Herbert fights and defeats him to save Chris and Peter.Ī creepy, twisted predator who's name rhymes with pervert for a reason, Herbert is a sexual predator who methodically stalks preteen boys. In "German Guy", Chris start hanging out with a different old man which is revealed by Herbert to be a Nazi named Franz Gutentag. After reading Peter and The Wolf to Chris and changing the moral to fit his own ends, Chris asks Herbert if he was a pedophile. He attempts to seduce Chris several times, including trying to get him to help Herbert bathe. In "Play It Again, Brian", Herbert is asked to babysit Chris, Meg, and Stewie. It was in this episode he had the fantasy of being Chris' wife. In "The Perfect Castaway", Herbert purchases an ice cream truck from Brian Griffin, which he uses in "And Then There Were Fewer".Ĭhris accidentally broke Herbert's window in "The Courtship of Stewie's Father" with a baseball and Herbert convinced Peter Griffin to have Chris do chores for him. At the end of the episode, Herbert leaves 113 messages on the Griffin answering machine wondering where Chris had been. He tries to get Chris to go into his house offering popsicles, but Chris refuses. He meets Chris for the first time when Chris took up a paper route. He first appears in the episode "To Love and Die in Dixie". He was captured by the Germans and was sent to a concentration camp run by Franz Schlechtnacht because the soldiers thought he was gay due to pictures of young boys he had in his wallet.
He was revealed to be a retired military veteran from World War II who served in the Army Air Corps. Cree Summer, who you might know as Elmyra from Tiny Toon Adventures, was originally hired for the role, but she was fired because, well, let her explain it.Not much is ever revealed about Herbert's life before the start of events in the Family Guy series. That was Seth MacFarlane’s diplomatic response to what happened to Chabert, who it’s worth mentioning was actually the SECOND Meg. She was 15 when she started, so you were listening to a 15-year-old. I say that Lacey did a phenomenal job, but there was something about Mila – something very natural about Mila. Fortunately, what Mila brought to it, Mila Kunis, was in a lot of ways, I thought, almost more right for the character. So, you know, it was early on enough in the show that it wasn’t a huge – that happens from time to time, you’ve got to replace a voice actor. We obviously don’t want to keep anyone there who doesn’t want to be there. She wanted to go, and she was very cool about it. It was nothing – there was no tension or anything. To be honest, I don’t really, to this day, know what it was.
Lacey Chabert, I think there was a mistake in her contract, and I guess she had not intended to be involved for, like, the full run of the show. Seth MacFarlane: You know, it was just purely a contractual thing.
What was the reason behind the recasting of Meg?
That’s what they all say, “all” being anyone who was replaced on a massively popular TV show that’s been on for 13 seasons and counting because of a mistake. But I think the show is hilarious, and don’t have a grudge against her at all. And only because I was in school and doing Party of Five at the time. Lacey Chabert: No, I actually left the show of my own accord. GameSpy: Does this mean you have a grudge against Mila Kunis, who does her voice now, and if so, can this be settled in a game of Sonic the Hedgehog? You’ve done voices for a number of cartoons and video games over the years, including, if I’m not mistaken, Family Guy, where you were the original voice of Meg Griffin, right? GameSpy: Now this, of course, was not your first experience voice acting. Here’s what Chabert told GameSpy, for some reason, back in 2006.
You probably know that Kunis wasn’t the original voice of Meg, mighty fetch Mean Girls star Lacey Chabert was for the first season and into the second, but you might not be aware of why it happened. The character she voices, tortured daughter Meg Griffin, spoke about 10 sentences in Sunday’s “The Simpsons Guy.” Kunis takes home between $175,000 and $225,000 per episode, so she made a cool $20,000 for each of her lines. Take Family Guy‘s Mila Kunis, for instance. Or Seth MacFarlane does for ALL his shows. Especially if you’re only asked to read for a single character, not an entire small village, like Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer do on The Simpsons. Voice acting, it’s good work if you can get it.