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Boyoffewwords
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I thought it was a reference to The Wire. You know, the Baltimore Ravens?

'MacFarlane says he and the voice cast are all close friends, and “they
know I have their backs, and I know they're never going to gouge us to
an excessive degree. So I don't anticipate us having the standoffs that The Simpsons have had.”'