Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is an action-adventure game that was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 20, 2012, in North America, November 21, 2012, in Australia and November 23, 2012, in Europe.
 The game is based on the American animated television series "Family Guy", most notably the episode "Road to the Multiverse", and is also a continuation of the episode "The Big Bang Theory".
 This game also features the return of Stewie's evil half-brother Bertram, who was killed in the show.
 "Back to the Multiverse" is the first "Family Guy" console game since "Family Guy Video Game!
" in 2006.
 When the game was available for pre-order, people who pre-ordered the game received a special level, based on "", another video game based on the "Aliens" trademark also owned by 20th Century Fox, which was released the next February to similar negative reception.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr. is a character in the animated television series "Family Guy", and its spin-off series "The Cleveland Show".
 He is the son of Cleveland Brown and his late ex-wife Loretta.
 On "Family Guy", he was depicted as slim and hyperactive; however, on "The Cleveland Show" he is shown to have undergone a marked transformation, both in terms of a significant increase in weight and a newly subdued personality.
 In episode "March Dadness" of The Cleveland Show he admits to "putting on a few pounds since my Quahog days".
 He was voiced by Mike Henry in "Family Guy" and by Kevin Michael Richardson in "The Cleveland Show" and on the character's return to the former show.
Peter Griffin is the main protagonist and title character of the American animated sitcom "Family Guy".
 He is voiced by cartoonist Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family, in the 15-minute pilot pitch of "Family Guy" on December 20, 1998.
 Peter was created and designed by MacFarlane himself.
 MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on "Larry & Steve", a short made by MacFarlane which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve.
 After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family appeared in the episode "Death Has a Shadow".
"Death Has a Shadow" is the pilot episode of the American animated television series "Family Guy".
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31, 1999, just after Super Bowl XXXIII.
 The episode is based on series creator Seth MacFarlane's original pitch to Fox, "The Life of Larry", and is a remake of the original "Family Guy" pilot.
 In the episode, Peter loses his job after drinking too much at a stag party and falls asleep at work.
 He signs up for welfare to keep his wife Lois from finding out, but gets much more money than he expected.
 After spending his money foolishly Lois finds out and Peter decides to dump it from a blimp at the Super Bowl.
 He is arrested for welfare fraud and must await his family's rescue.
Dominic Polcino is an animation director who has worked on "The Simpsons", "Mission Hill", "King of the Hill", and "Family Guy".
 Polcino worked on the first season of "Family Guy", then left to direct for "King of the Hill" and then returned to "Family Guy".
 He then went on to create the TV pilot "Lovesick Fool" which debuted on FunnyOrDie then went on to exhibit at Film Festivals and is currently on YouTube.
 His brother, Michael Polcino, is currently a director on "The Simpsons".
"There's Something About Paulie" is the 16th episode from the second season of the Fox animated series "Family Guy".
 It is the 23rd episode of "Family Guy".
 It was also the last episode of the first production season of "Family Guy" to air, but unlike the others, Mila Kunis had replaced Lacey Chabert for the voice of Meg Griffin.
 Michael Chiklis guest stars as Big Fat Paulie.
The American animated sitcom "Family Guy" has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints.
 The show is known to include offensive jokes and violent images.
 The show's dark humor and sexual themes has led to backlash from the community.
 Since the premiere of Family Guy the Parents Television Council has been an outspoken critic of the series.
 The Parents Television Council is a conservative non-profit watchdog group that has not only expressed moral opposition to the series, but also has filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission.
 Since 2005, the PTC has deemed Family Guy the "Worst TV Show of the Week" on at least 40 occasions, with at least 42 episodes so designated; many of the awards came following original broadcasts, while the others were based on repeat airings.
"Pilot" is the first episode of the first season of the animated comedy series "The Cleveland Show".
 Directed by Anthony Lioi and written by series creators Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry and Richard Appel, the episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009, along with the season 8 premiere of "Family Guy".
 The episode follows Cleveland Brown, and his son, Cleveland, Jr., as they begin their journey across the country, with a final destination of California.
 The two give a final farewell to their friends in Quahog, Rhode Island, but along the way to their destination, they decide to stop in Cleveland's hometown of Stoolbend, Virginia.
 While there, Cleveland reconnects with an old crush he had in high school, named Donna Tubbs, and immediately finds love, and eventually a new family.
 Cleveland and Donna ultimately decide to get married, and the two families begin to accept each other into their new lives.
Richard James Appel (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer, producer and former attorney.
 Since 2012, he has served as an Executive Producer and co-showrunner of "Family Guy" on Fox.
 Growing up in Wilmette, Illinois, Appel developed a love of comedy and dreamed of a career as a comedy writer; he attended Harvard University and wrote for the "Harvard Lampoon".
 Following in his mother's footsteps, Appel instead became a lawyer.
 After attending law school he started out as a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. before becoming a federal attorney, serving as assistant U.S. attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for three years.
 In 1994, he moved into comedy writing when he was hired for "The Simpsons", writing seven episodes of the show including "Mother Simpson".
 He moved on to become showrunner and executive producer of "King of the Hill" before creating the sitcom "A.U.S.A.".
 He then worked on "The Bernie Mac Show", "Family Guy" and "American Dad!
" before co-creating "The Cleveland Show".
 He was married to the writer Mona Simpson.
Family Guy Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the animated television series "Family Guy", developed in a partnership between Roadhouse Interactive and 20th Century Fox.
 "Family Guy Online" was free-to-play using the Unity game engine.
 The game launched into public beta in April 2012, but on December 21, 2012, the developers announced that the game would not be developed beyond beta status and would be permanently shut down on January 18, 2013.
 The shutdown took place as announced, and the game is now closed.

Question: Which writer of Pilot was also the co-showrunner of "Family Guy?"
Answer: Richard Appel