* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

* Family Guy ( 2001 ) – Carol Pewterschmidt ( voice ) in episode: " Emission Impossible "

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In 2005, she began a recurring role in the animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin's simple-minded girlfriend, Jillian.

In the Family Guy episode " Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington ", Peter comments that the business world is funny.

Lucas has said that he is a fan of Seth MacFarlane's hit TV show Family Guy.

MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.

Goatse. cx featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site's < tt > hello. jpg </ tt >, The video was also brought up in episodes of VH1's Best Week Ever, Family Guy, Tosh. 0, and The Inbetweeners.

On at least 4 episodes of the animated Fox series Family Guy, when the storyline hits a dead-end, a cutaway to Conway Twitty performing a song is inserted.

Alexander appeared on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas CD singing a verse in the song " All Cartoons are Fuckin ' Dicks ".

* Glenn Quagmire, a character from the animated television sitcom Family Guy

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Wallace and Gromit, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Way Things Go, Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Goonies, Gremlins, the Saw film series, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Cat from Outer Space, Malcolm, Family Guy, American Dad !, and Waiting ...

Following the game ABC premiered the television drama Extreme starring James Brolin ; this was the last series to premiere following the Super Bowl until Family Guy premiered following Super Bowl XXXIII and is one of only four in the last fourteen years to premiere following a Super Bowl ( joining Family Guy, its spinoff American Dad !, and Undercover Boss which premiered following Super Bowl XLIV ), since the networks have preferred to have new episodes of established shows to catch as much of the post-game audience as possible.

After the game, Fox aired The Simpsons episode " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday ", followed by the pilot episode of Family Guy, " Death Has a Shadow ".

** The Family Guy episode " Da Boom " is set on December 31, 1999.

Adult-oriented animated programming also continued a sharp upturn in popularity with shows like South Park ( 1997-today ) and Family Guy ( 1999 – 2002, 2005-today ) along with the longtime running cartoon The Simpsons ( 1989-today ).

Now, " adult animation " programs, such as Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butt-head, South Park, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad !, Aqua Teen Hunger Force ( currently known as Aqua Something You Know Whatever ), and Futurama are a large part of television.

King of the Hill began in 1997 ; Family Guy and Futurama began in 1999 and were canceled in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

However, the network commissioned new episodes of Family Guy that began in 2005 due to strong DVD sales and highly rated cable reruns on Adult Swim of Cartoon Network.

The final network show to convert to HD was Family Guy as of their September 26, 2010 episode.

The Parents Television Council has criticized many popular Fox shows for perceived indecent content, such as American Dad !, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Hell's Kitchen, Married ... with Children, Prison Break, and That ' 70s Show.

Guest played a small role in the 1977 All In the Family episode " Mike and Gloria Meet ", where in a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael's college buddy Jim ( Guest ), who dated Gloria's girlfriend Debbie ( Priscilla Lopez ).

The My Family version was broadcast in 2007, and was essentially portraying all of the main characters on an ordinary episode of the show, except for the fact that it was a ' family special '.

* Family Matters: In the 1994 episode " Father of the Bride ", Carl Winslow sleeps for fifteen years and wakes up in the year 2009 where main characters Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow are married with four children.

* An American Family ( 1973, PBS ) An episode of the reality TV series An American Family was mostly filmed at the Hotel Chelsea while family member Lance Loud lived there.

In the fall of 2010, Shepherd appeared in an episode of ABC's new show, No Ordinary Family.

A 2007 episode of the CBS television crime drama Cold Case, titled " Family 8108 ", dealt with the 1945 murder of a Japanese American man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after he and his family were released from Manzanar.

Most recently, Aykroyd and Chevy Chase guest starred in the Family Guy episode " Spies Reminiscent of Us.

In " Petarded ," an episode of Family Guy, the Griffin family chooses Trivial Pursuit as one of their games for a family game night.

* " Deep Throats ", an episode of Family Guy

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

* The song was featured in the 18th episode of the fourth season of Family Guy " The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz " in the ending credits.

In the Family Guy Season Four episode Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High, Peter Griffin is slimed after saying " I don't know ," followed immediately by a still shot that is a direct reference to YCDTOTVs opening sequence, with the words " You can't do that on television " written in red over a man's face.

* " Only Time Will Tell " was featured in the Family Guy episode, " The Splendid Source ".

In a season 1 episode, " The Addams Family Meets the V. I. P.

In the Family Guy episode " Blue Harvest ", Obi-Wan is parodied by the character Herbert.

As a result, several albums including Smokey's Family Robinson, Deep in My Soul, Love Breeze and Smokin, suffered from dismal promotion and even more dismal reviews from critics.

The 1995 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Family Business was first to show the planet.

Some of the other well known rock bands to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row ( with Gary Moore ), The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat ( there is a reference to the club in the sleeve notes of their 1969 compilation Canned Heat Cookbook ) and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Though most often headlining in smaller clubs, where Quill gained a very loyal following, the group also played in a number of much larger venues, opening for such international acts as The Jeff Beck Group, The Who, The Kinks, Deep Purple, Buddy Guy, Blue Cheer, Sly and the Family Stone, the Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin.

Also, the Noid has made a few appearances in modern-day entertainment, including an altercation in the episode of Family Guy called Deep Throats, in an episode of 30 Rock, in a segment of Michael Jackson: Moonwalker and in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as a Thanksgiving Day parade balloon, and the other in person in the episode " She of Little Faith ".

* Jeff F. King ( sometimes credited as Jeff King ), Canadian television producer and screenwriter for The Black Donnellys, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, White Collar, EZ Streets, Black Hole High, Family Law, Night Heat, Relic Hunter, Stargate SG-1, Due South television series

Banks has also made guest appearances on TV shows including Alias, CSI, Castle, Day Break, Highlander: The Series, Matlock, SeaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Women of the House, Walker Texas Ranger, Dexter, ER, Cold Case, Shark, Modern Family, CSI: Miami, Lie to me and Two and a Half Men.