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Coming on too strong

 Who watches "Family Guy"? It's an interesting show, isn't it? I mean, take a man like Seth Macfarlane, a college frat boy who "grew up" in a loose sense of the word, allow his adolescent mind to wander into varying realms of insanity, thus culminating with the creation of a whole world that seems like a suburban moms nightmare and suddenly you have a hit T.V. show.....admittedly, one that was not without its share of controversy, competition and ultimate difficulty.  I find that each character seems to represent different aspects and dysfunctions of the everyday regular man. Take Peter Griffin, an overgrown child with a peter pan-complex who refuses to grow up, Glen Quagmire, a pervert who makes Albert Desalvo, a.k.a. the Boston Strangler, look like a chiorboy, Cleveland Brown, a misrepresentation of everything potentially wrong with African-America and so on.  But, for all the characters on the show, it fails to portray "the irritation", that g