# Family Guy and the Seventies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555 "2004-12-25T03:10:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/1 "2004-12-25T03:10:55Z")
Anyone with the DVD boxsets; does the commentary or any of the extras ever say why the show is always referencing them? Not even little references like on the Simpsons. The family is usually watching TV shows that were popular in the 70s. For example; Kojak(sp?), Brady Bunch, The Incredible Hulk. Stewie even mimicked the Operation Game commercial on his little recorder. Anything else?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/2 "2004-12-25T04:00:20Z")
Writer/Creator Seth McFarlane was born in '73. It’s probably just a nostalgia thing.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/3 "2004-12-25T05:00:23Z")
I personally don’t have much nostalgia for anything before I was 8yrs old, YMMV.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/4 "2004-12-25T05:49:02Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> I personally don’t have much nostalgia for anything before I was 8yrs old, YMMV.
I do, so I guess MMVs.
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/5 "2004-12-25T06:22:40Z")
Heh, I notice all of the 80s references. Peter is particularly obssesed with **Who’s The Boss** , **Family Ties** , and **Facts of Life** —the shows I watched when I was 8 years old.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/6 "2004-12-25T06:25:18Z")
Note that in the Indian Casino ep, Peter’s spirit guide is Fonzie.
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### Author:  [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/7 "2004-12-25T07:36:58Z")
Just remembered, the Family owned (owns?) a Pet Rock.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/8 "2004-12-28T16:12:31Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> I personally don’t have much nostalgia for anything before I was 8yrs old, YMMV.
Then you probably had a TV with poor UHF reception. I am the same age as MacFarlane and I watched these shows over and over every afternoon after school in syndication.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/9 "2004-12-28T18:23:58Z")
> [@FriarTed](#):
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> Note that in the Indian Casino ep, Peter’s spirit guide is Fonzie.
Whereas the makers of the Simpsons are older and Homer’s spirit guide was Col. Klink. See how this makes sense?
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/10 "2004-12-28T18:47:53Z")
> [@betenoir](#):
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> Whereas the makers of the Simpsons are older and Homer’s spirit guide was Col. Klink. See how this makes sense?
Nope. Homers spirit guide was a coyote voiced by Johnny Cash.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-and-the-seventies/281555/11 "2004-12-28T19:01:37Z")
**adam yax** : Homer’s guardian angel appears to him as Col. Klink.
And there’s a fine distinction between a guardian angel and a spirit guide, anyway.