Season 9 · Episode 5 · First aired 14 November 2010
Baby, You Knock Me Out
Episode 5 of Family Guy season 9 (S09E05), the 152nd Family Guy episode overall. Written by Alex Carter and directed by Julius Wu. First broadcast on 14 November 2010.
Story
For Peter's birthday Quagmire hands him tickets to a women's boxing club, where Lois is put forward for a bout and flattens her opponent at once. The owner urges her to turn professional and she refuses, until Peter blindfolds her and delivers her to another fight in the belief she is going to a restaurant. Furious with him, she pictures him across the ring and wins. She trains, rises to the top of the Quahog rankings, then quits after her nose is broken, telling Peter the anger she fights on is aimed at him. At a ceremony in her honour the undefeated Deirdre Jackson humiliates Peter and goads Lois back. Beaten around for six rounds, Lois recovers from a left hook and knocks Jackson out.
Production and reception
- Alex Borstein announced the episode at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. Alex Carter wrote it and Julius Wu directed, with music by Ron Jones. Wikipedia, Baby, You Knock Me Out
- The storyline parodies Rocky III, and Deirdre Jackson stands in for that film's Clubber Lang. Wikipedia, Baby, You Knock Me Out
- Guest voices included Carrie Fisher, Nicole Sullivan and Luke Adams, with Adam West and Patrick Warburton also on the cast. Wikipedia, Baby, You Knock Me Out
- Nielsen recorded 7.00 million viewers and a 3.3 rating among adults aged 18 to 49, a sharp fall from the previous week. Wikipedia, Baby, You Knock Me Out
- Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club graded the episode B and noted that it leaned less than usual on cutaway gags. Wikipedia, Baby, You Knock Me Out
Voices
| Voice | Characters |
|---|---|
| Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin |
| Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin, Deirdre Jackson |
| Seth Green | Chris Griffin |
| Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin |
| Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown, Bruce the Performance Artist |
| Luke Adams | Club Manager |
| Carrie Fisher | Angela |
| Ralph Garman | Italian #1 |
| Danny Smith | Refugee #1, Buttscratcher Salesman |
| Alec Sulkin | Floyd Wetherton |
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
- Luke Adams as club manager
- Carrie Fisher as Angela
- Nicole Sullivan as Boxer
- John Viener as Ring Announcer
- Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
- Adam West as Mayor Adam West
- Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson
- Mike Henry as Bruce the Performance Artist
- Alec Sulkin as Floyd Wetherton
Season 9: episode 5 of 18
- E1And Then There Were Fewer
- E2Excellence in Broadcasting
- E3Welcome Back, Carter
- E4Halloween on Spooner Street
- E5Baby, You Knock Me OutYou are here
- E6Brian Writes a Bestseller
- E7Road to the North Pole
- E8New Kidney in Town
- E9And I'm Joyce Kinney
- E10Friends of Peter G.
- E11German Guy
- E12The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair
- E13Trading Places
- E14Tiegs for Two
- E15Brothers & Sisters
- E16The Big Bang Theory
- E17Foreign Affairs
- E18It's a Trap!
SourceFacts from Wikipedia: Family Guy season 9 and the episode's article (CC BY-SA 4.0). Spotted an error? See corrections.
Provenance
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