I was watching Family Guy last night and wanted to blog about how cool Stewie Griffin is. For those of you who don't know, Stewie is a baby with a football-shaped head who is set on world domination and harming his mother Lois (ouch, that doesn't look as funny in print as it does on the show...). He's well-read: he read Grapes of Wrath which is one of my favorite books and he's interested in reading his dog's novel. He's got a British accent (it sounds like it to me) but he was born in Rhode Island. How'd that happen? He's got a whole weapon armory behind his toybox. He makes a lot of cultural allusions that I don't even get half the time. Why can't all babies be that well-rounded?
2 comments:
I think brian is better, much better.
I think that Stewie provides an interesting satire about parenting in today's world. About how parents oftentimes ignore their children and their rants. Even those these rants may in time lead to violent confrontations. We can see this in how Lois often ignores Stewies repeated attempts and threats to end her life. She still views him as an innocent child. Which also alludes to the fact that sometimes innocence is not what it seems.
Post a Comment