On the morning of September 11, 2001, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was scheduled to fly from Boston to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11. However, he arrived at the airport late, in part because of a hangover from the night before and because his travel agent mistakenly told him that the 7:45 a.m. flight was leaving at 8:15 a.m. instead. MacFarlane ended up missing the plane by roughly ten minutes and had to wait for the next flight. He then headed to the airport lounge, where he took a short nap. Upon awakening 45 minutes later to some commotion , MacFarlane learned that the flight he had missed had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everybody on board. He’d called his assistant to tell him he was taking a different plane, but the message wasn’t received until 20 minutes after everything happened, leaving people thinking that MacFarlane had been killed in the crash.…