Loretta Brown | |
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Loretta Taylor | |
Name | Loretta Marie Callender Brown |
Age | 40 (deceased) |
Job(s) | Parking Enforcement Officer (formerly) Housewife (formerly) Waitress at Cleveland's Deli (quit in "The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire") Waitress at The Drunken Clam (A Woman Walks Into a Bar only) |
Relatives | Cleveland Brown (ex-husband) Cleveland Brown Jr. (son) Loretta Bobbitt (aunt) Lil Wayne Bobbitt (uncle) Broderick Brown (ex-brother-in-law) Cecelia Moreno (daughter-in-law) |
Voice | Alex Borstein (Mind Over Murder-Peter & Lois' Wedding) Nicole Byer (The Truth About Meg) |
Loretta Marie Callender Brown (née Taylor) (August 30, 1969 - December 21, 2008) was the mother of Cleveland Jr. and the wife of Cleveland Brown, before she divorced her husband and gave him custody of their child. She first appeared in "Mind Over Murder". In "The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire", Loretta dumped Cleveland and left him. Loretta made her final appearance in the The Cleveland Show episode, "Gone With the Wind", when she died.
Biography
Past
While not a lot is know about her past, the way she and Cleveland met up was seen in "Good Ol' Fargy Love". During the 70's, Cleveland parked his van at Willie's Waffle World to get some food, and noticed Loretta, who was a parking enforcement officer at the time, giving him a ticket for his van. Cleveland storms out and complains to her, but is then attracted to Loretta and vice-versa. Loretta still puts a ticket on his van, but upon reading it, Cleveland sees it told her to call her and gave him her number.
In 1984, the two got married and in 1988, had their child Cleveland Brown Jr..
Current Life
Loretta first appeared in the episode "Mind Over Murder". She was one of the wives who was complaining to Peter and Lois for stealing their husbands from them. Through the first three seasons, Loretta served as the alternate side for her and Cleveland's marriage. Compared to Cleveland, who was the more soft-spoken timid person in their marriage, Loretta served as the more abrasive and sassy side. Making snarky comments at almost everyone, even Cleveland, having a terrible temper as the waitress at her husband's deli, hitting and getting into fights with some of the customers, and being the one who's the man in the relationship.
In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", Loretta cheated on Cleveland with Quagmire because Cleveland was too submissive and cowardly, especially when being tender with her. The two then angerly decided to divorce and she left Cleveland with their son Cleveland Jr. - as well as quitting from her waitress job - and lived a life of her own.
In "Love, Blactually", it was revealed that Loretta now lives alone in a house on the hills. She regretted divorcing Cleveland and tried coming back to him, but he refused to be with her.
Cleveland Show
In the pilot episode for The Cleveland Show, "Cleveland Moves In", Cleveland and Loretta's divorce had been finalized and she got custody of the house in Spooner Street, while Cleveland got custody of Cleveland Jr. and all of the belongings in that house that was specifically theirs. This meant Cleveland and Junior had to leave Quahog and go to Stoolbend. As the two left, Loretta did nothing but rolled her eyes in disgust, saying "Good riddance" appeared in this episode, with her only appearance, being angrily watching Cleveland and Donna's wedding at the end of the episode. She just had a non-speaking background role and did nothing.
Loretta died in the The Cleveland Show episode, "Gone With the Wind". Peter was trying to lower a dinosaur skeleton into his house with a crane, but he saw on his watch, that the new episode of Mike and Molly was on. So, Peter abandoned his work, and let the crane swing the dinosaur skeleton into the Brown house, breaking a hole in the wall, and letting Loretta slip out of the bathtub, in the same way Cleveland does in his bathtub gags. She fell onto the ground and died there. The reason why Cleveland survived the fall so many times and she died was because Cleveland had a big fat butt, which cushioned his fall every time.
