Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind Family Guy, dropped some intel about the backstory of one of the show’s most iconic lines.

Seth McFarlane, creator of ‘Family Guy,’ explained the origin of the phrase ‘it insists upon itself’ when Peter Griffin admits that he ‘never cared for The Godfather.’ ...

“Since this has been trending, here’s a fun fact,” MacFarlane stated on X. “‘It insists upon itself’ was a criticism my college film history professor used to explain why he didn’t ...

Striking while the cultural iron is hot, MacFarlane has revealed what originally inspired “it insists upon itself” as a Family Guy line, and it’s even more amusing knowing it was basically a ...

Peter Griffin utters the now famous line "it insists upon itself" as a piece of vague criticism directed at The Godfather. It appears in the 2006 Family Guy episode, S04E27, Untitled Griffin ...

In fact, he’d go so far as to say that Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 classic “insists upon itself.” That’s because one of the show’s most iconic scenes — in which the Griffin family ...

In fact, he’d go so far as to say that Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 classic “insists upon itself.” That’s because one of the show’s most iconic scenes — in which the Griffin family gets into a heated ...

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