Quahog Channel 5 News •
Tom Tucker (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the arrogant, baritone male
news anchor at Channel 5. He was an actor before moving to Quahog. •
Diane Simmons (voiced by
Lori Alan) is the station's 40-year-old former news co-anchor and talk show hostess. In "
And Then There Were Fewer", Diane orchestrates a plot to murder James Woods and frame Tom Tucker for the crime; in the process, she murders Quagmire's date Stephanie, Woods' girlfriend Priscilla, Muriel Goldman, and Derek Wilcox. When Lois finds out, Diane takes Lois hostage and attempts to kill her on a cliffside, but she is shot with a sniper rifle by Stewie, who wishes to kill Lois himself, and falls to her death. •
Joyce Kinney (voiced by
Christine Lakin) is the station's latest news co-anchor, who was introduced in the episode "
Excellence in Broadcasting" as a successor to the late Diane Simmons. She is 45 years old and went to the same high school as Lois, who pulled a prank on her in front of the entire school, and as revenge, years later, she broadcast a news story about Lois having starred in a pornographic film in an attempt to get the entire city of Quahog to shun her and her family. This lasted until Lois showed the film in the church, which impressed everyone but Joyce. Her birth name was Joyce
Chevapravatdumrong; she uses the surname Kinney in professional work. •
Tricia Takanawa (voiced by
Alex Borstein), typically referred to as "Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa" by her colleagues, speaks in a nasal monotone cadence that Borstein has described as "all presentation and no substance". She is confirmed as being Japanese in
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. •
Ollie Williams (voiced by
Phil LaMarr) is Channel 5's
Blaccu-Weather Forecast meteorologist. Ollie Williams is a fast-talking African-American man who rarely speaks for more than about 3 seconds. His news reports are always rapidly spoken and loud. His
hyperkinetic style was a result of
alcoholism. Ollie has only spoken for longer than a few seconds on two occasions, one in an episode where Ollie and Tom were talking about him stuck in a rainstorm with his umbrella blown away, and in "
Lois Kills Stewie" where he recaps the previous episode, "
Stewie Kills Lois".
West family •
Mayor Adam West (voiced by
Adam West) is the Mayor of Quahog, named after the actor who provides his voice. He is a highly odd and delusional politician. He is good-natured but generally irresponsible. He has a love affair with Meg in "
Deep Throats". Mayor West played
Grand Moff Tarkin in "
Blue Harvest". As of "
Brothers & Sisters", he marries Lois' sister Carol, making him Peter and Lois' brother-in-law and the uncle by marriage of Meg, Chris and Stewie. In "
The Simpsons Guy", Mayor Adam West attended the trial in Springfield between Duff Beer and Pawtucket Patriot Ale, where he was sitting next to
Mayor Joe Quimby. In "Adam West High", Mayor Adam West has died, as Brian persuades Principal Shepherd to rename his high school after West. The episode "Wild Wild West" marked the debut of Mayor West's cousin Wild West. •
Wild West (voiced by
Sam Elliott) is Mayor Adam West's rural cousin who is in his 60s like his cousin. In his titular debut episode, Peter requests he run for mayor of Quahog following the death of Adam and he chooses to run, defeating his competitor, the librarian Elle Hitler (who claims she is of "
no relation"). He offhandedly mentions killing a man twice in his debut and owns a farm where he raises livestock including sentient mustaches. •
Old West (voiced by
Gerald McRaney) is Mayor Wild West's father and Mayor Adam West's uncle. He is an outlaw who abandoned his family to keep his own son from becoming one himself. Every year on Father's Day Mayor Wild West ambushes his father for abandoning him and his mother. They eventually make up. He appears in episode 12 of
season 21. •
Allen (voiced by
Tony Hale) is Mayor Wild West's stepfather, who steps in to fill the void in Mayor Wild West's life after being abandoned by Old West. Episode 12 of season 21 reveals that he doesn't believe in vaccines.
Quahog residents •
Bruce Straight (voiced by
Mike Henry) is a 52-year-old mustached man who speaks
effeminately in a calm, drawn-out voice with a slight lisp, as well as occasionally smacking his lips before a sentence. Though he was not given a name until the episode "
No Chris Left Behind", he has appeared in several episodes without being named on-screen; however, he is referred to in commentary tracks prior to that episode as "the Performance Artist". He even comments on it the first time his name is spoken in the series. He has several catchphrases, the most notable being "Oh, no!" He first appeared as the clerk of an "exotic entertainment" shop in the season 1 episode "
Chitty Chitty Death Bang", and was then sitting astride an obese donkey at the
Renaissance fair when Peter fought the
Black Knight. He has since had a variety of jobs including a deacon, a therapist, a medium, a lawyer, a masseur and a barman. More recently, he was working at the bowling alley renting shoes in "
The Splendid Source", refereeing the boxing match where Lois fought Deirdre Jackson in "Baby, You Knock Me Out", and working at Quahog
Laser Tag in "Forget-Me-Not". He has also trained to be a police officer, taught a CPR course, chaired the Quahog
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and entertained children at the Quahog Library. He is a member of the school board committee of Adam West Regional High School. Although Bruce himself generally makes limited appearances, his voice is lent to a number of anthropomorphic creatures including a large bee, the shark in a parody of
Jaws, a
Xenomorph from a parody of
Aliens, a
Tetris block, and a giant mutant rat. In "
Blue Harvest", he played the role of
Greedo. He makes an appearance as Admiral Piett on the Imperial
Star Destroyer in the episode "
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side". Bruce is openly gay, although he initially does not want to admit it to his parents, Phil and Candy Straight, who insisted on him meeting a woman. His partner/fiancé is his roommate Jeffrey (in "
Road to the North Pole", Bruce states in the song "All I Want for Christmas" that his Christmas wish is a wedding ring from Jeffrey). In the episode "BFFs" of
The Cleveland Show, Peter says that Bruce was his therapist and referred to him as "that gay guy who has, like, a thousand jobs". Another character voiced by Mike Henry who was heavily implied to be Jeffrey appeared in both the
Family Guy episodes "
Friends of Peter G." and "
Finders Keepers", and
The Cleveland Show episode "
Die Semi-Hard" before being confirmed to be Jeffrey in "
Underage Peter". He also appeared in a deleted scene of the episode "
