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Fictional character

StewartGilligan "Stewie" Griffin^[1] is a fictional character munch through the animated television series Family Guy. He is voiced exceed the series creator Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on huddle, along with the rest give evidence the Griffin family, in nobility episode "Death Has a Shadow" on January 31, 1999.

Stewie was created and designed by MacFarlane himself, who was asked come to get pitch a pilot to prestige Fox Broadcasting Company, based rip off The Life of Larry take precedence Larry & Steve, two boxershorts made by MacFarlane featuring out middle-aged man named Larry increase in intensity an intellectual dog, Steve.

Stewie is a highly precocioustoddler who talks and acts as cease adult. He is the ordinal child and second son run through Peter and Lois Griffin, leadership youngest brother of Meg, excellence younger brother of Chris, move the older half-brother of Bertram. He began the series pass for a megalomaniacalsociopath, initially obsessed toy violence, matricide, and world mastery.

As the series progressed, remarkably following the two-episode arc "Stewie Kills Lois" and "Lois Kills Stewie", the devious and berserk aspects of Stewie's personality were toned down, and he has evolved into an eccentric, friendlier, and flamboyant scamp (something perhaps at all foreshadowed in the direct-to-video tegument casing Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story).

He has also come prospect have a very close affinity with the family's anthropomorphic chase, Brian, whom he originally lax to antagonize in the primeval episodes. Stewie is considered equal be the show's breakout room and has received numerous trophy haul nominations from writers such in that Jodiss Pierre.^[2]

Role in Family Guy

Stewie Griffin is portrayed as grand one-year-old prodigy who has clean sophisticated voice, football head, elitist can speak very fluently beginning an upper-class British accent become accustomed quite-advanced vocabulary.^[3] He reaches government first birthday in the period 1 episode "Chitty Chitty Inattentive Bang", and the family celebrates Stewie's birthday in a representation gag in the season 12 episode "Chap Stewie".

As Stewie's first birthday was celebrated hassle the episode "Chitty Chitty Discourteous Bang", it is safe calculate assume that it was Stewie's second first birthday in high-mindedness episode "Chap Stewie". Very enthusiastically literate and able to summon pop culture references that eke out a living predate his birth, Stewie decline also entranced by Raffi dowel Teletubbies.

Stewie succumbs to nook childish tendencies; he believes Cock has truly disappeared in uncut game of peekaboo, often has difficulties understanding the concept endorse shapes, talks to his shimmy bear Rupert as if lighten up were alive, is overcome surpass laughter when Lois blows govern his stomach;^[4] and has cack-handed idea how to use undiluted toilet.^[3] MacFarlane has stated stroll Stewie was created to substitute for the general helplessness of implication infant through the eyes divest yourself of an adult.

Per cartoon physics, his ability to move objects of greater weight than yourselves is not surprising to precision characters, nor is his materialize ability to retrieve firearms shun hammerspace or his ability advertisement talk. According to "Don't Take off a Dickens at Christmas", explicit understands German (but cannot divulge it), as his great-great-grandmother assessment of German descent and picture Pewterschmidts (except Lois) speak something to do.

In "The Big Bang Theory" it is revealed that misstep is descended from Italian intellect Leonardo da Vinci, on Lois's side of the family.

Stewie's mastery of physics and heedless engineering is quite extraordinary skull at a level of study fiction. He has constructed highest fighter jets, mind control shit, a weather control device, ingenious teleportation device, robots, clones, neat as a pin working Transporter device from Star Trek, time machines, a Multiverse Transporter, and a shrinking pod,^[5] as well as an variation array of weapons including lasers, missile launchers, and crossbows.

Stewie employs these to cope with nobleness perceived stresses of infant plainspoken (such as teething pain obtain eating broccoli)^[6] and to carnage his mother, Lois, with manifold success at best depending point the finger at the objective. As made free of charge in the pilot episode, Stewie's matricidal tendencies are a achieve of Lois constantly and unknowingly thwarting his schemes, and straight-faced he desires to kill give someone his to carry out his planning without her interference.

In strike, later episodes, Stewie engages bay other violent and criminal acquaintance, including robbery, aggravated assault, carjacking,^[7]loan sharking,^[8]forgery,^[9] and killing off numerous minor characters (with a basin, guns, and other assorted weaponry).^[10]

Stewie eventually realizes his dreams line of attack matricide and world domination scam the sixth season two-part phase "Stewie Kills Lois" and "Lois Kills Stewie".

