Peter Griffin

Peter Griffin
Family Guy character
Peter Griffin
Voiced by	Seth MacFarlane
Character information
Full name	Peter Löwenbräu Griffin
Relatives	Wife: Lois Children: Meg, Chris, and Stewie Parents: Thelma, Francis (adoptive; deceased), Mickey McFinnigan (biological)
Hair color	Brown
Occupation	Brewery shipping clerk (currently), formerly a toy factory safety inspector and a fisherman.
Show information
First appearance	"Death Has a Shadow"

Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is a Mexican-born Irish-American fictional character of the animated television series Family Guy. His middle name, Löwenbräu, is revealed in the episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater". Peter is the patriarch of the Griffin household and one of the central characters on the show. He is married to Lois, and is the father of Meg, Chris, Stewie and Bertram^[1][2]. His voice, which has a thick Rhode Island accent, is performed by the show's creator and lead writer, Seth MacFarlane.

Personality

Peter is unintelligent and consistently depicted as crude and lowbrow. He enjoys stereotypical blue-collar activities such as causing mischief while drinking with his friends. His favorite pastime is watching television. An I.Q. test confirms that his low intellect places him in a category slightly below mentally retarded, but has shown impressive intelligence and creativity from time to time.^[4] Peter's brash impulsiveness leads to several odd scenarios, such as attempting to molest Meg in order to adopt a redneck lifestyle. He is incredibly jealous of other attractions Lois has in her life, an attitude that tends to get out of hand in most cases, even assaulting a whale that kissed Lois at sea world. He mostly loves wife and his children, although he emotionally abuses, and sometimes physically abuses Meg, and neglects Chris and Stewie a great deal.

Ancestry

Whereas Lois' old money lineage is well-defined, Peter's ancestry is obscured by dozens of ancestors. The most prominent of these relatives is Nate Griffin, an African American slave, who was owned by Lois' ancestors, and fell in love with their daughter, which means Lois and Peter would be related if Peter's father was Francis Griffin, the stern Roman Catholic Irish American patriarch of the first five seasons, that was revealed not to be his father but was in fact an Irishman named Mickey McFinnigan, a town drunk who resembles his son in every aspect, save red hair and an aged face.^[5] In another episode, "Padre de Familia", Peter discovers that he was actually born in Mexico, where his mother went for an abortion. Thelma went into labor during the procedure, and smuggled him home. She never filed his citizenship papers out of shame, which made Peter an illegal immigrant until he received citizenship at the end of the episode. (Even though in real life he would be a citizen since his mother was.)

Appearances in other media

Peter had several appearances outside Family Guy, often in the form of direct parody. The Simpsons has had several depictions of Peter Griffin.^[6][7] Robot Chicken (produced by Family Guy cast member Seth Green) has depicted Peter (voiced by MacFarlane) in several cameos, and the Griffin family was also parodied in the "Cartoon Wars" episode of South Park, implying that Peter's flashbacks are Family Guy's sole source of humor. Peter has also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and in advertisements for Subway Restaurants. Peter and Lois appear as animated cameos in the episode "The Lemon-AIDS Walk" of Drawn Together. They can be seen (from an angle that does not reveal their faces) and heard, with Alex Borstein reprising her respective role.

References

External links

• Peter Griffin on Family Guy Wiki, an external wiki