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ELI5: How does Family Guy make so many episodes each year, if it takes half a year to make each episode?

This is my first post in this sub, so please be gentle on me. I've heard over and again that Family Guy takes somewhere around half a year for each episode. That doesn't make any sense to me as they make around 20 episodes each year. Also, on a side note, I don't watch this show, just curious.
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From the time they start work on an episode to when it is wrapped is half a year. However, they are working on lots of episodes at the same time. If each season only had one episode in it, they would make that episode in a lot less time than six months.

Also, lots of different teams are working on an episode. So the writers will be writing one episode, while the voice actors are recording the dialogue for another episode, and the music director is recording the music for another, and the animators are animating  another, and the editors are editing another. It's not like the writers will be sitting idle, while they are waiting the editors to apply the final touches. The writers will move onto the next episode as soon as their work on the current episode is done.

EDIT: By way of comparison, each episode of South Park takes about a week to make, and they DO only work on episode, from start to finish, at a time. Also the jokes in South Park are relevant to the plot and not just out-of-context cutaways which could be crowbarred into any episode.