Ever since Seth MacFarlane brought the Griffins to life, Family Guy has dominated the adult
cartoon popularity contest.
The show depicts the adventures of a typical American family…
Well, not so typical.
The over-the-top, ridiculous and at times, random comedy separates Family Guy from a
lot of other slice-of-life animated comedies.
But with all the crazy things happening in Quahog, it makes sense that fans would come
up with some rather weird and, at times, downright dark, theories about the Griffins
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And these are Dark Theories about Family Guy that Change Everything.
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Family Guy is Told from Stewie’s Point of View
Stewie Griffin is, to no surprise, one of the most beloved characters in the show.
And it’s not difficult to guess why – the crazy weapons, the obsessions with ruling
the world, the bizarre adventures and chaotic situations, the over-the-top flamboyance…
Amid all the craziness that is Family Guy, Stewie seems to be the craziest of them all.
And that may have a reason behind it…
A recent fan theory suggested that the whole show was told to us from Stewie’s point
of view.
And if you think about it, it kind of makes sense.
Maybe Stewie’s bits are just in his imagination.
Because there’s no way a toddler could build a time machine, among other things, right?
And have you noticed that all of his adventures are mostly with Brian, the dog?
Maybe that’s why Brian seems to be the only one who can understand Stewie.
And as we know, a baby will almost always play with the dog.
If this theory is real, it could answer the show’s long-running question – why does
only Brian understand Stewie?
What if he doesn’t?
The fan suggests that maybe Brian and the Griffins don’t understand Stewie when he
talks, and all of Brian’s and Stewie’s adventures are just a part of Stewie’s imagination
while playing.
The show could be entirely from the baby’s point of view, and that could be the reason
why everything is all wacky with Peter doing stupid things all the time.
As we know, a kid’s memory is not the greatest, and this could be Stewie’s recalling of
all his memories.
And if the show is all in his imagination, it might also be why throughout the series,
none of the characters have aged or anything.
Do you remember the episode Back to the Pilot, when Stewie and Brian go back in time to the
first-ever episode of the show?
If you watch it carefully you will see that Stewie references that episode as his first
memory.
This could mean that each episode is a memory.
The theory suggests that he probably internalizes situations and adds his own childish touches
to them.
And when he is not involved in the situation, he knows about the story because maybe Peter
tells them before he goes to bed.
This could well be the reason why some people can understand him while some can’t: the
entire show is a manifestation of Stewie’s perception of the world.
The stories of the series are extremely exaggerated because it’s all from a baby’s perspective.
And this could also be why Brian can talk - because Stewie just understands the dog
as a member of the family, all of whom can speak.
Do you think the entire show could be told through Stewie’s eyes?
That would explain a lot, right?
The Griffin Kids are Products of Incest This is kind of a weird subject to talk about,
but according to a fan theory, Chris, Meg, and little Stewie are... possibly, the products
of incest.
How can this be?
The proof, they say, lies in an episode of season 4, where Peter tells his family about
the Griffin’s family history, and we find out that Peter’s great-grandfather, Nate,
married Louis great-grandmother.
This makes Peter and Louis blood relatives and their kids, well yeah, products of an
incestuous relationship.
Yes, I know, it’s shocking, but if you take a closer look, maybe this could be the reason
why they have such “special” personalities right?
There are a lot of opinions among the fans.
Some agree with the theory, and state that it isn’t really a problem since Louis and
Peter are very distant relatives, and that after so many generations, it wouldn’t cause
any problems for their kids.
Other fans state that the appearance of Peter Griffin’s biological father, the Irish Mickey
McFinnigan, on season 5, proves that Peter is not related to Nate Griffin at all.
Whatever may be the truth, the matter of fact is that incestuous or not, the Griffin kids
are really “not at all there”, and that’s one of the reasons the public loves the series
so much.
Do you think there may be a chance of incest in the Griffin family?
