Why Family Guy is so important

So I'm reading "The Memory Book" in an attempt to shore up some of the neurons that may have gone adrift in last years Bacchael "Summer of Bob" (a slight derivation from Seinfeld's "Summer of George- I'll write on that later maybe.) Despite being a salesperson who needs to remember an alarming amount of facts- names have recently been escaping my mind with relative ease. Thus, the reading.

As I was soaking in my tub, leafing through some pages, the following proposition is put forth:

Remember, in order, the following words: Airplane, Tree, Envelope, Earring, Bucket, Sing, Basketball, Salami, Star, Nose.

Now, the authors (a founder of a memory school- go figure- and a Hall of Fame Basketball player from my beloved Knicks), recommends that to easily remember these items, you need to formulate in your head the most ILLOGICAL AND ABSURD linkage/associations between the words at the beginning of the list, using mental imagery.

Now dig this. I imagine an airplane cockpit, being driven by a tree pilot, who leans over and opens an envelope. After he opens it, he finds a gold MR. T earring and tries it on, but it doesn't fit, so he tosses it into the bucket that he uses for a wastebasket. The bucket then begins to sing a song about it's favorite basketball team the Salami Dunks, whose star player is called the "Nose", because of his ability to stuff the ball into his nostril and shoot it into the hoop.

I promise you, I will have a hard time forgetting this sequence of events. But the rub is this: This is all very easy to remember for me, because the entire image is framed using the cartoon style in "Family Guy"

Family Guy has it's critics, the first coming to mind being the brilliant creators/writers of South Park. But the deluge of non sequitirs, irreverence and devotion to absurdity (along with an award winning number of inside references) really floats my boat.
Sure, some of the laughs are "easy", but for a thirty-somethingish ummmm.... (what the hell am I now, a Generation X'er? Sure- why not) Generation X'er, it's refreshing to know that someone else out there was watching/reading the same things that I was. For whatever reason, this exercise is really easy for me with any list of words when I use the Family Guy animation/motif.

So in conclusion, with intelligence being a measure of an ability to absorb, maintain and process information, Family Guy is making me smarter. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!