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Meg eventually confesses and Lois urges the town to enjoy life without television. Peter throws himself into outdoor activities, exhausting the family, then leaves for a festival with William Shatner. Stewie's machine brings a storm; during a driving lesson Meg hits both men, killing Shatner. Peter recovers in a full body cast in front of a television and is hooked once more.","viewersMillions":14.5,"imdb":"tt0576942"},{"id":"s01e03","code":"S01E03","title":"Chitty Chitty Death Bang","season":1,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":3,"airDate":"1999-04-18","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s01e03-chitty-chitty-death-bang/","synopsis":"Lois books Cheesie Charlie's for Stewie's first birthday and sends Peter to drop off the deposit. Peter argues with the manager, cancels the booking and tells Lois the restaurant is run by Nazis. Stewie misreads the word birthday and expects the man in white who delivered him to return him to the womb. Unable to arrange a party in time, Peter diverts a circus into the back garden. He also lets Meg go to a party at her new friend Jennifer's house, which is really a cult gathering planning a mass suicide with poisoned punch. Peter fetches Meg home for Lois and pulls her away before she drinks. The cult members die, and their leader, in a white robe, follows the pair home. Stewie mistakes him for the man in white and vaporises him with a laser.","viewersMillions":13.78,"imdb":"tt0576924"},{"id":"s01e04","code":"S01E04","title":"Mind Over Murder","season":1,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":4,"airDate":"1999-04-25","directedBy":["Roy Allen Smith"],"writtenBy":["Neil Goldman","Garrett Donovan"],"path":"/episodes/s01e04-mind-over-murder/","synopsis":"Stewie is teething. When Lois says the pain will pass in time, he starts building a machine to skip ahead. Lois asks Peter to take Chris to football and come straight back, but Quagmire has beer and Peter stays. Peter punches a spectator who insults Chris and finds she is a pregnant woman. Placed under house arrest, Peter opens a bar in the basement. Lois objects until she gets to sing for the crowd, and Peter grows jealous of the attention. Lois finds Stewie's plans and shows them off, so Stewie sets the machine to rewind to before he drew them. Quagmire starts a fire that traps Peter and Lois in the bar. Time rewinds to Lois's original request; Peter trips over the machine, breaking it and hurting his leg, and the teething goes on.","viewersMillions":11.69,"imdb":"tt0576948"},{"id":"s01e05","code":"S01E05","title":"A Hero Sits Next Door","season":1,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":5,"airDate":"1999-05-02","directedBy":["Monte Young"],"writtenBy":["Mike Barker","Matt Weitzman"],"path":"/episodes/s01e05-a-hero-sits-next-door/","synopsis":"Mr Weed brings in Guillermo, a ringer, for the toy factory's annual softball game. Peter, filling in as pitcher, injures him with a wild throw and must find a replacement or be sacked. Lois wants Peter to befriend the new neighbours, the Swansons, but he is rude to them. Meg develops a crush on their son Kevin. When Lois mentions that Joe Swanson played baseball at college, Peter apologises and recruits him. Peter learns at the ballpark that Joe uses a wheelchair. Joe plays well and the team wins. At his party Joe reveals he is a police officer, paralysed fighting the Grinch on an orphanage roof. Jealous, Peter tries to stop a bank robbery; he and Brian end up as hostages, and Joe talks the robbers down. 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He finally listens to Chris and accepts that his son is an artist. Back at the casino, they recover the car.","viewersMillions":11.2,"imdb":"tt0576972"},{"id":"s01e07","code":"S01E07","title":"Brian: Portrait of a Dog","season":1,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":7,"airDate":"1999-05-16","directedBy":["Michael Dante DiMartino"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s01e07-brian-portrait-of-a-dog/","synopsis":"A heatwave hits Quahog and the Griffins have no air conditioning. Peter talks a reluctant Brian into a dog show with a $500 prize. Brian performs his tricks but refuses to balance a biscuit on his nose, finding it demeaning, and walks out. They argue, Brian is fined under the leash law, and Peter brings up finding him as a stray. Brian leaves home and ends up sleeping in a bus shelter. After attacking a man who took him for a drunk, Brian is arrested and sentenced to death. He studies law and pleads his case before the city council, which will not listen to a dog. Peter makes an emotional appeal and then bribes each councillor with $20. Brian is freed and drinks from a public fountain. Back home he licks Peter's face and warns him to keep it quiet.","viewersMillions":13.1,"imdb":"tt0576923"},{"id":"s02e01","code":"S02E01","title":"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater","season":2,"episodeInSeason":1,"episodeOverall":8,"airDate":"1999-09-23","directedBy":["Jeff Myers"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s02e01-peter-peter-caviar-eater/","synopsis":"Lois's wealthy aunt Marguerite Pewterschmidt dies on the Griffins' doorstep. A videotaped will leaves Lois Cherrywood Manor, an estate in Newport, Rhode Island. The family move in and the staff greet them with a song, This House Is Freakin' Sweet, before revealing they were paid only until it ended. Peter rehires them, having sold the Quahog house without telling Lois. Out of place in Newport society, Peter has Brian try to make him a gentleman using shock therapy and Frasier. At a charity auction Peter bids $100 million for a vase. To cover the debt he fabricates claims to get the manor listed as a landmark. He then finds hidden photographs showing the house was once a brothel visited by Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln. The pictures make the property valuable; Peter sells one to a tabloid and buys back the family home.","viewersMillions":7.72,"imdb":"tt0576959"},{"id":"s02e02","code":"S02E02","title":"Holy Crap","season":2,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":9,"airDate":"1999-09-30","directedBy":["Neil Affleck"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s02e02-holy-crap/","synopsis":"Peter's father Francis, devoutly religious and newly retired from the sawmill, comes to stay with the Griffins. He is intolerant of the family and makes life difficult for them. Peter still wants to bond with his father. When nothing else works, he poses as the Pope's driver and kidnaps him, bringing him home to mediate. Peter and Francis make peace, and the Pope hires Francis as a bodyguard for his US tour. Peter's mother then turns up wanting to move in, and the family flee in an escape pod.","viewersMillions":5.4,"imdb":"tt0576940"},{"id":"s02e03","code":"S02E03","title":"Da Boom","season":2,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":10,"airDate":"1999-12-26","directedBy":["Bob Jaques"],"writtenBy":["Neil Goldman","Garrett Donovan"],"path":"/episodes/s02e03-da-boom/","synopsis":"On New Year's Eve 1999 Peter is warned by a man in a chicken suit that the Y2K bug will end the world. Peter locks the family in the basement. At midnight the bug triggers a nuclear holocaust that destroys most of civilisation. The Griffins survive and head for Natick, Massachusetts, where Peter hopes the Twinkie factory still stands. Stewie falls into nuclear waste on the way and begins to mutate. The factory is intact, and the family found New Quahog around it with Peter as mayor. When Peter starts making guns from the town's irrigation pipes, the citizens banish the family. Stewie, now an octopus below the waist, has laid hundreds of eggs, and the hatchlings overrun the town. The Griffins set off for a Carvel factory in Framingham. A live action epilogue reveals the whole story as a dream of Pam Ewing from Dallas.","viewersMillions":9.37,"imdb":"tt0576925"},{"id":"s02e04","code":"S02E04","title":"Brian in Love","season":2,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":11,"airDate":"2000-03-07","directedBy":["Jack Dyer"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s02e04-brian-in-love/","synopsis":"Someone is urinating around the house and Stewie gets the blame, though Brian is the culprit. At the supermarket checkout Brian wets himself in front of the family, clearing Stewie. Brian sees a psychiatrist, Dr Kaplan, who suspects a midlife crisis. Stewie later frames Brian by soaking the living room, and Brian returns to the doctor. Brian mentions that his last accident followed watching Peter and Lois in a water fight, and Kaplan concludes he is in love with Lois. Brian and Lois agree to remain friends, and Brian goes golfing with Peter.","viewersMillions":7.33,"imdb":"tt0576921"},{"id":"s02e05","code":"S02E05","title":"Love Thy Trophy","season":2,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":12,"airDate":"2000-03-14","directedBy":["Jack Dyer"],"writtenBy":["Mike Barker","Matt Weitzman"],"path":"/episodes/s02e05-love-thy-trophy/","synopsis":"The neighbours quarrel over a trophy awarded for the best float in a parade. When it is stolen, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Meanwhile Meg wants a Prada bag and takes a waitressing job at a pancake restaurant to pay for it. 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At a women's gala Gloria blames Lois's life as a housewife for Peter's old attitudes; Lois defends her choice and the two fight. Aroused, Peter rushes Lois home, and afterwards he is back to his old self, to her relief.","viewersMillions":7.62,"imdb":"tt0576941"},{"id":"s02e09","code":"S02E09","title":"If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'","season":2,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":16,"airDate":"2000-04-04","directedBy":["Swinton O. Scott III"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s02e09-if-im-dyin-im-lyin/","synopsis":"Peter and Chris's favourite television programme is taken off the air. To get it back, Peter tells the Grant-A-Dream Foundation that Chris is terminally ill. He claims that his son's last wish is for the programme's return. 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Meg then finds that the others have been replaced as well, by Fran Drescher, Tom Arnold, Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley.","viewersMillions":6.62,"imdb":"tt0576936"},{"id":"s02e13","code":"S02E13","title":"Road to Rhode Island","season":2,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":20,"airDate":"2000-05-30","directedBy":["Dan Povenmire"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s02e13-road-to-rhode-island/","synopsis":"Brian tells his psychiatrist about being taken from his mother at a Texas puppy mill, then volunteers to collect Stewie from his grandparents' home in Palm Springs. He gets drunk at the airport bar and their bags and tickets are stolen. The pair hotwire a car when their credit card is refused and wreck a plane they try to steal. Reaching the puppy mill, Brian finds his mother has died and been stuffed as a table, and he buries her in a park. They ride home in a boxcar, performing a duet. Meanwhile Lois buys relationship videos for Peter, which prove to be pornography fronted by Dr Amanda Rebecca. Peter becomes hooked, so Lois puts herself on the end of a tape in lingerie. Back home Stewie covers for Brian and asks only that Brian tape The Brady Bunch.","viewersMillions":6.47,"imdb":"tt0576962"},{"id":"s02e14","code":"S02E14","title":"Let's Go to the Hop","season":2,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":21,"airDate":"2000-06-06","directedBy":["Glen Hill"],"writtenBy":["Mike Barker","Matt Weitzman"],"path":"/episodes/s02e14-lets-go-to-the-hop/","synopsis":"Peter poses as a teenager called Lando Griffin and enrols at Meg's high school, aiming to steer the pupils away from the habit of licking toads. The disguise works and he quickly becomes one of the most popular students there. Meg hopes some of that status will rub off on her, so she invites her father to the school dance. Peter turns her down and takes Connie D'Amico, one of the popular girls, instead.","viewersMillions":5.7,"imdb":"tt0576945"},{"id":"s02e15","code":"S02E15","title":"Dammit Janet","season":2,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":22,"airDate":"2000-06-13","directedBy":["Bert Ring"],"writtenBy":["Mike Barker","Matt Weitzman"],"path":"/episodes/s02e15-dammit-janet/","synopsis":"Stewie is sent to a daycare centre so that he can learn to get along with other children. There he falls for a girl called Janet. At home, Lois feels her life has become dull and wants more excitement. Peter suggests she train as a flight attendant, and she takes the job. 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The channel is a hit, but Lois worries about its effect on children and reports it. The FCC shut PTV down despite Peter's song about their rules. Peter says real life cannot be censored, so the FCC start censoring Quahog itself. Lois supports them until the rules stop her and Peter having sex. She apologises. In Washington, Peter persuades Congress to rein in the FCC by noting how much the city's buildings resemble body parts.","viewersMillions":8.59,"imdb":"tt0576954"},{"id":"s04e15","code":"S04E15","title":"Brian Goes Back to College","season":4,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":65,"airDate":"2005-11-13","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Matt Fleckenstein"],"path":"/episodes/s04e15-brian-goes-back-to-college/","synopsis":"Dressed as The A-Team, Peter, Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland win a costume contest. Brian's report on it earns him a job offer from The New Yorker. The magazine sacks him on day one, when he admits he never finished college. Lois sends Brian back to Brown University, with Stewie tagging along in secret. His professor dislikes him until a high test score, copied from Stewie with Stewie's consent, changes that. When Brian tries to confess, the professor says the result has lifted him out of a suicidal depression. Meanwhile the four form their own A-Team, but disband after chatting with builders instead of saving a park from demolition. Facing a final exam he can only pass by cheating, Brian goes home; Lois sends him back. The A-Team reunite and drive him to the exam. Brian fails but is proud he did not cheat, which disappoints the family.","viewersMillions":9.2,"imdb":"tt0576918"},{"id":"s04e16","code":"S04E16","title":"The Courtship of Stewie's Father","season":4,"episodeInSeason":16,"episodeOverall":66,"airDate":"2005-11-20","directedBy":["Kurt Dumas"],"writtenBy":["Kirker Butler"],"path":"/episodes/s04e16-the-courtship-of-stewies-father/","synopsis":"At the Pawtucket Brewery, Peter misses Employee of the Month and fails to charm his supervisor Angela. Lois is shown Stewie's drawings of her being killed, notices only that Peter is absent from them, and asks him to bond with his son. Nothing works until a box Peter drops onto Lois's head makes Stewie laugh. Peter escalates the pranks, ending by shutting Lois in the boot of the station wagon and pushing it into the lake. When Lois confronts him Peter backs down, and Stewie feels betrayed. To make amends Peter takes him to Walt Disney World, where Stewie is captured and made to sing on the Tiny World ride until Peter frees him and the other children. Meanwhile Chris breaks Herbert's window with a baseball and works off the debt doing chores. Herbert takes him to dinner and imagines a life together, then falls asleep at the table.","viewersMillions":9,"imdb":"tt0576967"},{"id":"s04e17","code":"S04E17","title":"The Fat Guy Strangler","season":4,"episodeInSeason":17,"episodeOverall":67,"airDate":"2005-11-27","directedBy":["Sarah Frost"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s04e17-the-fat-guy-strangler/","synopsis":"Peter skips his medical to eat steak with friends, so Lois takes him to Dr Hartman, who calls him healthy but fat. Offended, Peter breaks a family photograph, and Lois spots an unfamiliar boy in it. Her father Carter denies she has a brother. Breaking into her parents' house, she finds that Patrick has spent decades in a mental hospital, having seen his mother with Jackie Gleason as a child. Lois has him released and brings him home, where he introduces an imaginary wife, Marion. Peter meanwhile founds an association for fat people. Dressed as Gleason's character Ralph Kramden, he triggers Patrick, who starts strangling fat men. Lois refuses to believe it until Brian shows her Patrick's room, full of victims and photographs. In the woods Patrick is strangling Peter when Lois threatens to stab Marion. He lets go and agrees to return to the hospital, with monthly family visits.","viewersMillions":9.85,"imdb":"tt0576935"},{"id":"s04e18","code":"S04E18","title":"The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz","season":4,"episodeInSeason":18,"episodeOverall":68,"airDate":"2005-12-18","directedBy":["James Purdum"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s04e18-the-father-the-son-and-the-holy-fonz/","synopsis":"Peter's Catholic father Francis visits and insists Stewie be baptised. The church's holy water is contaminated, so Francis baptises Stewie with it himself; the baby falls ill and is quarantined in a sterile bubble. Lois tells Peter to work out his own beliefs. He tries Mormonism, leaves on learning it bars alcohol, preaches door-to-door as a Jehovah's Witness and is thrown out of a Hindu temple after tackling the guru. Peter then founds the First United Church of the Fonz, built on Happy Days, and draws a large congregation. Brian and Francis, for different reasons, join forces against it. Sherman Hemsley, Gavin MacLeod and Kirk Cameron arrive in turn to recruit worshippers to George Jefferson, Captain Stubing and Christianity, emptying the church. Lois consoles Peter, who returns to Christianity. Francis is last seen alone, clapping to Rock Around the Clock before a picture of the Fonz.","viewersMillions":8.26,"imdb":"tt0576968"},{"id":"s04e19","code":"S04E19","title":"Brian Sings and Swings","season":4,"episodeInSeason":19,"episodeOverall":69,"airDate":"2006-01-08","directedBy":["Chuck Klein","Zac Moncrief"],"writtenBy":["Michael Rowe"],"path":"/episodes/s04e19-brian-sings-and-swings/","synopsis":"Peter reverses his car into Brian, putting him in hospital and leaving him depressed about mortality. Frank Sinatra Jr. invites Brian to sing with him, and the new outlook lifts his mood. Stewie barges into a later performance and the three become an act. After a drunken night Brian loses Stewie, who returns with part of his ear bitten off by a deer. Peter orders Brian to stop, Brian bites his arm, and Peter becomes frightened of him. Ashamed, Brian quits the act and drinks from a gutter until Stewie talks him round. Meanwhile Meg is invited to join a school club that turns out to be the Lesbian Alliance. Popularity follows, so Meg keeps up the pretence, then confesses to her friend Sarah, who had expected sex. The trio sing again until Mia Farrow, summoned by Peter, drags Frank off stage and spanks him.","viewersMillions":8.1,"imdb":"tt0576919"},{"id":"s04e20","code":"S04E20","title":"Patriot Games","season":4,"episodeInSeason":20,"episodeOverall":70,"airDate":"2006-01-29","directedBy":["Cyndi Tang"],"writtenBy":["Mike Henry"],"path":"/episodes/s04e20-patriot-games/","synopsis":"At his high school reunion Peter poses as a secret agent, astronaut and millionaire, but Tom Brady exposes the lie. Drunk, he then flattens everyone between himself and the toilet, which impresses Brady enough to get him a place on the New England Patriots. After scoring a touchdown against Dallas, Peter stages a huge performance of Shipoopi and is dropped for showboating. Traded to the London Sillinannies, a team that cannot play, he challenges the Patriots to a match. His teammates flee at kick-off, leaving Peter to be tackled alone, but Brady respects his nerve. Meanwhile Brian bets Stewie $50 on a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Carol Channing. Brian loses, refuses to pay, and Stewie beats him badly twice before he settles. Stewie grants one free revenge shot, and the wait drives Brian to paranoia. In London, Brian finally shoves him in front of a bus.","viewersMillions":8.45,"imdb":"tt0576955"},{"id":"s04e21","code":"S04E21","title":"I Take Thee Quagmire","season":4,"episodeInSeason":21,"episodeOverall":71,"airDate":"2006-03-12","directedBy":["Seth Kearsley"],"writtenBy":["Tom Maxwell","Don Woodard","Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s04e21-i-take-thee-quagmire/","synopsis":"Peter wins the bonus round on Wheel of Fortune; his prizes include a week of free maid service. He works the maid, Joan, relentlessly. Quagmire meets her, falls in love, proposes and changes his whole personality. At the wedding