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It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.