Carter Pewterschmidt
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 Carter Pewterschmidt slamming Peter in the head on their first encounter ever | |
| Full Name: | Carter Pewterschmidt |
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| Voiced by: | Seth MacFarlane |
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| Jobs: |
U.S. Steel company owner (retired) |
| Quotes: "I wish I could talk to ghosts. That'd be sweeeeet!" | |
| Episodes: FG201 "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" FG213 "Road to Rhode Island" FG214 "Let's Go to the Hop" FG306 "Death Lives" FG313 "Screwed the Pooch" FG314 "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?" FG321 "Family Guy Viewer Mail" FG410 "Model Misbehavior" FG417 "The Fat Guy Strangler" FG424 "Peterotica" FG425 "You May Now Kiss the...uh...Guy Who Receives" FG507 "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey" FG516 "No Chris Left Behind" FG601 "Blue Harvest" FG603 "Believe it or Not, Joe's Walking on Air" FG606 "Padre De Familia" FG707 "Ocean's Three and a Half" FG712 "420" FG715 "Three Kings" FG716 "Peter's Progress" FG802 "Family Goy" FG809 "Business Guy" | |
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Carter Pewterschmidt is Lois's wealthy father and husband of Barbara Pewterschmidt. He owns U.S. Steel, doesn't approve of gay marriage or voting rights for homosexuals, and employs many Mexican immigrants to run his extensive mansion and grounds. To him money, not love, is the secret to happiness, although he briefly reconsiders his stance when he is penniless and Peter is helping him rebuild his fortune. He hates Peter and offered him $1,000,000 if he didn't marry Lois. In the 19th century, his family owned Peter's black ancestor Nate Griffin as a slave. He is good friends with Michael Eisner, Ted Turner and Bill Gates, playing poker with them regularly. He used to own a race winning greyhound named Seabreeze but she became pregnant with Ted Turner's babies. Recently, Carter has shown signs of leniency against Peter, going so far as to say "You're alright, Griffin." in Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey. By curious coincidence, Carter's voice sounds virtually identical to that of Dr. Hartman; Carter is also one of his patients, but they have little interaction, however Peter tells Dr. Hartman that he sounds exactly like his father in law, Carter and Hartman soon notice they do sound an awful lot like each other. Note that this is likely due to the fact that they are both voiced by Seth MacFarlane, making the coincidence not quite so unique.
In another episode Peter decides to write his own erotic novels, and goes to Carter to ask for him to lend him some money to get his business open. Instead Carter gives him five dollars to perform a stunt. However, Peter is able to properly invest that five dollars to get his novels off the ground; having his books published by "Carter Pewterschmidt Labels". Peter's erotic novels become a success, earning money for Carter and Peter and eventually getting published on audiotape. However, Carter runs into trouble because a motorist was listening to one of Peter's audiotapes, which distracted him and caused him to crash through Kool-Aid Man's house. Kool-Aid Man then sues Carter, despite the fact the motorist was at fault and thus responsible for damages. Carter then becomes bankrupt and his wife Babs leaves him. Carter then is forced to live with the Griffin family, and he and Peter try to get rich by stealing money from Lois's purse, selling marijuana to Meg and robbing a train however they all fail. Peter apologizes for failing to make money, but Carter in a rare sense of decency tells Peter that he has done more for Carter than anyone else could by showing him the spiritual emptiness of materialism. Immediately afterwards Barbara returns and tells Carter they are rich again and he leaves leaving Peter and the others poor as they were. Lois tells Peter that Carter had offered them a million dollars as a wedding present but she turned it down, whilst Lois is talking to him about it Peter has thoughts of killing Lois based on the fact she refused the money (despite the fact in earlier episodes Peter refused big money offers from Carter; although this could be that Peter is angry that he lost the chance to make big money after he had Lois in his life). He is 71 years old, and the current year is 2009, meaning he was born in 1938.
In "Ocean's Three and a Half" we find out he has an iPod and enjoys rubbing it in Bill Gates face. He also has a high tech vault in which he stores his and sometimes others money. It has 4 Locks: A combination lock, Voice Identifier, Penile Identifier, and a question: What is the least appealing male first name? (Keith)
