Let’s Go Talk About These Funny Cartoon Facts!
- Remember that one episode of Family Guy where Peter sang "Surfin' Bird"? Turns out the idea of using that song in a cartoon has been done before — a cover was used for the short-lived CBS cartoon Birdz. Oh, and the original showings of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (In its first episode, at that!).
- Family Guy causes a load of these sorts of errors thanks to its Reference Overdosed nature. Any film or TV show clip later parodied on FG will have hundreds of comments on YouTube mistakenly asserting the video is a reference to Family Guy, even if the age of the clip makes it obvious that it originated decades before Seth MacFarlane was even born.
- The "Do you remember [X]? Pepperidge Farm remembers." joke from the episode "Hell Comes to Quahog" had also been done in the Futurama episode "A Fishful of Dollars" seven years earlier, which made many say They Copied It, So It Sucks!.
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