Susie Swanson is American Dad’s Avery Bullock It is a known fact that American Dad, another
crazy animated sitcom created by Seth Macfarlane, and Family Guy exist in the same universe.
The characters from both shows often appear in the other.
To the point where a lot of fans have asked for a crossover episode.
It’s also a fact that little Susie Swanson’s inner monologue is voiced by Patrick Stewart,
who also voices CIA Director Avery Bullock in American Dad.
One fan theory suggests that they are the same person.
How?
Well, in the American Dad series, the CIA has a device that allows a person to remotely
control an avatar of any shape or size.
And in the episode “Virtual In-Stanity”, Director Bullock does indeed have one of those
avatars: a baby.
And he constantly utilizes this avatar for, well, nutritional purposes.
What the theory suggests is that Director Bullock has been using little Susie as an
avatar, so he could have is fantasies satisfied with Bonnie.
Could this bizarre theory be true?
If so, imagine is Quagmire got a hold of this technology...
Stewie, Meg, and Chris are not Peter’s kids We’ve already talked about the creepy incest
theory.
But there is another fan theory regarding the Griffin kids, and perhaps it’s even
weirder One fan suggests that Stewie, Meg, and Chris
could not be Peter’s kids at all.
Many have pointed out that they don’t look like Peter...
But more questioning began happening after an episode in season 15.
In this episode, Peter donated some sperm, and the resulting kids looked pretty much
like him.
If Peter’s kids don’t look like him to this extent...
Could this mean they could be someone else’s children?
The theory states that Lois had tons of affairs in her life, resulting in Meg, Chris and Stewie.
Then again, many argue that this could be debunked.
If you take a closer look, you will see the kids’ similarities with Peter – Chris
is obese and has Peter’s chin, Meg has poor eye-sight and uses glasses, and little Stewie
is very much a look-alike with Peter’s other biological son, Bertram.
Do you think the Griffin kids are really Peters’?
Seth Macfarlane hates the show This seems like a pretty weird theory, but
that doesn’t mean it’s false.
How could the creator of a very successful TV series hate his own creation?
Well, if you think about it, many artists throughout history ended up hating their own
work.
Could this one be the case?
One theory suggests that this could be true and Seth Macfarlane shows us this truth through
Brian’s character.
The theory basically suggests that the different episodes focusing on the dog’s writing experiences
show an abiding dissatisfaction from Seth McFarlane about where the show has ended up.
Brian, as you know, is voiced by Seth himself, and is often seen as Seth’s mouthpiece on
a variety of topics.
Throughout the series, Brian has managed to achieve his desired fame more than once, and
never because of his beloved, and terrible, novel “Faster than the Speed of Love”.
Brian was never able to do what he loved and always had to resort to cheap and meaningless
stuff to be successful.
You can see this in two episodes where Brian becomes a bit successful.
In one of them, Brian writes a pilot TV show that gets accepted, but the studio mangles
and twists the show from a heartwarming premise into a bizarre surrealistic cliché full of
cheap jokes.
The studio keeps upping the ante and making things more and more ridiculous until Brian
quits.
In the other episode, Brian writes a bestseller, which is absolute trash from the start – it’s
something he makes to appeal to the mass market because no one wants the book he poured his
heart and soul into.
It’s popular, but half of it is literally empty pages.
Brian becomes pompous and insufferable and forgets that he literally created the book
to be stupid and to troll readers.
It’s possible to take these examples and see that Seth never even really liked Family
Guy but just intended it to be a mass-market show copying the Simpsons since no one would
let him do the work he really wanted.
And certainly, if you take these examples in connection with how little time Seth spends
on the show at this point, as well as the comments he’s made over the years, it seems
clear that Seth may hate where his creation has ended up.
Could the creator of such a famous show hate his own creation?
No matter what some people think… (possibly Seth MacFarlane included), Family Guy is a
beloved show, and millions of people love the ridiculous adventure of the Griffins.
But do you think any of these dark theories make sense?
Do you have any dark theories of your own?
Let us know in the comment section below.
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