Season 5 · Episode 5 · First aired 12 November 2006

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
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
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
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
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

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

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Provenance

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