Seth MacFarlane Explains How The Simpsons Influenced Family Guy
With the two consistently drawing comparisons to one another, Seth MacFarlane is giving some insight for how The Simpsons inspired Family Guy. MacFarlane's animated series revolves around the lives of Peter Griffin and his Rhode Island middle-class family, wife Lois, oldest son Chris, infant Stewie, daughter Meg and talking dog Brian. MacFarlane also leads the cast of Family Guy as Peter, Brian and Stewie alongside Alex Borstein as Lois, Seth Green as Chris, Mila Kunis as Meg, Mike Henry as a variety of characters, including neighbor Cleveland, and Patrick Warburton as neighbor Joe.
Created by Matt Groening, The Simpsons similarly follows Homer Simpson and his middle-class family Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie as they live in the fictional town of Springfield and try to get ahead in life. Dan Castellaneta leads the cast of The Simpsons as Homer with Julie Kavner starring as Marge, Nancy Cartwright as Bart and Maggie, Yeardly Smith as Lisa and Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer as a variety of characters. Both Family Guy and The Simpsons have enjoyed a long legacy on Fox since their '90s premieres and now one of their creators are sharing how the interact with one another.
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Ahead of The Orville season 3's premiere, Seth MacFarlane sat down with GQ to discuss his most iconic characters. In looking back on his long-running animated sitcom, MacFarlane opened up about how The Simpsons influenced Family Guy as well as his general career trajectory. See what MacFarlane said below:
“I was doing stand-up at the same time The Simpsons started to take off and that altered my trajectory. Because I was really loving doing stand-up, but obviously it wasn’t the kind of
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