Mayor West

This article is about the Family Guy character. For the former mayor of Indianapolis, see Henry F. West. For the former mayor of Spokane, see James E. West (politician). For the former mayor of Nashville, see Ben West.
Mayor West
Family Guy character

Mayor Adam West
First appearance "Fifteen Minutes of Shame"
Voiced by Adam West
Information
Full name Adam West
Occupation Mayor of Quahog
Spouse(s) Carol West

Mayor Adam West (voiced by actor Adam West) is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. He is the mayor of the town of Quahog, Rhode Island, where the show is set. He is seen in numerous episodes.

Character

Mayor West is characterized as an intense, soft-spoken crackpot whose delusions often come at great expense and sometimes danger to citizens of Quahog. His psychotic whims include dispatching the entire Quahog police department to Cartagena, Colombia, to search for the fictional character Elaine Wilder from the film Romancing the Stone,[1] or wasting council money on a solid gold statue of the Dig 'Em frog and cementing coffins since he is afraid the dead will return as zombies.[2]

In the episode "420", he legalizes marijuana after listening to a song Brian sings, only to re-criminalize it a few days later when Brian is forced to sing a song condemning the substance.[3][4] He is also a brainwashed Russian sleeper spy activated by the phrase, "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet." In the episode "Brothers & Sisters", he gets married to Lois' sister Carol. In Road to the Multiverse, it is revealed that he is 95% helium. The episode "Dr. C and the Women" strongly suggests he's fully sane and his bizarre antics are actually a smokescreen to throw people off and cover up a dark, murderous side.

Development

Adam West provides the voice for Mayor Adam West.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane wrote several episodes of the cartoon series Johnny Bravo. West played a similarly intense and eccentric rendition of himself in an episode written by MacFarlane, "Johnny Meets Adam West!", first broadcast in December 1997.[5] In the episode, West's fictionalized persona displays similar deluded characteristics to the later Family Guy character, such as believing a race of megalomaniac mole-people live under a local golf course. However, he dressed formally and behaved slightly similarly to his character in the 1960s series of Batman. MacFarlane found West's character and performance in Johnny Bravo so funny that he created a similar character for Family Guy.[6]

The character we've created is kind of this alternate-universe Adam West where he's mayor of this town, and we deliberately have not made any references to Batman, because we like keeping that separate. It's the obvious place to go. We tried it; we thought it would be funny to do something different with the mayor of this town. People like Clint Eastwood and Martin Sheen who have taken whacks at this sort of thing — there's a precedent for it, actors getting into politics. He's the mayor, but he's this guy who clearly does not have it all together.
— Seth MacFarlane, A.V. Club interview[6]

References

  1. ↑ Fuzzy Door Productions (December 17, 2006). "Barely Legal". Family Guy. Season 5. Episode 8. FOX, Cartoon Network.
  2. ↑ Fuzzy Door Productions (April 30, 2006). "You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives". Family Guy. Season 4. Episode 25. FOX, Cartoon Network.
  3. ↑ "TV Ratings: CBS, 'Desperate Housewives' are Sunday best". Zap2it. April 20, 2009. Archived from the original on April 23, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
  4. ↑ Haque, Ahsan (April 20, 2009). "Family Guy: "420" Review". IGN. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Johnny Bravo" Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West at the Internet Movie Database
  6. 1 2 Rabin, Nathan (2006-01-26). "Seth MacFarlane". The A.V. Club. Onion, Inc. Archived from the original on March 28, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
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