How Peter Griffin Ruined His Son! (Family Guy Video Essay)

[@gustavedelior3683]

You know what's really messed up? Herbert has done more good for Chris than his father.

[@joshuacoleman8000]

You're right, that is really messed up!

[@GothicSnowLeopard]

When you make a child diddler look like a saint you know you're far from saving

[@Mentallyheld]

so i took the challenge to see if this was right. And oh my fucking god your fucking right what the fuck

[@GFBSTPPI]

das called grooming 5

[@medusasea791]

Fair point, but it is still messed up when a groomer does more nice things to Christ than his own father. Sure, the good things from Herbert are for a disgusting cause and this doesn't make him better than Peter per se, but he does offer Chris more happiness than Peter

[@Ranixo286]

I really miss how art was a part of Chris' early character but Peter crushed that out of him, plus the writers not wanting to give him any characterization again.

[@MeCooper]

Oh wait and also didn't he used to be an insanely good cook or something? _(I might just be confusing this with American Dad or something.)_ lol I'm just realising the show has been around for like 20 years now.

[@arthas640]

Thats a big reason why i quit watching. Characterization pretty much stopped, everyone got more shallow and flat, and they pretty much abandoned what characterization had already been established. Everyones just an asshole all the time. If it werent for the cutaway gags the show would be kind of dark since everyone just treats each other like total shit all the time, often without reason. In a cast you can have a few assholes, ideally people are assholes for a reason, but when everyones an asshole all the time you've just created a shitty world.

[@wintertrooper7918]

Brian isn't an atheist he's just a denialist he knows all these things exist in his world but he ignores them and refuses their reality for whatever reasons

[@garuelx8627]

It's an act of defiance. Why give power to an entity whose scripture makes you an inferior being? Also given his punching bag status, there's likely some resentment since gods are known to curse mortals for arbitrary bs.

[@Cattafang]

there was a word for someone who knew that a god/deity existed but didn’t follow them due to reasons. i’ve forgotten what the word is specifically but it would fit brian

[@wintertrooper7918]

@Cattafang idk about a word but there's a trope called flat earth atheist

[@Cattafang]

@@wintertrooper7918 funny enough, i found the word i was talking about through a similar trope linked to the flat earth atheist one (nay-theist, if you're curious)! the word is misotheist, where someone believes in a god/deity but actively dislikes the deity.

[@kaneconqueror6560]

@@Cattafang distheist also would work. It refers to someone who believes in a god, but believes the god to not be good and likely to be evil.

[@ASMCourtney]

honestly, my least favorite change in the show, is that Peter basically stopped ever providing any positive influences on his children whatsoever. Obv he was always a turd, but he would find some wisdom to share with them, or skill, or anything.... stupid flanderization.

[@sammywilliam8156]

Back when Peter actually had a conscience and actually cared about his family and not just the f*** y** I'm Peter Griffin like he is today I mean look at Bryan it went from someone there was the Poison to the guy that if I ever saw him crossing the street he'd be one dog that I would Run Over 5 times

[@gustavedelior3683]

He did go from idiot trying to go do good with some small moral ambiguity to oblivious degenerate with no impulse control at all

[@MeCooper]

@@sammywilliam8156 One thing I've always loved about the show is that Brian is basically all of Seth's bad qualities. He is smart but his ego gets in the way _(Seth is entertaining but ends up being literally half of the shows characters)_ and it's great because you can't help but hate him. I think thats why he basically uses his normal voice for him. There is something very cathartic about somebody creating a character who is the absolute worst version of themselves and remaining consistent about it. Like, Brian is the worst everything, He's a bad father, A bad writer, A bad intellectual, A bad liar, You name it. lol He is what we would all be if we had half a brain, a ton of ego and no self respect... Rather than like, Being some kinda super cool super hero guy.

[@raestiffler5859]

@@MeCooperyeah, like a negative self insert character. I’m a big Seth MacFarlane fan, he’s incredibly talented and has a very large catalogue of inspirations (especially Twilight Zone/Star Trek which is my favorite) but he’s not perfect. I haven’t watched FG in a couple years. I think the first couple seasons are the best

[@arthas640]

Same. He started off as an oafish dad like Homer Simpson and slowly turned into an irredeemable asshole. Homer had a decline too but for him at least it was mostly just becoming dumber and more childish but Peter just became a monster that enjoys treating people like shit.

