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Peter Löwenbräu Griffin, Sr. (Peter Löwenbräu Griffin, Sr.) born Justin Peter Griffin is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. He is voiced by the series' creator, Seth MacFarlane, and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in the 15-minute pilot pitch of Family Guy on December 20, 1998. Peter was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on Larry & Steve, a short made by MacFarlane which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family appeared in the episode "Death Has a Shadow".
Peter is married to Lois Griffin and is the father of Meg, Chris, and Stewie. He also has a dog named Brian, with whom he is best friends. He has worked at a toy factory and at Quahog's Brewery.
Appearance
Peter Griffin is a tall, over-weight man of mixed heritage consisting of Irish[12], Chinese[13], African[14], Danish[15], Israeli[16], Austrian[16], Scottish[17]and African-American[18][19], he seems to mostly inherit his Irish and American genetics as he is based the common American everyman father.
Peter has a very noticeable deep cleft chin making the rest of his chin very big and rounded, He also has a round nose along with long with short brown hair and glasses.
His attire consists of a white shirt with the sleeves rolled back, green pants and brown shoes.
Personality
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History
In 1956, Thelma Griffin conceived an illegitimate child with an Irish drunkard named Mickey McFinnigan, said illegitimate child was Peter Griffin. Trying to abort Peter, Thelma traveled to Mexico where she tried to abort Peter by getting a group of mexican kids to hit her belly with wooden bats so she would have a miscarriage, midway thru the process, Thelma's efforts were unsuccessful as Justin Peter Griffin was born. Thelma was afraid that she would be judged by the community so she never filled out the paperwork to make Peter Griffin a legal citizen of the United States, Making Peter an illegal Mexican immigrant.
Capabilities
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Creation And Development
Peter's voice was inspired by the security guards that MacFarlane heard at his school[20]. His appearance was a redesign of the protagonist Larry from MacFarlane's previous animated short films The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve[21]. He has appeared in several pieces of Family Guy merchandise, including toys, T-shirts, and video games, and he has made crossover appearances in other shows, including The Simpsons, Drawn Together, American Dad!, and Family Guy's spin-off series The Cleveland Show.
MacFarlane initially conceived Family Guy in 1995 while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) [22]. During college, he created his thesis film entitled The Life of Larry[22], which was submitted by his professor at RISD to Hanna-Barbera. MacFarlane was hired by the company.[23] In 1996, MacFarlane created a sequel to The Life of Larry entitled Larry & Steve, which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve; the short was broadcast in 1997 as one of Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons.[22] Executives at Fox saw the Larry shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series, entitled Family Guy, based on the characters.[24] Fox proposed MacFarlane complete a 15-minute short, and gave him a budget of $50,000.[25] Several aspects of Family Guy were inspired by the Larry shorts.[26] While working on the series, the characters of Larry and his dog Steve slowly evolved into Peter and Brian.[27][28] MacFarlane stated that the difference between The Life of Larry and Family Guy was that "Life of Larry was shown primarily in my dorm room and Family Guy was shown after the Super Bowl."[29]
Trivia
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References
- ↑ Episode 241
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- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Episode 77
- ↑ Episode 11
- ↑ Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
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- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/221
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120418134025/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/05.11/03-classday.html
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