# Why did Cleveland have to leave Family Guy?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 16, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-cleveland-have-to-leave-family-guy/592964 "2011-08-16T22:40:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-cleveland-have-to-leave-family-guy/592964/21 "2011-08-17T15:09:28Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> It was the sex scandal. The details were hushed up, but Brian was insistent that either Cleveland went or he did.

> **[Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Blactually)**
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> "Love, Blactually" is the first episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 28, 2008. The episode features anthropomorphic dog Brian as he meets a fellow atheist named Carolyn (Kat Foster) at a book store, and the two begin dating. Heeding advice from Stewie (also voiced by MacFarlane), Brian decides not to have sex with her. Carolyn is led to believe that Brian does not want a substantive r...

> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> He was sacrificial enough, and generic enough to change aspects of him to be funnier (although from the episodes I’ve seen, this didn’t work).

Agreed. Cleveland on The Cleveland Show is a strange transformation from his Family Guy character. It really doesn’t work, but the show is better than the crap it was in the first season.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-cleveland-have-to-leave-family-guy/592964/22 "2011-08-17T16:17:00Z")

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> [@Superdude](#):
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> I seem to recall an interview where Cleveland was given his own show because Quagmire wasn’t going to learn a lesson during every episode (and he’s voiced by Seth MacFarlane), and Joe was considered too quirky.

“I don’t think anybody wants to watch a sitcom about a rapist.” – [MacFarlane](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1195935/faq)

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-cleveland-have-to-leave-family-guy/592964/23 "2011-08-18T19:22:20Z")

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The real question is, why’d they have to do a spinoff of Family Guy in the first place? Everyone knows the real spinoff moneyshot is Klaus the fish.

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