Family Guy
Ran: 16 Seasons (1999 to Current)
Episodes: 304 Episodes
Despite a cancellation, the show continues to air with its seventeenth season looking to air later this year. The show started amidst criticisms of ripping off a certain other five strong family animated show but broke through that to build its way up to being a huge hit of its own. The show, both in favour and against it, uses a cruder form of humour and heavily deployed sketch cut away's in its humour. The show even proved popular enough to wrangle Lucasfilm into letting them parody the original Star Wars trilogy though recent seasons have suffered a decline in figures raising questions as to how long the Griffin's can avoid the axe.
The Cleveland Show
Ran: 4 Seasons (2009 to 2013)
Episodes: 88 Episodes
There was a run of time with McFarlane where it felt like he was trying to make a successor hit to Family Guy by throwing TV and Movie s*** at the wall and seeing what stuck. This was the sole direct spin-off of the show following Cleveland as he moved out of town into his new family. The show managed a four year run but never made a big impact with the characters ultimately being rolled back in to the main show after Fox grew wary of its viewing figures, figures the main show now approaches close to.
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