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Christopher "Chris" Cross Griffin is a
fictional character from the
animated television series Family Guy. He is the middle child and eldest son of
Peter and
Lois Griffin, brother of
Stewie and
Meg Griffin. Chris is voiced by
Seth Green.
Character personality
Chris, like his
father is
obese, has a low
IQ and no
common sense. However, various storylines give him
autistic savant talents, such as artistic ability, and detailed knowledge of film and TV actors. Occasionally he exhibits unexpected, uncharacteristic insights, such as when he gives Peter and Lois a detailed and articulate lecture on the effects and disadvantages of
marijuana.
While usually depicted as naive to the point of blamelessness. When Peter and Lois were having a
fist fight, Chris cheered for Peter, telling him to "kick her ass!" Also, in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, when Lois and Peter are trying to make out, the children mistake it for a fight and Chris says "I don't know what they're fighting about, but I think Dad's winning. Go Dad!"
In a
running gag, Chris is regularly tormented by an
evil monkey who lives in his closet.
In "
Emission Impossible", it's revealed that Chris was born as an accident, due to a broken condom. As a result, Peter and Lois filed a lawsuit against the company and bought the house they currently live in. In "
Peter's Daughter", Lois revealed that she smoked and drank a lot when she was pregnant with Chris to try and incite a miscarriage, but chickened out halfway through the pregnancy. This may be the explanation for Chris' stupidity and other anomalies. Also, it's known that Chris possesses an abnormally large penis.
While Chris is better treated than Meg, he's usually more subjected to Peter's thoughtlessness, since Peter frequently neglects Chris in favour of other children or himself, and often accuses Chris of being 'needy'. Unlike Peter, Chris also doesn't seem to hate Meg as much, merely having a rather extreme sibling-rivalry relationship.
Sexuality
While possessing incomplete-at-best sexual knowledge—in "
Love Thy Trophy" Chris is convinced babies come from the Child Welfare Office—Chris in several episodes demonstrates a compelling interest in
girls. In "
You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives", he's attracted to a student named Alyssa, who is a young Republican; Chris becomes a Young Republican because Alyssa offers to let him touch her
breasts (although he isn't at first sure that's "something he wants.")He is often harrassed by his pedophile neighbor Herbert. In
Jungle Love Chris runs away to South America to escape the bullying at school. He gets the entire tribe, whom he's staying with, to dance. By doing this Chris married the Chief's daughter,Loka. When he leaves to gome back to America their marital status is un-known. It is most-likely void.
In "
Running Mates", "
E. Peterbus Unum", and "
Model Misbehavior", Chris describes his mother
Lois as
sexually attractive. Chris also comments openly about
masturbation in several gags in the episodes "
Running Mates", "
The Fat Guy Strangler" and "
Barely Legal". Ironically, in "
Holy Crap", grandfather
Francis Griffin accuses Chris of masturbating when he was really just defecating. He spends the rest of the episode holding in his waste (unaware that Francis thought he was masturbating) until Peter lets him "defy" his grandfather.
Character origins
Chris' character resembles Milt, the son of the main character Larry Cummings in
The Life of Larry, an animated short film created by
Seth MacFarlane at the
Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 that led to the development of
Family Guy.
Chris was originally given a "
punk" image, according to creator
Seth McFarlane's DVD Commentary tracks. He wore
earrings, and his painful awkwardness wasn't as emphasized as it's later in the series.
Chris' voice was based on
Ted Levine's performance as
James/Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in
The Silence of the Lambs. In the commentary for,
Seth Green reveals that he based his voice for Chris on what "
Buffalo Bill" would sound like if he were working at a drive-thru in a
McDonalds (speaking through a PA system); the result being a pre-Chris Griffin voice.
Name
Chris' full name is "Christopher Cross Griffin." His seldom-used middle name is probably a homage to musician
Christopher Cross. It is first used in the episode "
Brian the Bachelor", shortly after the revelation that his mother
Lois had been a late 70s
MOR groupie.
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