Did you originally envision Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story as a movie or a series of episodes?
Seth MacFarlane: We did it when we were first coming back, so we weren’t really sure how the show was going to do, or whether anyone would even buy something like this. What we did was structure it as a movie, but made it so that, down the line, it could eventually be broken up in to three episodes. We wound up with a big movie-size version of an episode, and I think it works very well structurally. TVGuide.com: C’mon, Seth. Do you really care about structure that much? Your show is usually a series of tangents. MacFarlane: [Laughs] We do care about structure… and we don’t. When it comes to gags, if something is funny, we’ll find a way to shoehorn it into the exact moment we want it. In an age where the last thing sitcoms are concerned with is getting laughs, I think we’re getting a few extra laughs in wherever we can. But some weeks more than others, we do try to give the show a backbone. Even if it’s a silly story, hopefully we’re creating stories that take you somewhere and make y
