| Mr. Weed | |
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| Jonathan Weed | |
| Name | Jonathan Weed |
| Age | 40's (estimate; deceased) |
| Job(s) | Boss of Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory Manager of Quahog Toy Boys |
| Voice | Butch Hartman (pilot) Carlos Alazraqui (series) |
Mr. Jonathan Weed (born Jonathan Bermudagrass) was the owner and manager of The Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory - as well as the manager of the company's softball team Quahog Toy Boys - and Peter's first boss. He first appeared in "Death Has a Shadow" and died "Mr. Saturday Knight" when he choked to death on a dinner roll at the Griffin household.
Biography[]
Mr. Weed first appeared as far back as the first episode "Death Has a Shadow", with him checking on progress on certain toys and trying to keep a hungover Peter looking more alive by reminding him of safety inspection job. It didn't work as he still falls asleep on the job, missing dangerous objects such as a butcher knife, a surge protector, a gasoline can, razor blades, a porcupine, a toaster with forks inside and a plug in water. The company receives bad press after releasing unsafe toy products, and Peter is promptly fired by Mr. Weed. However, Peter was able to get Mr. Weed to re-hire him with the help of a hypnotized Judge Blackman.
In "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar", he collaborates with Gloria Ironbachs in deciding to discipline Peter by sending him to women's sensitivity training.
In "Employee for Fire", Mr. Weed fired Peter again for giving him the wrong promotional tape to show to investors (Peter had two tapes: one being the promotional tape and the other being an office joke tape made by the employees). Though at the end of the episode, rehired Peter when he found his autographed baseball that Brian snagged when he was temporarily employed at the factory.
Mr. Weed died in the Griffin home after accidentally choking on a dinner roll in "Mr. Saturday Knight". After his funeral, Mr. Weed left a videotaped will to all his employees. The tape first shows another man videotaping Mr. Weed making an omelet, followed by the embarrassed lawyer fast-forwarding it to the real will. Mr. Weed then surprisingly reveals that the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory is to be demolished in order to make way for the Homo E. Rotic Toy Factory. As a result, Peter and his co-workers all lose their jobs. Peter seems to be hit the hardest, and he struggles to for a job for several weeks. Ironically, the dinner was meant to impress Mr. Weed enough to give him a promotion, which Peter received just before Mr. Weed's death and ensuing dissolution of the company.
He wasn't mentioned again until "Lois Kills Stewie". When Stewie is about to execute Lois, he tells her, "Say hello to Cleveland for me. . . oh, and Mr. Weed."
He wasn’t seen or heard from afterwards again until “Need for Weed”, with Brian and Stewie alternating events so he didn’t die. Those altered events got reversed at the end, due to how much of an asshole the new promotion made Peter become.
Appearance[]
Mr. Weed is a tall, lanky Italian man, with slightly dark skin. He has slickly whirly black hair and a pencil thin black mustache. He wears a black suit with a red tie and a white shirt underneath. He also wears black pants and black shoes.
Personality[]
Mr. Weed is a stern and particular boss and a strictly no-nonsense kind of guy. He takes the toy making business very seriously and is especially despondent with Peter's tomfoolery. He's also been shown to be way too invested in the company's softball games, as he was shown to doxx multiple companies to get any scoop about their players, and outright threaten to fire employees and cut the salaries for a month if they lose mentioned how when the team loses. Despite his stern persona and some of his dogey actions, he does still show to be a pretty fair boss. Despite Peter's stupidity causing him problems - Telling an inappropriate joke to a female coworker, injuring a baseball player hired to win a softball game, causing many unsafe "toys" to be approved by the company, losing out on business deals - he still gave Peter plenty of chances to fix his mistakes... even if he had to fire Peter like, twice (which to be honest, we're surprised he even allowed Peter to continue working for him after how many times he screwed up).
Possible Homosexuality[]
A running gag for Mr. Weed was for him to engage in all sorts of queer behavior, which range from mildly effeminate subtleties and blatantly homosexual acts of gayness, though was never revealed to be a homosexual. Some examples include:
- In "A Hero Sits Next Door", after he hires a ringer named Gulliermo to play for his company's softball team, Peter says that he walked into the locker room and saw Guillermo "bench pressing" Mr. Weed.
- In the same episode, he describes Joe Swanson as attractive.
- In "Meg for Mercy", Mr. Weed flirted with Change for a Buck and asked him to see him in his office, which Buck was weirded out by.
- In "The King is Dead", Peter invents Mr. Zucchini Head which resembled a vibrating sex toy. Mr. Weed takes the toy into his office and does not come back out with it.
- In "Employee for Fire", Mr. Weed revealed he had an autographed baseball from gay baseball player, Glenn Burke.
- In "He's Too Sexy For His Fat", Mr. Weed was aroused by Peter's new buff looks that he showed off in the office.
- In "Good Ol' Fargy Love", the toxic chemicals caused him to enter a relationship with Change for a Buck.
- In "Between Sanity and Madness", Mr. Weed revealed to have a VHS (or possible multiple of them) with a cover of hot men in their underwear, declaring he's going to make them his bitch.
- In "Mr. Saturday Knight", at the showing of his will for the company, the lawyer accidentally plays a tape of Weed making breakfast in his underwear and being filmed by a male companion, with is assumed to be his husband.
- Afterwards, Mr. Weed announced he would have the toy factory torn down to build a gay sex toy factory.
Episode Appearances[]
- Death Has a Shadow
- Do and Die
- A Hero Sits Next Door
- Peter's in Charge
- Wasted Talent
- Holy Crap
- Meg for Mercy
- The King is Dead
- Da Boom (Cameo)
- I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
- Employee for Fire
- He's Too Sexy For His Fat
- Good Ol' Fargy Love (Cameo)
- Between Sanity and Madness
- Power Over Peter
- The Guyfathers (Cameo)
- Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington
- Peter Griffin's All-Stars
- One if by Clam, Two if by Sea (Mentioned)
- Mr. Saturday Knight (Dies)
- Lois Kills Stewie (Mentioned)
- Replaced: Brian's Story (As a Ghost)
- A New Lease on Death (As a Ghost)
- Need for Weed
- Coma Guy (Imagination Sequence; Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Karma's a Bitch (As a Ghost)
Trivia[]
- Mr. Weed was voiced by Butch Hartman in the pilot episode. In the series, he is voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
- Mr. Weed was a fan of the Boston Red Sox, as seen in "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" when he roots against the New York Yankees.
- When Brian asks the ethnic origin of the name "Weed" in "Mr. Saturday Knight", Mr. Weed tells him the name was given to his grandfather when he came to America. He then informs Brian his real name is Bermuda Grass.