Stewie Griffin
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| Full Name: | Stewart Gilligan Griffin |
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| Voiced by: | Seth MacFarlane |
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| Quotes: "Victory is mine!" "What the deuce?!" "What the devil do you mean?" "Who the hell do you think you are?" "Blast!" "Damn you, vile woman!" "What the hell?!" "Damn you all!" "You suck!" "This calls for a sexy party!" | |
| Episodes: All | |
Stewart "Stewie" Gilligan Griffin is the matricidal, megalomaniacal 1-year-old infant of the Griffin family. He has also been known to answer to "Artemis", "Agent Buckwald", and "Snake." He rather likes "Snake."
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[edit] Background
Stewie is well-spoken, with an advanced vocabulary and an English accent, and of an ambiguous sexual orientation. He has a love/hate relationship with the family dog Brian (and of course he tells him almost all his secrets), as evidenced in Road to Rhode Island and Road to Europe. Stewie is constantly plotting ways to kill his mother, Lois, apparently holding a grudge against her because of his nine-month stay in her "ovarian Bastille." He shares his secrets with his confidant, Rupert, a stuffed teddy bear. Stewie often shows gay attraction to both Brian and Rupert, but has also formed brief heterosexual relationships, notably with Olivia and Janet.
Stewie often speaks from the standpoint of a much older person, saying such things as "what is it that you children are into nowadays?".
In one episode Stewie is seen doing pot in the future. One of his two friends replies "nice pot Stewie" and Stewie says he got it from the house keeper. However, this is just a fantasy shot, so it is uncertain whether or not it is canon. Another shows Stewie as the effeminate male friend of the popular girls during high school.
[edit] Can the family understand Stewie?
Some people are not sure whether people can understand him, but based on episode FG104 Mind over Murder it is obvious that they do. A clip of this is available at the official Family Guy site under the video clips section:
Stewie: Victory is mine!
Lois: Yes, and this cake is yours, too.
Also, in Season 4 Episode 27 Untitled Griffin Family History, right at the end there is a clear section to prove that the family can understand Stewie:
Stewie: How can you say you don't like it if you haven't even given it a chance?
Lois: I agree with Stewie, it's not really fair.
In other Season 1 episodes, there are many similar examples.
However, in subsequent episodes, it seems that the family either doesn't hear Stewie's exact words or that they hear a 1-year-old's equivalent of what he is saying. Another theory is, they simply won't take what he says seriously. For example, in episode Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington, when Lois dreams she finds out that Stewie's evil:
Another example is when Brian doesn't come home and Stewie says "Lets get a kitty!" and Peter replies "See, Stewie's got the right idea. We'll get a nice kitty cat and forget all about that dog!"
Lois: My god, it all makes sense now. My baby is some kind of diabolical genius bent on world domination!
Stewie: (clapping) Bravo, Lois. The last horse finally crosses the finish line.
Lois: Stewie! All these months I should've paid attention to what you've said. You're an evil child. Why, why did I have to go and smoke pot when I was pregnant with you?
Lois clearly states she didn't listen to what he had to say. The consistent exception is Brian who seems to be able to understand Stewie throughout, or when a random guest character speaks with him (like in Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater with his rich buddies).
In the episode Mind Over Murder, Stewie tells Lois to go to hell, and Lois acknowledges this by saying, "Hell... hell has fire." before singing a song.
When asked this question in an interview, Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, stated that Stewie is really talking, but most of the family just ignore him... The way people generally ignore things said by very small children. He also said that Brian can understand him, and Brian is a member of the family.
In the Season 7 episode "Love Blactually", Stewie wants to talk to Loretta, but Brian won't let him.
Stewie: Just let me do all the talking.
Brian: No, I think I can communicate with her better. She's only going to get the gist of what you're saying.
Stewie: Really? Isn't she one of those people outside the family who can understand me?
Brian: No, I think because of Cleveland she's close enough to the main cast that it might be a little weird.
[edit] Stewie's sexual orientation
Stewie seemingly is a closet homosexual. In FG301 "The Thin White Line", Stewie sings to a ship full of sailors:
"Well, despite your point of view
I can thrill a girl or two-
But I'd rather get it on with you!"
Also there is a quote after escaping the cops, while dressed as a girl in FG515 "Boys Do Cry"
Brian How you holding up Stewie
Stewie Umm, I feel right Brian, I feel right.
There is also a scene in Deep Throats that suggests he's attracted to Brian. He makes a similar drunken admission in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story:
Brian: You're drunk!
Stewie: You're sexy!
He even tried to trick Brian into having sex with him, in the episode Movin' Out (Brian's Song). He has also kissed Brian at least twice on the show.
In another episode in season 5, Stewie had a panic about having cancer, and wanted to have his list of things to be done before he died to be completed. One of those things was to learn how to ballroom dance with Brian. In that part, Stewie dressed himself in a pink dress and ear-rings. After they have danced for a while, Stewie whispers, "I love you" to Brian.
In the episode, Saving Private Brian, he and Brian kiss to get kicked out of the army. Then while kissing another gay man comes up to them and says,
Gay man: "Any room for one more?"
