Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
DVD cover
Directed by	Pete Michels
Produced by	Kara Vallow
Written by	Part I: Gary Janetti Chris Sheridan Part II: Alex Borstein Part III: Steve Callaghan
Starring	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis Mike Henry Patrick Warburton Lori Alan Drew Barrymore Rachael MacFarlane Noel Blanc Phil LaMarr Ali Hillis Busy Philipps Tori Spelling Kiefer Sutherland Edd Gould Larry Kenney Lynne Lipton
Music by	Ron Jones
Editing by	Mike Elias
Studio	Fuzzy Door Productions Stoopid Monkey
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	September 27, 2005 (DVD)
Running time	88 minutes 66 minutes (TV)
Country	United States
Language	English

"Stewie B. Goode" "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure"
Family Guy episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 28/29/30
Directed by	Pete Michels
Written by	Gary Janetti Chris Sheridan (1) Alex Borstein (2) Steve Callaghan (3)
Production code	4ACX05 4ACX06 4ACX07
Original air date	May 21, 2006
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story is a 2005 direct-to-DVD animated comedy film set in the Family Guy fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the film's main plot point concerns Stewie Griffin trying to find his real father. The DVD contains commentaries and a sneak preview of American Dad!.

The film was originally written to be a "straight-to-video" 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.

FOX aired the shortened and separated versions of the three segments on May 21, 2006. It also had several scenes cut out, new scenes put in, and other scenes altered to make it only 66 minutes long.

Plot

The straight-to-DVD version shows the premiere of the film where celebrities such as Drew Barrymore dates the Kool-Aid Man, the Greased-Up Deaf Guy, the Evil Monkey, David Bowie, and the Griffins. Everyone goes into the theatre where Channel 5 reveals they have hired Glenn Quagmire to provide them with a bootleg copy of the film, we then see an advertisement for a new Disney movie, "The Littlest Bunny", and another film, "People Who Look Like They Never Sleep..." starring Susan Sarandon and Vince Vaughn. After this, the film begins.

"Stewie B. Goode"

When the Griffins go swimming in the Quahog Community Pool, Peter tries teaching Stewie to swim and attempts to toss him into the pool despite Stewie begging to be put down. Lois takes Stewie to swimming lessons where Stewie meets Brad, a child about his age who is "The Star Swimmer" . In jealousy, Stewie does everything he can to steal Brad's glory. As a last resort he tries to kill Brad by rigging a lifeguard chair with dynamite and luring Brad beneath it with marzipan; however, Stewie's detonator malfunctions, blowing up the legs of chair causing it to fall on Stewie. He ends up in hell where Steve Allen seems to try and rape him (but only needs help with his shirt collar); when Stewie is revived by Lois, he believes it is a sign for him to be a good boy.

After learning the new video store - Lackluster Video - will not give Peter pornography to rent, Peter vents his frustration in front of Tom Tucker, who gives him a job at Quahog 5, hosting a segment called What Really Grinds My Gears, in which he rants about things that bother him. Peter becomes extremely popular, overshadowing Tucker, who is fired after attempting to distract Peter during filming.

Stewie attempts to be a good boy by smothering Brian with affection. Brian finally goads Stewie into reverting to his old, violent ways by crushing a spider web and eating the spider. Stewie starts drinking heavily, following Brian's way of coping. Brian attempts to cure Stewie of his alcoholism by taking him out for a night of drinking at the Drunken Clam. While drunk, Stewie crashes Brian's car through the wall of the bar. Knowing Stewie is Peter's son, Tom takes advantage of the situation and presents footage of the accident at the news station. Peter is fired and Tom is rehired as the anchor. The next morning, Stewie has a hangover and has the words "Property Of Roger Moore" emblazened on his chest and realises his lonely existence in the world, and wishes that there were someone else to whom he could relate (this person, who looks like Stewie but is an adult, is shown to the viewers seconds later checking in at a hotel in San Francisco). At the end Stewie says it is good he stopped drinking now so it would not have any repercussions later in life; then Roger Moore, shown in his mansion holding a napkin with Stewie's number on it, calls him and hangs up after one ring.

"Bango Was His Name, Oh!"

Peter buys a TiVo box for his TV - as it was mentioned he wanted a VHS Player in the previous episode but the recurring sales/insurance man deters Peter easily. Stewie spots a man in San Francisco on the news that has the same face and hairstyle as him. Stewie then believes that he may be his true father. Learning that Quagmire is going on a cross country tour in which he plans to have sex with a different woman in every state of America, Brian and Stewie hitch a ride in his RV. At a motel in New Jersey, Quagmire is handcuffed to a bed and mugged by the latest woman. Then Stewie and Brian drive off with his RV leaving Quagmire at the motel.

Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to get intimate, but are constantly interrupted by Chris and Meg. To solve this problem, Peter and Lois decide to teach the children how to find dates. At one point, Lois even advises Chris to find a girl who smokes ("Remember, if she smokes, she pokes!").

Stewie crashes the RV in the desert after going insane from ingesting an entire bottle of caffeine pills. After wandering through the desert, they find a Dr. Pepper vending machine, but they realize it was RC Cola and they do not drink it. Stewie and Brian manage to get a rental car and arrive in San Francisco. Stewie mysteriously leaves Brian and confronts the man from TV on a cable car, and is shocked to discover that the man is actually Stewie from 30 years in the future.

"Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure"

"Stu", as Stewie's future self is called, tells Stewie that he is on vacation (people from Stu's Time prefer to take vacations in periods of time rather than places in the world). Stu reveals he cannot tell anyone about his time and leaves for his time, Stewie stows away with him. Stewie learns he will not become ruler of the world but rather "a 35-year-old Parade magazine-reading virgin". Stu passes off Stewie as a Nicaraguan boy named Pablo to everyone until Stu can send him back. Stewie learns he will also work at the Quahog Circuit Shack and still lives with Rupert, his childhood teddy bear in a filthy apartment. Disgusted with the way his life will turn out, Stewie remodels Stu's apartment and gets him to lose his virginity to his co-worker, Fran. The next day, Fran tells everyone about it since it involved only eight seconds of sex and forty minutes of Stu crying, costing Stu his job for having relations with a co-worker. Returning home, he finds that his apartment is in flames due to the stress-relieving candles Stewie put there.

His life now ruined, Stu laments the day of his near-death experience at the community pool, revealing that memories of the experience will re-surface when Stewie is twenty, causing him to repress and preventing him from taking any risks. They visit Lois at a retirement home and get a new time-travel watch. Stewie travels back in time to the day of the accident and prevents himself from getting crushed by the chair. However, future Stewie gets vaporized by present Stewie.

Meanwhile, it is revealed that Meg will have a sex change and become Ron. Brian will die because he ate a chocolate bar out of the garbage (Stewie attempts to vandalize his old friend's grave, but was stopped by Stu who mentions that the meaning of the word "douchebag" was changed due to the popular President Douchebag), and Chris will marry a foul mouthed chain smoker named Vanessa who forces Peter and Lois into a rest home so she can inherit their home. However, in the end, Stewie, travels back in time to Chris' wedding and kills Vanessa, thus creating a paradox.

The Afterparty

Another DVD addition in which Tricia Takanawa talks with the fans and asks them how they liked the film, which generated completely negative feedback. After this, Tricia asks the family what they did during the show's cancellation from Seasons 3 to 4. Peter talks about how he did several part-time jobs which involved wearing costumes which he kept peeing in because he thought it was like an astronaut suit, but when he finally did become an astronaut, he did not believe he had to pee in the suit and almost died. Brian talks about how he met his fans and competed in the Iditarod Dog Race. Lois talks about how she was a prostitute, and shows video footage of her trying to beat up a policemen and of her having an argument in a convenience store over her wanting to taste chips. Meg talks about her entertaining the U.S. Navy. Stewie talks about his appearances in those "damn" talk shows. Chris then talks about his guest appearance on The West Wing.

Cast

• Seth MacFarlane as Stewie Griffin/Peter Griffin/Brian Griffin/Glenn Quagmire/Tom Tucker/Stuart "Stu" Griffin/Additional voices
• Alex Borstein as Lois Griffin/Tricia Takanawa/Vanessa/Condoleezza Rice
• Seth Green as Chris Griffin/Additional voices
• Mila Kunis as Meg Griffin/Additional voices
• Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
• Lori Alan as Diane Simmons
• Drew Barrymore as Herself
• Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown/Herbert
• Rachael MacFarlane as Katie Couric/Bonnie Swanson/Britney Spears
• Greg Burson as Bugs Bunny
• Noel Blanc as Elmer Fudd
• Phil LaMarr as Ollie Williams/Additional voices
• Ali Hillis as Additional voices
• Busy Philipps as Meg Griffin (singing voice)/Additional voices
• Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (not seen, only voice is heard)
• Edd Gould as Jesus, additional voices
• Larry Kenney- Lion-O
• Lynne Lipton- Cheetara