reception Lois's shirt tears open, showing breasts swollen since she began weaning Stewie, and Quagmire realises he wants his old life back. When he raises an annulment, Joan threatens to cut herself and him. Peter helps him fake his death, first with an unconvincing video, then with a staged heart attack and burial in an air-stocked coffin. Mayor West's order that coffins be set in concrete forces Peter to dig him up alive. Death arrives for Quagmire, but Joan grabs Death's arm and dies instead. Meanwhile Stewie, in withdrawal from breast milk, tries to pump Lois in her sleep before accepting the change, only for her to resume feeding him.","viewersMillions":8.06,"imdb":"tt0772467"},{"id":"s04e22","code":"S04E22","title":"Sibling Rivalry","season":4,"episodeInSeason":22,"episodeOverall":72,"airDate":"2006-03-26","directedBy":["Dan Povenmire"],"writtenBy":["Cherry Chevapravatdumrong"],"path":"/episodes/s04e22-sibling-rivalry/","synopsis":"After a pregnancy scare Peter agrees to a vasectomy, first depositing sperm at a bank in case of another child. He knocks over every sample and refills the containers himself. A lesbian couple use one and bear Bertram, Stewie's half-brother from \"Emission Impossible\". Bertram declares war on Stewie for the playground. An aerial dogfight ends in stalemate, so Bertram uses Stewie's new girlfriend to infect him with chickenpox. Once recovered, Stewie defeats Bertram in a sword fight. He is later seen digging a hole with Christopher Moltisanti, for a tree. Meanwhile Peter loses interest in sex after the operation and Lois turns to food. When Peter mocks her weight she eats more out of spite and becomes obese, which revives their sex life, so Peter feeds her further. Her heart fails during sex; surgeons remove the fat, and Peter is later found kissing it in a cupboard.","viewersMillions":7.95,"imdb":"tt0760673"},{"id":"s04e23","code":"S04E23","title":"Deep Throats","season":4,"episodeInSeason":23,"episodeOverall":73,"airDate":"2006-04-09","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Alex Borstein"],"path":"/episodes/s04e23-deep-throats/","synopsis":"Meg interns for Mayor West, and Brian, afraid of becoming the family's new Meg, starts driving a taxi. A $400 parking ticket convinces him the mayor is corrupt, and Stewie joins his investigation. An informant in a car park, Kermit the Frog, tells them where West will be that night. Spying through a motel wall, they find the mayor in a romance with Meg. Brian photographs the pair and threatens to go to the press. Meg tells West, who ends the relationship to protect her from the publicity. Overhearing this, Brian destroys the photographs and apologises. Cleveland then wrecks the taxi, believing Brian refused him a ride. Meanwhile Peter and Lois revive their 1980s folk act for a community talent show. Struggling to write songs, they take up marijuana and stay stoned. They perform, believe they have triumphed, and lose; Chris explains they were too high to sing.","viewersMillions":7.83,"imdb":"tt0789409"},{"id":"s04e24","code":"S04E24","title":"Peterotica","season":4,"episodeInSeason":24,"episodeOverall":74,"airDate":"2006-04-23","directedBy":["Kurt Dumas"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s04e24-peterotica/","synopsis":"At a sex shop with Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland, Peter buys an erotic novel and finds it poor. He sends the author a sample of how he would do it, and his friends urge him to write his own. His novels sell well and become audiobooks read by Betty White, published by Carter Pewterschmidt for $5 in photocopies. A driver aroused by one recording crashes into the Kool-Aid Man's house and sues Carter into ruin. Carter arrives to shoot Peter, but Lois talks him down and the Griffins take him in. Barbara divorces him and marries Ted Turner. Peter tries to teach Carter ordinary life and money-making, including a failed train robbery. Barbara returns rich, having divorced Turner for half his assets, and Carter abandons Peter. Lois then admits she refused $10 million from her parents ten years earlier. Meanwhile Stewie trains in gymnastics for the Olympics.","viewersMillions":7.91,"imdb":"tt0795813"},{"id":"s04e25","code":"S04E25","title":"You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives","season":4,"episodeInSeason":25,"episodeOverall":75,"airDate":"2006-04-30","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["David A. Goodman"],"path":"/episodes/s04e25-you-may-now-kiss-the-uh-guy-who-receives/","synopsis":"Brian's cousin Jasper arrives with his Filipino boyfriend Ricardo and announces they are to marry. Everyone is pleased except Lois, who opposes same-sex marriage. Mayor West, having put the town in debt with a gold statue of the cereal mascot Dig 'Em, proposes a ban on gay marriage to distract voters. Brian gathers 10,000 signatures against it. Lois will not add hers, and leaves for her parents' house with Stewie. Chris, who joined the Young Republicans to impress a girl called Alyssa, burns the petition for a promised grope. Brian collects 10,000 more, but West throws them out of the window; Brian seizes a guard's gun and takes the mayor hostage. There, Lois sees that her parents no longer love each other and changes her mind. She persuades Brian to surrender. West drops the ban and the charges, and marries Jasper and Ricardo in the Griffins' garden.","viewersMillions":7.82,"imdb":"tt0799099"},{"id":"s04e26","code":"S04E26","title":"Petergeist","season":4,"episodeInSeason":26,"episodeOverall":76,"airDate":"2006-05-07","directedBy":["Sarah Frost"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin","Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s04e26-petergeist/","synopsis":"Joe builds a home cinema, so Peter starts digging a multiplex in his back garden out of spite. He unearths a Native American skull, names it Chief Diamond Phillips and keeps it as a toy despite Brian's pleas to rebury it. That night the house turns paranormal: Stewie talks to television static, the kitchen furniture stacks itself, Peter tears his face off to reveal Hank Hill, and a tree attacks Chris until Herbert rescues him. Lois disbelieves it all until Stewie is pulled into his wardrobe. A medium explains that the wardrobe leads into the spirit world and Meg's backside leads out. Lois goes in and brings Stewie back, and the spirits swallow the house. Homeless, the family learn the skull must be reburied, trace it to Carrot Top's mansion and recover it in a hall of mirrors. The house returns, and Peter swaps the television for Meg.","viewersMillions":8.4,"imdb":"tt0799098"},{"id":"s04e27","code":"S04E27","title":"The Griffin Family History","season":4,"episodeInSeason":27,"episodeOverall":77,"airDate":"2006-05-14","directedBy":["Zac Moncrief"],"writtenBy":["John Viener"],"path":"/episodes/s04e27-the-griffin-family-history/","synopsis":"Burglars break into the Griffin house and the family retreats to Peter's attic panic room. It has no phone and no inside handle, so Peter passes the time with tales of his ancestors, beginning with the Big Bang, a Stone Age Griffin who invented the wheel, and a Griffin Moses leading the Israelites. Meg is pushed through a vent to fetch help, but Peter's loudspeaker gives her away. Peter continues with Nate Griffin, taken from Africa into slavery, who raised a secret family with the plantation owner's daughter and founded the Department of Motor Vehicles. A flare gun sets off the sprinklers and the room floods. Further tales cover a silent film star ruined by his voice and his great uncle Peter Hitler. As the family argue about The Godfather, Joe opens the door and drains the room. The burglars are under arrest, and pressing harassment charges against Meg.","viewersMillions":8.03,"imdb":"tt0809487"},{"id":"s04e28","code":"S04E28","title":"Stewie B. Goode","season":4,"episodeInSeason":28,"episodeOverall":78,"airDate":"2006-05-21","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti","Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s04e28-stewie-b-goode/","synopsis":"At the Quahog community pool Peter throws Stewie in to teach him to swim, and he nearly drowns. Lois enrols him in lessons, where a boy named Brad is the star pupil. Jealous, Stewie rigs a lifeguard chair with dynamite to kill Brad, but the detonator misfires and the chair falls on Stewie instead. He briefly lands in Hell with Steve Allen before Lois revives him, and resolves to be good. Meanwhile Peter's rant about a video shop that will not stock pornography earns him a Quahog 5 News segment, What Really Grinds My Gears, which grows so popular that Tom Tucker is sacked. Stewie's niceness irritates Brian, who goads him back to his old self; Stewie then copies Brian's drinking. A night at the Drunken Clam ends with Stewie driving Brian's car through the bar wall. Tucker airs the footage and reclaims his job; Peter is fired.","viewersMillions":8.2,"imdb":"tt0817985"},{"id":"s04e29","code":"S04E29","title":"Bango Was His Name, Oh!","season":4,"episodeInSeason":29,"episodeOverall":79,"airDate":"2006-05-21","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Alex Borstein"],"path":"/episodes/s04e29-bango-was-his-name-oh/","synopsis":"Peter buys a TiVo. Watching the news, Stewie sees a man in San Francisco with his own face and hair and decides he must be his real father. Unable to raise the airfare, he and Brian hitch a lift in Quagmire's motorhome as Quagmire sets out to sleep with a woman in every state. At a motel in New Jersey a woman handcuffs Quagmire to the bed and robs him, and Brian and Stewie drive off without him. Meanwhile Chris and Meg keep interrupting Peter and Lois in bed, so the parents teach the children how to find dates and send them to the mall. Stewie swallows a bottle of West Coast Turnarounds and crashes the motorhome in the desert. He nearly gives up before Brian encourages him on. They hire a car, reach San Francisco, and Stewie confronts the man, discovering he is himself, thirty years older.","viewersMillions":7.87,"imdb":"tt0817984"},{"id":"s04e30","code":"S04E30","title":"Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure","season":4,"episodeInSeason":30,"episodeOverall":80,"airDate":"2006-05-21","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s04e30-stu-and-stewies-excellent-adventure/","synopsis":"Stewie's future self, Stu, is holidaying in the present by time travel. When Stu heads home, Stewie stows away and is passed off as a Nicaraguan boy called Pablo. He learns that at 35 he will be a virgin working at the Quahog Circuit Shack and living alone. Appalled, Stewie redecorates Stu's flat and engineers his first sexual encounter, with a colleague named Fran. She tells everyone, and Stu loses his job. Stu blames the day he nearly died at the pool, whose memory will resurface at twenty and leave him unable to take risks.","viewersMillions":8.14,"imdb":"tt0817986"},{"id":"s05e01","code":"S05E01","title":"Stewie Loves Lois","season":5,"episodeInSeason":1,"episodeOverall":81,"airDate":"2006-09-10","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Mark Hentemann"],"path":"/episodes/s05e01-stewie-loves-lois/","synopsis":"A flu outbreak hits Quahog and Peter talks Dr Hartman into giving him a scarce vaccine. Hartman notices Peter has never had a prostate exam and performs one. Peter leaves convinced he has been assaulted, and Lois laughs at him. His friends claim the same experience, so he sues. In court Peter embellishes the story until the judge rules against Hartman and revokes his licence. Peter then develops urinary trouble, and no doctor in town will treat him. He returns to Hartman, admits he was wrong, and is examined: the trouble is a minor infection and blockage. Hartman's licence is later restored. Meanwhile a dog tears up Stewie's teddy bear Rupert at the park. Lois mends the bear, and Stewie becomes devoted to her. His clinginess wears her down. On Brian's advice she ignores him, he falls down the stairs, and her apology sends him back to hating her.","viewersMillions":9.93,"imdb":"tt0828209"},{"id":"s05e02","code":"S05E02","title":"Mother Tucker","season":5,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":82,"airDate":"2006-09-17","directedBy":["James Purdum"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s05e02-mother-tucker/","synopsis":"Peter's mother Thelma arrives and announces she has left his father Francis. Lois takes her to a singles meeting, where she meets news anchor Tom Tucker and they begin dating. Peter tries to wreck the relationship until Tom convinces him that Thelma deserves happiness, and the two men grow close. Thelma then ends the relationship without warning, and Peter blames himself. He later urges Tom to pay more attention to his son Jake. Meanwhile a radio producer likes Brian's voice and gives him a talk show on WQHG. Stewie disrupts it with prank calls, the producer enjoys them, and Stewie is made co-host. He turns the programme into a crude shock show called Dingo and the Baby. Brian goes along with it once it proves popular, but quits in shame after Gore Vidal, whom he had booked, walks out. Cleveland and Quagmire take over the slot.","viewersMillions":9.23,"imdb":"tt0837966"},{"id":"s05e03","code":"S05E03","title":"Hell Comes to Quahog","season":5,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":83,"airDate":"2006-09-24","directedBy":["Dan Povenmire"],"writtenBy":["Kirker Butler"],"path":"/episodes/s05e03-hell-comes-to-quahog/","synopsis":"Peter and his friends forget to collect Meg from the roller rink, and after skating home in the rain she asks for her own car. At the dealership Peter is talked into buying a tank instead. He teaches Meg to drive it, but they run over Joe and he impounds it. Meg takes a job at Superstore USA, a new megastore run by Mr Penisburg, to save for a car. The store's own brewery puts the Pawtucket Brewery out of business and Peter loses his job, while its cooling system drains the town's power during a heatwave. Peter joins a protest, then takes a job there himself with Meg as his superior. When Meg is promoted and ordered to sack her father, she quits instead. Brian and Stewie retrieve the tank, drive it through the store and blow it up, killing Penisburg and Paddy Tanniger. 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Chris turns rude and rebellious, and his parents blame Marilyn Manson after finding a shrine in his wardrobe. They confront Manson at the Grammys; he comes home with them, tells Chris to respect his parents, and suggests a fishing trip.","viewersMillions":8.45,"imdb":"tt0828208"},{"id":"s05e05","code":"S05E05","title":"Whistle While Your Wife Works","season":5,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":85,"airDate":"2006-11-12","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s05e05-whistle-while-your-wife-works/","synopsis":"Quagmire comes back from Florida with fireworks he smuggled inside his body. While the Griffins set them off, a bundle of M-80s blows the fingers off Peter's right hand. Joe helps find them and surgeons reattach them. Unable to type, Peter falls behind at the Pawtucket Brewery and his boss Angela threatens to sack him, so he asks Lois to do his work. Lois agrees, but Peter keeps trying to seduce her instead. She finally gives in at his office, and his backlog clears. Meanwhile Brian introduces the family to his new girlfriend Jillian, whose lack of intelligence delights Stewie. Brian meets her equally dim friends and, prodded by Stewie, goes to her flat to end things. She answers the door in a towel and they sleep together instead. Stewie, who has waited in the car for three hours, mocks him to the tune of Gary Numan's Cars.","viewersMillions":9.04,"imdb":"tt0828210"},{"id":"s05e06","code":"S05E06","title":"Prick Up Your Ears","season":5,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":86,"airDate":"2006-11-19","directedBy":["James Purdum"],"writtenBy":["Cherry Chevapravatdumrong"],"path":"/episodes/s05e06-prick-up-your-ears/","synopsis":"Mayor West smashes the window of an adult video shop while chasing a pizza delivery driver. Chris and his friends take some of the tapes and watch one with Stewie. Lois catches them, learns that budget cuts have removed sex education from the school, and applies to teach the class herself. She is sacked after parents protest that she taught safe sex rather than abstinence, and Reverend Jerry Kirkwood replaces her. Meg takes up with a pupil called Doug, and the pair adopt a school fad of ear sex. Peter, persuaded by what Meg brings home, takes to wearing a chastity belt. Lois interrupts one of Kirkwood's assemblies and tells the pupils that sex before marriage is acceptable once they are ready, provided they practise it safely. Doug ends the relationship and Meg blames her mother. 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Lois, Peter and the new officers find them, and Quagmire takes Meg home, where instead of taking advantage of her he tells her not to rush into growing up and hands her a copy of The Missing Piece.","viewersMillions":8.48,"imdb":"tt0837965"},{"id":"s05e09","code":"S05E09","title":"Road to Rupert","season":5,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":89,"airDate":"2007-01-28","directedBy":["Dan Povenmire"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s05e09-road-to-rupert/","synopsis":"At a family yard sale Brian accidentally sells Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert. He admits it, and the two trace the buyer through DNA on the note Brian was paid with. The house is empty, so they follow the removal van as far as the Connecticut line, where Mayor West refuses to drive any further. A box dropped from the van gives the new address in Aspen. After a hired helicopter crashes, the pair reach Colorado, where Stanford Cordray agrees to hand the bear back only if Stewie wins a ski race. Stewie loses, has the bear knocked out of Cordray's son's hands and drives home with Brian in a car taken at gunpoint. Meanwhile Peter loses his licence over a failed stunt jump and Meg becomes his driver, and the two end up as secret best friends.","viewersMillions":8.8,"imdb":"tt0863492"},{"id":"s05e10","code":"S05E10","title":"Peter's Two Dads","season":5,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":90,"airDate":"2007-02-11","directedBy":["Cyndi Tang"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s05e10-peters-two-dads/","synopsis":"At Meg's seventeenth birthday party Peter, dressed as a clown, gets drunk, rides a unicycle down the stairs and lands on his father Francis, who dies in hospital after condemning him as a drunk. Peter gives up drinking, and a session with a hypnotherapist recovers the memory that Francis was not his biological father. Thelma Griffin confirms an affair with an Irishman named Mickey McFinnigan. Peter and Brian go to Ireland and find Mickey serving as the village drunk, a post the locals hold in esteem. Mickey denies the connection until Peter beats him in a drinking contest. Brian points out that Francis raised Peter as his own. In the subplot, Lois smacks Stewie for breaking her pearls, after which he goes to great lengths to be hit again until he hears what he is asking for and stops.","viewersMillions":7.97,"imdb":"tt0837967"},{"id":"s05e11","code":"S05E11","title":"The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou","season":5,"episodeInSeason":11,"episodeOverall":91,"airDate":"2007-02-18","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Mark Hentemann"],"path":"/episodes/s05e11-the-tan-aquatic-with-steve-zissou/","synopsis":"Peter takes Stewie along to a full day of golf and Stewie comes home with a tan. He takes to it, installs a tanning bed in his room and holds a party for tanned guests only. Brian is meant to wake him after fifteen minutes but sleeps for over six hours, leaving Stewie badly burnt. As the skin peels Brian spots a mole, and Stewie, convinced it is skin cancer, makes Brian help him work through a list of last wishes, among them a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr Hartman later confirms he is not ill and Stewie gives up tanning. Meanwhile Chris is bullied by Kyle, a rival paper boy. Peter beats Kyle up, then takes to bullying his own family and friends, and Chris stops him as he is about to attack Randy Fulcher.","viewersMillions":8.53,"imdb":"tt0888819"},{"id":"s05e12","code":"S05E12","title":"Airport '07","season":5,"episodeInSeason":12,"episodeOverall":92,"airDate":"2007-03-04","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s05e12-airport-07/","synopsis":"After a redneck comedy show Peter buys a pickup truck and adopts the lifestyle that goes with it. A slogan painted across the rear window blocks his view and he reverses into Quagmire's car, so he has to drive Quagmire to the airport. There Peter drains the fuel from the aircraft Quagmire is due to fly, believing it will make the truck airborne, and the plane runs out of fuel and comes