19 Years Ago, Fox Cut This Brutal ‘Family Guy’ Joke About ‘The Simpsons’

Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy was getting compared to The Simpsons from the moment it first hit the airwaves back in 1999. Before long, the two shows began taking shots at one another, with varying degrees of irreverence. In the 2005 Simpsons episode “The Italian Bob,” for example, an Italian book containing profiles of American criminals…