Cultural references

Stewie B. Goode:

• Peter recalls being the host on Family Feud.
• Lois reveals that Peter originally played Dan Conner on Roseanne before being replaced by John Goodman.
• Stewie sings "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music in a non-sequitir.
• When Steve Allen wants to watch TV in Hell, he finds that Who's the Boss? is running on every channel.
• Stewie remembers when he went to India for a summer as Short Round.
• Stewie also remembers when he and his friend Casper were catching football, and Casper got ran over, thus becoming a ghost named Casper
• When Stewie recalls the worst thing he's ever done, a flashback shows him at Wrigley Field convincing his friend Steve to grab a foul ball, a reference to the Steve Bartman incident.
• In the scene where Stewie and Brian are in the Drunken Clam getting intoxicated, Stewie sings "Suicide Is Painless" (the theme from M*A*S*H), and he and Brian play Pac-Man.
• When Stewie attempts to be a good boy by smothering Brian with affection, Brian says that it is more disturbing than the cartoon he saw the other day. A cut scene shows Elmer Fudd hunting, shooting and graphically killing Bugs Bunny. This is a reference to his role in Looney Tunes, where he is seen trying to hunt rabbits.
• During Peter Griffin's Things That Grind My Gears, he rants about Lindsay Lohan (according to the DVD commentary, Peter was originally supposed to rant about Britney Spears, but for some unknown reason, it was changed to Lohan), the predicament that bread is square and bologna is round (as indicated by the attendant in the hottest restaurant in Quahog), the approximately 30-year old drought of a good "Priest and Rabbi" joke, X-ray glasses that do not work, how he can never find the droids he is looking for, people in the 19th century and America (after he gets fired).

Bango Was His Name Oh:

• Lois tries to make Chris more sensitive by tying him up and holding him over a kiddy pool asking him what the names of the Sex and the City girls are; Chris replies, "Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and..."; he replies "Scrappy Doo?", Lois has him tased, parodying Lethal Weapon.
• Peter talks to Lois about how he and Meg went on The Last Crusade to find the Holy Grail.
• When Stewie steals Quagmire's Winnebago motorhome, the song "East Bound and Down" is playing by Jerry Reed. This is a reference to the Burt Reynolds movie Smokey and the Bandit.
• When Stewie talks about how Peter is not his father, he says that he is an idiot, such as the time he was visiting "The Today Show." The scene cuts to Katie Couric talking and Peter tries to get in by knocking to get her attention. After a few tries, he throws a mailbox through the window.
• When Stewie finds Stu in the trolley, Stu says "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, this is not good, this is very bad, very bad!" The "very bad" part is a reference to the movie Rain Man, during Raymond's emotional outburst about the hot water in the tub.
• Peter seduces Lois by dressing up as Spider-Man and singing original lyrics to the 1966-1968 TV theme song for Batman.
• Meg thinks Omar Sharif is dead when she is actually thinking of Anthony Quinn. Both actors were in the 1962 epic film Lawrence of Arabia.
• Stewie says that the man he believes to be his real father had intercourse with Lois and that he finds it to be more disgusting than his cousin Quark Griffin (a parody of Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).

Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure:

• The TV version of "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Part 3" features a recap in the style of the 24 series. There is also a short clip from The Chevy Chase Show added in the recap opening.
• The scene near the end of the film where Stewie scrambles to make it back to the town pool before the explosion is the exact scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, complete with the same music.
• The title of the episode "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" is a parody of the 1989 movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
• The store, Circuit Shack is a portmanteau for electronics stores Circuit City and Radio Shack.
• Stu is a 35-year old virgin, that works at an electronics store, which is similar to Andy in the movie The 40-Year Old Virgin.
• When Stewie asks Stu if Walt Disney is still alive, a scene cuts to Walt Disney being awakened from his cryogenic sleep and he asks if the Jews are gone, then asks to be put back when the cryogenics engineer says no. This is a reference to his supposed anti-semitism.
• In one scene, Brian is seen in heaven with novelist Ernest Hemingway, artist Vincent van Gogh and Kurt Cobain. The three people Brian hung out with all committed suicide.

See also

• List of animated feature films
• Family Guy
• Season 4 of Family Guy
• Stewie Griffin

External links

• Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story at the Internet Movie Database
• Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story at AllRovi
• Family Guy - DVD movie officially announced! Stewie
• ^ Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story in September

Preceded by Untitled Griffin Family History

Family Guy (season 4)

Succeeded by Stewie Loves Lois