Featured in the 27th episode of Family Guy Season 4, “Untitled Griffin Family History,” this joke has always provoked a response when it comes to Francis Ford Coppola’s dramatic opus. But this punchline kind of stings a bit more when learning that the true film under attack was 1965’s film adaptation of The Sound of Music.

Seth MacFarlane, the creator and star of Family Guy, recently took to X to explain the origins of the viral “it insists upon itself” meme, inspired by a scene from his long-running animated series. Recalling how his college history professor applied the term to The Sound of Music,

In addition to co-creating the television show American Dad! (since 2005) and The Cleveland Show (2009–2013), he is best known for being the creator and star of the shows Family Guy (since 1999) and The Orville (2017–2022).