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| “ | Hey, Chris. Principal Shepherd here. So, listen, the nurse is going to press charges for you touching her breasts. I offered her the money, like you said but ... well, that seemed to make it worse. So, we either gotta come up on that number or find a different plan but ... me thinks a lawyer is in our future. Hmph! Anyway, call me back but remember the rule on these. Delete! Delete! Delete! | „ |
| ~ Principal Shepherd's voicemail to Chris Griffin. |
Principal John Shepherd is a supporting antagonist in Family Guy. He is the principal of Adam West High School. He is villainous for supporting bullying, sexually harassing female students, and on rare instances, physically abusing people.
In earlier seasons, Principal Shepherd was a hero and a competent principal. However, later seasons saw him become a lazy, negligent, disrespectful, moron who mistreats and bullies students, mostly Meg Griffin and to a lesser degree, Chris, and even sexually harasses other students like Connie DiMico.
Principal Shepherd is known to have several falling-outs with his wife, Fiona Shepherd, who he has divorced and remarried several times. Their rocky, on-and-off, and quite possibly abusive marriage has been explored in the episodes "Once Bitten," "The Peter Principal," and "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor."
He is voiced by Gary Cole.
Appearance[]
Principal Shepherd is a large-framed adult Caucasian male with receding brown hair. He wears a blue jacket with a white undershirt and a red tie, matching blue pants, and black shoes. He also wears glasses. Principal Sheperd also has kind of a big chin, with a butt-shaped cleft and a large nose.
Villainous Acts[]
- In "Stew-Roids," Principal Shepherd supports the bullying that goes on at James Woods Regional High School, publicly telling Chris that because Meg Griffin leaked revenge porno of him, he has gone from being a cool kid to a loser again. He tells all of the students that they are free to bully him again.
- In "A Fistful of Meg," Principal Shepherd hears about the impending fight between Meg and Michael Pulaski and, instead of doing anything to stop it, turns it into a public event, telling students that they can place wagers on the "Meg Griffin Slaughter" with him.
- In "Secondhand Spoke," Principal Shepherd looks around at his students and mumbles to himself in disappointment, dissatisfied with the fact that none of his female students were sexually attractive.
- In "An App a Day," Principal Shepherd refers to mentally disabled students as "Hurr Durr" kids.
- In "The Heartbreak Dog," Principal Shepherd makes obvious sexual passes at his female students. He says that he would be choosing what community services the kids would be doing and makes it clear that he wants all of the hot blonde girls to come to his house and do chores for him like clean his living room and wash his car. It is unknown if Principal Shepherd takes advantage of any of these girls or not.
- In "Connie's Celica," when Lois arranges a meeting with Principal Shepherd, the moronic principal misinterprets this and assumes she's meeting him to have an affair, even though Lois has been married to Peter for over 20 years, but this didn't hinder his attempt until she says why she is really there.
- In "Start Me Up", Principal Shepherd mass-produces a bunch of mugs with pictures of penises on them for Peter Griffin, even though he knows he doesn't want that.
- In "Movin' In (Principal Shepherd's Song)," Principal Shepherd implies that he is going to court after inappropriately massaging one of his female students. To avoid getting in trouble, he massages Chris, so that he can lie to the court and say that he does that to all of his students. Later, Principal Shepherd openly fat-shames Chris, cracking numerous jokes about him being overweight, not realizing that his intercom is on and broadcasting the insults. The entire school starts laughing at Chris and he starts crying. When this is brought to the attention of Peter and Lois Griffin, the superintendent fires Principal Shepherd Principal Shepherd somehow convinces Peter and Lois to let him stay with them until he can get back on his feet and they oblige, despite him having bullied their son. During his stay, Principal Shepherd becomes the principal of the house and does things such as shunning Peter to the special needs classroom and smacking Peter's hand with a ruler. When the Griffins decided it's time for him to go, Principal Shepherd is upset and tricks them into going into the basement, where he locks them up. The Griffins eventually break out, but instead of getting revenge on Principal Shepherd, they successfully petition to have him go back to Adam West High School again and he went right back to being a corrupt principal, just like before.
- In "Meg's Wedding," Principal Shepard yells at Meg to silence her when she questions his mediocre and idiotic plans for an upcoming dance that are actually hazardous to the student body.
- In "Wild Wild West," when Lois gathers some of the townspeople to discuss who the new mayor of Quahog should be and what concerns people have about potential new policies, Principal Shepard reveals that he is a descendant of Puritans and like his idiotic ancestors (who were also implied to be witch hunters) thinks it should be acceptable to throw women into the pond to see if they're witches. When Lois dismisses this as too extreme, Shepherd accuses her of being a witch, demonstrating his political incompetence and stupidity.
- In "Meg Goes to College," at the request of Lois and Peter, Principal Shepard helps them fake a college application by making it look like Meg is a star athlete by digitally pasting Meg's face over other people's faces in photographs so Meg would be accepted into Brown University.
- In "Carny Knowledge," Chris sexually harasses the school nurse and Principal Shepherd tries to bribe her into dropping the lawsuit, but this only makes things worse. Principal Shepherd later sends Chris a voicemail, telling him that they need to work together to either bribe her with more money or come up with another plan entirely for weaseling their way out of it. At the end, Principal Shepherd urges Chris to delete the message he sends him to cover up the evidence of their little discussion.
- In "Vat Man and Rob 'Em," Principal Shepherd and two other principals get drunk and go on a tirade around town, breaking into random bars and breweries to steal beer. He also possesses tons of child pornography of Chris on his phone, which he attempts to bribe Peter with, so that he can illegally let him into the Pawtucket Brewery after hours and drink some free beer. When this doesn't work, Principal Shepherd just offers him some money instead. Later, a narration from Chris clarifies that Principal Shepherd forced him to pose naked for his pornographic photoshoot.
- In "Adult Education," Principal Shepard makes pornographic videos at the school to make extra money, and when Chris finds out, he decides to help direct the videos to improve their quality in exchange for extracurricular credit for his picture to be in the yearbook. This act can be considered illegal, due to not only making these videos at a public place, but also for involving a minor. As a result, Principal Shepard almost gets fired when Lois finds out. Fortunately for him, Chris's quick thinking saves his career.
Gallery[]
Principal Shepherd hitting on Lois Griffin.
Principal Shepherd sexually harassing Chris.
Principal Shepherd losing his job for bullying students.
Principal Shepherd locking the Griffin Family in their basement.
Principal Shepherd hitting on Peter Griffin.
Principal Shepherd forging a college application for Meg Griffin.
Principal Shepherd getting attacked by the mafia.
Principal Shepherd using his coffee breath.
Trivia[]
- Principal Shepherd is Jewish, as revealed in "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," when Peter says that he saw him at Temple.
- Principal Shepherd is the first character in Family Guy history to say Bruce's name out loud, after five long years of him being nameless. This occurs in "No Chris Left Behind," and Bruce is happy that someone finally mentions his name.
- In "Adam West High," it is revealed that Principal Shepherd has an addiction for gambling and sports betting.
- He is also similar to Peter Griffin in family guy.
