Why did Cleveland have to leave Family Guy?

[Justin_Bailey]

@RealityChuck

It was the sex scandal. The details were hushed up, but Brian was insistent that either Cleveland went or he did.

Love, Blactually

@thelurkinghorror

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.

[Tom_Tildrum]

@Superdude

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

[TBG]

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.