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Seth MacFarlane outs baby Stewie in 'Family Guy': He's gay, MacFarlane says
in Playboy interview
Thursday, August 13th 2009, 4:00 AM
Seth MacFarlane is
finally spilling the secrets of "Family Guy" — including
the fact that, yes, baby Stewie is gay.
"We had an episode that went all the way to the
script phase in which Stewie does come out,” MacFarlane, the show’s creator,
says in the September issue of Playboy
magazine. “It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at
school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from
being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an
abomination.’
"But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which
makes more sense because he’s a 1-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a
very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hellbent on
killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of
aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his
orientation."
In the issue — on stands tomorrow — MacFarlane also
weighs in on why Protestant Lois seems to have a Jewish accent.
"Watch this season!” he says. “Lois finds out she
is, in fact, Jewish.”
As for his advice to girls who are like Meg (the
nerdy, unpopular sister), the funnyman says, “I guess maybe her parents aren’t
as loving as they should be. As a result, I would say, ‘Your parents are
a—holes. Get out of the house as soon as you can.”
The hit Fox show,
which kicks off its eighth season on Sept. 27, has even generated a spinoff, “The Cleveland
Show,” which focuses on main character Peter Griffin’s
neighbor pal Cleveland Brown. Fans of the program will be happy to know that
there will definitely be some crossover between the two shows.
But how did Cleveland — who some fans consider one
of “Family Guy’s” least-interesting characters — score his own series?
“Cleveland is soulful and dimensional,” MacFarlane
says. “Maybe he didn’t have enough to do [on “Family Guy”], and as a result, he
came off dull. He makes a point of saying that in ‘The Cleveland Show’ pilot:
‘I’m sick of being just an accessory to Peter’s world. I’ve got my own s—t going
on