Family Guy was transparently conceived as a Simpsons copycat, and it ripped off a lot of specific characters, both major and minor. Both shows have joked about Family Guy borrowing from The Simpsons.
It’s no secret that Family Guy — a show about a cartoon dum-dum with a wife and three kids — borrowed heavily from The Simpsons. Maybe a little too heavily. As we’ve mentioned before, Matt Groening’s ...