Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was later cut up into three episodes that aired at the end of the fourth season (hence it's placement) that were titled: "Stewie B. Goode", "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" and "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure". Though the movie is considered the definitive cut and as such, the TV edit "episodes" are omitted from DVD releases. The DVD also has about 20 minutes of bonus footage (involving the "premiere" of the movie in theaters and a fourth-wall breaking after party where the characters discuss the real-life cancellation of the series) that was not shown on TV.
Stewie Griffin The Untold Story contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Peter and Lois go to some pretty horrific lengths to teach Meg and Chris how to handle dating. Peter is incredibly misogynistic to Meg, locking her in the car and forcing her to smell his farts, claiming that it's the sexiest thing a woman can do for a man. Lois, on the other hand, has Chris chained up in a tub, and when he fails to get the names of all of the women on Sex and the City, she has him punished via electroshock therapy.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- A cutaway shows Peter launching himself from a catapult and then cuts to a man placing line-up dominoes and expensive, fragile glass next to his newborn, hemophiliac baby. Peter lands...right outside the house and no damage is done.
- When Lois is teaching Chris how to date, she says, "Now that we've practiced kissing and cuddling, it's time to practice eating out. [camera cuts back to reveal a dining table]... at a fancy restaurant."
- What initially seems like a Take That! at Sheryl Crow ends up being one about Lance Armstrong: "Did you know Lance Armstrong is dating Sheryl Crow? You know, it really speaks to her character that she can get past the whole "he had cancer" thing and still find him sexually attractive. Really speaks to her character. I respect that."
- Bland-Name Product: Lackluster Video in part 1.
- Bowdlerization and
Edited for Syndication:- When aired on television, the movie plays out more like a three-part episode. The movie premiere framing devices are all cut (including the ending that shows the Griffins as Animated Actors who all did different projects during the show's cancellation, like Peter directing some unaired Family Guy episodes [including one where Cleveland and Lois perform a jungle sacrifice and a Very Special Episode centered on incest], Chris stars in a West Wing-style political drama, Meg singing for Navy sailors, and Lois getting in trouble for drunken and disorderly conduct and takes to entertaining as a bachelor party stripper), and most of the jokes are either cut or altered for time and/or content reasons. Some examples include:
- The offensive language (mostly Peter's "fuck you, America" and 95% of what Vanessa [Chris' future wife] says) is bleeped out or replaced with alternate, less offensive lines.
- The special opening (which consists of the aforementioned premiere scenes, the 1994 20th Century Fox logo, and a credits sequence modeled after the ones used for the Brian and Stewie "Road to..." episodes, in that exact order) is replaced with the regular Family Guy title sequence. Two "Previously on…" teasers were added to parts two and three.
- The beginning pool scenes, where Lois reveals that she became pro-choice after her pregnancy with Meg cost her the chance at being an Olympic diver, Meg and Peter injuring themselves after trying to push Brian in the pool, and Quagmire having sex with a woman in the pump cabin.
- The cutaway of Peter's jazz-singing ancestor (who looks like Ella Fitzgerald) blinding a young Ray Charles by singing so high that she breaks a wine glass near his eyes (even though in Real Life, Ray Charles went blind when he was a child).
- Stewie waking up hungover: On the DVD version, Stewie wakes up and finds that he's naked and has a tattoo on his chest that reads, "Property of Roger Moore." On the TV version, Stewie is fully-clothed and, instead, finds a handkerchief with Roger Moore's initials embroidered on it. The dialogue was changed accordingly.
- The Shield cutaway (with Detective Scrotes) is missing from the TV versions.
- Very minor ones: When baby Stewie is instructing adult Stewie how to have sex, in the DVD version he says "Put it in, take it out" repeatedly, whereas in the TV version he says "And in, and out" repeatedly. Also, in the DVD version, baby Stewie whispers to adult Stewie, "You march in there right now and insert your... (looks in book) "phallus" into her "vagina". In the TV version, "phallus" was replaced with "penis" (mispronounced "pennis") (the free tv syndication version bleeped both "penis" and "vagina"). And in the DVD version, Fran tells adult Stewie, "I'm putting in my diaphragm...", but in the TV version, she says the more vague, "I'm getting my diaphragm..."
