Question: What were Seth MacFarlane's inspirations for Family Guy?
About the article "Family Guy", section "Origins".

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The season premiered September 28, 2008 with the episode "Love, Blactually" airing on Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States.
During the sixth season of the show, episodes of "Family Guy" and "American Dad" were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
Series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane sided with the Writers Guild and participated in the strike until its conclusion.
Official production of "Family Guy" was halted for most of December 2007 and intermittent periods afterwards.
Fox continued producing episodes without MacFarlane's final approval; although he refused to work on the show during the strike, his contract with Fox required him to contribute to any episodes it subsequently produced.
Thanks to this, most sixth-season episodes had to be pushed back to this one; this left the sixth season with only twelve episodes, and the seventh season began with hold-overs from the previous one. 
Hayley Sings is the debut album by Rachael MacFarlane, younger sister of "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
Produced by veteran producer Allen Sviridoff, the album was released on September 25, 2012.
The album's title is an homage to MacFarlane's best-known voice-acting role as Hayley Smith in her brother's series "American Dad!
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"Death Has a Shadow" is the pilot episode of the animated series "Family Guy".
It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States after Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999.
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 then signs up for welfare to keep his wife Lois from finding out, but gets much more money than he expected.
Lois finds out and Peter decides to dump the money from a blimp at the Super Bowl.
He is then arrested, and must await his family's rescue.
The basis for "Family Guy" was MacFarlane's thesis film "The Life of Larry", created in 1995 while he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.
A sequel was conceived in 1996 called "Larry & Steve", which aired in 1997 as a segment of Cartoon Network's "World Premiere Toons".
Both shorts caught the attention of Fox, who contacted MacFarlane in 1999 to develop a series called "Family Guy" based on the films.
A hand-drawn pilot was created by MacFarlane with a budget of $50,000, which led to the series being accepted for production.
It was rated TV-14 (L)Critical responses to the episode were mostly positive.
According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 22.01 million homes during its original airing in the United States.
"Death Has a Shadow" was written by Seth MacFarlane and directed by Peter Shin, and featured a guest performance from Pat Summerall as well various recurring guest voices from the series.
In the tenth season episode "Back to the Pilot", which premiered on November 13, 2011, Brian and Stewie go back in time to "Death Has a Shadow". 
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The book (and 1999 film adaptation) "Outside Providence" is a fictionalized account of film director and screenwriter Peter Farrelly's experiences at the school.
The animated TV show "Family Guy" is written by alumnus Seth MacFarlane.
In 1999, the school's headmaster, Father Schell, wrote to a number of companies urging them not to advertise with the TV show calling it obnoxious.
Seth MacFarlane's parents, who worked at the school, resigned in protest. 
Bordertown is an upcoming American adult animated sitcom created by "Family Guy" writer Mark Hentemann and executive produced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.
The series will air on Fox.
"Bordertown" will follow two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border.
Fox has ordered 13 episodes straight-to-series for the 2014–15 season.
"Bordertown" will take the place of MacFarlane's other animated series "American Dad!"
(which will be moving to "TBS") in Fox's "Animation Domination" line up.