Stewie is Enceinte", adopting Stewie's
human-dog hybrid puppies at an animal shelter with Bruce. Bruce tends to give unsolicited advice about mundane subjects, often during critical events. This occurs most notably during his training as a 911 operator. When a victim calls to report a man in her home, he provides tips for being a good host to unexpected guests. In "
The Simpsons Guy", Bruce attended the trial in Springfield between Duff Beer and Pawtucket Patriot Ale, where he was sitting next to
Waylon Smithers. In "Meg's Wedding", Bruce briefly had a romantic relationship with Meg. However, they ended it on the wedding day and Bruce finally got engaged to Jeffrey, and they marry in the parking lot outside of the church, since the priest wouldn't allow them to marry in the church. Bruce is widowed in "The Fat Lotus" when Jeffrey is killed by a shark. •
Carl (voiced by
H. Jon Benjamin) is the manager of the local
gas station and convenience store called the
Quahog Mini Mart. He speaks in a calm, monotone voice and shows almost no emotion regarding anything happening around him. Carl is a
cinephile, having an obsession with films and
attractive actresses. In "
Road to the North Pole", he wants a
Blu-ray of
The Wiz for Christmas. He goes out of his way to discuss exciting movies. He becomes friends with Chris, when Chris worked for him in "
Movin' Out (Brian's Song)". Their friendship is based on their mutual interest in movies. He does not get along well with Meg, although he did once hire her to work in the store. "
Friends of Peter G." reveals that he knows so much about movies because he is an alcoholic and he spent so much time in his house and watched every film he could get his hands on. In the
Star Wars episodes, Carl plays
Master Yoda. •
Consuela (voiced by
Mike Henry) is a
Hispanic maid who, in one cut-away gag, is shown as the head of the Maids' Union. She speaks broken English and usually says "No, no, no...", whenever asked to do anything. She first appears in "
Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air" demanding
Lemon Pledge in a court case. She answers the door as
Superman's maid at the
Fortress of Solitude in "
Stewie Kills Lois", telling Joe and the police officers that Superman is not home. She appears in a cutaway in "
Ocean's Three and a Half" on the game show
Are You Smarter Than a Hispanic Maid?. In "
Dog Gone", she goes to work for the Griffin family, but proves to be so annoying that they drug her with
chloroform and leave her with Joe. She has a nephew named Mikey, who sells light-up yo-yos, and a son named Rodrigo, who is in prison. Another of her nephews was molested by James Woods before he committed suicide, as revealed in "
And Then There Were Fewer" when she was working as Woods' maid. In "
Stewie Goes for a Drive", Stewie runs away from home and ends up in a bad neighborhood. Consuela finds and takes him to her home and puts him in her bathtub, which is also being used to make soup for a
quinceañera celebration being held at her house. Brian tracks Stewie to Consuela's house but she refuses to let him go, claiming that Stewie is her son "Ernesto". Consuela appears as Darth Vader's maid in "
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", and as the controller of the security system at the palace of Jabba the Hutt in "
It's a Trap!". She also appears as Donna's housekeeper in
The Cleveland Show season 3 episode "Die Semi-Hard". "
Valentine's Day in Quahog" reveals that Consuela has a husband who is still living in Mexico, and to see him annually on Valentine's Day, she crosses the border illegally into Mexico. In "
The Simpsons Guy", Consuela attended the trial in Springfield between Duff Beer and Pawtucket Patriot Ale, where she was sitting next to
Bumblebee Man due to their both being Hispanic. "
Dearly Deported" reveals that Consuela has an attractive niece named Isabella who has two sons of her own. •
Death (voiced by
Norm Macdonald in the first appearance,
Adam Carolla in later appearances) is the Grim Reaper figure in the form of a
skeleton in a black robe who seldom removes his hood. Underneath his hood is a human skull with spiders and snakes crawling in and out of the eye sockets, mouth, and ear cavities as seen in "
Death Lives". He is in "
Mr. Saturday Knight" when Mr. Weed dies after choking during dinner at the Griffins'. "
I Take Thee Quagmire" reveals that anyone who touches his bones dies instantly (though "
Death Is a Bitch" seems to contradict this, but while Stewie rubs his ankle to heal it faster, Death being out of commission, no one at all is able to die). In "
Wasted Talent", Death comes to a college campus where a party had taken place and everybody is dead with beer bottles around the room. After doing his deed, he drinks some beer bottles to try to find a silver scroll (for Pawtucket Pat's contest). He ends up getting drunk and crashes his car. In "
Friends of Peter G.", Death shows Peter what his life would be like if he continues to drink as much as he does, and if he does not drink at all. Peter learns to control his drinking from this. Death later ends up in a car crash in "
Grumpy Old Man", leading him to be taken away by "Super Death" (a larger version of himself), who tells him he was going to be reincarnated as a Chinese child. He disappears only to reappear seconds later, as he was reincarnated a Chinese baby girl. In "
3 Acts of God", Death takes Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe to speak to God. •
Elle Hitler (voiced by Alex Borstein) is Quahog's local
librarian, originally named
Joanna in her earlier appearances. She first makes two minor appearances in "
Petergeist" and "
Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", before making her first major appearance many seasons later in the episode "
Wild Wild West" where this episode had her renamed Elle Hitler. She claims to be of no relation to infamous dictator
Adolf Hitler. When the townspeople greet her with "Hi, Elle Hitler", it is a homophone of "Heil Hitler". •
Dr. Elmer Hartman (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the Griffins' incompetent doctor who works at Quahog's hospital. Dr. Hartman is generally an unskilled doctor, though his skills fluctuate from episode to episode. In one episode, he mentions his
Yale Medical School degree, but then implies it is a product of his
calligraphy skills. Occasionally, he seems to know exactly what he is doing and performs great medical feats, such as plastic surgery to restore Peter's face; in other episodes, he does not even understand common medical terminology, or needs a chart to find body parts and lets
Meg take care of patients while he is gone, as in "
You Can't Do That on Television, Peter". He temporarily loses his medical license in "
Stewie Loves Lois" when Peter accuses him of rape (it turns out that Hartman had merely performed a normal
