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Family Guy is an animated television program created by Seth MacFarlane. It contains adult themes, and is not appropriate for younger audiences. It details the life of "the Griffins," a fictitious family who live in Quahog, Rhode Island. It has similarities to The Simpsons which have been referenced and parodied on both shows.

Criticism
Due to its adult content, the Parents' Television Council has named it one of the worst programs on television.

The show also has pervasive liberal themes. It also often takes demeaning treatment of creationists.

The comedy aspect of Family Guy's writing has been criticized by the writers of South Park. One two-part South Park episode called Family Guy's jokes "irrelevant to the plot." The episode also showed Family Guy's writers as manatees who would put balls containing random ideas into a machine.

Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is one of the main characters in Family Guy; he is the father of Stewie, Meg, and Chris, and the husband of Lois. He is of partial Irish and African-American decent, and was born in Mexico.

Lois Griffin
Lois Griffin is one of the main characters in Family Guy; she is the mother of Stewie, Meg, and Chris, and the wife of Peter. Her father is Carter Pewterschmidt.

Meg Griffin
Meg Griffin is the nerdy daughter of Lois and Peter.

Chris Griffin
Chris Griffin is the doofus son of Peter and Lois. Chris was once expelled from his high school, James Woods High, his parents looked around for several schools but couldn't find any that seemed acceptable for their son, they finally ask Lois's father Carter, to enroll their son in a very well school. He does but Chris didn't like the school, so Carter pulls some strings and gets Chris back into James Woods High.

Stewie Griffin
Stewie Griffin is one of the main characters in Family Guy. He is the youngest of the Griffin family (still in diapers). He has passing fantasies of committing matricide.

Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is the family dog of the Griffins. Several episodes allude to him being attracted to Lois Griffin; in one, when Peter was presumed lost at sea, he married Lois. Brian is the most intelligent and cultivated member of the Griffin family, and has contributed to the New Yorker.

Rupert
Rupert is Stewie Griffin's teddybear, which he often talks to.

Carter Pewterschmidt
Carter Pewterschmidt is the husband of Barbara Pewterschmidt, he is the father of three children, two daughters Lois Griffin and Carol Pewterschmidt, and a son named Patrick Pewterschmidt, who is mentally unstable. He is very wealthy and opposed his daughter marrying Peter Griffin because he was of lower class than his daughter.

Barbara Pewterschmidt
Barbara Pewterschmidt is the wife of Carter Pewterschmidt, she is the mother of three children, two daughters Lois Griffin and Carol Pewterschmidt, and a son named Patrick Pewterschmidt, who is mentally unstable.

Marguerite Pewterschmidt
Marguerite Pewterschmidt is the aunt of Carter Pewterschmidt.

Francis Griffin
Francis Griffin is the step-father of Peter Griffin. He is a deeply religious Irish Catholic, and often says remarks against Peter's constant drinking of Alcohol, him marrying a Protestant, and other issues. He died after Peter fell on him while drunk at Meg's 17th birthday, he was immediatly sent to a hospital, his last words to Peter were, "you're a fat, stinking drunk."

Mickey McFinnigan
Mickey McFinnigan is the town drunk in a city in Ireland, he has a pet sheep named O'Brian who looks very similar to Brian Griffin. He is the biological father of Peter Griffin, he got Peter Griffin's mother pregnant while she was on a vacation in Ireland.

Glenn Quagmire
Glenn Quagmire is one of Peter Griffin's best friends, Glenn Quagmire is obsessed with sex, and secretly, wants to have sex with Peter Griffin's wife, Lois Griffin. His catchphrase is "Giggity".

Adam West
Adam West is the mayor of Quahog. The character is voiced by Batman actor Adam West.