Peter Griffin

Peter Lowenbrau Griffin is a fictional character in the Fox animated television show Family Guy. He is voiced by the show's creator and lead writer, Seth MacFarlane. Peter is the head of the Griffin household and the central character in the show. He is married to Lois, and father of Meg, Chris, and Stewie. His best friend is his dog Brian.

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Fictional character - Fox - Animated - Television - Family Guy - Seth MacFarlane - Lois - Meg - Chris - Stewie - Dog - Brian

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Peter initially worked as a production line worker at the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory. Following its closure he became a fisherman. He has also worked as a Renaissance Fair jouster, construction worker in New York, Sheriff, CEO, President (and lobbyist) of a tobacco company, folk singer, and a Pawtucket Brewery worker. His favorite pastime is watching television.

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Renaissance Fair - Joust - Sheriff - Folk singer

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In the episode "Peter Griffin, Husband, Father... Brother?", Peter discovered he had a pre-Civil War era black ancestor named Nate Griffin. Furthermore, he was a slave owned by a Pewterschmidt (Lois's Family) ancestor. After learning this, Peter very briefly went by the name Kichwe, until his father-in-law, Carter Pewterschmidt, paid him $20,000 in reparations. Peter then stupidly squandered turning his house's den into a replica of Pee-wee's Playhouse. He later realized this was a very ridiculous and childish mistake, and gave his money freely to the people of Quahog.

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Civil War - Slave - Reparations - Pee-wee's Playhouse

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In an earlier episode, "The Son Also Draws", Peter claimed to be Native American, with an ancestor named Jeep Grand Cherokee in order to regain Lois' gambling losses at a casino. The casino managers told Peter to go on a vision quest to prove his claim. Peter did, and his spirit guide turned out to be Fonzie.

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Native American - Jeep Grand Cherokee - Gambling - Vision quest - Fonzie

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When a toad-licking drug trend started at Meg's school, Peter went "undercover" as a Fonzie-inspired character called Lando Griffin, and nobody questioned his assumed identity as a high school student not related to Meg. Meg was at first mortified, but when Lando became cool by single-handedly turning the entire school off of drugs, Meg asked him to the dance. Lando took Connie D'Amico to the dance instead, but declared that he had been rejected by Meg, and promised to kill himself by driving his motorcycle off a cliff. According to the news anchor the next morning, "Police were baffled when no body was found, but they decided to let it go and let people get on with their lives."

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Peter is insanely jealous of Lois' ex-boyfriends, and he will attack any man who expresses the slightest interest in her (he even punched an orca after it "kissed" Lois). Two notable exceptions: when he learned Lois had been sexually involved with Gene Simmons, a member of his favorite band, KISS; needless to say, he was proud of her, boasting "My wife did KISS!" When Quagmire got caught peeping at Lois, Peter sided with Quagmire and told Lois she should take peeping as a compliment.

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Orca - Gene Simmons - KISS

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Peter is often transformed by traumatic experience, and then restored to "normal" by a simple, almost trivial experience. For example, after shock therapy administered by Brian, Peter became like a wealthy, snobbish socialite and bid too much money at an auction. To snap Peter back to reality and his "normal" self, Brian broke one of Peter's Star Wars collectibles during a speech paraphrased from George Lucas' film '. He also loves Boba Fett from the same set of films, although this may merely be indicative of his fragile hold on reality anyways.

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Trauma - Shock therapy - Star Wars - George Lucas - Boba Fett

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Peter's arch-nemesis is a man-sized chicken who gave him a worthless coupon. He fought him throughout Rhode Island in the episode "Da Boom", and again in "Blind Ambition".

