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‘Family Guy’ Was Nearly Part of ‘Weird Al’s Canceled Children’s Show

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic neglected to hire Seth MacFarlane

Directed by future Ant-Man filmmaker Peyton Reed, and featuring a roster of impressive guest stars that included comedians like Patton Oswalt, Michael McKean and Emo Philips, The Weird Al Show understandably accrued a cult following over the years. Although, in retrospect, one of the less successful aspects of the show were the regular animated segments, in which Weird Al voices a rotund superhero named “Fatman.” You know, like Batman? And Weird Al’s classic Michael Jackson parody “Eat It” was briefly played in the episode in which Peter accidentally performs oral sex on his mother-in-law.

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