History WesternAnimation / LarryAndSteve

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Larry & Steve'' is a cartoon aimed at children. The eventual ''Family Guy'' is an AnimatedShockComedy.

* DeadpanSnarker: Steve is ''quite'' the sarcastic dog towards Larry and pretty much everyone. (Justified that he was the answer to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Brian Griffin]].)

* CasualDangerDialog: In "Larry and Steve", while the car is driving out-of-control towards a stack of TNT, Steve interrupts his scream to point out: "[[LampshadeHanging Wait a minute, isn't that a little contrived?]]"

** And then when Larry's car is bisected laterally by a literal [[VisualPun fork in the road]] and Steve's side crashes through the house of an old couple playing Scrabble.

The short is most famous for being a prototypical version of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. The short is a sequel to a 1995 short film done as a thesis film by Creator/SethMacFarlane. It doesn't have Larry's son Milt and Larry's wife Lois in it, but Larry and Steve are mostly the same as they were in the previous short. Being aimed at kids, it lacks the vulgar humour of its successor, but the similarities are still clear. Steve has the same voice and characteristics as Brian and Larry has the same voice and characteristics as Peter (as well as a similar outfit). The airplane pilot who briefly appears even has the same voice characteristics (and general appearance, only with a slightly smaller chin) as Quagmire. Elements from the pilot were reused for the first two ''Family Guy'' episodes as well.

''Larry & Steve'' is a ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' short from the mid-1990s. It is about a bipedal dog named Steve and his dopey owner, Larry.

The short is most famous for being a prototypical version of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. The short is a sequel to a 1995 short film done as a thesis film by Creator/SethMacFarlane. It doesn't have Larry's son Milt and Larry's wife Lois in it, but Larry and Steve are mostly the same as they were in the previous short. Being aimed at kids, it lacks the vulgar humour of its successor, but the similarities are still clear. Steve has the same voice and characteristics as Brian and Larry has the same voice and characteristics as Peter. The airplane pilot who briefly appears even has the same voice characteristics (and general appearance) as Quagmire. Elements from the pilot were reused for the first two ''Family Guy'' episodes as well.

* CasualDangerDialog: In "Larry and Steve", while the car is driving out-of-control towards a stack of TNT, Steve interrupts his scream to point out: "Wait a minute, isn't that a little contrived?"

* LampshadeHanging: While the car is driving out-of-control towards a stack of TNT, Steve interrupts his scream to point out: "Wait a minute, isn't that a little contrived?"

The short is most famous for being a prototypical version of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. The short is a sequel to a 1995 short film done as a thesis film by Creator/SethMacFarlane. It doesn't have Larry's son Milt and Larry's wife Lois in it, but Larry and Steve are mostly the same as they were in the previous short. Being aimed at kids, it lacks the vulgar humour of its successor, but the similarities are still clear. Steve has the same voice and characteristics as Brian and Larry has the same voice and characteristics as Peter. Elements from the pilot were reused for the first two ''Family Guy'' episodes as well.

-->'''Larry:''' Whoops.\\
'''Steve:''' Idiot.
* FourFingeredHands: Everyone has them.

* LighterAndSofter: Than the ''Life of Larry'' short.

* MadeOfIron:
** Steve endures a lot of abuse throughout the cartoon, crashing into TNT, getting beat up by a malfunctioning massage bed, and getting stuck on the tip of a plane as it crashes into a mall. It's a wonder he can still go on.
** Ricky and his pilot father somehow survive the plane crash into the department store without scratch on them.

* RuleOfFunny:
** Larry somehow got his foot stuck in a radiator at school and took 12 years to get out. Somehow, nobody ever came and found him in all that time, and he did not starve to death.
** The pilot just letting his son fly a jet plane all by himself, despite how stupid and highly illegal is it.

* LighterAndSofter: Than the ''Life of Larry'' short. And ''definitely'' than ''Family Guy''.

** Ricky and his father somehow survive the plane crash into the department store without scratch on them.

* RuleOfFunny: Larry somehow got his foot stuck in a radiator at school and took 12 years to get out. Somehow, nobody ever came and found him in all that time, and he did not starve to death.

** Steve references ''Theatre/Agamemnon'' when Larry asks how he felt after the bed massager beat him up.

-->'''Steve:''' You will be indirectly responsible for the resulting euthanasia.[[labelnote:*]]youth in Asia[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Larry:''' Oh boy, they got enough kids over there as it is.

* MadeOfIron: Steve endures a lot of abuse throughout the cartoon, crashing into TNT, getting beat up by a malfunctioning massage bed, and getting stuck on the tip of a plane as it crashes into a mall. It's a wonder he can still go on.
* NegativeContinuity: This cartoon and the ''Life of Larry'' short cannot exist in the same continuity, because even if you were to try and consider this as a prequel, in the first short, Larry was married, had a son, and lived in a house instead of an apartment.

* ShoutOut: When Larry supercharges a lamp with an 800 watt bulb and causes it to shoot light so powerful it can cut through things, he says "[[Franchise/StarWars Luke, this is your landlord. You still haven't returned my weed wacker]]".

* {{Mondegreen}}: When Steve firmly explains what will happen if Larry doesn't adopt him:
-->'''Steve:''' You will be indirectly responsible for the resulting euthanasia.[[labelnote:*]]youth in Asia[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Larry:''' Oh boy, they got enough kids over there as it is.

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