The folks over at IGN got the chance to speak, exclusively, with Mike Henry, one of the many actors from the Family Guy series. He speaks briefly about the series and the chance that he might be parodied on the show, in a two page interview with IGN Editor Eric Goldman.

IGN TV: The show is known in part for the many pop culture references. How do those come about? Do you write a scene, and then you think, "It would be funny if this happened…" or again, are you guys talking on your own about something you remember and it makes it into the show?

Henry: Well a lot of times, it's whatever the script needs. If we need a TV gag, like if the family's watching TV, and we need a big pop or big laugh to get through a scene that's going to get out a lot of story stuff, we'll send off a team of four writers. They'll sit in a room and come up with different ideas. It's as simple as that. "We need a TV gag!" So we'll go, "S**t, we've done M*A*S*H, we've done every other show…" So then we just kind of make up shows. We've got a wide age range. I think our youngest writer is 27 or 28, and our oldest writer is mid-'50s, so that's a lot of coverage as far as pop culture. For some reason, Seth loves 1920s, '30s '40s, '50s… Loves that stuff. So we're just having a good time remembering stuff.

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