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19 unusual facts about Family Guy


Airdancer

Airdancers are generally called an inflatable tube or a moving figure, such as "windyman", "skydancer", "tube man" and "flyguy"; an episode of Family Guy called them "Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman", which also made this moniker popular.

Allison Adler

Adler has worked on television series including Still Standing and Family Guy.

Buckwheat Boyz

Popularity of the song increased as it was featured on television shows such as The Proud Family, Family Guy, and Regular Show.

Family Guy Online

Family Guy Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the animated television series Family Guy, developed in a partnership between Roadhouse Interactive and 20th Century Fox.

Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One

Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One is an American humor book about Family Guy written by executive story editor Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and writer/voice actress Alex Borstein.

Family Guy: Peter Griffin's Guide to the Holidays

Peter Griffin's Guide to the Holidays is an American humor book about Family Guy written by executive producer Danny Smith.

Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination

Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination is an American humor book about Family Guy written by producer Steve Callaghan.

Frivolous litigation

In July 2013, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed a complaint laid by a man posing as Gloria Dawn Ironbox, a fictional feminist attorney on popular television series Family Guy.

Fuad

Fouad, a fictional character from the FOX television series Family Guy

Kara Vallow

Kara Vallow (born November 1, 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American animation producer best known for her work as Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's long time producing partner on Family Guy and American Dad, as well as The Cleveland Show.

Leaf peeping

In "Lethal Weapons", an episode of Family Guy, obnoxious New York tourists visiting to see fall leaves are pejoratively referred to as "leafers".

Leggo My Meg-O

"Leggo My Meg-O" is the twentieth episode of the tenth season of the animated television series Family Guy.

Mailbox baseball

Mailbox baseball is depicted in several films and television shows such as Stand by Me, The Benchwarmers, Dazed and Confused, 21 Jump Street, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ghost Whisperer, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The X-Files.

Not Another B Movie

Some samples conclude that "the acting is good, the movie looks nice, and it has a few chuckle moments, but the concept isn't all that intriguing and the thing feels more like a broke-ass episode of Family Guy the way it jumps to flashbacks and the movie-within-a-movie".

Roll to Me

It has also been in featured in the season four episode of Family Guy, Peterotica.

Scrappy-Doo

On the soundtrack album, Family Guy: Live in Vegas, Jason Alexander reports that Scrappy is the product of a drunken encounter between Scooby-Doo and Daphne.

Sports Weekly

In a 2006 episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin is seen reading Sports Weekly on a plane to London.

Taipei Family

"Taipei Family" is considered to be a Taiwanese version of the hit series Family Guy.

White-rumped Swallow

In the episode of Family Guy "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", the swallow is depicted as being a rare species, which is why Peter is forced to keep a nested swallow in his beard, which eventually lays eggs and leaves baby birds.


97.1 FM

"Mother Tucker", an episode of Family Guy which features the fictional radio station 97.1 WQHG in Quahog, Rhode Island.

April in Quahog

Having learned of the impending doomsday, Mayor Adam West angrily writes an angry letter to outer space, expressing his intention of punching the constellation Orion.

Chevron Cars

The Chevron Cars television ads have been parodied in several television shows, including Robot Chicken, the animated comedy Family Guy (episode "Deep Throats"), and a MADtv sketch in which one of the cars gets fitted with a bomb and explodes after asking questions about the ticking.

Chris Parson

Parson had voiced the title role (as well as many others) on Comedy Central's animated series Lil' Bush, and has lent his voice to episodes of Fox's popular shows Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, and Disney's Handy Manny.

Earth Angel

A scene from the Family Guy fifth season finale, "Meet the Quagmires", which directly parodied the dance from Back to the Future, also featured the song and was followed, instead of "Johnny B. Goode", by "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Griffin family

Also, when asked by Peter where she got a tattoo on her lower back, she replied, 'Oh, I do not know Peter, meth is a hell of a drug' (Prick Up Your Ears).

