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What is the best Seth MacFarlane TV show?

By YPB Team

Long-running animated juggernauts share the stage with a sci-fi homage and live-action experiments from a singular comic mind. Which wins?

  1. American Dad! — ranked #11
    American Dad!
    The animated sitcom about CIA agent Stan Smith and his family, including a talking alien.
    1000pts
  2. The Orville — ranked #22
    The Orville
    MacFarlane's live-action sci-fi series and affectionate homage to Star Trek.
    466pts
  3. The Cleveland Show — ranked #33
    The Cleveland Show
    A Family Guy spin-off centered on Cleveland Brown and his new family.
    466pts
  4. Bordertown — ranked #44
    Bordertown
    A short-lived animated comedy MacFarlane produced set in a southwest border town.
    382pts
  5. Ted — ranked #55
    Ted
    The 2024 Peacock prequel series continuing the story of the foul-mouthed teddy bear.
    381pts
  6. Blunt Talk — ranked #66
    Blunt Talk
    A Starz comedy MacFarlane produced starring Patrick Stewart as a news anchor.
    0pts
  7. Family Guy — ranked #77
    Family Guy
    MacFarlane's flagship animated sitcom about the dysfunctional Griffin family, running since 1999.
    0pts
  8. The Winner — ranked #88
    The Winner
    A short-lived 2007 Fox sitcom executive-produced by MacFarlane, starring Rob Corddry as a 32-year-old man-child still living with his parents in 1994.
  9. Dads — ranked #99
    Dads
    A 2013–2014 Fox sitcom MacFarlane executive-produced, starring Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as video-game developers whose difficult fathers move in with them.
  10. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey — ranked #1010
    Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
    The 2014 science documentary series MacFarlane championed and executive-produced, with Neil deGrasse Tyson continuing Carl Sagan's Cosmos; it won Emmys and a Peabody Award.
  11. Cosmos: Possible Worlds — ranked #1111
    Cosmos: Possible Worlds
    The 2020 sequel series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and executive-produced by MacFarlane, exploring humanity's possible futures alongside stories of overlooked scientists.
  12. The End Is Nye — ranked #1212
    The End Is Nye
    A 2022 Peacock science series executive-produced by MacFarlane, in which Bill Nye walks viewers through disaster scenarios like supervolcanoes, solar storms and asteroid strikes.

Comments 1

American Dad! went to TBS in 2014 and came back to Fox under the same 2025 deal that renewed Family Guy: https://youpick.best/articles/simpsons-vs-family-guy-ranked

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Oct 9