CLIPS on Instagram: "📺 Interesting fact: Family Guy (1999–present) — The show almost didn’t happen because Fox was hesitant to add another animated comedy alongside King of the Hill. Seth MacFarlane was eventually given a tiny budget of only $50,000 to create a seven-minute pilot at home, which he spent six months hand-drawing to convince the network to greenlight the series. Many of the main characters were evolved from MacFarlane’s college thesis film, The Life of Larry. The middle-aged Larry