Hell Comes to Frogtown

The title inspired the animated television series Family Guy episode title "Hell Comes to Quahog".

Jeremy Miller

In the Family Guy episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", he appears and tries to convince the other characters to buy him a case of Sudafed, but an animated version of his TV dad Alan Thicke appears, with his neck bobbling rapidly.

Kenneth Muse

Muse also animated Jerry Mouse dancing with a live-action Gene Kelly in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh (and became archive footage as Jerry's visible in Family Guy episode, "Road to Rupert").

Kent, Connecticut

Seth MacFarlane (b. 1973), animator, TV producer and director and voice actor who created Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, born in Kent, as well as his sister Rachael MacFarlane (b. 1976)

KMCI-TV

Syndicated programming on this station includes The Simpsons, That '70s Show, The King of Queens, Family Guy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and How I Met Your Mother.

KSHU

KSHU-TV during the weekends air re-runs of popular shows among students like Seinfeld, Family Guy, and Gossip Girl, with a syndication license.

Lennie Weinrib

Family Guy executive producer Seth MacFarlane, who had a reputation of parodying cartoon characters using their original voice actors on his show, had approached Weinrib with an offer to spoof his role of "Time for Timer" in the episode "Petarded".

Let's Go Back

TV personality Ralph Garman, later host of The Joe Schmo Show and Family Guy voice-over artist, was a contestant during the show's first season in 1991.

Mirabella

In the Family Guy episode "Fore, Father", Stewie Griffin picks up the December issue of Mirabella in the doctor's waiting room.

Mr. Bubble

In the Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'", the Griffin family is being cursed with the plagues.

Murder Police

Murder Police was going to be an animated television series co-created by Family Guy executive producer David A. Goodman and animator Jason Ruiz.

Owens Corning

The company was referred to several times in the Family Guy episode "The Former Life of Brian" when the Pink Panther dies from his body being one-third Owens-Corning Fiberglass Insulation.

Peter Shin

Peter Shin is an animator who served as supervising director of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the director of Big Bug Man, the director of Family Guy episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Emission Impossible", "North by North Quahog", and "It's a Trap!", and was a character layout artist The Simpsons for several episodes between 1990 and 1995.

Russian reversal

In a 2001 episode of Family Guy, "There's Something About Paulie", a car navigation system has a "Yakov Smirnoff" setting, in which it intersperses directions (in a Russian accent) with jokes such as "In Soviet Russia, car drives you!" (This may have been the first instance of such a joke with the exact "In Soviet Russia" phrasing.)

Sarah de Gaudemar

She is also credited with animating the "Robot Chicken Universe" (with fellow Robot Chicken animators Eileen Kohlhepp and Kelly Mazurowski) in the Family Guy episode "Road to the Multiverse."

Television comedy

A few prime-time animated comedies, notably The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Family Guy, successfully mixed attributes of traditional cartoons and sitcoms.

The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene

"The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene" was first broadcast on December 9, 2012, as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, and was preceded by the premiere of the The Simpsons episode "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" and was followed by the premiere of the Family Guy episode "Friends Without Benefits."

Ululation

It appears as comic relief in The Simpsons episodes "The Last Temptation of Homer" and "Midnight Rx"; as well as on Family Guy in the episode "E. Peterbus Unum" where Stewie is curious about the sound Achmed "makes when you're about to assassinate an infidel".

Wheat Thins

A more recent commercial aired during Super Bowl XLVI featuring Brian and Stewie from cartoon series Family Guy, in which Stewie puts emphasis on the "H" in "Wheat", saying "Hwheat Thins."

With So Little to Be Sure Of

This episode was aired against the Academy of Country Music Awards on CBS which was watched by 13.1 million viewers and received a 3.1 in the 18-49 demographic, the combination of Family Guy and American Dad! on Fox which averaged 4.62 million viewers for the hour, and had a 2.3/6 rating, and Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, which averaged 5.96 million viewers and held a 1.8/5 rating in the 18-49 demographic, and .