| Mayor Adam West | |
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| Mayor Adam West | |
| Name | William West Anderson |
| Age | 88 (deceased) |
| Job(s) | Actor (formerly) Mayor of Quahog (formerly) |
| Relatives | Carol Pewterschmidt (wife) Robin West (daughter) Babs Pewterschmidt (mother-in-law) Carter Pewterschmidt (father-in-law) Patrick Pewterschmidt (brother-in-law) Lois Griffin (sister-in-law) Peter Griffin (co-brother-in-law) Meg Griffin (niece) Chris Griffin (older nephew) Stewie Griffin (younger nephew) Wild West (cousin) Old West (uncle) |
| Voice | Adam West |
| Episodes | See Mayor Adam West Episode List |
Mayor William West Anderson (AKA Adam West) was the former eccentric mayor of Quahog. He is a direct depiction of the real life Adam West, who he is voiced by. He became mayor in Season 1's "Do and Die" and held it for over sixteen seasons, only having his role as mayor briefly taken away in "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One" and "In With the News". He married Carol Pewterschmidt in "Brothers & Sisters", and became the father of Robin West, when the latter was born in "Peter Runs a Marathon".
In light of his voice actor's death on June 9th, 2017, Mayor Adam West was killed off the show in Season 17's "Two Heads Are Worse Than One" and his role as mayor was ultimately replaced by Mayor Wild West starting with the Season 19 episode "There's a New Mayor in Town". As for his marital life, his widow Carol was quick to move on, remarrying as soon as "Another Widow Opens" (one episode after Adam's death episode), where his role as Carol's husband was replaced by the twelve polyamorous men; Edwin Erikson, Joseph Chesterfield, Henry Hindenburg, Edward Louis, Bernie the Tiny Parrot, Wayne Cunningham, Harim Ramachandra, Tracy Morgan, Melvin Fitzsimmons-Donahue, Hennessey O'Callaghan, Clyde Richardson, and Arthur McArthur.
Biography[]
Becoming Mayor[]
In "Do and Die", Adam West flew into Quahog Town Hall, wearing a Batman costume and upon revealing his true self to the world, he announced that was running for mayor of Quahog, following the recent abdication of the last mayor, Buddy Cianci. Lois was not pleased with a loony idiot like Adam West becoming mayor, so she ran against him. In the end however - despite having a brief period where victory was in Lois' grasp - she lost, and Adam West became the mayor of Quahog for the next four years.
In "Peter's in Charge", Mayor Adam West was still mayor, as the Griffins watched him make an announcement in front of City Hall.
In "Brian Griffin: Portrait of a Dog", Mayor Adam West was being racist against dogs.
In "Wasted Talent", Mayor Adam West tried (and failed) to get the silver scroll, by interrogating a bottle of Pawtucket Patriot Ale.
In "The King is Dead", Mayor Adam West was seen in the audience of Peter's rendition of The King and I.
In "Da Boom", Mayor Adam West was overthrown as mayor, when Quahog was destroyed in the nuclear malfunction of Y-2K. Later on, when he came to New Quahog, he was given the job of village idiot, which actually.
In "The Story On Page One", Meg Griffin was assigned to get an interview with Mayor West, which she had to fight for as Adam proved to be quite difficult to arrange for. Though during the interview, Mayor West casually reveals he spent $100,000 from taxes to investigate who was "stealing his water" (even though it was going into the sink or into the ground as it's supposed to) and at the end of said episode agreed to have sex with Luke Perry so he would stop stealing his water; it was in fact going into the sink or into the ground as it's supposed to.
In the second "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" segment, Super Griffins, Adam leaped into a toxic waste dump to obtain super powers like the Griffin family, only to end up with lymphoma.
In "Deep Throats", Meg became Mayor West's new intern. Pretty soon, they get into a secret relationship, that is eventually broken up, when Brian spies on them, blackmails West, and forces them to break up. Despite this, the two were shown to still be dating in "Teigs for Two", right in front of Brian, no less.
