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- IS STEWIE GAY? ‘FAY GUY’ FALLY ADDRS HIS SEXUALY (AND THAT ACCENT!)
- STEWIE FALLY COM OUT ‘FAY GUY’S’ BT EPISO YEARSPROGRESSTHE SMARMY TODDLER’S NOT-SO-THLY VEILED SEXUALY IS FALLY ADDRSED A MAJOR EPISO THAT WASN’T JT FUNNY, BUT SHOCKGLY NUANCED AND PROGRSIVE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 13, 2018 2:22PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 11, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LYNE LUCIEN/THE DAILY BEASTSTEWIE ON FAY GUY MAY BE THE GAYT CHARACTER ON TELEVISN, WHICH IS PARTICULARLY TERTG GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE’S ONE YEAR OLD.FOR MORE THAN 300 EPISOS OF THE FOX ANIMATED SERI, THE YOUNGT GRIFF HAS BEEN NOT-SO-SUBTLY “D GAY,” A PHRASE ED TO SCRIBE CHARACTERS WHO EXHIB TRAS THAT HT AT BEG HOMOSEXUAL, WHOUT EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGG .“EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGG” IS RELATIVE THE SE OF STEWIE AND FAY GUY, HOWEVER. THIS IS A SHOW THAT HAS HAD THE SMARMY TODDLER LEERG AT MEN SHOWERG THROUGH A PEEPHOLE, SPEAKG AT LEAST ONCE AN EPISO HOMOEROTIC NUENDO, CSHG ON MALE CELEBRI, FANGIRLG OVER MIL THEATRE, AND EVEN SELF-REFERENCG BEG “POSSIBLY HOMOSEXUAL.” HERE’S A PILATN VIO OF JT SOME OF THOSE MOMENTS, FOR REFERENCE: BUT ON SUNDAY NIGHT, A LANDMARK EPISO AIRG WHOUT A MERCIAL BREAK (AND GUT STARRG SIR IAN MCKELLEN, TO BOOT), STEWIE’S SEXUALY IS FALLY “EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED.” DO HE E OUT? WELL, SORT OF. THE RULT OF THE EPISO, AMBIGUO AS MAY BE, IS NOHELS FASCATG. IT’S NOT ONLY ONE OF THE BT EPISOS OF FAY GUY A VERY LONG TIME, BUT ALSO ONE OF THE MOST NUANCED AND EDGY G OUT EPISOS OF A TV SHOW WE’VE SEEN.AGA, ALL CENTERG AROUND A 1-YEAR-OLD.OF URSE, STEWIE’S AGE IS PART OF THE WHOLE JOKE, AND WHY HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN ONE OF THE RISKIER—AND PAYOFF, FUNNIER—NNG GAGS OF THE SHOW. HERE’S THIS TODDLER OM A NEW ENGLAND FAY WHO SPEAKS A BRISH ACCENT, WH A HEIGHTENED TELLIGENCE AND BON VIVANT’S UNRSTANDG OF THE WORLD AND CULTURE, BUT WHO IS, YOU KNOW, STILL A TODDLER: PETULANT, VULNERABLE, AND EMOTNALLY UNEVOLVED.THE EPISO, TLED “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE,” TAK PLACE ALMOST ENTIRELY A THERAPY SSN NECSATED AFTER STEWIE PH A BOY AT SCHOOL, TYLER, DOWN THE STAIRS. MCKELLEN PLAYS THE THERAPIST, DR. CECIL PRCHFIELD, BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL FOR STEWIE BUT ALSO A TALYST FOR PROJECTN: THE OLR GAY BRISH DOCTOR WH A YOUNGER BOYIEND MIGHT JT BE WHO STEWIE, IF NOT NECSARILY