* Stewie Speer, an Australian drummer best known as a member of the 1960s – 70s group Max Merritt & The Meteors

For four to five nights a week, and Sunday afternoons, up to 200 people would gather in the upstairs room to hear Brian Brown, Stewie Speer, Alan Lee, Graeme Morgan, Keith Hounslow, the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band and many other local jazz musicians, and Jazz Centre 44 remained a major venue for jazz in Melbourne for almost a decade.

Many leading jazz performers like Graeme Lyall, Stewie Speer and John Sangster worked with rock groups and absorbed important stylistic influences from the Motown, soul music and funk genres.

Stewie Speer ( Stewart Speer, 26 June 1928 – 16 September 1986 ) was an Australian jazz and rock drummer who is best known as a member ( 1967 – 1976, 1980 ) of the Australasian group Max Merritt & The Meteors.

After recruiting flamboyant NZ-born bass player John " Yuk " Harrison ( ex Invaders, Heart ' n ' Soul ) Merritt invited Stewie Speer to join as their new drummer in May 1967.

Stewie Speer returned to live in Sydney in 1980, and he remained active on the local scene, although the health problems stemming from the 1967 car accident affected him increasingly during his last years.

Only weeks after joining, Bertles, Merritt and drummer Stewie Speer narrowly escaped death after their van collided head-on with a truck on the way to a country dance ; all three were seriously injured and Bertles was left with a permanent limp.

Turmoil within The Meteors saw a rapid turn-over of members and by May, Merritt with Bob Birtles on saxophone, Stewart " Stewie " Speer on drums and John " Yuk " Harrison on bass guitar, decided to relocate to Melbourne.

On the second tour he put together a band with Stewie Speer on drums, Paul Grant on guitar, John Williams on keyboards, Martin Jenner on guitar and Phil Lawson on bass.

* Stewie Speer ( 1967 – 1976, 1980 ) — drums

In 2005 she voiced her Beverly Hills, 90210 character Kelly Taylor, as well as an additional role in the DVD Film Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

In addition to writing three episodes, " Death Has a Shadow ", " Family Guy Viewer Mail 1 " and " North by North Quahog ", MacFarlane voices Family Guys main characters – Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin and Glenn Quagmire as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake and additional characters.

In the " Road to ..." series, which is a parody of the Road to film series, Brian and Stewie have gone on various trips to different locations, including Europe, World War II-era England, Poland, and Nazi Germany, as well as a number of different realities across the Multiverse.

It appears as comic relief in The Simpsons episodes " The Last Temptation of Homer " and " Midnight Rx "; as well as on Family Guy in the episode " E. Peterbus Unum " where Stewie is curious about the sound Achmed " makes when you're about to assassinate an infidel ".

PTV becomes a huge success, and Brian and Stewie, impressed by the hits, join in to help Peter expand his television programming, as well as performing their own show " Cheeky Bastard " sitcom on PTV.

In his well armed craft, Stewie easily slaughters the defenseless sperm with one exception: Bertram, who seems to be just as diabolically clever as Stewie himself.

* When Stewie is flying the ship, the ship's computer voice ( Majel Barrett ) is the same computer voice heard in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Star Trek: Voyager and, occasionally, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Minutes before the glue is to dissolve, Stewie and Brian discover a little girl stuck in a deep well.

Brian lowers Stewie into the well ( while Stewie questions why there is a Seventeenth-century well existing in a modern-day town ) and they manage to rescue her with seconds to spare ( a local man with elongated arms could have done it but he was too busy tickling a midget in a tree ).

Since it would not have existed, it could not have created Stewie, so Stewie would not have existed.

Pardon the Interruption is unique in its studio layout, featuring a " wall " full of cut-out cardboard heads of athletes and celebrities that have previously been used in the " Role Play " segment, bobblehead dolls of the show's hosts and Reali, Etch-A-Sketch art of Kornheiser and Wilbon, and several other toys and trinkets they have received, such as Kornheiser's beloved " Leg Lamp " from A Christmas Story, Stewie Griffin and Elmo.

Other comic strips are often the butt of punchlines, and several cartoon characters from outside Pearls have appeared, most frequently the main cast of The Family Circus, and even in one circumstance, Stewie from Family Guy appeared in the strip on April 20th of 2008, holding a candy cane, for a reference to the saying, " It's like taking candy from a baby.

Several commentators, including Ware himself, have noted similarities between Seth MacFarlane's Stewie Griffin character from the animated series Family Guy and Jimmy Corrigan.

However, several of the characters, such as Meg Griffin, have aged two to three years since the show's pilot episode, while others, such as Stewie and Brian, have remained the same age.

For example, entire sequences of the Family Guy two-part episode " Stewie Kills Lois " and " Lois Kills Stewie " are revealed to have taken place within a virtual reality simulation, upon which a character asks whether a potential viewer could be angry that they have effectively watched a dream sequence, but this technique can also be effective and its use lauded when the status of dream or reality is left more ambiguous as it was in The Wizard of Oz.

Stewie recovers first, and has Bertram at knifepoint, before he realizes that they have much in common, that they both want to kill Lois.

Angered and upset that his plans have been discovered, Stewie runs upstairs.

The pair eventually complete their journey home by riding in an open boxcar, where Brian attempts to apologize to Stewie for all of the trouble he has put both of them through, only to have Stewie reply that he actually enjoyed it.

The teacher asks her students if they have any questions concerning the video, to which a pupil asks if the Griffin family can actually understand Stewie or not, before the episode abruptly ends.

The episode consists of three segments, each said by Brian and Stewie to have been suggested by a viewer.

Brian and Stewie introduce the show, consisting of three short stories in response to requests they have received from viewers.

When Chris Griffin in Family Guy in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was required by his mother Lois Griffin to mention the fourth member of Sex and the City, he couldn't come up with the correct answer, he instead took a wild and very inaccurate guess by saying it was Scrappy Doo.

In 2004, the first series of Family Guy toy figurines was released by Mezco Toyz, each member of the Griffin family had their own toy, with the exception of Stewie, of whom two different figures were made.

* Family Guy episode Road to Rupert reworked the Jerry Mouse dancing scene replacing Jerry with Stewie Griffin, though Jerry's reflection on the floor is still visible.

In a lengthy sequence completely unconnected to the main plot of the episode, after preventing Osama bin Laden from sending a hostile message to the United States, Stewie, parodying the opening scene for The Naked Gun, rides off on his tricycle, cycling through scenes from various movies and video games.

Lois encourages Stewie to star as the baby Jesus in a nativity scene during the Quahog Christmas pageant.

In the scene, Stewie, when approaching airport security, realizes that his bag is full of weapons.

* The snack that Stewie is eating after the scene with Adam West in the toilet are Fig Newtons.

For instance, he buys eight cases of ipecac so he can hold a vomiting contest with Brian, Chris, and Stewie ; although Chris technically wins, all four vomit in a scene lasting 56 seconds.

" twice, both after two characters make a statement starting with " I can't believe ..." In one scene, When Liddane babysits Stewie, they play a game of Jenga.

In a scene Stewie is shown playing Marco Polo with Helen Keller.