down. Quagmire loses his job, spends his savings and moves in with the Griffins. Peter, Joe and Cleveland plan to put him back in work by drugging the pilots of another flight, but Quagmire misses the plane and none of the three can fly it. Hugh Hefner restores his confidence in a bar, and he talks Peter through the landing from air traffic control.","viewersMillions":8.59,"imdb":"tt0888818"},{"id":"s05e13","code":"S05E13","title":"Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey","season":5,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":93,"airDate":"2007-03-11","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s05e13-bill-and-peters-bogus-journey/","synopsis":"An octopus attacks Peter at the aquarium and he takes up exercise. When Bill Clinton breaks down outside the house, Peter tries to lift the car without a jack and gives himself a hernia. Clinton visits him in hospital and tells him that age is a state of mind. The two become friends and get into trouble together, smoking cannabis and attempting to steal a pig. Lois goes to confront Clinton about his influence and sleeps with him instead. Peter moves out to stay with Quagmire until Lois suggests he settle the score by sleeping with someone else. He picks her mother Barbara but backs out at the last moment. He then goes to end the friendship and sleeps with Clinton. Meanwhile Lois makes Brian toilet train; he and Stewie fail, and Brian ends up in nappies.","viewersMillions":8.05,"imdb":"tt0888816"},{"id":"s05e14","code":"S05E14","title":"No Meals on Wheels","season":5,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":94,"airDate":"2007-03-25","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Mike Henry"],"path":"/episodes/s05e14-no-meals-on-wheels/","synopsis":"Peter builds an effigy of Adolf Hitler out of his best suit to stop Mort Goldman borrowing his things. At a second hand shop he buys flannel pyjamas, which let him shock the household with static picked up from the carpet. Lois has the carpet taken up, revealing an eighteenth century Rhode Island ship token that the family sells for fifty thousand dollars. Peter and Lois use the money to open a restaurant, Big Pete's House of Munch. Joe fills it with fellow wheelchair users, and Peter, unhappy with the clientele, bans disabled customers. Those shut out combine into a machine called CrippleTron, which wrecks the restaurant and breaks Peter's leg. Left in a wheelchair for two weeks, Peter apologises to Joe.","viewersMillions":7.97,"imdb":"tt0991881"},{"id":"s05e15","code":"S05E15","title":"Boys Do Cry","season":5,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":95,"airDate":"2007-04-29","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Cherry Chevapravatdumrong"],"path":"/episodes/s05e15-boys-do-cry/","synopsis":"Lois takes a job as organist at the local church and has the family attend with her. Stewie mistakes the communion wine for punch, drinks too much and is sick, which convinces the town that he is possessed. With the priest and a crowd preparing an exorcism, the Griffins escape to Lois's sister Carol in Texas. Peter takes to ranch life, Brian is repelled by the bigotry around him, and Stewie hides as a girl called Stephanie and enters a beauty pageant. Meg and Chris break into George W. Bush's ranch to steal underwear as a club initiation. Lois hears that the search has been called off but keeps it from the family. Peter is nearly put to death by ranchers after telling them he is intellectually disabled. Stewie's wig comes off at the crowning and the family flees home.","viewersMillions":8.13,"imdb":"tt0982034"},{"id":"s05e16","code":"S05E16","title":"No Chris Left Behind","season":5,"episodeInSeason":16,"episodeOverall":96,"airDate":"2007-05-06","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s05e16-no-chris-left-behind/","synopsis":"Brian notices that Chris's history textbook is decades out of date, and Lois raises it at a parent teacher meeting. Principal Shepherd explains that the school lost federal funding over poor test scores, and expels Chris as its weakest pupil to lift the average. Peter is interrupted mid conversation by his third fight with the giant chicken, which runs across Quahog and finishes in a restaurant kitchen. Carter Pewterschmidt gets Chris into Morningwood Academy on condition that Peter remake Liar Liar shot for shot. The wealthy pupils beat Chris until Carter has him admitted to their Skull and Bones society. The family takes on extra work to cover the fees, and Chris, uneasy about the society's initiations, asks Carter to return him to James Woods High.","viewersMillions":7.95,"imdb":"tt0945078"},{"id":"s05e17","code":"S05E17","title":"It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One","season":5,"episodeInSeason":17,"episodeOverall":97,"airDate":"2007-05-13","directedBy":["Zac Moncrief"],"writtenBy":["Alex Borstein"],"path":"/episodes/s05e17-it-takes-a-village-idiot-and-i-married-one/","synopsis":"The Griffins take a holiday at Quagmire's cabin and swim in Lake Quahog, where waste from an oil refinery makes their hair fall out. Mayor West admits that he approved the dumping in return for free oil for his hair, so Lois stands against him at the mayoral election. Her detailed policies bore the voters until Brian advises short answers, after which she wins by dropping loaded words into her replies. In office she raises money for the clean up through scare tactics, then takes six hundred dollars of what is left for a handbag. Peter abuses his position by rerouting the town's electricity. Bob Grossbeard offers her a fur coat in return for resuming the dumping. She accepts, then shuts the pipe and resigns. West declares himself mayor again and shoots those who object.","viewersMillions":7.21,"imdb":"tt0945075"},{"id":"s05e18","code":"S05E18","title":"Meet the Quagmires","season":5,"episodeInSeason":18,"episodeOverall":98,"airDate":"2007-05-20","directedBy":["Dan Povenmire","Chris Robertson"],"writtenBy":["Mark Hentemann"],"path":"/episodes/s05e18-meet-the-quagmires/","synopsis":"Envious of what Quagmire says about single life, Peter is sent back to 1984 for one night by Death. Appearing as his eighteen year old self, he cancels his cinema date with Lois Pewterschmidt, goes drinking with Cleveland and kisses Molly Ringwald. He returns to a present in which he is married to Molly, Lois is married to Quagmire, and Al Gore is president. Brian explains that the missed date caused it. Death is summoned again, but Peter keeps getting the date wrong and Death refuses any more attempts. Lois goes to the country club dance with Quagmire, so Peter and Brian break in through an air vent. Brian ends up playing in the band while Peter punches Quagmire, kisses Lois and proposes to her.","viewersMillions":9.15,"imdb":"tt0945076"},{"id":"s06e01","code":"S06E01","title":"Blue Harvest","season":6,"episodeInSeason":1,"episodeOverall":99,"airDate":"2007-09-23","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s06e01-blue-harvest/","synopsis":"A power cut leaves the Griffins with nothing to do, so Peter retells Star Wars with people from Quahog in the parts. 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Having enjoyed her company, Peter persuades Jillian to give Brian a choice: move in together or split up. Brian agrees, settles in better than expected, then finds he cannot cover the rent alone and lets Stewie, who has a paper round, take a share. The arrangement and the secret behind it come out during an argument, and Brian admits he never wanted to move in at all. Jillian leaves him. Stewie later talks him into trying to win her back, but she is now with Mayor West, and Brian moves home. 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He throws himself into rock climbing, karate and dance, then drops his old friends for three fitter companions and leaves Bonnie. Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire try to paralyse him again and fail. Bonnie fires Joe's handgun at his spine and misses, so Joe takes the gun and shoots himself. Back at the Drunken Clam he apologises and the friends make up.","viewersMillions":8.4,"imdb":"tt0994165"},{"id":"s06e04","code":"S06E04","title":"Stewie Kills Lois","season":6,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":102,"airDate":"2007-11-04","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["David A. Goodman"],"path":"/episodes/s06e04-stewie-kills-lois/","synopsis":"Brian gives Lois cruise tickets for her birthday, hoping to go with her, but she takes Peter instead. Left behind, Stewie is furious; after Brian says he never carries out his threats, he resolves to prove him wrong. On the ship Peter embarrasses Lois repeatedly. When she steps out on deck alone, Stewie arrives by speedboat and shoots her overboard with a submachine gun. Joe calls off the search after six days. Over the next year Peter dates again and has Joe impersonate Lois for Chris's sake. Stewie lets slip to Brian that he was responsible and dumps his gun and drawings. A cashed life insurance policy makes Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland suspect Peter, and the discarded evidence seems to confirm it. Peter is tried for murder and Carter testifies falsely against him. As a life sentence looms, Lois walks into the courtroom and names Stewie as her attacker.","viewersMillions":10.46,"imdb":"tt0982037"},{"id":"s06e05","code":"S06E05","title":"Lois Kills Stewie","season":6,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":103,"airDate":"2007-11-11","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s06e05-lois-kills-stewie/","synopsis":"Lois tells the courtroom how she survived: a reverse merman rescued her, she lost her memory and worked at a fat camp in North Carolina, and a blow to the head at a white supremacist rally restored it. Stewie flees the courthouse, ties up his family, kills Cleveland and makes Brian drive him to CIA headquarters in Langley Falls. Chris frees the others and they find Stewie's armoury. At the CIA Stewie seizes a supercomputer and the global power grid, meets Stan Smith and Avery Bullock, and is declared President of the World. He imposes harsh laws. Lois arms herself from his vault and fights him in the Oval Office, gaining the upper hand but unable to kill her own child. Peter shoots Stewie first. Brian then finds Stewie stepping out of a simulator: the sequence was a test of what might happen, and he decides he is not ready.","viewersMillions":10.39,"imdb":"tt0982035"},{"id":"s06e06","code":"S06E06","title":"Padre de Familia","season":6,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":104,"airDate":"2007-11-18","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Kirker Butler"],"path":"/episodes/s06e06-padre-de-familia/","synopsis":"Swept up in patriotic feeling at a Veterans' Day parade, Peter founds an anti-immigration group. His position collapses when he learns he was born in Mexico. He cannot prove his citizenship, he fails the naturalisation test, and investigators refuse to accept his marriage to Lois as genuine. 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In a restricted room they find a slaughterhouse and a genetically engineered talking bull, which escapes with them and exposes the company. Meanwhile Stewie bets Brian he can become the most popular pupil at the high school in a week. Posing as Zac Sawyer he wins over Connie D'Amico, is humiliated, then tricks her into kissing him and has her arrested.","viewersMillions":11.33,"imdb":"tt0982036"},{"id":"s06e09","code":"S06E09","title":"Back to the Woods","season":6,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":107,"airDate":"2008-02-17","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s06e09-back-to-the-woods/","synopsis":"James Woods returns after being freed from the crate in which he was locked and sets out to get even with Peter. He steals Peter's identity, and the law lets him install himself as the Griffin family's head, pushing Peter off his own property. 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The next morning Peter confronts Brian at the bar and the argument becomes a fist fight. Afterwards the two agree never to let Lois divide them. Brian apologises to Lois and admits the essay was largely copied from Summer of '42. She confides that she sometimes shares his feelings but chooses to stay with Peter.","viewersMillions":7.8,"imdb":"tt1192952"},{"id":"s06e11","code":"S06E11","title":"The Former Life of Brian","season":6,"episodeInSeason":11,"episodeOverall":109,"airDate":"2008-04-27","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s06e11-the-former-life-of-brian/","synopsis":"Brian visits his former girlfriend Tracy Flannigan and learns that he is the father of her teenage son, Dylan. The boy proves unruly, and Brian complains to Peter and Lois, who urge him to take responsibility. Tracy then drops Dylan at the Griffins' house for Brian to raise. Dylan wrecks the place and is hostile to everyone, including the Evil Monkey in Chris's closet, and Brian decides to throw him out. When Dylan tries to leave with Brian's cannabis, the two discover a shared taste for the drug and bond over it. Brian apologises for his absence and they reconcile. Dylan soon straightens out, but Brian becomes self-righteous about fatherhood. Uncomfortable, Peter persuades Tracy to take Dylan back. Dylan chooses to go, intending to help his mother as Brian helped him, and father and son part.","viewersMillions":8.42,"imdb":"tt1219465"},{"id":"s06e12","code":"S06E12","title":"Long John Peter","season":6,"episodeInSeason":12,"episodeOverall":110,"airDate":"2008-05-04","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s06e12-long-john-peter/","synopsis":"The Griffins wait at the vet's for news on Brian, who has stomach pains after eating one of Stewie's used nappies. 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Peter and Lois warn Cleveland off, while Brian pushes him back to Loretta for his own ends. Peter sends Quagmire to test Loretta, and she rebuffs him. Cleveland forgives her but decides they should both move on. He then finds Carolyn in bed with Quagmire, and he and Brian make up.","viewersMillions":9.2,"imdb":"tt1289976"},{"id":"s07e02","code":"S07E02","title":"I Dream of Jesus","season":7,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":112,"airDate":"2008-10-05","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Brian Scully"],"path":"/episodes/s07e02-i-dream-of-jesus/","synopsis":"At a 1950s-themed diner Peter hears Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen and takes the record home when staff realise the song dates from the 1960s. He plays it constantly and spends over 6,000 dollars of the family savings on a television slot to perform it. Brian and Stewie take the record and destroy it. Peter goes to the record shop for a replacement and recognises the assistant as Jesus Christ, who visits Earth every hundred years. The two become friends and Jesus joins the family for dinner, turning the meal into sundaes when Brian asks for proof. Peter persuades him to go public. Jesus becomes a celebrity, appearing on The Tonight Show and the MTV Movie Awards, and neglects Peter. He is arrested after being found disoriented in Mary-Kate Olsen's flat. Peter bails him out, and Jesus decides to leave, giving Peter another copy of Surfin' Bird.","viewersMillions":8.4,"imdb":"tt1293321"},{"id":"s07e03","code":"S07E03","title":"Road to Germany","season":7,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":113,"airDate":"2008-10-19","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s07e03-road-to-germany/","synopsis":"During an Oscars party at the Griffins' house, Mort mistakes a time machine in Stewie's room for a portable toilet and is sent into the past. 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At home Stewie enjoys his freedom, mistakes Cleveland and Quagmire for intruders, gases them and chains them in the basement facing the DirecTV help channel. When the food runs out he takes a McBurgertown job and is sacked. He realises how much he needs his family and welcomes them back.","viewersMillions":9.97,"imdb":"tt1293323"},{"id":"s07e05","code":"S07E05","title":"The Man with Two Brians","season":7,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":115,"airDate":"2008-11-09","directedBy":["Dominic Bianchi"],"writtenBy":["John Viener"],"path":"/episodes/s07e05-the-man-with-two-brians/","synopsis":"After watching Jackass, Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe film dangerous stunts of their own. Peter tries to jump a lake, hits a tree and lands in the water unable to move. Brian swims out to save him, strains his back and is stranded too until Joe rescues them both. Lois scolds Peter, pointing out that Brian is getting old. Peter buys a second dog and names him New Brian. The newcomer's cheerfulness wins over the family, and Brian, feeling pushed out, leaves home. Stewie finds New Brian's good humour grating and asks Brian to come home, but Brian refuses while the other dog stays. When Stewie lists his complaints, New Brian reveals he has abused Stewie's teddy bear Rupert. Stewie kills him off screen, puts the remains in the bin and forges a suicide note. The family take Brian back while Stewie scrubs Rupert in the shower.","viewersMillions":8.6,"imdb":"tt1317902"},{"id":"s07e06","code":"S07E06","title":"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing","season":7,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":116,"airDate":"2008-11-16","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Alex Carter"],"path":"/episodes/s07e06-tales-of-a-third-grade-nothing/","synopsis":"Sent upstairs with shipping reports, Peter finds the executive bathroom and resolves to earn a promotion so he can use it. Hoping to impress his boss Angela, he blows up a rival's billboard and wrecks part of a children's hospital instead. Angela still recommends him for promotion, but Human Resources rules that he must first complete the third grade. Back at school Peter does badly, offends his teacher Mrs Wilson and mocks Omar, the top pupil. Mrs Wilson lets him enter the spelling bee, promising to pass him if he wins. Omar stumbles and Peter spells his word correctly. Angela then tells him he is going to jail for the explosion, and he serves a week. Meanwhile Frank Sinatra Jr returns to sing with Brian at the Quahog Cabana Club. 