As ratings struggled, Fox bounced the show around its schedule during its sophomore run. By fall of 1999, Season 2 would be airing on Thursday nights against the very popular prime time hit, Fraser. While audiences liked Family Guy snuggled nicely between The Simpsons and the X-Files on Fox Sunday nights, it wasn’t to be its permanent home. When Family Guy debuted, the 24 year old MacFarlane was riding high as the youngest executive producer of a major prime time show. It was based on a short animated film MacFarlane did at the Rhode Island School of Design called The Life of Larry. It was like he had been preparing his whole life for it, telling Barbara Walters he drew his first cartoon, Space Pirates, at age 7, calling it “terrible." But by age 9, he was writing a comic strip for the local paper for $5 a week. Fifteen years later, he would be one of the titans of Hollywood. MacFarlane landed the chance to pitch Fox on the idea of Family Guy on the strength of his Larry and Steve shorts on Cartoon Network’s World Premiere Toons in the late 1990s. RELATED: Family Guy Clip Features the Debut of Mayor West's Replacement, Wild West How It Started But this giant kick-off to 22 million viewers would quickly end in disappointment - at least at first - before turning things around for good. Family Guy got the greenlight and would make a spectacular debut in early 1999 after Super Bowl XXXIII on Fox. ” He gave MacFarlane about $40,000 to make a few minutes of his animated idea, and he came back with a pilot. MacFarlane first pitched the concept of Family Guy, voices and all, to the former Fox President of alternative programming, Mike Darnell. Apparently, he made quite the impression, as Darnell said, “I thought he was either crazy or a genius.
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After Family Guy was cancelled twice and battled against other iconic TV shows, creator Seth MacFarlane managed to seemingly do the impossible - produce a show that didn’t just keep coming back from the dead, but reincarnating it seemingly better each time. Televisions' stellar comedy Family Guy has managed to weather an improbable amount of adversity, obstacles and outright failures and emerged stronger for it.