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Spooner Street Neighbors

• Glenn Quagmire (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) – Glenn Quagmire is the Griffins' next-door sex-addict neighbor and one of Peter's best friends. He is an airline pilot, but is best known for his extreme sexuality and always saying "Giggity", or "All Right". He is attracted to nearly every woman (especially Lois Griffin). His sister is Brenda Q. Quagmire. In one episode, he is revealed to have been Jack The Ripper in a past life. He has a soft side for cats and despises Brian Griffin from "Jerome is the New Black to "Tiegs for Two." His dad is Ida Quagmire.

• Joe Swanson (voiced by Patrick Warburton) – Joe Swanson is the Griffins' neighbor and Peter's friend. He is a paraplegic who also suffers from impotence and incontinence. Despite his disability, Joe still proves to be an extremely skilled police officer, as he is constantly seen pursuing criminals or rescuing victims with the aid of his wheelchair and even goes so far as to abandon his wheelchair to complete his work. He used to live in Providence, Rhode Island. In "A Hero Sits Next Door," Joe mentioned that he got crippled when stopping the Grinch from stealing Christmas from an orphanage. He is usually shown as being very tactful, but he also has severe anger issues. He is married to Bonnie Swanson, who was once pregnant for many years. She and he had a son named Kevin who staged his own death in Iraq. He also has an infant daughter, Susie. He has a glass eye, as a result of Peter in the episode "Lottery Fever." In "Joe's Revenge," it is revealed that Swanson's story about being crippled during a fight with the Grinch was a cover-up. Joe Swanson was actually crippled by Bobby "The Shirt" Briggs, a criminal running a heroin operation whom Swanson was pursuing in an undercover police operation. After 15 years, Bobby Briggs was arrested, but he escaped during an open house at the prison. Joe Swanson asked the police chief to allow him to pursue Briggs but was denied. Joe decided to ignore the chief's order and pursue Briggs with the assistance of Peter Griffin and Quagmire. When Joe tracks down Bobby to Atlantic City, the trio pursue Briggs over rooftops and into the streets, where he escapes. Joe, Peter, and Quagmire are then arrested by two "police officers" for interfering in the police case. Joe soon discovers that the police officers were actually associates of Bobby Briggs. They escape and learn that Briggs is planning to travel to Juárez, Mexico. Joe finds Bobby in traffic to Mexico, where they end up in a fight. Joe eventually has Briggs at gunpoint. Joe fires a non-lethal shot at Bobby's legs, then Bobby is kicked into a river.

• Bonnie Swanson (voiced by Jennifer Tilly) – Bonnie Swanson is Joe's calm and soft-spoken wife, and mother of Kevin and Susie Swanson. She is pregnant from her first appearance in "A Hero Sits Next Door" in season one until "Ocean's Three and a Half" in season seven, when she gives birth to a daughter named Susie. Her prolonged pregnancy is pointed out by Peter in the season four episode "Blind Ambition." Joe temporarily leaves her in "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", when he regains the ability to walk. He returns to her when she tries shooting him to paralyze him. After missing several times, he shoots himself. Bonnie is arrested in "The Hand That Rocks The Wheelchair" after Meg plants a gun in her purse due to Meg's infatuation with Joe, which she acquires when Bonnie asks her to look after Joe while she is out of town. In "Foreign Affairs", Bonnie goes to Paris with Lois in the hopes of having an affair after feeling neglected by Joe. She nearly leaves Joe for a French man, also in a wheelchair, named François. After intervention from Lois, Joe comes to Paris and apologizes for neglecting her before proving his love by walking (although it is actually Quagmire walking, tied to Joe's back). Bonnie reunites with Joe and they return to Quahog. In the season ten episode "Internal Affairs," it is shown that Bonnie was once a stripper at The Fuzzy Clam where she first met Joe.

• Kevin Swanson (voiced by Jon Cryer in his debut, Seth MacFarlane in other earlier appearances, Scott Grimes in later appearances) – Kevin is Joe and Bonnie's son and first child. Meg Griffin has a crush on him. He was mainly seen in the first three seasons, only making a few occasional appearances after that with no speaking parts. In the episode "Stew-Roids", Joe said that Kevin died in the Iraq War. In "Thanksgiving", Kevin returns and tells them a story that he was in a coma following a bomb that had been placed inside a turkey during Thanksgiving years before and faked his own death in order to leave the war and return home. In "Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream," it was mentioned that Bonnie stopped Kevin's suicide attempt. In "Joe's Revenge," it is revealed that Kevin shares a room with Susie as they get to know each other.

• Susie Swanson – Susie Swanson is the baby daughter of Joe and Bonnie who was born in the episode "Ocean's Three and a Half". In the episode "Stew-Roids", it is shown that Susie is strong enough to beat up Stewie. In "Joe's Revenge," it is revealed that Susie and Kevin share a room as they get to know each other. Although Susie has not yet spoken, the voice of her thoughts is provided by Patrick Stewart.

• Cleveland Brown (voiced by Mike Henry) – Cleveland Brown is Peter Griffin's mild-mannered friend who formerly owned and ran a deli. He is an African-American male who is very polite to everyone and has a unique laugh. A running gag in the series is the front of his house being damaged, usually as a result of one of Peter's shenanigans, while Cleveland is in the upstairs bathtub. The tub always falls into the front yard with Cleveland exclaiming, "What the hell?! No, no, no, no, no, no!!!" Following his departure from Quahog, the character became the star of his own spin-off series The Cleveland Show where he now lives in Stoolbend, Virginia.