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Meanwhile Stewie falls for Susie and writes songs for her, culminating in an elaborate music video set to the Bryan Adams song \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\". Over dinner Stewie reveals his crush has shifted to Adams himself. Lois explains that she got the money from Carter by telling him it was for a divorce lawyer, leaving Peter unsure whether she was joking.","viewersMillions":7.41,"imdb":"tt1329674"},{"id":"s07e08","code":"S07E08","title":"Family Gay","season":7,"episodeInSeason":8,"episodeOverall":118,"airDate":"2009-03-08","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Richard Appel"],"path":"/episodes/s07e08-family-gay/","synopsis":"Sent for groceries, Peter comes home with a brain-damaged horse. He enters it in a race, where it runs amok, causes 100,000 dollars of damage and dies of a heart attack. Peter dumps the body in Mort Goldman's pharmacy. To pay the debt he joins medical trials, one of which injects an experimental gene that makes him gay. Lois is upset, then warms to the change, then reconsiders when Peter rejects her advances. Told the effect may be permanent, she tries to accept it, but Peter leaves her for a man named Scott. Stewie and Brian kidnap Peter and send him to a straight camp. When Scott comes looking, Brian confesses. Lois collects him and tells him to go back to Scott. The gene wears off during an orgy and Peter goes home. The family agree never to mention it, and Mort throws the horse through the window.","viewersMillions":7.09,"imdb":"tt1329675"},{"id":"s07e09","code":"S07E09","title":"The Juice Is Loose","season":7,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":119,"airDate":"2009-03-15","directedBy":["Cyndi Tang"],"writtenBy":["Andrew Goldberg"],"path":"/episodes/s07e09-the-juice-is-loose/","synopsis":"A title card presents the story as a lost episode from March 2007. Lois goes to her book club and leaves Peter to mind Stewie, but he invites Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe round instead. Stewie gets stuck on the roof trying to fix the satellite dish while Peter ignores Brian's warnings. Fixing the dish himself, Peter finds a raffle ticket from 1989 that wins him a round of golf with a celebrity of his choice, and he picks O. J. Simpson. Learning of the murder accusations, Peter wears a wire to the game hoping for a confession, but it shorts out. Feeling guilty, Peter decides Simpson is innocent and brings him home, where the family are wary. Word spreads and a mob led by Mayor Adam West comes to drive Simpson out. Simpson makes a speech about his imperfections and the crowd relents, then he stabs three people and flees.","viewersMillions":7.21,"imdb":"tt1329676"},{"id":"s07e10","code":"S07E10","title":"Fox-y Lady","season":7,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":120,"airDate":"2009-03-22","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Matt Fleckenstein"],"path":"/episodes/s07e10-fox-y-lady/","synopsis":"Fox News sacks its reporter Rhonda Latimer after high-definition broadcasting exposes her wrinkles. Lois auditions for the job, ignoring Brian's warnings about the channel's conservative bias, and gets it. Her first assignment is an exposé meant to show that Michael Moore is gay. Watching his house, she sees Rush Limbaugh leave and concludes they are a couple. The network refuses to run anything embarrassing about Limbaugh, and Lois accepts that Brian was right. The pair confront the men and find both are Fred Savage in bodysuits, a ruse he uses to keep acting. He lets them report the story. Meanwhile Peter, Chris and Meg create a cartoon about three disabled ducks, Handi-Quacks; Peter sacks Meg and recruits his friends as voices. Fox chief Peter Chernin likes the pilot, but Peter walks away over a suggested change and regrets it. Lois later reveals she is no longer a reporter.","viewersMillions":7.45,"imdb":"tt1329661"},{"id":"s07e11","code":"S07E11","title":"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven","season":7,"episodeInSeason":11,"episodeOverall":121,"airDate":"2009-03-29","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s07e11-not-all-dogs-go-to-heaven/","synopsis":"The Griffins go to Quahog's yearly Star Trek convention, where Peter makes Meg pose beside a man who has mumps. She falls ill, and while recovering in bed she watches Kirk Cameron on television and becomes a born-again Christian. Meg presses her new faith on the family and is shocked to find that Brian is an atheist. When he refuses to convert, she tells the town, and Brian is barred from every bar and shop in Quahog. He pretends to repent so he can drink again, but backs out when Meg takes him to a book burning. Brian argues that a loving God would not have given Meg the life she has, and she admits she does not feel loved. Meanwhile Stewie builds a transporter and beams the Star Trek: The Next Generation actors to his house, only to find them tiresome and send them back.","viewersMillions":8.12,"imdb":"tt1329662"},{"id":"s07e12","code":"S07E12","title":"420","season":7,"episodeInSeason":12,"episodeOverall":122,"airDate":"2009-04-19","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s07e12-420/","synopsis":"Quagmire adopts a stray cat called James and starts spending his time with it instead of his friends. While he is away buying it a present, Peter, Brian, Cleveland and Joe decide to shave the cat, and Peter kills it by accident. Driving out to dump the body, Peter and Brian are stopped by police, who arrest Brian for carrying cannabis. Put on probation, Brian responds by campaigning to make the drug legal in Quahog. A musical number with Stewie wins the town over, and Mayor West changes the law. Crime falls, but Carter loses money in the timber trade as hemp replaces paper. He buys Brian off by promising to publish the novel Faster Than the Speed of Love. The deal goes through, cannabis is banned again, and the book fails to sell a single copy. Quagmire calls round still searching for James, and Peter admits killing him.","viewersMillions":7.4,"imdb":"tt1329663"},{"id":"s07e13","code":"S07E13","title":"Stew-Roids","season":7,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":123,"airDate":"2009-04-26","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s07e13-stew-roids/","synopsis":"At a barbecue hosted by Joe and Bonnie, their baby daughter Susie beats Stewie in a fight over a doll. Peter takes Stewie to the gym, where a trainer offers steroids, and Peter injects him. Stewie grows hugely muscular and aggressive, and bullies Brian. When the drugs wear off his skin hangs loose, and he escapes an angry Brian by gliding from his bedroom window. Meanwhile Connie D'Amico has run out of popular boys to date and picks Chris to raise her standing. She comes to like him, and his popularity at school soars. Chris turns shallow, snubs Meg and cheats on Connie with two other girls at a party. Connie is cast out and joins forces with Meg. They release a video of Chris dancing naked, which restores Connie's status and returns Chris to the bottom of the school order. 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A plan to make Jillian jealous, with Stewie posing as Brian's date, fails. Brian interrupts the wedding to declare his feelings, but Jillian tells him she has moved on.","viewersMillions":6.67,"imdb":"tt1412043"},{"id":"s07e15","code":"S07E15","title":"Three Kings","season":7,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":125,"airDate":"2009-05-10","directedBy":["Dominic Bianchi"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s07e15-three-kings/","synopsis":"Peter, told by Lois he watches too much television, presents three Stephen King stories with the regular characters in the roles. In Stand by Me, four boys played by Peter, Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland follow railway tracks in 1955 to find a dead body, which proves to be Meg. A train runs over Joe's legs on the way, and the town bully, Mayor West, claims the body. In Misery, the author Paul Sheldon (Brian) crashes in a snowstorm after hitting Stephen King with his car. His self-declared biggest fan, Stewie Wilkes, holds him in a cabin and forces him to rewrite the ending of his final children's book. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne (Peter) is jailed, befriends Red (Cleveland) and tunnels out behind a poster. Red is paroled and digs up the gift Andy left, but cannot recall the name of the Mexican village where Andy waits.","viewersMillions":6.47,"imdb":"tt1329667"},{"id":"s07e16","code":"S07E16","title":"Peter's Progress","season":7,"episodeInSeason":16,"episodeOverall":126,"airDate":"2009-05-17","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s07e16-peters-progress/","synopsis":"Cleveland's cousin Madame Claude, a psychic, reads the palms of Peter, Joe and Quagmire to reveal their past lives. Peter learns he was Griffin Peterson, founder of Quahog, and the story moves to 17th century England. Griffin is engaged to Lady Redbush (Lois), but King Stewart III (Stewie) wants her for himself. The king has Griffin seized on his wedding day and shipped to the New World, then tells Redbush her fiancé is dead and marries her. Griffin founds the colony of Quahog with fellow exiles Joe, Quagmire and Seamus. The king's jester (Brian) eventually shows Redbush a newspaper report proving Griffin is alive, and the pair sail to join him. Stewart follows with his army, and the two men agree to settle the matter with a talent show. Griffin's musical number wins, the king returns to England, and Griffin and Redbush stay in Quahog.","viewersMillions":7.33,"imdb":"tt1329666"},{"id":"s08e01","code":"S08E01","title":"Road to the Multiverse","season":8,"episodeInSeason":1,"episodeOverall":127,"airDate":"2009-09-27","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s08e01-road-to-the-multiverse/","synopsis":"At the county fair Stewie reveals that his prize pig came from a parallel universe and shows Brian a remote control that moves them between worlds. They visit a world where Christianity never existed and technology is far ahead, then several more with their own Griffins. Brian tires of the trip and discovers Stewie cannot get them home. In a universe run by dogs, where humans are pets, Stewie fixes the remote, but Brian wants to stay and the two break it fighting over it. They seek out that universe's Griffins, all dogs apart from a human Brian. Dog Stewie has his own device, but human Stewie bites dog Peter and is sent to the pound to be put down. The others free him, and Stewie and Brian return home. The human Brian follows them through the portal and is immediately hit by a car.","viewersMillions":10.17,"imdb":"tt1506623"},{"id":"s08e02","code":"S08E02","title":"Family Goy","season":8,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":128,"airDate":"2009-10-04","directedBy":["James Purdum"],"writtenBy":["Mark Hentemann"],"path":"/episodes/s08e02-family-goy/","synopsis":"Peter falls for a cardboard cutout of Kathy Ireland, then rips it in half and buries it in the garden. Making up with Lois, he finds a lump on her breast. The test is clear, but Dr Hartman sees in her records that her mother survived the Holocaust, making Lois and the children Jewish. Carter admits hiding this so the family could join the country club. Peter embraces Judaism until the ghost of his father Francis warns him he will go to Hell unless he is Catholic. He then tries to turn the family back and becomes increasingly hostile to Lois over her heritage. Encouraged by her mother, Lois holds a Passover Seder, which a drunk Peter tries to wreck dressed as the Easter Bunny. Jesus appears, notes that he is Jewish himself, and tells Peter to treat other faiths fairly. Peter and Lois apologise to each other.","viewersMillions":9.66,"imdb":"tt1329668"},{"id":"s08e03","code":"S08E03","title":"Spies Reminiscent of Us","season":8,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":129,"airDate":"2009-10-11","directedBy":["Cyndi Tang"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s08e03-spies-reminiscent-of-us/","synopsis":"With both bathrooms at home occupied, Peter starts using the toilet in Cleveland's empty house. The house is soon rented by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, whom Peter invites to dinner and fails to impress with his comedy. Stewie and Brian investigate the pair and find a secret facility beneath the house. The actors explain that Ronald Reagan recruited them as real spies and that they are hunting a Soviet sleeper agent in Quahog. Brian and Stewie join them. The agent turns out to be Mayor West, who is triggered by accident, flees to Russia and launches a nuclear missile at the United States. Aykroyd hacks the guidance system so the warhead explodes harmlessly in the upper atmosphere, though the fuselage lands on Cleveland's new house in Virginia. Meanwhile Peter, Quagmire and Joe form an improv group, and Peter's John Wayne impressions bring their only show to an early end.","viewersMillions":8.88,"imdb":"tt1329670"},{"id":"s08e04","code":"S08E04","title":"Brian's Got a Brand New Bag","season":8,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":130,"airDate":"2009-11-08","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s08e04-brians-got-a-brand-new-bag/","synopsis":"Peter buys the film Road House at a closing video shop and starts kicking everything in sight. Steering with his feet, he crashes into a young woman's car. Brian asks her out, but she stands him up and he ends up talking to her mother Rita. The two begin dating. The Griffins mock Rita behind her back, and at dinner they press her until she admits she is 50. Angry with the family, Brian proposes to Rita and they give the couple their blessing. Rita breaks her hip during sex, and Peter warns Brian the relationship will not survive him becoming her carer. Sent out for her medicine, Brian is drawn into a bar and has sex with a younger woman. He confesses to Rita, who decides he is too young for her and ends the engagement.","viewersMillions":7.38,"imdb":"tt1329669"},{"id":"s08e05","code":"S08E05","title":"Hannah Banana","season":8,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":131,"airDate":"2009-11-08","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Cherry Chevapravatdumrong"],"path":"/episodes/s08e05-hannah-banana/","synopsis":"Chris blames a failed test on the Evil Monkey in his closet and sets a trap to prove it exists. The captured monkey turns out to be friendly: his marriage ended nine years earlier, and he lost his job and home. He helps Chris with a book report and the two grow close, prompting a row between Peter and Chris. Meanwhile Stewie, a Hannah Montana fan, cannot get tickets to Miley Cyrus's Quahog concert and blackmails Brian into sneaking him backstage. He and Miley become friends until he discovers she is an android built by Walt Disney Imagineering. Stewie's attempt to reprogram her fails and she goes on a rampage through the town. The monkey confronts her and is carried up a skyscraper, so Peter and Quagmire shoot her down from a biplane. Peter catches the falling monkey and promises Chris more of his time.","viewersMillions":7.73,"imdb":"tt1329671"},{"id":"s08e06","code":"S08E06","title":"Quagmire's Baby","season":8,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":132,"airDate":"2009-11-15","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s08e06-quagmires-baby/","synopsis":"At Quagmire's garage sale Peter buys an amateur radio and thinks he is talking to Ronald Reagan's spirit, until the voice proves to be impressionist Rich Little. Returning the radio, he finds a baby in a basket on Quagmire's doorstep. She is Quagmire's daughter, so he keeps her and calls her Anna Lee. Caring for her ruins his sex life, and he puts her up for adoption. Unable to stop thinking about her, he goes to her new home to take her back, but sees that her adoptive parents treat her better and leaves her with them. Meanwhile Stewie clones a dim-witted copy of himself to do his chores and calls him Bitch Stewie. Brian wants one too, so the pair make Bitch Brian, who is even less capable. Both clones eventually disintegrate because they are unstable.","viewersMillions":8.28,"imdb":"tt1329672"},{"id":"s08e07","code":"S08E07","title":"Jerome Is the New Black","season":8,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":133,"airDate":"2009-11-22","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["John Viener"],"path":"/episodes/s08e07-jerome-is-the-new-black/","synopsis":"With Cleveland gone, Peter, Quagmire and Joe interview candidates for a fourth friend and pick Jerome, a bar regular who impresses them at darts. Peter then learns that Jerome once dated Lois. Drunk and jealous, he throws a bottle through Jerome's window and accidentally burns the house down. Lois invites Jerome to stay with the family, and Peter's jealousy grows until he throws him out. After Lois reveals that Jerome had bought him a gift, Peter apologises and the two stay friends. Meanwhile Brian asks to join the group and is told that Quagmire dislikes him. He tricks Quagmire into a dinner by pretending the invitation comes from Cheryl Tiegs, then asks him why. Quagmire responds with a long list of Brian's faults. Back home, Stewie cheers Brian up and lets him sleep in his room.","viewersMillions":7.39,"imdb":"tt1522481"},{"id":"s08e08","code":"S08E08","title":"Dog Gone","season":8,"episodeInSeason":8,"episodeOverall":134,"airDate":"2009-11-29","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s08e08-dog-gone/","synopsis":"Brian is invited to an award ceremony for his novel, run by the \"Rhode Island Society for Special Literary Excellence\", and only on arrival grasps what special means. He drinks heavily, drives home and runs over a dog. He buries it outside the house, but Stewie saw everything and plays on his guilt until he confesses. Joe and the family laugh, saying nobody minds when an animal dies. Brian founds the Quahog Animal Equal Rights League, but the townspeople reject the idea and end up chasing him to eat him. Convinced his life has no value, Brian breaks down. Stewie stages Brian's death by transferring the collar to a stray dog and setting a fire that kills it, and the grieving Griffins show how much they cared. Meanwhile Lois hires a maid, Consuela, who refuses to leave the house; Peter finally chloroforms her and leaves her on Joe's porch.","viewersMillions":8.48,"imdb":"tt1329673"},{"id":"s08e09","code":"S08E09","title":"Business Guy","season":8,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":135,"airDate":"2009-12-13","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Andrew Goldberg","Alex Carter"],"path":"/episodes/s08e09-business-guy/","synopsis":"On the Pewterschmidt yacht Peter learns that Carter has never had a stag party, and takes him to a strip club. The excitement gives Carter a heart attack and he falls into a coma. Dr House is brought in but only punches him. Carter's video will hands control of Pewterschmidt Industries to Lois, and Peter takes the job himself. He sacks the board on his first day and hires his friends to make absurd products. Carter wakes, demands the company back and is refused; Peter instead makes him work as a janitor and host a viewing party for The Big Bang Theory. Carter and Lois frighten Peter into signing the company away by convincing him a swamp monster is after him, and the monster that chases them turns out to be House. Lois consoles Peter with the news that his contract lets him keep the corporate plane.","viewersMillions":7.67,"imdb":"tt1551737"},{"id":"s08e10","code":"S08E10","title":"Big Man on Hippocampus","season":8,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":136,"airDate":"2010-01-03","directedBy":["Dominic Bianchi"],"writtenBy":["Brian Scully"],"path":"/episodes/s08e10-big-man-on-hippocampus/","synopsis":"The Griffins audition for Family Feud and reach the final round. When Peter argues with host Richard Dawson over the prize money, Dawson shoves him into the podium and the blow wipes his memory. Lois reintroduces him to his life, including the children and their sex life, but Peter concludes he is single and free to sleep with other women. When he brings another woman to the marital bed, Lois moves the children into a cheap flat. Quagmire seizes the chance to pursue her. Brian goes home to warn Peter, who reveals that his memory came back when Ernie the Giant Chicken struck him on the head. Peter hurries to win Lois back, arriving as Quagmire's advances stall because guilt has left him impotent. 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Planning to leave, she forces Brian at gunpoint to drive her to rob Mort's pharmacy. He shows her his article, which describes her as far kinder than the typical girl. Moved, Meg drops the act and returns home.","viewersMillions":6.21,"imdb":"tt1578953"},{"id":"s08e12","code":"S08E12","title":"Extra Large Medium","season":8,"episodeInSeason":12,"episodeOverall":138,"airDate":"2010-02-14","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s08e12-extra-large-medium/","synopsis":"On a family hike Chris and Stewie wander off after a butterfly and are lost for several days. A frantic Lois consults a psychic medium, who assures her the boys are safe. Bruce finds the boys, and Lois's faith in psychics grows, irritating a sceptical Brian. To prove readings are a trick, Brian has Peter cold-read a stranger in the park. It goes so well that Peter believes he has real powers and opens a psychic business. Joe then asks him to help find a missing man with a bomb strapped to him. Peter stalls, the bomb goes off, and he admits he has no powers at all. Meanwhile Chris keeps a promise made in the woods to ask out Ellen, a classmate with Down syndrome. Stewie coaches him with a musical number, but Ellen proves rude and demanding, and the date ends badly.","viewersMillions":6.42,"imdb":"tt1589765"},{"id":"s08e13","code":"S08E13","title":"Go, Stewie, Go!","season":8,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":139,"airDate":"2010-03-14","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s08e13-go-stewie-go/","synopsis":"Stewie is watching Jolly Farm Revue again, and Brian mentions auditions for an American version of the programme. Only a female part remains, so Stewie dresses as a girl, calls himself Karina Smirnoff and wins the role. On set he falls for his young co-star Julie, and the two grow close over a sleepover. When Julie says she wishes Karina were a boy, Stewie makes an advance, and she insists she is not a lesbian. He reveals his identity during a live taping, and Julie's mother forbids her from speaking to him. Meanwhile Peter needles Lois about her age, leaving her insecure and drawn to Meg's new boyfriend Anthony. Lois kisses him on the sofa and Meg walks in. Meg demands that her mother back off, and Peter admits he was insulting Lois to hide his own worries about ageing.","viewersMillions":6.72,"imdb":"tt1605210"},{"id":"s08e14","code":"S08E14","title":"Peter-assment","season":8,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":140,"airDate":"2010-03-21","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s08e14-peter-assment/","synopsis":"At a preschool play Peter films Stewie's stage fright and pesters Richard Dreyfuss in the audience. He sells the footage to TMZ, buys a proper camera and hounds local celebrities until Ollie Williams breaks it and his glasses. Wearing contact lenses to work, Peter attracts his boss Angela, who demands sexual favours and invites him to her house. He hides Quagmire inside his clothes to stand in for him, but Quagmire backs out and Angela sacks Peter for refusing her. Resolving to confront her, Peter drives to her house and finds her trying to kill herself in her car. He revives her, and she admits she has been alone for ten years. Disguised as an Englishman called Reginald Knickerbocker, Peter takes her to dinner and, with Mort hidden in his clothes, sleeps with her. Her will to live restored, Angela sees through the disguise and rehires him.","viewersMillions":6.65,"imdb":"tt1609866"},{"id":"s08e15","code":"S08E15","title":"Brian Griffin's House of Payne","season":8,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":141,"airDate":"2010-03-28","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Spencer Porter"],"path":"/episodes/s08e15-brian-griffins-house-of-payne/","synopsis":"Stewie finds an old television script of Brian's in the basement and leaves it on the kitchen table. Lois reads it, likes it and urges Brian to take it to the networks. CBS responds well, but the producers cast James Woods over Elijah Wood and turn the drama into a sitcom with a studio audience, a chimpanzee and a new title. Told to accept the changes or be sacked, Brian objects and walks out. Meanwhile Chris reads Meg's diary, and in the chase that follows the two knock Stewie down the stairs, leaving him unconscious with a head wound. 