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BiographyFamily In the beginning of the series, Cleveland is married to Loretta Brown; the two divorce in season 4 episode 5, The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire. The couple have a son, Cleveland Junior. Cleveland also has a brother named Broderick, a plastic surgeon who makes an appearance in the episode "He's Too Sexy For His Fat," Cleveland now dates Bernice, a bossy African-American women (like ex-wife Loretta.)Personality Cleveland is something of an enigma. While Cleveland is usually shown as gentle and non-threatening, he occasionally has violent outbursts. For example, at various times during the show, Cleveland has shot Skeet Ulrich, tried to kill Glenn Quagmire after finding out he slept with his wife, and vandalized Brian's taxi after Brian drove past him and didn't pick him up (Ironically, Brian reason for not picking him up was because he didn't notice Cleveland and actually rushed off to run an errand) Still, despite these flareups, Cleveland remains one of the most levelheaded characters on the show, often trying to be a voice of reason for other characters and their harebrained schemes. His speech is very slow and elongated due to a strike to the head he suffered while he was an Auctioneer. Two moving men knocked over a totem pole which slowed his speech. There was a mistake in one of the episodes concerning his speech. In the episode mentioned below, he has the same slow speech as he has currently, yet the totem pole accident didn't happen until after he met Peter. He is unbelievably naive sometimes and does not use metaphors or any such language- preferring to use blunt and somewhat archaic statements in his usual long-winded manner. He shows a stereotypically pro-black point of view, perhaps mainly due to pressure from his wife, who herself does not allow white literature in the house and argues that white people should not be allowed to play sports. He also has a habit of taking baths during Peter's shenanigans, as seen on Barely Legal. Cleveland and Peter Cleveland and Peter met one night, presumably in the early-mid 70's, when Peter was attempting to hitchhike a ride back to Rhode Island. Assuming from their dialogue, Cleveland had recently been dating or married to a woman named Maxine and she had cheated on him. This probably motivated him to hit the road. After an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan (whom Peter thought were ghosts) near the South Carolina border, Peter and Cleveland arrived in Rhode Island, where Cleveland stayed and moved into a house across the street from the Griffins. Peter is also the witness of the miracle that Cleveland performed of making a cow fly as a kite. A running gag in the series is that Peter destroys his house on many occasions. Cleveland and Loretta Cleveland and Loretta divorce after she has an affair with Quagmire, citing Cleveland's lack of passion as the reason for her infidelity, in the episode "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire". After a short burst of rage, Cleveland forgives Glenn and the two remain friends (Quagmire insists that the two box to make up for it, in a reference to the end of Rocky III). |