prostate exam, though Peter did not understand the procedure). He regains his license after treating Peter's urination problem. In "
Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Peter brought up the fact that Hartman sounds very similar to
Carter Pewterschmidt when he speaks. Hartman responds that Carter is one of his patients and that there are only so many voices in the world; some are bound to be similar and that he never noticed because they do not talk all that much despite the fact that Carter is a patient of his. This was brought up to turn the fact that MacFarlane voices both Hartman and Carter into a comical situation. His name comes from MacFarlane's close friend and fellow animator
Elmer "Butch" Hartman. In "
New Kidney in Town", Hartman gives Peter one of his kidneys because the Griffin family are his last paying customers. Also in the episode, Hartman reveals that while attempting to clone a chicken, he inadvertently created
the Giant Chicken, which Peter says he will want to discuss with Dr. Hartman later. "
Secondhand Spoke" reveals that Hartman has a gay son. "
Ratings Guy" reveals that Hartman is the worst doctor at Quahog's hospital. Dr. Hartman is implied to have a history of alcohol misuse, as he is shown attending
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in "
Friends of Peter G.". In "
The Simpsons Guy", Dr. Hartman was among the Quahog citizens to attend the trial between Pawtucket Patriot Ale and Duff Beer in Springfield. He was seated next to
Dr. Nick Riviera (who was also an incompetent doctor). In "Once Bitten", Dr. Hartman enlisted his dad to get him and Seamus into a movie theater. "
Papa Has a Rollin' Son" reveals that Hartman has
dyslexia. Hartman is the general doctor for the Griffin family, and they usually go to him for emergencies and surgeries. •
Frank Sinatra Jr. (voiced by himself) is a singer, songwriter and conductor who meets Brian Griffin in "Brian Sings and Swings" following his near-death experience. Frank gives him some words of wisdom before taking the stage at the Quahog Cabana Club. Brian and Frank start to sing together, and eventually Stewie Griffin joins them, forming the "New Rat Pack". In "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", Frank and Brian purchase the Quahog Cabana Club. When business fails to improve, the two look to Stewie to bring in more customers. Stewie turns the club into a trendy Hollywood-style night club called pLace that ultimately fails when
Andy Dick shows up to party. The episode "
Bookie of the Year" was posthumously Frank Sinatra Jr.'s final role, where he helps Brian and Stewie with a restaurant plan. The episode is dedicated to him. •
God (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the father of Jesus Christ and the creator of life. He is a central part of the basic tenets in the religion of
Christianity. Although the basic concept of God exists in other monotheistic and polytheistic religions, it is the
Christian God that serves as the basis for the character in
Family Guy. His appearance in the show is the stereotypical appearance of an
Abrahamic god in the Western world: a bald Caucasian man with long white hair, a huge white beard and a white robe. Contrary to the widespread belief of a benevolent and pure God, the God character in
Family Guy often displays several human flaws, especially being socially irresponsible and
sexually perverted. In the episode "
Fifteen Minutes of Shame", he aims a
sniper rifle with
red dot sight at Meg from the clouds after she says, "Oh God, kill me now", but is interrupted by a phone call. In the episode "
Blind Ambition", God flirts with a woman at the Drunken Clam, and lights her a cigarette with lightning before accidentally vaporizing her and setting the bar on fire, to which he exclaims, "Jesus Christ!" Jesus then arrives, and hastily leaves the area with God in a
Cadillac Escalade before they can be caught up in the blaze. In "
Untitled Griffin Family History", God asks his roommate Chuggs for a lighter, using it to
light a fart. On his second attempt, the lit fart sets in motion the
Big Bang that creates the universe. In "
The Courtship of Stewie's Father",
Joseph quarrels with a teenage Jesus, before Jesus storms out of the room shouting, "You're not my real father!". He then goes on to give God a phone call asking if he can go back to live with him in
Heaven, but is rejected. God then turns to a young woman named Janet lying in his bed, hoping to have sex with her. Janet hands him a condom to his disappointment, and asks her to reconsider, saying it is his birthday, but Janet refuses. In "
Partial Terms of Endearment", Peter thanks God thinking he is set to participate in a threesome with Lois and her friend Naomi, to which God replies "Don't mention it, Peter". A jingle is then heard singing, "God! He knows what turns you on!", after which God says, "Have fun!" In "
Into Fat Air", God and Jesus discuss how to name a country in the Himalayas. God says that the mountains look like nipples, to which Jesus replies that he cannot call a country "Nipples". In response, God suggests the name
Nepal, to Jesus' approval. In "Faith No More", Brian and Stewie try to go back in time to the Biblical times to prevent Christianity where Brian has Jesus persuade God to let him to do stand-up comedy. When Stewie uses the time machine to prevent Judaism, God visits the Griffin family house disguised as a delivery man where he beats them up for his actions. When Brian is reluctant to undo his and Stewie's actions, God angrily descends upon them as the final scene shows an injured Brian and Stewie singing hymns at church. Other episodes show God's serious side on occasion, such as in "
If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin', where he curses Peter with six of the
10 plagues after he lied to the people of Quahog about being a healer and is then worshipped as a god. •
Horace (voiced by Johnny Brennan) is the proprietor and bartender of The Drunken Clam for 30 years. He has been working there for at least as long as Peter and his friends have been regulars. Horace has been shot a handful of times, but has recovered from each incident. In "
One If by Clam, Two If by Sea", Horace sold The Drunken Clam following a storm and moved to Florida. He later repurchased it after moving back to Quahog. In "
Blind Ambition", Horace's life is saved by Peter (who was blind at the time) when The Drunken Clam was on fire. In "
Save the Clam", Horace is accidentally killed when a baseball hit by Jerome hits him during a baseball game between The Drunken Clam and Mort's Pharmacy. His death causes the bank to close The Drunken Clam, which causes Peter, Joe and Quagmire to protest this until Jerome buys The Drunken Clam to keep Horace's legacy alive. •
