2. About family guy
Family Guy is an American animated TV series,
created by Seth McFarland for the channel FOX. It
focuses on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family
living in the fictional city of Quahog. The pilot was
first shown in 1998 before being given the green
light for production and it becoming hugely
successful, despite being cancelled twice. The
family consists of parents, Peter and Lois, children
Chris and Meg, baby Stewie and the family dog
Brian.
The narrative for each episode is stand-alone,
usually about the family's mishappenings with
each other, their friends, or neighbours. At the end
of the episode, the problem is solved and the
family live on happily to suffer the next episode.
Family Guy is full of media and pop culture
references, pastiche and intertextuality are
perhaps the most dominant postmodern traits
within the show. These postmodern aspects are
used to create humour, episodes feature a huge
amount of references to virtually every subject
possible, with its use of the technique of ‘a million
