History TakeThat / FamilyGuy

* In "Regarding Carter", after having several lab monkeys watch the film ''Vikings'' for 66 hours, Carter wants them to watch ''Divorce''. When a scientist objects, Carter says that he needs the monkeys to watch ''Divorce'' because having humans watch it would be inhumane.

* "[[Recap/FamilyGuy4E7BrianTheBachelor Brian The Bachelor]]" was supposed to be a huge one towards {{Creator/ABC}} and parent {{Creator/Disney}} after their disastrous 2003-2004 television season, where Bachelor \ Bachelorette and football were the only things from ABC in Nielsen Top 30. There was going to be a big Peter's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the end, bashing Michael Eisner for betrayal of Disney shareholders. While the episode was in production, ABC made a huge comeback with ''{{Series/Lost}}'', ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' and ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', landing on second place overall behind Fox. So most of the episode ended up on chopping block save for original setup (Brian participating in Series/TheBachelorette) and some general gags.
-->'''Michael Eisner''': On behalf of ABC, I'd like to give you this parting gift.
-->'''Brian Griffin''': [[BaitAndSwitch A bill for the mansion?]]
-->'''Michael Eisner''': [running away] No givesies-backsies!

-->'''Cleveland''': It's hard to make a talking bear funny.
-->'''Quagmire''': [[Film/{{Ted}} It worked out okay in movie form!]]

* The ColdOpen of "He's Bla-ack!" is one for sister series ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', with Cleveland getting roasted about everything that was wrong with his show, from Joe saying that the show's logo looks like a penis to Quagmire saying that Tim (Cleveland's talking bear friend) was so bad that Seth [=MacFarlane=] [[TheOtherDarrin stopped voicing him after Season 2.]]

* The episode "Trump Guy" had a multitude of Take That's, aimed at the Trump Administration, ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', and even ''Family Guy'' itself.

* "[[Recap/FamilyGuy4E7BrianTheBachelor Brian The Bachelor]]" was supposed to be a huge one towards {{Creator/ABC}} and parent {{Creator/Disney}} after their disastrous 2003-2004 television season, where Bachelor \ Bachelorette and football were the only things from ABC in Nielsen Top 30. There was going to be a big Peter's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the end, bashing Michael Eisner for betrayal of Disney shareholders. While the episode was in production, ABC made a huge comeback with ''{{Series/Lost}}'', Series/DesperateHousewives and Series/GreysAnatomy, landing on second place overall behind Fox. So most of the episode ended up on chopping block save for original setup (Brian participating in Series/TheBachelorette) and some general gags.

* "[[Recap/FamilyGuy4E7BrianTheBachelor Brian The Bachelor]]" was supposed to be a huge one towards {{Creator/ABC}} and parent {{Creator/Disney}} after their disastrous 2003-2004 television season, where Bachelor \ Bachelorette and football were the only things from ABC in Nielsen Top 30. There was going to be a big Peter's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the end, bashing Michael Eisner for betrayal of Disney shareholders. While the episode was in production, ABC made a huge comeback with {{Series/Lost}}, Series/DesperateHousewives and Series/GreysAnatomy, landing on second place overall behind Fox. So most of the episode ended up on chopping block save for original setup (Brian participating in Series/TheBachelorette) and some general gags.

-->'''Brian Griffin''': [[Main/BaitAndSwitch A bill for the mansion?]]

* The episode "Trump Guy" had a multitude of Take That's, aimed at the Trump Administration, ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', and even ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' itself.

* The ColdOpen of "He's Bla-ack!" is one for sister series ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', with the guys roasting Cleveland about everything that was wrong with his show, from Joe saying that the show's logo looks like a penis to Quagmire saying that Tim (Cleveland's talking bear friend) was so bad that Seth [=MacFarlane=] [[TheOtherDarrin stopped voicing him after Season 2.]]

* The ColdOpen of "He's Bla-ack!" is one for sister series ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', with the guys telling Cleveland everything that was wrong with his show, from Joe saying that the show's logo looks like a penis to Quagmire saying that Tim (Cleveland's talking bear friend) was so bad that Seth [=MacFarlane=] [[TheOtherDarrin stopped voicing him after Season 2.]]

