Megan Griffin: Encyclopedia II - Megan Griffin - Personality

Megan Griffin - Personality

Meg lives with the rest of the Griffin family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. She attends James Woods High School as a junior, where she tries desperately to be part of the "cool crowd".

Meg's most prevalent character trait is her burning desire for popularity and acceptance. She is monumentally unpopular at her school, however, which provides an ongoing basis for angst and melodrama. Meg is also treated by nearly every other character in the show as completely uninteresting. In the episode "The Thin White Line", the Griffin family is asked by Brian's psychiatrist to list reasons why the pet should attend rehab. Meg is asked to start, but the psychiatrist quickly interrupts and asks someone else "more interesting" to take over. In "Brian in Love", Meg relates her day at the mall over dinner, when Peter interrupts and says that that was the most boring story he had ever heard. In another episode, "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1", each member of the family gains a superpower; Meg's is the ability to rapidly grow her fingernails. Other characters on the show freely show disrespect towards her, including an amusement park attendant who guesses her weight ("a lot"), and Peter, who forgets that Meg is a member of the family and instead puts Boba Fett in her place. It has also been revealed that Peter believed Meg was a house cat the first four years of her life. In "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", Jackie Chan mistakes her for Frankie Muniz's character in Malcolm in the Middle, and refuses to believe that she is not. In the same episode when Joe is seen hanging from the edge of a huge drop into the sewers, Lois grabs hold of his arm in order to save him. As Joe begins to slip, he cries out "Pretend I'm one of your children!" Lois' grip seems to loosen after this outburst, at which point Joe screams "Not Meg! Not Meg!"

Meg's own family also make cruel jokes and innuendos about her, contributing to her unpopular image on the show. For example, in "Model Misbehavior", Meg and her mother, Lois, visit the Pewterschmidt (Lois' wealthy family) mansion and survey Lois' old bedroom. Meg remarks, "Wow! This is just like my room at home!" Lois retorts, "Yes, except for all the trophies and pictures of friends", a clear reference to her status as a social pariah. Later in the same episode, the family compete in a yacht race; Meg, almost thoughtlessly, is thrown overboard to reduce their weight. In another episode, Meg is apparently killed by South American natives when she is left behind by her family, though this was likely a gag as she is shown as still alive in newer episodes.

Meg is apparently gifted with some degree of cunning. In "Love Thy Trophy", she was almost denied a job at the local pancake house when one of the co-owners mistook her for a teen mother (she was with Stewie at the time). Meg used this supposition to her advantage, got the job, and spent the rest of her career as a waitress fabricating tall tales to the customers about Stewie addicted to crack and living on dog food. As a result she was able to get the Prada purse she wanted in record time.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Personality", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki