Meg Griffin

Megan "Meg" Griffin is a cartoon character on the TV show Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane. She is the eldest child of Lois and Peter Griffin, sister of Chris and Stewie.

Meg attends James Woods High School as a junior, where she is unpopular.

Voice actors

Meg was voiced by an uncredited Lacey Chabert for the first season, and by Mila Kunis in subsequent seasons, though Chabert reprised the role of Meg for several second season episodes.

• Rachael MacFarlane (pilot)
• Lacey Chabert (1999 – 2000)
• Mila Kunis (2000 - Present)
• Tara Strong (singing voice)

Appearance

Meg nearly always wears a beanie-like hat and glasses. She is slightly shorter than her younger brother Chris. Meg is self-conscious about her appearance in general ("I'm so fat and gross"), and is called overweight in various episodes, including one situation where a carnival employee guesses her weight as "a lot"..

Social life

Meg desperately tries to be part of the cool crowd, and is coldly rebuffed. Eager for acceptance, she is shown in two stories unwittingly recruited by a religious cult, and accepting a mistaken invitation to join her school's Lesbian Alliance.

Dating

Meg is so unpopular in high school that a young man fires a nail gun into his own stomach in order to avoid a date with her. However, she is sought by pimply nerd Neil Goldman, and perverted neighbour Glenn Quagmire has shown an interest, asking if she has reached the age of consent. In several episodes she is shown dating, including stories with characters Mayor Adam West and nudist Jeff Campbell, and she loses her virginity to Saturday Night Live comedian Jimmy Fallon after having a drastic make over and plastic surgery done.

In other episodes she is portrayed as chronically incapable of finding a boyfriend. For Junior Prom she accepts a pity date from Brian, the family dog.

Family life

Meg's role in the family is "least favorite". The Griffins are shown avoiding her company, disparaging her in person, and gathered in her bedroom reading her diary for laughs. Peter reminds Lois "We agreed that if we could only save two, we'd leave Meg!"

When the family tries an anger management technique of writing letters and not sending them, Meg finds Peter's letter to her, which says "Dear Meg, for the first four years of your life, I thought that you were a housecat." On Meg's 17th birthday, her mother and father both try to hide from Meg that they don't remember her age. Peter openly states that Meg sucks in the episode "PTV".

The neighbors also openly dislike Meg. Joe encourages Lois to keep him from falling down a giant sewer pipe by telling her "pretend I'm your child"; when Lois' grip slips a little, Joe yells "Not Meg! Not Meg!" Cleveland comments to Peter "Meg is my least favorite of your children."

Though Meg is unpopular both at school and home, she shows exceptional academic promise. She considered attending Brown University, had a brief internship with Mayor Adam West, and wrote for the school paper. Her scholarly achievements, of course, are usually unnoticed by her family.

Dangerous behavior

Meg is often shown as emotionally fragile or disturbed. Early episodes show Meg "dating" a corpse, or chuckling maniacally while describing imaginary gifts from her boyfriend "Prince William." Later in the series, Meg is charged for forcing herself upon a group of would-be captors and grows violently obsessed with Brian after a drunken kiss at the Junior Prom. Meg also speaks of habitually cutting herself. Meg's dangerous behavior, however obvious, is rarely noticed by her parents. Peter does pay attention when she loses her temper and assaults a man who crashed into the back of the car while driving him, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire around when they have been drinking in Road to Rupert. He exclaims that her actions were "awesome" and this leads to her engaging in other erratic behaviour to impress him.