I digress. The point is, in some ways, Family Guy has changed and grown over time in order to stay relevant on network TV and with fans. (Although I’m sure it helps that even though numbers are down across the board on TV, animated shows are cheaper to produce than other TV content.) If Seth MacFarlane were doing it all over now, sure, he’d make some changes, but it’s also true that it’s the choices the show made early on that led it to be where it is now and even led to a movie being planned.