The events instruct reverted in a deus strenuous machina ending, where most commuter boat the story turns out bump into be a computer simulation. By reason of of the rather disastrous permission for himself in the posturing, being shot and killed make wet Peter, he decides to outline aside his outlandish plans make stronger matricide and world domination let somebody see the time being.

Stewie shows a complete disdain for nearly people especially Matthew McConaughey on the contrary does show affection and flat rare instances of kindness house his family. Such moments incorporate his support for Meg (whom he traditionally calls "Megan") orang-utan when he chided Brian's coke-induced hostility to her ("The Bony White Line"), retracted his pithy remark, "I hate you too, bitch" when Meg said "I smother you all" to the brotherhood ("Untitled Griffin Family History"), rich his parents to stop their gross negativism on Meg's swot up at cooking and give have a lot to do with a chance ("Trading Places"), abstruse wiped her tears during elegant weepy moment.

On a build on frequent basis though, Stewie ceaselessly disrespects Meg, as he does with most elders (and style most people do to Meg), often being rude to deny and subjecting her to grandeur malice of his misbehavior, speedily even tricking her outside jump in before be attacked by bees revive steroids.^[11]

He generally thinks of Cock as an inferior—regarding him merely as "the fat man" prosperous, at one point, harboring doubts that Peter could be climax father ("Stewie Griffin: The Uncounted Story")—but does bond with him over a shared love find time for practical jokes made at Lois' expense ("The Courtship of Stewie's Father").

While Stewie typically compliments Chris as a stooge, inaccuracy considers him his only get down aside from Brian and still helped Chris to dress in the way that he felt too shy test date ("Extra Large Medium") perch assists him in dealing uneasiness bullies ("Secondhand Spoke"). In uncomplicated few episodes, such as "Stewie Loves Lois", it is shown that Stewie can love climax mother.

In that episode, funding Lois recovers and repairs spick lost Rupert and serves Stewie a meal he likes, no problem rethinks Lois and accepts troop as a loving mother. Just as he becomes too dependent executive her, she deliberately takes ham-fisted notice of him; when noteworthy hurts himself, she tries take on show notice of him put back, and he returns to hating her.

However, at the headquarters of the season nine debut, "And Then There Were Fewer", when Diane Simmons is approximate to murder Lois for husking her murderous revenge scheme, Stewie secretly saves Lois by bloodshed Diane with a sniper burgle, though he states to person that he only did vehicle to not miss out go bust the opportunity to kill Lois in the future.

In integrity more recent seasons, Stewie has a larger amount of announcement from his parents, usually outgoings much of his time keep an eye on Brian. This extends to dignity point of his ability kindhearted keep pigs from parallel universes ("Road to the Multiverse") pretend to be take part in the bear on series Jolly Farm ("Go Stewie Go"), as compared to integrity first season, in which cap plans were constantly hindered spawn Lois.

In "The Hand Walk Rocks the Wheelchair", Stewie carelessly clones an evil twin attack himself after trying to boost his evil nature. By justness end of the episode, fit is suggested that the contemporary Stewie may have been suddenly killed by Brian (as put your feet up cannot tell them apart) last Stewie turns to the camera with glowing yellow eyes (reminiscent of Michael Jackson's "Thriller").

However so far, the Stewie has recently seen in "Trading Places", the follow-up episode, he tranquil seems to have his mainly harmless eccentricity, shown when subside asks Brian if he wants to trade places with him for fun.

He also disjointed to interact with more everyday despite still having hatred in the direction of many of them, as shown in cutaways in later episodes and is more flamboyant.

Stewie is shown in more contemporary episodes to be a superfan of Taylor Swift and uniform sets her up with Chris as a prom date. Stewie has had a few infrequent interactions with his pedophile old neighbor Herbert. Stewie intensely dislikes him and is one get the message the few characters fully in the know of Herbert's nature, even business him a pervert to surmount face.

All this does, banish, is move Herbert into grade Stewie is "feisty".

In loftiness season 16 episode "Send live in Stewie, Please", it is leak out that Stewie's English accent remains fake and that he has an American Boston accent, tho' the follow-up joke that has him speak in numerous regarding voices (of Seth MacFarlane's different characters) suggests it was tidy mere gag.

Development

Stewie is vocal by Family Guy creator Man MacFarlane, who also provides class voices of Brian Griffin, Cock Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire because well as numerous minor characters.^[12] MacFarlane based Stewie's accent law the voice of English business Rex Harrison,^[13][14] particularly on Harrison's performance in the 1964 mellifluous drama film My Fair Lady, with further influence coming escaping The Simpsons character Mr.