Jake Tucker (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is Tom Tucker's
deformed son and Chris' former classmate. Jake's many appearances show him with an "upside-down face": a mouth near the top of his head and eyes near the bottom. In "
It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", he gets a normal face, via toxic waste. Although typically depicted as a demanding and obnoxious brat, Jake craves his father's attention, which he rarely gets. "
Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?" reveals that he "doesn't have a bottom". Though Tom often neglects him, he often shows that he cares, such as when Brian accused Jake of giving Chris alcohol. However, when Chris gets back at Jake by planting drugs in his locker, an enraged Tom declares him a "bad boy" and loses faith in him. In "
Mother Tucker", Jake is noticeably neglected by Tom when Tom pays more attention to Peter. But Peter then realizes that Tom should pay more attention to Jake. •
James Woods (voiced by himself) is a 58-year-old actor whose fictional persona becomes a criminal sociopath. In "
Peter's Got Woods", he is invited by Peter to help deal with the local high school being named for Woods, i.e. James Woods Regional High School. While Brian's attentions are turned to his girlfriend, Peter becomes friends with Woods. This friendship ends when Woods becomes jealous of Brian. Peter and Brian manage to trap Woods inside a crate (using
Reese's Pieces as bait), and ship him off to be studied by "
top men". Woods returns in "
Back to the Woods", stealing Peter's wallet and assuming his identity. Peter retaliates by assuming Woods' identity and ruining his reputation on the
Late Show with David Letterman by announcing a comedy film about the
September 11th attacks, resulting in massive backlash from the public. When Woods shows up to fight Peter, he is again thwarted when Peter and Brian trap him inside a crate exactly as they had done before. In "
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", Woods makes an appearance as General
Maximilian Veers. In "
Brian Griffin's House of Payne", the CBS producers hire Woods to star in Brian Griffin's television show, Woods making multiple changes to Brian's original script that prompt Brian to back out of the project. James Woods reappears in "
And Then There Were Fewer", in which he becomes a
born-again Christian due to his new relationship with a young news intern named Priscilla. Woods turns his life over to Jesus wishing to make amends for his sins. Woods is later killed as part of an elaborate murder plot orchestrated by Diane Simmons. "
Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream" reveals that the paramedics who loaded Woods' body into the ambulance recognized him and had his body rushed to a special Hollywood hospital where a teenage girl's
life force was drained into Woods, which resurrected him. He is still a born-again Christian when he encounters Peter Griffin and Tom Tucker in Hollywood. In "
The Simpsons Guy", James Woods was in Springfield at the trial between Duff Beer and Pawtucket Patriot Ale. During this time, he interacted with his Simpsons counterpart from "
Homer and Apu". The episode "Inside Family Guy" had James Woods hosting the behind-the-scenes theme of the episode. •
Jeffrey (voiced by
Mike Henry) is Bruce's boyfriend and was initially an offscreen character before making his first official appearance in "
Underage Peter". In "
Meg's Wedding", he and Bruce finally get married. However, he's killed by a shark in "The Fat Lotus". •
Jerome (voiced by
Kevin Michael Richardson) is a 42-year-old African-American man, who first appeared in "
Jerome is the New Black", in which he won the audition as a temporary replacement for Cleveland. It is revealed he was involved with Lois Griffin in their younger days before she met Peter, which made Peter jealous enough to burn down Jerome's house, so Lois invited him to come live with them. Peter believed that Jerome was trying to steal Lois from him and became jealous. He kicked Jerome out of his house, but later apologized to him and they remained friends. Jerome also tells Peter that he had some "nasty-ass sex" with Meg when he was staying with the Griffins, but Peter told him that he does not care about that. He returns in "
Save the Clam", playing for Mort Goldman's softball team against Peter and his team from The Drunken Clam. He accidentally kills Horace by swinging the ball towards his face. Jerome appears at the funeral, where he apologizes for accidentally killing Horace. When it came to the demolition of The Drunken Clam which Peter, Quagmire, and Joe were protesting, Jerome appears and uses his sports earnings from lacrosse (which also happens to be his brother's name) to buy The Drunken Clam in order to keep Horace's legacy alive. "
Baby Got Black" reveals that Jerome has a daughter named Pam and at first disapproved of her relationship with Chris. In "Follow the Money", Jerome reveals that he lost both his childhood sweetheart and their daughter shortly after their wedding. "Pawtucket Pete" reveals that Jerome's voice is unaffected by
helium, as seen when Peter fired a harpoon gun at Brian Griffin's parade balloon. •
Jesus Christ (voiced by Seth MacFarlane in early episodes,
David Goodman in "
Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure",
Seth Green in "
The Courtship of Stewie's Father",
Alec Sulkin in later episodes) is the central figure of
Christianity. Throughout the series, a running gag has been that Jesus drives a
Cadillac Escalade. This is first seen in the episode "
Blind Ambition", in which he uses it to pick up God from the Drunken Clam after He accidentally set the bar on fire. In "
North by North Quahog", he is in the car in a trailer for the action film
The Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify This starring
Jim Caviezel as Jesus and
Chris Tucker, and directed by
Mel Gibson. Jesus Christ's most prominent appearance on the show came in the episode "
I Dream of Jesus", where he worked in disguise at a vinyl record store called "Dead Format Records" before being recognized by Peter. After a public display of his powers, including
walking on water, he becomes a huge celebrity in Quahog. While having dinner with the Griffins, Jesus proves to Brian that he actually is Jesus Christ by turning their dinners into ice cream sundaes, before immensely enlarging Lois' breasts at Peter's request, to the absolute shock of Brian. As the episode progresses, Jesus lets fame get to his head more and more while becoming more distant from Peter and his family, and ultimately gets himself incarcerated for drug abuse. When Peter visits him in prison, Jesus apologizes for his actions and decides that he probably was not mature enough to return to the world. He then gives Peter another record of "
