Quahog 5
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Quahog 5 (WQHG) is a fictional television station featured in the FOX network TV show Family Guy, located in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The two anchors, Tom and Diane, have been present since the beginning of the show, and have become two of the most prominent characters. Their combative relationship is frequently noticeable on-air during news reports.
WQHG has a sister radio station at 97.1FM, featuring the weekday duo "Weenie and the Butt"; other duos featured at this station were "Dingo and the Baby" and "Dark Chocolate and the Rod".
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[edit] Tom Tucker
Thomas "Tom" Tucker is a character in the animated television series Family Guy. He is an arrogant, baritone newscaster at Channel 5. His family includes Stacy, his second wife, and a son named Jake who's face is upside down from his first marriage; Tom was briefly Thelma Griffin’s boyfriend who acted like a stepfather to Peter in “Mother Tucker.” In the Pilot of the show, he was named Mike.
Tom tends to insult everybody around him, particularly Diane Simmons, his co-anchor. He dislikes her and frequently trades insults with her on-air. This seems to have been toned down in the show's revival.
[edit] Diane Simmons
Diane Simmons (voiced by Lori Alan) is Tom's co-anchor. In "The King Is Dead", a younger Diane's full name is listed as Diane Seidelman, hinting that she is Jewish. Whether this was her maiden name or she assumed a stage name to sound less Jewish is unknown. Diane has her own Ricki Lake-esque talk show where she was abused by Lois. In ("The King Is Dead") was given the starring role in Peter's version of The King and I, though she quit before the production went on due to Peter constantly changing the storyline and theme of the play. She seems involved in fewer lewd or bizarre acts than her co-anchor, Tom Tucker, but has been known to do things like flash her breasts on television and hire male prostitutes. It is briefly suggested that she may be racist against African Americans, going so far as to say, while unwittingly on air "I just plain don't like black people." Also in "The King Is Dead", Diane said to Loretta Brown that "they did an all you-people version of Hello, Dolly! (musical). It is said that one of her previous husbands committed suicide by "blowing his brains out."
[edit] Ollie Williams
Ollie Williams (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is the black meteorologist on Quahog 5 News' weather segment, the BlaccuWeather (a play on AccuWeather) forecast, and is reminiscent of Al Roker. His forecasts are generally very loud, quick, concise, and to the point, generally being less than 5 words long (for example, "IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!" "IT'S GONNA RAIN!" "E'RYBODY LOOK LIKE ANTS!" "WHO WANTS THIS DOG?!" "SPACE WEATHER!" and "HE GONNA GET IT!") It's revealed in the episode "Stewie B. Goode" that he is very computer savvy when he helps Tom Tucker access his e-mail ("DID YOU CHECK YOUR TCP/IP SETTINGS?!" "Yes I did, Ollie." "ENABLE COOKIES?!" "Yes, Ollie." "YOU WANT THIS DOG?!" "No thank you, Ollie."). At the very beginning of Lois Kills Stewie, before the opening credits, Tom Tucker asks him to summarize all the events that happened in the previous episode, Stewie Kills Lois, which he does very quickly.
The longest Ollie has been on screen at one time to date is in the fictional Quahog 5 opening roll call in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story; he is shown up close and facing away from the screen until his name is mentioned, after which he looks toward the viewer and appears startled, only to smile and calm down as if it were a joke. Though he says absolutely nothing in this scene, it seems to give some insight to his true personality.
Ollie is expected to play Lando Calrissian in the second installment of the Family Guy Star Wars saga, "Something, Something, Something Dark Side." It is likely he will engage in conversations with the other characters as he always does, but the extent of his screen time is currently unknown.
[edit] Tricia Takanawa
Tricia Takanawa (Alex Borstein) is the main correspondent for Quahog Channel 5 News.[1] Unlike her fellow news people, Tricia displays a strong, stoic attitude. Whenever Tucker or Simmons would switch the scene to Takanawa, either of the two would always say "Asian Correspondent Tricia Takanawa", or "Asian Reporter Tricia Takanawa".[1] She is known for her flat, nasal voice and dead-pan attitude, even when laughing[2] and during sex.[3] On one occasion, however, she completely loses control while meeting David Bowie.[4] Diane confirms her as being Japanese.[4] Tricia is often made to do dirty jobs, such has covering a flu segment (prompting her to throw up),[5] and to be abused in a hurricane report.[6] In an uncanonical episode, she is grilled and eaten by Tom and Diane.[1] Her explosion when she met David Bowie was publicised after she started to hump his left leg like a dog and screamig "I make you fish bowl soup!".[4] In "North by North Quahog", she is not allowed into a hotel because of her ethnicity. Connie Chung of CBS is frequently cited as inspiration for this character.[7]
[edit] Weenie and the Butt
Weenie and the Butt are the fictional Quahog television station, Quahog 5 - WQHG's sister talk radio station, 97.1 FM WQHG's Disc Jockeys. In season 5, episode 2 "Mother Tucker", we find them doing a live radio broadcast from the air show. They are a parody of all of the "zoo type" or "morning show" radio broadcasts across the USA. They parody these broadcasts by over-playing their radio show jingles and sound effects.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Family Guy episode: "Da Boom"
- ^ Family Guy episode: "Death is a Bitch"
- ^ Family Guy episode: "Brian in Love"
- ^ a b c Family Guy: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story opening segment
- ^ Family Guy episode: "Stewie Loves Lois"
- ^ Family Guy episode: "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea"
- ^ Retrieved from "http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Tricia_Takanawa"
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