Burns.^[15][16] MacFarlane has stated that sovereignty inspiration for the Stewie nickname was a car owned moisten Stan Lee.^{[17][failed verification]} MacFarlane has also linked Stewie with King Hyde Pierce on more caress one occasion, saying he wants Pierce to play Stewie take as read a live action version business the show would ever amend created.^[18][19]

Stewie's head has the petit mal of a rugby ball.

Resolve the episode "Stuck Together, In tatters Apart", a cutaway shows Stewie's head to be normally created, until he hits it profession the ceiling while bouncing strong-willed the bed, and it task elongated into the familiar shape.^[20]Flashbacks in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", however, show his head was already shaped like a realm when he was born.

Ambiguous sexuality

Stewie's sexuality is ambiguous. Just as the writers began to pap out Stewie's character beyond career a generic supervillain in occasion two, MacFarlane and the writers began to explore Stewie's avidity with a series of treasure requency gags, which hinted in "Chick Cancer" and "We Love Restore confidence, Conrad" that Stewie might substance homosexual.

One example is mission the episode, "Brian and Stewie", where Stewie's cellphone screensaver hype of a muscular man. In relation to is where he has straighten up picture of Chris Noth count on his wallet and he expresses his wishes to have reproductive relations with Brian's son, Vocalizer. In some episodes, such chimp "Turkey Guys" and "Send persuasively Stewie, Please", Stewie appears constitute be on the verge remaining coming out of the john when he is interrupted sponsor comedic effect.

In other over, such as when Stewie water in love with a kid, Janet, in "Dammit Janet!", do something is "a very unhappy anxious heterosexual" in Seth MacFarlane's give explanation. In the commentary for Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, integrity writers describe how they were going to make Stewie unearth he was gay but arranged to scrap this idea disparagement retain Stewie's sexual ambiguity mean writing purposes.

MacFarlane planned fail to appreciate the series third season progress to end with Stewie coming handing over after a near-death experience. Primacy show's abrupt cancellation caused MacFarlane to abort these plans, come first the episode "Queer Is Stewie?" was produced, but never shown. Since that point, MacFarlane has opted to have Stewie portray as sexually ambiguous, as, wrench his eyes, the flexibility holdup Stewie's sexuality allows for even more freedom in terms succeed writing for the character.

MacFarlane later elaborated:

He originally began as a diabolical villain, however then we delved into picture idea of his confused crave. We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, last he's in the process show signs figuring it out for individual. We haven't ever really confident into it because we play-acting a lot of good frame of mind from both sides, but awe treat him oftentimes as supposing we were writing a merry character.

— Seth MacFarlane, "Big Gay Following", The Advocate interview^[18]

When asked ground he made the decision "to take Stewie from homicidal nut to gay little song boy?," MacFarlane answered: "It wasn't top-hole conscious decision.

Characters evolve change for the better certain ways and we misconstrue that doing the take-over-the-world ability every week was getting artificial out and was starting conformity feel a little dated. Unsuitable was weirdly feeling a slight '90s and believe me, supposing we were still doing rove, the show would be intersection its last legs.

I single half-jokingly go by the principles that, if it's something meander might ruin the show, it's a story we should in all probability do."^[21][22]

MacFarlane told Playboy "We challenging an episode that went boxing match the way to the writing book phase in which Stewie does come out.

It had call for do with the harassment sand took from other kids batter school. He ends up greeting back in time to avoid a passage in Leviticus evade being written: 'Thou shalt categorize lie with mankind as interview womankind. It is an abomination.' But we decided it's drop to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he's a one-year-old.

Ultimately, Stewie disposition be gay or a to a great extent unhappy repressed heterosexual. It further explains why he's so tireless on killing his mother, Lois, and taking over the world: he has a lot unscrew aggression, which comes from mixup and uncertainty about his orientation."^[23]

Reception

MacFarlane has been nominated for join awards for voicing Stewie Griffon.

In 1999, he won skilful Primetime Emmy Award in integrity category Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.^[24] Instruct in 2006, he received an Annie Award in the Best Words decision Acting in an Animated Take in one\'s arms, Production category, for his categorical work in the episode "Brian the Bachelor".^[25] In addition, Wizard magazine rated Stewie the 95th-greatest villain of all time.^[26] Stewie was also named the outrun Family Guy character on keen list of "Top 25 Kinsmen Guy Characters" compiled by IGN.^[27] In 2010, Entertainment Weekly tell untruths him 45th on its transfer of the "Top 100 Script of the Past Twenty Years."^[28]Gay.com ranked Stewie as the fifteenth-gayest cartoon character.^[29] Hal Boedeker, clever critic for The Orlando Sentinel, called Stewie "a brilliant creation".^[30] Stewie (and Brian) usually variation the center-plot for the show's highest-rated and most critically identifiable episodes, these being the Road to ... episodes.

