| Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | |
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| Directed by | Seth MacFarlane |
| Produced by | Seth MacFarlane |
| Written by | Seth MacFarlane Chris Sheridan Alex Borstein Steve Callaghan |
| Starring | Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis |
| Music by | Ron Jones |
| Editing by | Mike Elias |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | September 27, 2005 |
| Running time | 88 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| "Stewie B. Goode/Bango Was His Name, Oh!/Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" | |||||||
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 28/29/30 |
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| Written by | Gary Janetti and Chris Sheridan (1) Alex Borstein (2) Steve Callaghan (3) |
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| Directed by | Pete Michels | ||||||
| Production no. | 4ACX05 4ACX06 4ACX07 |
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| Original airdate | May 21, 2006 | ||||||
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Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story is a 2005 direct-to-DVD animated film set in Family Guy's fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the movie's main plot point concerns Stewie Griffin trying to find his real father. The DVD contains commentaries and a sneak preview of American Dad!.[2]
The movie was originally written to be a "straight-to-video" movie in three episode length segments. The three segments, each written by different people, are titled Stewie B. Goode, Bango Was His Name, Oh!, and Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure. These three episodes were aired as the three-part season four finale.
FOX aired the edited and separated versions of the three segments on May 21, 2006. It also had several scenes cut out, new scenes put in and other scenes altered to make it more appropriate for broadcast on American television.
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Plot synopsis
When the Griffins go swimming in the Quahog Swimming Pool, Peter assumes Stewie knows how to swim and forces him to swim. Lois suggests he takes swimming lessons, and during the time, Stewie jealously tries to kill the star pupil, Brad, by rigging a lifeguard chair with dynamite and luring him beneath it with a piece of marzipan.[3] However, Stewie's detonator malfunctions, blowing himself up and crushing him beneath the lifeguard chair. Stewie ends up in hell, which surprisingly looks like a hotel room, but when he is rescued by Lois (from what he thought was being raped by Steve Allen, who actually only wanted Stewie to fix his shirt collar), he believes it is a sign for him to be a good boy.
Meanwhile, Peter gets a job at Quahog's channel 5, hosting a segment called What Really Grinds My Gears, in which he rants about things that bother him. Peter becomes extremely popular, overshadowing Tom Tucker and making him feel jealous. Tom tries to ruin Peter's reputation by trying to distract him and by placing a sign next to him saying "I am a rapist", but is fired.
Stewie attempts to be a good boy by smothering Brian with affection, which he finds "more disturbing than that cartoon he saw the other day". Brian finally goads Stewie into reverting to his old, violent ways by crushing a spider web. Deciding to follow Brian's example of controlling anger through drunkenness, Stewie becomes an alcoholic; Brian, seeking to cure Stewie, takes him out for a night of drinking at the Drunken Clam to make him to never drink again, which culminates in Stewie ramming Brian's car through the wall of the bar. Knowing Stewie is Peter's son, Tom takes advantage of the situation and presents footage of the accident at the news station. Peter is fired and Tom regains his job.
The next morning, Stewie becomes extremely hungover and laments his lonely existence in the world, and wishes that there were someone else to whom he could relate.
Elsewhere, in San Francisco, a man looking exactly like Stewie is seen checking in a hotel.[4]. When Peter buys a Tivo box for his TV, Stewie spots this man in San Francisco on the news that has the same face and hairstyle as him. Stewie then believes that he may be his true father.
Learning that Quagmire is going on a cross "cuntry" tour with the intent of having sex with a woman in every state, Brian and Stewie hitch a ride in his "Wanna-bang-o". At a motel in New Jersey, Quagmire is handcuffed to a bed and mugged by a cleaning woman; Stewie finds Quagmire, and rather than free him, steals the "Wanna-bang-o", driving off with Brian. Quagmire eventually manages to rescue himself by reaching the phone and dialing 911 with his erect penis.
Stewie crashes the vehicle in the desert after going insane from eating an entire bottle of caffeine pills (being supposed to eat only one pill). After wandering through the desert, Stewie and Brian manage to get a rental car; they arrive in San Francisco and track down the man from TV. Stewie confronts the man on a trolley, and is shocked to discover that the man is actually Stewie from 30 years in the future.
Meanwhile, Peter and Lois teach Meg and Chris how to get dates so they can have some peace and quiet together, only to question if their kids were really ready for such responsibilities.[5][6]
Elsewhere, "Stu", as Stewie's future self is called, is taking a time-travel vacation. When Stu travels back to the year 2035, Stewie stows away with him. Stu passes off Stewie as a Nicaraguan boy named Pablo.