Surfin' Bird" as a gift after the first one he had was destroyed by Brian and Stewie. In "
Chitty Chitty Death Bang", he turned water into
funk. In the episode "
Holy Crap", Francis repeatedly gives Jesus the
employee of the week award, and is himself later seen in a golf course going for a fourth
birdie. Upon missing his putt, he uses his power to move the ball into the hole. In the episode "
And the Wiener is...", Jesus and
Moses use guns to defeat the Romans in a film by the National Gun Association. In the episode "
Deep Throats", Lois asks "What if Jesus had given up?", after which Jesus is seen in a shabby-looking house sitting lazily in a chair, with several children running around him, and calls out to their mother asking why their ironing board is still out. In "
Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure", the adult Stewie tells his infant self of a time when he went back in time on vacation to see Jesus, saying that his abilities may have been exaggerated a bit. A cutaway shows adult Stewie and other members of the public watching Jesus perform
Art Metrano's "tricks" while humming the song "
Fine and Dandy". In "
Boys Do Cry", Stewie imagines what it would be like meeting Jesus, and in a cutaway enters a room in Jesus' house to find him naked washing himself in a tub. Despite noticing Stewie, he carries on. In "
Jerome is the New Black", he has an African-American counterpart in "Black Jesus", who is portrayed as a cool laid-back character wearing sunglasses. In "
Go, Stewie, Go", he is in a
dodgeball game on the side of the
jocks pelting numerous balls at the
nerds. In "
Life of Brian", Stewie is at the
Last Supper suggesting the idea of rebellion to
Judas Iscariot, pointing out that Jesus ordered five margaritas while all Judas had was the salad. In other episodes, Jesus has been portrayed as a voice of reason, such as in "
Family Goy", where he tells Peter about his Jewish identity after Peter and Lois quarreled over whether their family should be Christian or Jewish. However, in response to Peter's question asking which religion his family should follow, Jesus says "6 of 1, they're all complete crap". In "
3 Acts of God", Jesus is dating
Carrie Underwood. In "
The 2000-Year-Old Virgin", Jesus has broken up with Carrie Underwood. •
Jillian Russell-Wilcox (voiced by
Drew Barrymore) is Brian's cute,
bulimic, and dimwitted girlfriend who is portrayed as a
stereotypical blonde, and is in her 20s. She is quite ignorant; for example, she does not understand that
Adolf Hitler died decades ago. She has a close friendship with Peter, who treats her more like a daughter than he does Meg, due to their similar levels of intelligence. The remainder of the Griffin family look on her as a figure of mockery and symbol of Brian's shallowness, although she has affection for them, involving them all in her wedding. She first appeared in "
Whistle While Your Wife Works". She is the only girlfriend that Brian has dated for more than one episode, and was a recurring character in season 5. He stays with her purely for sex, though after they split, he felt strong feelings of love for her. In "
Prick Up Your Ears", when Brian talks about Jillian's bulimia, he goes on to compare her to
Karen from
The Carpenters, who succumbed to anorexia in 1983, claiming she "overdid it" but he thinks "Jillian's found a good balance". She breaks up with Brian in "
Movin' Out" when it is revealed that Brian did not want a committed relationship with her, and she briefly dated Mayor Adam West. She got married in the episode "
We Love You, Conrad". In "
And Then There Were Fewer", her husband Derek Wilcox was murdered by Diane Simmons, making Jillian a widow. She is dating again in "
Tiegs for Two", where Quagmire attempts to date her to make Brian jealous, but she and
Cheryl Tiegs leave together when they realize how immature both men are acting. In "
Valentine's Day in Quahog", Jillian is among the ex-girlfriends of Brian that Stewie assembles. •
Jim Kaplan (voiced by
Danny Smith) is a
con man who tricks Peter into spending money on various useless things on many occasions. He was first introduced as Doug but has been referred to as Jim in later episodes. First appearing in "
There's Something About Paulie", he sells a car to Peter that does not have an engine under the hood but rather a picture of one by claiming that the car belonged to James Bond. He later sells Peter volcano insurance in "
When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", for which Peter paid with Lois' rainy-day money (which she planned to use after Stewie broke Meg's glasses). With help from the accountant Max Weinstein, Peter reclaimed the money. Jim later sells Peter a TiVo in "
Bango Was His Name Oh!" In "
A Fish out of Water", he gives Peter a loan for Peter's new fishing boat and Peter offers up his house as collateral, which later gets taken over by the bank and sold to a fashionable, artsy, neo-hippie-ish new couple named Jim and Abby. In "
Hell Comes to Quahog", he sells Peter a tank for Meg at a car dealership for her first car and finally convinces him by saying "Did I mention it's a tank?" •
Judge Dignified Q. Blackman (voiced by
Phil LaMarr) is the African-American judge who presides over trials involving any of this show's characters. His full name was revealed by the bailiff in "Veteran Guy" when Peter, Cleveland, and Joe were on trial for violating the
Stolen Valor Act of 2013. •
Lou Spinazola (voiced by
Ralph Garman) is the building manager of the seedy apartment building that Brian Griffin resides in from "The D in Apartment 23" to "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor". Lou's one rule in his apartment building is to never kiss the mail carrier. In "Married... with Cancer", Lou allows Brian and his terminal cancer-recovered wife Jess Schlotz to move in while having developed a sitcom catchphrase. •
Olivia Fuller (voiced by
Rachael MacFarlane) is a child actress and local Quahog celebrity. She debuts in "
From Method to Madness" when Stewie attends the same theatre school as her, and while they do perform together at first, they eventually become rivals. She moves away prior to the episode "
Chick Cancer" but returns to Quahog as her career wanes. Stewie goes to the Quahog Mall, where she is scheduled to appear, intent on humiliating her, but instead ends up falling in love with her. With advice from Brian, Stewie attempts to woo her until she gives in to his efforts, and the two of them get "married". Unfortunately, their past rivalry and Stewie's jealousy of Olivia's success hinders their relationship, leading to Olivia "cheating" on Stewie with her old friend Victor. In retaliation, Stewie burns down their cardboard house with Olivia and Victor inside. She returns alive and well in "
