# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/61 "2011-08-21T01:39:06Z")
The same website that posted the real life Meg picture, posted this [picture](http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-cartoon-characters-come-to-life/lois.jpg) of what Lois supposedly would look in real life. giggedy ---
**Author:** ![simple\_homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/62 "2011-08-21T02:08:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The same website that posted the real life Meg picture, posted this [picture](http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-cartoon-characters-come-to-life/lois.jpg) of what Lois supposedly would look in real life. > > giggedy Looks like a man in drag to me. Not what Lois supposedly would look like in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/63 "2011-08-21T16:02:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The same website that posted the real life Meg picture, posted this [picture](http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-cartoon-characters-come-to-life/lois.jpg) of what Lois supposedly would look in real life. > > giggedy Damn, baby. What’s up? Joe ---
**Author:** ![TheScarletRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TheScarletRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheScarletRat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/64 "2015-08-16T17:47:37Z")
like everybody else it seams i don’t hate meg griffin and cant understand why the “running joke” is that she is ugly. then again family guy is the “lowest form of comedy” and it appeals only to those who have no idea what real comedy is or how funny it can be. a prime example of this is the constant use of cut-away visual gags rather than use word play or slap-stick for humor. i for 1 will only watch 1 episode of the show and that’s the 1 where meg finally stands up to her abusive family but i feel it still appeals to the lowest IQ by reverting to type at the end of the episode and having her take it all back. just my view ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/65 "2015-08-16T18:19:00Z")
> [@TheScarletRat](#): > > like everybody else it seams i don’t hate meg griffin and cant understand why the “running joke” is that she is ugly. > > then again family guy is the “lowest form of comedy” and it appeals only to those who have no idea what real comedy is or how funny it can be. a prime example of this is the constant use of cut-away visual gags rather than use word play or slap-stick for humor. i for 1 will only watch 1 episode of the show and that’s the 1 where meg finally stands up to her abusive family but i feel it still appeals to the lowest IQ by reverting to type at the end of the episode and having her take it all back. > > just my view Shut up, Meg. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/66 "2015-08-16T22:03:01Z")
I know Larry Linville stopped going to script readings for MASH as he didn’t see the point, since his character was just a punching bags for other characters and had no development. I wonder if Mila feels the same way with Meg. Do they do script readings for animation shows? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/67 "2015-08-17T01:45:52Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I know Larry Linville stopped going to script readings for MASH as he didn’t see the point, since his character was just a punching bags for other characters and had no development. I wonder if Mila feels the same way with Meg. Do they do script readings for animation shows? No, and I think she likely thinks “Wow, I only have to come in for a little while and I get a lot of money.” ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/68 "2015-08-17T01:52:28Z")
nm. Zombies got me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/69 "2015-08-17T01:52:32Z")
> [@TheScarletRat](#): > > then again family guy is the “lowest form of comedy” and it appeals only to those who have no idea what real comedy is or how funny it can be. Oh, how it wish that were still the case! After being cancelled and resurrected so many times, it’s losing a lot of its appeal with me because it’s _not_ as low and trashy as it was when it was still new. ---
**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, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/70 "2015-08-17T04:25:50Z")
I admit, I cheered when Meg [just beat the shit outta Peter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejvh43ogvg). Long overdue, in my book. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/71 "2015-08-17T04:40:24Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I admit, I cheered when Meg [just beat the shit outta Peter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejvh43ogvg). Long overdue, in my book. Not as hard as I did when she beat the shit out of the assholes who torment her at school. I’d love to look up the morons I had to deal with 40–50 years ago and pay them a visit some day myself… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/72 "2015-08-17T08:28:21Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > Shut up, Meg. I don’t hate Meg, but I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/73 "2015-08-17T08:56:08Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > No, and I think she likely thinks “Wow, I only have to come in for a little while and I get a lot of money.” I think it’s kind of symbiotic. Just as _Family Guy_ grew bigger all thru the late 2000s so did Mila Kunis’ career (independent of FG). Consequently her Meg character got less and less screen time as she became less and less available. She’s since become a full-fledged, A-list, highly respectable actress _ **and** _ top-ten ‘most beautiful girls in the world’ during that time. I can only assume its out of loyalty & respect to McFarlane that she continues to do the voice _at all!_ When the rest of them appeared on Lipton’s _Inside the Actor’s Studio_ Seth Green claimed that Kunis wanted to be there but was too busy. > [@Balthisar](#): > > Oh, how it wish that were still the case! After being cancelled and resurrected so many times, it’s losing a lot of its appeal with me because it’s _not_ as low and trashy as it was when it was still new. For the life of me I’ll never understand this attitude. In its early days I wrote long ranting posts here about what a total piece of shit I felt _Family Guy_ was. And I still stand by them. I cannot watch episodes from those first three seasons. The humor falls completely flat, the characters are non-existent and pure shtick, the shows have zero plots, its just a bunch of lame cutaways & gags shoehorned into 22 minutes. When _South Park_ did their great _Cartoon Wars_ trilogy and basically said exactly the same thing (the show was seen being assembled by manatees randomly grabbing ‘joke balls’ in a tank!) I felt totally vindicated. But by reruns of the fourth and fifth season on Cartoon Network I started noticing that the show had gotten incredibly better. It was a real adult animated comedy show, not the slapdash sophomoric attempt at a _Simpsons_ ripoff it had been. Some of the episodes mentioned are ones that really changed my mind. In particular the one where Quagmire lays bare what a complete poser asshole shallow hypocrite douchebag loser Brian is. Here was what I had always seen as just the goofball comedy relief neighbor character suddenly trying to tear down the star of the show, and he was _totally_ _right_\*!\* My respect for the writiers increased 1000% after that scene. This and its seemingly effortless and bafflingly backlash-less ability to showcase very politically incorrect homophobic and borderline racist jokes I find wonderfully refreshing and comedically honest. The episode where Brian has sex with Quagmire’s recently transsexual dad, they way they dragged out the payoff for so long, and when it finally comes, how does Brian react? [By projectile vomiting for over 30 seconds straight, and then screaming in disgust!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFi2icrBRJI) The look on Stewie’s face is priceless! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/74 "2015-08-17T16:25:57Z")
She’s hated because she’s written to be hated. ---
**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, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-griffin/592978/75 "2015-08-17T21:11:25Z")
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