Family Guy is one of the most beloved animated television series, not only in America, but in the whole world. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, definitely knew how to make the series very successful, and he has his imagination to thank for that. The success of Family Guy is thus a result of the adventures that the Griffin family go trough and of the black humor that the family members are satirized with. The series is based on Peter Griffin’s adventures. He is an Irish-American Catholic, a little dumb some may say, but with good intentions. Along the series he discovers that he has Spanish, Scottish, Irish and German ancestors. Peter is known especially for his contagious laugh and for his black sense of humor.

Peter is married to Lois, another beloved Family Guy character. She is a housewife, but she occasionally gives piano lessons. The family where she comes from is called Pewterschmidt, and they are very rich people. Peter and Lois have three children: the adolescents Meg and Chris Griffin and the evil baby Stewie Griffin. Meg is constantly mocked for her ugliness, and Chris is quite stupid. Unlike them, the baby Stewie is keen on dominating the world and on his mother’s death, and he speaks fluent and eloquent, with a fancy English accent. Although every other Family Guy character can hear him, he is not taken in serious. The only one who pays attention to his evil plan is the family dog, Brian. The intellectual, talking dog, Brian, is the only one who understands Stewie and who does not treat him like a baby.

These are the main Family Guy characters, and as you can see, they form a pretty crazy family. This is though what makes the series so juicy and funny at the same time. Other recurrent Family Guy characters are the Griffin’s neighbors: the paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson, his constantly pregnant wife Bonnie, the sexual maniac Glenn Quagmire, who longs after Lois, Cleveland and Loretta Brown, the local news presenters Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, together with the Asian reporter Trisha Takanawa, and the crazy mayor Adam West. All these characters made Family Guy extremely popular and it brought the series record ratings and a large audience, who cannot wait to see what adventures are next.