After 19 years of behavior that has ranged from the perverted to downright assault, Family Guy’s Glenn Quagmire will finally get his comeuppance.
Producers of the long-running Fox cartoon have revealed that an episode in the show’s upcoming season will deliver a ‘Me Too moment’ for Quagmire.
The episode will directly address Quagmire’s serial sexual assaults, from a bound and gagged underage cheerleader to a young, dead virgin.
Showrunner Rich Appel told reporters at San Diego Comic-Con that it was series creator Seth MacFarlane’s idea to do a Me Too episode for the character.
Producers of Family Guy have revealed that Glenn Quagmire, the show’s serial sexual assaulter, will finally get his ‘Me Too moment’ in the upcoming season
Series creator Seth MacFarlane specifically wanted an episode to revolve around Quagmire and his sordid history with woman. He is featured in this episode emerging from the coffin of a young, dead virgin in only his underpants
‘The Me Too stuff became such a cultural force while we were thinking of next season, and we are taking it head-on with an episode around Quagmire,’ Appel told Huffington Post.
‘Seth encouraged us and even took a special interest while we were writing the episode.’
Appel said the writers plan to be ‘pretty fair about the whole history of the character’, but did not divulge further details.
Quagmire, who MacFarlane himself once described as an ‘appalling human being’, has a long and sordid history on the television show.
In one episode, Quagmire opens the door of a bathroom stall to find a bound and gagged cheerleader. He breaks out into a huge grin and yells ‘JACKPOT!’
Showrunner Rich Appel said MacFarlane encouraged the Me Too episode as it made headlines last year and ‘took a special interest’ in it
Quagmire, who MacFarlane himself described as an ‘appalling human being’, has a long and sordid history on the television show
Another episode features Quagmire on The Bachelorette, in which he is seen slipping a date rap drug into the Bachelorette’s glass while they’re in the hot tub.
He then attempts to drag her into another room, before realizing that he’s still surrounded by cameras.
A long-running Family Guy joke has been Quagmire’s inappropriate desire in Peter Griffin’s underage daughter Meg.
One episode shows Meg in the bathroom, only for Quagmire to emerge from behind the shower curtain with a video camera.
Another shows him sticking his foot in Meg’s mouth while she sleeps, while one features him crashing her sleepover while wearing only his underpants.
In the episode ‘Airport ’07’, Quagmire jumps out of the coffin of a young virgin the moment a priest says she was ‘as unspoiled as when she was born’.
Quagmire appears in a pair of leopard print underpants, screaming his favorite catchphrase ‘giggity-giggity-giggity’.
MacFarlane had a history of calling out accused sexual predators in Hollywood, including Harvey Weinsten, long before the Me Too movement.
A long-running Family Guy joke has been Quagmire’s inappropriate desire in Peter Griffin’s underage daughter Meg (pictured)
MacFarlane (pictured) had a history of calling out accused sexual predators in Hollywood, including Harvey Weinsten, long before the Me Too movement
The TV creator peppered episodes with references to long-running Hollywood rumors about the alleged misdeeds of Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, and Charlie Rose.
One 2005 episode shows baby Stewie running naked through a mall and screaming ‘Help! I’ve escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement!’
Another, from 2012, shows Ratner bidding $75,000 to purchase Stewie – dressed as a young girl – in a sex slave auction.
MacFarlane was also noted for making a joke about Weinstein while presenting at the Academy Awards in 2013.
After reading out the five nominees for best supporting actress, the comedian quipped: ‘Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein’.
Four years later, more than 80 women would come forward with allegations against Weinstein that ranged from harassment to rape, kicking off the Me Too Movement.