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From: 'Peter Griffin's Guide to Parenting' (artwork by an artist team of 17 people).

Seth MacFarlane is an American producer and comedy filmmaker, all-time-known for creating two of the most pop contemporary animated one-act shows for an developed audience: 'Family unit Guy' (1999-2003, 2005- ) and 'American Dad!' (2005- ). The humour in both serial shows a sharp satirical and sometimes rough view of U.Due south. social club and civilisation. The cutaway gags regularly poke fun at controversial subjects. The shows' utilize of profanity, (blithe) nudity and violence has drawn criticism from several organizations, while the shows' originality has also been questioned, every bit some consider it a rip-off of Matt Groening'southward 'The Simpsons' and/or mere plagiarism of other franchises with more references than actual jokes. Exist that as it may, the general public loves the uncompromising sense of humour of the Griffin and Smith families, and both shows take been regularly won Primetime Emmy Awards and Annie Awards. Since the 2010s Seth MacFarlane has emerged every bit one of the most recognizable animators in the world. He has hosted televised shows, such as the 2013 Academy Awards. He created the popular one-act film, 'Ted' (2012) and the unexpected hit SF TV series 'The Orville' (2017- ). Last but not least, he is active as an achieved singer.

'Walter Crouton'.

Early life and influences
Seth MacFarlane was born in 1973 in Kent, Connecticut. His male parent was a teacher and his mother a college guidance counsellor. He had already showcased his sense of humour and talent for drawing while he was still a child. The boy was only nine years old when he published a weekly comic strip, 'Walter Crouton' (1982) in the local paper The Kent Skillful Times. He was paid five dollars a week for it. At historic period 11 he came in third in a cartoon contest of the Museum of Cartoon Fine art. MacFarlane'due south graphic influences are Gary Larson, Matt Groening and Looney Tunes cartoons. As a comedian he looked up to Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Abrahams & The Zucker Brothers, 'All In The Family' and diverse popular sitcoms and comedy pictures of the 1980s. His musical taste is older, harking back to popular crooners like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, etc.

Comic strip drawn by MacFarlane at age 11.

Early animation career
MacFarlane studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he created an animated film named 'Life of Larry' (1995) for his thesis. It featured prototypical versions of the characters who'd eventually get Peter and Brian Griffin. In his spare time he also tried out stand-upwardly comedy. Afterward graduation MacFarlane considered going to the Boston Conservatory of Music to study musical theater, just his art teacher at Rhode Isle Schoolhouse submitted his animated cartoon to Hanna-Barbera, where he was hired as a author. The college graduate worked on animated serial like 'Dexter's Laboratory', 'Cow and Chicken', 'I Am Weasel' and 'Johnny Bravo', all on Cartoon Network. He did some freelance work for the Walt Disney Studios and Nelvana as well.

Family unit Guy
At age 25, MacFarlane was TV'due south youngest executive producer, when his series almost the dysfunctional Griffin family premiered on Fox Telly on 31 January 1999. The series centers on the overweight, stupid and infantile bluish-collar worker Peter Griffin, his nasal wife Lois, their encephalon-dead son Chris, utterly miserable and disliked daughter One thousand thousand and the tyrannic and intellectual baby Stewie (who might be secretly gay). Their domestic dog, Brian, is no normal mutt, but a brilliant anthropomorphic animal with left-fly opinions and an odd craving for human being women. This prepare-up already hints at the fact that the earth of 'Family Guy' is not set in plausible reality. Many jokes are deliberately absurd and involve anthropomorphic animals, plants, objects, physically incommunicable gags and sudden cameos from celebrities and characters from dissimilar franchises. The near unusual aspect most 'Family Guy' is its use of cutaway gags, an idea inspired by Gary Larson'due south 'The Far Side'. During a scene characters will sometimes mention something, which is and then depicted in an unrelated scene, unremarkably making a pop culture reference. Other scenes make heavy use of parody. Thanks to these pop culture references and abrasive black one-act 'Family Guy' rapidly gained a loyal fanbase. Unfortunately the bear witness tended to be broadcast at irregular hours, sometimes positioned in bad fourth dimension slots. In 2002 it was therefore cancelled. Yet strong DVD sales and reruns on Adult Swim eventually caused its improvement. In 2005 the serial started a new season and remained a ratings striking ever since.