-->'''Quagmire''': [[Film/{{Ted}} It worked out okay in movie form!]]

'''Stewie''': "Because you never know just how the show might-" *the song cuts to black*

* The ending of "Stewie Kills Lois" concludes with a dig at the infamous way ''Series/TheSopranos'' ended. After it's revealed that it and the previous episode were AllJustADream (technically, a simulation), Brian [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall comments that a copout like that would really tick people off]], to which Stewie retorts how it's still better than the way ''The Sopranos'' ended, cutting to black midsentence ([[HypocriticalHumor cue Stewie being cut off midsentence as things cut to black]]). To top it all off, this had just aired a few months after the 2007 Emmy Awards, which featured an animated musical number performed by Brian and Stewie to the tune of the show's FCC song and had a similar knock. Creator/SethMacFarlane must have really hated the series finale.

* The ColdOpen of "He's Bla-ack!" is one for sister series ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', with the guys telling Cleveland everything that was wrong with his show, from Joe saying that the show's logo looks like a penis to Quagmire saying that the Tim (Cleveland's talking bear friend) was so bad that Seth [=MacFarlane=] [[TheOtherDarrin stopped voicing him after Season 2.]]

-->'''Michael Eisner''': [running away] No givesies-backsies!

* In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E16TheCourtshipOfStewiesFather The Courtship of Stewie's Father]]", when Peter and Stewie go to Disney World, Stewie is captured by security and told to sing on an attraction. When he initially refuses, another boy warns him that the alternative is starring in a Christmas movie with Creator/TimAllen, who had starred in three Christmas movies, the only one well-received by critics being ''Film/TheSantaClause'', and coincidentally would go on to star in another dud a year later.

* "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E17ForeignAffairs Foreign Affairs]]" features a cutaway that is the music video of "Dancing in the Street" featuring Music/DavidBowie and Music/MickJagger, in its entirety, followed by Peter saying "That happened, and we all let it happen".
-->'''Peter:''' "1985 brought us the gayest music video of all time".//

* Seth [=MacFarlane=] apparently REALLY hates Disney, as quite a few episodes take rather harsh slams at the company. Ironically, [[HilariousInHindsight Disney would eventually buy 20th Century Fox - meaning that ''Family Guy'' is now owned by Disney]]. For example, "Road to the Multiverse" includes a scene where Brian and Stewie visit a universe where everything is drawn by Disney. Everything seems great... until Mort enters, and gets the crap beaten out of him. Stewie then says dryly, "Oh yes, I forgot that this was a ''Disney'' universe..." This is one of their many slams at Walt due to the urban legend that he was anti-semitic (yes, a show that [[HypocriticalHumour constantly makes jokes at the expense of the Jewish]] - among other religions - is making fun of somebody for supposedly being anti-semitic).

* Seth MacFarlane apparently REALLY hates Disney, as quite a few episodes take rather harsh slams at the company. Ironically, [[HilariousInHindsight Disney would eventually buy 20th Century Fox - meaning that ''Family Guy'' is now owned by Disney]]. For example, "Road to the Multiverse" includes a scene where Brian and Stewie visit a universe where everything is drawn by Disney. Everything seems great... until Mort enters, and gets the crap beaten out of him. Stewie then says dryly, "Oh yes, I forgot that this was a ''Disney'' universe..." This is one of their many slams at Walt due to the urban legend that he was anti-semitic (yes, a show that [[HypocriticalHumour constantly makes jokes at the expense of the Jewish]] - among other religions - is making fun of somebody for supposedly being anti-semitic).

* In TheTeaser of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E1NorthByNorthQuahog North by North Quahog]]", Peter listed off [[LongList all the shows that Fox had tried to air between the time Family Guy was cancelled and resurrected]] - twenty-nine, to be specific.
* They once took a shot at Music/CourtneyLove. Let's just say Music/KurtCobain quit taking drugs and never committed suicide.

