Come next season, Family Guy might attempt the unthinkable: a thoughtful episode examining Glenn Quagmire’s predatory behavior.

According to the long-running Fox comedy’s show-runner, Rich Appel, next year’s season will place the animated character, an avowed pervert and serial rapist on the show since its 1999 debut, at the center of a #MeToo episode. In the wake of revelations about several men in Hollywood, Family Guy has received attention for jokes it made years ago about disgraced men including Kevin Spacey and Brett Ratner—while its creator, Seth MacFarlane, has been praised for calling out Harvey Weinstein at the Oscars in 2013. Even so, an extended #MeToo plotline seems incompatible with the show’s ethos at best—and while MacFarlane has expressed contempt for Quagmire, a character he voices, his show has long reveled in mining comedy from the character’s behavior.

Over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Appel teased the episode to reporters: “We are a year out, so we are writing episodes this month that won’t air for a year,” he said. “So the #MeToo stuff became such a cultural force while [we] were thinking of next season, and we are taking it head-on with an episode around Quagmire.”

“We’re trying to be pretty fair about the whole history of the character,” Appel added. “Seth encouraged us, and even took a special interest while we were writing the episode.”

Some highlights from that history: Glenn Quagmire has expressed a consistent sexual interest in Peter Griffin’s teenage daughter, Meg—at one point hiding in her shower while she used the bathroom, only to emerge with a video camera. The show’s writers have repeatedly depicted him drugging women he plans to have sex with. He has developed a tolerance against Mace spray after having it used so frequently against him, and it has been implied that he is a registered sex offender. He calls his bed the “Holder-Downer 5000.” Once, the show implied that he had sex with a teenage virgin’s corpse.

Family Guy, like South Park, has frequently reveled in crossing the line, deriving its laughs from dark, purposefully uncomfortable, over-the-top material. Still, as The Simpsons has recently discovered, the way a long-running series addresses elements that haven’t aged well, due to changing cultural mores, can be critical. Many critics of Family Guy likely assumed long ago that the show would never learn how to be tasteful—but now, it seems, the series will at least attempt to address one of its most controversial characters in earnest.

And Family Guy has, at least, gotten credit for a series of apparently prescient jokes about various Hollywood men; when the revelations that stoked the #MeToo movement began to emerge last fall, some noted that Family Guy had pinpointed select men about their alleged misconduct before their accusers went public. In a 2005 episode, for instance, the Griffins’ talking infant, Stewie, is seen running through a department store, naked, yelling, ”Help! I’ve escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement! Help me!” (Last year, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexually misconduct when Rapp was only 14; Spacey did not deny the charge, but did say that he did not remember the incident.) MacFarlane has said that the throwaway joke’s foresight was a coincidence, though that hasn’t stopped fans from assuming it was intentional. In another episode, a cartoon Brett Ratner attempted to buy Stewie, dressed as a girl, as a sex slave. Following the revelations made against Weinstein, many also noted that MacFarlane had sharply rebuked the now-disgraced producer at the 2013 Oscars, reading off the list of best-supporting-actress nominees before saying, “Congratulations! You five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.” After Ted star Jessica Barth came forward with her accusation about Weinstein in The New Yorker, MacFarlane wrote about what prompted the joke in a tweet: “I couldn’t resist the opportunity to take a hard swing in his direction,” MacFarlane wrote. “Make no mistake, this came from a place of loathing and anger.”