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Death and Family Guy

by Wendy on November 30th, 2007

One of the funniest and long-running characters on Family Guy is that of Death, voiced by Adam Carolla. Here’s some information about the Grim Reaper:

Harvests the souls of the dead. Portrayed as a “loser” who still lives with his mother, has asthma and has never had a successful date. He is seen as a skeleton in a black robe and seldom removes his hood. He apparently hates the fact that he is technically dead and the fact that he has no ass. He doesn’t seem to be very good at his job, as he is easily fooled by faked deaths. Peter and the Griffins have a somewhat good relationship with him. When Death sprained his ankle and was unable to do his job, Peter unwittingly revealed that all of humanity is immortal while he heals. After Death discovers this, Peter fills in his role as the Grim Reaper and is charged with killing the kids from Dawson’s Creek. Peter fails in this endeavor, accidentally killing the pilot and co-pilot of the plane. This fact, however, made it clear to the public that Death was back in business while the plane was safely landed by Karen Black. Voiced by Norm MacDonald in “Death is a Bitch”, then Adam Carolla in all subsequent episodes, including (but not limited to) “Death Lives”, “Mr. Saturday Knight”, “The Perfect Castaway”, and “Meet the Quagmires.” He also appears to have time travel abilities. He is not (and probably never will be) above necrophilia, although his romantic interests focus mainly on the living. He has lost his gag reflex due to films he is not proud of. He is not usually seen using his scythe. The living usually tend to die as soon as they make physical contact with him (except in “Death is a Bitch”, where the Griffins perform actions such as Peter carrying him in the living room and Stewie rubbing his foot, although this may mean he cannot kill while injured). He has a dog who strongly resembles him and is apparently charged with harvesting souls of dead dogs as his master does with humans. Voiced by Jimmy Kimmel, the dog is very briefly seen when Brian nearly chokes to death on a dinner roll. His mother was briefly voiced by Estelle Harris, and also resembles her son, save for wearing an apron and glasses and having gray hair.

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And of course, some quotage:
Death (takes a sip from mug and spits it out): Geeze, what did you make this hot cocoa with, crap?
Lois (sighs): Well if you want me to make it again…
Death: No, no. I’m sorry, It’s just that I assumed that you were going to make it with milk, not crap.

Lois Griffin: Why are you here? The doctor said Peter was fine.
Death: Yeah, well, I guess he would know. I mean, after all, he is a doctor, and I’m just –DEATH.

Lois: Here, Death. I brought you some Tylenol.
Death: Oh, great. I asked for Advil, but you know, Tylenol, whatever.

And a Family Guy Death video! Here’s one with a whole bunch of different clips.

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