When I think back to the best parts of my childhood, there always seems to be a familiar presence in the background of my memories. This familiar presence is the television show, Family Guy. It always seemed to be on the TV whenever I was at my best friend’s house, and we lost countless hours just watching the episodes on a loop. I remember at one time we even had two televisions set up, and they were both tuned in to Family Guy! Now that’s living!

Family Guy has had a long and storied history, especially compared to other late night cartoon shows. It’s up there with the best of the best, including The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Futurama, and others, even including classics like The Flintstones or The Jetsons. However, no other show really encapsulated the nineties for me quite like Family Guy.

A show with as long a run as Family Guy has had is bound to have many minute and interesting details that even the most dedicated fan has never hꦏeard of. So in this list, we will be covering some of these details. Most of these are ones that had no idea about while I was researching the list and ones that I found incredibly interesting. Hopefully, this list will have the same effect on you as well.

So please get ready to learn 🍰a fe🐻w new things about one of the best grown-up cartoon shows of all time, and definitely one of my favorites.

25 💟 Can't Understand The Baby

In many of the early episodes of the show, it seems that the family can understand exactly what Stewie says, although the basically ignore most ofꦰ it and still think he is a cute little baby. However, this is not the case with later episodes of the show.

In later episodes, it’s hinted that the Griffin family cannot understand Stewiꦡဣe at all and that they possibly just hear baby talk when Stewie is talking. And then sometimes it’s not made clear at all.

24 The🎉 Reason For The ⭕Star Wars Gags

Family Guy is famous for doing many, many gags about Star Wars. The gags they do usually make fun of the franchise in a playful sort of way. The main reason that the show is able to get away with this is because George Lucas gave tওhe writers the go-ahead.

George Lucas is a huge fan of Family Guy.

And he told the writers that it was okay to make fun of Star Wars as much as they wanted. Those gags are some of my favorite moments in the 🍬show.

23 🍰 Meg's Real Name

Many fans of the 🧔show assume that Meg, Peter Griffin’s daughter, is actually named Megan🌊, which would be pretty logical. But that’s really not the case. During one scene in the show, Lois hands Meg’s birth certificate to Peter and he alters it to read Megatron.

So Meg’s legal name is not Megan like everyone would assume. It’s actually Megatron. Which I find absolutely hilarious. It was a quick gag in t🐭he show, but it has big repercussions for Meg’s character.

22 🃏 ♍Same Dinner Every Night

One detai✅l that some fans haven’t quite picked up on in the 🎃show is that the Griffin family always seems to have the same exact meal for dinner.

Their dinner is always made up of mashed potatoes, peas, and three pieces of meat.

Perhaps this was a way to cut down on animation costs because the animators knew that pretty much nobody would notice or care about the meals in the show. Or perhaps it was an homag🌜e to other cartoons where the same thing happens.

21 The Old-School R💝eference 🐼

In the opening of the show, Lois can be seen playing the piano and singing with her husband, Peter. This little scene is actually a parody of the opening of another show. That show is All in the Family, which debuted in 1971 and is one of the most ♈popular shows of all time.

The Family Guy opening spoofs the scene of Edith playing the piano and singing with Archie, which were the two main characters in All in the Family.

20 𝕴 ▨ A Woman's Shirt?

One really funny detail that I definite𒆙ly did not pick up on when I watched the show, is that Peter’s white dress shirt that he wears all the time, is actually a woman’s shirt! This is because the buttons on the shirt button on the right side, over the left, which indicates a woman’s shirt.

I did not even know that the layout of the buttons of a dress shir💝𝔍t dictates whether or not a shirt is for men or women, but now I do. You learn something new every day! I wonder if the animators knew that, or if it is just a mistake.

19 The Re൩ason Why Meg Is Treated T🔯hat Way

If you watch the show you’ll notice that the Griffin family spends quite a lot of time being mean to Meg on many different levels. It is a ru♎nning gag in the show that has been going on pret⛦ty much since the show’s inception.

Seth MacFarlane has stated that the re💫ason the family makes so much f♏un of Meg all the time is because the writers just had no idea how to write a teenage girl, so they defaulted to making fun of her.

18 ꦆ 🔯 Why Brian Just Doesn't Believe

During the show, Brian, the family’s dog, has actually personally met several deities through various storylines. However, even though this is the case, he is still a non-believer, which is a source of comedy throughout🐲 the show.

The reason Brian is an atheist is because Sඣeth MacFarlane, the show’s creator, is also a non-believer, and basically uses Brian as a stand-in for himself. This is a💖lso why Brian speaking voice is the same as Seth MacFarlane’s speaking voice.

17 This Character's Based On A Popular Sitcom ꦦ

One fun fact about Family Guy is that Peter’s boss, Angela, is based on another fictional workplace boss from the 1990s. Angela is actually based on Rachel Green’s boss from the show, Friends.

Looking back, you can definitely see the resemblance.

I definitely did not notice this when I first watched the show, but maybe that was because I didn’t watch Friends until a bit later in my life. ♍Either way, this is still an interesting fun fa💫ct that not many people know about.

16 ꦿ A Surprise Reference

During season eleven of Family Guy, the writers got a bit creative with the opening of the show. They changed the opening of the show for a few episodes to resemble and parody King of the Hill’s unique opening.

King of the Hill was another extremely popular adult cartoon in the 90s and early 2000s, which was in direct competition with other shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons. These three shows are generally considered the “holy𓂃 trinity” of grown-up cartoon showꦅs.