Family Guy was transparently conceived as a Simpsons copycat, and it ripped off a lot of specific characters, both major and minor. Both shows have joked about Family Guy borrowing from The Simpsons.

It’s no secret that Family Guy — a show about a cartoon dum-dum with a wife and three kids — borrowed heavily from The Simpsons. Maybe a little too heavily. As we’ve mentioned before, Matt Groening’s ...

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad!) discusses the influence of adult animated series and names his "Mt. Rushmore" of ...

2025 was already a banner year for Fox's longest-running animated series, with several shows earning four-season extensions, and the news that American Dad is returning to its former network. Then ...

The Simpsons has had its fair share of public feuds over the years, from that beef with George H.W. Bush to its long-running rivalry with Family Guy. The latter famously found Matt Groening’s show ...

In this relay race of intelligent joke understanding, we’d be the middle runner who accepts the baton from these cartoons and then immediately hands them to you. We wouldn’t be able to run with it, ...