Meg Griffin
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| Meg Griffin | |
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| Character information | |
| Full name | Megan J. Griffin |
| Relatives | Father: Peter Griffin[1] Mother: Lois Griffin Siblings: Chris Griffin Stewie Griffin and Bertram (half brother) |
| Age | 17 (15 in debut) |
| Gender | Female[2] |
| Hair color | Brunette |
| Occupation | High School Student |
| Religion | Indeterminate |
| Heritage | Irish American and German-American |
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| First appearance | "Death Has a Shadow" |
| Voice actor | Lacey Chabert Mila Kunis |
Megan "Meg" Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy. She is the oldest child of Lois and Peter Griffin, sister of Chris and Stewie.
Meg attends James Woods High School as a junior, where she is incredibly unpopular.
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[edit] Voice actors
In a Season 1 DVD commentary of the first episode of Drawn Together, Cree Summer claims she was offered the role to play Meg but was dismissed by the producers due to being of the wrong ethnicity for the character. Meg was voiced by an uncredited Lacey Chabert for the first season, and by Mila Kunis in subsequent seasons, though some of Chabert's work became second-season episodes due to production order.
- Rachael MacFarlane (pilot)
- Lacey Chabert (1999 – 2000)
- Mila Kunis (2000 - Present)
- Tara Strong (singing voice)
[edit] Appearance
Meg nearly always wears a beanie-like hat and glasses. She also commonly wears a pink shirt, blue jeans, and brown faux Birkenstocks clogs. She is slightly shorter than her younger brother Chris. Meg is self-conscious about her appearance in general ("I'm so fat and gross"[3]), because she's overweight and unattractive. Others also make fun of her weight, such as a man classifying her weight as "a lot" or when Stewie imagines Meg in low-riders (his imagination shows Meg striking a pose, while the fat in her stomach hangs over her waist). In the Episode "Model Misbehavior", Meg gets caught in a fishing net at sea, to which a fisherman responds, "That's what we call a manatee or in nautical slang, the sea cow."
[edit] Social life
Meg desperately tries to be part of the cool crowd, and is coldly rebuffed. Eager for acceptance, she is shown in two stories unwittingly recruited by a religious cult,[4] and accepting a mistaken invitation to join her school's Lesbian Alliance.[5] However, in some episodes Meg is depicted with a bunch of girls (in a slumber party, and gossiping about boys[6]); in later episodes these girls are characterized as dateless losers like Meg.
[edit] Dating
Meg is so unpopular in high school that a student in shop class fires a nail gun into his own stomach in order to avoid a date with her.[7] However, she is sought by pimply nerd Neil Goldman,[7][8][9] and perverted neighbor Glenn Quagmire has shown an interest, mostly due to his very broad standards, asking if she has reached the age of consent.[10] In several episodes she is shown dating, including stories with characters Mayor Adam West[8] and nudist Jeff Campbell,[11] and she loses her virginity on live television to Saturday Night Live host Jimmy Fallon after having a drastic make over.[12]
In other episodes she is portrayed as chronically incapable of finding a boyfriend. For her Junior Prom she accepts a pity date from Brian, the family dog.[3]
In the episode "Peter's Daughter" Meg falls in love with a med-student named Michael Milano after coming out of a short coma (caused by Peter). Meg soon then announces that she is pregnant by Michael and the two get engaged (he actually proposes to her). After finding out that she isn't actually pregnant, Meg tells Michael the truth hoping that he'll stay; however, Michael leaves Meg at the altar.
[edit] Family life
Meg is the oldest child in the Griffin family, and the least favorite. The Griffins are shown avoiding her company, disparaging her in person, gathering in her bedroom to read her diary for laughs,[13] Peter reminds Lois "We agreed that if we could only save two, we'd leave Meg!"[14] even shooting her ("Peter's Daughter") but despite this he also once was going to say 'I love you' in an episode and in "Road to Rupert" he stated they were 'secret best friends' before throwing lemonade in her face, saying he would have to continue to treat her badly in public in order to maintain his reputation.
