--- title: "Petarded (S04E06) | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e06-petarded/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "Petarded: Family Guy season 4 episode 6 (S04E06), first aired 19 June 2005. Writer and director credits." --- # Petarded Episode 6 of Family Guy season 4 (S04E06), the 56th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Seth Kearsley. First broadcast on 19 June 2005. ## Story At a games night, Lois feeds Peter preschool Trivial Pursuit questions so that he wins, and he boasts he is smarter than everyone. Brian, irritated, dares him to sit the MacArthur Fellows Program test. The results class Peter as intellectually disabled rather than a genius, and he sinks into depression. After he knocks down Tom Tucker, who declines to press charges, Peter finds the label lets him get away with anything. His misbehaviour ends when he scalds Lois with hot grease at a fast-food restaurant. While she is in hospital, child protection services rule Peter unfit and place Meg, Chris and Stewie with Cleveland. Peter fills Cleveland's house with prostitutes to make him look a bad parent, then loses a custody hearing. Just as he accepts the family may never reunite, Lois returns home recovered and with custody restored. ## Production and reception - Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild wrote the episode from an idea by Seth MacFarlane, and Seth Kearsley directed. ([Wikipedia: Petarded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petarded)) - The Trivial Pursuit rigging was David A. Goodman's suggestion; in the first draft Peter's easy questions came by chance. ([Wikipedia: Petarded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petarded)) - MacFarlane tried to hire Lennie Weinrib to reprise Timer, a 1970s public service announcement character, but Weinrib could not recall the role, so MacFarlane voiced it himself. ([Wikipedia: Petarded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petarded)) - Broadcast censors removed a song about Peter's diagnosis sung by Quahog residents, on the ground that one word, retarded, recurred too often in it. ([Wikipedia: Petarded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petarded)) - The episode drew a Nielsen rating of 4.4 as the week's 42nd most-watched programme; in 2014 IGN ranked it the best Family Guy episode of the show's first fifteen years. ([Wikipedia: Petarded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petarded)) ## Facts | Fact | Detail | | --- | --- | | Season | 4 | | Episode | 6 of 30 | | Overall | No. 56 | | Code | S04E06 | | First aired | 19 June 2005 | | Directed by | Seth Kearsley | | Written by | Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild | | Production code | 4ACX09 | | Source | Wikipedia: Family Guy season 4 | | Wikidata | Q4046708 | | IMDb | tt0576956 | | Verification | Checked against Wikidata and IMDb: title, date, numbering and credits agree | | US viewers | 7.17 million | ## Voices | Voice | Characters | | --- | --- | | Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin | | Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin, Woman in Bathroom Stall #1, Diana | | Seth Green | Chris Griffin, Rocky | | Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin, Woman in Bathroom Stall #3 | | John G. Brennan | Mort Goldman | | LeVar Burton | Verne | | Gary Cole | Agent Jessup | | Barclay DeVeau | Patty | | Ralph Garman | Jake | | Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown | 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 - LeVar Burton as Vern - Gary Cole as Priest - Barclay DeVeau as Patty - Phil LaMarr as Announcer/Judge, Judge - Cloris Leachman as herself - Len Maxwell - Natasha Melnick as Ruth - Nicole Sullivan as Esther - John Viener as Agent Jessup - Lisa Wilhoit as Beth - Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson - Seth Green as Rocky Dennis - Alec Sulkin as Dan Rather - Danny Smith as Japanese Man ## Links - Season: [4](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-4/) - Source: [Wikipedia: Family Guy season 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_4) - Wikidata: [Q4046708](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4046708) - IMDb: [tt0576956](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576956/) - US viewers: [7.17 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_4) ## Navigation - Previous: [S04E05 The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e05-the-cleveland-loretta-quagmire/) - Next: [S04E07 Brian the Bachelor](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e07-brian-the-bachelor/) - Season hub: [Season 4](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-4/) - All episodes: [Family Guy episode guide](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/) ## Season 4: episode 6 of 30 - S04E01 [North by North Quahog](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e01-north-by-north-quahog/) - S04E02 [Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e02-fast-times-at-buddy-cianci-jr-high/) - S04E03 [Blind Ambition](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e03-blind-ambition/) - S04E04 [Don't Make Me Over](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e04-dont-make-me-over/) - S04E05 [The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e05-the-cleveland-loretta-quagmire/) - S04E06 Petarded (this entry) - S04E07 [Brian the Bachelor](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e07-brian-the-bachelor/) - S04E08 [8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e08-8-simple-rules-for-buying-my-teenage-daughter/) - S04E09 [Breaking Out Is Hard to Do](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e09-breaking-out-is-hard-to-do/) - S04E10 [Model Misbehavior](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e10-model-misbehavior/) - S04E11 [Peter's Got Woods](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e11-peters-got-woods/) - S04E12 [Perfect Castaway](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e12-perfect-castaway/) - S04E13 [Jungle Love](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e13-jungle-love/) - S04E14 [PTV](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e14-ptv/) - S04E15 [Brian Goes Back to College](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e15-brian-goes-back-to-college/) - S04E16 [The Courtship of Stewie's Father](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e16-the-courtship-of-stewies-father/) - S04E17 [The Fat Guy Strangler](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e17-the-fat-guy-strangler/) - S04E18 [The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e18-the-father-the-son-and-the-holy-fonz/) - S04E19 [Brian Sings and Swings](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e19-brian-sings-and-swings/) - S04E20 [Patriot Games](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e20-patriot-games/) - S04E21 [I Take Thee Quagmire](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e21-i-take-thee-quagmire/) - S04E22 [Sibling Rivalry](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e22-sibling-rivalry/) - S04E23 [Deep Throats](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e23-deep-throats/) - S04E24 [Peterotica](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e24-peterotica/) - S04E25 [You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e25-you-may-now-kiss-the-uh-guy-who-receives/) - S04E26 [Petergeist](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e26-petergeist/) - S04E27 [The Griffin Family History](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e27-the-griffin-family-history/) - S04E28 [Stewie B. Goode](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e28-stewie-b-goode/) - S04E29 [Bango Was His Name, Oh!](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e29-bango-was-his-name-oh/) - S04E30 [Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s04e30-stu-and-stewies-excellent-adventure/) --- Unofficial fan resource. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FOX, Disney, or Fuzzy Door Productions.