# Umm is Stewie Griffin from Family Guy gay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032 "2003-10-17T15:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/21 "2003-10-18T00:17:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kantalooppi \* > \*\*Incidentally, could someone explain me the joke where Stewie says something like “I’d throw one of my sexy parties” and then they cut to Stewie in a captain’s uniform chasing some scantly-dressed ladies, pausing to do some dance moves, and then resuming chasing? \*\* This gag was done in Austin Powers. Everybody is chasing him and on cue they all stop and dance in unison. Maybe he was spoofing some 60s thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/22 "2003-10-18T06:27:39Z")
My impression was that Stewie might not _actually_ be gay…but that he _wanted_ to be gay. The evidence being Stewie’s “attraction” to girls/women (like in the locker room, or his crush on the girl from his day care center), and balanced by dialogue like… > [@](#): > > …I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. And then I think to myself, by god wouldn’t it be marvellous if I turned out to be a homosexual?" …Keep in mind that this is about as scientific as trying to figure out where Springfield is located. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/23 "2003-10-18T07:16:21Z")
I thought he was more into beastiality, judging from the sexually suggestive scene with him and Brian in the bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/24 "2003-10-18T15:08:15Z")
Don’t forget he was infatuated with a girl baby for an episode. Eventually, he figured out she was just using him to get cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/25 "2003-10-18T15:08:32Z")
And let’s not forget the episode where he was parodying HMS Pinafore, singing about how he’d rather sleep with the sailors. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/26 "2003-10-18T18:05:00Z")
Brian seems to think so, witness his comment from “Lethal Weapons”, immortialized for all eternity in my sig. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/27 "2003-10-18T19:50:09Z")
According to Seth McFarlane on the dvd, they ‘delved into the other parts of Stewie’s psyche, including his closet homosexuality.’ Seth also says that there’s an episode that never aired in which Stewie utters the line “Oh my god! I’m gay!” ---
**Author:** ![Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moo_the_Magic_Cow)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/28 "2003-10-18T23:30:22Z")
“Wouldn’t it be fabulous if I turned out to be a homosexual?” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/29 "2003-10-20T02:53:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*And let’s not forget the episode where he was parodying HMS Pinafore, singing about how he’d rather sleep with the sailors. \*\* Damn. You beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/30 "2003-10-20T05:11:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by faldureon \* > \*\*Ok I am gonna hijack my own thread. \*\* If I may, I’d like to hijack it even further. Does Lois actually understand what Stewie says? I ask because the evidence seems to suggest no, but, then, occasionally, he’ll say something that she responds to as if she understood it. For instance, when she takes away his “Death Ray,” he says something to the extent of, “damn you, woman! Give me back my gun!” And she replies, “Oh, you want your toy.” So…can she understand him or not? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/31 "2003-10-20T05:27:46Z")
Deliberately ambiguous, I think, Superdude. Stewie: AAAGH!!! BLAST IT TO THE BOWELS OF BLOODY HELL!! Lois: Well, the baby’s up. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/32 "2003-10-20T05:54:17Z")
Yes, acording to Seth, everyone can understand Stewie (though on the DVD he says it’s on a case by case basis, but this was before he gave the previous line). So yes, everyone understands Stewie. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032/33 "2003-10-20T05:55:18Z")
I think the gag is that _no_ parent truly understands what their kid is saying to them at times. So Stewie bitching and complaining about something, only to have Lois ignore 99% of what he’s venting about harkens back to that time in our lives when we were trying to tell our parents something that was terribly important to us, but absolutely meaningless to them, or totally missinterpreted by them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-is-stewie-griffin-from-family-guy-gay/208032.md?page=1)