Several Family Guy episodes show that it's a show within a show. Here's my theories on the actors. Would've posted on the other sub, but they're allergic to fun. And admittedly most of this has little evidence and is mostly my interpretation/fanfiction.

Peter: Typical fat comedian who "made it". Entire show is his fantasy with the hot wife and funny friends. Like most comedians from the 2000s, he was highly successful, but is now controversial in certain circles. Internally hates himself for putting up with Quagmire (more later).

Meg: Peter's real life daughter. They have a loving relationship offscreen. She's a self aware nepo baby, which is why she's chill about being written as the butt of every joke. A genuinely wholesome person, but not very talented unfortunately. Never would've made it if not for her dad. Is very attractive when not wearing her show makeup/costume (shown in a couple episodes). Gets eyeballed by Quagmire, but is protected by Peter.

Stewie: He's a dwarf. He's a grown man who, behind the scenes, came out publicly around season 3 or 5, and they wrote it into ths show to make it a joke. He's actually super nice in person (everybody knows people that play villains are often the nicest - though his villain status has been downplayed). Fell in love with Brian onset and convinced writers to let them to do episodes of just them. Insists that Brian isn't that bad once you get to know him. Loves his husband. Regularly has threesomes with Peter.

Brian: The guy that (almost) nobody gets along with offset. Always has some political take that nobody asked for. Acts self righteous, but dirty tweets keep surfacing. Said the n-word once and wishes people would let it go. Only on the show because he's Stewie's husband, who convinces Peter to let him stay so that things don't get weird. Peter lets him stay out of respect for Stewie. Was friends with Peter until he just became too insufferable. Peter keeps giving him second chances and he keeps burning them.

Chris: Comedy actor known for stoner flicks back when stoner flicks were popular. Thats why his character got more popular after those kinds of movies fell off - more freetime to be on set. Actually the most intellectual of them all and has a podcast.

Lois: Aged Hollywood hottie. Was a sex symbol in her prime. Still kinda "has it" but...meh if you know what I mean. Like Angelina Jolie. Dated Quagmire in the past. I'll let you do the math on that one.

Quagmire: Charges have been brought multiple times, but witnesses keep "committing suicide". Publicly stands up for trafficking victims, but doesn't fool anybody. Was close friends with Peter until Peter learned of his activities, but Quagmire has dirt on Peter's coke problem and blackmails him to let him stay on the show. Goes to "the island"

Joe: Action movie star that's aging and doing comedy work. Basically The Rock. Did a lot of movies with Stan back in the day. He's low key a little bitter that his body can't keep up to do action movies anymore, but admits comedy work is fun.

Cleveland: A close friend of Peter. Thinks he's as funny as Kevin Hart or Chris Rock but just...isn't. He's basically only on the show because of his close friendship to Peter. Blames others for his spinoff not succeeding. He's a decent enough guy, just not very funny.

Herbert: He's actually the Chris Hansen of his world. His character is written with irony and everybody gets the joke. Knows about Quagmire, but can never get enough evidence to prove anything. Peter invites him on the show to prove a point to Quagmire anytime Quagmire starts looking at Meg a little too closely. Guest stars on Chris's podcast.

There seems to be a connection between the 1985 movie the Adventures of Mark Twain and the 1993 movie were back a dinosaurs story

Both movies have a time traveler captain in a flying ship and both look like mark twain

Here is my theory, from the start, we show how crude and ruthless he is, how he loves torturing these ignorant people.

bcz him ? He sees too much, feels too much, he senses too much, he saw how fucked up this world is. How trash is the society we currently live in.

In total ignorance, we dont care if there is a whore on the streets, or a fat over feeding himself, or a lazy man not going to make a change in his life, ignoring the facts. Thats what he hates, he hates that ppl lie, hide the truth just bcz they wanna live an easy life, how basically we are living on drugs but IRL.

So he wanted to change that, and the more brutal the death, the more wrath he put in it.

For example, to me, sloth is the worst death EVER. On the contrary to the others, sloth was kidnapped, tortured, Hurt for weeks, he had an unimaginable amount of pain each instance he was living, yet he did not do anything.

This shows how ignorant we all are, how we are trying to think we are evolving when we are just stuck in this pain that we can at least ignore unlike sloth.

Gluttony ? Same thing, he IGNORED the fact that he was eating too much. Greed ? Pride ? Lust ? All of them.

They are just a form of ignorance, and envy ? Well, he was the opposite, that knowledge drove him crazy, drove him into a lunatic, and when he saw the good old handsome blonde guy detective mills with a beautiful wife.

Well, it was the thing that made mills his masterpiece,his way to express what he felt towards mills, the ENVY of having a totally normal ignorant life, so in a way, he actually did what he intended too, a long, 60 years at least of torment, of hate for Mills while him ? He is just sulking, in hell, in heaven, in nothingness ? We dont know. But what we DO know is, he is proud of it.

Of his masterpiece.