Season 2 · Episode 3 · First aired 26 December 1999

Da Boom

Episode 3 of Family Guy season 2 (S02E03), the 10th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan and directed by Bob Jaques. First broadcast on 26 December 1999.

Story

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.

Production and reception

This was the first broadcast episode with Mila Kunis as the voice of Meg, replacing Lacey Chabert, who left because of school and her work on Party of Five. Wikipedia, Da Boom
The episode introduces Ernie the Giant Chicken, voiced by writer Danny Smith, whose fights with Peter became a running gag. Wikipedia, Da Boom
Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal reprised their Dallas roles for the live action ending, which parodies the Dallas episode Blast from the Past. Wikipedia, Da Boom
Bob Jaques directed, his only episode of the series, from a script by Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan. Wikipedia, Da Boom
Ahsan Haque of IGN rated the episode 10 out of 10, and Tom Eames of Digital Spy placed it sixteenth in his ranking of the show's episodes. Wikipedia, Da Boom

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin, Tricia Takanawa, Sheila
Seth Green	Chris Griffin
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Lori Alan	Diane Simmons
Patrick Duffy	Bobby Ewing
Mike Henry	Cleveland Brown
Jack Perkins	Jack Perkins
Victoria Principal	Pamela Barnes Ewing
Will Sasso	Randy Newman

Principal voice credits as recorded by IMDb, which lists up to ten credits per episode, so recurring characters can be missing here. Guest voices below come from Wikipedia and TVmaze.

Guest voices

Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing
Victoria Principal as Pam Ewing, Pamela Ewing
Jack Perkins as himself
Will Sasso as Randy Newman
Joey Slotnick
Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown
Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
Lori Alan as Diane Simmons

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Provenance

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Sources: Wikipedia: Da Boom
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