- The scene of Brian and Stewie drunkenly playing Pac-Man was cut for time in the TV version.
- Chewing the Scenery: When Peter grabs Stewie and attempts to throw him in the pool, Stewie holds on tight and tries to let Peter know he doesn't want to die.Stewie: No! Let me go! I don't want to drown! I want to live! LIIIIVVVVEEEE!
- Children Are a Waste: Lois reveals in part 1 that she was supposed to go to the Olympics for swimming, but got pregnant with Meg and couldn't go.Lois: Now I'm pro-choice.
- Comically Missing the Point: Stewie and Stu discussing Meg's gender-transition as Ron.Stu: That's Meg. She's Ron now. She had a sex change operation after finishing college.
Stewie: Wow! She went to college? - Compilation Movie: Inverted. It was thought up before the show was Un-Cancelled, but it was made so it could be easily split into three parts for television.
- Country Matters: When Quagmire shows off his Winnebago (which he calls "Winnebango"), he has a sign that says "Cross Country". Brian asks him, "Isn't there an "O" in country?" Quagmire replies, "Nope!"
- Didn't Think This Through: Later in the movie, Future Stewie is goaded by Stewie to have sex with Fran, Future Stewie's coworker at Best Buy. After their awkward attempt to have sex, Future Stewie's boss finds out about his attempt of having an intimate relationship with Fran. Due to Future Stewie and Fran being co-workers and the strict rules of coworkers having relationships, Future Stewie's boss promptly fires him.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Played straight in the DVD wraparounds when a drunk Lois exits a limo and slurs, "La-la-la-la, Family Guy!"
- Distracted by the Sexy: As in the film it parodies, Stewie runs by two bikini-clad women on lawn chairs... only to walk back into frame and shake their hands.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Quagmire has no problems taking Brian with him on his van trip. Season 8's Jerome Is the New Black would establish that Quagmire absolutely hates Brian.
- Failed Future Forecast: When Stewie first travels to the future, he's surprised that very little has changed, building-wise. Stu tells him, "Well of course, it's only been thirty years." This is addressed in the commentary as well: In movies, they tend to treat 20 Minutes into the Future as radically different than the present, but in reality things don't progress nearly that fast.
- Framing Device: The film opens with the Griffins attending the premiere of the film and ends with a scene at the after-party.
- Fruit Cart: While chasing down his future self in a car, Stewie hits a fruit stand. After Stewie lampshades why they always appear in car chases, a cutaway gag shows a garage where fruit carts are being dispatched like taxicabs to the scene of a reported police chase.
- Future Loser: Stewie is not happy about who he becomes in the future.Stewie: I could handle the crappy apartment and the pedestrian job, but now you're telling me I'm a 35-year old Parade magazine reading virgin?! Well, you, sir, are pathetic!
- Future Self Reveal: Stewie and Brian sees a man on TV who looks and talks exactly like Stewie. Convinced this person is his real father, Stewie travels all the way to San Francisco to try and meet him. However when he finally does, Stewie is shocked to find out that the man is not his father, but himself from 35 years in the future.
- Genre Deconstruction: There is a deconstruction of Looney Tunes, where Elmer Fudd approaches Bugs Bunny. It starts off with the basic "What's up, doc?" but then Elmer shoots Bugs repeatedly with his gun and Bugs dies a slow and painful death before Elmer casually snaps his neck and carries away the corpse.
- Have a Gay Old Time: Inverted in part 3: Baby Stewie uses the word "douchebag" and is criticized by adult Stewie, because the term "douchebag" took on a different meaning after President Douchebag was elected.
