Adam West (Family Guy)
Family Guy character
Mayor of Quahog, Adam West
Character information
Full name	Adam West
Gender	Male
Hair color	Gray
Occupation	Mayor of Quahog
Heritage	Caucasian
Show information
First appearance	"Fifteen Minutes of Shame"
Voice actor	Adam West

Mayor Adam West is a fictionalized caricature of actor Adam West on the animated television series Family Guy. The character, voiced by West himself, is the Mayor of the town of Quahog, Rhode Island, where the series is set. For the variety of clam also known as Quahog, see Hard clam. ... “Fifteen Minutes of Shame” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne on the 1960s TV series Batman (which also had a film adaptation). ... A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a work of fiction. ... For the book of comics by Daniel Clowes, see Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection). ... Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne on the 1960s TV series Batman (which also had a film adaptation). ... Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... For the variety of clam also known as Quahog, see Hard clam. ...

Character

Mayor West is an intense, soft-spoken lunatic whose delusions often come at great expense and sometimes risk to the taxpayers, such as using public money to fund an investigation into "Who's stealing his water" when it's added to flowers or poured into the sink,^[2] erecting a solid gold statue of the Dig 'Em Frog or dispatching the entire Quahog police force to Colombia to assist in the rescue of the fictional protagonists of Romancing the Stone. A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ... Kelloggs Sugar Smacks is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal. ... Romancing the Stone is an American 1984 action-adventure film. ...

In typical Family Guy continuity, his deluded reality spills into the reality of the show, such as when he warned Meg about Domino's Pizza's mascot the Noid really ruining pizza, then catches and brutally kills the Noid in front of Meg. Quote West: "Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided ME." Megan Meg Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy. ... For Dominos Pizza in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Principality of Monaco, see Dominos Pizza Enterprises. ... The Noid on the game Avoid the Noid for DOS (EGA). ... For other uses, see Pizza (disambiguation). ...

During the Star Wars retelling by Peter, he plays the character Grand Moff Tarkin. This movie poster for Star Wars depicts many of the films important elements, such as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, X-Wing and Y-Wing fighters Star Wars, retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981 (see note at Title,) is the original (and in chronological... Blue Harvest is the first episode of the sixth season of the FOX series Family Guy, which originally aired on September 23, 2007. ... Grand Moff Governor Wilhuff Tarkin is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe and is an antagonist in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where he was portrayed by British actor Peter Cushing. ...

West does not appear to have a family. His romantic entanglements include once having slept with Luke Perry, living with Brian's ex-girlfriend Jillian, and an intimate but chaste liaison with then-intern Meg Griffin.^[2] // Luke Perry (born Coy Luther Perry III on October 11, 1966)[1] is an American actor. ... Megan Meg Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy. ...

As Mayor of Quahog, Adam West is the city’s most powerful civil servant, able to spend the entire city budget on anything he sees fit. It is occasionally hinted that he may be involved in corrupt activity. He accepts bribes to allow Industrial companies to dump waste in public waters and fears a visit from the District Attorney.^[3] A district attorney is, in some U.S. jurisdictions, the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminals. ...

Despite his incompetence, West has only been voted out of office once, losing to Lois Griffin in "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One"; when Griffin finds herself unable to sustain the high level of corruption the position requires, West retakes the office at the end of the episode, citing his excellent qualifications as a corrupt official.^[4] Lois Griffin (nee. ... It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One is a season five episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ...

Development

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane wrote several episodes of the cartoon series Johnny Bravo. West played a similarly intense and eccentric rendition of himself in an episode written by MacFarlane, Johnny Meets Adam West!, first broadcast in December 1997.^[5] In the episode, West's fictionalized persona displays similar deluded characteristics to the later Family Guy character, such as believing a race of megalomaniac mole-people live under a local golf course. However, he dressed a lot more formally and behaved slightly similar to his character in the 1960s series of Batman. Seth MacFarlane found Adam West's character and performance in Johnny Bravo so funny that he created a similar character for Family Guy.^[6] Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American comedian, animator, screenwriter, producer, actor, voice actor, and composer. ... Johnny Bravo is an American animated television series created by Van Partible. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...

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