[@garfieldmethodactor8614]

thank you kitty for singlehandedly keeping the autistic community fed

[@Trevor_official785]

Real

[@AoiUsagiOtoko]

fr, watching people infodump about cartoons is my favorite kind of content lol

[@callanightshade8079]

​@@AoiUsagiOtokomine too lol

[@brandonscott5544]

PETER GRIFFIN RUINED CHRIS GRIFFIN LOL.

[@Grugthegruggr]

FRRRR

[@dabatman5187]

He debatably ruined most of his family. But yeah his son did get the most screwed over

[@The_Nailsmith]

Meg.

[@xXtrial_and_errorXx]

No way you just said he gets treated worse than meg

[@bsanchez3563]

​​​@@xXtrial_and_errorXxTrue true... it is like if she had a spinoff that maybe could be titled "Everybody hates Meg" [from the way the others treat her the vast majority of the time], but.. maybe Chris Rock already has made Chris a show that gave that title away already... but yeah... an Ray kind of has the "Everybody loves Stewie but rather the names Raymond" show... lol Oh and Happy birthday month Kitty.

[@patrickdron]

nah that honor goes to his daughter, the same daughter Peter randomly shot at just for saying "hi" to Peter

[@princessmarlena1359]

Peter claims he and Lois “…rolled three ‘Gutterballs’ with these kids!”, but refuses to see that the common factors are HIM and Lois.

[@bsanchez3563]

Lmfao so harsh of a hard truth but yet so much harder of a fact that is true- agreed.

[@quinnfletcher3906]

As is the case with shitty parents.

[@Bolbi145]

Like I always say, seasons 4-7 is prime Family Guy, the characters have a perfect balance of nice, and mean, plus the comedy is at it’s best.

[@Rieky22]

Who needs enemies when u have parents like Lois and Peter

[@bsanchez3563]

Well then there was for awhile there, Stewie making do with it by killing two birds with one stone so to speak.. if you know what I mean by that.

[@monte8901]

Honestly If thw show ends, hope it will be with both of them being humilliated in a such gruesome ways that they die forever. Literally the two only characters in fiction that I hate

[@cherryblossom00000]

I dont know why i constantly think Chris is older than Meg

[@medusasea791]

Maybe because he is taller and there were instances when he kind of took care of her, like comforting her when Brian died and driving Peter's bike himself while Meg sat behind him.

[@mystictj9626]

I think Lois is due for an episode to herself - to explain what the hell happened to such a well written character, with MORALS and a great amount of care for her family. It’s gotten to the point where Francine is LITERALLY what Lois should’ve been.

[@sarahsims6164]

I can think of another time when Chris was ruined, but it was by his mom instead of his dad; it was the episode where he became Quagmire's personal assistant. While he did do a lot of tasks that seemed odd, like cleaning Glen's sex toys and setting up his dates with women, it was still a professional position and he was paid quite well. However, Lois didn't like it because basically, in her words, it wasn't a "typical" job like mowing lawns or delivering newspapers (both things that Chris used to do). Ultimately, she gives him the money he needs even though it all culminated in him stealing it in the first place.

[@kayEnt3rtainm3nt]

Fun fact: Rhode Island is actually one of only two US states where Chris and Peter could actually get married in real life (if they were real and not cartoon characters of course). The other is New Jersey.

[@KittyMonk]

Ugh, of course it's Jersey. And I thought my home state knew better!

[@reallyoriginalname1221]

​@@KittyMonkhey. At least you weren't born in Mississippi

[@thema1998]

​@@KittyMonk It's like Alexander Hamilton and his son once said, "Everything is legal in New Jersey". 😆

[@PhoenixMerlyn69]

@@KittyMonkEverything is legal in Jersey

[@founboy78]

I think an easy fix to the whole "Lois ratting out Chris" thing was if Lois's intention was to prove to Chris that freshman hunt wasn't real. But it turned out it was. When Chris got home, Lois could be like, "Hi Chris, did you get hunted. Then he reveals, he was hunted much to his and Lois's dismay. There Lois, I saved you from looking like a C word.