In "Coma Guy" she was seen on a ship full of deceased characters in Peter's coma dream
Since Loretta's death, the house was open to anyone to move in. As soon as "Spies Reminiscent of Us" (the first episode of Family Guy to air after her death in The Cleveland Show), Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase moved into her old house for a few weeks to defeat a Russian terrorist before moving out. In "Stewie Goes for a Drive", Ryan Reynolds moved into the former Brown House to shoot a movie. In the cold opening of "Bigfat", Hank Hill from King of the Hill had a dream, where The Smith Family from American Dad! moved into The Brown House. Finally, in the episode "He's Bla-ack!" (The first episode of Family Guy to air after the cancellation of The Cleveland Show), Cleveland was able to move back into his original home on Spooner Street, with his new family.
Appearance
Loretta Brown is a big fat, overweight black woman with puffy black hair. She wears a blue buttoned shirt with a popped collar. She also has navy blue pants, white socks, and black shoes, and blue pearl earrings. She has a big chunky nose and fat red lips and a double chin. She speaks in an extremely deep, gruff sassy black woman voice. In the The Cleveland Show episode, "Gone With the Wind", Loretta was seen butt-naked and it was revealed that she had a big fat unsightly ass, and according to a comment made by Peter in the same episode, Loretta also has very gross boobs.
Personality
Loretta is a big fat obnoxious, sassy black woman, who is always screaming and making sassy, brassy comments. Being the She is extremely abrasive and brazen, when it comes to her husband and she abuses him painfully all the time. Whenever Cleveland does anything she doesn't like, she beats the crap out of him and calls him insulting names. Loretta is domineering to Cleveland and truly wears the pants in the relationship.
Episode Appearances
- Mind Over Murder
- Do and Die
- Peter's in Charge
- Love Your Trophy
- A Picture's Worth $1000
- The King is Dead
- Da Boom (Cameo)
- I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
- Dammit Janet!
- Peter Griffin: Husband, Father, ... Brother?
- Fore Father
- The Kiss Seen Around the World
- Good Ol' Fargy Love
- The Thin White Line (Cameo)
- One if by Clam, Two if by Sea
- Blind Ambition
- A Cheater Runs Through It
- A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
- Death Lives
- Ready, Willing, and Disabled
- Family Guy Viewer Mail #1 (As a Baby)
- Petarded (Cameo)
- 15 Minutes of Shame
- The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire
- Brian the Bachelor (Mentioned)
- Stuck Together, Torn Apart (Mentioned)
- The Perfect Castaway (Mentioned)
- Full Metal Jackass (Mentioned)
- Love, Blactually
- You May Now Kiss the Uh ... Guy Who Receives (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Mad Mex (Mentioned)
- Jerome is the New Black
- A Woman Walks Into a Bar
- Spies Reminiscent of Us (Mentioned; Deceased)
- Baby Got Black (Mentioned)
- Replaced: Brian's Story (Cameo; As a Ghost)
- A New Lease on Death (As a Ghost)
- He's Bla-ack! (Mentioned)
- A White for the Coloreds (Mentioned)
- Fighting Irish (Mentioned)
- Peter & Lois' Wedding (Flashback)
- The Truth About Meg (Flashback)
Trivia
- The reason why she was written off the show, was because her voice actor Alex Borstein, said that doing Loretta's unnaturally deep, gravelly, and masculine voice was just too demanding for her to continue doing anymore.
- However, Alex had reprised Loretta's role in the Family Guy episodes "Love, Blactually", "Jerome is the New Black", "A Woman Walks Into a Bar", the flashback episodes "Peter & Lois' Wedding", and The Cleveland Show episode, "Gone with The Wind", where she had one line of dialogue and died.
- In the episode "One if by Clam, Two if by Sea", it was revealed that Loretta had an aunt named Loretta Bobbitt, who was a parody on Lorena Bobbitt, who cut her husband's dick off. This husband was a John Wayne Bobbitt/Lil' Wayne parody named Lil Wayne Bobbitt.
- In the The Cleveland Show episode "Gone with the Wind", Quagmire told Donna that Loretta had cheated on Cleveland with tons of other men, before she even got to him. Donna listed off the other guys she cheated on Cleveland with. Although they are not all of the guys, they are the only ones that are major and recurring characters of Family Guy.
- Loretta's role was reprised in the episodes "Peter & Lois' Wedding" and "The Truth About Meg", by Alex Borstein, for a flashback to when Loretta was still alive in the 90's.