In the unaired episode where Peter needs a Jewish person to help him with his finances.
The daughter has just gotten a new pair of glasses (that look just like her old ones), and asks baby Stewie how she looks in them.
He replies, “Let’s put it this way. In an attic somewhere, there’s a picture of you getting prettier.”
Wha-?
A reference to “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. The title character wished that his own portrait would grow old and ugly instead of him. Which it did.
JRootabega - I have never been a big fan of oscar wild … then again i am a bored GenXer - Would i enjoy Oscar wild or would i rather search for porno ?
“the Picture of Dorian Gray” is very good. Wilde was a very gidted writer.
golf is a decent walk spoiled…O.W.
Wilde’s gidt was that he re-read his stuff before posting - it to his publisher.
gifted, even.
If you want a quick and light taste of Wilde, check out The Model Millionaire. (I don’t think it gets enough attention.)
The “good walk spoiled” remark was Mark Twain, not Oscar Wilde. If you want to read some Wilde, I would suggest starting with his shorter pieces: “The Selfish Giant”, “The Remarkable Rocket” and “The Devoted Friend”, for example, and his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
You could also rent the movie as it’s very good.
The movie Wilde is also worth a view. Stephen Fry is excellent as Wilde.
thanks i will need to correct that quote next time i use it.
i have only read dorian grey and perhaps you have started me in a direction to brighten up my readings.
cheeers:)
yojimboguy, sometimes I think Stephen Fry is Oscar Wilde. It’s so weird that he resembles him in so many ways. Physically, in both face and frame. Similar literary style, both wicked & florid. The very embodiment of style and taste. Oh, and gay.
Maybe there’s a really decrepit-looking portrait of Oscar Wilde in an attic somewhere-- He’d already been living under a psuedonym for three years before his “death.” Maybe he just sat a century out while he waited for the rest of the world to catch up. 
This reminds me of a funny episode of “Get Smart”: The evil spy organization used a bottle of “Dorian Gray” paint on the photograohs of the good British spies… causing them to age. I always wondered what was so important about the paint in that show…
Somehow I think, were he alive today, that Oscar Wilde would be busy searching for porno.
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Who does Seth Green play in family guy?
Whenever I see the credits I see his name but don’t know which character he plays.
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If you’re going to get into Oscar Wilde, you might want to start with The Importance of Being Ernest which is by far the best of the whole “Ernest” series.
[Sky Marshall] Seth Green voices Chris (the son). [/Sky Marshall]
Seth Green plays Chris, the goliath of a son in the Griffin family. Also, in the aforementioned unaired “Jewish” episode, Green plays Herschel, the redneck Hasid.
–green “luckily we’ve masterd american sign langauge so Lois DOESN"T have to hear us” phan
Terrific meta-humor sqweels
Green also did the voice of Sean Penn in an episode, I believe.