Family Guy is perhaps the best know animated TV series, created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The Family Guy series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family, consisting of parents Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of the humor of cutaways gags that often lampoon American culture.

Although Family Guy is a very known show in America and worldwide, it has also received negative reviews. One of the initial critics to give the show negative reviews was Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly. He said that it lacks any reference point beyond other TV shows. Various episodes of the show have generated controversy. In The Son Also Draws, the Family Guy father, Peter, jokes that Canada sucks. This had a negative consequence on most Canadian Family Guy viewers. In Extra Large Medium, a character in Family Guy named Ellen, states that her mother is Sarah Palin, the only woman to have served in the office of governor in the state. Sarah Palin criticized the episode. Other reviewers accused the producers of the show of portraying religion negatively and of being racists, claiming that the Family Guy episodes were unsuitable.

Despite these controversies, Family Guy and its cast have been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, with four wins. In 2009, Family Guy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, thus becoming the first animated series to be nominated in this category, since the Flintstones, in 1961. Family Guy has also been nominated and has won various other awards, including Teen Choice Awards and People’s Choice Awards. It is without doubt that Family Guy is still successful after a decade of episodes. The show is so successful that some of the biggest Hollywood starts have admitted to be huge fans, such as Robert Downey Jr, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Lauren Conrad and Dwayne Johnson.