* In a [[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun]]-style opening sequence, Stewie runs Homer down in the Griffin family garage. Peter walks in and says "Who the hell is that?"
* Again with Homer Simpson in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E9TheJuiceIsLoose The Juice is Loose]]". Creator/AdamWest is talking to someone off the screen, "We don't want you in our town Simpson. We don't love you like we did back in 1993. . ." We think he was talking to OJ Simpson, but the screen cuts to Homer Simpson yelling "D'oh". Adam's quote references the public's love of OJ before his crime exposure in 1994 and 1993 was considered to be the heyday and peak of ''The Simpsons''.

* A cut scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E2MovinOutBriansSong Movin' Out (Brian's Song)]]" had Quagmire abducting and seducing Marge Simpson, before being discovered by Homer and being forced to kill the entire Simpson family with a shotgun. Creator/MattGroening was pissed off about that episode, to the point where he actually stopped speaking to Seth [=MacFarlane=] for a while. [=MacFarlane=] realized that he had probably gone too far and ultimately had to apologize. It didn't help that when Fox refused to air the sequence, Seth responded with a long rant on the DVD commentary for the episode where he said ''The Simpsons'' was awful and Fox was showing unfair favoritism toward it, but Fox actually refused to air the bit because it features Quagmire ''murdering kids'' (Bart, Lisa, and Maggie).
* In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E2MotherTrucker Mother Tucker]]", Brian accuses Stewie of selling out. Cut to Stewie holding a Butterfinger bar and saying, "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger... D'oh!" [[HilariousInHindsight Ironically]], Peter Griffin would go on to do advertisements for Subway, and a Stewie parade balloon would appear on a Coke commercial during the 2008 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl.

* There were a few shots at ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine earlier in the show's run. One scene had the magazine as a suggestion for toilet paper, and another one had a character beat up a reporter from it. This was possibly done in response to the negative reviews that the magazine gave ''Family Guy'' in its initial run (even calling it the "fifth worst show of the year" during the second season). They called it the "worst show of the year" in its first season.

* In a similar vein to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Halloween episode "The Ned Zone," in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E18MeetTheQuagmires Meet the Quagmires]]" regarding an alternate universe where Quagmire married Lois instead of Peter, Lois mentioned that Osama bin Laden was captured and that he was hiding out among the cast of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'', to which Quagmire remarks that ''Series/{{MADtv}}''[='=]s the "only place that no one would think to look." Doubles as both a HilariousInHindsight and a FunnyAneurysmMoment, the former obviously because of Bin Ladin's death, and the latter because of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'''s being cancelled in 2009 without even a finale.
* The opening scroll of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' parody "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" contained Take Thats to FOX, with the scroll rambling about how stupid the executives were because, collectively, they had so little faith in both ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' being successful that they gave Creator/GeorgeLucas international merchandising rights for the former, cancelled the latter twice, and didn't pay attention to the fact that the episode spent a ridiculous amount of money to animate a random elephant for no reason other than because they could. On the DVD commentary, they do give credit to the top execs at Fox for allowing the scroll, especially since it mentioned the stockholders.

* Seth MacFarlane apparently REALLY hates Disney, as quite a few episodes take rather harsh slams at the company. Ironically, [[HilariousInHindsight Disney would eventually buy 20th Century Fox - meaning that ''Family Guy'' is now owned by Disney]]. For example, "Road to the Multiverse" includes a scene where Brian and Stewie visit a universe where everything is drawn by Disney. Everything seems great... until Mort enters, and gets the crap beaten out of him. Stewie then says dryly, "Oh yes, I forgot that this was a DISNEY universe..." This is one of their MANY slams at Walt due to the urban legend that he was anti-semitic (yes, a show that [[HypocriticalHumour constantly makes jokes at the expense of the Jewish]] - among other religions - is making fun of somebody for supposedly being anti-semitic).