ASPIR TO BE, EVENTUALLY SETTL FOR BEG WHEN HE’S OLR.TUNG TO THE EPISO KNOWG IS THE BIG ONE THAT ADDRS STEWIE’S SEXUALY MAK ALL THE MORE ENJOYABLE. A TICKER-TAPE OF GAY REFERENC AND STEREOTYP FLY BY, AND YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO TCH THEM ALL.STEWIE BREEZ TO THE SSN, WISHG THE SECRETARY, BARBARA, LUCK ON TRYG TO SECURE ALE TICKETS: “YOU SERVE THEM.” HE CHANNELS HIS NERV THROUGH IDLE CH-CHAT ABOUT THE OFFICE DéR: “THIS IS CHARMG. IT REMDS OF THE THERAPIST OFFICE BETHENNY FRANKEL GO TO ON THE REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK CY. I HATE HER. SHE LOOKS LIKE A WOON DOLL YOU’D FD AN EASTERN EUROPEAN TOY SHOP. [HANDS ON HIPS] OH DON’T ACT LIKE YOU DON’T KNOW WHO SHE IS. THAT DON’T IMPRS ME. WE LIVE THE WORLD. WE ALL KNOW WHO BETHENNY FRANKEL IS, LIKE OR NOT.”THE NCE IS TELEGRAPHED QUICKLY: WE’RE ABOUT TO HEAR A LOT OF SUPER GAY STUFF OM STEWIE, BEFORE THE BIG QUTN IS DISCSED. I MEAN, WHO HAS STEWIE BEEN ALL THE YEARS IF NOT A BCHY QUEEN?THIS MANIFTS SELF PECIALLY WHEN, AFTER SPOTTG A PHOTO OF DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER, STEWIE DISSECTS EVERY SGLE TAIL ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP DYNAMIC. HE ANALYZ THE PRSURE AND SECURI THST ON THEM BY GAY ELISM AND SHAMG CULTURE, AND RC THEM TO EVERY STEREOTYPE A WAY THAT WOULD BE OFFENSIVE IF WEREN’T ALL SO PASTAKGLY TE AND REGNIZABLE (AT LEAST TO THIS GAY VIEWER), DOWN TO THE RALPH LREN PURPLE LABEL DRS SHIRTS THEY BOUGHT AT THE OUTLET STORE TO FEIGN WEALTH WHILE AT A GAY VATN STATN.IT’S EVISCERATG, AND REVEALG OF THE KD OF JUDGMENT THAT N ONLY E OM WH THE GAY MUNY. EACH NEW HYPER-SPECIFIC TAIL IS A HARSHER TTH THAN THE ONE BEFORE. TO KEEP UP WH THIS PIECE’S HYPERBOLE, IS ONE OF THE GAYT MONOLOGU WE’VE SEEN ON TELEVISN—AND TH ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYG. (WILL ANY OF WHAT STEWIE SAYS MEAN ANYTHG TO THOSE OUTSI THE MUNY?) SETH MACFARLANE, MT BE SAID, LIVERS A BRAVURA VOICE ACTG PERFORMANCE. “IF ANYTHG I’M LS GAY THAN I ED TO BE…BUT DO I THK THAT GRANT GT AND I WOULD MAKE THE MOST ADORABLE INSTAGRAM UPLE? Y, I DO.” BUT THIS IS BARELY HALF THE EPISO. WE’RE ONLY ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKTHROUGH.“YOU SEEM LIKE A VERY LONELY LTLE BOY,” DR. PRCHFIELD SAYS RPONSE TO THE DRSG DOWN.