When the family tries an anger management technique of writing letters and not sending them, Meg finds Peter's letter to her, which says "Dear Meg, for the first four years of your life, I thought that you were a housecat."[15] And in Peter's short story of her birth, they had to go back to get her once they realized they grabbed the afterbirth. In the episode "Stewie Kills Lois" Peter tells guests on a cruise ship about how he and Lois had gone to get an abortion but decided against it when they arrived at the clinic. He then says "2 months later, our daughter Meg was born" - indicating that they had not planned her birth. On Meg's 17th birthday, her mother and father both try to hide from Meg that they don't remember her age.[16] Peter openly states that Meg sucks in the episode "PTV", and Chris says the same thing about her in "Long John Peter." Chris, however, seems to have more of a typical brother-sister relationship with Meg, and even once threatened to quit his job if his Boss didn't re-hire Meg.
The neighbors also openly dislike Meg. Joe encourages Lois to keep him from falling down a giant sewer pipe by telling her "pretend I'm your child"; when Lois' grip slips a little, Joe yells "Not Meg! Not Meg!" This may have more to do with Joe's perception that Lois doesn't like Meg than with Joe's feelings about her; in another episode, Meg expresses her love for her mom, but Lois pointedly does not respond to this. [17] Cleveland comments to Peter "Meg is my least favorite of your children." [18]
[edit] Dangerous behavior
Meg is often shown as emotionally fragile or disturbed. One episode shows Meg "dating" a corpse [19] or laughing tearfully while describing imaginary gifts from her boyfriend "Prince William."[20] Later in the series, Meg is charged for forcing herself upon a group of would-be captors [21] and grows violently obsessed with Brian after a drunken kiss at the Junior Prom[3]. Meg also speaks of habitually cutting herself and throwing up after meals.[22]. Meg's dangerous behavior, however obvious, is rarely noticed by her parents even when stated. Such as in the episode "Sibling Rivalry" after Lois had her fat removed she states to Meg, that eating to solve ones problems is the wrong thing to do, apparently referencing that she's somewhat fat. In this Meg replies, "I don't eat to solve my problems, I cut myself." Peter also doesn't pay attention when she loses her temper and assaults a man who crashed into the back of the car while driving him, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire around when they have been drinking in Road to Rupert. He exclaims that her actions were "awesome" and this leads to her engaging in other erratic behaviour to impress him.
Meg also appears to use marijuana, claiming to have developed drug connections.
[edit] References
- ^ The unseen "Stan Thompson" is briefly identified as Meg's biological father in a one-shot gag in "Screwed the Pooch".
- ^ Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story depicts Meg as male, named Ron, in a possible future.
- ^ a b c "Barely Legal". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-12-17. No. 8, season 5. “I'm so fat and gross”
- ^ "Chitty Chitty Death Bang". Family Guy. Fox. 1999-04-18. No. 3, season 1.
- ^ "Brian Sings and Swings". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-01-08. No. 19, season 4.
- ^ "Fifteen Minutes of Shame". Family Guy. Fox. 2000-04-25. No. 12, season 2.
- ^ a b "8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter". Family Guy. Fox. 2005-07-10. No. 8, season 4.
- ^ a b "The Story on Page One". Family Guy. Fox. 2000-07-18. No. 19, season 2.
- ^ "The Kiss Seen Around the World". Family Guy. Fox. 2001-08-29. No. 8, season 3.
- ^ "The Thin White Line". Family Guy. Fox. 2001-11-07. No. 1, season 3. “Are you 18 yet?”
- ^ "From Method to Madness". Family Guy. Fox. 2002-01-24. No. 18, season 3.
- ^ "Don't Make Me Over". Family Guy. Fox. 2005-06-05. No. 4, season 4.
- ^ "Stuck Together, Torn Apart". Family Guy. Fox Broadcasting Company. 2002-01-31. No. 19, season 3.
- ^ "Petergeist". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-05-07. No. 26, season 4. “Oh yeah right like I'm going back for Meg”
- ^ "Lethal Weapons". Family Guy. Fox. 2001-08-22. No. 7, season 3.
- ^ "Peter's Two Dads". Family Guy. Fox. 2007-02-11. No. 10, season 5.
- ^ "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do". Family Guy. Fox Broadcasting Company. 2005-07-17. No. 9, season 4.
- ^ "Hell Comes to Quahog". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-09-24. No. 3, season 5.
- ^ "Don't Make Me Over". Family Guy. Fox. 2005-06-05. No. 4, season 4.
- ^ "To Love and Die in Dixie". Family Guy. Fox. 2001-11-15. No. 12, season 3.
- ^ "Untitled Griffin Family History". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-05-14. No. 27, season 4.
- ^ "Sibling Rivalry". Family Guy. Fox. 2006-03-26. No. 24, season 4.
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