- Hell: Stewie has a near-death experience, and finds himself in Hell. However, rather than the typical Fire and Brimstone Hell, he's sitting in an ordinary hotel room. Then Steve Allen enters, and takes off his shirt, saying "All right, let's do this." After Stewie comes back to life, Steve ponders, "Wonder what's on TV in Hell?" He turns on the TV and every single channel is playing Who's the Boss?.
- Here We Go Again!: After Stewie prevents his terrible future from happening, Meg finishes having a conversation with a man which would lead to her consider having a sex change in the future. Thus a possible Sequel Hook.Meg: You know, I just always liked that name. Ron...
- Hint Dropping:
- After adult Stewie and Fran come back to Stewie's apartment after the movie, Fran bluntly declares, "And I'm not tired at all."
- Earlier in the film, Lois tries to goad Peter into saying "grinds my gears" at the breakfast table. He finally gives in when he says, "Stewie, don't interrupt. It grinds my gears when you do that." Lois ecstatically replies, "OHHHHH!! He said it!"
- Instrumental Theme Tune: One plays over the opening credits.
- Intermission: There's one in the DVD version right after Stu reveals himself to be Stewie from the future. Among the things said by the characters over the intermission screen: Herbert wants a shirtless scene for Chris and Meg is dismayed that her "tastefully-done" sex scene was cut.
- Irony: One of the firefighters points out the irony of the stress-reliever candles that burned down Stu's apartment.
- Jerkass: Chris' wife Vanessa, she's foul-mouthed & verbally abusive to everyone, especially Chris. She ends up forcing Ron and Stu to help her force Peter & Lois out of their house so Chris can have it.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Even though Stu’s life gets ruined, Stewie brought up a good point that how his future self's life was pathetic.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: After spending most of the second act bonding with Brian as they search for Stewie's father, one of the first things Stewie does upon entering the future is defile the now dead Brian's grave and retort to a disturbed future Stewie that he always loathed him (even future Stewie wasn't really unnerved about this callousness as much as the fact the insult he vandalised Brian's grave with was now outdated).
- The Last Straw: Present Stewie doesn't take to kindly to much of Future Loser Stewie's life. Once he learns that he is still a virgin, he finally takes over to improve his future self's life.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Stewie tries to get his future self to have sex with his co-worker Fran. But since he's a Future Loser it ends up being a horrible experience for her, as Fran says they had "eight seconds of sex" followed by "40 minutes of crying". And then he finishes by offering her money for the sex.
- Luke, You Are My Father: "Bango Was His Name Oh" has Stewie chase an older lookalike who may be his real father. However, the lookalike reveals himself in the end as Stewie from the future.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: When Stewie comes back from hell and promises to be a good person, it turns out that Steve Allen only took off his shirt cause he wanted to ask Stewie to help him fix his collar.
- The Movie: Considered to be this by many fans for its dramatic storyline, even though it's not theatrical and is more-or-less just three continuity-driven episodes put together and doesn't have much variety that breaks the usual Family Guy formula.
- Noodle Incident: When Peter tries out TiVO in real life, he skips past the salesman's sales pitch right to checkout, where he's just ended a story. (Although, Peter was probably making a Call-Back to the episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas".)Peter: ...Some kind of palsy. Anyway, that's how I saved Christmas!
- Obvious Stunt Double: There's a scene of Stewie jumping through a window in a hotel. The next shot has him replaced with Dennis Franz in Stewie's outfit (and a helmet styled to look like his head) diving.
- Potty Failure: During the visit to the nursing home in part 3:Lois: Hey Glen, how's the arthritis?
Quagmire: Oh it's okay. Of course, since you walked in, I'm feelin' a little stiff! Giggity gig- oh, I just pooped a little.
Cleveland: Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's naaaaaaaaaaaaasty. - Previously on…: The TV version of part 3 ("Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure") opens with a 24 parody, recapping the events so far... plus an unrelated clip from The Chevy Chase Show where Chevy Chase drops a birthday cake in front of Oliver Hudson.
