Family Guy is an animated sitcom that aired from 1999 to 2011 about the Griffin family - father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, and their talking dog Brian. Peter is the bumbling father who means well but often causes trouble. The show features no ongoing plot or structure, with each episode featuring the Griffins and other recurring characters in random adventures and parodies. It uses a common language style aimed at younger audiences and parodies politics and culture with its humor. The main voice actors who played the Griffin family members worked on the show from 1999 to 2011.