Chris Griffin

Christopher Cross Griffin, known almost exclusively as Chris, is the fictional son of Peter and Lois Griffin in the popular television cartoon series Family Guy. He is voiced by actor Seth Green. He lacks intelligence and common sense (possibly inherited from his father) but is shown to have enormous hidden gifts, particularly as an artist, and occasionally makes a single very insightful comment from out of nowhere, as in the episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame". He is often tormented by the evil monkey in his room.

Related Topics:
Peter - Lois Griffin - Television - Cartoon - Family Guy - Seth Green - Fifteen Minutes of Shame - Monkey

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From birth Chris was overweight (a newspaper clipping on the Griffins' fridge shows Lois holding a baby Chris with the headline "Local Woman Gives Birth to Elephant Baby"). In the episode "He's Too Sexy For His Fat", Chris started an exercise regimen with Peter's help with no results. Peter took him to a cosmetic surgeon, but Chris eventually rejected the idea of liposuction, though Peter did not. Chris has an extremely large penis, a fact of which Peter was envious ("And the Wiener is...").

Related Topics:
He's Too Sexy For His Fat - Cosmetic surgeon - Liposuction - Penis - And the Wiener is...

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When the Griffin home seceded from the United States in the episode "E. Peterbus Unum", Chris was head of their "space program", albeit an unsuccessful one. In the fourth season episode "Brian the Bachelor", Chris developed a pimple that could speak and even, at one point, hold a gun. It compelled him to commit various acts of mischief around Quahog. The plotline is a loose allusion to the plot of Little Shop of Horrors, yet another Family Guy reference to musical theater. In the episode "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", Chris was pulled into a-Ha's "Take On Me" video.

Related Topics:
Seceded - United States - E. Peterbus Unum - Brian the Bachelor - Pimple - Little Shop of Horrors - Musical theater - Breaking Out Is Hard to Do - A-Ha - Take On Me

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Chris was originally given a "punk" image, according to creator Seth McFarlane's various DVD Commentary tracks. He wore earrings, and his painful akwardness was not as emphasized as it was later in the series. Lois and Stewie were other characters to undergo major yet gradual character changes in this manner.

Related Topics:
"punk" - Lois - Stewie

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Chris' talent for painting was discovered when Peter used a painting Chris gave him as a birthday gift to patch up a broken window in his car. When Antonio Monatti, a snobby New York gallery owner, sees this painting, he takes Chris to New York, dresses him in different clothes and renames him Cristobel. The gallery owner also distances Chris from his father. The unveiling of Christobel's latest piece, an Andy Warhol-esque portrait of his father, dashes Chris' career as a painter, and the family returns to Quahog.

Related Topics:
New York - Andy Warhol

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An evil monkey lives in Chris's closet and frequently threatens to kill him. However, whenever Chris tries to explain the evil monkey to his family, they dismiss him.

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The Evil Monkey also seems to enjoy smoking pot when Chris isn't around, a nod to Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. Chris seems to inexplicably know that the Evil Monkey wasn't always evil; in one episode he relates how he had come home from work one day to find his wife with another monkey, and it seems he's been bitter and angry ever since. It is still unknown how he came to live in Chris's closet.

Related Topics:
Richard Linklater - Dazed and Confused

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The Evil Monkey seems to have a lookalike relative in Asiantown.

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