Who is family guy based on

The minute film is unrated in the US and includes commentary, deleted material, and other bonus features. An edited version of the film was shown as the season finale on May 21, The film's plot concerns Stewie finding out what he is like in the future.

Originally, the movie was going to be made before the TV episodes, but the film got pushed back when the ideas within the episodes took off. Playable characters include Peter, Brian and Stewie.

The video game is rated M for Mature and is rated 15 in the UK. The show usually revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin, a bumbling but well-intentioned blue-collar worker. His wife Lois is generally a stay-at-home mother and piano teacher, and has a distinct New England accent from being a member of the Pewterschmidt family of wealthy socialites. Peter and Lois have three children: teenage daughter Meg , who is frequently the butt of Peter's 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 what some consider an upper-class affected 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. The main cast do voices for several recurring characters other than those listed, as well as impersonate celebrities and pop-culture icons.

Lacey Chabert voiced Meg Griffin for the first production season of 15 episodes; however, because of a contractual agreement, she was never credited.

She would later receive on-screen credit for her pre-existing performances in " Back to the Pilot " and " Yug Ylimaf ". 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. On the DVD commentary for the first episode " Death Has a Shadow ", creator Seth MacFarlane says that the writers stopped doing this when they realized they were beginning to get the titles confused.

When the show unexpectedly returned for a fourth season, FOX marketing believed that overseas buyers would hesitate to buy new box sets not labeled as complete seasons so they continued to label each box as a "season" despite the fact that they bear little in common with the FOX broadcasting season. To add to the confusion, Broadcast season 5 was broken up with part of the episodes labeled as Reg.

Starting with Family Guy Season 12 , the Reg. However, select disks in the set are still marked as "Volume 13". In March , comedian Carol Burnett filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming that it was a copyright infringement for her Charwoman cleaning character to be portrayed on the show without her permission.

Besides that, Burnett stated that Fox violated her publicity rights. On June 4, , U. District Judge Dean Pregerson rejected the lawsuit, stating that the parody was protected under the First Amendment, using Hustler v. Falwell as a precedent. Some distraught fans quickly flocked to a Change. In the end, Brian returned to his rightful place in the Griffin home only two episodes later, not due to public outcry but by design of the publicity stunt.

Macy into the Griffin family fold. And only because I was in school and doing Party of Five at the time. As for the other two Megs?

Cree Summer, best known as the voice of Elmyra in Tiny Toon Adventures , was originally hired to voice Meg in the pilot. But before she recorded her lines, Summer was fired by producers for unexplained reasons according to whatculture. I had to re-audition for it, along with every female that ever stepped off a bus in Hollywood.

Peter Griffin : Brian, there's a message in my Alpha Bits. Brian Griffin : Peter, those are Cheerios. Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer Animation Comedy. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Full Episode Clip Family Guy: Season Fourteen. Family Guy: Volume Thirteen. Photos Top cast Edit.

Ralph Garman Various as Various …. Chris Cox George W. Bush as George W. Bush …. John G. Brennan Mort Goldman as Mort Goldman …. Fred Tatasciore Various as Various ….