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Da Boom - Blind Ambition

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We find another example of Peter's malleable persona in the episode "I am Peter, Hear Me Roar". After experiencing a pain as great as that of childbirth ("stretching your bottom lip to the back of your neck") at a women's retreat, Peter became extremely sensitive to the point of his son proclaiming "Holy crap, Dad's a chick," which then quickly escalated to an exaggerated portrayal of radical feminism (unusual for someone normally portrayed as a male chauvinist), accompanied by delusions. To bring him back, Lois ended up in a fight with another woman, one Gloria Ironbox, restoring Peter in an ironic fashion through a "typical male fantasy" involving a catfight.

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Persona - Childbirth - Women's retreat - Feminism - Male chauvinist - Delusion - Ironic

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Physically, Peter is in very good health (despite being overweight and accident-prone). A lump in his chest turned out to be a fatty corpuscle, not cancer. However, he does occasionally suffer from incontinence at socially awkward moments and premature ejaculation with his wife. Peter's fertility was lowered (perhaps only temporarily) when Stewie went in a microscopic ship into Peter's body and destroyed several of Peter's sperm (in the episode "Emission Impossible"). Excessive consumption of alcohol has damaged most of his brain cells, and may be the explanation for his mental retardation, which was discovered in the episode "Petarded". Despite earning the 1965 trophy for Most Ticks, Peter does not appear to have suffered Lyme disease or related ailments.

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Corpuscle - Cancer - Incontinence - Premature ejaculation - Fertility - Sperm - Brain cell - Mental retardation - 1965 - Lyme disease

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In one episode, "Blind Ambition", Peter went blind after eating nickels; he said he was aiming for the world record of the most nickels swallowed. However, he became a hero, saving the owner of the Drunken Clam from dying in a fire. Afterwards, a dead hobo's eyes were donated to him.

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Blind - World record

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Although capable of deductive reasoning, it sometimes takes Peter a long time to draw simple conclusions. For example, after watching an ad for the KISS-stock tour passing through New England, it wasn't until the next day while at the dentist that he figured out that he could go to KISS-stock. On another occasion, it took him three days to figure out a single-panel cartoon in The New Yorker. Peter lacks some very basic general knowledge (for a long time he thought dogs laid eggs and that the plural of goose was sheep) but his knowledge of some topics, including TV shows and KISS, is nearly encyclopedic. From his speech patterns, we can infer that he has a very infantile mind, and that he often has difficulty differentiating between himself and his environment, for instance, he once told Lois, "Awww, you're just worried that because you're a woman you're going to do something stupid like buy that timeshare or not realize your husband taped over our wedding video with softcore cable porn", and in another more obvious incident, while running for school board president, he said, "When I'm through with our education system, our kids will be so smart, they'll be able to program the VCR without spilling piping hot gravy all over myself." This is probably due to his years of obsessive Television watching.

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New England - Dentist - The New Yorker

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When Peter appeared on Diane Simmons's talk show, an onscreen title described him as an "embarrassing fat moron." Being stupid, lazy, impulsive, aggressive and misogynistic, Peter's sole redeeming quality appears to be his loyalty; despite his nearly all-encompassing faults he is a loyal family man and a loyal friend.

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Peter is apparently a very capable musician in several different areas. In the episode "Wasted Talent," Peter was revealed to be a concert-level pianist, but only when inebriated and only when playing the theme music to television shows. He was also part of a barbershop quartet which sang at hospitals, delivering bad news to terminally ill patients. He was part of a cappella quartet named The Four Peters, which consisted of himself four times over. In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" he can play the guitar, and in "Fast Times at Buddy Ciani Jr. High", he can play the trombone.

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Inebriated - Barbershop quartet - A cappella - Quartet - Guitar - Trombone

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Peter owned a fishing boat which he christened the S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spiderman, And The Incredible Hulk Put Together. This led to his career as a fisherman. However, the boat sank during a trip to Pelican's Reef.

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Peter became a local celebrity when he had a segment called "What Really Grinds My Gears" on the Action 5 News, in which he ranted on topics like the lack of new priest and rabbi jokes, Lindsey Lohan's teasing and parents who don't control their children. He lost the job when Tom Tucker brought to the station a tape of Stewie driving while intoxicated.

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