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Luke trains with Yoda on Dagobah while Han, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO hide in an asteroid field and then reach Lando Calrissian on Cloud City, where Darth Vader, played by Stewie, has Han frozen in carbonite. Luke breaks off his training, duels Vader, loses a hand and is told that Vader is his father. Leia has him rescued from beneath the city, and the power returns as Peter finishes.","viewersMillions":6.13,"imdb":"tt1329665"},{"id":"s08e21","code":"S08E21","title":"Partial Terms of Endearment","season":8,"episodeInSeason":21,"episodeOverall":147,"airDate":"2010-06-20","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s08e21-partial-terms-of-endearment/","synopsis":"At her college reunion Lois meets her former roommate Naomi, who calls at the house with her husband Dale and asks Lois to carry a child for them, disappointing Peter, who had expected sex. Lois agrees and undergoes in vitro fertilisation with Dr Hartman. 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Lois calls him a contrarian, and after a fractious dinner Brian moves in with Limbaugh, whose patience runs out when Brian replaces his possessions, interrupts his radio show and is jailed for waterboarding Nancy Pelosi. Limbaugh bails him out, uses an invented news story to prove Brian is still a liberal, and leaves.","viewersMillions":7.94,"imdb":"tt1610752"},{"id":"s09e03","code":"S09E03","title":"Welcome Back, Carter","season":9,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":150,"airDate":"2010-10-10","directedBy":["Cyndi Tang"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s09e03-welcome-back-carter/","synopsis":"Lois and Peter visit her parents, and while fetching Carter Pewterschmidt for dinner Peter finds him having sex with another woman aboard his yacht. Carter demands silence, and Peter, egged on by Brian, Quagmire and Joe at the Drunken Clam, uses the secret to make his father-in-law a servant, extracting limousine jousts, invented catchphrases and a television set. While the two carry the set out of the house, Peter lets the affair slip to Barbara. Carter announces a divorce, and Peter takes him to a club, where a woman named Paula walks out after Carter orders a black customer to fetch his drink. Carter takes roses to Barbara, finds her seeing Roginald, her wartime lover, apologises and declares his love, and she lets him move home.","viewersMillions":7.02,"imdb":"tt1610753"},{"id":"s09e04","code":"S09E04","title":"Halloween on Spooner Street","season":9,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":151,"airDate":"2010-11-07","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Andrew Goldberg"],"path":"/episodes/s09e04-halloween-on-spooner-street/","synopsis":"Peter and Joe spend Halloween playing tricks on Quagmire, pelting him with eggs, having Joe seduce him in disguise and infecting him with a mosquito-borne illness. Riding along in Joe's police car, the three reach an old airfield with a Mitsubishi Zero on it, and Quagmire takes his revenge by flying them into a dive that stops just short of the harbour. Stewie, dressed as a duckling, has his sweets taken by three older boys and recruits Brian, who is painted pink for his trouble; Lois settles it by bullying the ringleader's mother into handing over sweets and money. 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At a ceremony in her honour the undefeated Deirdre Jackson humiliates Peter and goads Lois back. Beaten around for six rounds, Lois recovers from a left hook and knocks Jackson out.","viewersMillions":7,"imdb":"tt1758140"},{"id":"s09e06","code":"S09E06","title":"Brian Writes a Bestseller","season":9,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":153,"airDate":"2010-11-21","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s09e06-brian-writes-a-bestseller/","synopsis":"Crates of unsold copies of Brian's novel Faster Than the Speed of Love arrive in the post and he gives up writing, until he notices a self-help title at the top of the New York Times list. Stewie talks him into producing one to prove the form is worthless, and Wish It, Want It, Do It, written in three hours, sells heavily. Brian takes Stewie on as his publicist and turns insufferable, sacking him when Christopher Hitchens drops out of a booking on Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher, Arianna Huffington and Dana Gould pull the book apart on air until Brian admits he wrote it quickly for the money, and Maher drives him off the set. Back home, Brian half apologises and Stewie tells him plainly that he cannot write.","viewersMillions":6.59,"imdb":"tt1759063"},{"id":"s09e07","code":"S09E07","title":"Road to the North Pole","season":9,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":154,"airDate":"2010-12-12","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan","Danny Smith"],"path":"/episodes/s09e07-road-to-the-north-pole/","synopsis":"The mall Santa brushes Stewie off on Christmas Eve, so Stewie sets out to kill him and Brian follows. A flare fired inside a lorry cab starts a pile-up that wrecks Brian's car, and the pair carry on by snowmobile and then on foot. Santa's workshop turns out to be a polluting factory in a dead landscape, worked by inbred elves and prowled by flesh-eating reindeer, with Santa himself ill and worn down by demand. He collapses, and Brian and Stewie take over the deliveries, losing ninety minutes at the first house before finding they had the wrong address. On Christmas morning they wheel Santa onto the news and ask the world to settle for one present each a year. A year on, he has recovered.","viewersMillions":8.03,"imdb":"tt1710689"},{"id":"s09e08","code":"S09E08","title":"New Kidney in Town","season":9,"episodeInSeason":8,"episodeOverall":155,"airDate":"2011-01-09","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Matt Harrigan","Dave Willis"],"path":"/episodes/s09e08-new-kidney-in-town/","synopsis":"Quagmire gives Peter his first Red Bull at the Drunken Clam, and Peter is soon drinking it by the pack and doing everything at speed. Lois pours the supply away, so Peter mixes his own with kerosene, ignores Brian's warning, drinks it and collapses. His kidneys fail. Three weeks of dialysis wear him down, he skips a session on Joe and Quagmire's advice and turns jaundiced. Lois is not a match, but Brian is, and since two dog kidneys would be needed he agrees to a donation that would kill him. Stewie takes him to a playground to prevent it, and Brian argues that the family needs a father more than a dog. At the hospital Dr Hartman turns out to be a match and donates instead. Separately, Chris passes off Meg's thoughts as his own essay for a presidential visit, and she is credited in the end.","viewersMillions":9.29,"imdb":"tt1795212"},{"id":"s09e09","code":"S09E09","title":"And I'm Joyce Kinney","season":9,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":156,"airDate":"2011-01-16","directedBy":["Dominic Bianchi"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s09e09-and-im-joyce-kinney/","synopsis":"Lois takes a liking to the new co-anchor Joyce Kinney and runs into her while buying ingredients for a church bake sale. The two become friendly, spend an evening drinking and trade secrets, and Lois admits she appeared in a pornographic film at college. Joyce broadcasts the story the next day. Challenged over it, she reveals that the two were at school together, where she was fat and surnamed Chevapravatdumrong, and that Lois humiliated her in front of everyone. The town shuns the Griffins and the preacher turns them out of church. On Brian's advice Lois faces the matter down by showing the film to the congregation, which takes her back, to Joyce's irritation. Stewie, meanwhile, suspects he was conceived during the filming.","viewersMillions":7.08,"imdb":"tt1819898"},{"id":"s09e10","code":"S09E10","title":"Friends of Peter G.","season":9,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":157,"airDate":"2011-02-13","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Brian Scully"],"path":"/episodes/s09e10-friends-of-peter-g/","synopsis":"Peter smuggles spirits into a screening of The Sound of Music, and Joe arrests him and Brian for the disturbance. A court orders both to thirty days of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. 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He calls to Herbert through a cellar window, and Herbert arrives in uniform. Their slow fight ends when Franz falls from the porch step and dies.","viewersMillions":6.57,"imdb":"tt1795202"},{"id":"s09e12","code":"S09E12","title":"The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair","season":9,"episodeInSeason":12,"episodeOverall":159,"airDate":"2011-03-06","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s09e12-the-hand-that-rocks-the-wheelchair/","synopsis":"Bonnie needs someone to mind Joe and Susie while she is away, and Lois hands the job to Meg. Meg develops a crush, cooks Joe breakfast and follows him about. When Bonnie rings to say she is flying home, Meg plants one of Joe's guns in her luggage at the airport, and the arrest also turns up the cocaine Bonnie was carrying. Over dinner Meg suggests they have a baby and breastfeeds Susie. Warned off by Lois, she throws herself in front of Joe's police car hoping to be paralysed, then recovers in hospital and settles for friendship. Elsewhere Stewie builds a machine meant to restore his cruelty and produces an evil clone, which maims Brian before Brian shoots the double he judges to be the copy.","viewersMillions":6.23,"imdb":"tt1795200"},{"id":"s09e13","code":"S09E13","title":"Trading Places","season":9,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":160,"airDate":"2011-03-20","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s09e13-trading-places/","synopsis":"Peter wins a dirt bike in a televised contest by keeping a hand on it for nine hours, seeing off Mayor West with a text message that makes him let go. Chris then wrecks the bike showing off for Meg, and the row that follows ends with the parents and children swapping places for a week. Meg runs the house and turns out to be a fine cook, Chris impresses Peter's boss Angela at the brewery, and Peter and Lois flounder at school under homework and bullies. When they ask to stop, Meg agrees but Chris refuses, having taken Peter's job. Overwork drives Chris to drink and then to a heart attack. Out of hospital, he accepts that adult life is no easier, and the household returns to normal.","viewersMillions":6.55,"imdb":"tt1795203"},{"id":"s09e14","code":"S09E14","title":"Tiegs for Two","season":9,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":161,"airDate":"2011-04-10","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["John Viener"],"path":"/episodes/s09e14-tiegs-for-two/","synopsis":"Brian takes a new acquaintance, Denise, on a date that comes to nothing, and rather than give up he signs on for a class Quagmire is running on picking up women. The course turns out to be about sex rather than romance, and Brian falls out with him over it. 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Peter is delighted at the prospect of West as a brother-in-law. Lois, uneasy at how recently the last marriage ended, sits three of Carol's former husbands down at dinner to make her point, and Carol calls the engagement off. West resolves to move to Alaska. Peter reminds Lois that their own match was doubted, and she relents. They reach the airport too late, but Quagmire is flying the plane and Peter tricks him into turning back. Carol and West marry.","viewersMillions":5.98,"imdb":"tt1795205"},{"id":"s09e16","code":"S09E16","title":"The Big Bang Theory","season":9,"episodeInSeason":16,"episodeOverall":163,"airDate":"2011-05-08","directedBy":["Dominic Polcino"],"writtenBy":["David A. Goodman"],"path":"/episodes/s09e16-the-big-bang-theory/","synopsis":"Stewie works out that his own travels in time caused the Big Bang and so brought the universe into being. 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The family attack one another and Peter runs upstairs in tears. Meg concludes that they cannot manage without someone to absorb their spite, and apologises to Peter, Lois and Chris. Stewie closes with a warning about drug use.","viewersMillions":6.91,"imdb":"tt1795206"},{"id":"s10e03","code":"S10E03","title":"Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q","season":10,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":168,"airDate":"2011-10-30","directedBy":["Dominic Bianchi"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s10e03-screams-of-silence-the-story-of-brenda-q/","synopsis":"Quagmire fails to appear for a fishing trip, and Peter and Joe find him unconscious after an autoerotic asphyxiation accident. At the hospital his sister Brenda wakes him from a coma, and she has brought her violent partner Jeff with her. Lois takes Brenda to lunch, sees a bruise behind her sunglasses and urges her to leave, but Brenda makes excuses for him. Joe explains that the police cannot act without a formal complaint, so the men stage an intervention, at which Jeff reveals the pair are engaged and Brenda is pregnant. After Jeff strikes her again, the three lure him on a hunting trip. Jeff turns the tables and tries to kill Quagmire, who survives and runs him down with Peter's car. They tell Brenda that Jeff has walked out.","viewersMillions":5.97,"imdb":"tt2040800"},{"id":"s10e04","code":"S10E04","title":"Stewie Goes for a Drive","season":10,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":169,"airDate":"2011-11-06","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Gary Janetti"],"path":"/episodes/s10e04-stewie-goes-for-a-drive/","synopsis":"Brian collects Stewie from a play date. Stewie stays behind in the car to hear out a Carrie Underwood song, nudges the gear shift and decides that he can drive. He takes the car out alone, then loses control while ringing a radio competition and hits a lamp post head on. 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Kevin Swanson, reported killed in Iraq, then arrives at the door. He tells his parents that a bomb concealed in a Thanksgiving turkey wiped out his unit and left him unconscious for months, but his account keeps shifting, and under questioning from Joe he admits he went absent without leave and staged his own death. Joe arrests him and Bonnie objects to the lie. Kevin says he had tired of the war and made friends among Iraqis, and the table argues about the occupation. He reminds Joe of a shoplifter his father once let go, and Joe relents. A second Kevin then appears.","viewersMillions":6.04,"imdb":"tt2040803"},{"id":"s10e07","code":"S10E07","title":"Amish Guy","season":10,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":172,"airDate":"2011-11-27","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Mark Hentemann"],"path":"/episodes/s10e07-amish-guy/","synopsis":"Peter is turned away from a roller coaster at Six Flags for being too heavy. 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Six months later Barbara reports that he has become lethargic, and Peter revives him by ordering his secretary to modernise the business, which Carter furiously rejects. He vows to run the firm until he dies. Peter's mother Thelma rings from her own home, and he and Lois leave her there.","viewersMillions":6.1,"imdb":"tt2040805"},{"id":"s10e10","code":"S10E10","title":"Meg and Quagmire","season":10,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":175,"airDate":"2012-01-08","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney"],"path":"/episodes/s10e10-meg-and-quagmire/","synopsis":"Meg reaches her eighteenth birthday, and Quagmire, who has waited for that date, sets about making her his next conquest and begins seeing her. Peter is appalled that his neighbour has taken up with his daughter and does everything he can think of to break the pair up. 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Joe tells Lois that the police cannot step in without infringing the family's religious rights, so she and Peter take Scotty from the house themselves. The abduction is reported on the news, and a crowd meets them at the hospital. Lois argues that medicine is itself an answer to prayer, and the parents give way. Scotty recovers, by which point Stewie has a new friend with leprosy.","viewersMillions":5.92,"imdb":"tt2040788"},{"id":"s10e13","code":"S10E13","title":"Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream","season":10,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":178,"airDate":"2012-02-12","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Alex Carter"],"path":"/episodes/s10e13-tom-tucker-the-man-and-his-dream/","synopsis":"Peter sets out to help the news anchor Tom Tucker become an actor, appoints himself as Tucker's agent and takes him to Hollywood. Once there the pair run into James Woods, who has been brought back to life after his death in the opening episode of the previous season. 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Yamamoto attacks Chris at home in revenge for the contest, and Stewie, over his fear at last, holds up the album sleeve and gives him a fatal heart attack.","viewersMillions":5.74,"imdb":"tt2040792"},{"id":"s10e17","code":"S10E17","title":"Forget-Me-Not","season":10,"episodeInSeason":17,"episodeOverall":182,"airDate":"2012-03-18","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["David A. Goodman"],"path":"/episodes/s10e17-forget-me-not/","synopsis":"Peter breaks a promise to spend Sunday at home and goes off to play laser tag with Brian, Joe and Quagmire. He wins and buys a novelty newspaper front page saying he has destroyed the world. Lois tells Brian that he only sides with Peter because the two happen to live together. Driving to the Drunken Clam, the four run into strange lights and wake in hospital with no memory, finding Quahog deserted. Piecing together the wrong clues, they decide Peter is an alien who has killed everyone. Joe and Quagmire fetch weapons while Brian, who has warmed to Peter, warns him and takes the shot meant for him. Brian then wakes: Stewie had wired the four into a simulation to test the friendship. Lois, Meg and Bonnie are wired to a second machine.","viewersMillions":5.61,"imdb":"tt2040793"},{"id":"s10e18","code":"S10E18","title":"You Can't Do That on Television, Peter","season":10,"episodeInSeason":18,"episodeOverall":183,"airDate":"2012-04-01","directedBy":["Bob Bowen"],"writtenBy":["Julius Sharpe"],"path":"/episodes/s10e18-you-cant-do-that-on-television-peter/","synopsis":"Stewie's favourite children's television programme is cancelled and taken off the air. Peter's answer to this is to develop a children's programme of his own, and he goes on to take the starring role in it himself. 