Season 7 · Episode 16 · First aired 17 May 2009

Peter's Progress

Episode 16 of Family Guy season 7 (S07E16), the 126th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Wellesley Wild and directed by Brian Iles. First broadcast on 17 May 2009.

Story

Cleveland's cousin Madame Claude, a psychic, reads the palms of Peter, Joe and Quagmire to reveal their past lives. Peter learns he was Griffin Peterson, founder of Quahog, and the story moves to 17th century England. Griffin is engaged to Lady Redbush (Lois), but King Stewart III (Stewie) wants her for himself. The king has Griffin seized on his wedding day and shipped to the New World, then tells Redbush her fiancé is dead and marries her. Griffin founds the colony of Quahog with fellow exiles Joe, Quagmire and Seamus. The king's jester (Brian) eventually shows Redbush a newspaper report proving Griffin is alive, and the pair sail to join him. Stewart follows with his army, and the two men agree to settle the matter with a talent show. Griffin's musical number wins, the king returns to England, and Griffin and Redbush stay in Quahog.

Production and reception

The first broadcast on 17 May 2009 was watched in 7.33 million homes, the most of the Animation Domination block that night. Wikipedia, Peter's Progress
Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel and Josh Radnor voiced their How I Met Your Mother characters, and writer John Viener voiced Madame Claude. Wikipedia, Peter's Progress
The title refers to The Pilgrim's Progress, and the talent show act copies the Lambda Lambda Lambda routine from the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Wikipedia, Peter's Progress
This was Cleveland Brown's last regular appearance in Family Guy until "He's Bla-ack!" in season 12. Wikipedia, Peter's Progress
The A.V. Club's Emily St. James graded it D, while Robin Pierson of The TV Critic reviewed it positively. Wikipedia, Peter's Progress

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Strawberry Peter
Alex Borstein	Lady Redbush
Seth Green	Lieutenant Chris
Mila Kunis	Meg Peterson
Mike Henry	Cleveland Brown, Colonel Cleveland, Harry McAfee
John Ross Bowie	Guard
John G. Brennan	Colonial Mort
Tom Devanney	Man
Neil Patrick Harris	Barney Stinson
Mark Hentemann	Other Audience Member

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

John Ross Bowie
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
Brody Hutzler as Shovin' Buddy
Derwin Jordan
Keri Lynn Pratt as Shovin' Buddy
David Pressman as Shovin' Buddy
Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby
Martin Savage as Priest
Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen
Alexander Siddig
Erik von Detten as Shovin' Buddy
Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
Johnny Brennan as Mort Goldman
John Viener as Madame Claude
Alec Sulkin as Alan Rickman

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Provenance

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