Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The show centers around the fictional Griffin family and its bumbling character Peter Griffin. It was created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX who also provides the voices for many of the characters in the show, writes some of the material, and is one of the show's Executive Producers. The show uses frequent "cutaway gags" -- jokes in the form of tangential vignettes that do not advance the story and borrow heavily from popular culture. Family Guy was cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced FOX to resume the show in 2005. It is the first cancelled show to be resurrected based on DVD sales. MORE | [EDIT]