# I don't get a joke in Family Guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755 "2002-12-19T06:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/1 "2002-12-19T06:36:00Z")
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-? ---
**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/2 "2002-12-19T06:42:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/3 "2002-12-19T12:50:14Z")
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 ? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/4 "2002-12-19T12:53:59Z")
“the Picture of Dorian Gray” is very good. Wilde was a very gidted writer. ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/5 "2002-12-19T12:54:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trader\_of\_shots \* > \*\*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 ? \*\* golf is a decent walk spoiled…O.W. ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/6 "2002-12-19T12:59:15Z")
Wilde’s gidt was that he re-read his stuff before posting - it to his publisher. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/7 "2002-12-19T13:01:08Z")
gifted, even. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/8 "2002-12-19T13:06:14Z")
If you want a quick and light taste of Wilde, check out _The Model Millionaire_. (I don’t think it gets enough attention.) ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/9 "2002-12-19T13:12:14Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/10 "2002-12-19T13:25:20Z")
You could also rent the [movie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0037988) as it’s very good. The movie [Wilde](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120514) is also worth a view. Stephen Fry is excellent as Wilde. ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/11 "2002-12-19T13:27:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jabba \* > \*\*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_. \*\* 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:) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/12 "2002-12-19T13:49:30Z")
**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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/13 "2002-12-19T14:38:36Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/14 "2002-12-19T17:16:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trader\_of\_shots \* > \*\*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 ? \*\* Somehow I think, were he alive today, that Oscar Wilde would be busy searching for porno. ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/15 "2002-12-19T20:52:12Z")
\ 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. \ ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/16 "2002-12-19T21:33:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/17 "2002-12-19T21:34:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yastobaal \* > \*\*\ > > 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. > > \ \*\* [Sky Marshall] Seth Green voices Chris (the son). [/Sky Marshall] ---
**Author:** ![greenphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@greenphan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenphan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/18 "2002-12-19T21:38:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yastobaal \* > \*\*\ > > 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. > > \ \*\* 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 ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/19 "2002-12-19T21:40:27Z")
Terrific meta-humor sqweels ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755/20 "2002-12-19T21:47:17Z")
Green also did the voice of Sean Penn in an episode, I believe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-a-joke-in-family-guy/143755.md?page=2)