Season 8 · Episode 3 · First aired 11 October 2009

Spies Reminiscent of Us

Episode 3 of Family Guy season 8 (S08E03), the 129th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Alec Sulkin and directed by Cyndi Tang. First broadcast on 11 October 2009.

Story

With both bathrooms at home occupied, Peter starts using the toilet in Cleveland's empty house. The house is soon rented by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, whom Peter invites to dinner and fails to impress with his comedy. Stewie and Brian investigate the pair and find a secret facility beneath the house. The actors explain that Ronald Reagan recruited them as real spies and that they are hunting a Soviet sleeper agent in Quahog. Brian and Stewie join them. The agent turns out to be Mayor West, who is triggered by accident, flees to Russia and launches a nuclear missile at the United States. Aykroyd hacks the guidance system so the warhead explodes harmlessly in the upper atmosphere, though the fuselage lands on Cleveland's new house in Virginia. Meanwhile Peter, Quagmire and Joe form an improv group, and Peter's John Wayne impressions bring their only show to an early end.

Production and reception

The first broadcast on 11 October 2009 was watched by 8.88 million viewers and drew a 5.1/8 Nielsen rating. Wikipedia, Spies Reminiscent of Us
It was planned as a Road to episode called "Road to '85" before the title and premise were swapped with "Road to the Multiverse". Wikipedia, Spies Reminiscent of Us
Meg's closing line in Russian gave Mila Kunis a chance to speak her native language on the show. Wikipedia, Spies Reminiscent of Us
Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase voiced themselves, and Mike Henry returned briefly as Cleveland Brown. Wikipedia, Spies Reminiscent of Us
Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave it a B and Ahsan Haque of IGN rated it 7.7 out of 10. Wikipedia, Spies Reminiscent of Us

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin, Mike Brady's First Wife
Seth Green	Chris Griffin
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Mike Henry	Cleveland Brown
Dan Aykroyd	Dan Aykroyd
John G. Brennan	Mort Goldman
Chevy Chase	Chevy Chase
Gary Cole	Mike Brady
Dimitri Diatchenko	Russian Dinosaur, Russian Guard #2

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

Dan Aykroyd as himself, Dan Aykroyd
Chevy Chase as himself, Chevy Chase
Gary Cole as Mike Brady
Dimitri Diatchenko as Russian Porcupine and Russian Guard #2, Russian Soldier
James Lipton as himself
Henriette Mantel as Alice Nelson
Chris Parson as B.B. King
Nicole Sullivan
Mae Whitman
Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
Adam West as Mayor Adam West
John Viener as Vladimir Putin

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Provenance

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