* The ending of "Stewie Kills Lois" concludes with a dig at the infamous way ''Series/TheSopranos'' ended. After it's revealed that it and the previous episode were AllJustADream (technically, a simulation), Brian [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall comments that a copout like that would really tick people off]], to which Stewie retorts how it's still better than the way the Sopranos ended, cutting to black midsentence ([[HypocriticalHumor cue Stewie being cut off midsentence as things cut to black]]). To top it all off, this had just aired a few months after the 2007 Emmy Awards, which featured an animated musical number performed by Brian and Stewie to the tune of the show's FFC song and had a similar knock. Creator/SethMacFarlane must have really hated the series finale.
-->'''Brian''': "Now the Sopranos is a show I'd recommend."\\
'''Stewie''': "Because you just don't know quite how the show will-" *the song cuts to black*

-->'''[[ActorAllusion Chris]]:''' Look! ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]]''! [[SelfDeprecation Yay! Those shows existed!]]\\

* Seth MacFarlane apparently REALLY hates Disney, as quite a few episodes take rather harsh slams at the company. Ironically, [[HilariousInHindsight Disney would eventually buy 20th Century Fox - meaning that ''Family Guy'' is now owned by Disney]]. For example, "Road to the Multiverse" includes a scene where Brian and Stewie visit a universe where everything is drawn by Disney. Everything seems great... until Mort enters, and gets the crap beaten out of him. Stewie then says dryly, "Oh yes, I forgot that this was a DISNEY universe..." This is one of their MANY slams at Walt for his supposed anti-semitism (yes, a show that constantly makes jokes at the expense of the Jewish - among other religions - is making fun of somebody for being anti-semitic).

** The jab at the latter series is interesting, considering that Seth MacFarlane is actually a fan of the series, and later got Creator/DavidTennant to reprise his role as [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor the Tenth Doctor]] for a cutaway gag.

-->'''[[ActorAllusion Chris]]:''' Look! ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]]''! [[SelfDeprecation Yay! Those shows existed!]]\\

* A cut scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E2MovinOutBriansSong Movin' Out (Brian's Song)]]" had Quagmire abducting and seducing Marge Simpson, before being discovered by Homer and being forced to kill the entire Simpson family with a shotgun. Matt Groening was pissed off about that episode, to the point where he actually stopped speaking to Seth [=MacFarlane=] for a while. [=MacFarlane=] realized that he had probably gone too far and ultimately had to apologize. It didn't help that when Fox refused to air the sequence, Seth responded with a long rant on the DVD commentary for the episode where he said ''The Simpsons'' was awful and Fox was showing unfair favoritism toward it, but Fox actually refused to air the bit because it features Quagmire ''murdering kids'' (Bart, Lisa, and Maggie).

* In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E16TheCourtshipOfStewiesFather The Courtship of Stewie's Father]]", when Peter and Stewie go to Disney World, Stewie is captured by security and told to sing on an attraction. When he initially refuses, another boy warns him that the alternative is starring in a Christmas movie with Creator/TimAllen, who had starred in four Christmas movies, the only one well-received by critics being ''Film/TheSantaClause''.

''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has made a few shots in return for all the abuse that it has taken. It's also open for debate whether its frequent skewering of popular culture and society constitutes various forms of Take That, AffectionateParody, ''Non''-Affectionate reference or some combination thereof.

* And ''another'' had Quagmire abducting and seducing Marge Simpson, before being discovered by Homer and being forced to kill the entire Simpson family with a shotgun. Matt Groening was pissed off about that episode, to the point where he actually stopped speaking to Seth [=MacFarlane=] for a while. [=MacFarlane=] realized that he had probably gone too far and ultimately had to apologize. It didn't help that when Fox refused to air the sequence, Seth responded with a long rant on the DVD commentary for the episode where he said ''The Simpsons'' was awful and Fox was showing unfair favoritism toward it, but Fox actually refused to air the bit because it features Quagmire ''murdering kids'' (Bart, Lisa, and Maggie).

--->'''Cobain:''' ''Oh, you remember my wife, Courtney Love?''\\

--->'''[[ActorAllusion Chris]]:''' Look! ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]]''! [[SelfDeprecation Yay! Those shows existed!]]\\

--->'''Peter''': ''Beat that, Jared!''

--->'''Edward''': I'm a vampire, and I'm in love with this unattractive girl.\\