The series introduced many popular side characters, such as the oversexed aviator Glen Quagmire, macho police officer and wheelchair patient Joe Swanson, utterly bizarre major Adam Westward, creepy sometime pedophile Herbert the Debauchee, imperturable Hispanic housemaid Consuela and Ernie the Giant Chicken, with whom Peter has an ungoing rivalry. Some recurring characters have been portrayed by celebrity actors, such as Mila Kunis (Meg Griffin), Carrie Fisher (Angela), Drew Barrymore (Jillian), Phyllis Diller (Thelma Griffin), Jennifer Tilly (Bonnie Swanson) and Adam West (Major West). Among the many celebrities who've regularly voiced characters or themselves in the serial accept been Patrick Stewart, James Forest, Pecker Maher, Hugh Laurie, Rush Limbaugh and Helen Reddy. Other notable guest stars have been Kiss ('A Very Special Family unit Guy Freakin' Christmas' 2001, 'Road to Europe', 2002), Robert Downey Jr. ('The Fat Guy Strangler', 2005), Gore Vidal ('Mother Tucker', 2006), Ben Stiller ('No Meals On Wheels', 2007), Barry Manilow ('Back to the Woods', 2008), Caitlyn Jenner ('Tales Of A 3rd Grade Nothing', 2008), Bruce Willis ('Brian's Got A Brand New Bag', 2009), Elijah Woods, Charlie Sheen ('Brian Griffin'due south House of Payne', 2010), Ricky Gervais ('Exist Careful What Y'all Fish For', 2012), Cate Blanchett ('Mr. and Mrs. Stewie', 2012), Johnny Depp ('Lois Comes Out of Her Shell', 2012), Liam Neeson ('Brian'south a Bad Father', 2014), Lauren Bacall, Ariana Grande (both in 'Mom's the Word', 2014) and the entire cast of 'Star Trek: The Side by side Generation' (Non All Dogs Become To Heaven', 2009). Boyfriend cartoonists have also appeared, such every bit Hugh Hefner ('Aerodrome '07', 2007), David Lynch ('The Excellent Source', 2010), Mike Judge ('Bigfat', 2013) and Butch Harman (of 'Adequately OddParents' fame) in various roles. Two people who worked as a storyboard artist on 'Family Guy' were Aldin Baroza and Fine art Mawhinney.

From: '100 Ways to Kill Lois Hosted past Stewie Griffin' (artwork by Ben Phillips and Rich Koslowski).

Popularity
'Family Guy' became popular at a time when the previous best-watched animated sitcom 'The Simpsons' past Matt Groening started to lose much of its edge and hilarity. While 'The Simpsons' held on to a believable realistic world 'Family unit Guy' took total reward of the fact that it's a cartoon. The creators care little about realism or overall continuity, which opened doors to far wilder gags. Since 'Family Guy' is strictly an adults testify it didn't accept to worry about younger viewers either. By the mid-2000s they dethroned 'The Simpsons' from their number one-spot in the ratings. At the time only 'South Park' was equally absurd and audacious in terms of blackness, surreal comedy. Nonetheless compared to them MacFarlane has always been more than of a crowdpleaser. In his opinion there demand to exist more shows which are just plain out funny. As such 'Family Guy' features more straightforward, not-intellectual and inviting one-act which gained a mass audition.

Some other reason why 'Family Guy' became such a hit was the rise of DVDs. In earlier decades VHS videos weren't suitable for collecting entire TV seasons on one cassette, but from 1997 on DVDs could compile an entire flavour on one disc at an affordable prize. By the time 'Family unit Guy' was cancelled in 2002 the series was kept in retentiveness thanks to strong DVD sales. Many people who were unfamiliar with the show or missed certain episodes due to the bad time slot could now take hold of up. Eventually Pull a fast one on Boob tube was convinced that a comeback would be a lucrative idea. In 2005 'Family Guy' returned to the airwaves, the first cancelled TV show to be revived thanks to DVDs and the Internet. Its render happened to coincide with the popularity of YouTube, which helped many online users (re)find it. Fans shared many cutaway gags and funny scenes online. Due to their short length many people easily clicked on them. Since 'Family unit Guy' referenced other franchises so much, fans of these media oftentimes stumbled upon their parodies. Many people who grew upwardly in the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed MacFarlane'south frequent nods to movies, Tv shows, advertisements from these decades, since he is from the aforementioned generation. While these fans loved the nostalgia younger generations had the chance to look up the source cloth on YouTube and understand the "joke" better. Thank you to this online promotion ratings for new episodes kept high, ensuring that 'Family unit Guy' wouldn't be cancelled again soon.