“OH MY GOD I AM!” STEWIE WAILS. “I’M SO LONELY!” FOR ALL THE EDY RIVED OM STEWIE’S THLY VEILED HOMOSEXUALY OVER THE YEARS, ’S EASY TO FET HIM FOR WHAT HE IS: ULTIMATELY, A TRAGIC CHARACTER.DR. PRCHFIELD ATTEMPTS TO GET AT THE HEART OF THE CINT THAT BROUGHT STEWIE TO HIS OFFICE THE FIRST PLACE. WHY DID HE PH TYLER DOWN THE STAIRS? “IT WAS AN ACCINT. HAVEN’T YOU EVER SEEN SHOWGIRLS?” STEWIE (FABULOLY) FLECTS. HE DID , HE EXPLAS, BEE HE LIK HIM. AND THEN, THE DOTH-PROTT-TOO-MUCH FENSIVENS: “AND NOT LIKE HIM, LIKE HIM. I’M NOT GAY. THIS WHOLE THG ISN’T BEE I’M GAY. SO LM DOWN. I N ALREADY SEE YOU LICKG YOUR CHOMPS…IF ANYTHG I’M LS GAY THAN I ED TO BE…BUT DO I THK THAT GRANT GT AND I WOULD MAKE THE MOST ADORABLE INSTAGRAM UPLE? Y, I DO.”HE MENTNS FLUIDY. HE SAYS HE’S NFINT HIS HETEROSEXUALY. HE MENTNS THE ANXIETY HE FEELS EVERY DAY TRYG TO F WH OTHER KIDS WHO DON’T SHARE HIS TERTS. HE BEGS RAPPG OM HATON, A MIL HE CHARACTERIZ AS “LIKE GILBERT, BUT FOR HISPANICS.” IT’S A LOT OF RAMBLG, LEADG TO ONE MAJOR REVELATN.STEWIE OUT, Y. BUT NOT THE WAY YOU WOULD EXPECT.AT FIRST, HE FEELS EED. THEN, EXPOSED. “I WANT TO REMA WHAT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN. SUPERR. BRILLIANT. SPECIAL…NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW THE REAL ME.”THERE’S A DANCE BETWEEN CHILD ANGST AND THE TORTURE THAT OM BEG AAID, NOT ONLY OF OTHERS KNOWG THE REAL YOU, BUT OF KNOWG YOURSELF. IT’S HONTLY MORE PROGRSIVE THAN IF STEWIE HAD JT E OUT.THE TRAGEDY NTU, SORT OF: STEWIE GO BACK TO A LIFE OF REPRSN, STILL CLOSETED, STILL PERFORMG A VERSN OF HIMSELF THAT HE FEELS OTHERS WILL MORE READILY ACCEPT THAN WHO HE REALLY IS. BUT ALSO…HE’S A CHILD! AND THIS IS A JOURNEY. THE MONUMENTAL MOMENT HERE ISN’T THAT FAY GUY MA A FIVE STATEMENT ABOUT STEWIE’S SEXUALY ( DIDN’T), BUT THAT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT JOURNEY. AND THIS IS FAY GUY! WHO WOULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS NUANCE, THIS MEANGFULNS? WAY BACK 2009, MACFARLANE REVEALED THAT THE SHOW HAD NSIRED AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT, SENTIALLY NFIRMG THAT STEWIE IS ED GAY. “BUT WE CID ’S BETTER TO KEEP VAGUE, WHICH MAK MORE SENSE BEE HE’S A 1-YEAR-OLD,” HE TOLD PLAYBOY. “ULTIMATELY, STEWIE WILL BE GAY OR A VERY UNHAPPY REPRSED HETEROSEXUAL. IT ALSO EXPLAS WHY HE’S SO HELLBENT ON KILLG [HIS MOTHER, LOIS] AND TAKG OVER THE WORLD: HE HAS A LOT OF AGGRSN, WHICH OM NFN AND UNCERTATY ABOUT HIS ORIENTATN.”THE EPISO’S LAST IMAGE OF STEWIE HTS AT LS NFN, AND A LTLE B OF PA AND FEAR. IT’S NOT PLAYED FOR LGHS, EHER. STEWIE, GETS BETTER. "SEND STEWIE, PLEASE" AIRS MARCH 18 AT 9 PM ET/PT ON FOX. KEV FALLON
- IS STEWIE GAY? IS STEWIE GRIFF FROM “FAY GUY” GAY?
IS STEWIE GAY? ‘FAY GUY’ FALLY ADDRS HIS SEXUALY (AND THAT ACCENT!)
And while he never que out as gay, there is a lot to suggt what an olr Stewie might be facg, or reprsg, when to his sexualy.
