Item from Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane / Fox
Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, and Brian — the central ensemble of Family Guy, held together by love, proximity, and the structural requirements of a sitcom.
The Griffins are a disaster in the productive sense — their dysfunction is the show's engine, but the engine has a heart in it. Peter's love for Lois is genuine even when his behavior is catastrophic. Lois's love for Peter is genuine even when it requires extensive patience work. The kids are products of two imperfect parents and are, each in their own way, a little imperfect themselves. What makes the family work as a unit, over twenty-plus seasons, is that the love underneath the chaos is consistent. They return to each other. The house at 31 Spooner Street is always the gravitational center.
A household unit that looks like a family from the outside and functions like one in the ways that count: they eat together, fight together, show up for each other when it matters, and spend the rest of the time generating the conditions for the next episode.
Also known as: The Griffins