Cartoon gaiety.

Carlos Alazraqui, the voice of Taco Bell's hot chihuahua, also spouts off in Fox TV's new animated hit Family Guy--as the Family gay. He plays fastidious Latin American Mr. Weed, boss man to the title character, toy-factory cog Peter Griffin. The "crush-prone" Weed has so far "only hinted" at his orientation, Alazraqui says, but the hints drop hard: In the pilot Weed somehow wound up with the detached penis from Michelangelo's David and lovingly named it Eduardo. Such irreverence--and stereotyping--"will probably offend some people," says Gary Janetti, a consulting Guy producer who's out, but he promises Weed will "explore his sexuality more fully." Indeed, in the May 2 episode he dallies with a "buffed" employee. And seeing that The Simpsons and Family GUy are back-to-back Sunday nights, might Weed develop a tie-in crush on that other honcho, Mr. Burns? "That could be fun to play off," Janetti says. Tell that to Smithers.