Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox. The show follows the Griffin family - parents Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic dog Brian. The show is set in Quahog, Rhode Island and uses cutaway gags and parodies of American culture for comedy. It has a large cast of characters and no overarching plot structure between episodes, which instead focus on the crazy and random scenarios the family finds themselves in.