Family Guy was transparently conceived as a Simpsons copycat, and it ripped off a lot of specific characters, both major and minor. Both shows have joked about Family Guy borrowing from The Simpsons.

It’s no secret that Family Guy — a show about a cartoon dum-dum with a wife and three kids — borrowed heavily from The Simpsons. Maybe a little too heavily. As we’ve mentioned before, Matt Groening’s ...

Although Family Guyseason 23, episode 10 parodies a string of Hulu shows, it is really The Simpsons that the show is borrowing from in this outing. Although The Simpsons is the longest-running ...

2025 was already a banner year for Fox's longest-running animated series, with several shows earning four-season extensions, and the news that American Dad is returning to its former network. Then ...

In this relay race of intelligent joke understanding, we’d be the middle runner who accepts the baton from these cartoons and then immediately hands them to you. We wouldn’t be able to run with it, ...