[@tanandalynch9441]

Yeah but that unfortunately didn't happen

[@chad9186]

Peter marrying Chris. That episode should have been banned

[@alexvaughan1013]

Cartman: Just as planned!

[@alienboy1322]

Garbage episode. That's why I don't trust anyone who still watches Family Guy nowadays.

[@valtheemokid4005]

Stewie getting pregnant with Brian's kids should be banned too lol

[@chad9186]

@@valtheemokid4005 In the new Ninja Turtles movie, one turtle says to the other, Your head looks Stewie had a baby with Hey Arnold. At first , I thought How is that even possible and then I thought of that episode but yeah, it should have been banned

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

Considering how he constantly referenced wanting to have sex, that makes this shit even worse

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

I think Steve Smith is a better version of Chris Steve is a little pervy and weird but has potential to be a big short where Chris serves more as a cautionary for young boys and what not to be Though I do like it when Chris is the voice of reason at times and knows when to turn a bad situation in someone's favor like with Principal Shepard using the school for s## tapes and said it was to raise money

[@jabbarmuhammad8804]

He destroyed his family I don't understand why Lois didn't divorced him a long time ago

[@garuelx8627]

Lois is also part of the problem

[@Janeywaney455]

Lois ain’t a prize herself either, bro.

[@lindsayshanks7555]

Probably sunken cost fallacy at play

[@Grugthegruggr]

as someone with pmdd, im so glad to finally have someone raise awareness for it!!

[@chad9186]

A video essay about a child and his son

[@starnblack09]

I thought meg was the most screwed

[@garuelx8627]

Chris became the worst aspects of Peter and Quagmire combined. I see the following possible futures for him. A) R@pist B) Child Molester C) Serial Killer D) All of the Above

[@kanefindlay2549]

Chris is also the only character in the family to never have a birthday

[@fireflight8535]

He had his surprise party where he jumped on people and screamed surprise

[@sarahtelles1931]

Things like this reminds me of why I miss the first few seasons of Family guy as well as the seasons before everyone started hating eachother

[@michaelfragoso6572]

Im surprised you didn’t bring up the Arthur valentine episode where in the flash back it’s Peter’s fault for not teaching Chris how to pee properly resulting in the other kids making fun of him

[@Lionsboy2k]

I love how easily recognizable your thumbnails are.

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

GOD I miss the early Seasons of Family Guy

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

Only a week or so before my birthday and vacation from work! Thanks Kitty Monk for making these vids and making me laugh!

[@mathieuleader8601]

gumble to gumble was a series actually pitched by Macfarlane before Family Guy was pitched to the FOX TV network

[@ellarasei4404]

Don't think that Wicked reference didn't pass under my nose

[@channel45853]

Tbf, you can't blame Family Guy's writers for what other writers on other shows do. They are adults, it's on them if they flanderize a character for the funnies.

[@klausing8]

I love video essays especially on a cozy evening in bed with nothing to do

[@bsanchez3563]

I know right, literally deadass coolio like legit.

[@dagnytheartist]

39:55 When I was a kid staying at a hotel, I was supposed to take myself and my baby sister to the breakfast, but we accidentally went to the wrong one (apparently, the hotel next door). Good to know after all these years that my mistake wasn't illegal. 😅

[@pigeon8771]

I also have a birthday in October, happy birthday month kitty!!! It’s a honor sharing.

[@PhillipOnTakos]

Showing old clips of family guy next to new ones shows how far the show has come... very little of that is a good change.

[@Hack_Man_VII]

The fact they keep making Meg/Chris incest jokes is really screwed up!

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

which is NOT Funny just disgusting

[@damianmorningstar3150]

​@@BlitzDemonGamer3032who loves you more then Family

[@Joedirt3349]

​@@BlitzDemonGamer3032calm down.

[@jffry890]

Or as I like to call it, one writer's poorly disguised fetish.

[@helshake6948]

Found you recently but I love your videos. I'm kinda binging them now.

[@samanthasoares4806]

Thank you, I thought I was the only person ever to think that guy sounded like vlad from danny phantom at 5:24

[@tanandalynch9441]

I used to work for a hotel. They literally don't care if you even have a room. As long as you're there between the breakfast hours

[@MeCooper]

I always love looking back at the first few seasons of long running shows. It is amazing how much things change. Lois went from a doting mom to a cool mom with a crazy past. Peter went from an idiot to a cartoonish baboon. And Chris and Meg became charactures of their original personas. Brian tends to kinda go all over the place to fit the story and Stewie was the only consistent character, But even then he became a very toned down version of himself,... Like I can't even remember the last time he killed somebody.

