Chris Griffin - wikipedia Chris Griffin This article is about the Family Guy character. For other uses, see Chris Griffin ( disambiguation ). This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in - universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. ( February 2017 ) Chris Griffin Family Guy character First appearance `` Death Has a Shadow '' Created by Seth MacFarlane Voiced by Seth Green Information Full name Christopher Cross Griffin Occupation High school student Former paperboy Family Peter Griffin ( father ) Lois Griffin ( mother ) Meg Griffin ( sister ) Stewie Griffin ( brother ) Brian Griffin ( dog ) Adam West ( Uncle ) Carol West ( aunt ) Nationality American Christopher Cross `` Chris '' Griffin is a fictional character from the American animated television series Family Guy. He is the elder son and middle child of Peter and Lois Griffin and brother of Stewie and Meg Griffin. He is voiced by Seth Green and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family, in a 15 - minute short on December 20, 1998. Chris was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company, based on The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, two shorts made by MacFarlane featuring a middle - aged man named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family appeared in the episode `` Death Has a Shadow ''. Originally designed as a somewhat gregarious, yet still unintelligent teenager, Chris became more awkward and even more idiotic over the course of the show. Running gags in the series involving Chris include the existence of an ' Evil Monkey ' in his closet ( though it is later revealed that the monkey is not evil ), him masturbating frequently, and his pedophile admirer Herbert. Contents 1 Character origins 2 Personality 3 Evil Monkey 4 Identification with Seth Green 5 Appearance 6 References 7 External links Character origins Chris ' character resembles that of Milt 's, the son of the main character Larry Cummings in The Life of Larry, one of the animated short films created by Seth MacFarlane at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 that led to the development of Family Guy. Chris was originally given a `` punk '' image, according to creator Seth MacFarlane 's DVD commentary tracks. During the first three seasons, he wore gold earrings, and his painful awkwardness was not as emphasized as it was supposed to be in the series, as he has now slowly become more gregarious. Personality This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2017 ) Chris is an overweight, idealistic, outgoing, and good - hearted teenage boy. But aside from that, Chris deals with problems that any other pubescent boy would face : acne, girls, and school. On the Volume 1 DVD Boxset TV guides special Family Guy edition, it stated that Chris `` would n't hurt a fly, unless it landed on his hot dog ''. Due to Chris ' weight, he was referred to as an `` Elephant Child '' when he was born. In one episode as Chris runs away from his pedophile admirer, Herbert, Herbert murmers to himself, `` Get your fat ass back here ! '' Chris is more often than not willing to take drastic measures to get what he wants or needs, particularly when it comes to keeping up with his grades in school. He once believed that he got a bad grade on a mathematics test when he tickled his brain by sticking an army man 's rifle into his nose and accidentally puncturing a lobe. Fortunately, he is more well - endowed than Peter is, as he has a variety of talents, such as drawing, filmmaking, video editing, playing sports at school, etc. He also has an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, as well as films, television series, actors and actresses, tropes, making a film good or bad, etc. Generally, Chris is a fast learner ; in `` Patriot Games '', when the family moved to London, Chris was the only member of the family who learned how to speak cockney English in a matter of seconds. Despite this, Chris can be naive, often to the point of having a tendency to get away with things. In `` Lethal Weapons '', when Peter and Lois were having a fist fight, Chris cheered for Peter, telling him to `` kick her ass ! '' ; earlier in the episode, after Chris breaks a vase with his basketball and Lois tells Peter to punish him, Peter tells him to `` punish himself '' and subsequently spanks himself. Also, in Stewie Griffin : The Untold Story, when the children watch Lois and Peter are trying to make out, Chris mistakes it for a fight and says, `` I do n't know what they 're fighting about, Meg, but I think Dad 's winning. Go Dad ! '' In the episode `` Trading Places '', after Chris accidentally damages Peter 's dirt bike, Peter `` punishes '' him by making him start smoking. For most of the series, Chris is more socially active at school than Meg is, having various friends, both of which are boys and girls, whilst attending Buddy Cianci Junior High School ( later James Woods Regional High School ). Not surprisingly, as the series progressed and Meg became more often seen with her group of friends, Chris ' social status was boosted to the point of being friends with everyone at James Woods Regional High School. In Stew - Roids, the school 's queen bee Connie D'Amico dates Chris, at first to be more popular because of `` dating a loser '', but begins to see Chris as he really is after he says he likes her as well. Later in the episode however, she dumps him after making out with two other boys at a house party, but everyone takes pity on Chris and shuns Connie. Angry at Chris for usurping her place on the school 's `` social ladder '', she attempts to humiliate Chris by tricking Neil Goldman into showing the students a video of him re-enacting a scene from the Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill dances nude in front of a mirror, but Meg and Chris 's friends manage to stop her. Afterwards, Chris makes a speech over the PA system about what it is like to be popular, and then says `` man, it 's hard work being this shallow ''. In `` Once Bitten '', Chris becomes friends with Neil Goldman, the resident nerd who is Meg 's self - proclaimed love interest. Although their friendship was initially a ploy for Neil to get closer to Meg, Neil feels bad for using Chris and returns to him to resume their newfound friendship. Evil monkey In a running gag, starting in the episode `` Dammit Janet !, '' Chris is regularly tormented by an evil monkey who lives in his closet, though whenever he complains about it to anyone, they ( a reference to the iconic tale of the Boy Who Cried Wolf ) often laugh along with him instead thinking it is a joke, after which the monkey appears with a malevolent grimace and points at Chris in a threatening manner. In `` Hannah Banana '', Chris proves the monkey 's part in the show to the family, and even ends up becoming friends with him after the monkey ( who appears not to be evil at all, but just a poor creature who was depressed after his ex-wife cheated on him with another monkey ) helps him write out a book report and pass. The simian explains his frightening mannerisms as a result of various conditions and unintended actions. Chris introduces him to his friends, hang out with each other in fun places, and the monkey helps Chris in his studies in school, which Peter does not do. This, however, causes a rift between Chris and Peter when Chris realizes that the monkey cares more for him than his father. Eventually the monkey helps the two patch things up, especially after Peter saves the monkey from Miley Cyrus ( who is depicted as an android ) who had kidnapped him à la King Kong. After that, the monkey happily moves out of Chris ' closet to live in the closet of Tom Tucker 's son Jake, where the cycle will start in a new beginning, as Jake himself experiences difficulty with his father. In a 2003 interview, Seth MacFarlane stated that the writers thought it would be funny to give Chris a childhood fear that is actually real, since he has `` a childlike mind ''. The monkey 's trademark grimace and pointing was the idea of writer Mike Barker. Identification with Seth Green Another running gag, starting in the Star Wars remake episode `` Blue Harvest '', has Chris defending Robot Chicken, a show created by portrayer Seth Green which is broadcast on the Adult Swim block on the Cartoon Network cable network. When Peter ( Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane ) denigrates that show in `` Blue Harvest '', Chris loses his temper and storms off. Carried on in `` Something, Something, Something, Dark Side '', though Chris attempts to keep a cool head, he storms off again when Peter offers to tell the story of Without a Paddle, a critically panned film that features Seth Green. Both these scenes happen in the framing device of the episode and not in the interior Star Wars narrative, in which Green portrays Chris as Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker. In the final Star Wars parody, `` It 's a Trap ! '', mocking Green 's career provokes further anger in Chris ; Chris tries to defend Green by citing Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an example of a success in Green 's career, but Carter Pewterschmidt suggests that the popularity of Buffy had been largely over-stated by Entertainment Weekly. These taunts give Chris -- in character as Skywalker -- the conviction to fight back against Stewie / Darth Vader and Carter / Darth Sidious ( both played by MacFarlane ). In the closing scenes of the episode 's framing device, Chris gets to reverse the joke by poking fun at Seth MacFarlane 's career, going so far as to suggest that Family Guy is a rip - off of The Simpsons ; MacFarlane is, however, defended by the characters whom he voices ( Peter, Brian and Stewie ). Outside of the Star Wars - themed episodes, `` Road to the Multiverse '' plays on the running gag, but with Stewie ( MacFarlane once more ) provoking the Robot Chicken Universe counterpart of Chris by asking `` How does it feel to be on a major network for thirty seconds ? '' which prompts Chris to say `` Fuck you ! ''. Appearance Chris is the only Griffin family member to have blond hair, which is odd considering that Peter has brown hair and Lois has orange hair. He, like Meg, wears a signature hat, an orange and black baseball cap, and dresses in a blue T - shirt, black pants, and white hi - top sneakers with red stripes. In several of the early episodes, he, along with Lois, has had his ears pierced and wore gold earrings. References Jump up ^ `` Brian the Bachelor ''. Family Guy. Season 4. Episode 7. June 26, 2005. ^ Jump up to : `` Seth MacFarlane Interview ''. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2003 - 04 - 21. Retrieved 2009 - 12 - 18. External links Chris Griffin at Fox.com Family Guy Characters Griffin family Peter Lois Meg Chris Stewie Brian Other characters Quagmire Cleveland Adam West Herbert Cleveland Jr. Production Cast members Guest stars Writers Awards Media releases The Life of Larry shorts Stewie Griffin : The Untold Story Live in Vegas Seasons 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Hallmarks Road to... episodes Star Wars episodes Merchandise Home video Video games Family Guy Video Game ! ( 2006 ) Family Guy Online ( 2012 ) Back to the Multiverse ( 2012 ) Family Guy : The Quest for Stuff ( 2014 ) Family Guy : Another Freakin ' Mobile Game ( 2017 ) See also Criticism Night of the Hurricane The Cleveland Show American Dad ! 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Question: who does chris griffin's voice on family guy
Answer: Seth Green