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Criticism to Family Guy




The Family Guy is probably the most criticized animated show in the history of American television. A lot of criticisms on the show’s episodes have reached the Fox Executives. There are also criticisms given by other American cartoonists.

Seth MacFarlane made some episodes that shows his protest against the criticisms that the show receives. An example is a scene in the “There’s something about Paulie” episode wherein Peter Griffin used a magazine as his toilet paper. Another example is a scene in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story wherein Stewie snapped the neck of a magazine reporter.

There was a released copy of Mad Magazine (issue 458) that had a cover of the faces of the Griffin family in the body of the Simpson’s family. Some people say that the style of humor and the plot of the episodes are very similar to the very popular The Simpson’s. In The Simpson’s Halloween special episode “The Italian Bob” the artists illustrated Peter as a look-alike of Homer. The character is an Italian criminal blamed for plagiarism. The Family Guy was also imitated on the two-part episode of South Park entitled “Cartoon Wars”. In this episode, the characters demonstrated jokes unrelated and interchangeable to storylines, and the Family Guy writers are represented as manatees who only write once you push the ideal balls made of rubber listed with various topics and then put into a container.

On the fourth volume of the DVD box set commentary, Seth MacFarlane fought back all of these negative feedbacks. He says that all episodes, jokes, skits and scripts of Family Guy are original.

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The Family Guy

Family Guy is a funny and hilarious animated American T.V. Sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane. It was habitually shown in Fox network in the United States and in different networks in different countries.

The show is about the Griffin family which is semi-dysfunctional. Misbehavior, conflict and abuse are done by some of the members of the family. The Griffin family resides in a made up town called Quahog in Rhode Island. They scenes are mostly made of cutaway gags and very funny jokes. By the year 2000 and 2002, the showing of Family Guy was cancelled due to some negative criticisms. But the avid viewers of the show made a good job on bringing it back on the television on 2005. This is because of the astonishing DVD sales of the show.

There are appearances of American Dad, in few episodes of the Family Guy. American Dad is an animated T.V. show also created by Seth MacFarlane. This doubled the fun and laughter given to the audiences. As of today, there is no official announcement from the Fox Executives that these two shows will have a crossover special. But the creator, MacFarlane, already said to the public that there might be a chance that these television shows will have a crossover on the seventh season of the Family Guy.

The show features the voices of Alex Borstein as Lois Griffin, Seth Green as Chris Griffin, Mila Kunis as Meg Griffin, Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown and of course, Seth McFarlane as Peter Griffin, Stewie and Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire and other characters.

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