Family Guy Research Paper

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Intro
Family Guy, ted, ted 2, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show. None of these amazing shows and movies would be possible without the one and only Seth MacFarlane. A man that holds no boundaries when it comes to talent, or his television shows. From acting to singing, you can't stop him even if you tried, this is what makes him a Renaissance man.
Growing up
Seths animation, writing, singing, acting career all started when he was about two years old. He started by drawing simple cartoons like, Woody Woodpecker and Fred Flintstone. As soon as he could talk, he asked the question, “How are cartoons made?” This question sparked his inspiration to find out. At age nine, he got a job with his local newspaper to write a comic strip every week. He continued drawing and started animating throughout high school, this lead to him going to Rhode Island school of design to study animation. This got him a job at Cartoon Network Studios as a …show more content…

He used his own voice for both Larry (early draft of Peter Griffin) and Steve (the dog, early draft of Brian Griffin). The show was also his capstone project at the Rhode Island School of Design. Many of the cutaways and scenes in The Life of Larry show up in Family Guy, showing that he made connections with the two shows. With two other shows he was making at the time,(American Dad! and The Cleveland Show) he had many troubles keeping up with Family Guy. The only reason that The Cleveland Show was a thing was because of Seth taking Cleveland Brown from Family guy and moving him to Vermont to have his own show that lasted for five seasons, then Cleveland came back to Family Guy. American Dad! has not had any problems but they could come up in the future if Seth gets careless with profanity like he did in 2002 and got Family Guy canceled, but came back due to popular demand in 2005 when American Dad!

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