'Family Guy' trivia and fun facts

Seth MacFarlane has admitted that the family's constant abuse of Meg is a result of "a bunch of male writers not knowing how to write for a teenage girl".

Meg's friends assumed her name was short for Megan. In actuality, when Lois hands Meg's birth certificate, to Peter, he alters it; Meg's birth name is Megatron Griffin.

George Lucas officially gave the producers clearance to do 'Star Wars' gags because he's a fan of the show.

Seth MacFarlane based the voice of Peter Griffin on a security guard he knew while going to college.

The show has been canceled twice, once following the second season, which caused the show to not air a new episode for a year, and the second (and longest) being between the third and fourth seasons, from 2002 to 2005.