Coronavirus: Seth MacFarlane posts video as Family Guy characters, offering advice and singing ‘Imagine’
The cartoon characters describe the John Lennon cover as ‘unwelcome, even in a global pandemic’
Your support helps us to tell the story
This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support allows us to keep sending journalists to the story.
The Independent is trusted by 27 million Americans from across the entire political spectrum every month. Unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock you out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. But quality journalism must still be paid for.
Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference.
Family Guy creator and voice artist Seth MacFarlane has posted a clip of the series’ characters offering coronavirus advice.
In a video posted to Instagram, MacFarlane voices Brian and Stewie Griffin as the characters discuss the pandemic for a fictional podcast.
“Our goal is to help remind everyone that we can get through this with cooperation and togetherness,” says Brian, at one point, before launching into a few bars of John Lennon’s ”Imagine”, the song recorded by a host of celebrities last week.
He is interrupted, however, by Stewie, who tells him that the song is ”unwelcome, even in a global pandemic”.
In the nearly five-minute-long video, the Family Guy characters also discuss panic-buying – the collective impulse to purchase and hoard essential supplies, such as toilet paper.
“If you own a tie, you have toilet paper,” is the spurious advice offered by MacFarlane’s Stewie.
The clip ends with the characters agreeing that people should turn to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for reliable updates on the virus.
You can keep up-to-date with all the latest coronavirus news here.
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments