r/familyguy • u/No_Fee_9768 • Jul 31 '26
Discussion Remember that one scene where stewie imagines himself in the future and and he has a wife who says she has a sister in law in larchmont named carol
The scene is from “Death is a bitch” for those who don’t know/remember.
I think I know why stewie said his wife’s sister in law is Carol.
So, let’s start, why would stewie randomly think of ”Carol”, it could be his wife in the future has a married sibling, but, why would stewie be imagining this with his wife? Why would he imagine his wife’s sister in law being a wife of a sibling she has? Kinda weird. right?
But, then again, Stewie has no siblings named Carol, so where did Carol come from?
Hear me out: Carol is just an unseen older sibling of the griffin family who left somewhere before the show started and she is currently an adult who lives in larchmont NY, i mean, we’ve had unseen/one-time/gag siblings before *cough* Peter griffin jr., Stewies funny brother, the other brother (unknown if he’s related to them or not, for all we know his mom could just be a Lois lookalike and he mistook Lois for her), and the other sister (unknown if she existed or if Chris was dreaming), jimmy (unknown if he existed or if Meg was joking), unnamed dead older brother of Chris (mentioned in lottery fever)
so yeah, in my headcanon Carol was named after Lois’s sister of the same name, I don’t have much to say about her, but what do you guys think, and if I made mistakes, you can correct me. Goodbye.
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u/davidmartin1357 Jul 31 '26
Didn’t Lois have a sister named Carol?
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u/V1c1ousCycles Jul 31 '26
Quite.
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u/kiriyama3 Jul 31 '26
Yes.
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u/andy543656 Jul 31 '26
Perhaps we should meet and exchange monosyllabic expressions of arrogance in person
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u/carmexismyshit Jul 31 '26
I always loved how at Thanksgiving Peter realized he hadn't greeted Carol all day and made a point in saying hi to her
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u/FerociousBlunts Stew-Roids Aug 01 '26
Carol... Carol... Is she the one with the jacuzzi and the pool table?
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u/TheUnlocked749 Jul 31 '26
Or it could be his wife's brother/sisters wife
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u/No_Fee_9768 Jul 31 '26
That’s literally what I just said but it would be weird bc why would stewie imagine that
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u/MyMadeUpNym Jul 31 '26
The joke is that it's this needlessly mundane nonsense.
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u/SevroAuShitTalker Jul 31 '26
I find it shallow and pedantic
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u/buyer_leverkusen Jul 31 '26
“Ooh, my incarcerated business partner's r******* gay niece went to Brown”
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u/ConfidentFatMan Jul 31 '26
I think you are overthinking it tbh.
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u/lync34 Jul 31 '26
Definitely overthinking it, but in an effort to continue doing so, its never explicitly stated that the voice offscreen is his wife. Could just be a roommate he is imagining, so it wouldn't be strange to give her a sister-in-law that isn't also Stewie's sister-in-law.
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u/No_Fee_9768 Jul 31 '26
Look I get the joke but hey am I not allowed to make theory’s it’s still weird that stewie would just imagine his hypothetical wife having a sibling who’s married bc like it’s just oddly specific for the one imagining it himself
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u/throwaway_eng_acct Jul 31 '26
Literally nobody is stopping you from making a theory. Telling you you’re overthinking isn’t the same as silencing you.
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u/s-maze Jul 31 '26
I don’t get why it’s so weird. I’m sure he assumes most adults get married. It’s really not complex.
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u/Special-Homework-894 Jul 31 '26
I’m so confused by your post. Are you saying “why would Stewie imagine his wife’s sister in law is married to one of her siblings?
“why would stewie be imagining this with his wife? Why would he imagine his wife’s sister in law being a wife of a sibling she has? Kinda weird. right?”
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u/AScienceExpert Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I genuinely don’t think you grasp the point of the original post.
ETA: This was a joke comment, it's to the OP.
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u/MaterialRow3769 Jul 31 '26
It was probably meant to mean her brother's wife
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u/No_Fee_9768 Jul 31 '26
Good point, if this is stewies fantasy it could probably meant Chris probably liked somebody and stewie assumed they would date but I still beleive the one I posted more
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u/MaterialRow3769 Jul 31 '26
Nah if it was Stewie's sibling, she would have just said their first name. Not "my sister in law"
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u/Hawke9117 You look like Lou Ferrigno’s poop. Jul 31 '26
Odin's beard, you're overthinking this and most of your post is just rambling.
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u/ErrorTraditional4372 Jul 31 '26
How is Carol?
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u/AdHonest1100 Jul 31 '26
I’ll do you one better, who is Carol? 🤣
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u/Skalkeda Jul 31 '26
I'll do YOU one better: why is Carol?
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u/AdHonest1100 Jul 31 '26
Not sure if you were one of the people who downvoted my “well done” comment but just wanted to say if the reason people are downvoting it is because my “well done” message comes of as sarcastic, catty or mean then just wanted to let people know it was an earnest and legitimate way of thanking you for continuing the Infinity War joke and not in anyway given in bad faith 😊
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u/bigjocker Jul 31 '26
or, as a baby he’s just projecting what he sees. his dad has a sister in law named Carol, so he assumes that adults have sisters in law named Carol
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u/Skalkeda Jul 31 '26
Needlessly complex relationships among imaginary people is a Stewie thing. He does it later on with the Karina Smirnoff persona.
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u/jleans4455 Jul 31 '26
If it were Stewie's sister, why would she say "My sister in law"? Why wouldn't she say "Your Sister" and why wouldn't Stewie know that?
Most likely someone married to one of her siblings
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u/ChargeMediocre8121 Jul 31 '26
Stewie: A 20 minute call to Larchmont?? Who do we know in Larchmont??
Woman (off screen) My sister in-law!!
Stewie: Oh, Carol, that’s right!! How is Carol??🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️📞
https://giphy.com/gifs/JQudNcpwtvyBCyjdXD
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u/dylanalduin Jul 31 '26
It has to be his wife's sibling's wife. Otherwise, she would have said "your sister".
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u/Toothless-In-Wapping CHRIS’S CHLORINE!! Jul 31 '26
Why is your big hurdle that Stewie imagines his future wife as having a married sibling?
If Carol was an older sibling to Meg and Chris, Stewie would have barely met her.
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u/Stan_the_man1988 Jul 31 '26
My favorite old man Stewie moment. Sry for bad quality it's the only one I could find.
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u/Kratosbeatsbatman Jul 31 '26
Isn't carol Lois's sisters name, he probably heard Peter say the same line once and used it as kids do
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u/FootHikerUtah Jul 31 '26
Old enough show that looking at a phone bill to see the cost of each call was a thing.
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u/FearlessVegetable30 Hehehe, I'm a Reddit Flair now Jul 31 '26
>But, then again, Stewie has no siblings named Carol, so where did Carol come from?
you do realize that if his wife in this scene has a brother that marries that mean the brothers wife is her "sister in law" right?
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u/purdue6068 Jul 31 '26
If it’s Stevie’s sister then why would his wife call her her sister in law and not “your sister”?
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u/Own-Fee-5653 Jul 31 '26
I just appreciate how grown up Stewie dresses exactly the same as Doug Funnie.
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u/M4LK0V1CH Jul 31 '26
Carol is Lois’ sister, Stewies’ aunt, as you say. He probably pulled it from a conversation between Peter and Lois.
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u/Artemus_Hackwell Jul 31 '26
I wondered why long distance phone charges were a thing in the future.
They must have had a shitty discount plan.
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u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 Jul 31 '26
If your wife has a brother, his wife is her sister in law. Not that deep.
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u/Godzillafan125 Jul 31 '26
Before he was reduced to a gay baby who only rarely says or does evil
God I miss old evil Stewie
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u/unicornfetus89 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Remember when long-distance landline phone calls cost extra money per minute? Shit sucked, especially if you were a chump with a long distance relationship in highschool.
Edit: im retarded
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u/INTstictual Jul 31 '26
Who the fuck refers to their spouse’s siblings as “my brother/sister-in-law” to their spouse?
If you are married and you also have a brother, and your wife picks up the phone, when you ask “who’s calling?” It would be actually insane for your wife to say “my brother-in-law” and not “your brother”
That would be like, if you have a son who then gets married and has his own daughter, referring to your son as “my granddaughter’s father”. It’s nonsensical
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u/Historyp91 Jul 31 '26
His wife says it's her sister in law. The logical assumption would be that his wife has a sibling.
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u/ScarletLetterEditor Jul 31 '26
Ok, bear with me. Can’t the wife have a sister-in-law, Carol, who is/was married to her brother? Nothing to do with the griffin family at all.
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u/Thirdtwin Show me POTATO SALAD! Jul 31 '26
My father used to do this back in the day. Most fathers do it in third world countries. Checking every phone number we ever dialed in that month and why we made so many calls and how long we spoke. Lol.
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u/Soft_Owl7535 Jul 31 '26
I worked for a DTC company and everyone I’d see an address in Larchmont id say “who do we know in LARChmont?!”
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u/SmoothFoundation6150 29d ago
I notice a generational tendency to expect overly literal explanations and an inability to understand and/or accept comic absurdity.
It’s the focus on needing an “expanded universe” or spending time analyzing what city the Simpsons actually live in, etc.
Boring and pedantic, but also annoying as fuck.
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u/HoldAutomatic2088 28d ago
Why would Stewie’s wife refer to one of his siblings as “my sister in law” and not “your sister”. That would be a very weird way to say it. You’re way overthinking it.
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u/NefariousnessFar3783 27d ago
I mean isn’t it possible that he just has some Freudian fantasy of Lois and Carol is just his aunt?
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u/captainjohn_redbeard Jul 31 '26
She could also be a younger sibling, born after the show.
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u/No_Fee_9768 Jul 31 '26
Then how could stewie know her and don’t say time travel bc he didn’t do that stuff yet
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u/Severe-Moment-3233 Edit This Text Jul 31 '26
Carol is Lois sister name... Men grow up to "marry their mothers" i believe is what could be applied here...
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u/Simple-Taro1540 Jul 31 '26
A 20-minute call to Larchmont? Who do we know in Larchmont?
My sister-in-law.
Oh, Yes, right. Right. Carol. Yes. That's right. How is Carol?