Family Guy aims to push the “boundaries of comedy,” as MacFarlane said in a 20th anniversary piece, even if that means getting censored by your own network for using a made-up curse word.

So we changed the word and we just came up with our own word and called it 'cleman.' We just swapped out 'vagina' with 'cleeman,' and it was like, 'Oh, we'll just say that. No problem.' ...