I’m not gay. This whole thg isn’t bee I’m gay, so lm down.
STEWIE FALLY COM OUT ‘FAY GUY’S’ BT EPISO YEARSPROGRESSTHE SMARMY TODDLER’S NOT-SO-THLY VEILED SEXUALY IS FALLY ADDRSED A MAJOR EPISO THAT WASN’T JT FUNNY, BUT SHOCKGLY NUANCED AND PROGRSIVE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 13, 2018 2:22PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 11, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LYNE LUCIEN/THE DAILY BEASTSTEWIE ON FAY GUY MAY BE THE GAYT CHARACTER ON TELEVISN, WHICH IS PARTICULARLY TERTG GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE’S ONE YEAR OLD.FOR MORE THAN 300 EPISOS OF THE FOX ANIMATED SERI, THE YOUNGT GRIFF HAS BEEN NOT-SO-SUBTLY “D GAY,” A PHRASE ED TO SCRIBE CHARACTERS WHO EXHIB TRAS THAT HT AT BEG HOMOSEXUAL, WHOUT EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGG .“EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGG” IS RELATIVE THE SE OF STEWIE AND FAY GUY, HOWEVER. THIS IS A SHOW THAT HAS HAD THE SMARMY TODDLER LEERG AT MEN SHOWERG THROUGH A PEEPHOLE, SPEAKG AT LEAST ONCE AN EPISO HOMOEROTIC NUENDO, CSHG ON MALE CELEBRI, FANGIRLG OVER MIL THEATRE, AND EVEN SELF-REFERENCG BEG “POSSIBLY HOMOSEXUAL.” HERE’S A PILATN VIO OF JT SOME OF THOSE MOMENTS, FOR REFERENCE: BUT ON SUNDAY NIGHT, A LANDMARK EPISO AIRG WHOUT A MERCIAL BREAK (AND GUT STARRG SIR IAN MCKELLEN, TO BOOT), STEWIE’S SEXUALY IS FALLY “EXPLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED.” DO HE E OUT? WELL, SORT OF. THE RULT OF THE EPISO, AMBIGUO AS MAY BE, IS NOHELS FASCATG. IT’S NOT ONLY ONE OF THE BT EPISOS OF FAY GUY A VERY LONG TIME, BUT ALSO ONE OF THE MOST NUANCED AND EDGY G OUT EPISOS OF A TV SHOW WE’VE SEEN.AGA, ALL CENTERG AROUND A 1-YEAR-OLD.OF URSE, STEWIE’S AGE IS PART OF THE WHOLE JOKE, AND WHY HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN ONE OF THE RISKIER—AND PAYOFF, FUNNIER—NNG GAGS OF THE SHOW. HERE’S THIS TODDLER OM A NEW ENGLAND FAY WHO SPEAKS A BRISH ACCENT, WH A HEIGHTENED TELLIGENCE AND BON VIVANT’S UNRSTANDG OF THE WORLD AND CULTURE, BUT WHO IS, YOU KNOW, STILL A TODDLER: PETULANT, VULNERABLE, AND EMOTNALLY UNEVOLVED.THE EPISO, TLED “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE,” TAK PLACE ALMOST ENTIRELY A THERAPY SSN NECSATED AFTER STEWIE PH A BOY AT SCHOOL, TYLER, DOWN THE STAIRS. MCKELLEN PLAYS THE THERAPIST, DR. CECIL PRCHFIELD, BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL FOR STEWIE BUT ALSO A TALYST FOR PROJECTN: THE OLR GAY BRISH DOCTOR WH A YOUNGER BOYIEND MIGHT JT BE WHO STEWIE, IF NOT NECSARILY ASPIR TO BE, EVENTUALLY SETTL FOR BEG WHEN HE’S OLR.TUNG TO THE EPISO KNOWG IS THE BIG ONE THAT ADDRS STEWIE’S