Cleveland Orenthal Brown Sr. is a fictional character from the
animated television series Family Guy, and its spin-off series The
Cleveland Show. Since 2020, his voice is provided by YouTuber and
voice impressionist Arif Zahir. He was previously voiced by Mike Henry
from 1999 until 2020. As one of Peter Griffin's neighbors and friends,
Cleveland is also one of the few recurring African American characters
on the show. He was conceived during the seventh-inning stretch of a
Cleveland Indians game. His established profession was that of a deli
owner, before he switched over to being a postal worker after his
return to Family Guy.In the earlier seasons of Family Guy, Cleveland
frequently appeared alongside his wife Loretta Brown (voiced by Alex
Borstein), until their divorce was portrayed in the Family Guy season
4 episode "The Clevelandâ€"Loretta Quagmire". The pilot episode of The
Cleveland Show depicts Cleveland's farewell to the familiar characters
and settings of Family Guy. The Cleveland Show establishes its setting
of Stoolbend, Virginia as Cleveland's childhood home town, and
introduces a new family and set of characters supporting Cleveland as
lead. Following The Cleveland Show's cancellation in 2013, Cleveland
returned to Family Guy the following year.Cleveland is usually
depicted as exceedingly peaceful, patient, and sweet, and only on rare
occasions has he been known to lose his temper and resort to violence.
However, Cleveland gets visibly annoyed with racist behavior. He often
acts as the voice of caution when other characters hatch harebrained
schemes. Cleveland's speech is slow, almost elongated. Various
flashbacks give conflicting histories of his speech patterns. A
flashback in the episode "Death Lives" shows that Peter Griffin met
Cleveland in the 1970s, when Cleveland already spoke in the slow
manner that he is known for. Likewise, in the premiere of his
spin-off, it is revealed that Cleveland talked in a slow manner when
he was in high school. In the fourth season episode "Blind Ambition",
an out-of-continuity flashback depicts Cleveland as a fast-talking
auctioneer when a totem pole falls over onto his head, resulting in a
slower rate of speech.One of the running gags throughout the series is
that Peter's shenanigans frequently destroy the front wall of
Cleveland's house, revealing him in the bathtub. He then exclaims:
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!" as the upstairs floor tilts and the
tub crashes to the ground. In the pilot of his spin-off, this gag was
the last straw that convinced Cleveland to leave Quahog. However, even
several states away, the Griffins' antics are still seen to cause this
event, such as when debris from the missile that Brian, Stewie, Dan
Aykroyd and Chevy Chase destroy happens to fall right on Cleveland's
new house in the episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us". In "Brian's Got a
Brand New Bag", Cleveland's now-unoccupied house is destroyed when
Peter watches the movie Road House and beats up Brian, which results
in a car crashing into the house, and the empty bathtub crashes to the
ground. Afterward, Peter says "Oh, that's right. Cleveland moved." In
the Cleveland Show episode "Gone with the Wind", the same running gag
affects his former wife Loretta Brown, and she winds up dead after
breaking her neck on the ground. In Something, Something, Dark Side,
this gag is parodied when R2-D2 (played by Cleveland) slips off Luke's
(Chris Griffin) X-Wing ship and falls into the swamp after they crash
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