100 Family Guy Facts Every Fan Should Know!

100 Family Guy Facts Everyone Should Know!

100 Family Guy Facts Every Fan Should Know!

Family Guy is one of the most popular animated shows ever created.In this post we're talking about Family Guy.For our reader we're gonna be listing 100 Family Guy fact that you should know if you are a big fan of the show.

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If you are more likely to watch a video. Here a resume of the best facts chosen specially for you :

Fact number one :

Family Guy is one of the few shows to ever be revived after cancellation in fact it was canceled twice at the end of the second season in the year two thousand Fox announced that it had been canceled the quickly changed their mind in July of the same year in order to third season then in 2002 Fox announced again that it had been canceled the popularity of reruns on Adult Swim in DVD sales had to bring it back the ordered more episodes in May of 2004 the premier a year later in May of 2005 the show has been running constantly ever since.

"gets easier when you get cancelled"

Fact number two

Stewie's full name is Stewie Gilligan Griffin

Fact number three

it costs two million dollars to make each episode a Family Guy

Fact number four

Seth Green the voice of Chris has mentioned it multiple times that Chris's voice is based on buffalo bill from the film Silence of the lambs.

Chris has even parodied a famous scene from the film featuring that character

Fact number five

The show is banned in Indonesia Taiwan Iran in Vietnam, Egypt, South Korea, South Africa and Malaysia. We wonder who's gonna be next.

Fact number six

Peter and Bryan are derived from the two lead characters of a short that Seth MacFarlane developed for Cartoon Network in 1987. The short with title Larry and Steve featured a man and a dog.

Fact number seven

in 2009 Family Guy became the first animated show since the flintstones to be nominated
for an Emmy in the category about
TV comedy series.

Fact number eight

Seth MacFarlane is a huge fan of the series all in the family and paid homage to it through the opening of Family Guy.

Fact number nine

Family Guy premiered on January 31st 1999 following the Super Bowl. Another one Seth MachFarlane's shows american dad! also premiered following the Super Bowl in 2005

Fact number ten

Bonnie Swanson was pregnant for a 116
episodes.She finally gave birth in "ocean's Three and a Half."

Fact number eleven

creator Seth MacFarlane was scheduled to be on American Airlines flight 11 on September 11. He had a ticket, but ran late due to a hangover and incorrect departure time. missing boarding and the flight by a mere ten minutes that is absolutely insane.

Fact number 12

Seth MacFarlane originally wanted every episode of the show the somehow center around death.

Fact number 13

Macfarlane had also planned for each episode of Family Guy to have aa ominous title borrowed from old 1940's radio suspense drama that had no relation or relevance to the show.

Fact number fourteen

Bender from Futurama and coach John Mcguirk from home movies all made cameo appearances in the episode "it's a Trap". (but that makes you wanna go once again. Welcome!)

Fact number fifteen

In 2009 High Times named brian Griffin as their stoner the year.

Fact number sixteen

The main cast of Family Guy each make somewhere between a $170,000 to $225,000 thousand dollars and episode.

Fact number seventeen

the Parents Television Council has named Family Guy the "Worst TV show of the Week" over forty times

Fact number eighteen

according to his license in the episode "FOX-y Lady" Quagmire was born in 1948.That'll make him 67 this year. quagmire you look great for your age.

Fact number nineteen

The massive chicken that constantly tussles with Peter is named Ernie

Fact number twenty

Peter has changed Meg's full name from Megan to Megatron on her birth certificate.

Fact number 21

In almost every episode one character says what the hell to another.

Fact number 22

The creators have license in picking when other characters can understand what Stewie is saying

Fact number twenty-three

William H Macy auditioned for the voice to Brian.

Fact number 24

Quagmire with imagined as an "anachronistic '50's guy." his voice is based on radio announcers of that time.

Fact number 25

Neil Goldman is named after one of the writers of the show

Fact number 26

Peter with based on a security guard at seth McFarlane's college Rhode Island School of Design, RISD.

Fact number 27

It takes a four year to complete an episode of Family Guy for those of you who're confused in the comments multiple episodes are worked on simultaneously

Fact number 28

There are two versions of almost every episode, the Version aired on TV and the un touched versions found on the show's DVD's.

Fact number 29

Seth MacFarlane with only 24 when Family Guy first aired. This made him the youngest executive producer in all of network television.

Fact number 30

Peter's boss Angela is actually voiced by Carrie Fisher.

Fact number 31

Adam West, who appears in Family Guy as Mayor of Quahog,loves the show. and he definitely gets the love returned in full, MacFarlane has said that ADAM is "the single most demanded character in Quahog".

Fact number 32

The Family Guy franchise is worth 2 billion dollars.

Fact number 33

Seth MacFarlane has been accused of stealing Stewie from cartoonist it's Chris Ware. Chris Ware has a series titled Jimmy Corrigan "The smartest kid on earth". the main character Jimmy Corrigan bears a striking resemblance to eat in both physical appearance in certain
personality traits.