The Boys in the Band"; after once again running into Stewie, who is now performing with Brian as a children's music duo named Red Shirt, Blue Shirt, Olivia tricks them into breaking up, and takes Stewie's place as Red Shirt. However, Brian quits performing with Olivia during a concert, after seeing Stewie in the front row of the audience crying while they play one of Stewie's original songs. Unfazed, she replaces Brian with another dog, who turns out to be Vinny. •
Paddy Tanniger (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is a short red-haired angry man who has been a caddy manager and a Hummer salesman. He generally ends his statements with "Big whoop, wanna fight about it?" He was eventually killed when he was run over by a tank piloted by Brian and Stewie in "
Hell Comes to Quahog". The DVD commentary for "The Perfect Castaway" mentions that nearly all the writing staff disliked the character, which led to his death. •
Rupert (voiced by
David Boat in "Stewie Loves Lois", "Stewie Kills Lois, "Lois Kills Stewie", and "Road to the North Pole",
Derek Jacobi in "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater") is a stuffed teddy bear that belongs to one-year-old
Stewie Griffin. Though inanimate, Rupert has become his personal confidant and best friend. Stewie confides all his secrets and machinations in Rupert, and often gets upset when Rupert does not respond. Rupert has been known to double as a pistol when needed ("
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater"). Rupert has been damaged several times. The first time, in a flashback in "
Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure", Stewie argued with Brian about the economy and Brian ate one of Rupert's legs. Stewie got the leg back after a while. The second time involved encountering an unfamiliar
Rottweiler dog in "
Stewie Loves Lois". Rupert was torn to shreds but was later sewn back together by Lois. In "
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", Stewie tears Rupert in two, after waking up from a Santa Claus–themed nightmare. In "
Killer Queen", Stewie shoots Rupert in the head with a gun rather than risk letting him die a worse death when he sees the cover of a Queen album. In "
The Man with Two Brians", he is humped by New Brian for two hours. Stewie then drags a body into the garbage, later revealed to be New Brian. At the end of the episode Stewie is crying in the shower and washing Rupert in despair, constantly reassuring him that it was not his fault. In "
Chick Cancer", when Stewie married
Olivia Fuller, he had Rupert officiate the ceremony. "
8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" had the creation of Stewpert, a being where Stewie and Rupert were fused together after Stewie activated his teleportation device before he realized Rupert was inside, in reference to Brundlefly of
The Fly. Stewie had several times referred to him as gay. Stewie accused Rupert of choosing to watch the boys in "
Road to Rhode Island" as opposed to watching their bags as Stewie has told him to, much to Stewie's chagrin. In the episode "
Road to Rupert", Brian accidentally sells Rupert, causing both Brian and Stewie (after Brian confesses to selling Rupert by accident) to head to the Swiss Alps to retrieve him from the family that he was sold to, eventually challenging the father of the family to a ski race to either get him back or give the family Brian as the stakes. Stewie does not respect the rules and throws hot tea in the other young boy's eyes, blinding him long enough to grab Rupert, but Stewie later says that he was through with Rupert and was too old for him, saying "...after all, Brian, I'm nearly one." Stewie has also imagined Rupert as a muscular, human male a few times, including in "
Road to the North Pole", where he builds a buff Rupert snowman in the opening credit sequence. However, Rupert retains his Teddy Bear head. In a DVD-exclusive scene in "
Excellence in Broadcasting", Stewie explores the experience of fantasizing and in his fantasy buff Rupert makes out with an equally buff Brian while Stewie is tied to the bed. In the episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Rupert's head is ripped off by Stewie's evil pet turtle Sheldon, who Stewie fights with in return. In "Total Recall", the factory that made Rupert demands all bears be returned to them, as they were a choking hazard. Lois sends him back, and Brian and Stewie go on a life-threatening quest to get him back, only just saving Rupert (and Stewie) from death in a furnace. As they return home, Stewie celebrates with Rupert, only for Rupert's eye to come off and Stewie to swallow it, supposedly killing him, with Chris, who witnessed the scene, casually shouting, "Mom, Stewie's dead". In the episode "
Quagmire's Quagmire", Stewie must decide whether to "play" with Rupert anymore after Lois finds his newborn plush toy, a blue, scruffy-looking, bow-tied teddy bear named Oscar who was apparently given to him by Babs Pewterschmidt (his maternal grandmother) when Stewie was born. This fact is stated by Meg, who is in the attic, organizing items from boxes along with Lois. Stewie treats Rupert like a nagging wife juxtaposed to Oscar's imaginary role as the still-loved ex-girlfriend. In "
The Simpsons Guy", Stewie is holding Rupert in court, while sitting next to
Mr. Burns, holding his own teddy bear,
Bobo. In "
Stewie, Chris & Brian's Excellent Adventure", Rupert tells the other stuffed animals that he is straight after Stewie and Brian leave with Chris in the time machine. In "
Dog Bites Bear", Brian accidentally destroys Rupert while drunk. He later replaces him with an identical-looking bear that Stewie believes to be Rupert having returned from the dead. In the season 19 episode "
The Talented Mr. Stewie" Stewie "breaks up" with Rupert after having found out he belonged to Chris before Stewie was born. Stewie then returns Rupert to Chris and in trying to fill the void starts playing with different stuffed animals, but to no avail. Eventually Stewie is driven by jealousy to kill Chris and Rupert. After realizing Chris planned on returning Rupert, Stewie saves a drowning Chris and reconciles with Rupert. •
Seamus Levine (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is a tough fisherman who is in his 60s and has two peg-legs as well as two peg arms. He wears a black eye patch over his right eye. He first appears in the episode "
A Fish Out of Water". While spending time with Peter and the gang in a steam room, it is revealed his whole body from the neck down is wood. He tends to warn Peter of danger. Seamus had his own talk show in "
Perfect Castaway". In his premiere episode, he jokes that his
father was a tree, but in the episode "
And Then There Were Fewer" he blames his condition on James Woods. Seamus initially claims that Woods carved him from wood and did not wish hard enough for him
