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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
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| Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | |
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| Directed by | Pete Michels Peter Shin (supervising director) |
| Produced by | David A. Goodman, Seth McFarlane, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith (executive producers); Michael Rowe (supervising producer); Kim Fertman (associate producer); Alex Borstein, Steve Callaghan, Mike Henry, Patrick Henry, Alec Sulkin, Kara Vallow, Wellesley Wild, (producers); Mark Hentemann (consulting producer) |
| Written by | Gary Janetti and Chris Sheridan (part I) Alex Borstein (part II) Steve Callaghan (part III) |
| Starring | Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis |
| Music by | Ron Jones, Walter Murphy |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | September 27, 2005 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | unknown |
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (full title: Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story) is a direct-to-DVD animated film set in Family Guy's fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the movie is mostly about Stewie Griffin trying to find his real father. It additionally contains commentaries and a sneak preview of the American Dad series. The movie is also available in the UMD format for the PlayStation Portable.
The movie was originally written to be a 'straight to video' movie in three episode length segments. The three segments, each written by different people, are titled Stewie B. Goode, Bango Was His Name Oh! and Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure. These three episodes were aired as the three-part season four finale.
The FOX television network aired the edited and separated versions of the three segments on May 21, 2006. It also had several scenes cut out to make it more appropriate for broadcast on American television.
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The entire film begins with a pseudo news report involving the premiere of the actual film itself, where several Family Guy characters have been invited. Eventually, the Griffin family arrives and each of them make a grand entrance, with the exceptions of Meg and Chris. Brian Griffin comes out of the limo and makes a joke on a famous line from a previous episode ("hey bartender, whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here"). Chris Griffin comes out and makes a joke that he was sitting backwards in the limo so his underwear was going the right way. Meg Griffin comes out and reporter Tricia Takanawa ask her a question and before Meg can even respond, Stewie Griffin comes out and everyone's attention falls right on him. After many questions and answers on Stewie, Lois Griffin falls out as she is extremely drunk because there was booze in the car and is followed by Peter Griffin. It then cuts to the theatre, where Quagmire is making a bootleg recording of the film.
The film opens at the Quahog Community Swimming Pool. Encouraged by Peter and Lois to take swimming lessons, Stewie meets the star pupil of the class, Brad. Jealous, Stewie decides to try and outdo him in a swimming race. He nearly drowns in the process, while Brad finishes in first place. Feeling humiliated and wanting to kill his nemesis, Stewie rigs a lifeguard chair with dynamite and lures Brad beneath it by putting a piece of marzipan under it. However, Stewie's detonator malfunctions, and he blows himself up and is crushed beneath the lifeguard chair. Stewie awakens in "Hell", a red hotel room with a small television and a sign on the headboard of the bed saying "Welcome to Hell", where he is greeted by Steve Allen, who proclaims, "Okay, let's do this," and begins to get undressed. Stewie is abruptly brought back to Earth, and he decides to change his ways (as it turns out, Steve Allen wanted Stewie to fix his shirt collar; however, Allen is damned to watch non-stop reruns of Who's The Boss?).
Meanwhile, Peter gets a job at Quahog 5, hosting a ranting section known as You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?, in which he rants about things that bother him, such as Lindsay Lohan. Peter becomes extremely popular, overshadowing Tom Tucker and making him feel jealous.
Stewie's attempts at being a good boy mainly revolve around smothering Brian with affection, much to the latter's consternation. Brian finally goads Stewie into reverting to his old, violent ways, resurrecting Stewie's fear of "Hell". Deciding to follow Brian's example of controlling anger through drunkenness, Stewie becomes an alcoholic; Brian, seeking to cure Stewie, takes him out for a night of drinking at the Drunken Clam, which culminates in Stewie ramming a car through the wall of the bar.
Knowing Stewie is Peter's son, Tom Tucker takes advantage of the situation and presents footage of the accident at the news station. Peter loses his job, possibly on the extent that he become a better parent, and Tom regains his post.
The next morning, Stewie wakes up naked in his crib with a hangover, apparently having blacked out and given Roger Moore his phone number the night before. Stewie laments to Brian his lonely existence in the world, and wishes that there were someone else to whom he could relate.
Later, while watching television, Brian and Stewie see an interview with a San Francisco man who looks and sounds exactly like Stewie. Stewie decides that this is his real father, and resolves to travel to San Francisco to meet with him.
Learning that Quagmire is going on a "Cross Cuntry" (the name is only implied when Quagmire is asked "doesn't country have an 'o' in it" to which he responds "nope") trip through all 50 states with the intent of having sex with a woman in every state, Brian and Stewie hitch a ride in his "Wanna-bang-o." At a motel, Quagmire is handcuffed to a bed and mugged by a cleaning woman; Stewie finds Quagmire, and rather than free him, steals the Winnebago. Having obtained 'uppers' off-screen, Stewie crashes the vehicle. Stranded in the desert, the two see a Dr. Pepper machine. This is a mirage; it's an RC Cola machine, dissapointing the pair. Stewie almost gives up but Brian gives a pep talk.
Meanwhile, in the B plot, Peter and Lois decide to encourage their older children to date others so that they could spend some time alone together without worry of interruption. They succeed in the end, only to question whether their motives were good, and if the kids were really ready to see other people.
Arriving in California, Stewie and Brian track down the man from the television. Stewie confronts the man on a trolley, and is shocked to discover that the man is actually Stewie from 30 years in the future.
"Stu," as Stewie's future self is called, is taking a time-travel vacation, which is how people in the future take time off. Stewie tricks his way back to the future with Stu. In the future, Stu refers to the younger Stewie as a child named "Pablo" from Nicaragua. Here in the year 2035, Stewie learns his horrible fate: at age 35, he will be a virgin working for the Quahog Circuit Shack and living in a low-rent condo. Furthermore, he is a doting mama's boy, having long ago abandoned his matricidal tendencies. At a family dinner, Stewie discovers that Chris will become a traffic cop and marry a hateful, foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa who successfully insists on putting Peter and Lois into a retirement home; Meg will transition from female to male after college and lives as a transsexual man named Ron; and Brian will die of eating chocolate he found in the garbage, go to Heaven, and spend eternity drinking with Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, and Kurt Cobain.
Disgusted with the way his life will turn out, Stewie remodels Stu's apartment and coaches him through The Joy of Sex with the intent of getting Stu to lose his virginity to a female co-worker named Fran. Stu and Fran do end up having sex—for about eight seconds, followed by 40 minutes of Stu crying, and then offering to pay for the sex. Fran goes back to Circuit Shack and tells everyone about it, costing Stu his job. Returning home, he finds that his apartment is in flames, thanks to "stress-release" candles Stewie placed while redecorating.
His life now ruined, Stu laments the day of his near-death experience at the Community Pool. Stewie asks him to elaborate, and Stu reveals that memories of the experience will re-surface when young Stewie is 20, causing him to regress and preventing him from taking any risks. Armed with this knowledge, Stu and Stewie proceed to ask Lois for money to purchase a new time-travel watch. Once the watch is bought, Stewie travels back in time to the day of the accident (with a brief stop to kill Vanessa with an RPG on her and Chris' wedding day at Lois' request), and runs to the pool à la Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He manages to prevent himself from getting crushed by the chair; but before Stewie can tell his past self any of the information he's learned about his future, Past Stewie produces his raygun and vaporizes Future Stewie. By obliterating Future Stewie, history has been changed and Past Stewie is saved from his potential life (without him even knowing).
The family packs up and heads home, with Meg bidding farewell to a boy to whom she's been talking, considering how much she likes his name: Ron.
After the film ends, we cut to the after-party, where each member of the Griffin family is interviewed by Tricia Takanawa, sharing thoughts involved with Family Guy's cancellation and comeback. In the end, during his final speech, Peter rips out a fart as a joke, and everyone laughs. The film ends with the screen pulls back, revealing it to be on another TV screen with Peter next to it. He explains that farting is no laughing matter, then rips out another fart, revealing it to be another joke.
The content is not entirely heavy but it does have some sexual humor, violent scenes and partial nudity. Also there is profanity, with the word "fuck" being spoken fourteen times: twice by Lois, once by Peter, twice by Stewie, seven times by Vanessa (who speaks it almost in every sentence), and twice by Cleveland. It also uses the word "shit" once by Vanessa, the word "bitch" once by Lois, and the word "bullshit" once by Cleveland. The DVD and UMD contain a "censor" option (a default setting), which inserts a bleep every time those words are spoken, essentially rendering the film with the same content as would be found in a regular episode of Family Guy, save for extra violence and partial nudity. The censor option is also the default setting on Volume Three of the Family Guy DVD series, but Volumes Four and Five have the uncensored track as the default. Also, Stewie asks if Walt Disney was unfrozen yet and a scene is shown with scientists unfreezing him. He then asks if the Jews are gone and a scientist says "Nope". Walt Disney then refreezes himself.
The movie aired on FOX on May 21, 2006. As foretold in the DVD's audio commentary, many scenes were heavily edited and/or altered:
- The first few gags at the swimming pool were cut, going straight to Peter trying to get Stewie to swim.
- Lois telling Peter that "they never should've replaced him on Roseanne" and the cut-away that follows.