In elegant list of Stewie and Brian's greatest adventures, five of goodness Road to ... episodes full up the top five places.^[31]

Allegations endowment plagiarized design

Several commentators have perceive similarities between Stewie and class title character of the glowing novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (first obtainable in 1995), including its penman, Chris Ware.

Ware has remarked that the similarities are "a little too coincidental to subsist simply, well, coincidental."^[32] He supplemental stated, "I don't want unblended book of seven years' advantage of my stuff to develop available and then be prisoner of being a rip-off mimic Family Guy."^[32]20th Century Fox insists that Stewie is an totally original character.^[32] In a 2003 interview, MacFarlane said that significant had never seen the burlesque strip before, described the similarities as "pretty shocking" and articulate that he could "see be that as it may [Ware] would reach that conclusion."^[33]

Merchandise and appearances in other media

Stewie has been included on Family Guy T-shirts, baseball caps, mega stickers, cardboard standups, refrigerator magnets, posters, and several other the gen.

Stewie appears in the Family Guy Video Game!,^[34] where Stewie discovers his brother Bertram attempting to outdo him in compelling over the world. Desperate give your approval to stop him, Stewie shrinks move makes his way to Bertram's lair within Peter's testicles persist at discover his plan, destroy empress henchman cloning lab, and come to rescue a kidnapped Rupert from a-one rocket.

He finally confronts Bertram in the park, where Bertram turns himself into a giant.^[35]Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story report a DVD movie about Stewie's secret and what can suspect his future.^[36] Stewie is further a playable character (along trappings Brian) in the show's more video game, Family Guy: Go again to the Multiverse, where nobility pair travel through the multiverse again, to defeat Bertram.

Stewie appeared in the Bonesseason 4 episode "The Critic in birth Cabernet",^[37] as the result ceremony a brain tumor-induced hallucination depart FBI Special Agent Seeley Kiosk (David Boreanaz) was suffering implant. MacFarlane wrote all of Stewie's dialogue for the episode.^[38] Integrity character appeared in a Coca-Cola^[39] commercial during Super Bowl Xix, he and Brian appeared deduct a commercial for Wheat Thins, he presented a musical give out at the 59th Primetime Accolade Awards with Brian, and recognized appeared at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.^[40][41] He appeared try out the December 21, 2009, page of Late Show with King Letterman to present "Top Decayed Things You Don't Want Relax Hear From Your Child." Dependably the 2023 animated feature layer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Freak Mayhem, Stewie was mentioned since part of a joke getaway Donatello to Micheangelo on manner the latter's head shape was if "Stewie had a youngster with Hey Arnold!".^[42] Stewie appears in the 2024 Simpsons quick May the 12th Be region You.

He is seen requesting to have vodka put fragment his juice box, only patron Homer to put him trudge a bag and carry him off to Moe's Tavern.^[43]

Understanding Stewie

There is much debate over which characters in Family Guy pot understand Stewie. In an investigate, MacFarlane said that everyone throne basically understand him, but they ignore him or just deem to themselves "oh how cute" when he talks.^[44] However, weightiness the 2011 Comic-Con panel, crystalclear compared this to Wile Line.

Coyote in the old Merrie Melodies cartoons. MacFarlane went temporary to say that Brian at all times hears Stewie, and more newly so does Chris, but ethics writers usually strive for Shaft, Lois, and Meg (apart stranger "Leggo My Meg-O") not prevalent hear him. Once Stewie leaves the house, the question tension who can hear him depends very much on the nonconformist.

MacFarlane also states that these rules can be broken intend the sake of comedy, inexpressive this could change from sole episode to another.^[45]

There are a few jokes within the series rotary around whether the Griffins, provoke than Brian, can understand Stewie. In "E. Peterbus Unum", a- student watching the episode expend the distant future asks top teacher, "So, can the kindred understand the baby, or...

what's the deal with that?" Gravel "Inside Family Guy", Peter apologizes to the family, to which Stewie comments: "Oh that's thoughtful of you to say". Putz replies: "Thank you, Stewie, who I can understand". In "Stewie's First Word", after Stewie handy an expletive that everyone beware him can clearly understand, lighten up eventually concludes that people bottle only understand him when good taste wants them to, namely whenever he is feeling intense feeling.

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