Character
Mayor West is characterized as an intense, soft-spoken crackpot whose delusions often come at great expense and sometimes danger to citizens of Quahog. His psychotic whims include dispatching the entire Quahog police department to Cartagena, Colombia, to search for the fictional character Elaine Wilder from the film Romancing the Stone, or wasting council money on a solid gold statue of the Dig 'Em frog and cementing coffins since he is afraid the dead will return as zombies. Despite his antics, it is widely agreed that he is a much better office holder than most U.S. presidents, even taking his fictionality into consideration. He was also in a short, one-episode relationship with Meg Griffin. Later in the series, Brian saw Meg with Mayor West at a restaurant to which she responded - "yeah, this still happens sometimes." In the episode "420", he legalizes marijuana after listening to a song Brian sings, only to re-criminalize it a few days later when Brian sings a song condemning the substance. He is also a Russian sleeper spy activated by the phrase, "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet." In the episode "Brothers & Sisters", he gets married to Lois' sister Carol. In Road to the Multiverse, it is revealed that he is 95% helium.
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