- The scene showing "Property of Roger Moore" written on Stewie, naked, was cut. However, Roger Moore's scene was not cut, and a minor animation was added to mention him. Right before he shows up, Stewie, in pajamas, takes a cloth he found with the initials "R.M.", and Stewie's additional line is "Although I can't help wondering who 'R.M.' is."
- Stewie wondering if there's someone exactly like him, and then the cut-away to Stu over in San Francisco.
- Brian and Stewie arriving in San Francisco, along with the Thundercats cut-away after Stewie asks Brian if San Francisco has wacky roommates like the ones seen on sitcoms.
- Peter watching Britney Spears' disastrous comeback concert.
- Chris, as a police officer, giving Lois a list of violations he was going to turn her in for if she didn't give him a cookie.
- Stewie's lesson of "put it in, take it out" was shortened and edited to "and in, and out."
- On the DVD, the cut-scene in which Gandhi is in a comedy club, and says "...and the Black people are always like 'Hey Bitch!'" In the televised version, Black people is changed to Americans.
- Quagmire, tied to the bed, dialing with his penis; in time porn comes on TV.
- Vanessa's line, "Ah, screw him [Stewie]. That fuckin' kid's from Guam!"
- Stewie's line "You're humping Fran" was changed to "You're nailing Fran."
- Fran's off-camera action of "putting in my diaphragm" was changed to "getting my diaphragm." After that, Stewie told Stu to "insert your pen-is" (instead of "your phallus") "into her vag-in-a."
- Lois requesting Stewie that, on his way back to the past, he "make sure Chris never marries that bitch Vanessa" and that she never end up in a retirement home, to which Stewie replies by laughing maniacally for an extended period of time. Subsequently, the scene where Stewie blows up Vanessa with his RPG at her and Chris' wedding is cut out, along with the fact that the time watch had enough battery power to travel to three destinations on one charge instead of two.
- The red carpet premiere featured at the beginning of the DVD, the intermission between "And Bango Was His Name-O" and "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure", and the wrap party after all the episodes were made especially for the DVD.
- The opening credits, of course, are replaced by the standard theme song and are shown at the beginning of each part. Each part is closed by the end credits.
- Some transition effects and music were altered to fit as normal episodes.
- Stewie finishing shaving his "coin purse" and remarking that it bears an odd resemblance to Michael Chiklis, along with The Shield cutaway that follows.
- Stewie saying grace at the dinner table and Peter bringing up his great aunt Ella Fitzgerald Griffin.
- Brian and Stewie playing Pac-Man at The Drunken Clam, and Brian telling Stewie to get the fruit to get more points, and Stewie says that there was a ghost in the way.
- Peter recalling the time he was stranded on a desert island with Bono, where they had a crate of food that Bono was "Saving for the starving children" when they get rescued.
- Stu showing Stewie his prom photo, and how odd it was that he could remember that after so long.
- Peter and Lois watching Law & Order P.C.A.M.P.I.E.O.F.T.D: Petty Crimes Against Municipal Property in Excess of Five Thousand Dollars
- Stewie remarking that Stu being fired is "almost as bad as when Peter got fired as the first director of Terms of Endearment."
- Stewie remembering when Peter got Lois a Galaga arcade machine for Christmas.
- Sound effects were added when Stewie pulls Stu's eyelids back.
- An elderly Tom and Diane giving news in the retirement home.
- The closing shot was cut out, instead ending the last episode on Meg's line "I've always liked that name — Ron..."
The televised episodes also contained two scenes not featured on the DVD release. At the end of "And Bango Was His Name-O", there is a Soap-style cliffhanger concerning Stewie, the cell phone man, and "any of our younger viewers". "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" begins with a 24-style opening recapping the events of the previous two episodes and showing an unrelated clip from the short-lived TV series, The Chevy Chase Show.
The first part of the movie, "Stewie B. Goode," aired on July 9, 2006 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. "Bango Was His Name Oh!" aired on July 16, and "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" aired on July 23.