to be a real boy, but he later revealed that they both got high on acid one day and Woods ate off Seamus' arms and legs, thinking that he was a steak. In "
Ocean's Three and a Half", when Seamus is seen naked, his body is entirely wooden while his head is human. He played Byron Hadley in the series' portrayal of
The Shawshank Redemption, the second of the "
Three Kings". In a DVD-exclusive scene, Seamus tries out for Fox News Channel in "
FOX-y Lady". He gets a ship in a bottle for Christmas in "
Road to the North Pole". In "
Tiegs for Two", he attends Quagmire's class on how to pick up women. In "
Cool Hand Peter", Seamus attempts to join in Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire's road trip only to be rejected by Peter. In "
The Simpsons Guy", Seamus attended the trial in Springfield between Duff Beer and Pawtucket Patriot Ale, where he was sitting next to Captain Horatio McCallister. In "
Christmas Is Coming" his son Woody was introduced; he also has two peg-legs and two peg arms. •
Miss Tammy (voiced by
Rachael MacFarlane) is Stewie's teacher at Quahog Preschool. •
Vinny Fuller (voiced by
Tony Sirico) is a 5-year-old talking
Italian greyhound whose first appearance in the franchise occurs in "
Life of Brian". After
Brian is killed in a tragic car accident, the Griffin family decides to find another dog at the pet store to ease their grief. They meet Vinny, a pussyhound (he is 1/16th cat) of Italian descent. Each member of the family (save Stewie) is taken with Vinny, and he is adopted into their family. Stewie, still mourning the death of Brian, rebuffs the hound and makes several attempts to get him out of the family. However, once Stewie learns that Vinny had also undergone a period of mourning when his owner died in a freak yoga accident, he comes to accept the hound as part of the family. Like Brian, Vinny is an anthropomorphized dog where he is described as being a "pooch with attitude", and according to executive producer
Steve Callaghan, "Vinny is just a lot more rough around the edges" and "is a really good match for Stewie." His personality is that of a streetwise, "wise guy" Italian American. In "
Christmas Guy", Vinny, upon asking around, finds out that Carter Pewterschmidt canceled an event at Quahog Mall, and reports this to the Griffin family. Vinny helps Stewie distract his past self so he can steal the return pad from his backpack and travel back in time to save Brian. Before Stewie goes back in time, he says his goodbyes to Vinny. Just before Stewie travels back in time, Vinny walks off shouting "Georgette, I'm coming home!", at which Stewie questions who "Georgette" is. At the end of "The Boys in the Band", after Brian quits performing with Olivia Fuller as Red Shirt, Blue Shirt, she replaces him with another dog, who, according to Brian, is "probably a dog neither [Stewie] or [he] has ever met"; it is then revealed that Vinny was chosen.
Stoolbend residents •
Coach Charles McFall (voiced by
Mike Henry) worked as a baseball coach during Cleveland's high school days at Stoolbend High School. When Cleveland wanted to start up the Waterman Yards again, Cleveland found Coach McFall working as a janitor at the Broken Stool while missing his left cheek due to his chewing of tobacco over the years. •
Gus (voiced by
David Lynch) is the 117-year-old bartender at the Broken Stool, before which he studied drama at
Northwestern University. Gus seems to be on good terms with Cleveland and his friends, giving them their drinks for free. •
Larry is Cleveland Jr.'s stuffed toy leopard. •
Meadowlark Lemon was the Tubbs' former family dog. In the second episode of season one, Cleveland accidentally kills him by running over him with his car several times. His body was later eaten by Lester and his family. •
Murray (voiced by
Carl Reiner) is a
Jewish senior citizen who Rallo meets at the retirement home around Christmas time. He teaches Rallo about the Jewish holiday of
Hanukkah. In the episode "Sex and the Biddy" he has a girlfriend named Hazel, but does not know until after he marries her that she is a
gold digger. Near the end of the episode, Murray and Rallo get revenge on Hazel by filling her apartment with cats to make her seem that she lost her mind and being forced to go to a
mental institution. •
Angus (voiced by
Alec Sulkin) is a radio show host and occasional sports commentator and one of Cleveland's high school friends. •
Gordy (voiced by
John Viener) is a radio announcer who is the co-host and best friend of Angus and one of Cleveland's high school friends. •
Dr. Fist (voiced by
Seth MacFarlane in seasons 1–2,
Tom Kenny in season 3,
Bryan Cranston in season 4) is a doctor that works at Stoolbend's hospital. Due to Seth MacFarlane working on the film
Ted, Tom Kenny had to cover for Seth by voicing Dr. Fist starting with "Skip Day". •
Donny (voiced by
Danny Smith) is formerly a leisure-suit-wearing patron of the Broken Stool and a former acquaintance of Cleveland's. Donny was first in "
How Cleveland Got His Groove Back", when Cleveland temporarily sought a new circle of friends. He later tried to murder Cleveland and kept Cleveland Jr. and Donna hostage to lure Cleveland into a trap. •
Dwayne Meighan (voiced by
Mike Henry) is the local television newscaster of Stoolbend. •
Fern Stapleton (voiced by
Kristen Wiig in the first appearance,
Beth Littleford in later appearances) is the mother of Lacey Stapleton and Kyle Stapleton. •
Mike (voiced by Brandon Richardson) is the band member leader who help Cleveland Brown and Kenny West find his street cred. •
Mayor Larry Box (voiced by
John Slattery) is the Mayor of Stoolbend, who is casually profane. •
Mr. Flippers (voiced by
Mike Henry) is a magical flying
walrus that would save the characters during the "Scene Missing" parts. •
Reverend Jenkins (voiced by
Kevin Michael Richardson) is a reverend who works at the Stoolbend Community Church. He first appeared in "Gone with the Wind", where he presided over Loretta Brown's funeral. •
Rock Hudson is an upbeat
bichon frisé who was originally owned by Lloyd Waterman. When Rallo and Cleveland Jr. try to return him for a $5000 reward, Waterman reveals that he hates the dog and gives the boys the reward money to get rid of him. •
Professor Sarah Friedman (voiced by
Bebe Neuwirth) is the mother of Gabriel and works as a university professor alongside her husband Saul. •
Professor Saul Friedman (voiced by
Jason Alexander) is the father of Gabriel and works as a university professor alongside his wife Sarah. He allows his son to promote his CD at his house. Saul was present at LeVar and Cookie's wedding. •
Yvette (voiced by
Rutina Wesley) is
Donna Tubbs' best friend. She first appears in the episode "
Ladies' Night". She made a second appearance in the episode "Brotherly Love".
