This old-school outer-borough guy was, frankly, a bigot, who in 1971 was freaked out by a Black family moving in next door, by his daughter’s burgeoning feminism and her husband’s long hair ...

The full 16-minute pilot was discovered on the website of animator Robert Paulson, who is credited in the episode. Family Guy’s Full Original Pilot Surfaces Online Jaeden Pinder ...

Watching the full version of the pilot now, it’s notable that, for as rough as the animation is, a ton of the overall Family Guy sensibility was intact even then.

I was too young to get the joke about “Those Were the Days” back then, but it was the most arresting theme song on TV — if that’s even the proper way to categorize its function on the ...