Family Guy and Greg Colton won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his storyboard work in the episode "Road to the Multiverse". The show was nominated for eleven Annie Awards, and won three times, twice in 2006 and once in 2008. In 2009 it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, becoming the first animated program to be nominated in this category since "The Flintstones" in 1961. "The Simpsons" was almost nominated in 1993, but voters were hesitant to pit cartoons against live action programs. The show was nominated for a Grammy in 2011. "Family Guy" has been
The Flintstones "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, also worked on the early seasons of "The Flintstones". The show imitated and spoofed "The Honeymooners", although the early voice characterization for Barney was that of Lou Costello. William Hanna admitted that "At that time, "The Honeymooners" was the most popular show on the air, and for my bill, it was the funniest show on the air. The characters, I thought, were terrific. Now, that influenced greatly what we did with "The Flintstones" ... "The Honeymooners" was there, and we used that as a kind of basis for the concept." However, Joseph Barbera disavowed these claims