis Diller as Thelma Griffin (1999 – 2012)
• Johnny Brennan as Mort Goldman, Hoarce, Additional Voices (1999 – present)
• James Woods as Himself (James Woods) (2005 – present)
• Lori Alan as Diane Simmons (1999 – 2011)
• Phil LaMarr as Ollie Williams, Additional Voices (1999 – present)
• Christine Lakin as Joyce Kinney (2011 – present)
• Adam West as Mayor West (himself) (2000 – present)

Spin-off

Main page: The Cleveland Show

In 2009, a spin off show from Family Guy was created called The Cleveland Show with Cleveland Brown as the main character.

Series Overview

Season		Episodes	Season premiere	Season finale	DVD volume/special	DVD release date
						Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	7	January 31, 1999	May 16, 1999	1	April 15, 2003	November 12, 2001 January 27, 2003	October 20, 2003 August 2, 2004
	2	21	September 23, 1999	August 1, 2000
	3	22	July 11, 2001	November 9, 2003	2	September 9, 2003	July 21, 2003	May 2, 2005
	4	30	May 1, 2005	May 21, 2006	3	November 29, 2005	April 24, 2006	May 29, 2006
					4	November 14, 2006	October 30, 2006	November 1, 2006
					Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	September 27, 2005	October 24, 2005	January 25, 2006
	5	18	September 10, 2006	May 20, 2007	5	September 18, 2007	October 15, 2007	October 17, 2007
					6	October 21, 2008	November 10, 2008	December 10, 2008
	6	12	September 23, 2007	May 4, 2008
					"Blue Harvest"	January 15, 2008	January 21, 2008	February 5, 2008
					7	June 16, 2009	November 2, 2009	September 29, 2009
	7	16	September 28, 2008	May 17, 2009
					8	June 15, 2010	November 1, 2010	August 17, 2010
	8	21	September 27, 2009	May 23, 2010
					"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"	December 22, 2009	December 26, 2009	December 23, 2009
					9	December 13, 2011	May 9, 2011	June 15, 2011
	9	18	September 26, 2010	May 22, 2011
					10	September 25, 2012	November 7, 2011	February 29, 2012
					"It's a Trap!"	December 21, 2010	December 27, 2010	December 22, 2010
	10	23	September 25, 2011	May 20, 2012	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	11	22	September 30, 2012	May 19, 2013	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	12	TBA	Fall 2013	2014	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A