Family Guy is a long-running American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, first broadcast in 1999 and centred on the Griffin family in the fictional town of Quahog. Its cutaway jokes, deadpan characters and quotable lines made it a natural source for short online clips, which spread through YouTube compilations, TikTok edits and reaction videos. Because so many viewers recognise the show's style instantly, even a brief Family Guy moment can carry a whole joke, keeping these meme sounds popular long after the episodes first aired.