Season 5 · Episode 6 · First aired 19 November 2006

Prick Up Your Ears

Episode 6 of Family Guy season 5 (S05E06), the 86th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and directed by James Purdum. First broadcast on 19 November 2006.

Story

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. Stewie meanwhile tries to trap the tooth fairy.

Production and reception

Nielsen figures put the first broadcast at 9.3 million homes, with a 3.3 rating among viewers aged 18 to 49, level with The Simpsons. Wikipedia, Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy)
Guest voices included Drew Barrymore, Mindy Cohn and David Cross. Gary Cole, Taylor Cole, Lauren Conrad, Kevin Michael Richardson and André Sogliuzzo also took parts. Wikipedia, Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy)
Dan Iverson of IGN scored it 7.8 out of 10 and praised its satire of the argument between sex education and abstinence. Wikipedia, Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy)
Francis Rizzo III of DVD Talk, reviewing the fifth volume set, read the plot as a jab at conservative Christian teaching on sex education. Wikipedia, Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy)
Cutaways draw on Knight Rider, Airplane! and Laguna Beach, and Stewie's plan against the fairy uses toys of SpongeBob, Starscream and Man-E-Faces. Wikipedia, Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy)

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin, Rodney's Wife, Asian Woman
Seth Green	Chris Griffin, Pizza Deliveryman, Michael Jackson
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Lori Alan	Diane Simmons
Drew Barrymore	Jillian Russell
Alexandra Breckenridge	Debbie
Steve Callaghan	Kid #2
Mindy Cohn	Natalie Green
Gary Cole	Principal Shepherd

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
Mindy Cohn
Gary Cole as Principal Shepherd
Taylor Cole
Lauren Conrad
David Cross as Jerry Kirkwood
Margaret Easley
Lauren Hooser
Kim Parks
Kevin Michael Richardson as Rodney King
André Sogliuzzo
Crawford Wilson

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Provenance

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