Donna Tubbs is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy. Donna Tubbs is the second and current wife of Cleveland Brown. She is 42 years old and works as the principal’s secretary at Stoolbend High School. She has two biological children from her previous marriage with Robert: Roberta and Rallo.
As a result of her marriage to Cleveland, she has gained a stepson Cleveland Brown Jr. She appears in The Splendid Source having dinner with Cleveland’s old friends. She still wants a real wedding gift. The Griffins, Swansons, and Quagmire had attended Cleveland and Donna’s wedding in the pilot of Cleveland Show. Donna appears in Cool Hand Peter when Lois Griffin and the girls cut loose while the guys go on a road trip.
Dona attended Brian’s funeral in Life of Brian. She is also seen in Baby Got Black sleeping when Peter, Quagmire and Joe prank call Cleveland and join the neighbors for Thanksgiving dinner in Turkey Guys. Fed up with Cleveland’s suggestion that he do more activities with Lois in Dr. C & the Women Peter threatens to tell Donna about Cleveland sleeping with a stripper at his bachelor party, causing him to run and hide. After being gone for two days, Donna calls Lois who sends Peter out to search for him. Donna appears at Peter’s imagined funeral in #Jolo. In addition, Cleveland mentions that Donna’s “fat aunt” is visiting. The only aunt shown originally in The Cleveland Show was her Auntie Mama, who was her Uncle Kevin in disguise to give her a female role model.
Donna attends Peter’s backyard picnic with her family in Hot Pocket-Dial. Later, Peter and Lois share a laugh over her wearing shiny gold shorts during a parent-teacher conference. Cleveland reveals that Donna’s mother, Dee Dee Tubbs shot and killed herself in Candy Quahog Marshmallow noting that the funeral went well. In Passenger Fatty-Seven Lois mentions that she and the other girls had a planned trip to Donna’s sister’s timeshare planned. Donna has a sister named Janet. She has a crowd scene cameo in No Giggity, No Doubt. Having been friends for years before getting married, Cleveland and Donna have a close relationship both sexually and platonically. Donna comes off as much more patient and understanding than Cleveland’s first wife and is more attentive to him as well. She does slap Cleveland occasionally, but it’s only to toughen him up or to get him to stand up for himself. Her relationship with her children meanwhile is somewhat shaky, as both her children are the result of a broken home and a neglectful father.
Donna does her best to keep her children under control but is aware that they need a father figure at times. Yet despite any issues that she and her kids have, it’s clear that they care for one another. An often-used source of comedy comes from Donna’s stereotypical Southern expressions, often starting with “Sweet” and ending with two rhyming phrases, such as “Sweet candy and Jessica Tandy!