Seth MacFarlane Foundation Donates To Martin Scorsese Film Foundation For Preservation Of Animated Shorts ; Says Family Guy Isn’t Ending Anytime Soon

 

Seth MacFarlane says he sees no good reason to stop Family Guy anytime soon which means that one day we may be trying to find a way to restore old episodes of this series fifty years from now by way of the Martin Scorsese Film Foundation. Fortunately, as of yesterday, Seth MacFarlane has become an investor in Scorsese’s foundation by helping restore classic animation shorts from the likes of the Fleischer brothers, George Pal, and Paul Terry.

According to Deadline who broke the story, a program featuring nine restored shorts will be screened by the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival on Saturday, April 20 at 6:30pm, with an in-person introduction by MacFarlane. The shorts featured include Koko’s Tattoo (1928), Little Nobody (1935), The Little Stranger (1936), Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936), Peeping Penguins (1937), Two-Gun Rusty, The Three Bears,  The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939), and So Does An Automobile (1939).

Until then, tomorrow night at the Dolby Theater, Seth MacFarlane and cast and crew from Family Guy will take part in a celebration for 25 seasons of the popular FOX animated sitcom that just wrapped it’s 22nd season last night. “At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop. People still love it. It makes people happy and it funds some good causes,” MacFarlane says to the LA Times as transcribed by Deadline, “It’s a lot of extraneous cash that you can donate to Rainforest Trust and you can still go out to dinner that night.”

If you recall, several years ago Seth made some waves when he said that both of his animated series should have wrapped things up after the show’s respective seven seasons each, nowadays he’s singing a different tune noting, “There was a time when I thought, it’s time to wrap it up. At this point, we’ve reached escape velocity. I don’t know that there’s any reason to stop at this point unless people get sick of it. Unless the numbers show that people just are, ‘Eh, we don’t care about Family Guy anymore.’ But that hasn’t happened yet.”

Synopsis:

Entering its 22^nd season, Family Guy continues to entertain its die-hard fan base with razor-sharp humor, spot-on parodies, spectacular animation and orchestra-backed original music. Since its debut in 1999, the series has reached cult status among fans, and its breakout star, a talking baby, has become one of the greatest TV characters of all time. Family Guy has racked up numerous awards, including an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, only the second animated series in television history to be honored with such a distinction. Most recently, series creator and lead voice actor Seth MacFarlane (voices of “Peter Griffin,” “Stewie Griffin,” “Brian Griffin” and “Glenn Quagmire”) was nominated for the 2021 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance and won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Cast member Alex Borstein (voice of “Lois Griffin”) won the 2018 Emmy Award in the category. MacFarlane also was nominated that year. He won the 2017 and 2016 Emmy Award in the category, and was nominated from 2013 to 2015.

Season 22 will continue to provide a humorous take on current events and will see Peter getting a job at the Stop n’ Shop and taking a vacation to Florida with Lois. Additionally, Stewie and Brian help each other get over their mutual fear of showers and compete for sales against Bruce at the flea market. Also this season, Meg agrees to be Bruce and Jeffery’s surrogate and Lois joins Chris’s school as a substitute teacher.

Family Guy is a 20th Television Animation production. Seth MacFarlane is creator and executive producer. Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin serve as executive producers and showrunners, while Steve Callaghan, Tom Devanney, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan and Alex Carter are executive producers.