Season 10 · Episode 2 · First aired 2 October 2011

Seahorse Seashell Party

Episode 2 of Family Guy season 10 (S10E02), the 167th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Wellesley Wild and directed by Brian Iles. First broadcast on 2 October 2011.

Story

A hurricane bears down on Quahog. Brian takes magic mushrooms, hallucinates badly, cuts off his own ear and dreams of monstrous versions of the family, while Stewie sits with him through the night until he comes round. Downstairs the others play charades and other games, grow bored and turn on Meg. Meg answers back at last, telling Chris he has never taken her side, reminding Lois of her criminal past and saying she may cut contact once she is eighteen, and then rounding on Peter. The family attack one another and Peter runs upstairs in tears. Meg concludes that they cannot manage without someone to absorb their spite, and apologises to Peter, Lois and Chris. Stewie closes with a warning about drug use.

Production and reception

This was the middle instalment of the Night of the Hurricane block, alongside The Cleveland Show and American Dad!. Seth MacFarlane announced it at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010, from an idea pitched by Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly. Wikipedia, Seahorse Seashell Party
Scheduled for 1 May 2011 as the sixteenth episode of season nine, it was pulled after a tornado outbreak in the southern United States killed close to 300 people, and Fox held it over to the following season. Wikipedia, Seahorse Seashell Party
Wellesley Wild wrote the script and Brian Iles directed. Dee Bradley Baker, Debra Wilson, Ioan Gruffudd and Colin Ford guest starred. Wikipedia, Seahorse Seashell Party
The title is taken from a line in "Drinking out of Cups", a viral video by the musician Dan Deacon. Wikipedia, Seahorse Seashell Party
Nielsen recorded 6.91 million viewers and a 3.5/8 share in the 18 to 49 group. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club graded it D+ and Terron Moore of Ology scored it 4.5 out of ten. Wikipedia, Seahorse Seashell Party

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin
Seth Green	Chris Griffin
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Mike Henry	Hallucinating Creatures
Dee Bradley Baker	Hooded Monster
James Burkholder	Kid
Colin Ford	Kid
Ioan Gruffudd	National Geographic Narrator
Kat Purgal	Hallucinating Creatures

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

Ioan Gruffudd as Narrator
Dee Bradley Baker as Hooded Monster
Colin Ford as kid
Debra Wilson as black woman
Kat Purgal
James Burkholder as Kid
Danny Smith as G.I. Jose

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Provenance

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Sources: Wikipedia: Seahorse Seashell Party
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