To celebrate the release of “Something, Something, Something Dark Side” in the USA and Canada today, Pop Matters have collected their 10 favourite cartoon families of the last 5 decades in a definitive list entitled All in the Animated Family: 10 Classic Cartoon Clans.

Here’s what they have to say about the Griffins:

As the stars of the new spoof, Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Peter and the gang reaffirm their position as prime time TV’s most mentally challenged, unstable, unpredictable, and unscrupulous suburbanites. Imagine The Simpsons with lower IQs, obvious perversions, and far more lax personal hygiene and you’ve got an idea of what to expect from Seth Farlane’s crackhead creation. Never even attempting realism, the entire series plays like Dada for Dodos. Everything’s fake. Everything’s foul. And everything’s funny.

Also included in the list are the Simpsons, the Jetsons, the Flintstones and the Smiths.