History Trivia / FamilyGuy

** The [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou Scooby gang]] has showed up a few times, and each time Creator/FrankWelker reprized his role as Fred Jones.

* RoleReprise: Creator/JeffBennett reprised his role as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Sylvester the Cat]] for the Rapid Dave CutawayGag in "Padre De Familia".

* OutOfOrder: ''Family Guy'', like many comedies of its type, doesn't have a particularly tight continuity, so this isn't usually noticeable. However, it did cause a couple minor issues during the first three seasons. During the second season aired, first and second-season production episodes were aired interchangeably (rather than finishing the season one production before airing the season two-produced episodes). As a result, Meg's voice flip-flops between Creator/LaceyChabert and Creator/MilaKunis. The other issue is a small PlotHole in "A Very Special Famiy Guy Freakin' Christmas." The episode was made early in season 2, but aired in the middle of season 3. As a result, Peter celebrating having a week's vacation made no real sense. By that point in the episodes aired, Peter was a fisherman in business for himself. He could take a vacation whenever he wanted. But being made in season 2, Peter was still working at the toy factory, so celebrating a vacation would make sense.

* DVDCommentary: The commentaries are odd in that Creator/SethMacFarlane uses his normal speaking voice for Brian, a talking dog, so he appears to be doing the commentary in-character. He also flat out refuses to do the voices of any of the characters he voices (Peter, Stewie, Quagmire etc) during said commentary. Usually with (hopefully tongue-in-cheek) threats of violence against whoever suggested it.

** Sadly, [=FX=], [=FXX=], and Freeform all use the butchered free-to-air syndication prints (the ones used for local broadcast stations) of the show's first 15 seasons, which are even more censored than the versions used for their initial broadcasts on Fox. This means that the uncut versions of those episodes can now only be obtained through the show's [=DVD=] releases. Adding insult to injury, those butchered prints are sped up on Freeform. [=TBS=] also sped up its reruns of those seasons, but at least the prints they used were either the same uncut versions seen on Adult Swim or just slightly more censored than those prints.

** In June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder that triggered worldwide protests, TBS and Adult Swim pulled a number of episodes from the first 15 seasons from their rerun rotation, whose plots, scenes, or cutaway gags deal with police, protests, and racism, such as "E. Peterbus Unum", "Barely Legal", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Baby Got Black", and "A Shot in the Dark". However, these episodes are still available on local broadcast stations, DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services. Once [=WarnerMedia=]'s rights to anything before Season 16 expired in September of 2021, those aforementioned episodes reran on Disney-owned channels, FX, FXX, and Freeform.

** The Creator/{{Netflix}} release also erases the infamous gag in "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" where Quagmire rapes Marge Simpson and kills her family. That scene was also cut when FOX aired it and when it airs on free-TV syndication. Creator/CartoonNetwork and the DVD set featuring season six episodes have this uncut.
** {{Creator/TBS}}, unsurprisingly, slightly sped up the intro on reruns. However, it was not as bad as some of the shows that do get [[{{Series/Friends}} sped]] [[{{Series/Seinfeld}} up]].

** Creator/SethMacFarlane has stated in recent years that he wants ''Family Guy'' to end, but Fox wants to keep the show going for as long as possible. Considering that Fox [[MoneyDearBoy received so much money]] [[CashCowFranchise from the show's reruns and DVD sales]], this is eventful.

** Creator/SethMacFarlane has stated in recent years that he wants ''Family Guy'' to end, but Fox has absolutely refused to do that. Considering that Fox [[MoneyDearBoy received so much money]] [[CashCowFranchise from the show's reruns and DVD sales]], this is eventful.

** {{Creator/TBS}}, unsurprisingly, slightly speeds up the intro on reruns. However, it is not as bad as some of the shows that do get [[{{Series/Friends}} sped]] [[{{Series/Seinfeld}} up]].

*** In 2020, Freeform created a block called "Family Guy Fridays" which airs a ''Family Guy'' marathon every Friday. Beginning in 2021, the series began airing seven hours a week.

** For Creator/AdultSwim as well, even though it was an acquisition and not an instrumental. The show's massive success was instrumental in Adult Swim expanding after midnight and beyond weekends, and turning from a mere block on Creator/CartoonNetwork into its own subchannel.

*** In 2020, Freeform created a block called "Family Guy Fridays" which airs a Family Guy marathon every Friday. Beginning in 2021, the series began airing seven hours a week.

*** When Adult Swim and Creator/{{TBS}} finally lost the rights to the first 15 season of ''Family Guy'' in September 2021, Disney made damn sure to take advantage of it on their networks fast. FXX airs the show for four hours straight in primetime aside from Wednesdays and Thursdays, where new episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' and ''Series/{{Cake}}'' air. In addition, Freeform's marathon block of the show on Fridays has expanded to ''10 hours'', at the expense of FXX not airing the show that day. The show is loved by FXX so much that sister channel FX started airing it on Saturday mornings, making it one of three acquisitions airing on the network. Also, the marathons on Sunday now have a theme to it, much like their blocks of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on that day.

** Creator/AdultSwim loved ''Family Guy'', giving it constant promotion even calling the episodes that are new to the block (but already aired on Fox) as new episodes. It's not hard to see why as it constantly brought in high ratings for the block often competing with and sometimes surpassing Creator/CartoonNetwork's own shows. That ''was'' until ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' came along, which regularly beats out ''Family Guy'' in ratings (at least with premieres) but the latter is still one of the block's highest rated shows.
** Once Disney acquired the cable syndication rights for the series, they've shown their love for it:
*** [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] airs the show nine hours a week. As of October 2020, FXX only has the rights to '''''60 episodes''''' (they have the rights to Seasons 16 through 18, and before Season 19 aired, Creator/WarnerMedia lost the rights to everything before Season 16 in September 2021).