The show is peculiarly popular in Europe, where almost of the stuff considered controversial in the United States is viewed in a more than favorable calorie-free. Fifty-fifty the abortion episode 'Fractional Terms of Endearment' (2010), which has never been broadcast on U.S. television, aired with piddling outrage on European channels. As of 2020 'Family Guy' has won viii Emmy Awards and 3 Annie Awards. Celebrity fans of 'Family Guy' are Lauren Conrad, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Stephan Pastis (who had featured Stewie in a 2008 gag of 'Pearls Before Swine'), Pitshou Mampa, George Lucas, hockey player George Parros and Terry Gilliam. Some other huge fan was Motörhead frontman Lemmy, though in an April 2010 interview with Sarah L. Myers for Stay Thirsty Media he did add that he merely watched 'Family unit Guy', never 'American Dad''. In 2013, 'Family unit Guy' groundwork designer Mick Cassidy gave Lemmy a still from an episode in which Motörhead is seated on the Griffins' family sofa.

Two of the 'Family Guy' comic books by Devil's Due.

Family Guy in books and comics
'Family Guy' inspired some humour books likewise, such equally 'Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination' (2005), written by producer Steve Callahan. 'Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One' (Orion Books, 2007) was written by Scarlet Chevapravatdumrong and Alex Borstein, and presented a biographical monologue by the character Lois Griffin. Stills from the TV serial episodes 'Decease Is a Bitch' and 'I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar' were reformatted into a "cinemanga" published by Tokyopop in 2004. Three bug of a 'Family Guy' express comic book series were published by Devil's Due Publishing in 2006. They were written by i of the show's scriptwriters, Matt Fleckenstein. Ben Phillips and Rich Koslowski were the pencillers and Clayton Brown and Robert Grabe the inkers for the starting time event, while the art of the second and 3rd outcome is credited to no less than 17 artists. Each event focused on ane of the star characters and their views on life, respectively '100 Means to Impale Lois Hosted past Stewie Griffin', 'Peter Griffin's Guide to Parenting' and 'Books Don't Taste Very Good past Chris Griffin'. In 2011 some other 'Family Guy' comic book series was announced past Titan Comics, just it never appeared. Information technology was to be written by the show'southward producers and illustrated by Anthony Williams and S.50. Gallant. None of MacFarlane's other animated serial have received any comic book versions so far.

American Dad
Meanwhile MacFarlane received more artistic control to pursue other projects. In 2005 he, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman released another animated serial, 'American Dad' (2005- ) about the life of overly patriotic, ultra-conservative and draconic CIA agent Stan Smith, his nagging and moralistic wife Francine, feisty left-wing teenage daughter Hayley and geeky son Steve. Due to Stan's job the series features more outspoken political satire without cutaway gags. Some fans therefore prefer 'American Dad' since the writing is tighter, sharper and more poignant than 'Family unit Guy'. However, this doesn't mean the show hasn't got its off-white share of wacky comedy. The family'south goldfish, Klaus, has the transplanted mind of an East High german Olympic ski jumper, though is clearly a closet Nazi at the same time. Stan likewise hides a malicious extraterrestrial alien, Roger, inside his house. MacFarlane voices both Stan too every bit Roger. While never every bit popular as 'Family unit Guy' 'American Dad' is still the creative person's second longest-running TV series. One of the animators on 'American Dad' is Robert Goodin, while Aldin Baroza was a storyboard artist.

'American Dad!'

Seth MacFarlane'south Calvacade of Cartoon Comedy
In 2008 MacFarlane launched a serial of blithe shorts on YouTube, most less than two minutes long: 'Seth MacFarlane's Calvacade of Cartoon Comedy'. Episodes generated a lot of video clicks, though some critics felt it frequently came across equally a bunch of leftover cutaway gags which could've easily be put in whatsoever regular 'Family Guy' episode. One of the people who worked as a storyboard artist on 'Seth MacFarlane's Calvacade of Drawing One-act' was Liz Climo.