[@beanos8155]

Thanks to you, i learned that i might have PMDD and that my mom has been diagnose with one after i told my parents. I would have never knew if it wasn’t for you so thank you😊

[@Lalaundercover389]

Your videos are so bingeable I literally wait for a few uploads so I can sit down and watch them all like a Netflix show ❤

[@skyr5247]

I have PMDD too and it's been awful for my mental health, so you have my solidarity. And pound cake 💖

[@kaigraham1287]

I think most, if not all the griffins have cutaways suggesting they are or should be on a register

[@underdoggamer1232]

I just realised thhat Carta is a bad father a bad father inlaw but a good grandad

[@ZoobiethePopplio]

I mostly remember The Muppets for that great Christmas album they had with John Denver.

[@twindrill2852]

TBH I wouldn’t count the last episode as Peter’s fault. Yeah, it was his and Lois’ decision to do a Freaky Friday swap, but Chris was the one who made the decision to continue working at his dad’s workplace. Everything else wasn’t really Peter’s action, just various misfortunes.

[@lycieae8879]

Since I have no money I'll simply say happy birthday every friday. I'm gettin ready for that glorious day before halloween myself

[@minhhoangang2278]

Like father, like son

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

To think I'd used to liked Peter and Chris dynamics but now days Chris has became a Creep in the Modern seasons and Peter Griffin became an absolute Idiot and a terrible father in the Modern Seasons

[@alphawolf798]

Happy birthday kitty, we all love your videos!

[@MurderLamb]

Love these videos :D

[@jerichogarry]

I hate fridays but love birthdays, Peter isn't a actual family guy considering how he treats his family.

[@bsanchez3563]

What man I use to love it when it was for some reason probably because as a kid it feel just wrong for there to be school on that or on halloween... kind of *lmfao* faintly feels almost... encroaching if somehow that even makes sense... by killing off the mood early... even though as an adult inevitably time either fails to be fast enough unless it is going by faster than desirable due to murphys law. But yeah.. by the way check the movie Friday, also the Friday movie soundtrack Tgif by Dre

[@Albinoafroman316]

Why do people forget Peter Jr. Meg Brian & Stewie older brother.

[@nicholasrodinos4701]

Good to see that the charity's doing well. I mean it's at 1/4 the goal with 22 days left, that's some mighty fine progress.

[@Medicalstench]

I grew up without knowing my dad, and despite what people may think about Peter Griffin, I always yearned for him to be my father. There's a profound sadness in not having that paternal connection, and I often find myself nostalgic, dreaming of shared moments with Peter on the wharf in Quahog, imagining a bond that was never mine. The yearning persists, a poignant ache in my heart, especially given my East Coast roots in NYC, making the fictional world of Quahog seem like a bittersweet escape.

[@RedQuill13]

Hahah when you mentioned bringing snacks into the movies I laughed because I work at one and you will get kicked out if we know you have it.

[@luisdominguez2048]

🎶who’s to blame, who’s to blame? What’s his name, MR. BOOZe, Mr Booze, Mr B-OOZ-E!

[@dylanthomas385]

Yess it deserves season 2

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

Every season of Family Guy after 5 is non-canon. Only the first 5 seasons are canon. Change my mind.

[@honeybadger7764]

I think we share a birthday. Just enjoy the Fact that it falls on a Friday this year WHERE MY FRIDAY THE 13TH CREW AT

[@MrTylerisaboss]

Where I live, eating the buffet without paying for a room is fraud in receiving accommodation, which is a felony. Lol

[@veedz2421]

Ty 4 raising pmdd awareness 😢😢❤

[@MungiuMan77]

I get that this is a year old video, but, i sure could go for some pound cake!

[@garynaccarato4606]

Should have done more to keep Chris away from Herbert the pervert and both of Chris's parents should have been a little less oblivious to what Herbert was doing.

