Jeffrey “Jeff” Fecalman (Family Guy)

Jeffrey “Jeff” Fecalman is a minor antagonist from Family Guy. He appeared briefly in the season 8 episode, "Jerome is the New Black", and made another appearance as the main antagonist in the infamous season 10 episode, "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q". He is the abusive boyfriend of Brenda Quagmire, Glenn's sister.

Why He's Intentionally a Terrible Boyfriend

 * 1) To get the cat out of the room, he is portrayed as an extremely poor, insensitive and insulting representation of a domestic abuser in such a relationship with a girlfriend, due to how his role as an abusive boyfriend has been take up to 11 as well as how flat and one-dimensional his characterization is written out as listed below, which just shows how the writers didn't bother to do any research on the domestic abuser-type characters and how they act like in real life.
 * 2) * More infuriatingly, his portrayal as an abusive husband and how he is handled as a whole is written strictly as a joke.
 * 3) * We never learn why he was very abusive after he died as well as Quagmire, Joe, and Peter never finding out why.
 * 4) He has no personality or character development other than being overly mean-spirited and hateful.
 * 5) He barely seems to have no knowledge how to treat girlfriends like this.
 * 6) He complains about everything and is always in a bad mood for an unexplained reason.
 * 7) He is highly abusive towards his girlfriend, Brenda, who is too intimidated to stand up for herself and just accepts the abuse he throws at her.
 * 8) * In fact, Brenda is so scared of Jeff that she just accepts it as if it is a normal thing in a relationship.
 * 9) Most of the time he'll abuse Brenda right in front of people and still get away with it.
 * 10) His last name is just laughably stupid. What kind of a last name is Fecalman anyway?
 * 11) Even after finding out Brenda was pregnant, Jeff still intends to violently beat her, which could lead to an unhealthy pregnancy or even worse, a miscarriage!
 * 12) He’ll get mad at Brenda over small and ridiculous things, like accidentally parking in a handicap space, and smacks her because he didn't understand a joke while watching The Jay Leno Show. WHAT?
 * 13) He is very demanding and throws Brenda around without giving her a break.
 * 14) He is also a xenophobe, as Brenda has said that he hates immigrants. However, this may be an excuse for the writers to justify his death.
 * 15) Unlike any other Family Guy characters, he has no proper redeeming or comedic qualities at all. Even Herbert Silverman had comedic moments and saved Chris and Peter from their German neighbor.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) For most of the time, he at least accurately portrayed how not all domestic abusers are cowards.
 * 2) Like most other Family Guy characters, his design is decent.
 * 3) Ralph Garman does a decent job portraying him.
 * 4) He got his comeuppance in "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q" where he was killed by Quagmire. In fact, his death was justifiable.
 * 5) Despite his poor portrayal as a domestic abuser, he still supposed to be hated.

Reception
Many critics have bashed Family Guy's depiction of Jeff. This is because, unlike many abusers in real-life, Jeff openly abused Brenda in front of others and in public, a sign that the show's producers didn't do any research. This is because real-life abusers generally abuse their spouses behind the scenes rather than out in the open, and rarely over the top in their methods and behavior.