The Cleveland Show
In 2009 a spin-off of 'Family Guy' was launched named 'The Cleveland Prove' (2009-2013), co-created by MacFarlane, Richard Appel and Mike Henry. It starred Peter's African-American friend Cleveland Brown and his obese nerdy son moving into a new neigbourhood, where he starts a relationship with divorced secretarial assistant Donna Tubbs, who has ii children from a previous relationship: teenage daughter Roberta and toddler son Rallo. Once once more there is an anthropomorphic animal, the Christian bear Tim, which is MacFarlane's just recurring vocalisation role. Highly unpopular from the start, about critics and viewers regarded 'The Cleveland Show' equally a rehash of 'Family Guy' - complete with cutaway gags - but with the gimmick that it starred an African-American family. It still managed to final 4 seasons before it was eventually cancelled.

Criticism
As pop as his shows tend to be, MacFarlane's work has received considerable criticism since the start. His animated series take tackled many taboo subjects, including the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. MacFarlane was virtually a victim himself as he was set to exist a passenger on one of the flights which would eventually be hijacked and crashed into the Due north Tower of the World Trade Eye in New York City. Luckily for him, he arrived ten minutes likewise tardily at the airport. However, this frightening feel hasn't prevented the 'Family unit Guy' creator from holding back in terms of black one-act. Many of his shows have jokes virtually people's concrete features, organized religion, minorities, diseases, death, murder, rape, ballgame, pedophilia, celebrity scandals, Hitler, terrorism,...In the episode 'Friends Without Benefits' (2012) a joke was made about Adrien Brody'southward olfactory organ, which the actor himself didn't find funny at all. He even confronted MacFarlane about it. Another episode, 'Extra Large Medium' (2010), features a mentally handicapped girl (voiced by Andrea Fay Friedman who has Down's syndrome herself) joking about U.S. politico Sarah Palin's blood brother - who also suffers from Down. The throwaway line offended many viewers, including Palin herself who chosen the evidence'due south creators "cruel, cold-hearted people." Gags in the episode 'Peterotica' (2006) at the expense of actress Carol Burnett, which used 'Carol's Theme' every bit background music, let to Burnett sueing the makers for defamation and copyright infringement, but she lost her instance. Bourne Company likewise sued on 3 October 2007 because of a song parody in the episode 'When You Wish Upon A Weinstein' which they deemed antisemitic. They also lost their example. In 2008 wizard Art Metrano took the show to courtroom because of a cutaway gag in 'Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story' where Jesus is seen performing a mitt gesture routine Metrano claimed was plagiarized from him. In 2010 the case was somewhen settled out of court.

MacFarlane'south outspoken atheist, pro-LGBT and left-wing opinions have oftentimes outraged opponents of such ideas. In one of Jack Chick 'due south paranoid fundamentalist comics, 'Still No Revival' (2011),  'Family unit Guy' was condemned for "advocating homosexuality among children" through Stewie Griffin. In some countries like Russia, Egypt, Iran, South Africa, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines the unabridged series is banned. In 2009 'Family Guy' was taken off the air in Venezuela because of the episode '420' which advocates the legalization of marijuana.  Information technology is, of course, predictable that soft-skinned viewers volition find MacFarlane's shows to be in bad gustatory modality. Yet fifty-fifty his fans, and/or people who share his viewpoints, have sometimes felt he crosses the line betwixt existence daring and merely doing things for shock'south sake. Some of his supporters consider his one-act to be too simple-minded and one-dimensional in its messages. They accuse the bear witness'due south creators of confirming many stereotypical prejudices, rather than use them in a clever satirical manner.

Another common criticism is MacFarlane's lack of originality. All his animated Tv set series follow the same format, centering effectually like families with different names, only with slightly different designs. The blitheness itself rehashes many like grapheme poses and actions. Particularly 'Family Guy' has often been dubbed "the poor man's version of 'The Simpsons'", considering much of its overall cast, designs and mode are directly derived from it, minus the sophistication. All his shows often feature scenes which come up across as uninspired filler distracting from the overall storyline, particularly his cutaway jokes. Sure gags tend to exist stretched out, sometimes several minutes on cease, with the sheer length being the joke. MacFarlane oftentimes recreates entire scenes from movies, Tv series, music videos or commercials frame by frame. While presented as parodies they oft experience closer to plagiarism, but retracing the main characters from these media with some of his ain creations, without any punchline other than a lazy reference. The same tin can be said about the random appearances of celebrities or fictional characters from different media.

