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[Family Guy] Do the main characters know that they’re in a show? They seem to be aware they’re on a channel called Fox, but it doesn’t come up that often. What is the explanation for this?

Why is it that they sometimes talk about fox as a network and reference the fact that they’re cutting away, but the characters seem to go on with their lives normally? 

They even at one point scold Chris for not understanding how to execute a good ‘cutaway’, talk about how Disney bought fox, and in one episode Meg references Bad Moms 2, a movie that exists in the real world. 

Are the characters aware that they’re in a TV show? If so, why don’t they make more of an effort to escape or be free from the whims of the writers?
gpt
Yes. The main characters are shown to be animated actors playing themselves in the “behind the scenes” episodes. They’re mostly divas. 

The cutaways are also a semi-magical ability that Peter has that transports him to “cutaway land”