*** As of September 2021, FXX airs the show for four hours straight in primetime aside from Wednesdays and Thursdays, where new episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' and ''Series/{{Cake}}'' air. In addition, Freeform's marathon block of the show on Fridays has expanded to ''10 hours'', at the expense of FXX not airing the show that day. The show is loved by FXX so much that sister channel FX started airing it on Saturday mornings, making it one of three acquisitions airing on the network. Also, the marathons on Sunday now have a theme to it, much like their blocks of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on that day.

** Creator/AdultSwim loves ''Family Guy'' giving it constant promotion even calling the episodes that are new to the block (but already aired on Fox) as new episodes. It's not hard to see why as it constantly brings in high ratings for the block often competing with and sometimes surpassing Creator/CartoonNetwork's own shows. That ''was'' until ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' came along, which regularly beats out ''Family Guy'' in ratings (at least with premieres) but the latter is still one of the block's highest rated shows.

*** [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] airs the show nine hours a week. As of October 2020, FXX only has the rights to '''''60 episodes''''' (they have the rights to Seasons 16 through 18, and when Season 19 airs, Creator/WarnerMedia will continue to have the rights to everything before Season 16 until 2021).

** For syndication, Adult Swim had held cable rights to the series since April 2003, and has shared them with sister network Creator/{{TBS}} since that year. For season 16 onward, Creator/{{Disney}}-owned channels [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] and Creator/{{Freeform}} took over syndication duties. Adult Swim and TBS are set to lose rights to previous seasons in September 2021.

* NoExportForYou: As of November 2016, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (along with ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'') have yet to be released (or possibly [[NoDubForYou dubbed]]) in Japan.

** In June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder that triggered worldwide protests, TBS and Adult Swim pulled a number of episodes from the first 15 seasons from their rerun rotation, whose plots, scenes, or cutaway gags deal with police, protests, and racism, such as "E. Peterbus Unum", "Barely Legal", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Baby Got Black", and "A Shot in the Dark". However, these episodes are still available on local broadcast stations, DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services. It's unknown if those episode will be reran on Disney-owned channels, FX, FXX, and Freeform, when [=WarnerMedia=]'s rights to anything before Season 16 will expire in September, 2021.

* FranchiseZombie: Based on [[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44880176/ns/today-entertainment/#.TpdkHt4r27t this interview]] from October of 2011, creator Seth [=MacFarlane=] ''himself'' believes the series has become this, to say nothing of the haters.

** In June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder that triggered worldwide protests, TBS and Adult Swim pulled a number of episodes from the first 15 seasons from their rerun rotation, whose plots, scenes, or cutaway gags deal with police, protests, and racism, such as "E. Peterbus Unum", "Barely Legal", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Baby Got Black", and "A Shot in the Dark". However, these episodes are still available on local broadcast stations, DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services.

** In June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder that triggered worldwide protests, TBS and Adult Swim pulled a number of episodes from the first 15 seasons from their rerun rotation, whose plots or cutaway gags deal with police, protests, and racism, such as "E. Peterbus Unum", "Barely Legal", "Baby, You Knock Me Out", "Baby Got Black", and "A Shot in the Dark". However, these episodes are still available on local broadcast stations, DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services.

** For syndication, Adult Swim had held cable rights to the series since April 2003, and has shared them with sister network Creator/{{TBS}} since that year. For season 16 onward, Creator/{{Disney}}-owned channels [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] and Creator/{{Freeform}} took over syndication duties. Adult Swim and TBS are set to lose rights to previous seasons in 2021, along with ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''.

** "Turban Cowboy": While it wasn't well-liked due to the Muslim stereotypes (though it did [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped make a good point]] about not all Muslims being terrorists), that's not why it was banned after it first aired. Less than three weeks after its premiere, the Boston Marathon was hit by a terrorist attack. Not making things any better is the fact that the episode had a scene that predicted that a lot of people would die or be severely injured during the Boston Marathon (only it was because of Peter driving his car through the marathon path), ''and'' that a video showed up on the Internet that edited the scenes to make it look like Peter bombed the marathon. While FOX and Hulu stopped airing it in light of the attack, the episode did appear a few months later on Adult Swim, TBS, and Netflix streaming (U.S. feed).

** ''Family Guy'' was going to be a recurring animated sketch for ''Series/MADTv'' (as a competitor to Series/SaturdayNightLive's ''TV Funhouse'' cartoons), then again on ''Series/TheWeirdAlShow'' (as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''The Tracy Ulman Show'''s ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' cartoons) but Seth [=MacFarlane=] decided that the show would fare better as an animated sitcom.

* NamesTheSame: Averted with Mayor Adam West. Originally, the mayor was just going to be some nutcase who happened to have the same name as the actor. Then the real Adam West called...

** Supposedly, in the original airing of the episode "Brian in Love" had Peter asking Brian "Where do you think you are? Kmart?", to which was changed to Payless in later airings and on the Volume One DVD release. This has been debunked as a recording of the original airing has been uploaded, and it doesn't feature the "Kmart" line that's been rumored for so long [[https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArLllC183wYybCBOVf9FdwYkphk (There's even a picture in the folder that shows the captions saying "Payless")]].