Season 11 · Episode 7 · First aired 9 December 2012
Friends Without Benefits
Episode 7 of Family Guy season 11 (S11E07), the 195th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and directed by Jerry Langford. First broadcast on 9 December 2012.
Story
Meg tells her school friends about her long-standing crush on a popular boy, Kent Lastname, and works up the courage to ask him out. Kent treats the evening as friendly, and when Meg tries to kiss him he tells her that he is gay and drawn to her brother Chris. Brian suggests Kent may be uncertain, but Kent is clear about himself, and he ends the friendship when Meg asks him to pose as her boyfriend. Meg then presses Chris to sleep with Kent and plans to drug him, but changes her mind after Chris shows her a photograph of the two of them he has kept for years. She forgets to tell Kent, who turns up at Chris's room, and both boys round on her.
Production and reception
- It took a 2.9 rating and 5.64 million viewers, second on the Fox animation line-up that night behind The Simpsons on 7.44 million. Wikipedia, Friends Without Benefits
- Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club graded it B, and Carter Dotson of TV Fanatic rated it 2.5 out of 5. Wikipedia, Friends Without Benefits
Voices
| Voice | Characters |
|---|---|
| Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin |
| Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin |
| Seth Green | Chris Griffin |
| Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin |
| Chris Cox | Kent Lastname |
| Andrew Hibbard | Customer |
| Martha MacIsaac | Patty |
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
- Chris Cox as Kent Lastname, Kent
- Andrew Hibbard as Peter's Customer
- Rachael MacFarlane
- Martha MacIsaac as Patty
- Natasha Melnick as Ruth
- Christina Milian as Esther
- Emily Osment as Quagmire's Asian Date
- Robert Wu as Overzealous Asian Kids
- Adam West as Mayor Adam West
Season 11: episode 7 of 22
- E1Into Fat Air
- E2Ratings Guy
- E3The Old Man and the Big 'C'
- E4Yug Ylimaf
- E5Joe's Revenge
- E6Lois Comes Out of Her Shell
- E7Friends Without BenefitsYou are here
- E8Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
- E9Space Cadet
- E10Brian's Play
- E11The Giggity Wife
- E12Valentine's Day in Quahog
- E13Chris Cross
- E14Call Girl
- E15Turban Cowboy
- E1612 and a Half Angry Men
- E17Bigfat
- E18Total Recall
- E19Save the Clam
- E20Farmer Guy
- E21Roads to Vegas
- E22No Country Club for Old Men
SourceFacts from Wikipedia: Family Guy season 11 and the episode's article (CC BY-SA 4.0). Spotted an error? See corrections.
Provenance
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- 6 September 2026
- Verification
- Checked against Wikidata and IMDb: title, date, numbering and credits agree
- Licence
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- Note
- The story summary and notes were written for this site from the sources listed, by Claude in Claude Code on 2026-09-08, awaiting editorial review. Facts only; no dialogue is reproduced. Voice credits: Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission. Guest cast data from TVmaze (https://www.tvmaze.com), CC BY-SA.