In "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", which took place 4 years after "Do and Die" (despite the characters not aging by whatcanyado), Mayor Adam West was running unopposed for re-election. Lois took this as a second chance to become mayor and went up against him. This time, she won the election and became the temporary mayor. However, Lois ended up becoming very corrupt, by spending taxpayers money on her own personal things as well as dumping a bunch of pollution into the Quahog lake. She became known for being such a horrible mayor and resigned in shame, putting Adam West back into the position of the mayor again. Someone pointed out that in order to become mayor again, there needs to be another election. Mayor Adam West shot him and threatened to kill anyone else, who points out the flaws in his nonsensical claim to being the mayor again.
In "Brothers & Sisters" Adam West married Carol Pewterschmidt, becoming the latter's only true long-staying husband.
Death[]
In "Two Heads Are Worse Than One", Adam West gets assassinated during a Quahog Town Hall meeting, thereby killing him off.
In "Adam West High", James Woods Regional High School was renamed to Adam West High School, in honor of him.
Appearance[]
Mayor Adam West is a depiction of the real life Adam West, and as such, is intended to look like him. He is an old Caucasian male with a full head of gray hair. For someone his age, he is still very tall, lenient, and built, as well as extremely active and resilient. Mayor Adam West has a blue suit and matching pants. He also has black shoes, a white undershirt, and a red tie. His chin chiseled, albeit the clef makes it a little ass-shaped, he has puckering lips, a triangular nose, and bags under his eyes. He talks with a deep, soothing Adam West-like voice, since he is in fact, voiced by Adam West, talking in his normal speaking voice, after all.
Personality[]
Mayor West is a very weird, abnormal, and sometimes freakish person. He acts as though he's off in his own little world, but when he's out there, he says and does everything out loud, which interferes with real life. Some might say it's as though he's making the movies he acts in become a reality. He seems to be a pretty calm and timid guy at most times, just casually doing these weird things and acting like it's not that big of a deal. And sometimes, he acts over dramatic about things that are completely normal, but the drama he puts into his emotions are the same as the drama that Adam West puts into his character when he acts.
He is not a very respectable mayor, as he makes a lot of ridiculous decisions and movements that the citizens of Quahog often times do not like. He wastes a lot of the taxpayers money on worthless things, such as a giant, golden statue of the cereal mascot, Dig 'Em. He is also very hypocritical when it comes to his job, mainly by enforcing a new law, only to get rid of it a few days later. He once illegalized gay marriage in Quahog, but then overturned it after Brian had given him a petition to put an end to it. In his defense, the citizens of Quahog were unhappy with the ban and he made a good decision by ending it, but still, he shouldn't have started it to begin with. He also legalized marijuana in Quahog, and then banned it again, a few days later. This is something the citizens of Quahog didn't like, because the town was actually running a lot more smoothly when marijuana was allowed. He was also never given any good reason to overturn the way in the end anyway. He raised the legal drinking age to 50 and broke his own law, by drinking wine with his wife Carol, who was at least under 40 at the time. When he was caught, he simply overturned the law again, like it was nothing.
Mayor West doesn't stand anywhere politically, in fact, he doesn't know anything about politics or any of the problems facing Quahog. When it comes to making political actions, he simply does and doesn't think about the affects it may have or even the reasons for him doing it. However, he has managed to stay the mayor of Quahog after all of this time because, he has a very big vocabulary, and so every time he has to make a re-election speech, he just brings out his fancy dialogue, and the audience praises him for it. All in all, Mayor West is just your average, every day political candidate.
Relationships[]
Carol West[]
Robin West[]
Lois Griffin[]
Peter Griffin[]
Episode Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Surprisingly enough, Mayor West was voiced by the actor by the same name, Adam West who loved Family Guy. His character is supposed to be a parody on him.
- Mayor West is a part of the Griffin/Pewterschmidt family tree as he is the 10th husband of Lois Griffin's sister, Carol. He is also the stepfather of Carol's son from her 8th relationship.
- His hobbies include gardening, as he believes he successfully planted sausage seeds even though Brian had been secretly pooping on his lawn. In "Spies Reminiscent of Us", he was also a sleeper agent of the KGB who can only be activated if someone utters the phrase, "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet". He also owns various toys, such as a Lite-Brite and the board game Stratego which he keeps in his stomach along with a life raft and a copy of People magazine.
- Mayor West once briefly dated Meg Griffin in the episode "Deep Throats". In the episode "Tiegs for Two", it was shown that they still go out sometimes. Given the fact that Mayor West is married to Carol, he is technically dating his own niece.