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They fail to buy Meg at an auction and are caught, but break free and follow her to a yacht on the Seine, where an emir has bought her as a wife for his son Faisal. Meg accepts, Stewie kills Faisal and wipes her memory, and she is taken home.","viewersMillions":5.64,"imdb":"tt2040797"},{"id":"s10e21","code":"S10E21","title":"Tea Peter","season":10,"episodeInSeason":21,"episodeOverall":186,"airDate":"2012-05-13","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s10e21-tea-peter/","synopsis":"Peter takes an open-for-business sign from the reopened Goldman's Pharmacy and fixes it to his own front door. Passers-by treat the house as a shop, so Peter starts trading, and Joe closes him down for having no licence. Beaten at City Hall, Peter and Quagmire join the Tea Party movement, over Brian's objection that big business stands behind it. At a rally Peter finds his father-in-law Carter posing as an ordinary working man, and Carter recruits him to campaign against government itself. Mayor West shuts Quahog's government down and the town enjoys its lawlessness, until Carter pollutes freely, basic services fail and residents riot. Carter refuses to help, so Peter talks the town into rebuilding government as though the idea were new, then reads what people say about him online.","viewersMillions":4.94,"imdb":"tt2040798"},{"id":"s10e22","code":"S10E22","title":"Family Guy Viewer Mail #2","season":10,"episodeInSeason":22,"episodeOverall":187,"airDate":"2012-05-20","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Tom Devanney","Alec Sulkin","Deepak Sethi"],"path":"/episodes/s10e22-family-guy-viewer-mail-2/","synopsis":"Brian and Stewie answer letters from viewers with three stories. \"Chap of the Manor\" recasts the series as a British one, with the Griffins as English stereotypes, Stewie as a religious hillbilly and Brian as a horse; Neville believes he is related to Queen Elizabeth II, tries to take a lock of her hair as she passes in a parade and ends up chasing her car to its crash in a tunnel. \"Fatman and Robin\" gives Peter the power to turn whatever he touches into Robin Williams, which he stops only by cutting off his hands. \"Point of Stew\" follows a day from Stewie's viewpoint, taking in a car ride with Brian, bath time and a trip to 1994 to save Kurt Cobain.","viewersMillions":5.35,"imdb":"tt2040799"},{"id":"s10e23","code":"S10E23","title":"Internal Affairs","season":10,"episodeInSeason":23,"episodeOverall":188,"airDate":"2012-05-20","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s10e23-internal-affairs/","synopsis":"Joe is assigned a new partner, Nora, and Peter and Quagmire press him to sleep with her, arguing that it would settle matters after Bonnie's own unfaithfulness. 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A storm traps the Griffins on the way down with nothing to eat, and they survive by eating Ben's frozen body. Passing Ross and Pam, who are still searching for their son, Lois turns the family back and hauls them out of a crevasse. At base camp the Fishmans are loaded onto a helicopter, and Peter tells them what the Griffins ate before waving the pilot away.","viewersMillions":6.55,"imdb":"tt2289608"},{"id":"s11e02","code":"S11E02","title":"Ratings Guy","season":11,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":190,"airDate":"2012-10-07","directedBy":["James Purdum"],"writtenBy":["Dave Ihlenfeld","David Wright"],"path":"/episodes/s11e02-ratings-guy/","synopsis":"A letter from the Nielsen Company tells the Griffins that their viewing is to be measured. Tom Tucker asks Peter for suggestions and puts them on air, which irritates Joe and Quagmire, so Peter steals a batch of Nielsen boxes to widen his reach. Programme after programme is altered at his direction until a crowd turns on him and Mayor Adam West destroys the boxes by shooting them. Peter then goes to the Television Producers Guild, admits what he has done and instructs the producers gathered there, among them Kelsey Grammer, Jon Hamm, Dick Wolf, Mark Burnett and J. J. Abrams, to make the programmes he wants. 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Joe persuades him to stay inside the plot, but his microphone is found and he is made at gunpoint to drive a van of explosives to the bridge. Joe arrives and knocks the detonator from Mahmoud's hand, and the cell is arrested, though the bridge blows up anyway.","viewersMillions":4.92,"imdb":"tt2626870"},{"id":"s11e16","code":"S11E16","title":"12 and a Half Angry Men","season":11,"episodeInSeason":16,"episodeOverall":204,"airDate":"2013-03-24","directedBy":["Pete Michels"],"writtenBy":["Ted Jessup"],"path":"/episodes/s11e16-12-and-a-half-angry-men/","synopsis":"An aide to Mayor Adam West is stabbed to death, and evidence that he had been blackmailing the mayor puts West on trial. The jury is drawn from Quahog regulars, among them Peter, Brian, Quagmire, Mort, Tom Tucker, Herbert, Carter, Dr Hartman and Consuela, and Brian alone votes to acquit. He points out that the blackmail note was written on hotel paper rather than paper from the mayor's office, and later demonstrates that the witness could not have seen the killing from where she claimed to be. The vote moves, Tom Tucker and finally Carter give way, and West returns to his duties. Stewie then reports further killings, leaving the real culprit at large as the lights go out.","viewersMillions":5.16,"imdb":"tt2626866"},{"id":"s11e17","code":"S11E17","title":"Bigfat","season":11,"episodeInSeason":17,"episodeOverall":205,"airDate":"2013-04-14","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Brian Scully"],"path":"/episodes/s11e17-bigfat/","synopsis":"A cold opening passes through Family Guy, American Dad! and King of the Hill before a title sequence in the style of the last of those. Quagmire flies Peter and Joe towards strip clubs in Montreal, and Peter opens a door in mid-air, bringing the plane down in the Canadian wilderness. 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When Joe turns up with three tickets for a Red Sox game they take Lois and leave Peter out, and his jealousy pushes him further from the group until Lois gives up a night out so that he can rejoin them. Meanwhile the toy company recalls its teddy bears over loose eyes and Lois posts Rupert back. Stewie and Brian join a factory tour, reach the recall room and pull Rupert from a conveyor belt feeding a furnace. At home one of Rupert's eyes comes loose and chokes Stewie.","viewersMillions":4.89,"imdb":"tt2778796"},{"id":"s11e19","code":"S11E19","title":"Save the Clam","season":11,"episodeInSeason":19,"episodeOverall":207,"airDate":"2013-05-05","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Chris Sheridan"],"path":"/episodes/s11e19-save-the-clam/","synopsis":"In a softball fixture pitting the Drunken Clam against Goldman's Pharmacy, Jerome hits a ball into Horace's face and kills him. After the funeral the men find the bar has been foreclosed, drink at Peter's house until Lois objects, then break back in for the night. A demolition crew arrives the next morning and Peter claims to own the building, until Jerome turns up and reveals that he has bought the Clam with his sporting earnings to keep it open in Horace's memory. Meanwhile Meg walks in on an embalming during the funeral and is offered work at the funeral home. Chris takes the body of Mr Dugan to get into films rated R, loses it in a swimming pool, and has to stand in for Dugan at the service, ending up with the dead man's face.","viewersMillions":4.79,"imdb":"tt2778794"},{"id":"s11e20","code":"S11E20","title":"Farmer Guy","season":11,"episodeInSeason":20,"episodeOverall":208,"airDate":"2013-05-12","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s11e20-farmer-guy/","synopsis":"Local news covers a rise in crime across Quahog, and a burglary at the Griffin house follows. 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When the loan shark's enforcer corners the duplicates, that Brian tells him to shoot Stewie. The original pair agree to jump from a hotel balcony, but Stewie stops short and Brian falls to his death, after which Stewie finds the winnings in the swapped bag. The two survivors meet at the bus terminal and lie to each other about how their friends died.","viewersMillions":5.28,"imdb":"tt2778812"},{"id":"s11e22","code":"S11E22","title":"No Country Club for Old Men","season":11,"episodeInSeason":22,"episodeOverall":210,"airDate":"2013-05-19","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Teresa Hsiao"],"path":"/episodes/s11e22-no-country-club-for-old-men/","synopsis":"Stewie's harmonica ends up in the bath, Peter sits on it and it lodges in his rectum. He takes to playing tunes with it and appears on America's Got Talent, where flatulence dislodges it. Chris meanwhile takes up with Amanda Barrington, whose family invite the Griffins to their country club. Carter is thrown out for wasting fruit while impersonating Carmen Miranda, and Peter takes his membership. Peter invites Carter along as a guest so that he can mock him, and only tries to help after Lois intervenes. When the club refuses to have them both, Peter resigns. The two then pose as visiting aristocrats to impress Mr Barrington, but Peter gives the game away. Carter wins his place back by humiliating Peter in front of the members, and Peter is thrown out.","viewersMillions":5.16,"imdb":"tt2778814"},{"id":"s12e01","code":"S12E01","title":"Finders Keepers","season":12,"episodeInSeason":1,"episodeOverall":211,"airDate":"2013-09-29","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Mike Desilets","Anthony Blasucci"],"path":"/episodes/s12e01-finders-keepers/","synopsis":"Peter's breath drives everyone away until a dentist finds a shrimp that has been in his mouth for a week. 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Sonya takes Joe's gun, which does not fire because he keeps it unloaded, and Joe handcuffs her. Meanwhile Lois finds Stewie's first teddy bear, Oscar, in storage, and Stewie wavers between the two toys before settling on Rupert. Oscar is later seen hanged in the attic.","viewersMillions":4.87,"imdb":"tt3240886"},{"id":"s12e04","code":"S12E04","title":"A Fistful of Meg","season":12,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":214,"airDate":"2013-11-10","directedBy":["Joe Vaux"],"writtenBy":["Dominic Bianchi","Joe Vaux"],"path":"/episodes/s12e04-a-fistful-of-meg/","synopsis":"Meg spills her lunch over Mike Pulaski, a new pupil, who challenges her to a fight after school. Her friends desert her, and Quagmire, who tells her that a girl bullied and abused him as a teenager and that he never stood up to her, trains Meg instead. She takes a beating in the fight before disgusting Mike into defeat, and a narration reveals that she dies a year later of septic shock. Meanwhile Peter takes to undressing in front of Brian, who is repelled by it, and keeps up the harassment until Brian follows Stewie's advice and shaves off all his fur. The sight horrifies Peter, who agrees to stay dressed, and Stewie lends Brian clothes for the three months the fur takes to grow back.","viewersMillions":4.18,"imdb":"tt3304762"},{"id":"s12e05","code":"S12E05","title":"Boopa-dee Bappa-dee","season":12,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":215,"airDate":"2013-11-17","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Wellesley Wild"],"path":"/episodes/s12e05-boopa-dee-bappa-dee/","synopsis":"Lois books tickets to Italy during an airline price war and lets Peter believe they are going to a water park until the plane is in the air. He sulks in the hotel while she sightsees, and only makes an effort once Brian points out that Lois has gone off with an Italian man. Peter wins her round, then burns the family's passports and announces that they are staying. A month later the Griffins have gone native, with Meg attached to Mario and his brother Luigi in the house, but money is short and the consulate is no help. They stow away on a cargo ship, posing as sex dolls, and reach home. Mario later calls at the house to take things further with Meg.","viewersMillions":4.46,"imdb":"tt3304794"},{"id":"s12e06","code":"S12E06","title":"Life of Brian","season":12,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":216,"airDate":"2013-11-24","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Alex Carter"],"path":"/episodes/s12e06-life-of-brian/","synopsis":"Brian and Stewie flee an altered timeline created when Stewie armed the attackers at Jamestown, and put history back. Shaken, Stewie takes the time machine to the junkyard and destroys it, and the pair bring home a street hockey net. Setting it up outside, Brian is struck by a car and dies of his injuries with the family around him. Stewie cannot rebuild the machine to save him, and a funeral is held. A month on, Lois decides the family needs another dog, and Peter chooses Vinny, an Italian greyhound who quickly wins the household over. Stewie sets out to discredit him, but relents when Vinny talks about losing his own previous owner, and accepts him. Vinny settles down to sleep beside Stewie's bed.","viewersMillions":4.58,"imdb":"tt3304810"},{"id":"s12e07","code":"S12E07","title":"Into Harmony's Way","season":12,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":217,"airDate":"2013-12-08","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Julius Sharpe"],"path":"/episodes/s12e07-into-harmonys-way/","synopsis":"Peter and Quagmire find by accident that their voices harmonise, and start writing songs together. Mort, who sells them paper and mentions his own musical past, becomes their manager, books them an open mic slot at the library and posts the recording online, which gets them onto a music festival bill. The set goes well, they drop Mort for a manager named Ricky and go on tour over Lois's objection that she needs Peter at home for Thanksgiving. Peter begins making decisions for both of them, and during a performance on Conan he drops his plectrum into his guitar, so Quagmire smashes it and walks off. Peter goes home and is forgiven, Quagmire apologises as well, and Peter then shoots himself on the tour bus.","viewersMillions":5.36,"imdb":"tt3344292"},{"id":"s12e08","code":"S12E08","title":"Christmas Guy","season":12,"episodeInSeason":8,"episodeOverall":218,"airDate":"2013-12-15","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s12e08-christmas-guy/","synopsis":"The Griffins find the Christmas carnival at Quahog Mall cancelled, and Vinny learns that Carter is behind it. Peter tries several ways to give Carter some Christmas feeling and finally succeeds by telling him that people are wondering whether he is Jewish, at which Carter reinstates the carnival. Stewie is still low, and tells the mall Santa that what he wants is Brian back. At the mall he then spots his own past self, who has time travelled to buy a present, and Vinny flatters that Stewie into handing over his return pad. Stewie goes back and pulls Brian clear of the car, sends the pad away to avoid a paradox, and fades from existence. On Christmas Day Brian is alive and thanks the present Stewie, who knows nothing about it.","viewersMillions":6.37,"imdb":"tt3358430"},{"id":"s12e09","code":"S12E09","title":"Peter Problems","season":12,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":219,"airDate":"2014-01-05","directedBy":["Bob Bowen"],"writtenBy":["Teresa Hsiao"],"path":"/episodes/s12e09-peter-problems/","synopsis":"Angela promotes Peter to forklift operator at the Pawtucket Brewery, and he masters the machine before lifting a vat of beer, drinking it and driving through a wall into an executive meeting. She sacks him. Lois takes an assistant manager's post at Stop & Shop while Peter keeps house badly, and when she wants sex he finds that he cannot perform. Dr Hartman's pills do nothing, and Joe and Quagmire's attempts to help go no better. Quagmire decides the cure is Peter's old job and puts the case to Angela, who accepts a redo coupon and takes him back. Peter tells Lois at the shop that both his job and his sex drive have returned.","viewersMillions":5.76,"imdb":"tt3410078"},{"id":"s12e10","code":"S12E10","title":"Grimm Job","season":12,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":220,"airDate":"2014-01-12","directedBy":["Joe Vaux"],"writtenBy":["Alec Sulkin"],"path":"/episodes/s12e10-grimm-job/","synopsis":"Stewie cannot sleep, so Peter reads him three fairy tales with the people of Quahog in the parts. 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God puts the losing run down to the coach Bill Belichick never smiling, and agrees to leave the team alone if they can make him laugh, which Joe's condition finally does. Lois says Peter should have asked for more, and he replies that he did, as Meg starts to fade from existence.","viewersMillions":4.62,"imdb":"tt3455338"},{"id":"s12e14","code":"S12E14","title":"Fresh Heir","season":12,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":224,"airDate":"2014-03-23","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s12e14-fresh-heir/","synopsis":"Peter turns Chris down when he asks to spend time together. Carter then breaks his leg on an escalator, and with Lois unavailable and Meg unwilling, Chris ends up looking after him. The two get on well, and once the leg heals Chris refuses payment, which so impresses Carter that he makes his grandson sole heir to the family fortune. Peter starts courting Chris for access to the money. A remark at the Drunken Clam about whoever ends up marrying Chris gives Peter the idea of a wedding in Vermont, and he has already tricked Lois into signing divorce papers. Chris agrees, because it means time with his father. Lois and the family stop the ceremony, Chris says he knew all along, and the two settle for being father and son.","viewersMillions":4.38,"imdb":"tt3575978"},{"id":"s12e15","code":"S12E15","title":"Secondhand Spoke","season":12,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":225,"airDate":"2014-03-30","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Dave Ihlenfeld","David Wright"],"path":"/episodes/s12e15-secondhand-spoke/","synopsis":"Peter resents the extra breaks his colleague Stella takes to smoke, takes up the habit himself and cannot stop. His appearance and his sex life both suffer, and a visit to a clinic brings him to the notice of Mr Stone, who signs him up as the face of an anti smoking campaign, on condition that he keeps smoking to stay unwell. 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Jeffrey goes after a lost hat and is killed by sharks drawn in by the floating cheesecake.","viewersMillions":0.67,"imdb":"tt36510058"},{"id":"s23e14","code":"S23E14","title":"Cool Hand Lois","season":23,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":440,"airDate":"2025-05-29","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Maggie Mull"],"path":"/episodes/s23e14-cool-hand-lois/","synopsis":"Lois outbids Bonnie at a school auction for a coastal break for two. Encouraged by Meg after an awkward discovery about Chris, she takes up masturbation and lets the household slide. A chance meeting with Bonnie in a sex shop turns into a relationship, to general astonishment. The two women take the holiday, and Peter and Joe follow, feeling humiliated. Seeing their wives happy, they leave them to it and sleep together at a motel instead. 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A refused biscuit revives his vow to kill her.","viewersMillions":0.89,"imdb":"tt35680512"},{"id":"s24e02","code":"S24E02","title":"Pumpkin Spice Girls","season":24,"episodeInSeason":2,"episodeOverall":448,"airDate":"2026-02-22","directedBy":["Joe Vaux"],"writtenBy":["Polina Diaz"],"path":"/episodes/s24e02-pumpkin-spice-girls/","synopsis":"Lois finds the pumpkin spice latte back on the Starbucks menu and gets Meg hooked. Learning that it is seasonal, the two steal the ingredients and hoard them at home. Bonnie smells the spice on Lois and tells the other women locally. Mother and daughter sell bootleg lattes from the garage until Joe traces a footprint through Quagmire's database of feet, the Footbook. They regret how far it went but agree it brought them closer, and surrender once the peppermint mocha arrives. Both draw community service, alongside Quagmire.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431587"},{"id":"s24e03","code":"S24E03","title":"Man-Fest Destiny","season":24,"episodeInSeason":3,"episodeOverall":449,"airDate":"2026-02-22","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Travis Bowe"],"path":"/episodes/s24e03-man-fest-destiny/","synopsis":"A Navy SEAL at Fleet Week says the body of Osama bin Laden drifted near Quahog. Peter and his friends put to sea to recover it as a tourist attraction. Lightning strikes the boat and washes them onto a men-only island, which Lois later identifies as Fire Island; they leave on learning that the older men there pay for everyone else. At home, Stewie takes up memes and wins a book deal, so Brian and Chris put him through a lobotomeme, which only half takes.