SEXUALY MAK ALL THE MORE ENJOYABLE. A TICKER-TAPE OF GAY REFERENC AND STEREOTYP FLY BY, AND YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO TCH THEM ALL.STEWIE BREEZ TO THE SSN, WISHG THE SECRETARY, BARBARA, LUCK ON TRYG TO SECURE ALE TICKETS: “YOU SERVE THEM.” HE CHANNELS HIS NERV THROUGH IDLE CH-CHAT ABOUT THE OFFICE DéR: “THIS IS CHARMG. IT REMDS OF THE THERAPIST OFFICE BETHENNY FRANKEL GO TO ON THE REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK CY. I HATE HER. SHE LOOKS LIKE A WOON DOLL YOU’D FD AN EASTERN EUROPEAN TOY SHOP. [HANDS ON HIPS] OH DON’T ACT LIKE YOU DON’T KNOW WHO SHE IS. THAT DON’T IMPRS ME. WE LIVE THE WORLD. WE ALL KNOW WHO BETHENNY FRANKEL IS, LIKE OR NOT.”THE NCE IS TELEGRAPHED QUICKLY: WE’RE ABOUT TO HEAR A LOT OF SUPER GAY STUFF OM STEWIE, BEFORE THE BIG QUTN IS DISCSED. I MEAN, WHO HAS STEWIE BEEN ALL THE YEARS IF NOT A BCHY QUEEN?THIS MANIFTS SELF PECIALLY WHEN, AFTER SPOTTG A PHOTO OF DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER, STEWIE DISSECTS EVERY SGLE TAIL ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP DYNAMIC. HE ANALYZ THE PRSURE AND SECURI THST ON THEM BY GAY ELISM AND SHAMG CULTURE, AND RC THEM TO EVERY STEREOTYPE A WAY THAT WOULD BE OFFENSIVE IF WEREN’T ALL SO PASTAKGLY TE AND REGNIZABLE (AT LEAST TO THIS GAY VIEWER), DOWN TO THE RALPH LREN PURPLE LABEL DRS SHIRTS THEY BOUGHT AT THE OUTLET STORE TO FEIGN WEALTH WHILE AT A GAY VATN STATN.IT’S EVISCERATG, AND REVEALG OF THE KD OF JUDGMENT THAT N ONLY E OM WH THE GAY MUNY. EACH NEW HYPER-SPECIFIC TAIL IS A HARSHER TTH THAN THE ONE BEFORE. TO KEEP UP WH THIS PIECE’S HYPERBOLE, IS ONE OF THE GAYT MONOLOGU WE’VE SEEN ON TELEVISN—AND TH ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYG. (WILL ANY OF WHAT STEWIE SAYS MEAN ANYTHG TO THOSE OUTSI THE MUNY?) SETH MACFARLANE, MT BE SAID, LIVERS A BRAVURA VOICE ACTG PERFORMANCE. “IF ANYTHG I’M LS GAY THAN I ED TO BE…BUT DO I THK THAT GRANT GT AND I WOULD MAKE THE MOST ADORABLE INSTAGRAM UPLE? Y, I DO.” BUT THIS IS BARELY HALF THE EPISO. WE’RE ONLY ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKTHROUGH.“YOU SEEM LIKE A VERY LONELY LTLE BOY,” DR. PRCHFIELD SAYS RPONSE TO THE DRSG DOWN.“OH MY GOD I AM!” STEWIE WAILS. “I’M SO LONELY!” FOR ALL THE EDY RIVED OM STEWIE’S THLY VEILED HOMOSEXUALY OVER THE YEARS, ’S EASY TO FET HIM FOR WHAT HE IS: ULTIMATELY, A TRAGIC CHARACTER.DR. PRCHFIELD ATTEMPTS TO GET AT THE HEART OF THE CINT THAT BROUGHT STEWIE TO HIS OFFICE THE FIRST PLACE. WHY DID HE PH TYLER DOWN THE STAIRS? “IT WAS AN ACCINT. HAVEN’T YOU EVER SEEN SHOWGIRLS?” STEWIE (FABULOLY) FLECTS. HE DID , HE EXPLAS, BEE HE LIK HIM. AND THEN, THE DOTH-PROTT-TOO-MUCH