Season 8 · Episode 11 · First aired 31 January 2010

Dial Meg for Murder

Episode 11 of Family Guy season 8 (S08E11), the 137th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Alex Carter and Andrew Goldberg and directed by Cyndi Tang. First broadcast on 31 January 2010.

Story

Peter enters a rodeo and falls straight off his bull. Brian is hired by the editor of Teen People to write about the average American girl and follows Meg for research with Stewie. They learn she has fallen for Luke, a prisoner she met through a school pen-pal scheme. Brian tells Peter and Lois, who ban her from seeing him. Luke escapes during a riot and hides in Meg's room, and when Peter finds him Joe arrests them both. Meg serves three months for harbouring a convict and comes home a hardened criminal, terrorising the family and beating up Connie D'Amico at school. Planning to leave, she forces Brian at gunpoint to drive her to rob Mort's pharmacy. He shows her his article, which describes her as far kinder than the typical girl. Moved, Meg drops the act and returns home.

Production and reception

The first broadcast on 31 January 2010 was watched in 6.21 million homes, against the Grammy Awards and the Pro Bowl. Wikipedia, Dial Meg for Murder
Allison Janney voiced the Teen People editor and Chace Crawford voiced Luke. Wikipedia, Dial Meg for Murder
The title refers to the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder. Wikipedia, Dial Meg for Murder
The Parents Television Council named it Worst TV Show of the Week in early February 2010, citing the violence involving Meg and the rodeo scene. Wikipedia, Dial Meg for Murder
Ahsan Haque of IGN and Jason Hughes of TV Squad reviewed it positively, while Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club was critical. Wikipedia, Dial Meg for Murder

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin, Prisoner
Seth Green	Chris Griffin
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Mike Henry	John Herbert, Consuela
Lori Alan	Diane Simmons
David Boat	Latino in Hardhat
John G. Brennan	Mort Goldman
Steve Callaghan	College Student
Peter Chen	Chinese NASCAR Driver

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

Dave Boat as Various
Peter Chen as Various
Chace Crawford as Luke
Camille Guaty as Various
Victor J. Ho as Various
Allison Janney as Teen People Editor
Rachael MacFarlane as Various
Lisa Wilhoit as Connie D'Amico, Connie DiMico
Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
Adam West as Mayor Adam West
Johnny Brennan as Mort Goldman
Lori Alan as Diane Simmons
John Viener as Rodrico

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Provenance

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Sources: Wikipedia: Dial Meg for Murder
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