- Raging Stiffie: How Quagmire is able to dial 911 while tied to the bed in part 2, after viewing some porn.
- Road Trip Plot: To San Francisco in part 2.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Cleverly zig-zagged: The Stewie that traveled through time warns the regular Stewie that he can't blow up a chair he planted bombs in (while trying to actually blow up a kid who beat him) or he'll grow up to be lame adult Stewie. Regular Stewie asks time travel Stewie if, in his time traveling, they ever found a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorne. Time travel Stewie doesn't know, and regular Stewie replies, "Then you're just as worthless as she is!", and blasts time travel Stewie with a disintegrator. Makes it seem like the whole story was pointless, until you realize that Stewie never blew up the chair and almost died from the accident, so there's the possibility that he won't turn out like adult Stewie after all.
- Shout-Out:
- The climax recreates the "running home" scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, complete with the same music choice.
- Adult Stewie tells baby Stewie that he time-traveled to see Jesus when He was alive. Stewie thought His abilities were greatly exaggerated: Jesus merely did Art Metrano's "magic" tricks. note
- Sick and Wrong: Peter admitted he pushed things too far when he made the incest episode of Family Guy. The clip shown from it had Chris and Lois awkwardly saying hi to each other, then smash-cutting to Brian pounding his fist on the breakfast table, lamenting, "WRONG! It's WRONG!"
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Vanessa in the uncut version.
- Speed Sex: During part 3:(Adult) Stewie: I'm sorry, that's never happened to me before.
Fran: Which part? The eight seconds of sex, or the forty minutes of crying?
(Adult) Stewie: I guess both. - Stimulant Speedtalk: Halfway through the road trip to San Francisco, Stewie gets hold of some "West Coast Turnarounds" from a trucker to keep him awake on the journey to San Francisco. Unfortunately, after being advised to only take one, Stewie takes the entire bottle, then goes offroad. Consequently, Brian finds him so hopped up on amphetamines that he can only communicate by screaming at the top of his lungs at an absolutely furious pace, rambling on about how they share the Manifest Destiny spirit of the pioneers.
- Straw Loser: Stewie's future self.
- Swapped Roles: In the DVD wraparounds, Lois is the one who's drunk and Peter is the sober one embarrassed by her behavior. Not that Lois has never been hammered, but the role is usually given to Peter.
- Take That!:
- To Ellen Cleghornenote , who was allegedly so upset that she called the Family Guy offices and chewed out a staff member.
- When Brian and Stewie are wandering the desert, the two see a Dr. Pepper machine in the distance; when they get closer, they realize it was just a mirage, and Stewie says in disgust, "Ugh, an RC Cola machine."
- The only television show that airs in Hell is Who's the Boss?.
- One cutaway has this in regards to the allegations of Walt Disney's antisemitism.Scientist: Welcome back, Mr. Disney.
Disney: Are the Jews gone yet?
Scientist: Uh, no.
Disney: Put me back in! (closes the cryogenic chamber)
- Toilet Humour: Alluded to when Brian eats Rupert's leg.Stewie: Give me back his leg!
Brian: Oh, you'll get it back. - Turn in Your Badge: Tom Tucker is fired from the news station and had to give back all of his station items, including his mustache.
- Urban Legend: Stewie brings up the Three Men and a Baby urban legend that there's a ghost of a dead boy in the background of one scene. Brian flatly refutes it, saying it's just a piece of cardboard.Stewie: No, it's a ghost, I heard.
Brian: You heard from who?
Stewie: From... Lois.
Brian: Yeah, right.
Stewie: Cleveland?
Brian: No.
Stewie: Death?
Brian: No.
Stewie: Greased-up Deaf Guy?
Brian: He said that? - Vomit Indiscretion Shot:
- In the wraparounds on the DVD, Lois comes to the premiere party wasted, and vomits a little bit.
- Stewie vomits on Brian in part 1.Stewie: I've never felt better. (vomits) Okay, now I've never felt better.
- Wham Line "I'm not your father...I'm you."
