Season 8 · Episode 2 · First aired 4 October 2009
Family Goy
Episode 2 of Family Guy season 8 (S08E02), the 128th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Mark Hentemann and directed by James Purdum. First broadcast on 4 October 2009.
Story
Peter falls for a cardboard cutout of Kathy Ireland, then rips it in half and buries it in the garden. Making up with Lois, he finds a lump on her breast. The test is clear, but Dr Hartman sees in her records that her mother survived the Holocaust, making Lois and the children Jewish. Carter admits hiding this so the family could join the country club. Peter embraces Judaism until the ghost of his father Francis warns him he will go to Hell unless he is Catholic. He then tries to turn the family back and becomes increasingly hostile to Lois over her heritage. Encouraged by her mother, Lois holds a Passover Seder, which a drunk Peter tries to wreck dressed as the Easter Bunny. Jesus appears, notes that he is Jewish himself, and tells Peter to treat other faiths fairly. Peter and Lois apologise to each other.
Production and reception
- The first broadcast on 4 October 2009 reached 9.66 million homes and drew a 5.4/8 Nielsen rating. Wikipedia, Family Goy
- Ben Stein voiced Rabbi Goldberg and Charles Durning voiced Francis Griffin; Jeff Bergman took over Max Weinstein from Peter Riegert. Wikipedia, Family Goy
- Rabbi Goldberg and Max Weinstein had first appeared in the season three episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", which was originally kept off network television. Wikipedia, Family Goy
- The story reverses an element of "Death Is a Bitch", in which Lois found a lump on Peter's breast. Wikipedia, Family Goy
- The Parents Television Council made it Worst TV Show of the Week in October 2009, and The A.V. Club gave it a C minus. Wikipedia, Family Goy
Voices
| Voice | Characters |
|---|---|
| Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin |
| Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin, Barbara Pewterschmidt, Jewish Teacher |
| Seth Green | Chris Griffin, Jewish Boy |
| Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin |
| Mike Henry | Rooster |
| Jeff Bergman | Max Weinstein |
| John G. Brennan | Mort Goldman, Horace |
| Max Burkholder | Kid |
| Charles Durning | Francis Griffin |
| Ralph Garman | Pediatrician |
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
- Jeff Bergman as Max Weinstein
- Max Burkholder as Child
- Charles Durning as Francis Griffin
- Ben Stein as Rabbi Goldberg
- Bill Woodson as the narrator
- William Woodson as Super Friends Narrator
- John Viener as Mark Wahlberg
Season 8: episode 2 of 21
- E1Road to the Multiverse
- E2Family GoyYou are here
- E3Spies Reminiscent of Us
- E4Brian's Got a Brand New Bag
- E5Hannah Banana
- E6Quagmire's Baby
- E7Jerome Is the New Black
- E8Dog Gone
- E9Business Guy
- E10Big Man on Hippocampus
- E11Dial Meg for Murder
- E12Extra Large Medium
- E13Go, Stewie, Go!
- E14Peter-assment
- E15Brian Griffin's House of Payne
- E16April in Quahog
- E17Brian & Stewie
- E18Quagmire's Dad
- E19The Splendid Source
- E20Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
- E21Partial Terms of Endearment
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Provenance
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- Note
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