Family Guy honors Mayor Adam West with this 9-minute montage

In 2000, Family Guy perfectly cast West as himself, who also happened to be the mayor of Quahog. Years of voice work ably prepared West for this role, in which he was unfailingly game for whatever the show threw at him, whether it was wearing ducks on his feet, a spaghetti hat, or even his classic costume for old time’s sake. In light of West’s passing, Family Guy has put together a nine-minute montage of West’s best bits, in which his deadpan comic genius is made clear, as is his enthusiastic embrace of making fun of his previous straitlaced persona.

The cat-launcher sequence alone would be enough, but over his 17 years on the series, West had so many masterful moments, it’s hard to imagine the hours of sifting the Family Guy staff must have gone through to compile these exemplary minutes. The video ends perfectly with the following message: “We’ll miss you dearly. Quahog couldn’t have had a better mayor. We couldn’t have had a better friend.”