Chris Griffin isn't exactly the smartest character on "Family Guy." For this list, we’ll be looking at scenes in which Chris Griffin’s dimwittedness is extremely apparent and makes us question how he is able to get through his day-to-day life.
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00:00 How do I know which one is the real dad?
00:02 I, we never switched, we don't even look the same!
00:05 Welcome to WatchMojo!
00:08 And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 dumbest things Chris Griffin
00:11 from Family Guy has ever done.
00:14 What are you doing kid?
00:15 Those aren't free!
00:16 Oopsie poopsie!
00:17 Oh god bless you, help yourself.
00:21 For this list we'll be looking at scenes in which Chris Griffin's dimwittedness is
00:24 extremely apparent and makes us question how he is able to get through his day to day life.
00:29 Did you see your favorite dumb Chris Griffin moment on this list?
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00:48 Number 10.
00:50 Failing to do a proper cutaway.
00:52 Family Guy is known for its cutaway humor, and usually the characters are able to set
00:56 up the humorous scenes for us perfectly.
00:59 Oh I like when dad talks tough, he sounds like Dirty Harry.
01:02 When Chris is having dinner with his family, he establishes a cutaway in which he is supposedly
01:07 having an even crazier dinner than this one.
01:10 This is the craziest meal I've had since I had lunch at Tommy Sullivan's house.
01:14 What we see instead is a boring, unfunny cutaway.
01:17 And Chris failing at something that literally every character on the show does seamlessly.
01:22 This prompts Chris' parents to break the fourth wall and scold their son for his shortcomings.
01:27 That was just awful Chris.
01:29 Terrible.
01:30 He is not ready for flashbacks.
01:31 No he is not.
01:32 We love hilarious flashback scenes and characters acknowledging their own show.
01:36 But seeing poor Chris fall flat due to his own stupidity never fails to tickle our funny
01:41 bone.
01:42 Number 9.
01:43 Stewie's concussion.
01:45 When Stewie is misidentified as a girl, he decides to join the football team to prove
01:50 his masculinity.
01:51 Despite his small stature and lack of athletic ability.
01:54 What's up dudes?
01:55 Stewie, what the hell is all this?
01:57 Uh, only the most manly thing ever.
01:59 A little something called American football.
02:02 Is that a Michael Sam jersey?
02:04 It goes about as well as you'd think.
02:07 And he ends up with a nasty concussion.
02:09 You do me an honor, Lieutenant.
02:11 But my dance card is full.
02:13 With mismatched pupils and hallucinations of ringing phones, it's pretty clear that
02:18 Stewie is in bad shape.
02:19 Brian and Chris try to decide how to best handle the situation without getting themselves
02:24 in trouble.
02:25 And Chris chooses just about the worst solution.
02:28 But you can't make a helmet for the inside.
02:30 Chris, are you crazy?
02:32 Shhh, let's just let him sleep this off.
02:35 He hits Stewie to try to deconcuss him.
02:38 And we can't help but wonder how many times Chris might have been hit in the head if he
02:42 thinks that this is the best way to fix a concussion.
02:45 Number 8.
02:46 Raccoon steal the camp food.
02:48 The personalities of the main characters in the show have ebbed and flowed throughout
02:52 the years.
02:53 But the creators let us know early on what Chris was all about.
03:01 This is evident late in season 2, when Chris and Peter, along with Peter's friends and
03:06 their sons, go on a camping trip.
03:15 While keeping the food secure from wild animals may be a relatively simple task, Chris fails
03:20 at it in tremendous fashion.
03:22 Not only does he let raccoons eat their provisions, he makes a flipbook of them doing it.
03:39 His block-headedness shines as he is clearly proud of his artistic creation.
03:44 While everyone else feels the exact opposite, about the fact that they are now going to
03:49 go hungry.
03:58 Number 7.
03:59 Wrestling a lamp.
04:01 Chris lacks a basic understanding of the world, and in this scene, we're shown that he doesn't
04:06 understand that inanimate objects are, well, inanimate.
04:14 Peter easily tricks Chris into thinking a lamp hit him in the back of the head to avoid
04:18 taking the blame.
04:19 Despite the fact that his father is obviously the culprit, Chris is furious with the lamp
04:24 and hits it right back.