• Loretta Brown (voiced by Alex Borstein) – Loretta Brown is Cleveland's late ex-wife, and the mother of Cleveland, Jr. She had a liking for cricket and the television program Friends. Early in the show, Loretta had a minimal quantity of lines, the bulk of which were "Mm-hmm!" She treats Cleveland harshly, and eventually cheats on him with Glenn Quagmire, leading the Browns to divorce. In the episode "Love, Blactually", it is revealed that Loretta has regretted her actions and wants Cleveland back, but he refuses her advances. Cleveland informs her he needs to move on, and advises her to do the same. She takes Cleveland's house in the divorce and puts it up for sale, yet is still apparently living there some months later. In The Cleveland Show episode "Gone with the Wind", Loretta dies in an accident when Peter drops an Apatosaurus skeleton (which Brian had dug up from the Griffin Family's yard) on her house and she goes through the same bathtub gag that Cleveland went through which she doesn't survive. Quagmire ended up driving her body down to Stoolbend for her funeral.

• Cleveland Brown, Jr. (voiced by Mike Henry in "Family Guy," Kevin Michael Richardson in "The Cleveland Show") – Cleveland Brown Jr. is the son to Cleveland and Loretta Brown. In his appearances on Family Guy, he is slim, hyperactive and has an apparent knack for golf. However, after leaving Quahog with his father in the first episode The Cleveland Show, he is somewhat older and both severely obese and somewhat lethargic. Also, it is revealed that he has lost his faith in God because of the affair his mother had with Quagmire that led to his parents' divorce.

• Mort Goldman (voiced by John G. Brennan) – Mort Goldman is a Jewish pharmacist with Polish ancestry, and one of Peter's friends. He runs Goldman's Pharmacy and was married to Muriel Goldman with whom he has one son Neil. Mort's defining characteristics are stereotypically Jewish such as his whiny neuroticism, his chronic hypochondria, his wimpy attitude and his general gawkiness. Mort frequently discusses his various disgusting maladies and childhood bullying in otherwise polite conversation. He takes on the characteristics of Sol Rosenberg, a character from The Jerky Boys created by Johnny Brennan in the late 1980s. Although he first appeared one season after his son Neil, Mort has since become a major supporting character. Mort also bowled a perfect game in the episode "Blind Ambition". Mort plays a jawa in the "Blue Harvest" episode, and Lando Calrissian in the "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and "It's a Trap!" episodes.

• Muriel Goldman (voiced by Nicole Sullivan) – Muriel is Mort's wife, whose physical appearance is very close to her husband's. She met Mort via a video dating service, presumably during their youth, as they had their first kiss at age of fourteen while both of them were suffering from a head cold. Later in her life, one of her main recreations was watching old films along with the album Hotel California to find if any of them synchronize. She was murdered in the Season 9 premiere "And Then There Were Fewer" by being stabbed in the back by Diane Simmons.

• Neil Goldman (voiced by Seth Green) – Neil Goldman is Mort's stereotypical nerdy son, who has an unrequited crush on Meg Griffin. He is the editor of the school newspaper, is part of the A/V Club, and works at his father's pharmacy where he is employee of the month, according to Family Guy Online. He is more confident than his father, so much so that he does not seem to realize that Meg has nothing but contempt for him. At one point in the series, both Neil and Meg become interns at Channel 5, and they share a kiss. Neil speaks with a lisp when he wears his retainer, but when he removes it, he speaks with a deep, smooth bass (cf. the apocryphal story that Demosthenes improved his elocutionary skills by holding stones in his mouth during everyday speech). Seth MacFarlane does his voice (nearly identical to the voice of Stan Smith from McFarlane's American Dad!) until Neil puts his retainer back in. He has made few appearances in the series in recent years, being absent entirely in the fifth and eighth seasons, and only making silent cameo appearances during the ninth and eleventh. "Peter's Daughter," "Stew-Roids," and "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter" are to date the only episodes since the fourth season where he has spoken. His reaction to his mother's murder is still unknown. In "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter", Neil says that he cannot dissect the fetal pig in biology class for religious reasons where his teacher remarks that it's no thrill for a pig to touch a Jew either.

• John Herbert (voiced by Mike Henry) – Herbert is an elderly pederast, who resides just down the street from the Griffin family and distributes popsicles to small children in his basement. He has a particular interest in Chris; in the episode "Play It Again, Brian", Chris finally realizes this and asks Herbert, "Are you a pedophile?", to no onscreen answer. Also, in "Spies Reminiscent of Us", Stewie refers to a "pedophile who lives down the street" against whom nobody is taking any action "because he's so funny", clearly talking about Herbert. He has a dog named Jesse, who is also very old and is unable to use his hind legs. He has a high-pitched, very soft effeminate voice and pronounces sibilant consonants with a high-pitched whistle. Herbert is often seen wearing a light blue robe and slippers, walks with a walker and frequently makes inappropriate, sexually tinged comments to teenage boys (in "Road to the North Pole", Herbert wants a little drummer boy for Christmas, while staring at a poster of Nick Jonas). It is revealed later on that he is the eldest member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He was also a corporal in the United States Army and a POW during World War II. Herbert plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Blue Harvest", "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and "It's a Trap!" episodes. In "And Then There Were Fewer" he drove an ice cream truck which in past episodes he has used to lure little boys. In "Internal Affairs" Herbert's ice cream truck is hijacked and destroyed during one of Peter & Ernie's fighting rampages. In an interview, Mike Henry stated that he based Herbert's voice on an old man he used to meet at a grocery store. Before the character was used for the show, Mike would use the Herbert voice to motivate stalled writers at meetings. He also appeared in The Cleveland Show episode "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown" as Cleveland Jr.'s first house when he was trick or treating. In "Valentine's Day in Quahog," it is revealed that Herbert's first name is John and that he has a grandniece named Sandy.