- Seth MacFarlane - Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glen Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Additional Voices
- Alex Borstein - Lois Griffin, Trisha Takanawa, Vanessa, Additional Voices
- Seth Green - Chris Griffin, Additional Voices
- Mila Kunis - Meg Griffin, Additional Voices
- Lori Alan - Diane Simmons
- Rene Auberjonois - Odo
- Drew Barrymore - Herself
- Joy Behar - Herself
- Noel Blanc - Elmer Fudd, Additional Voices
- Adam Borstein - Himself
- John G. Brennan - Horace, Additional Voices
- Michael Clarke Duncan - The Stork
- Bill Fagerbakke - Indian
- Ralph Garman - Additional Voices
- Jennie Garth - Herself
- David A. Goodman - Jesus
- Mike Henry - Cleveland Brown, Herbert
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- Gary Janetti -
- Larry Kenney - Lion-O
- Don LaFontaine - FOX Announcer
- Phil LaMarr - Ollie Williams, Additional Voices
- Lynne Lipton - Cheetara
- Ron Livingston-Lackluster Video Clerk
- Rachael MacFarlane - Katie Couric, Baby-Expecting Woman
- Busy Phillips -
- Jason Priestly - Himself
- Kevin Michael Richardson - Ray Charles, Additional Voices
- Kate Rigg -
- Will Sasso - Randy Newman, James Lipton
- Danny Smith -
- André Sogliuzzo -
- Tori Spelling - Herself
- Fred Tatasciore -
- Rory Thost - Casper
- John Veiner - "Ron" Griffin
- Patrick Warburton - Joe Swanson
- Audrey Wasilewski -
- Adam West - Mayor Adam West
- Wally Wingert - Additional Voices
- In the drunken bar scene, Stewie sings "Suicide Is Painless" — the theme from the film and television series M*A*S*H.
- During the first round of rehearsals for Stu's sexual intercourse with Fran, Stewie sings "I Am the Monarch of the Sea" from H.M.S. Pinafore.
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- Will Sasso, though uncredited, uses his Randy Newman impression. The first time he used it was in Da Boom.
- Seth MacFarlane has called the film his personal thank-you to fans of the show for helping to bring Family Guy back to life.
- In the fifth season episode "Road to Rupert", Brian is seen selling copies of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story on DVD.
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- Also, on a DVD exclusive scene, Lois talks about how she is glad to be selling the DVDs (referenced as "Stymie Gruffin: The Untold Story"). She insults it for being just "three back-to-back episodes" and calls it "a middle finger to the fans." Brian nervously tells her that she might be "overstating things a little." He then waves to someone off camera and points in Lois' direction. As Lois says, "FOX should be emba-" two men in suits cover her mouth and take her away.
- The video store Peter tries to get porn from was called "Lackluster Video" (an obvious parody of Blockbuster Video).
- The DVD was released on September 27, 2005, holding the No. 1 spot on DVD sales in stores for a week. A completed DVD edit of the film leaked onto Usenet on July 24, 2005.
- According to the DVD commentary there was an episode called "Queer is Stewie?" where Stewie has a near-death experience and comes out of the closet, but when Fox canceled Family Guy in 2002, the idea was scrapped. Eventually, the idea became the first part of the movie, with the latter part of the plot removed. Also, "Stewie B. Goode" was originally going to be one episode, but the story was thought to be too long for half an hour and was changed into a DVD movie.
- There are 46 flashbacks in the 88-minute-long movie, averaging one every 1 minute and 55 seconds.
- Stewie has a "sexy party" in the movie, a gag that first appeared in the season three episode "From Method to Madness".
- According to the DVD commentary in the end before the after-party, none of the movie ends up ever happening, not because the story itself isn't canon (the entire film itself was a film within the Family Guy universe), but because the Stewie in the beginning kills the Stewie featured throughout the entire story.
- When the viewer-friendly version aired on Global, it was rated PG instead of the usual 14+.
- Stewie's climatic run to the pool parodies a similar scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- Sex and the City has been mentioned.
- Tom Tucker is playing a Crash Bandicoot game.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is parodied in the second act, with Rene Auberjonois reprising his role of Odo and Stewie portrayed as Quark.
- For the ThunderCats parody, Larry Kenney and Lynne Lipton reprised their respective roles of Lion-O and Cheetara. However, because the original voice of Snarf (Bob McFadden) had died, Seth MacFarlane voiced the role.
- Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story at the Internet Movie Database
- Family Guy - DVD movie officially announced!
- ^ Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story in September
- Unofficial movie trailer on Youtube
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| Characters · Criticism · Episode list · History · Places · Quahog · Voice actors | |
| Griffin family | Peter · Lois · Meg · Chris · Stewie · Brian |
| Related characters | Francis Griffin · Thelma Griffin · Bertram · Mickey McFinnigan · Pewterschmidt Family |
| Recurring characters | Cleveland Brown · Joe Swanson · Glenn Quagmire · Mort Goldman · Tom Tucker · Mayor Adam West · Neil Goldman · Bonnie Swanson · Kevin Swanson · Herbert · Jonathan Weed |
| Cast | Seth MacFarlane · Alex Borstein · Mila Kunis · Seth Green · Mike Henry · Patrick Warburton · Adam West · Jennifer Tilly · John G. Brennan · Nicole Sullivan · Carlos Alazraqui · Adam Carolla · Lori Alan |
| DVDs and CDs | DVDs · Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story · Family Guy: The Freakin' Sweet Collection · Family Guy: Live in Vegas · Video Game |