Quahog (/ˈk(w)oʊhɒɡ/ ⓘ K(W)OH-hog) is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Rhode Island that serves as the primary setting of the American animated sitcom Family Guy and other related media.

[1][2][3] The town is located in Newport County, and is modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island,[citation needed] part of the Providence metropolitan area.

In 17th-century England, an ancestor of Peter, Griffin Peterson, founds Quahog after being exiled to the New World and later wins ownership of it in a talent show against his king.

However, after Pinchley burned down the Clam's Head Pub as an insurance fraud, and his subsequent arrest and execution, Horace returned from Florida, having had an alligator lay eggs in his lower intestine and getting into a knife-fight with his mother, losing a testicle in the process.

God and Jesus escape by driving away in their Cadillac Escalade, but a blind Peter, without realizing it, rescues Horace from the inferno and becomes a local hero.

Brian is unsuccessful in his attempt, and is so drunk that he is unable to drive, giving an equally intoxicated Stewie his car keys.

Stewie crashes Brian's Prius through the wall of the bar, an event shown on the news by Tom Tucker in an attempt to expose Peter.

Part of that experience includes visiting the 1980s bar—then called "St. Elmo's Clam"—a reference to the electrical phenomenon and to the song and movie.

Here Peter plays "Menstrual Ms. Pac-Man", meets and makes out with actress Molly Ringwald, and joins Cleveland at an evening disco.

In the sixth season episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air",[7] the guys' significant others, Lois, Bonnie and even Muriel, wife of recurring character and Jewish pharmacist Mort Goldman, as well as Cleveland's girlfriend at the time, Bernice, begin hanging out at the Clam, forcing the guys to open the Quahog Men's Club.

In "Road to the Multiverse",[8] it is revealed that if Frank Sinatra had never been born, The Clam would be long abandoned as of 2009 in the Apocalyptic Universe, as it is seen in shambles.

This is supported by the fact that the real-world "31 Spooner Street" is located in Providence, immediately due west of Roger Williams Park.

MacFarlane has said in the DVD commentary for the episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" that the street was named after Spooner Hill Road, which is his childhood home.

In "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", the "zoom out" at the end shows Quahog to be somewhere between Cranston and Warwick, almost directly north of the Theodore Francis Green Airport.

Quahog is also shown to be within driving distance to Newport, which is also where Lois Griffin's parents Babs and Carter Pewterschmidt live.