Half the show is cutaway gags that have nothing to do with anything, and honestly that's the appeal.
Fun fact: Seth MacFarlane missed American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001, after oversleeping from a hangover.
Lord of the Flies but with a girls' soccer team, and somehow the adults are even more unhinged.
Fun fact: The series draws from the 1972 Andes plane crash, where survivors resorted to cannibalism after 72 days.