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| “ | Jeff: You fat ugly bitch! If today weren't your birthday. Brenda: Jeff, please. You’re being… Jeff: What? What am I being?! Crazy? Unemployed?! Why don’t you call the cops, like you did on Christmas?! |
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| ~ Jeff verbally abusing Brenda. |
| “ | Shut up and limp! We're in a handicapped spot, you slut! | „ |
| ~ Jeff bullying Brenda. |
| “ | What the hell?! I killed you! | „ |
| ~ Jeff's last words when he discovers Quagmire is still alive. |
Jeffery "Jeff" Fecalman is a minor antagonist in the animated sitcom Family Guy, serving initially as cameo appearance in the episode "Jerome is The New Black", before later reappearing as the main antagonist in the episode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q".
In both episodes, He is Brenda Quagmire's extremely abusive boyfriend who regularly abused her to the point where he and her brother Quagmire resented each other as a result of Jeff's heinous actions towards Brenda, he is also Quagmire's archenemy.
He was voiced by Ralph Garman, who also voiced Sheriff Nichols in the same series.
Appearance[]
Jeff is a tall, muscular blond man who wears a white undershirt, indigo pants, and dark gray shoes with red stripes. His undershirt is also called a wifebeater which symbolizes his abuse towards Brenda.
Personality[]
| “ | These kinds of guys don't change. Y-you think they ever suddenly wake up and realize the error of their ways and clean up their act? NO! They just keep ruining everyone's lives, and the world is better off without 'em. | „ |
| ~ Quagmire describing Jeff, while proposing to murder him. |
While nothing much about his life is explained, Jeff is portrayed as a cruel, evil and violent man who regularly abuses Brenda, both verbally and often physically. He has no fear or shame of showing this behavior in public and hardly shows any love or care towards Brenda at all, or anyone for that matter.
Jeff shows a more sadistic side to his personality when he later mocks Quagmire about Brenda's child growing up without an uncle. He is also willing to kill Quagmire with his own bare hands, when Quagmire tells him that they should fight instead.
Despite having no redeeming qualities, Jeff has hypocritical standards as he agrees with Glenn and Brenda that people should not insult others' family members, regardless the fact he has done much worse. When Joe tells him to put the gun down and promises that they will forget the entire thing, Jeff complies for pragmatic reasons. Jeff apparently sees the trio as his equals, as shown when he gets them and abusively tells Brenda to give them some beers when they visit them to bring him to the woods to kill him.
Biography[]
Jeff was Brenda's extremely abusive boyfriend who assaulted her regularly. He also absolutely loathed Quagmire for trying to get Brenda to leave him. He also kept the neighbors of Spooner Street awake with his quarrels with Brenda who stays with him for unknown reasons, most likely out of fear. While eating out with Brenda, Lois discovers that Jeff gave her a black eye and Brenda just makes excuses trying to justify his treatment of her. He then reveals that he got Brenda pregnant and will now marry her to keep her in line.
While drinking beer and playing cards, Glenn is paranoid over the fact that not only will Jeff continue to beat Brenda if they get married, but he'll do the same thing to their child once they're born. Peter's response to this is to go over and thrash him up to get across the message to not harm Brenda anymore. However, Quagmire takes it a step further by proposing a plan to kill him, knowing well that he wasn't going to change. Joe Swanson, as a cop, refused to do so telling the former that he can arrest him just for saying that, but after Quagmire tells him that Jeff wasn't going to change his ways and they witnesses him beat Brenda over changing a channel on Quagmire's TV and calling her a bitch. Joe, disgusted, agrees to help kill him, saying, "Let's waste this dick". At one point, while watching TV, Jeff slapped Brenda across the couch just because he didn't understand a joke, to which the guys then enter and offer to take Jeff "hunting".
In the woods, however, Jeff figured out their plan by himself, and holds Quagmire at gunpoint. Joe tells Jeff to put the gun down and says that they will forget the entire thing. Interestingly enough, Jeff puts it down and Peter and Joe initially agree to put the ordeal behind them. Quagmire, understandably not wanting to see his sister getting abused again and refusing to forgive Jeff for everything he put her through, refuses to forget the entire thing. Jeff angrily knocks both Peter and Joe unconscious by hitting them with the butt of his shotgun. Jeff brings Quagmire deeper into the woods so Jeff can shoot him but Quagmire suggests that they fight instead. Jeff agrees because he knows that he will easily beat Glenn and so he violently attacks him and strangles him. Just as it looks like Jeff has killed Quagmire, he takes a shovel to bury Quagmire so that no one will find out what he did.
Suddenly, he is illuminated by the headlights of Peter's car, with Quagmire at the wheel. When Jeff is shocked because Glenn is still alive, Glenn shouts that he chokes himself everyday. Horrified, Jeff attempts to escape, but fails and is smashed against a tree by Quagmire in Peter's car, killing him, and thus ending his abuse towards Brenda permanently.
With Jeff dead, Quagmire, Peter, and Joe later forge a goodbye letter from Jeff to Brenda which explains that he is leaving her. Whatever impact this had on Brenda's mental state is unknown; but at the very least, Jeff was no longer able to harm her.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Unnamed brother
- Unnamed unborn child
Enemies[]
- Glenn Quagmire - archenemy, killer and attempted victim
- Brenda Quagmire - ex-girlfriend and abuse victim
- Peter Griffin
- Joe Swanson
- Lois Griffin
- Bonnie Swanson
Trivia[]
- Many critics have bashed Jeff. This is because, unlike many abusers in real-life, Jeff openly abused Brenda in front of others and in public - a sign that the show creators either didn't do any research on the subject or were more focused in the shock value elements of the series rather than actually dealing with domestic violence. This is because real-life abusers generally abuse their partners behind closed doors rather than out in the open, and usually far more subtle and cunning in their methods and behavior, often utilizing tactics such as gaslighting and emotional manipulation rather than solely relying on physical abuse like Jeff does.
- Another common criticism of the episode is how Quagmire is noticeably worried about his sister despite being terrible to other women, which the episode doesn’t bring up at all. This, coupled with the fact that he murdered Jeff with little consideration of Brenda’s mental state, has lead many critics to call Quagmire a hypocrite for his actions.
- Had Jeff succeeded in killing Quagmire and hiding his body, he most likely would have gone back to the campsite and do the same thing to Peter and Joe since they were witnesses of his actions and because they were technically still alive, just unconscious.
- He's the second villain to have a bad relationship towards Quagmire alongside Peter Griffin's friends' members as archenemy before Cleveland's return, the first is Bobby Briggs towards Joe Swanson for paralyzing his legs.
