All spoilers for the first eleven seasons of Family Guy will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned! Right back in my hometown, with my new family! And so I found a place, where everyone will know The show follows Cleveland's new life in his hometown in Virginia as he remarries his old flame Donna and settles down to raise his own child, Cleveland Jr. It takes place in the same universe as Family Guy and the characters cross paths on occasion, but like American Dad!
The series was launched in September and was renewed for a second season before the first episode had even aired, supposedly due to positive reaction to a deliberately leaked pilot. However, it was cancelled after the fourth season finished airing in , making it the first Seth MacFarlane -penned show that went down with no hope for a revival. The Cleveland Show contains examples of:. A-F Abusive Parents : Pretty much the entire cast has abusive parents. Cleveland's father Freight Train was and still is emotionally and physically abusive.
Donna's mother abandoned her at birth and left her to be raised by "Auntie Momma" in reality her uncle Kevin in drag. Tim had a massive falling out with his father, both because Tim hated living in the woods and moved to human society and because he took Arianna from him in a display of dominance.
Holt's father treats him like crap because of his height. Even Donna shows this to some degree; in some episodes she seems to express some amount of dissatisfaction with the meek and passive Cleveland and pines for her neglectful ex-husband Robert. He's indicated at least a couple of times that he has a crush on Donna. Ascended Extra : Dr. Fist, who went from being a minor character voiced by Seth MacFarlane and later invoked Tom Kenny , when Seth was busy with the movie Ted before getting a full episode dedicated to him late in the 4th season, during which he was voiced by Bryan Cranston.
After which, he became a main member of Cleveland's drinking buddies, still voiced by Cranston. As the Good Book Says Rallo: Doesn't the Bible teach us about forgiveness? Lester: And vengeance. Rallo: And doesn't it say about loving thy neighbour? Lester: And killing sodomites. Author Filibuster : Subverted. Cleveland takes time out of the episode to complain about what's wrong with America today, but it turns out that it's just a set up for another gag, and that Cleveland was merely reciting lines from a play.
