Introducing:
Family Guy
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Family Guy is an animated American television sitcom created by
Seth MacFarlane. The show centers on a
semi-dysfunctional family that lives in the fictional town of
Quahog, Rhode Island. The show is famous for its frequent use of
"cutaway gags". Interestingly, Family Guy was canceled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on the Cartoon Network convinced Fox to resume the show in 2005. It is the first canceled show to be resurrected based on DVD sales. |
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Meet
The Griffins
The show
revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin, a
bumbling but well-intentioned blue-collar worker. Peter is an Irish
American Catholic with a thick Rhode Island / Eastern Massachusetts
accent. His wife Lois is generally a stay-at-home
mother and piano teacher, and has a distinct New York accent from
being a member of the Pewterschmidt family.
Peter and Lois have three children: teenage daughter
Meg, who is frequently the butt of jokes due to
her homeliness and lack of popularity; teenage son
Chris, who is overweight, unintelligent and, in
many respects, a younger version of his father; and son
Stewie, a diabolical infant of ambiguous sexual
orientation who has adult mannerisms and speaks fluently with an
affected upper-class, mid-Atlantic English accent and stereotypical
archvillain phrases.
Living with the family is Brian, the family dog,
who is highly anthropomorphized, walks on two legs, drinks
Martinis, smokes cigarettes and engages in human conversation,
though he is still considered a pet in many respects.
More
on the Episodes…
For the
first half of the first season, the writers tried to work the words
"murder" or "death" into the title of every
episode to make the titles resemble those of old-fashioned radio
mystery shows.
Creator Seth MacFarlane says that the writers stopped doing this
when they realized they were beginning to get the titles
confused.
Some episodes are not aired in full in their initial broadcast
because of profanity or cultural references.
Scenes are either re-edited or removed entirely from the
episode.
Show's
Setting
The
majority of events on the show take place in Quahog, Rhode
Island, a fictional suburb of Providence. Seth MacFarlane,
the show's creator, resided in Providence when he was a student at
Rhode Island School of Design, and leaves unequivocal Rhode Island
landmarks from which one may infer intended real-world locations
for events. MacFarlane also often borrows the names of Rhode Island
locations and icons such as Pawtucket and Buddy Cianci for use in
the show.
Several times every episode, the actual Providence skyline can be
seen in the distance. The three buildings that are depicted are,
from left to right and furthest to closest, One Financial Center,
50 Kennedy Plaza, and the Bank of America Tower. This ordering of
buildings and the angle at which they are viewed indicates that
Quahog is primarily west of downtown Providence if it is to have a
real-world counterpart.
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