# Family Guy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 14, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936 "2001-03-14T13:14:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@kflanaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kflanaga)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/1 "2001-03-14T13:14:19Z")
Can anyone tell me what happened to the Fox show Family Guy? Everyone I know loved this show, and I think it was getting good ratings. Fox put it on hiatus, I think, for some reason. But now they don’t even list it on their website as one of their shows. What’s the deal?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/2 "2001-03-14T13:43:38Z")
The ratings tanked. And some of the later episodes were awful (the Y2K one, for instance). Fox let it die after that.
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> Everyone I know loved this show
The cry whenever a show is cancelled due to low ratings. 🙂
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### Author:  [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/3 "2001-03-14T16:06:10Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \*
> **The ratings tanked. And some of the later episodes were awful (the Y2K one, for instance.) Fox let it die after that.**
[Au contraire](http://www.fox.com/familyguy/index.html), my friend:
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> The Family Guy is on vacation. And by “vacation,” we mean it was yanked from the schedule and won’t be back until midseason. You’re more than welcome to wait here until the family returns (just try not to break anything).
The last speculation I heard was that it would come back sometime after February sweeps were safely over. 'Course, it _is_ already mid-March…
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/4 "2001-03-14T18:33:26Z")
Not a definitive answer, but I had read on a web site somewhere that it would be back sometime in June. I’m afraid don’t remember which site I read that on, though.
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### Author:  [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/5 "2001-03-14T18:41:45Z")
A USA Today article from last year said that FOX was keeping some episodes of “Family Guy” around in case of a writer’s strike that would eliminate much of the original programming available to them.
In such an event, I plan to catch up on a lot of reading.
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/6 "2001-03-14T22:50:57Z")
I’m really hoping this show comes back, I like it better than sub[/sub] The Simpsons.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/7 "2001-03-14T23:00:10Z")
Last year, before the show went on, uh, “vacation”, there was a report that KISS was to appear. Now, THAT, I’ve got to see.
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### Author:  [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy/57936/8 "2001-03-15T02:48:56Z")
The email I sent to Fox asking this question was answered by telling me that the show will return this coming Fall.