--- title: "Whistle While Your Wife Works (S05E05) | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e05-whistle-while-your-wife-works/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "Whistle While Your Wife Works: Family Guy season 5 episode 5 (S05E05), first aired 12 November 2006. Writer and director credits." --- # Whistle While Your Wife Works Episode 5 of Family Guy season 5 (S05E05), the 85th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Steve Callaghan and directed by Greg Colton. First broadcast on 12 November 2006. ## Story 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. ## Production and reception - Drew Barrymore voiced Jillian; the character's personality was reworked several times before broadcast, and she was always intended to recur. ([Wikipedia: Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works)) - Nielsen figures put the first US airing at 9.04 million homes and a 3.2 rating among adults 18 to 49, slightly behind The Simpsons. ([Wikipedia: Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works)) - Dan Iverson of IGN rated it 6.9 out of 10, calling it merely passable while praising Barrymore's voice work. ([Wikipedia: Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works)) - Seth MacFarlane said on the DVD commentary that the episode has almost no cultural references, apart from a David Koresh mention and a cutaway involving the Lord of Darkness from Legend. ([Wikipedia: Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works)) - The guitar on Stewie's song for the elderly residents was played by Seth MacFarlane's father, who sang it to him when he was a boy. ([Wikipedia: Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works)) ## Facts | Fact | Detail | | --- | --- | | Season | 5 | | Episode | 5 of 18 | | Overall | No. 85 | | Code | S05E05 | | First aired | 12 November 2006 | | Directed by | Greg Colton | | Written by | Steve Callaghan | | Production code | 4ACX35 | | Source | Wikipedia: Family Guy season 5 | | Wikidata | Q4053102 | | IMDb | tt0828210 | | Verification | Checked against Wikidata and IMDb: title, date, numbering and credits agree | | US viewers | 9.04 million | ## Voices | Voice | Characters | | --- | --- | | Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin | | Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin | | Seth Green | Chris Griffin, Band Member #4 | | Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin | | Drew Barrymore | Jillian Russell | | John G. Brennan | Horace | | Robert Costanzo | Danny DeVito | | Barclay DeVeau | Bimbo #2 | | Carrie Fisher | Angela | | Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown, John Herbert, Jesse | 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 - Drew Barrymore as Jillian - Bobby Costanzo as Danny DeVito - Barclay DeVeau as one of Jillian's friends - Carrie Fisher as Angela - Anne-Michelle Seiler as one of Jillian's friends - Audrey Wasilewski as one of Jillian's friends - Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson ## Links - Season: [5](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-5/) - Source: [Wikipedia: Family Guy season 5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_5) - Wikidata: [Q4053102](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4053102) - IMDb: [tt0828210](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828210/) - US viewers: [9.04 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_While_Your_Wife_Works) ## Navigation - Previous: [S05E04 Saving Private Brian](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e04-saving-private-brian/) - Next: [S05E06 Prick Up Your Ears](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e06-prick-up-your-ears/) - Season hub: [Season 5](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-5/) - All episodes: [Family Guy episode guide](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/) ## Season 5: episode 5 of 18 - S05E01 [Stewie Loves Lois](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e01-stewie-loves-lois/) - S05E02 [Mother Tucker](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e02-mother-tucker/) - S05E03 [Hell Comes to Quahog](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e03-hell-comes-to-quahog/) - S05E04 [Saving Private Brian](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e04-saving-private-brian/) - S05E05 Whistle While Your Wife Works (this entry) - S05E06 [Prick Up Your Ears](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e06-prick-up-your-ears/) - S05E07 [Chick Cancer](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e07-chick-cancer/) - S05E08 [Barely Legal](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e08-barely-legal/) - S05E09 [Road to Rupert](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e09-road-to-rupert/) - S05E10 [Peter's Two Dads](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e10-peters-two-dads/) - S05E11 [The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e11-the-tan-aquatic-with-steve-zissou/) - S05E12 [Airport '07](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e12-airport-07/) - S05E13 [Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e13-bill-and-peters-bogus-journey/) - S05E14 [No Meals on Wheels](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e14-no-meals-on-wheels/) - S05E15 [Boys Do Cry](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e15-boys-do-cry/) - S05E16 [No Chris Left Behind](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e16-no-chris-left-behind/) - S05E17 [It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e17-it-takes-a-village-idiot-and-i-married-one/) - S05E18 [Meet the Quagmires](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e18-meet-the-quagmires/) --- Unofficial fan resource. 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