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

“‘It insists upon itself’ was a criticism my college film ... of the origin seems to indicate the opposite. That Peter looks foolish for making such an argument when he hasn’t even ...

Commentators quickly pushed back, insisting that “it insists upon itself” was meant to be meaningless word salad, a typical faux-intellectual take from Peter Griffin. Others insisted that the ...

In it, robbers break into the Griffin household and the family has to hide ... the family about whether or not The Godfather is a good movie. Peter says no, claiming “It insists upon itself” which ...

Striking while the cultural iron is hot, MacFarlane has revealed what originally inspired “it insists upon itself” as ... to TikTok users co-opting Peter Griffin’s supposed near-death ...

Millions of young men once wanted to be Bob Dylan. God forgive me, I was one of them. Lots of them are dead now, and almost none of them, least of all me, have the frantic hair, let alone the ...

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there’s a good chance you already know that Peter Griffin did not care for The Godfather. In fact, he’d go so far as to say that Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 classic “insists upon itself.” ...