04:31 Maybe he needs to work on his smarts as well as his anger skills, but we can't help but
04:36 laugh at his idiocy in this moment.
04:41 Number 6.
04:42 National Anthem.
04:44 It's clear from the episode that none of the Griffins are the sharpest tacks.
04:53 When they decide to move to Italy, they initially love it so much that Peter decides to burn
04:58 their passports and stay forever.
05:00 But their finances have different plans, and they eventually have to go home.
05:12 In an attempt to prove that they're really American, they're tasked with singing the
05:17 Star Spangled Banner.
05:22 All of the Griffins are able to do it except for the eldest brother.
05:36 Instead we see him belting out Whitney Houston's classic version of "I Will Always Love You".
05:41 And while Chris is technically wrong, singing this song as an anthem feels so right.
05:47 Number 5.
05:48 Korean or Spanish?
05:50 When Chris meets Isabella at a water park after sticking her bikini top in his shorts,
05:55 the unlikely duo actually hit it off.
06:00 When the two go out for spaghetti, Lady and the Tramp style, he tries to impress her by
06:04 speaking her language, which he thinks is Korean.
06:08 But she reveals she is actually Mexican.
06:16 She's later deported back there, so it's really a shame he learned the wrong language
06:20 as he eventually has to go to Mexico to find her.
06:24 But we're impressed that he was able to snag a girl as great as Isabella, and that
06:27 he even learns a bit of Korean.
06:29 So we also have to give him credit where it's due.
06:36 Number 4.
06:37 A room with free people.
06:39 Chris clearly doesn't understand the very basics of life.
06:42 So when he takes Stewie to the hospital after he single-handedly worsens his concussion,
06:48 he misunderstands what a nursery is.
06:55 Upon seeing the room full of infants, his lack of intelligence is glaringly obvious
06:59 when he assumes that this means the babies are up for grabs.
07:02 He shows off his new find to Stewie and Brian, and we can't help but laugh at the excitement
07:07 he has for this discovery.
07:14 It's a good thing Brian redirects him and saves Chris from himself, and the poor crying
07:19 baby for that matter.
07:21 Because that could have been a pretty bad look if he would have gotten caught.
07:28 Number 3.
07:30 The toaster computer.
07:32 It's no secret that Chris comes by his dim-wittedness honestly, as Chris proves that the apple doesn't
07:37 fall far from the tree.
07:43 When Peter discovers old videos of himself as a teen, he realizes that he and Chris are
07:48 eerily similar, and he wants to stop his son from going down the same path.
07:59 Peter proclaims that he wants Chris to be a success, a word that Chris is unfamiliar
08:04 with.
08:05 So he runs to the kitchen to look it up.
08:12 The only problem is, both he and his father think the toaster is the computer, and we're
08:17 scared to know what happens to the actual computer when the Griffin men are wanting
08:20 some toast.
08:26 Number 2.
08:27 Getting on the Titanic.
08:29 Stewie and Brian have good intentions when they try to help Chris study for his history
08:33 test.
08:34 But when Chris thinks that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" was spoken by Scooby-Doo,
08:39 they know they need to step it up a notch.
08:48 Stewie uses his time machine to show Chris various points throughout history, but that's
08:53 still not sticking with him.
09:04 Chris ends up running away and boarding the Titanic.
09:07 Oblivious to the ship's fate, eventually Stewie and Brian save him and actually manage
09:14 to alter the future just enough that Chris ends up getting out of his test anyway.
09:24 But this entire episode proved that it's easier to accept Chris' weaknesses than
09:28 try to help.
09:43 Number 1.
09:47 Forgetting his name.
09:48 It's pretty clear that Chris doesn't have a grasp on a lot of things, but we thought
09:53 that he at least knew his own name.
09:55 When Peter starts taking business trips, he becomes more refined and worldly, which causes
10:00 him to start using language that we're not used to hearing from him.
10:09 He even replaces the TV in the living room with a bookcase, which leads to another instance
10:13 of Chris being confused beyond belief.
10:21 But the most shockingly stupid moment of all came when Peter returns home and Chris asks
10:26 him how it went, which led to Chris acknowledging that he didn't know the word "Chris".
10:38 We along with Stewie are still shocked to say the least.
10:51 END OF EPISODE 1.
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