--- title: "Love, Blactually (S07E01) | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e01-love-blactually/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "Love, Blactually: Family Guy season 7 episode 1 (S07E01), first aired 28 September 2008. Writer and director credits." --- # Love, Blactually Episode 1 of Family Guy season 7 (S07E01), the 111th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Mike Henry and directed by Cyndi Tang. First broadcast on 28 September 2008. ## Story Brian meets Carolyn, a fellow atheist, while buying The God Delusion, and the two start dating. Stewie tells him his relationships fail because he sleeps with women too soon, so Brian holds back. After three weeks Carolyn, thinking he only wants friendship, begins seeing Cleveland. Brian keeps stumbling on the pair together. Stewie tries to make amends by pushing Loretta, Cleveland's former wife, towards a reconciliation. Loretta, ashamed of her affair with Quagmire, arrives to beg forgiveness just as Cleveland announces plans to elope with Carolyn to Hawaii. Peter and Lois warn Cleveland off, while Brian pushes him back to Loretta for his own ends. Peter sends Quagmire to test Loretta, and she rebuffs him. Cleveland forgives her but decides they should both move on. He then finds Carolyn in bed with Quagmire, and he and Brian make up. ## Production and reception - Mike Henry, who voices Cleveland, wrote the episode as his first of the season, and Cyndi Tang directed it; Kat Foster voiced Carolyn. ([Wikipedia: Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually)) - Cleveland features heavily here, in one of the last episodes built around him before he left for The Cleveland Show, a spin-off Henry helped create. ([Wikipedia: Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually)) - At the opening costume party Brian and Stewie both dress as Snoopy, Quagmire as Napoleon Dynamite and Cleveland as Charlie Chaplin. ([Wikipedia: Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually)) - The first broadcast drew 9.2 million viewers, against 9.3 million for The Simpsons and 7 million for King of the Hill on the same night. ([Wikipedia: Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually)) - Ahsan Haque of IGN rated it 8.9 out of 10 and Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club gave it a B+, while Robin Pierson of The TV Critic gave it 29 out of 100. ([Wikipedia: Love, Blactually](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually)) ## Facts | Fact | Detail | | --- | --- | | Season | 7 | | Episode | 1 of 16 | | Overall | No. 111 | | Code | S07E01 | | First aired | 28 September 2008 | | Directed by | Cyndi Tang | | Written by | Mike Henry | | Production code | 6ACX03 | | Source | Wikipedia: Family Guy season 7 | | Wikidata | Q4043210 | | IMDb | tt1289976 | | Verification | Checked against Wikidata and IMDb: title, date, numbering and credits agree | | US viewers | 9.20 million | ## Voices | Voice | Characters | | --- | --- | | Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin | | Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin, Loretta Brown, Wife | | Seth Green | Chris Griffin, Chris Griffin | | Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin, Meg Griffin | | Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown | | Alexandra Breckenridge | Jane, Kate, Roxanne | | Kirker Butler | First Caterpillar, Man, Member of Symphony | | Tom Devanney | Shouting Arab | | Kat Foster | Carolyn | | Ralph Garman | Conductor, Reporter, Voice in Bushes | 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 - Kat Foster as Carolyn - Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson - John Viener as Fjurg Van Der Ploeg - Alec Sulkin as Baseball Announcer #1 ## Links - Season: [7](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-7/) - Source: [Wikipedia: Family Guy season 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_7) - Wikidata: [Q4043210](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4043210) - IMDb: [tt1289976](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289976/) - US viewers: [9.20 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_Blactually) ## Navigation - Previous: [S06E12 Long John Peter](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s06e12-long-john-peter/) - Next: [S07E02 I Dream of Jesus](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e02-i-dream-of-jesus/) - Season hub: [Season 7](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-7/) - All episodes: [Family Guy episode guide](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/) ## Season 7: episode 1 of 16 - S07E01 Love, Blactually (this entry) - S07E02 [I Dream of Jesus](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e02-i-dream-of-jesus/) - S07E03 [Road to Germany](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e03-road-to-germany/) - S07E04 [Baby Not on Board](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e04-baby-not-on-board/) - S07E05 [The Man with Two Brians](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e05-the-man-with-two-brians/) - S07E06 [Tales of a Third Grade Nothing](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e06-tales-of-a-third-grade-nothing/) - S07E07 [Ocean's Three and a Half](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e07-oceans-three-and-a-half/) - S07E08 [Family Gay](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e08-family-gay/) - S07E09 [The Juice Is Loose](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e09-the-juice-is-loose/) - S07E10 [Fox-y Lady](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e10-fox-y-lady/) - S07E11 [Not All Dogs Go to Heaven](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e11-not-all-dogs-go-to-heaven/) - S07E12 [420](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e12-420/) - S07E13 [Stew-Roids](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e13-stew-roids/) - S07E14 [We Love You, Conrad](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e14-we-love-you-conrad/) - S07E15 [Three Kings](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e15-three-kings/) - S07E16 [Peter's Progress](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s07e16-peters-progress/) --- Unofficial fan resource. 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