#4: Mr. Seinfeld, meet Mr. Griffin

While most people will look at a show like Family Guy and say that they take a page from a show like The Simpsons, or just the ADD mind of creator Seth MacFarlane, but there are many aspects of Family Guy that feed of aspects of Seinfeld. While Family Guy is animated, it is still called a sitcom, and much like Seinfeld, rarely follows the sitcom story arc. Family Guy basis it's show on making fun of aspects of daily life nobody thinks about, and compares it to issues in the world that they can parody. This seems like a page out of the book of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. Not only do they very rarely follow a typical sitcom arc, there are rarely lessons to be learned from episodes of Family Guy. In episode 24, "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", the last lines of the episode consist of Lois Griffin saying "Well I bet you learned a lesson from all of this", to which Peter Griffin retorts, "Nope." Another aspect of Family Guy that is a page out of Seinfeld's book is the fact that not only do they repeat jokes multiple times throughout the episode, but refer back to them in later episodes, as seen by the joke about the old fashioned toy Ball-in-a-cup referenced for the first time in episode 67, "The Fat Guy Strangler", and referenced in later episodes as well. While many aspects of Family Guy do not seem anything like Seinfeld, it is quite certain that some of these aspects, that were not present in sitcoms prior to Seinfeld, came from one of the classic shows of the twentieth century.