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Seth MacFarlane says he didn't agree with Fox's lawyers shutting down the made-in-Toronto onstage spoof The Swiss Family Guy Robinson earlier this year. The touring one-man show by Brian Froud had precedent to lean on - Rick Miller's MacHomer, a twist on Macbeth that Simpson's creator Matt Groening had seen and given thumbs up to. "I never saw (Swiss Family Guy), but I did make a call to Fox to say 'For what it's worth, my two cents, I think you just oughtta let the guy do it. "I just feel in this day and age with the Internet, because of the enormous exchange of information, intellectual property in some weird way feels public. I just don't see how anything like that hurts the stu... more >

Seth MacFarlane says he didn't agree with Fox's lawyers shutting down the made-in-Toronto onstage spoof The Swiss Family Guy Robinson earlier this year. The touring one-man show by Brian Froud had precedent to lean on - Rick Miller's MacHomer, a twist on Macbeth that Simpson's creator Matt Groening had seen and given thumbs up to. "I never saw (Swiss Family Guy), but I did make a call to Fox to say 'For what it's worth, my two cents, I think you just oughtta let the guy do it. "I just feel in this day and age with the Internet, because of the enormous exchange of information, intellectual property in some weird way feels public. I just don't see how anything like that hurts the studio. Their point of view is we open the floodgate, it sets a legal precedent. But it's a little different than bootleg Stewie t-shirts. It's a single show in a theatre, it's not mass produced. But the network subscribes to such a black-and-white way of thinking of certain things." CLICK HERE TO UN-CANCEL SWISS FAMILY GUY ROBINSON! What is Swiss Family Guy Robinson? It’s a one man show with impersonations of all your favourite Family Guy characters, except for Meg... She’s hard to do. Swiss Family Guy Robinson was cocreated by Brian Froud and the Sheori Brothers. < less