Fact number 34

Patrick Warburton is the voice of Joe Swanson.

Fact number 35

Meg has had three different voice actresses, and contrast to Meg's unpopularity, the ladies whi have played her are all very lovely in the pilot of the show Meg was voiced by Seth MacFarlane's sister
Rachael McFarlane. she was then voiced by Lacey Chabert, who you may recognize from "Mean Girls" for a few episodes before Mila Kunis took over the role.

Fact number 36

Family Guy has found beef with both South Park in the Simpsons. South Park released a two-part episode title "Cartoon Wars" that marked Family Guy even coinded the term "manatee jokes" in relation to Family Guy's gags. The simpson had a Peter Griffin cameo where the character was seen on a wanted poster
with a carge of "plagiarismo" Family Guy fired back with a scene that showed Quagmire
hooking up with Marge Simpson before being discovered by Homer Simpson and then being forced to kill the whole family. At one point, Fox finally stepped in to tell The Simpsons and Family Guy to stop ripping one another eventually the two shows made up and even had an official crossover episode.

Fact number 37

At one point that macfarlane picks the concept the Family Guy as a series of short for Madtv.

Fact number 38

Pawtucket Patriot Ale is Peter's preferred drink.

Fact number 39

There are numerous references to the Gypsy and the flintstones on the show

Fact number forty

Brian has a tattoo of the famous comic strip character Ziggy.

Fact number 41

A bumper sticker on Brian's car shows that he supported Dennis Kucinich in a presidential race

Fact number 42

Before Family Guy was a thing, creator Seth MacFarlane work at hanna-barbera.

Fact number 43 :

In 2007, the creators of Family Guy were sued three times sounds like it was a pretty busy year for their legal team.

Fact number 44 :

Lois was originally going to be blonde. it's actually the reason that Chris is the only blonde Griffin. he was supposed to have the same here color at his mama to balance out Meg having Peters hair color.

Fact number 45 :

Seth MacFarlane's favorite Family Guy moment is in the episode "Da Boom" When Lois brings up how much food they've wasted and it cuts to Peter attempting to feed Tom Selleck beans through the TV screen.

Fact number 46

Seth MacFarlane's  favorite Family Guy episode is "Road to the Multiverse."

Fact number forty

Seth's least favorite episode is "fore, father."

Fact number 48

if you pay attention you'll notice that Quagmire is left-handed.

Fact number 49

Fox's pilot episode of Family Guy, "Death has A Shadow" pulled in 22.12 million viewers on it first broadcast.

Fact number fifty

Family Guy is rooted in Rhode Island which is where stuff macfarlane went to school

Fact number 51

Quahog chosen as the name of the town in which Family Guy takes place because it with the generic but locally inflicted word the show producer, Gary Smith, wanted to avoid any conflicts or controversies. Quahog is another term for hars clams which are commonly found in Rhode Island.

Fact number 52

Seth MacFarlane has confirmed, in a Playboy magazine no less... That Stewie is gay.

Fact number 53

Stewie's voice is based on movie star Rex Harrison.

Fact number 54

in the episode "Love Thy trophy" Stewie spells out "redrum" with building blocks which is a nod to the classic horror film, "The shining". it's murder backwards.

Fact number 55

in the episode "Road to Germany".

there is a clever reference to the pop song 99 red balloons. the Nazi scientist is telling Stewie about their 100 Luftballons when one of them pops.

Fact number 56

for the show's 100th episode special Seth MacFarlane interviewed people who hated the show they had no idea they were complaining to the creator himself.

Fact number 57

Seth MacFarlane killed off Brian to impart this messages to his viewers "never take those you love for granted, for they can be gone in a flash."

Fact number 58

The episode "Extra Large Medium" caused a large amount of controversy due to its portrayal of Down Syndrome.

Fact number 59

in the episode "Screwed the pooch", Peter declares that if he were half the father that Brian was he would know more about his kids including who makes real father was Brian answers, "Stan Thompson." Of course Meg misses this whole conversation.

Fact number sixty

Seth MacFarlane has said that the reason Meg is so mistreated is because of a bunch of new writers not knowing how to write for teenage girls.

Fact number 61

according to his birth records Peter Griffin was born as Justin Peter Griffin he discovers this when trying to open a checking account.

Fact number 62

Lois is very unhappy when Peter shakes Stewie is "The Giggity Wife." This makes sense when you consider the fact that peter has shaken one of their other children to death.

Fact number 63

Every fan of Family Guy knows about the fight between Peter in Ernie the Giant chicken, but not every fan knows why they're fighting in the first place.
Are you ready for this guys? Ernie gave Peter an expired coupon.

Fact number 64

There was a great outcry against the show when it depicted John F Kennedy PEZ dispenser getting its head shot of a gag mocking the president's real-life assassination

Fact number 65

Peter's middle name is Löwenbräu revealed when he meets his real father Mickey McFinnigan in Ireland. Make sense the Irish love their beer.

Fact number 66

In the pilot episode of Family Guy the viewer learns that Peter had his first fart at the age of 30.

