Family Guy

Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom produced Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Television (formerly 20th Century Fox Television) for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It has been on the air since January 31, 1999, with over 300 episodes across 19 seasons. It was created by MacFarlane, a former staff writer for Hanna-Barbera. While there, he developed a short film Larry & Steve, a sequel of sorts to his own independent film, The Life of Larry, which became the basis for Family Guy. The idea of an animated sitcom proving to be successful in primetime began with the likes of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones and Fox's previous series The Simpsons.

Family Guy is about the exploits of the Rhode Island-bound Griffin family led by blue-collar worker Peter (voiced by MacFarlane), his loving wife Lois, not too bright son, Chris (voiced by Seth Green), his popularity-seeking daughter, Meg (initially voiced by Lacey Chabert), his infant son bent on world-domination (voiced by MacFarlane), and his martini-drinking pet dog, Brian (voiced by MacFarlane).

If Hanna-Barbera and Turner had commissioned Adult Swim when they first hired MacFarlane, Family Guy would probably be a WarnerMedia property now, instead of a Walt Disney Company property, which bought out 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox Broadcasting Company, in 2019.

Family Guy has poked fun at the characters and concepts of Hanna-Barbera since the beginning, usually acted out in the form of a cutaway gag Family Guy has become famous for.

Season 1

• Episode 2 - "Chitty Chitty Death Bang": With the television signal transmission cut, Peter wonders what the Scooby gang are up to, with the scene then cutting to an adult spin-off spoof called The Scooby-Doo Murder Files, where Mystery Incorporated investigate gruesome murders, as well as curse, as Fred demonstrates by saying, "Son of a bitch." Scooby and Velma's voices are supplied by cast members, while Frank Welker has a guest spot to reprise his role of Fred.
• Episode 3 - "I Never Met the Dead Man": Peter can't resist the urge to jump into a children's ball pit at Cheesie Charlie's, shouting out "Hong Kong Phooey!" as he does.

Season 3

• Episode 3 - "Hell Comes to Quahog": Yogi and Boo Boo appear in which, Peter brutally kills Yogi using a hunter's knife as a favor to the Park Ranger.

Season 9

• Episode 15 - "Brothers & Sisters": Doggie Daddy appears as the third husband of Carol Pewterschmidt, Lois's sister; Augie was also mentioned as having "all grown up and out of the house."