Gag characters •
Al Harrington (voiced by
Danny Smith) is the owner, president, and CEO of "Al Harrington's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman Emporium and Warehouse". •
Barbershop Quartet (voiced by Jon Joyce, Bob Joyce, Rick Logan, and Randy Crenshaw) are a group of four men that sing close harmony songs in specific episodes. •
Buzz Killington (voiced by Danny Smith) is a man who dresses and acts as if he is a 19th-century British man of means. True to his name, he tends to be a buzzkill during social gatherings and other events. •
Conway Twitty is usually seen in archival footage of his performances, which are used when one of the characters needs a distraction. •
Evil Monkey (voiced by Danny Smith) is a monkey living in Chris' closet. The monkey's trademark grimace and pointing was the idea of writer
Mike Barker. •
Ernie the Giant Chicken (voiced by Danny Smith) is an anthropomorphic, human-sized chicken that often fights violently with Peter Griffin, usually interrupting some unrelated event. Their rivalry began after Ernie gave Peter an expired coupon, as shown in a flashback in the episode "
Da Boom". He was decapitated by Meg in Season 23's "The Chicken or the Meg"; series showrunner Alec Sulkin clarified that the character had been officially killed off, as the crew could not think of much more to do with him. Despite this, Ernie makes a reappearance in the "The Lord of the Earring" segment in Season 24's "Viewer DMs", and appears again later in the season in the episode "A Few More Ways to Die in the West", though neither episode is set within the show's standard continuity. •
Fjurg van der Ploeg (voiced by
John Viener) is a Swedish man who owns a bakery, who makes his first official appearance in "
Love, Blactually" (although he appears in a deleted scene of the earlier episode "
McStroke", as seen on DVD). He speaks in a strong Swedish accent, pronouncing words in humorous ways, such as pronouncing "pie" as "pee", or "dough" as "doo". He is the world champion of a fictional sport known as schpupel; a cutaway shows that Peter once lost to him in a schpupel match. •
The Greased-up Deaf Guy (voiced by Mike Henry) is a naked deaf man covered in grease who speaks in a shrill voice, first appearing in "
The Thin White Line". His greased body and deafness were a result of being caught in an oil tank truck explosion. •
Holden Caulfield (voiced by
Mark Hentemann and named by the crew after the
protagonist of the
J.D. Salinger novel
The Catcher in the Rye) is a man who obsessively calls out anyone he deems a "phony". He debuts in "
The Kiss Seen Around the World", shaming Peter in public for pretending to play a keyboard while using its autoplay feature, going so far as to spray-paint graffiti on Peter's car and standing outside the Griffin house, yelling out to passersby that "a phony lives here!". In the
Star Wars episodes, he plays Admiral Ozzel. •
James William Bottomtooth III (voiced by
Chris Sheridan) is a character with a severe underbite (
Habsburg jaw), which has given him a comically oversized lower jaw and has made his speech impossible to understand due to his extreme
Locust Valley lockjaw accent. "
You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives" reveals that he is a religious Christian and opposes same-sex marriage. •
Kool-Aid Man (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the mascot for the popular drink
Kool-Aid, parodied in several episodes. A running gag sees him breaking through a wall and shouting his catchphrase "Oh, yeah!" after other characters' repeated cries of "Oh, no!"; it gets to the point where Judge Dignified Q. Blackman requests nobody yell "Oh, no!" in the courtroom to keep the Kool-Aid Man from showing up. "
Valentine's Day in Quahog" reveals that he has a girlfriend, a sentient bottle of
Yoo-hoo who is depicted as a stereotypical African-American woman, much to the shock of his disapproving father. •
Phineas and Barnaby (voiced by Seth MacFarlane and
Wally Wingert) are two
strongmen that usually pursue two goals: working out at the Quahog Gym and riding
penny-farthing bicycles. •
RJ (voiced by Mike Henry) is a man with an overexaggerated, grating Wisconsin accent. His running gag is how he frequently wants to "bone his girlfriend" but due to some circumstance it never happens, as in his first appearance, where he claims to have seen
Bigfoot just before he and his girlfriend could begin to have sex. •
Tomik and Bellgarde (voiced by
John Viener and Alec Sulkin) are two foreign guys who have "been living in the United States almost long enough to sound American". •
Vern (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) and
Johnny are two
vaudeville characters who appear in cutaways and are dressed in traditional turn-of-the-century pinstripe outfits. Vern does all the talking (and singing) while Johnny is silent and provides accompanying piano music, usually the song
Galloping Gertie, to Vern's acts. According to Seth MacFarlane, viewers quickly got tired of the characters, so they were killed off in "
Saving Private Brian": Stewie shoots and kills them both, then turns to the audience and says "Okay, they're dead, all right? We're not gonna be seeing them again." However, they reappear as ghosts in "
Back to the Woods", although Johnny is in Hell as Vern states that he was a
pedophile. ==See also==