FENSIVENS: “AND NOT LIKE HIM, LIKE HIM. I’M NOT GAY. THIS WHOLE THG ISN’T BEE I’M GAY. SO LM DOWN. I N ALREADY SEE YOU LICKG YOUR CHOMPS…IF ANYTHG I’M LS GAY THAN I ED TO BE…BUT DO I THK THAT GRANT GT AND I WOULD MAKE THE MOST ADORABLE INSTAGRAM UPLE? Y, I DO.”HE MENTNS FLUIDY. HE SAYS HE’S NFINT HIS HETEROSEXUALY. HE MENTNS THE ANXIETY HE FEELS EVERY DAY TRYG TO F WH OTHER KIDS WHO DON’T SHARE HIS TERTS. HE BEGS RAPPG OM HATON, A MIL HE CHARACTERIZ AS “LIKE GILBERT, BUT FOR HISPANICS.” IT’S A LOT OF RAMBLG, LEADG TO ONE MAJOR REVELATN.STEWIE OUT, Y. BUT NOT THE WAY YOU WOULD EXPECT.AT FIRST, HE FEELS EED. THEN, EXPOSED. “I WANT TO REMA WHAT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN. SUPERR. BRILLIANT. SPECIAL…NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW THE REAL ME.”THERE’S A DANCE BETWEEN CHILD ANGST AND THE TORTURE THAT OM BEG AAID, NOT ONLY OF OTHERS KNOWG THE REAL YOU, BUT OF KNOWG YOURSELF. IT’S HONTLY MORE PROGRSIVE THAN IF STEWIE HAD JT E OUT.THE TRAGEDY NTU, SORT OF: STEWIE GO BACK TO A LIFE OF REPRSN, STILL CLOSETED, STILL PERFORMG A VERSN OF HIMSELF THAT HE FEELS OTHERS WILL MORE READILY ACCEPT THAN WHO HE REALLY IS. BUT ALSO…HE’S A CHILD! AND THIS IS A JOURNEY. THE MONUMENTAL MOMENT HERE ISN’T THAT FAY GUY MA A FIVE STATEMENT ABOUT STEWIE’S SEXUALY ( DIDN’T), BUT THAT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT JOURNEY. AND THIS IS FAY GUY! WHO WOULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS NUANCE, THIS MEANGFULNS? WAY BACK 2009, MACFARLANE REVEALED THAT THE SHOW HAD NSIRED AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT, SENTIALLY NFIRMG THAT STEWIE IS ED GAY. “BUT WE CID ’S BETTER TO KEEP VAGUE, WHICH MAK MORE SENSE BEE HE’S A 1-YEAR-OLD,” HE TOLD PLAYBOY. “ULTIMATELY, STEWIE WILL BE GAY OR A VERY UNHAPPY REPRSED HETEROSEXUAL. IT ALSO EXPLAS WHY HE’S SO HELLBENT ON KILLG [HIS MOTHER, LOIS] AND TAKG OVER THE WORLD: HE HAS A LOT OF AGGRSN, WHICH OM NFN AND UNCERTATY ABOUT HIS ORIENTATN.”THE EPISO’S LAST IMAGE OF STEWIE HTS AT LS NFN, AND A LTLE B OF PA AND FEAR. IT’S NOT PLAYED FOR LGHS, EHER. STEWIE, GETS BETTER. "SEND STEWIE, PLEASE" AIRS MARCH 18 AT 9 PM ET/PT ON FOX. KEV FALLON
If anythg, I’m ls gay than I ed to be, not that anybody this school would re. You n make up your own md after listeng to Stewie discs Bethenny Frankel and Haton, and even Seth MacFarlane has talked about why an episo where Stewie out as gay was scrapped years ago. “Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy reprsed heterosexual.
IS STEWIE GAY? IS STEWIE GRIFF FROM “FAY GUY” GAY?
I’m not gay, ” he told Dr Prchfield. “This whole thg isn’t bee I’m gay, so lm down.