Comparing Family Guy And The Parable Of The Talents

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Entering into a new millennium on December 31, 1999, the Griffin’s from FOX’s “Family Guy” television show take on a nuclear apocalypse. The entire country has little food left. As the Griffin’s lose all hope, Peter recalls a Twinkie factory that they can go to for food claiming that “Twinkies are not effected by nuclear explosions.” (Goldman). Similar to the plot of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a family desperate for food and shelter, find their hope in traveling to the only place where they might find what they have been looking for. As time goes on, the story becomes more like Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Talents when Peter starts a new town, but is an extremely overbearing leader, he causes a division among his people and an increase in crime. As each of these stories go on, they become more and more similar. …show more content…

For example, McCarthy writes, “They stepped into a broad foyer floored in a domino of black and white marble tiles. A broad staircase ascending. A great hall of a room with ceilings twice the height of doors.” (McCarthy 107). The characteristics of a home in The Road are similar to what many of today’s homes look like. “Family Guy” is set on the last day of the 1900’s, and is set in the present time period. The television episode gives the audience and exact date, so the visual characteristics from “Family Guy” match many of the same characteristics from the

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