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431577"},{"id":"s24e04","code":"S24E04","title":"Bringing Up Brady","season":24,"episodeInSeason":4,"episodeOverall":450,"airDate":"2026-03-01","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Chris Regan"],"path":"/episodes/s24e04-bringing-up-brady/","synopsis":"Meg's chowder job at Gillette Stadium gets Peter close to the commentator Tom Brady (Josh Robert Thompson). Brady notices Meg and quietly employs her to sharpen his commentary, which she mistakes for friendship until she overhears otherwise. At the Super Bowl she manoeuvres him into a proposal, but no marriage follows. Elsewhere, Brian takes Stewie to Ikea and the two move into the shop. Stewie passes it off as a mansion for a dinner party; nothing is plumbed, and guests who see through it are tied up in storage.","viewersMillions":1.05,"imdb":"tt36431583"},{"id":"s24e05","code":"S24E05","title":"Dear Francis","season":24,"episodeInSeason":5,"episodeOverall":451,"airDate":"2026-03-01","directedBy":["Joseph Lee"],"writtenBy":["Matt Porter","Charlie Hankin"],"path":"/episodes/s24e05-dear-francis/","synopsis":"Lois takes to Peter's backwards cap, and during sex he uses the wrong name. She assumes he means his late father, Francis; he means the new waitress at the Drunken Clam. A therapist, Dr Snelling (Alfred Molina), tells him to spend time with his children and write to his father. Lois learns the truth at the Clam and turns him out. Peter writes the letter, promising to be the better father, and is forgiven. The waitress has been left at a nursing school in Denver.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431588"},{"id":"s24e06","code":"S24E06","title":"Viewer DMs","season":24,"episodeInSeason":6,"episodeOverall":452,"airDate":"2026-03-08","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s24e06-viewer-dms/","synopsis":"Stewie and Brian answer messages from viewers with three stories, following two earlier viewer mail episodes. The first, a send-up of The Lord of the Rings, accounts for the loss of Chris's earring: Chris plays Frodo, carries it towards Mount Doom, and Stewie's Gollum destroys himself along with it. The second takes the Griffin ancestors east along the Oregon Trail to Quahog, where they seize a cabin from an indigenous family. The third is a surviving episode of Quagmire's 1960s variety show, which closes when the 1970s arrive.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431581"},{"id":"s24e07","code":"S24E07","title":"Scent of a Woman","season":24,"episodeInSeason":7,"episodeOverall":453,"airDate":"2026-03-08","directedBy":["Brian Iles"],"writtenBy":["Steve Callaghan"],"path":"/episodes/s24e07-scent-of-a-woman/","synopsis":"Brian can smell illness. At Meg's birthday sleepover he smells breast cancer on a bra he takes for Patty's. The bra is Meg's; she asks for a trip to Florida for nachos served in a bin. Dr Hartman rings to say she is clear, but Meg says nothing and Brian learns later. Confronted, she admits she wanted time with a relative who did not mock her. Peter, meanwhile, presses Lois on how many men she has slept with. She rollerblades off the Swansons' roof, breaks her leg, then answers sixty.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431584"},{"id":"s24e08","code":"S24E08","title":"Play Time","season":24,"episodeInSeason":8,"episodeOverall":454,"airDate":"2026-03-15","directedBy":["John Holmquist"],"writtenBy":["Alex Carter"],"path":"/episodes/s24e08-play-time/","synopsis":"Lois stages three plays in one evening to save the Quahog Playhouse. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Peter's lawyer loses his defence of Cleveland's character, while Brian feuds with a real mockingbird. The Odd Couple pairs Quagmire's Felix with Peter's Oscar until the squalor separates them, and a badly built balcony gives way over the audience, which Joe treats as murderball recruitment. Hamlet ends with Lois cutting to the last scene. The playhouse is saved, but by the town legalising sex acts in theatres, not by the takings.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431585"},{"id":"s24e09","code":"S24E09","title":"Phony Montana","season":24,"episodeInSeason":9,"episodeOverall":455,"airDate":"2026-03-15","directedBy":["Joe Vaux"],"writtenBy":["Mike Desilets"],"path":"/episodes/s24e09-phony-montana/","synopsis":"Brian takes Carmen Perez (Melissa Fumero) to the Quahog Havana Club, where the brass and the smoke bring on a migraine. He wakes with a Cuban accent (Carlos Alazraqui) and hides it behind a borrowed voice-changing necklace at her cousin's wedding. Squirrels gnaw the wiring, the offence he causes starts a bread fight led by her parents (Alfred Molina and Alanna Ubach), and a fall into a fountain restores his voice but loses him Carmen. Peter and Lois dine with the Duffys, hoping to be propositioned, and are shown out.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431578"},{"id":"s24e10","code":"S24E10","title":"A Few More Ways to Die in the West","season":24,"episodeInSeason":10,"episodeOverall":456,"airDate":"2026-04-12","directedBy":["Greg Colton"],"writtenBy":["Jordan Ramp"],"path":"/episodes/s24e10-a-few-more-ways-to-die-in-the-west/","synopsis":"In a western pastiche, Quiet Burp (Peter) and his gang guard a wealthy passenger (Carter) whose money a bandit takes first. The bounty leads them to Golden Stream, where Burp falls for the schoolteacher Lucy Stools (Lois). She proves to be the thief, having taken the money for families of soldiers maimed by the passenger's faulty bone saws. The gang ties Burp up to claim the reward; the sheriff lets the couple run. Stewie and Brian, a failing improv act, blast a gold seam from a cliff, burying the pursuers.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431590"},{"id":"s24e11","code":"S24E11","title":"Tall Stewie","season":24,"episodeInSeason":11,"episodeOverall":457,"airDate":"2026-04-12","directedBy":["Jerry Langford"],"writtenBy":["Hillman Hollister","Jack Stovitz"],"path":"/episodes/s24e11-tall-stewie/","synopsis":"Raised boots make Stewie taller and bolder, so he buys stilts, and Brian gets a pair to match. Their height draws two models (Sydney Sweeney and Alana Haim), who set a fitness test on the beach. Stewie falls and nearly drowns; Brian steps off his stilts to save him, admitting he resented being the shorter one. Peter, told off for splitting his trousers, joins a dating app, finds Lois there, and lures her out under a false profile. She wanted the attention; the two agree to praise each other more.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431586"},{"id":"s24e12","code":"S24E12","title":"Lower G.I. 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Both cats had been playing dead.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431582"},{"id":"s24e13","code":"S24E13","title":"Friend's Best Man","season":24,"episodeInSeason":13,"episodeOverall":459,"airDate":"2026-05-03","directedBy":["Julius Wu"],"writtenBy":["Polina Diaz"],"path":"/episodes/s24e13-friends-best-man/","synopsis":"Low about being unmarried, Stewie announces that Rupert has proposed. He makes Chris best man, leaving Brian as ring bearer and slighting him throughout. Peter and Lois film themselves having sex and he uploads it to YouTube by accident. It is warmly received, and Mayor West gives them an award for its message about body image. At the wedding Stewie calls it off, admitting the plan was to make Brian propose and prove their friendship. Brian agrees, but they are refused a licence. Chris marries Elle to save the deposit.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431579"},{"id":"s24e14","code":"S24E14","title":"Let the Goodtimes Walk","season":24,"episodeInSeason":14,"episodeOverall":460,"airDate":"2026-05-10","directedBy":["Mike Kim"],"writtenBy":["Matt McElaney"],"path":"/episodes/s24e14-let-the-goodtimes-walk/","synopsis":"Peter buys a saxophone at a school fundraiser and wears everyone down with George Michael's \"Careless Whisper\". Joe, unable to sleep, takes a strong tablet of Quagmire's and sleepwalks as a cheerful second self with no memory of it. Naming that persona Joey Goodtimes, he keeps taking the pills and throwing parties, until he sees that everyone prefers this version of him. On a golfing trip his friends cannot keep pace, and admit that the duller Joe made them feel better about themselves. Dull questions bring him back.","viewersMillions":null,"imdb":"tt36431580"},{"id":"s24e15","code":"S24E15","title":"High School History","season":24,"episodeInSeason":15,"episodeOverall":461,"airDate":"2026-05-17","directedBy":["Steve Robertson"],"writtenBy":["Patrick Meighan"],"path":"/episodes/s24e15-high-school-history/","synopsis":"Brian delivers three history lessons at awkward moments, which Stewie ascribes to community service. In 1789 an indebted French court taxes the poor, so Robespierre (Brian) and Danton (Stewie) lead a revolution, behead the monarchs, then execute so widely they finish with each other. In 1861 Lincoln (Peter) takes office as the Civil War begins and is later shot by Booth, who blames him for a lost part in a stage show. In 1939 Roosevelt's dying instruction to seek peace with Japan is taken as an order to bomb Hiroshima.","viewersMillions":0.75,"imdb":"tt36431589"}],"characters":[{"id":"adam-west","name":"Adam West","household":"Quahog","role":"Mayor of Quahog, voiced by and named after the actor Adam West","path":"/characters/adam-west/","summary":"Adam West is the mayor of Quahog, voiced by the actor Adam West as a fictionalised version of himself. Seth MacFarlane and Steve Callaghan created the part and MacFarlane designed it. The character first appeared in the second season, in \"Fifteen Minutes of Shame\", broadcast in 2000, and recurred until the seventeenth. He is written as deluded and given to schemes that drain the town's money or put its people at risk, and no political party is ever attached to him. In \"Brothers & Sisters\" he marries Carol, the sister of Lois Griffin. The actor died in June 2017, after which the character was killed off. His rural cousin Wild West, voiced by Sam Elliott, took the mayoralty from \"Wild Wild West\" onwards.","voices":[]},{"id":"barbara-pewterschmidt","name":"Barbara Pewterschmidt","household":"The Pewterschmidts","role":"Lois's mother","path":"/characters/barbara-pewterschmidt/","summary":"Barbara Pewterschmidt, known as Babs, is the wife of Carter Pewterschmidt and the mother of Lois, Carol and Patrick. She is therefore the mother-in-law of Peter Griffin and a grandmother to Stewie, Chris and Meg on the Pewterschmidt side. Alex Borstein voices her. She was born Barbara Hebrewberg, and the show establishes her as a Jewish American who survived the Holocaust and then hid that background to marry Carter. Her first appearance came in \"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater\".","voices":["Alex Borstein"]},{"id":"bonnie-swanson","name":"Bonnie Swanson","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Neighbour of the Griffins, married to Joe","path":"/characters/bonnie-swanson/","summary":"Bonnie Swanson is the wife of Joe Swanson and one of the Griffins' neighbours on Spooner Street. Jennifer Tilly voices her. She is forty-six, quiet and even-tempered, mother to Kevin and Susie Swanson and daughter-in-law to Bud Swanson. Her first appearance was the first-season episode \"A Hero Sits Next Door\", and she was pregnant from that appearance onwards, a condition the series left unresolved for six years of its run. She gives birth to her daughter, Susie, in the seventh-season episode \"Ocean's Three and a Half\".","voices":["Jennifer Tilly"]},{"id":"brenda-quagmire","name":"Brenda Quagmire","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Glenn Quagmire's sister","path":"/characters/brenda-quagmire/","summary":"Brenda Quagmire is the sister of Gary and Glenn Quagmire, and the daughter of Dan and Crystal Quagmire. She is an aunt to Anna Lee and Courtney. Alex Borstein voiced her in \"Jerome Is the New Black\", the episode in which she first appeared, and Kaitlin Olson took the part for \"Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q\". Her partner, Jeff Fecalman, was violent towards her, and her brother Glenn kills him in retribution.","voices":["Alex Borstein","Kaitlin Olson"]},{"id":"brian-griffin","name":"Brian Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"The family dog","path":"/characters/brian-griffin/","summary":"Brian Griffin is the Griffin family's dog, a white Labrador who talks, walks on two legs and drives a Prius. The household treats him much like a human member. He is best friend to both Peter and Stewie, and many sub-plots pair him with Stewie, including the Road to episodes. Seth MacFarlane created, designed and voices him, using his own normal speaking voice. Brian first appeared with the rest of the family in \"Death Has a Shadow\" on 31 January 1999. He grew out of Steve, the intellectual dog in MacFarlane's short The Life of Larry and its follow-up Larry & Steve, keeping a similar voice and personality. Brian is an aspiring writer with little success, a heavy drinker of martinis and a political liberal. He was killed off in the twelfth-season episode \"Life of Brian\" and brought back two episodes later in \"Christmas Guy\".","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"carol-pewterschmidt","name":"Carol Pewterschmidt","household":"The Pewterschmidts","role":"Lois's sister","path":"/characters/carol-pewterschmidt/","summary":"Carol Pewterschmidt-West is the sister of Lois and Patrick Pewterschmidt, which makes her the sister-in-law of Peter Griffin and an aunt to Stewie, Chris and Meg on the Pewterschmidt side. Julie Hagerty has voiced her in later appearances, after Carol Kane took the role at her introduction. Carol has married nine times and been divorced nine times. Her formal name strings eleven surnames together with hyphens, running from Pewterschmidt at the start to West at the end, and taking in Johnson, Carrington, Stone, Canseco and Washington along the way.","voices":["Carol Kane","Julie Hagerty"]},{"id":"carter-pewterschmidt","name":"Carter Pewterschmidt","household":"The Pewterschmidts","role":"Lois's father","path":"/characters/carter-pewterschmidt/","summary":"Carter Pewterschmidt is the father of Lois, Carol and Patrick, the husband of Barbara Pewterschmidt and the father-in-law of Peter Griffin, which makes him grandfather to Stewie, Chris and Meg on their mother's side. Seth MacFarlane voices him. He is an old money WASP industrialist and shipping magnate, a multibillionaire who owns several large companies. The show writes him as cruel, selfish, petty and prejudiced. He first appeared in \"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater\". Carter holds his son-in-law in contempt and never approved of the marriage to Lois, although the two men have now and then worked together where a shared aim suited them both.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"chris-griffin","name":"Chris Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Son of the Griffin family","path":"/characters/chris-griffin/","summary":"Chris Griffin is the middle child of Peter and Lois Griffin, younger brother of Meg and older brother of Stewie. He is voiced by Seth Green and first appeared with the rest of the family in \"Death Has a Shadow\" on 31 January 1999. Seth MacFarlane created and designed the character for the Fox pilot. He based him on Milt, the teenage son in his 1995 short The Life of Larry. Chris, an overweight teenager, attends high school in Quahog, Rhode Island. He began as a gregarious but slow-witted adolescent and has become more awkward over the run of the show. Recurring gags involve the Evil Monkey living in his closet, and the elderly neighbour Herbert, who repeatedly tries to prey on him.","voices":["Seth Green"]},{"id":"cleveland-brown","name":"Cleveland Brown","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Neighbour of the Griffins","path":"/characters/cleveland-brown/","summary":"Cleveland Orenthal Brown Sr. is one of the Griffins' neighbours on Spooner Street and one of Peter Griffin's closest friends. Seth MacFarlane designed him, and he first appeared in \"Death Has a Shadow\". Mike Henry voiced him from 1999 until 2021, when Arif Zahir took the part. His slow, flat delivery is his best known trait. He ran a delicatessen in the early years and works as a postal worker after his return to the show. His first marriage, to Loretta Brown, ended in divorce in the fourth-season episode \"The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire\"; Alex Borstein voiced her. His second wife is Donna Tubbs-Brown. He left Quahog for Stoolbend, Virginia, at the start of his own series, The Cleveland Show, and came back to Family Guy in 2014 after that series ended.","voices":["Mike Henry","Arif Zahir"]},{"id":"cleveland-brown-jr","name":"Cleveland Brown Jr.","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Cleveland Brown's son","path":"/characters/cleveland-brown-jr/","summary":"Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr., known as Junior, is the son of Cleveland Brown and his late first wife, Loretta. He arrived in the second-season episode \"Love Thy Trophy\". Mike Henry voiced him in the early Family Guy appearances, with Kevin Michael Richardson taking the part for The Cleveland Show and for his later Family Guy appearances. In the first run he was thin, restless and sporty; from the spin-off onwards he is fourteen and severely overweight. After his parents divorced he left Quahog with his father, the pair setting out for California and settling instead in Stoolbend, Virginia, where Cleveland married Donna Tubbs and her children Roberta and Rallo became Junior's stepsiblings. He has mild seizure-like turns that he calls brainstorms and takes medication for them. \"The Hurricane!\" has him deny any belief in God while rejecting the label of atheist as a religion of its own. He led The Cleveland Show and has been a recurring minor figure in Family Guy since \"He's Bla-ack!\".","voices":["Mike Henry","Kevin Michael Richardson"]},{"id":"connie-damico","name":"Connie D'Amico","household":"Adam West High","role":"Classmate of Meg and Chris","path":"/characters/connie-damico/","summary":"Connie D'Amico is head cheerleader and the most popular pupil at Adam West High School, a classmate of Meg and Chris Griffin. Fairuza Balk voiced her in \"Let's Go to the Hop\" and Lisa Wilhoit has done so ever since. She is vain and unkind, looks down on pupils who are unpopular or socially awkward, and pushes her circle into bullying them. Meg is her usual target. Gina, Scott and Doug are her closest companions. A softer side shows in \"Stew-Roids\", where her classmates turn on her, she asks Meg for help, and she dates Chris after seeing how kind he is. \"Connie's Celica\" has her expelled for harassing Lois, the school's new music teacher. She retaliates by staging her own death in a crash, using a Peppa Pig toy in a blonde wig, and cutting the brakes to frame Lois. A school trip to Washington in the season 23 episode \"Live, Laugh, Love\" suggests the expulsion was later reversed.","voices":["Fairuza Balk","Lisa Wilhoit"]},{"id":"consuela","name":"Consuela","household":"Quahog","role":"Housekeeper","path":"/characters/consuela/","summary":"Consuela is a Hispanic maid working in Quahog, voiced by Mike Henry. She speaks limited English and turns down almost any task she is set. One cutaway shows her leading the Maids' Union. She first appears in \"Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air\", demanding Lemon Pledge during a court case. In \"Dog Gone\" the Griffins take her on, then find her so trying that they use chloroform on her and abandon her at Joe's house. Her relatives include a nephew called Mikey, who sells yo-yos that light up, a son, Rodrigo, who is in prison, and a niece, Isabella, named in \"Dearly Deported\". \"Valentine's Day in Quahog\" gives her a husband still living in Mexico, whom she visits once a year by crossing the border illegally. Parodies and cutaways cast her as a maid to Superman and to Darth Vader.","voices":["Mike Henry"]},{"id":"donna-tubbs-brown","name":"Donna Tubbs-Brown","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Cleveland Brown's second wife, introduced in The Cleveland Show","path":"/characters/donna-tubbs-brown/","summary":"Donna Lou Retten Tubbs-Brown is the second wife of Cleveland Brown and stepmother to Cleveland Brown Jr. Sanaa Lathan voices her. She is forty-two, quick to anger, and works as secretary to the head teacher at Stoolbend High School. She and Cleveland knew each other at school, when she went by Tubbs, the name she kept on marrying him. Her two children, Roberta and Rallo, come from an earlier marriage to a man named Robert whose surname is given as Unknown, a joke the series returns to later. Donna was one of the leads of The Cleveland Show, and since \"He's Bla-ack!