# Meg Griffin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978 "2011-08-17T01:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/21 "2011-08-17T10:53:16Z")
I think it’s a pretty layered satire, and I don’t even like _Family Guy_. First, it’s a satire of the perverse nature of humanity: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with Meg, but somewhere along the line the family decided she was ugly/pitiful, and they all (including Meg) believe it. It’s also a satire (through exaggeration) of how cruel families can be. Finally, it’s a satire of how over-dramatic and sensitive and high strung teenage girls can be: the family acts towards Meg the way a lot of teenage girls _think_ their families treat them. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/22 "2011-08-17T13:27:42Z")
And for those of you who don’t know, Meg looks like [this](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/) in real life. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/23 "2011-08-17T13:37:14Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > Not really, Stewie isn’t psychotic, he sees reality as best as a two year-old can. at times… but when the series started out he was an evil genius with world domination aspirations. then he turned ambiguously gay with flashes of megalomania, smart beyond his years, mature beyond his years, and reverting back to a 2 year old interspersed to make a funny. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/24 "2011-08-17T13:37:44Z")
What do you think was the worst act of cruelty toward Meg? I felt the most awful for her when they left her to be blow-darted by the islanders who hated freshmen. That was until I saw her and Lois having a tender isn’t-that-special moment and Meg says, “I love you, Mom” and Lois answers, “I la lu too.” Y tu, Lois? ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/25 "2011-08-17T13:41:38Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > And for those of you who don’t know, Meg looks like [this](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/) in real life. If you need me I’ll be in holodeck number 3. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/26 "2011-08-17T13:41:48Z")
I thought the joke was that every show has a character where the fans say “I hate X! Every time they have a story that revolves around X, I want to shoot my TV!” So they just picked a character and said “Okay, this is the designated character you’re supposed to hate.” ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/27 "2011-08-17T13:44:26Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > I thought this was gonna be about the DJ who used to be on WNEW, and K-Rock. I didn’t think anyone particularly hated her, either. She got fired from a lot of NYC radio stations (WPIX, WLIR) so somebody must have hated her talking all the time how great the Rolling Stones are. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/28 "2011-08-17T15:37:31Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > the family acts towards Meg the way a lot of teenage girls _think_ their families treat them. That’s also how I see it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/29 "2011-08-17T16:40:04Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > Lois has a triangle for a nose. … That’s not a triangle! [Gore Vidal]::cough:: [rosebud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Rosebud) ::cough::[/Gore Vidal] :eek: CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/30 "2011-08-17T17:28:32Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > the family acts towards Meg the way a lot of teenage girls _think_ their families treat them. I think that’s giving too much credit to the FG writing staff ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/31 "2011-08-17T17:29:52Z")
Like everything else on “Family Guy,” Meg’s a one-joke character that gets trotted out for the same joke over and over again because the writers are fucking terrible. In her case, the joke is that this otherwise dull and uninteresting teenage girl is loathed by the entire universe. Pretty funny the first time, less funny the second, tiresome by the third, then oddly funny again the fourth, and then just boring and obvious the fifth through six thousandth. Just like everything else on the show. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/32 "2011-08-17T18:20:23Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > And for those of you who don’t know, Meg looks like [this](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/) in real life. Gross! ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/33 "2011-08-17T18:31:16Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > If you need me I’ll be in holodeck number 3. I don’t understand how she got this job. Was Kunis just wondering around 20th Century Fox and someone said, “You want to audition for the voiceover gig?”. I doubt that it is that much money, but the residuals when they go into syndication must add up. I did a little Googling and it sounds like she doesn’t even have to do into a studio to record her parts. [http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/735594/mila\_kunis\_interview\_black\_swan\_family\_guy\_and\_working\_with\_darren\_aronofsky.html](http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/735594/mila_kunis_interview_black_swan_family_guy_and_working_with_darren_aronofsky.html) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/34 "2011-08-17T18:36:30Z")
As someone who has seen every episode I can say there is really no reason for it, it’s just a running gag that the parents hate Meg. Lois can’t remember her birthday or say “I love you” to her. Peter is amazingly cruel to her. Chris and Brian aren’t so bad to her usually. The non-family members seem indifferent to her. On the subject of characters not liking each other, I liked the revelation that Quagmire hates Brian. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/35 "2011-08-17T18:44:11Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > I don’t understand how she got this job. Was Kunis just wondering around 20th Century Fox and someone said, “You want to audition for the voiceover gig?”. She was already on “That 70’s Show.” I’m not clear on what you don’t understand. Was she too famous, or not famous enough? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/36 "2011-08-17T18:56:57Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > On the subject of characters not liking each other, I liked the revelation that Quagmire hates Brian. That was actually [quite an interesting moment](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdbnssEZ_Xk), just a massive unloading with criticisms of Brian that were actually pretty valid. A few minor jokes in the rant, but overall just the kind of hostile monologue I’d like to give several people who’ve irritated me. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/37 "2011-08-17T19:55:51Z")
> [@bup](#): > > She was already on “That 70’s Show.” I’m not clear on what you don’t understand. Was she too famous, or not famous enough? It is just that I’m not aware that she had previous voice experience, so I don’t know why she would get a casting call. Did Seth Macfarlane know her? Did someone hear her and and decide she sounded like Meg should sound? IMDB says she was born in 1983, so she would have been about 16 when the Family Guy started. You think they would be looking someone more experienced. ---
**Author:** ![ekweizn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7c8e57/32.png) [@ekweizn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekweizn)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/38 "2011-08-17T20:11:26Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > And for those of you who don’t know, Meg looks like [this](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/) in real life. If you think that’s gross, Meg looked like [this](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000327/) in season 1. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/39 "2011-08-17T20:13:29Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > Why does everyone hate her? I personally loved her in the [Superfriends](http://league.jmkprime.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/familyguy-superfriends.jpg). [spoiler]\* Superman! … Wonder Woman! … Aquaman! … Batman and Robin! … … … and Meg. \*[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/40 "2011-08-17T21:12:05Z")
Mila Kunis frequently does voiceovers on _Robot Chicken_…she hangs out with all the young hot animators apparently… And I’ll be in Holodeck 4… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978.md?page=3)