Animated Series· 1999· Sitcom
Family Guy: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Family Guy's opening, Lois and Peter singing at the piano, parodies All in the Family's "Those Were the Days", a debt the DVD commentary acknowledges; Seth MacFarlane has called Norman Lear's sitcom arguably the greatest scripted program in TV history.
Seth MacFarlane has said he meant to work in Disney animation until The Simpsons turned him to prime-time cartoons, and Family Guy's family sitcom drew on it alongside All in the Family.