This past Sunday on Family Guy there was a bit where Peter trolled his friends by exploiting a glitch in the NES game Double Dribble. It was pretty funny, but what wasn’t nearly as funny was the fact that the gameplay video was actually a YouTube video uploaded a few years ago. Even worse, the original video was actually taken down by a content claim from Fox. This news reached Seth MacFarlane, creator, executive producer and voice-actor of Family Guy. Via Twitter he claimed that he was not responsible for whatever Fox does in regards to YouTube, and that his involvement in Family Guy is pretty minimal these days. He did say he would look into the matter and true to his word he tweeted out that the original video was restored.
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/733704087913517057
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/733744803582631936
This is just an unfortunate situation all around. It’s great that the original video has been restored, but it should not have been taken down in the first place. It just goes to show YouTube’s automated system is not equipped to handle situations like this.
