Family Guy News: What You May Not Know About Family Guy

Hello There Clammers!

While we’re all anxiously awaiting the next “big thing” in the Quest for Stuff I figured a little Friday Fun was in order.  So let’s talk about some Family Guy News…and some things you might not have known about the show….

For long time fans of the show you may already know this, but for the newer fans…did you know that Mila Kunis wasn’t always the voice of Meg Griffin?  For the very first season of Family Guy Meg was voiced by…Lacy Chabert!  (think Party of 5)

So why did Lacy leave the show after 1 year?  Was she fired?  Did she quit?  Well the answer was revealed on Bravo’s Watch What Happen’s Live last night.  It turns out between Party of 5 and school it was just too much for the 15 year old actress to handle doing the voice for Meg as well, so her parents made her quit the show!  You can check out that part of the interview here:
https://tv.yahoo.com/video/why-original-meg-quit-family-090411501.html

Imagine just how very different Family Guy would be without Mila voicing Meg for all these years!

And now for some news out of Australia.  The Courier-Mail in Australia recently ran an article about some things you may not have known about Family Guy.   Some of the highlights:

-Did you know: according to Seth MacFarlane, most of the family members can hear what Stewie is saying, but choose to ignore him because he’s a baby.

-Did you know: Seth Green based the voice of Chris off of Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs? 

-Did you know: The folks at Lucasfilm, behind Star Wars…in case you’ve been living under a rock, are actually big fans of the show.  Not only that but they gave Seth full permission to use Star Wars characters and references on the show…thus Blue Harvest was born!

-Did you know: The actors who play Lois, Meg, Chris & Cleveland all received a pay raise last year…worth up to $225,000 per episode.  I’m in the wrong business….

-Did you know: in every episode of Family Guy at least one character says…”What the hell..” (thus the title of our newest feature!)

Want more?  Want to know why Meg is so abused on the show?  Curious what character Seth voices is his favorite?  You can check out the full article here:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/television/family-guy-what-you-never-knew-about-seth-macfarlanes-animated-series/story-fnihmoiz-1226926652251?from=public_rss

So that’s it for this edition of Family Guy News.  Hopefully we’ve successfully entertained you for a few minutes and stopped you from thinking about when the update was going to hit.  Opps sorry made you think about it again! 🙂

What do YOU think of the news this week?  Anything new you discovered about Family Guy? Anything the article might have missed?  Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!