Animal Guy

Animal Life is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Greoning, Seth MacFarlane, J.Q. Quintel and Ben Bocquelet for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on a Noah's Arc-like suburban house inhabited by a community of anthropomorphic animals. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture.

The series was conceived by Greoning and MacFarlane after Greoning finishing his work (the The Simpsons and Itchy the Lucky Mouse shorts) in The Tracey Ullman Show and MacFarlane developing the animated short film Larry & Steve. Greoning had reused the character Itchy (the main character from Itchy the Lucky Mouse) to the series, while MacFarlane redesigned the two protagonists from Larry & Steve, Larry, and his dog, Steve, renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively, reimagined them as adoptive brothers and remade Peter as a penguin. Quintel and Bocquelet joined the show, creating new characters. Greoning, MacFarlane, Quintel and Bocquelet pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit and began production. Shortly after the third season of Animal Guy had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series with one episode left unaired. Adult Swim aired that episode in 2003, finishing the series' original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a fourth season, which began airing on May 1, 2005.

Television
Reception and achievements