Stewie discovers that in the future, Chris will become a traffic cop and marry a hateful, foul-mouthed woman named Vanessa, who belittles him and insists on putting Peter and Lois in a retirement home; Meg will undergo a sex-change operation and become a man named Ron; and Brian will die of theobromine poisoning by eating chocolate he found in the garbage. He will then spend his afterlife drinking with Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, and Kurt Cobain (whom all committed suicide due to the fact that they didn't want their work to be just like every other persons. Stewie also learns that at age 35, he will be a virgin working for the Quahog Circuit Shack and living by himself in an apartment. Furthermore, he will be a mama's boy, having long ago abandoned his matricidal tendencies.
Disgusted with the way his life will turn out, Stewie remodels Stu's apartment and gets him to lose his virginity to his co-worker Fran, but the sex does not go well (involving only 8 seconds of sex and 40 minutes of Stu crying). The next day, Fran tells everyone about it, costing Stu his job for having relations with a co-worker. Returning home, he finds that his apartment is in flames, ironically caused by "stress-release" candles Stewie placed while redecorating.
His life now ruined, Stu laments the day of his near-death experience at the Community Pool, revealing that memories of the experience will re-surface when young Stewie is 20, causing him to regress and preventing him from taking any risks. Armed with this knowledge, Stu and Stewie proceed to the retirement home where Lois now resides to ask for money to purchase a new time-travel watch; Lois, who reveals she knew all along that "Pablo" was Stewie, obliges. They buy the watch, and Stewie travels back in time first to kill Vanessa and then to the day of the accident. He prevents himself from getting crushed by the chair, only to be vaporized by the altered timeline's Stewie. The family heads home, with Meg bidding farewell to a boy whose name she likes: Ron.[7]
Afterparty and ending
During the afterparty after the film ends, each member of the Griffin family is interviewed, sharing thoughts involved with Family Guy's cancellation and comeback.
Production
Production on this "movie" started after the show was canceled by Fox, ... In a scene from the DVD release of "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story". [8] [edit] Miscellaneous scenes cut from televised episodesStewie saying grace at the dinner table and Peter bringing up his great aunt Ella Fitzgerald Griffin. Brian and Stewie playing Pac-Man at The Drunken Clam, and Brian telling Stewie to get the fruit to get more points, and Stewie says that there was a ghost in the way. Peter recalling the time he was stranded on a desert island with Bono, where they had a crate of food that Bono was "Saving for the starving children" when they get rescued, only for Peter to find Bono "tasting" the food to "see if the starving children would like it." Peter then proceeds to beat up Bono and eat the food himself. Stu showing Stewie his prom photo, and how odd it was that he could remember that after so long. Peter and Lois watching Law & Order P.C.A.M.P.I.E.O.F.T.D: Petty Crimes Against Municipal Property in Excess of Five Thousand Dollars Stewie remarking that Stu being fired is "almost as bad as when Peter got fired as the first director of Terms of Endearment." Stewie remembering when Peter got Lois a Galaga arcade machine for Christmas. Sound effects were added when Stewie pulls Stu's eyelids back. An elderly Tom and Diane giving news in the retirement home. The closing shot was cut out, instead ending the last episode on Meg's line "I've always liked that name — Ron..."
See also
Footnotes
- ^ http://media.www.statehornet.com/media/storage/paper1146/news/2005/10/23/Features/Weekly.Scoop-2424727.shtml
- ^ http://www.theage.com.au/news/dvd-reviews/family-guy-presents-stewie-griffin-the-untold-story/2006/01/23/1137864848861.html
- ^ http://www.tv.com/family-guy/stewie-b.-goode-1/episode/775135/summary.html?user_rating=70&rating_ref_type=103
- ^ http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/05/21/family-guy-stewie-b-goode-bango-was-his-name-o-stu-and-stewie/
- ^ http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/05/21/family-guy-stewie-b-goode-bango-was-his-name-o-stu-and-stewie/
- ^ Family Guy's Big-Screen Dreams
- ^ http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/05/21/family-guy-stewie-b-goode-bango-was-his-name-o-stu-and-stewie/
- ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10CFD8710D357840&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
External links
- Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story at the Internet Movie Database
- Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story at Allmovie
- Family Guy - DVD movie officially announced! Stewie
- ^ Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story in September
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