Fact number 67

in the episode "If I'm dyin, on lyin"Peter whishes to bring back a
showed called Gumbel 2 Gumbel.

one can imagine that this is a dig from Seth MacFarlane to Fox because gumbel 2 Gumbel is the firsthe pitched to the network.

Fact number 68

In the episode "North by North Quahog" if you pay attention to the Passion of the Christ 2 preview, Jesus has a license plate with the letters W W ID on it. It's a
play on the popular phrase, "What Would Jesus Do?" The letters stand for "What would I do ?"

Fact number 69

In the episode "Model Misbehavior" the Griffins make the newspaper when they win a boat race. In the bottom corner of the paper you can read "DVD's PAUSED for headline joke -- millions disappointed".

Fact number seventy

When Mayor Adam West says on the only major Wesr that's in trouble in the episode "You may now kiss the... Uh.. guy who receives", it's a reference to former Mayor Jim west from Spokane. He was a strong opponent of gay marriage whose career ended over a gay sex scandal.

Fact number 71

in the episode "The story on page One" you can read "If you can read this, Family Guy is on the air" in the corner the TV Guide it's briefly shown.

Fact number 72

In the episode "Meet the Quagmires," Peter in Brian disrupt history and Roger from american dad makes an appearance.

Fact number 73

Seth Green was the only person auditioning for the role of Chris who didn't use a surfer dude voice.

Fact number 74

Mayor Adam West mentioned that one point that he is tussled with super-beings before which is a nod to his role as Batman in the 60's.

Fact number 75

During the Writer's Guild of America strike that occured from 2007 to 2008, Seth MacFarlane joined in did not finish in the episode. Fox went ahead and aired three episodes when they were only ninety percent complete, without his permission. MacFarlane had since declared this a "Colossal dick move."

Fact number 76

According to its DVD commentary track, Stewie Griffin The untold story was originally going to be called Queer as Stewie it was going to focus on Stewie coming to terms with being homosexual.
The idea was scrapped as Stewie's ambiguous sexuality was more mileage for episodes.

Fact numbers 77

Chris was originally going to be as fat as Peter, but animators decided it would be too depressing.

Fact number 78

For the timer portion of the episode "Petarded", show creators wanted the original voice of Timer. Lennie Weinrib, to reprise his role. They were turned down as his agent said he was too old. Seth Macfarlane did the voice instead.

Fact number 79

Cree Summer was in consideration to voice Meg, but Seth Macfarlane felt uncomfortable having an african-american woman play a white character.

Fact number 80

Seth Macfarlane voices Peter, Brian, Stewie, Quagmire, Carter,Tom Tucker, Jake Tucker, Seamus and Dr. Hartman.

Fact number 81

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" was held off airing for a week in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.

Fact number 82

The "Night at the hurricane" programming block that included Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show with the late from its original slot due to a severe weather outbreak that occurred.

Fact number 83

Seth Macfarlane short the Life of Larry had a lot of gags that would be recycled and Family Guy, including Peter getting fired, putting the family on welfare, and becoming rich
due to a clerical error on its first welfare check.

Fact number 84

Kevin was originally voiced by Jon Cryer, then but Seth MacFarlane and then by Scott Grimes.

Fact number 85

Mere minutes after Brian died some fans were calling he would be brought back when the summary for the Christmas episode that year was released a speculated that he would be coming back that episode. even more, fans correctly predicated how it would happen.

Fact number 86

The show has some fantastic celebrity guest stars including Drew Barrymore,Robert Downey Jr, Patrick Stewart, and Mae whitman.

Fact number 87

Almost all the animation for Family Guy is outsourced. But in "Road to the Multiverse" the Disney segment was animated in-house.

Fact number 88

Meg it the only (human) member of the Griffin family whose middle name has not been revealed.

Fact number 89

When peter tries to brand make it's revealed that she already has an AW bring it on her by mayor Adam West.

Fact number 90

Meg cannot taste salt.

Fact number 91

Due to a rare birth disorder, Meg heart is located in the same place as her brain.

Fact number 92

Lois was selected to be on the Olympic diving team, but ended up pregnant with Meg. She later becomes
pro-choice.

Fact number 93

Lois hate the sound of squeaking plastic wrap.

Fact number 94

Lois has possibly had eight children there's Meg, Chris and Stewie, but there's also Peter Griffin Jr.,
Dave Griffin Stewie's funny brother, and other brother from the theater,
and other sister who may have been killed by Meg.

Fact number 95

Peter is a star wars fan. he collects Star Wars collector glasses, and Star Wars trading cards.

Fact number 96

Peter complete the piano perfectly when he's drunk.

Fact number 97

In the episode "Friends without benefits" Peters Twitter username is "Pumpkineaters69".

Fact number 98

Peter was born in Mexico.

Fact number 99

Peter has an iPhone which is important because if you have an iPhone that means you do have something in common D

Fact number 100

In one episode, Peter's ringtone is the theme song of The Cleveland Show.