Stewie: "Hell yeah!"
Then Brian slaps him.
However in Stewie Griffin, The Untold Story, his older self had sex with a girl named Fran for 8 seconds. In some episodes Stewie has dreams about Rupert being a muscular man with a teddy bear head and him being a short baby like woman
Similar hints are given during other episodes.
However, there are also many references to him being straight, as seen in FG215 "Dammit Janet", where he falls in love with a female toddler. He is most likely just bisexual or pan sexual.
Stewie has twice had a relationship with another young toddler/beauty queen named Olivia.
In a cancelled episode named Queer Is Stewie?, he came out of the closet. This never saw the light of day due to the show's cancellation. The episode was later redone to Stewie finding his future self.
He has also been seen doing women's gymnastics in front of Brian and Brian says "Man that is gay"
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, has stated in an interview that "He originally began as this diabolical villain, but then we delved into the idea of his confused sexuality. We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, and he’s in the process of figuring it out for himself. We haven’t ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat him oftentimes as if we were writing a gay character."
In the episode where Brian finds his son, Stewie seems to love Brian's son (even trying to get him nude), however, at the end of Chick Cancer Stewie clearly states that he can "totally get into" being gay after brian tells him the meaning of the word.
Stewie: Why don't people just do what they do to girls, to guys?
Brian: They do it's called being gay.
Stewie: Oh so THATS what gay is, yeah i can totally get into that.
Also revealed in the episode "Love Blactally" that Stewie has a attraction to Brian.
Because brian is standing there and stewie sticks his finger in his mouth then Brian says,
Brian:What the HELL are you doing?
Stewie:Nothing you had something in your teeth.
Then stewie sticks that figure in his mouth
[edit] Stewie's head
Some questions have been raised about the American football shape of Stewie's head, none of the other Griffin family members have this trait. In the episode Stuck Together, Torn Apart, in one flashback, Stewie did have a head shape similar to Meg's until he was bouncing on the bed and hit the ceiling, thus flattening it into the familiar football shape. However, images of Stewie being born show that he has the football head. This may be because Peter and Lois' relationship is supposedly incestuous due to a sexual encounter between Nate Griffin and the Pewterschmidt slave owners, however this is not the case as Peter is not technically a Griffin he's a McFinnigan. Also, his half-brother Bertram has a similar head shape. Also Stewie's head looks similar in shape to the main character of the 1996 cartoon Hey Arnold!.In one episode, it suggested that Stewie was in fact his own father.
[edit] Trivia
- His email address is (as stated in the episode "Death is a Bitch") "loismustdie@yahoo.com".
- Has gone through many phases, including a time when he loved funky fruit hats (he did a little dance at this point), and a time when he loved a British children's show called Jolly Farm Revue.
- His football-shaped head may have been due to an accident in which he hit his head on the ceiling, but this theory is contradicted by a flashback on Chitty Chitty Death Bang where he is born with a football head.
- Dreams of opening his own tailor shop, especially for big and tall men.
- Greatly admires God, due to him being "so deliciously evil."
- Also a big fan of Death.
- He does not like change.
- Takes Valium.
- Appeared in an iPod commercial with the song "Warrior" by Scandal.
- Appeared on "Kids Say the Darndest Things" hosted by Bill Cosby. When he appeared, the result was far from expected, with him getting tired of Cosby's constant babbling.
- Had an eating disorder, and became comically rotund.
- Worst enemy is his mother
- He liked being hit by his mom in "Peter's Two Dads"
- He was born when Lois was on pot.
- Worked for Calvin Klein advertising diapers, saying 'I look good in my new Calvin Klein diapers!'
- He can't say the words "cool whip", "ruined" and "cruel" in the right way (pronouncing them as "cool hwhip", "ru-ee-ned" and "cruél").
[edit] Stewie's Inventions & Plans
- FG101 - Mind Control Device - Used on a judge to save Peter from jail.
- FG102 - Weather Device - Used to control the world's weather (and destroy broccoli).
- FG103 - Carbonite Freeze Gun - Used on security guard that froze him for approximately 10 years.
- FG104 - Time Machine - Stewie moved time forward to bypass the pain of teething, but was forced to move time backwards when the machine's schematics became public.
- FG219 - Hypnotic Control Device - A device used to harness the size and strength of Chris.
- FG302 - Mass Hypnosis Device - Used to control the unsuspecting public.
- FG311 - In order to keep Lois and Peter from having another baby he created two machines:
- Peter-Bot - a robotic version of Peter that would replace him in the bed.
- Micro-Ship - A battle cruiser that shrank to the size of a cell, and was armed with phaser cannons to battle Peter's sperm cells; the ship's computer was voiced by Majel Barrett, widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and voice of the ship's computer in all the Star Trek series.
- FG314 - Tried to control the minds of a basketball crowd by taking the part of a head cheerleader.
- FG419 - The little supervillain makes a hovering drill machine to kill Lois, but it fails.
- FG422 - Stewie gets into a war with his sibling, Bertram which involves his personal fleet of airplanes.
- Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story - Created robot lookalikes of himself and Brian so they could leave and find his real father.
- FG509 - Creates a pair of skis with rockets on them that can even produce a large tea room and butler, so he can get his teddy bear Rupert back.
- FG604 - Stewie uses a simulation machine to see what it would be like if he killed Lois and took over the world.
- FG605 - The family finds a body switching orb that works on Lois and Peter.
- American Dad vs. Family Guy - He builds a robot walker complete with machine guns, lasers, rockets, a force field, and a metallic orb that can explode and kill his opponents.
- He also seems to be constantly carrying a firearm, whether a laser gun, shotgun, machine gun, flamethrower, or his favorite pistol, the colt M1911. He is very skilled with these weapons.
- In addition, he has several bladed weaons such as retractable wrist blades, throwing axes, twin daggers, and a sword.
- His lair is a large room hidden behind his bedroom wall and opened up when a baseball bat in his toy bin is moved.
- Is proficient in several martial arts, and has demonstrated skills in Muay Thai, Savate, Krav Maga, Kendo, Fencing, Ninjutsu, Okinawan Kobudo, and Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu.
- Has displayed genius level intelligence, and a proficiency in quantum physics, chemistry, engineering, piloting, military strategy, and psychological warfare.
[edit] Relatives
Main Artcle: List of Griffin and Pewterschmidt ancestors
- Brian Griffin (best friend)
- Peter Griffin (father)
- Lois Griffin (mother)
- Chris Griffin (brother)
- Meg Griffin (sister)
- Stewie Cruise (cousin)
- Mickey McFinnigan (paternal grandfather)
- Thelma Griffin (paternal grandmother)
- Carter Pewterschmidt (maternal grandfather)
- Barbara Pewterschmidt (maternal grandmother)
[edit] Other appearances
- Stewie has appeared as a Spokesperson for Snapvine.com, speaking as Darth Vader and asking users what they would blow up with the Death Star, while promoting the Lucas-Mcfarlane project Blue Harvest (Family Guy).
- Stewie appeared in a short clip on the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards insulting rapper 50 Cent, which has become a viral video circulating on numerous online services. Stewie, with blocks spelling out "MTV", Rupert and a baby toy in the background, reads some words from the song "Wanksta" in a comical voice, then commenting: "Well, good luck finding the subject and predicate of that run-on sentence! And what the bloody hell does it mean, "we don't go nowhere without toast"? Now, you listen to me, Mr. Cent. If you want to make it in this business, lay off the doobie!". He then pulls out a hitherto concealed sign reading "Stewie for Governor".
- Stewie's face, on a stick, can be seen in the background of the ESPN talk show Pardon the Interruption.
- During the 2006 Canadian Election Royal Canadian Air Farce ran their own election with Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Jack Layton (all leaders of the major parties that election), Jim Harris (whose Green Party, while still minor, was gaining public attention) and "Stewie from Family Guy." Stewie ended up winning with 39 percent of the votes.
- Stewie has appeared on the MSNBC news program Countdown with Keith Olbermann, often introducing (or regressing) news stories regarding Bill O'Reilly. On the May 24, 2006 show, he introduced O'Reilly as Worst Person in the World (a regular Olbermann segment) on the program. Stewie said, "Oh, wait, Bill, hold still. Allow me to soil myself on you. Victory is mine!" This has been shortened to just "Today's Worst Person in the World." Stewie announced June 1 "Countdown presents: 'Factor Fiction', wherein we expose that bastard Bill O'Reilly lying again." He then repeated what he had said above. This has become the norm on O'Reilly segments most of the time. On June 5, 2006, he introduced "Breaking News" about Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and American Idol by saying "Oh here we go. Probably some story about Britney Spears or, knowing Keith, some baseball card." He also did an animation saying "Breaking News. Oh, this should be rich, must be something of a monumental earth shattering importance or they wouldn't have that Earth there shattering. See it shattering? It's Earth Shattering Breaking News. Oh, do tell me! Tell me, tell me!"
- Stewie (along with Brian, the latter with no speaking roles) has also appeared on the unaired short of My Name Is Earl called Bad Karma, in which he influences Earl to get even with everyone who's wronged him. Earl watches him on TV instead of Carson Daly. This short appears on the Season 1 DVD.
- Stewie was an announcer of the 2006 Spike Video Game Awards.
- Stewie and Brian appeared at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards performing a musical number poking fun at networks and current shows on the air, while also poking fun at the new shows coming this fall, such as the one based on the GEICO Cavemen. The song was based on the FCC song from the episode "PTV".[citation needed]
- Stewie-in parade balloon form- appeared in a commercial for Coca-Cola that aired during Super Bowl XLII. During the course of the commercial, the Stewie balloon and the Underdog balloon fight over a floating bottle of Coke. During the course of the battle the bottle floats away from them and into the waiting arms of a Charlie Brown balloon.
[edit] Stewie's young love life
Even though Stewie is 1 year old, incredibly , he had his first girlfreind at the age of 1. Her name was Olivia. Later in the episode, Stewie late puts on a bad boy act and then dumps her.
