Christopher Cross Griffin is on the hit television show called Family Guy. He is 14 years old and attends James Woods Regional High School. He takes after his dads trait in that he isn’t a bright person and he is obese like him. Chris has been a fat child, even at birth. In an episode called “He’s Too Sexy for his Fat” he reminisces back to when he was fat at birth and Lois made the front page of the newspaper with a headline, “Elephant Child Born to Local Woman.” Although on occasion Chris is known for being very quick witted, speaking with the distinction and clarity of a more experienced individual.

Chris has two main fears, one is the evil monkey that torments him that lives in his closet and the other is the seniors in high school because of the history that he has had of them paddling him. Chris represents the childlike innocents* as he is easily amused by a variety of simple activities throughout the Family Guy series. Chris is favored over the other children by both Peter and Lois, especially over his sister Meg. Chris remains the Often times Seth MacFarlane produced a short film called The Life of Larry, which the character of Chris resembles Milt who is the son of the main character in the short film. Chris is normally laid back, but when others are rude to him he becomes angry and insulting. For instance, in “Long John Peter,” he insults Joe Swanson, his neighbor for being handicapped.

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Meg Griffin is the older child of the Griffin family from the animated series Family Guy. When Family Guy first started out, she was 15 and now she remains 17 years old. Meg is the oldest child of the Griffin family and is a junior at James Woods High School in Quahog, Rhode Island. At first, Meg was portrayed as the girl in her family who took the blame for her family’s mistakes and the things they had done, but now she is just portrayed as a girl who is ignored by her family. Shes not an attractive girl, she has shoulder-length brown hair, wears glasses, and has short arms. She tries to fit in with the cool crowd in her school, but just doesn’t seem to be accepted. Several people had done the voice of Meg Griffin throughout the seasons.

At first, Cree Summer was supposed to do her voice, but Seth MacFarlane didn’t like the African-American voice for her. Then, Rachael MacFarlane did the voice for Meg, and then Lacey Chabert was then hired to do her voice. Lacey however left doing the show after the first season. Then Mila Kunis voiced Meg, along with several other substitutes such as Tara Strong and Debi Derryberry. Meg being so unpopular and unattractive, asks a boy out in shop class and he was so grossed out by it that he fires a nail gun in his stomach just to avoid going out with her. Also another kid that she asks out murders his own brother just so he has an excuse to avoid not going to prom with her. Neil Goldman is completely obsessed with her, yet he is also unpopular and unattractive just like her. Meg doesn’t like Neil at all, and tries avoiding him at all costs, however in one episode, Neil starts dating a girl named Cecilia and Meg becomes very jealous and tries to make him jealous back.

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Lois Pewterschmidt Griffin is a 41 year old animated character on the television show on Family Guy. She is married to Peter Griffin, and they have three children Meg, Chris, Stewie. She comes from a very wealthy family, and her parents did not agree with her dating Peter Griffin. So, her father tried bribing Peter with money, $1,000,000.00 to be exact to break them up.

However, Peter turned down the offer. Her wild teen years are alluded to in quite a few episodes, referencing her drug use and wild nights with Gene Simmons of Kiss. Lois is a stay at home mother, however she does teach piano to some children to get a little extra money for the family. Lois, even being a mother does make bad choices at times for example in an episode where she goes to the grocery store and is getting ready to pay for the food but has to put a ham back because she doesn’t have enough money for it so has to put it back. But she doesn’t put it back, she puts it in her purse. After that, she felt the rush and just began going to many stores stealing. Lois Griffin is also seen as a nymphomaniac because she has such a strong desire for sex.

In the episode “The Dirty Grimace” she pulls down her pants and tells Peter to spank her. In the episode “Sibling Rivalry” Peter gets a vasectomy and doesn’t want to have sex because he feels less of a man so Lois has to channel her sexual frustrations into eating. In “Petarded,” Lois gets a brain tumor due to holding in all of her negative thoughts about having married Peter because he is so childish and does immature things.

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.

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.

Due to its below-the-belt and crass humor style, Family Guy didn’t get away with some lawsuits filed within the year of 2007.

Famous comedian Carol Burnett filed a lawsuit of copyright infringement against 20th century Fox on March 2007. She claims that her character as a cleaning chairwoman was used on the television show without her consent.  She also said that Fox has abused her publicity rights. A $6 million worth of damages was demanded by Burnett. But on 4th of June of the same year, United States District Judge Dean Pregerson dumped the lawsuit because the spoof was protected by the First Amendment, using Hustler versus Falwell case as an example.

