Character from Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane / Fox
Quahog 5 News's field reporter — always at the scene of something terrible, maintaining composure through hurricanes, flu outbreaks, and one incident involving a Renaissance fair jester.
Tricia Takanawa is explicitly the show's parody of racial tokenism in television news — a joke that works because it's true, delivered via Alex Borstein's dry deadpan. She reports from wherever she's sent, which is usually somewhere unpleasant. The show gives her the occasional personality detail — a notable obsession with David Bowie that breaks her professional composure completely — but mostly she functions as the field element of the Quahog media machine. She has been knocked down by a flying car, vomited on-air during a flu epidemic, and interviewed Jason Voorhees at a Renaissance fair, which the show treated as Tuesday.
A Japanese-American woman in professional news attire with the neat, camera-ready presentation of someone who understands that being a racial token in a local newsroom requires always looking prepared. Carries her microphone with a practiced ease that doesn't waver even when the story warrants wavering.
Also known as: Tricia