Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog( IPA or ), Rhode Island. It was created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. The show uses frequent "cutaway gags" — jokes in the form of tangential vignettes that do not advance the story.Family Guy was cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced FOX to resume the show in 2005. It is the first cancelled show to be resurrected based on DVD sales.Creator Seth MacFarlane voices many of the characters (Peter, Brian, Stewie, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, and others), and works as a gag writer.