\" she has appeared in Family Guy as a recurring character, in the place once held by the late Loretta Brown.","voices":["Sanaa Lathan"]},{"id":"ernie-the-giant-chicken","name":"Ernie the Giant Chicken","household":"Quahog","role":"Peter's recurring fight opponent","path":"/characters/ernie-the-giant-chicken/","summary":"Ernie the Giant Chicken is a human-sized anthropomorphic chicken voiced by Danny Smith. He works as a gag character, and his standing feud with Peter Griffin produces long, violent brawls. These fights usually break out in the middle of an unrelated scene. A flashback in \"Da Boom\" traces the quarrel back to an expired coupon that Ernie once handed Peter. Meg beheads him in the season 23 episode \"The Chicken or the Meg\". The showrunner, Alec Sulkin, confirmed that the character had been written out for good, the crew having run out of uses for him. He turns up again all the same, in a segment of the season 24 episode \"Viewer DMs\" and later that season in \"A Few More Ways to Die in the West\". Neither appearance sits inside the programme's ordinary continuity.","voices":["Danny Smith"]},{"id":"francis-griffin","name":"Francis Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Peter's adoptive father","path":"/characters/francis-griffin/","summary":"Francis Griffin is Peter Griffin's stepfather, married to Peter's mother, Thelma, which makes him step-grandfather to Meg, Chris and Stewie. Voiced by Charles Durning, he is an 82-year-old Irish American and a devout Catholic. He is grouchy, stubborn and abusive. Lois draws his disapproval because she is not Catholic. He objects to how his stepson's family lives and tries to impose his religious views on them. He first appeared in \"Holy Crap\". In \"Peter's Two Dads\" he performs a unicycle act as a clown at Meg's seventeenth birthday party. A drunk Peter falls on him and crushes him, and he later dies in hospital from his injuries. Soon afterwards, during hypnotherapy, Peter recalls a childhood memory of Francis telling him he was not his real father. Francis appears once more as a vision in \"Family Goy\".","voices":["Charles Durning"]},{"id":"glenn-quagmire","name":"Glenn Quagmire","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Neighbour of the Griffins","path":"/characters/glenn-quagmire/","summary":"Glenn Quagmire, usually called by his surname alone, is a friend of the Griffin family and lives on their street. Seth MacFarlane created, designed and voices him. The character is built around his hypersexuality and the catchphrase, \"Giggity Giggity\", that goes with it. MacFarlane has described him as an appalling man still stuck in the Rat Pack era, assembled out of dated 1950s party animal clichés. Quagmire is a bachelor and works as a commercial airline pilot. He appeared in the first episode, \"Death Has a Shadow\", in 1999. The episode \"Tiegs for Two\" gives the family name a Polish origin, Quagglechek or Quaggleczyk, the ending being a diminutive in that language.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"herbert","name":"Herbert","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Elderly neighbour of the Griffins","path":"/characters/herbert/","summary":"John Herbert is an elderly resident of Quahog and a neighbour of the Griffin family. Mike Henry created him and voices him, and Seth MacFarlane designed him. He first turned up in the third-season episode \"To Love and Die in Dixie\", broadcast in 2001. The series writes him as a paedophile, fixed on Chris Griffin, whose affection he never gains. He lives alone with an elderly dog called Jesse, and the only relative the article names is a great-niece, Sandy. He is also known as Herbert the Pervert. Critics have divided over the material built on him. He has been made into merchandise and has crossed over into the spin-off series The Cleveland Show.","voices":["Mike Henry"]},{"id":"ida-davis","name":"Ida Davis","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Glenn Quagmire's parent","path":"/characters/ida-davis/","summary":"Ida Davis, formerly Daniel Quagmire, is the transgender parent of Gary, Glenn and Brenda Quagmire, grandparent to Anna Lee and Courtney, and the former spouse of Crystal Quagmire. Seth MacFarlane voices her. She first appeared in \"Quagmire's Dad\", the episode in which she has gender reassignment surgery and takes the name Ida. Her military record matches her son's: she is a veteran and was a war hero in Vietnam. She and Brian Griffin have an on and off relationship.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"joe-swanson","name":"Joe Swanson","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Neighbour of the Griffins and a police officer","path":"/characters/joe-swanson/","summary":"Joseph Swanson, known as Joe, lives next door to the Griffins on Spooner Street and is one of Peter Griffin's closest friends. Seth MacFarlane created him and Patrick Warburton voices him, from his first appearance in the first-season episode \"A Hero Sits Next Door\". He is forty-six, paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, and is an officer with the Quahog Police Department. He carries himself as an aggressively masculine man, and Peter and the rest of the group mock his disability without let-up. Nonetheless he is drawn as a highly capable officer, chasing suspects and pulling people out of danger from the chair and leaving it behind when the work calls for it. Close as he is to the Griffins, he has arrested Peter, Lois, Brian, Meg and Stewie when they have broken the law.","voices":["Patrick Warburton"]},{"id":"jonathan-weed","name":"Jonathan Weed","household":"Quahog","role":"Peter's boss at the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory in the early seasons","path":"/characters/jonathan-weed/","summary":"Mr Jonathan Weed owns the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory in Quahog. Peter Griffin worked under him there through the early seasons. Butch Hartman voiced the character in the pilot pitch and Carlos Alazraqui in the series. He speaks with a strong Spanish accent, and his staff regard him as an effeminate oddity. Almost everything Peter does meets with his disapproval, mostly because it costs the company, and he sacks or nearly sacks Peter more than once. He first appears in \"Death Has a Shadow\". The Griffins have him round for dinner in \"Mr. Saturday Knight\". He makes Peter head of toy development, then chokes to death on a dinner roll that a Heimlich manoeuvre has just cleared from Brian's throat. Police take the half-eaten roll into custody. His recorded will replaces the factory with a children's hospital at once, and the demolition machinery starts up around the guests.","voices":["Butch Hartman","Carlos Alazraqui"]},{"id":"kevin-swanson","name":"Kevin Swanson","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Joe and Bonnie Swanson's son","path":"/characters/kevin-swanson/","summary":"Kevin Swanson is the twenty-five-year-old son of Joe and Bonnie Swanson and the brother of Susie. Seth MacFarlane voiced him in the early appearances and Scott Grimes has taken the part since. His first appearance was the first-season episode \"A Hero Sits Next Door\", and he featured mainly across the opening three seasons, turning up only occasionally after that and without lines. He enlisted in the United States Army and was sent to fight in the Iraq War, but the treatment of Iraqi civilians by American forces led him to desert. He faked his own death after a bomb hidden in a turkey and set off by a mobile phone killed the rest of his platoon on Thanksgiving. The episode \"Thanksgiving\" has him return to his parents. He lives with depression, behavioural disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane","Scott Grimes"]},{"id":"lois-griffin","name":"Lois Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Mother of the Griffin family","path":"/characters/lois-griffin/","summary":"Lois Griffin is the mother of the Griffin family. Born Lois Pewterschmidt to wealthy parents Carter and Barbara, she is married to Peter and has three children, Meg, Chris and Stewie. The family lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. She is voiced by Alex Borstein, a producer and staff writer on the series, and first appeared in the pilot episode \"Death Has a Shadow\" on 31 January 1999. Seth MacFarlane created and designed the character after his student film The Life of Larry led to a series order from 20th Century Fox. Larry's wife in that short was also named Lois, though the two characters do not look alike. Lois is mainly a housewife, and gave piano lessons in early episodes.","voices":["Alex Borstein"]},{"id":"loretta-brown","name":"Loretta Brown","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Cleveland Brown's first wife","path":"/characters/loretta-brown/","summary":"Loretta Marie Callender Brown is the late first wife of Cleveland Brown and the mother of Cleveland Brown Jr. Alex Borstein voices her, and she first appeared in the first-season episode \"Mind Over Murder\". Early appearances gave her almost nothing to say beyond a single murmured note of agreement. She treated Cleveland harshly and eventually had an affair with Glenn Quagmire, which ended the marriage. Her stated interests were cricket and the sitcom Friends. She dies in her forties in \"Gone with the Wind\", an episode of the spin-off series, during a return to Quahog: Peter swings a brontosaurus skeleton that Brian had dug up from a mobile crane, demolishing her house and dropping her from the first floor while she is in the bath, and the fall breaks her neck. The same running gag is used on Cleveland throughout Family Guy. Her burial was in Stoolbend, and her will left her fortune to Cleveland Jr.","voices":["Alex Borstein"]},{"id":"meg-griffin","name":"Meg Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Eldest child of the Griffin family","path":"/characters/meg-griffin/","summary":"Meg Griffin is the only daughter and eldest child of Peter and Lois Griffin. Her brothers are Chris and Stewie. She first appeared in the pilot episode \"Death Has a Shadow\" on 31 January 1999. Lacey Chabert voiced her in the first season; Mila Kunis has voiced her since the second season. Seth MacFarlane created and designed the character after 20th Century Fox ordered a series based on his student film The Life of Larry. Meg was a new character rather than one carried over from the earlier shorts. She is a high school student in Quahog, Rhode Island. Much of the series treats her as a social outcast who is neglected and mocked by her own family, although this has been toned down in later seasons. She is also shown to be talented in ways her family rarely notices.","voices":["Lacey Chabert","Mila Kunis"]},{"id":"mickey-mcfinnigan","name":"Mickey McFinnigan","household":"The Griffins","role":"Peter's biological father","path":"/characters/mickey-mcfinnigan/","summary":"Mickey McFinnigan is the biological father of Peter Griffin, and so the father-in-law of Lois and the biological grandfather of Stewie, Chris and Meg. Seth MacFarlane voices him. He lives in Ireland, where his standing rests on his being the town drunk, a position his neighbours hold in high regard. Peter seeks him out in \"Peter's Two Dads\", having learned that Francis Griffin, newly dead, was not his real father. Mickey is drawn to look like Peter, with the addition of a green waistcoat and a red beard, and he keeps a talking sheep called O'Brian whose manner resembles Brian's. He will not accept Peter as his son until Peter beats him in a contest of drinking.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"mort-goldman","name":"Mort Goldman","household":"The Goldmans","role":"Quahog's pharmacist","path":"/characters/mort-goldman/","summary":"Mortimer Goldman, known as Mort, is the pharmacist in Quahog and one of Peter Griffin's circle of friends. Johnny Brennan voices him. He is of Polish Jewish descent, and the series draws his household as a set of American Jewish stereotypes. He owns Goldman's Pharmacy and works behind its counter, and his son Neil has a job there. His marriage to Muriel Goldman produced that one child and ended with her death. In the nineteenth season he marries again, to a woman named Rachel. His first appearance is \"The Kiss Seen Around the World\".","voices":["Johnny Brennan"]},{"id":"muriel-goldman","name":"Muriel Goldman","household":"The Goldmans","role":"Mort Goldman's wife","path":"/characters/muriel-goldman/","summary":"Muriel Goldman is the wife of the Quahog pharmacist Mort Goldman and the mother of their son Neil. Nicole Sullivan voices her. She is given as forty-two years old, and her design closely resembles her husband's. The character list says the couple met through a video dating service, and also that they first kissed at the age of fourteen, when both had colds. She dies in \"And Then There Were Fewer\": Diane Simmons stabs her after she witnesses the plan to kill James Woods and leave Tom Tucker carrying the blame. Her first appearance is \"The Kiss Seen Around the World\".","voices":["Nicole Sullivan"]},{"id":"neil-goldman","name":"Neil Goldman","household":"The Goldmans","role":"Mort and Muriel Goldman's son, a classmate of Meg","path":"/characters/neil-goldman/","summary":"Neil Goldman is the son of Mort and Muriel Goldman and a pupil at Adam West Regional High School. Seth Green voices him. He is written as a nerd. Despite the difference in their ages he is Chris Griffin's closest friend at the school, and he sits in the same class as Meg Griffin. His crush on Meg is close to obsessive by the character list's account, though \"Once Bitten\" indicates he has left it behind. He edits the school newspaper and belongs to the audio visual club. He also works at his father's pharmacy, where he has been named employee of the month. His first appearance is \"Let's Go to the Hop\".","voices":["Seth Green"]},{"id":"nigel-pinchley","name":"Nigel Pinchley","household":"Quahog","role":"Englishman who buys the Drunken Clam","path":"/characters/nigel-pinchley/","summary":"Nigel Pinchley is an Englishman who appears in the season 3 episode \"One If by Clam, Two If by Sea\". A hurricane flattens most of Quahog, leaving the Drunken Clam standing, and its owner sells the bar to Pinchley before moving to Florida. He makes it over as a stereotypical British pub, which drives Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe out. The pub burns down the following night, and the four men are blamed and jailed. Pinchley has a daughter, Eliza, whose Cockney accent Stewie sets out to correct as part of a wager with Brian. Lois, Bonnie and Loretta look into the fire and find that Pinchley had taken out a large sum of insurance money the day before it started. Lois draws a confession from him, and his insurance agent works out the rest. He is hanged in London, and Eliza is sent to an orphanage.","voices":[]},{"id":"ollie-williams","name":"Ollie Williams","household":"Quahog 5 News","role":"Weather reporter","path":"/characters/ollie-williams/","summary":"Ollie Williams presents the Blaccu-Weather forecast on Channel 5, the television station in Quahog. Phil LaMarr voices him. He is a Black American man who gives his bulletins loudly and at speed, and they seldom run beyond about three seconds. The character list attributes the style to alcoholism. Two occasions break the pattern. In one, he and Tom Tucker discuss his being caught in a rainstorm after his umbrella blew away. In \"Lois Kills Stewie\" he sums up the events of the previous episode, \"Stewie Kills Lois\". His first appearance is \"Mr. Saturday Knight\".","voices":["Phil LaMarr"]},{"id":"peter-griffin","name":"Peter Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Father of the Griffin family","path":"/characters/peter-griffin/","summary":"Peter Griffin is the father of the Griffin family and the central character of Family Guy. He lives in Quahog, Rhode Island, a fictional town based on Providence, with his wife Lois and their three children, Meg, Chris and Stewie. The family dog, Brian, is his closest friend. Peter has held several jobs over the course of the series: safety inspector at a toy factory, fisherman on his own boat, and a shipping role at the Pawtucket Patriot brewery. Series creator Seth MacFarlane voices him, and also created and designed the character. Peter first appeared alongside the rest of the family in the pilot episode \"Death Has a Shadow\", broadcast on 31 January 1999. The character developed from Larry, the lead of two earlier MacFarlane shorts, The Life of Larry and its follow-up Larry & Steve.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"rallo-tubbs","name":"Rallo Tubbs","household":"Spooner Street","role":"Donna Tubbs-Brown's son, introduced in The Cleveland Show","path":"/characters/rallo-tubbs/","summary":"Montclair Tubbs, called Rallo, is the five-year-old son of Donna Tubbs-Brown and her first husband, Robert. He is Roberta's brother, Cleveland Brown's stepson and Cleveland Brown Jr.'s stepbrother, and Mike Henry voices him. His father has been absent for most of his life, yet Rallo behaves much as he does: articulate well beyond his years and ruled by his hormones. He gets on with his mother and has a mixed relationship with Roberta, who ignores him at some moments and talks to him as an equal at others. In The Cleveland Show episode \"American Prankster\" Cleveland asks where the name came from, and Donna says it came from a character in the sitcom Sanford and Son, taken to be Rollo Lawson. Rallo was one of the leads of that series and turns up in Family Guy only occasionally, from \"He's Bla-ack!\" onwards.","voices":["Mike Henry"]},{"id":"stewie-griffin","name":"Stewie Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Infant of the Griffin family","path":"/characters/stewie-griffin/","summary":"Stewie Griffin is the youngest child of Peter and Lois Griffin and the brother of Meg and Chris. He is a one-year-old who speaks fluently with an upper-class British accent and behaves like an adult. Seth MacFarlane created, designed and voices the character, who first appeared with the rest of the family in \"Death Has a Shadow\" on 31 January 1999. Stewie began as a violent would-be supervillain intent on killing his mother and taking over the world. Following Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a film released direct to video, and the two-part story \"Stewie Kills Lois\" and \"Lois Kills Stewie\", those traits were toned down. He became more eccentric and friendly. He formed a close friendship with Brian, the family dog, whom he had earlier tormented. In March 2026 Fox ordered two seasons of a spin-off series, Stewie, due to premiere in the 2027 to 2028 television season.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"thelma-griffin","name":"Thelma Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"Peter's mother","path":"/characters/thelma-griffin/","summary":"Thelma Griffin is the mother of Peter Griffin and the wife of Francis Griffin, which makes her the mother-in-law of Lois and a paternal grandmother to Stewie, Chris and Meg. She is an Irish American Catholic, aged 85. Florence Stanley voiced the part for her first appearance, in \"Holy Crap\", and Phyllis Diller took it over for the appearances that followed. Alex Borstein voiced her as a young woman in \"Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas\". The episode \"Mom's the Word\" establishes that Thelma has died, of a stroke.","voices":["Florence Stanley","Phyllis Diller"]},{"id":"tom-tucker","name":"Tom Tucker","household":"Quahog 5 News","role":"News anchor","path":"/characters/tom-tucker/","summary":"Tom Tucker is the male news anchor at Channel 5, the television station in Quahog. Seth MacFarlane voices him. He is written as arrogant, and he reads the news in a baritone. Before he came to Quahog he worked as an actor. He has been in the series since its first episode, \"Death Has a Shadow\". In \"And Then There Were Fewer\", Diane Simmons kills Muriel Goldman for witnessing a plan to murder James Woods and leave Tucker blamed for it.","voices":["Seth MacFarlane"]},{"id":"tricia-takanawa","name":"Tricia Takanawa","household":"Quahog 5 News","role":"Field reporter","path":"/characters/tricia-takanawa/","summary":"Tricia Takanawa is a field reporter for Channel 5, the television station in Quahog. Alex Borstein voices her. Her colleagues introduce her on air with her ethnicity attached to her name, and the film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story settles that she is Japanese. She files her reports in a flat, nasal register, a delivery Borstein has described as presentation with nothing behind it. Her first appearance is \"Da Boom\".","voices":["Alex Borstein"]},{"id":"vinny-griffin","name":"Vinny Griffin","household":"The Griffins","role":"The dog who joined the family during Brian's absence in season 12","path":"/characters/vinny-griffin/","summary":"Vinny Griffin is a dog who joined the Griffin household in the twelfth season, after Brian was killed in \"Life of Brian\". The family took him in about a month after Brian's death, and he first appears in that episode. Two episodes later, in \"Christmas Guy\", a past version of Stewie arrives by time machine. Vinny provides a distraction so that Stewie can take the visitor's return pad, go back in time and save Brian. 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