The creator of Family
Guy, American
Dad, and The Cleveland Show.
While the earliest seasons of Family
Guy were genuinely funny, the half-baked, arrogant, overly self-indulgent douchebag known as Seth MacFarlane now mostly uses it as a vehicle for his anti-religious opinions (stated as facts) and takes on social issues, which are usually projected through Lois. To make Family Guy more of a cartoon, and less of a rant on right-wing Christians, he sprinkles in bits of
Peter's buffoonery, Stewie-is-gay jokes,
random swear words, 70's and
80's movie references (which approximately 3 per cent of the show's mostly teenage and twenty-something douchebag audience understands), et cetera. American
Dad and The Cleveland Show are not used as frequently for this purpose, and are more or less cheap spin-offs of Family Guy, with their respective characters filling in each family role (
Peter = Stan = Cleveland, and so on).