Another copyright infringement lawsuit was filed on the 3rd of October 2007 by Bourne Co. Music Publishers. The lawsuit was addressed against Seth MacFarlane, 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Cartoon Network, Fox Broadcasting Co. and composer Walter Murphy. Bourne Co. Music Publishers claims that the show used the song “When You Wished upon a Star” to a imitation song that has a title of “I Need a Jew” which was used in the “When You Wish upon a Weinstein” episode. The Bourne Co., whom has the exclusive rights for the said original song claims that the “I Need a Jew” song was obviously an imitation of their music only with anti-Jewish lyrics. The lawsuit demands unspecified damages and the cessation of the distribution of the program Family Guy. This case is not be protected by the First Amendment because “I Need a Jew” really used the copyrighted song without giving credit to the owner.

The third copyright infringement lawsuit was filed by the actor/comedian Art Metrano on December 2007. The lawsuit is about a specific scene in “Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story”. The scene shows Jesus using Metrano’s original “magic” act with ridiculous imitation of magical hand motions while humming the familiar tune “Fine and Dandy.” The actor pleads that the performance is covered under terms of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

Peter Gilligan Griffin who is voiced by Seth MacFarlane in a Rhode Island accent is the head of the Griffin household on the animated series called Family Guy. Peter Griffin who is 43 years old is married to Lois,and they have a daughter named Meg, a two sons Chris and Stewie and a dog named Brian. He resides in Quahog, Rhode Island and works at Happy-Go-Lucky Toys where he makes toys and is employed by Mr. Weed. His favorite place to hang out at is The Drunken Clam with his friends Cleveland and Quagmire.Peter is a very unintelligent, immature person that enjoys doing things such as farting in his daughter Meg’s cereal and wiping boogers in her hair. He even took an I.Q. test that indeed confirmed that his intellect is slightly above being mentally retarded.

Besides being fat, accident prone, and a heavy drinker, he is in good health.

Peter gets randomly interrupted in episodes when a giant chicken comes out of no where and him and Peter begin to physically fight. Peter is the one who is always winning the fights, leaving the giant chicken dead however, you do see the chicken move a tiny bit showing that he is still alive for him to come back and interrupt him yet again.

Peter Griffin has made some guest appearances on some other shows other then Family Guy. He made a guest appearance on the animated series, The Simpsons because they think that Family Guy is a rip off of The Simpsons. Robot Chicken, South Park, and Late Show with David Letterman were also other shows that Peter Griffin has appeared on.

Seth MacFarlane does many things such as being a singer, screenwriter, animator, comedian, actor, producer, and a composer. What Seth MacFarlane is best known for is being the creator of Family Guy and American dad.  He credits his inspiration to a number of comedians, citing Jackie Gleason as a big part of his growing view on what is funny.He not only created and produced Family Guy, but he also voiced several characters such as Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Peter Griffin, Tom Tucker, and Glenn Quagmire.

Family guy made it’s first television show appearance on January 31, 1999.  The random breaks in the show that go into a completely unrelated joke skit are what people either love or hate.  Although not adding to the story line directly, these small skits give the show many of the big laughs that fans tune in for.  Given the fact these can be interchangeable, there will never really be a shortage of ideas to continue to add the the spice of the Family Guy series. A family guy video game was also released in 2006. Seth MacFarlane also takes his casts members on the road so that he can voice his characters in front of a live audience. This gives the fans a chance to hear the future scripts that would be coming out. Family guy has been cancelled twice off of the air but because of the strong support that the fans put out with buying the DVDs, Fox reconsidered and put them back on.  Seth MacFarlane speaks at different universities throughout the United States. Seth is also the highest-paid producer and writer in history. Reportedly he is being paid $100 million by Fox T.V. Seth MacFarlane has received two Emmy awards for all of his vocal performances that he has done on Family Guy.

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Family guy is an animated television show that uses story premises along with humor in their episodes.They were criticized the most by Entertainment Weekly, and then Seth MacFarlane went back at them in an episode entitled “There’s Something About Paulie” where Peter is going to the bathroom and he uses their magazine as if it were toilet paper. The television show South Park even takes a hit at Family guy. In the South Park episode entitled “Cartoon Wars,” they portray the Family Guy writers as manatees who simply push rubber balls which are their “idea balls” into a rubber bin. Of course other cartoonists criticized Family Guy because all of the animated shows like them are in competition with the others plus it makes for some good laughs.

The humor in Family Guy is adult in nature, although the fact it is a cartoon give the impression that it could be child appropriate.  Unfortunately, children under a certain age should not be watching the show, as the situations and events that take place are often times over their heads as well as inappropriate for their ages.  Luckily for us adults, the humor is timeless even when the events mentioned are time sensitive.  This is evident by the strong numbers in DVD sales which were the very reason that Family Guy still exists till this day.  By poking fun at the everyday activities most people subject themselves to, this show will continue to venture onto new stages of comedic genius, cementing its place as one of the best cartoon series to grace the often belittled Fox lineup.

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