Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom television series created by Seth MacFarlane. It was first shown on FOX in 1999. The series did not become popular until shown again on Adult Swim and TBS, and episodes were sold on DVD & Blu-ray. Fox chose to cancel the series because it was not very popular, after a three year run. However the show started becoming popular many DVDs were sold and Many reruns were showed at Adult Swim, So because of this, Fox started showing it again on May 1, 2005, after a three year hiatus. It is aimed at adults. Once season 8 arrived on the fall of 2009, Family Guy had started to get loathed. Ever since season 8, the characters of Family Guy were "flanderized".