Season 5 · Episode 14 · First aired 25 March 2007
No Meals on Wheels
Episode 14 of Family Guy season 5 (S05E14), the 94th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Mike Henry and directed by Greg Colton. First broadcast on 25 March 2007.
Story
Peter builds an effigy of Adolf Hitler out of his best suit to stop Mort Goldman borrowing his things. At a second hand shop he buys flannel pyjamas, which let him shock the household with static picked up from the carpet. Lois has the carpet taken up, revealing an eighteenth century Rhode Island ship token that the family sells for fifty thousand dollars. Peter and Lois use the money to open a restaurant, Big Pete's House of Munch. Joe fills it with fellow wheelchair users, and Peter, unhappy with the clientele, bans disabled customers. Those shut out combine into a machine called CrippleTron, which wrecks the restaurant and breaks Peter's leg. Left in a wheelchair for two weeks, Peter apologises to Joe.
Production and reception
- Nielsen figures put the first broadcast at 7.97 million homes, with a 2.8 rating among viewers aged 18 to 49. It was the 35th most watched programme of the week. Wikipedia, No Meals on Wheels
- The script came from Mike Henry, a member of the cast who voices Cleveland Brown. Greg Colton directed, leaning on computer animation alongside hand drawn work for the CrippleTron sequence. Wikipedia, No Meals on Wheels
- The Parents Television Council named it the worst television programme of the week ending 6 April 2007, citing its treatment of disabled people and the Hitler scarecrow. Wikipedia, No Meals on Wheels
- Ahsan Haque of IGN called it one of the most tasteless entries of the season, while saying the restaurant plot was well handled. Wikipedia, No Meals on Wheels
- The fight with CrippleTron came tenth in an IGN list of the best fights in the series. Wikipedia, No Meals on Wheels
Voices
| Voice | Characters |
|---|---|
| Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin |
| Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin, Tyra Banks, Jury |
| Seth Green | Chris Griffin |
| Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin |
| Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown, John Herbert |
| Lori Alan | Diane Simmons |
| John G. Brennan | Mort Goldman |
| Steve Callaghan | Customer |
| Chris Cox | Gerald |
| Barclay DeVeau | Top Model Contestant, Raggedy Ann Doll, Violet Gray |
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
- Barclay DeVeau
- Keith Ferguson
- Arnold McCuller as Maude singer
- Patrick Stewart as himself
- Ben Stiller as himself (uncredited)
- Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
- Lori Alan as Diane Simmons
- Mike Henry as Herbert
Season 5: episode 14 of 18
- E1Stewie Loves Lois
- E2Mother Tucker
- E3Hell Comes to Quahog
- E4Saving Private Brian
- E5Whistle While Your Wife Works
- E6Prick Up Your Ears
- E7Chick Cancer
- E8Barely Legal
- E9Road to Rupert
- E10Peter's Two Dads
- E11The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- E12Airport '07
- E13Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey
- E14No Meals on WheelsYou are here
- E15Boys Do Cry
- E16No Chris Left Behind
- E17It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One
- E18Meet the Quagmires
SourceFacts from Wikipedia: Family Guy season 5 and the episode's article (CC BY-SA 4.0). Spotted an error? See corrections.
Provenance
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- Note
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