Well, last Sunday the long-awaited Cleveland Show premiered. It seems that of all the secondary characters on Family Guy, Cleveland Brown was the worthiest for his own show. But in all fairness to the Family Guy, Cleveland sometimes rose above the level of token black guy. There's plenty of grist for debate here, but for now it would be best to wait for a few more episodes of the new show before further expounding on this particular issue. Another issue to debate is whether the show is any good.
But what matters to us as nitpickers right now about The Cleveland Show is to what extent old Family Guy episodes can be used to nitpick the old show. I would say that quite a bit of the old show can be used for this purpose. The Cleveland Show starts out with Cleveland and his son Cleveland Jr. leaving Spooner Street behind, clearly establishing that Cleveland's history as established on Family Guy is perfectly valid for The Cleveland Show. Maybe the writers will occasionally forget, but we nitpickers won't. We have practically all the old episodes on DVD and won't hesitate to refer to them.
Peter Griffin has many ancestors invented for purely comedic purposes (as well as for jokes that don't really lift off), while Cleveland has hardly any. So almost everything about Cleveland's past shown on Family Guy can be used to nitpick the new show. Still, I would caution about using anything from the Family Guy episodes "Untitled Griffin Family History" and the Star Wars homage episodes.
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