[@arunsingla3452]

Well one of them believes pevert or any type of sexual misbehaviour can only be from male to female and men cannot be subjected to that kind of behaviour so that’s not surprising

[@trinketsphinx3212]

38:10 I thought for sure he'd given himself an ulcer... but, I have to say, as someone with crohn's disease, that scene felt way too real.

[@jeremybenge6690]

Considering that this years october has a friday the 13th, I'm gonna put my money on that. (not realy since that would be a form of gambeling)

[@matthewmuller7929]

That Spamalot! reference caught me so off guard lol

[@SarahJTennyson]

“God is Pissed!” Yeah and now he is a atheist. I don’t like Brian anymore, because it was confusing. But that’s how some shows are they soon change. Their characters definitely changed a lot in that show, like too much

[@Kenichi_13]

Yay! Happy birthday!!! I just had my birthday on the 4th and it’s my mom’s birthday today lol hope you have a great weekend

[@jalenstrikes4300]

Happy birthday. Cheers 🥂 and I appreciate what you just said they're considering the fact I'm also autistic

[@RandomPerson-ky7cd]

Wow the pound cake was really good

[@cameronspalding9792]

@7:55 Kitty Monk was born on 13 October 1999

[@icecreamhero2375]

The Marrying Kind is one of my favorite epsidoes.

[@jonleibow3604]

Me at 44 listening to a 24 year old talking about being "old"

[@FE_Chase]

Happy birthday

[@bedsidearts]

On a PMDD note i was recommended for a full hysterectomy 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊 ty for your continuous support and awareness of the issue

[@CometCopy]

Friday the 13th has be one of the best and worst birthdays ever

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

39:00 Boy those free breakfasts are quite delightful GOD I wish I could go on vacation

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

19:08 and yet Ironically I actually remembered The Muppets Haunted Mansion special from Disney+ and ya know what's SAD ever since Disney owns the Muppets and they haven't done anything with The Muppets ever since think about it

[@arthas640]

21:35 it's funny how that goes. I live not far from Seattle but I've never gone to the Space Needle. Been to Pike Place market a million times but if you've eaten at the humbao place there you'd understand why locals and tourists alike flock to the area.

[@lightningmcqueen4202]

Thank you so much for using gender inclusive language when talking about menstrual problems it means alot ❤❤❤

[@warwulf1889]

My mom's birthday is also in October. And as such, Halloween is one of her favorite holidays.

[@PlanetZoidstar]

I always hated the scene where Lois exposes Chris as Freshman so he'll get abused by the school. Especially since we're never told why she does this. Nevermind she never is held to account for it. She purely did it so the plot could happen.

[@characterblub2.0]

PreMenstrual disorders SUCK. When my birth control wore off, I thought my cramps were my organs failing 🎉

[@Crz4wizard]

I’m an October 20 birthday ! We birthday month twins !!

[@JayStack5]

I got an October birthday too. Well, there is actually a few in my family. Anyways, Happy Birthday and I hope you get some Pound Cake!

[@Lindsek]

19:21 ……I understood that reference. 👀💚

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

If every kid had parents like Peter and Lois, the depression and suicide rate would sky rocket

[@maxweltersworld2270]

22:07 Family Guy predicted NFTs

[@PixieWixieChu-hu9pz]

Hold on, did i misunderstand the "did you sit on something" joke? I thought it meant he had something up somewhere. Kitty said it was a comment on his anatomy. Please help.

[@RanterInShades]

Peter also made Chris into a misogynist once.

[@Aroaceenby]

Happy early birthday 🎂 i love your videos!!

[@Rangnathebloodedge]

I'm in the boat as you my hearing isn't what it was

[@awettycigarettey]

Kitty monk is either a libra or Scorpio… either way happy birthday

[@ezracook6658]

Nice video essay, as always. I know you probably get asked this a lot, but I can't help myself from asking too: When is the video essay on Lisa Simpson coming? :3

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

36:50 and We All know The Cleveland Show is Never coming back from the Dead once it's cancelled it stays Cancelled

[@virtualashez]

I’m pretty sure Chris is blonde because Lois’ original design had her as blonde too.

[@onlyaquartertobootxd6232]

Don't forget Seth Green has an nft show so you'll have to suffer through that

[@poisontribal9909]

Mines on a Friday too this month!

[@AcetheWindRider]

Hell yeah, you should come down here to New Orleans!