Parody
Issue #458 (October 2005) of Mad Magazine satirized 'Family Guy' on its front embrace, illustrated by Jack Syracuse. The paradigm shows Peter, Lois, 1000000 and Chris Griffin with 'Simpsons' style yellow skins and haircuts. In the same issue the article 'Selected Scenes from Trading Spouses' has the Simpsons and Griffin family visit one another. The story was written past Charlie Kadau and illustrated past Gary Hallgren. In a case of art imitates art both TV shows would eventually accept a real crossover in the episode 'Simpsons Guy' (2014). This didn't mean that the creators of 'The Simpsons' were necessarily fond of 'Family Guy'. Both shows have ofttimes mocked one another in sometimes bitter means. Still, the well-nigh barbarous set on on 'Family Guy' was fabricated by 'Due south Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. In their two-parter episode 'Cartoon Wars' (2006) the duo parodied the evidence'southward lack of story structure, over-reliance on pop civilization references and overall unfunnyness past linking it to manatees in a fish tank picking out random phrases to think up gags. Another glory critic of 'Family Guy' is Chris Ware who feels that Stewie Griffin is a copy of his own character: 'Jimmy Corrigan'. MacFarlane replied that he understands why Ware would reach that conclusion, but otherwise never saw the series before.

Musical career
In the 2010s MacFarlane became more recognizable to full general audiences. In 2011 he signed a tape contract with Universal Republic and released various albums where he covers old jazz and big band songs. His Christmas album 'Vacation for Swing' (2014) featured collaborations with Norah Jones and Sara Bareilles. MacFarlane sang a duet with Barbra Streisand, 'Pure Imagination', on her album 'Encore' (2016). He was also a guest vocalizer during the 2009 and 2015 BBC Proms concerts, where he respectively performed music from MGM musicals and Frank Sinatra songs. He became more visible as an thespian, managing director and Television host as well. The versatile artist played Ensign Rivers in the 'Star Trek' episode 'The Forgotten' (2006), sang the opening theme in the 'Futurama' film 'Into the Wild Green Yonder' (2009) and was special guest voice in the Futurama episode 'Game of Tones' (2013) and 'The Simpsons' episodes 'Dangers on a Train' (2013) and  'Simpsons Guy' (2014).

Picture career
In the 2010s MacFarlane fabricated a move to alive-action by writing and directing the comedy film 'Ted' (2012). The story of a man, John (Marker Wahlberg), and his cute-looking but lewd teddy bear received practiced reviews and was a huge blockbuster. MacFarlane voiced Ted, while Mila Kunis (voice of Meg in 'Family Guy') played the part of John's girlfriend. His western parody 'A 1000000 Ways To Dice in the Due west' (2014) and the sequel 'Ted two' (2015) on the other mitt were box office disasters, which seems to have put his movie career on agree for a while.

Alive-action Tv set career
MacFarlane is furthermore agile as executive producer. He produced the chop-chop cancelled Television sitcoms 'The Winner' (2007), 'Dads' (2013-2014), 'Blunt Talk' (2015-2016) and the animated Tv series 'Bordertown' (2016). More than well-received was the science documentary TV serial 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' (2011) hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In 2017 MacFarlane created a tragicomical sciencefiction Idiot box series named 'The Orville'. Despite hostile critical reviews it went on to become a surprising ratings hitting, even pulling in more viewers than the recent 'Star Trek' series reboot at times. Near of it has to exercise with the fact that 'The Orville' appeals more to Trekkies since it mimicks the general atmosphere of erstwhile 'Star Expedition' seasons, while the modern 'Star Trek' films and Television receiver shows feel more than needlessly action-packed and dumbed downwards.

Recognition
'Family Guy' has won viii Emmy Awards and 3 Annie Awards.

Peter Griffin, Seth MacFarlane and Stan Smith.

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