Season 12 · Episode 20 · First aired 11 May 2014
He's Bla-ack!
Episode 20 of Family Guy season 12 (S12E20), the 230th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Julius Sharpe and directed by Steve Robertson. First broadcast on 11 May 2014.
Story
Cleveland comes back to Quahog after the cancellation of his spin-off and takes ribbing from his friends at the Drunken Clam about the show's logo, its ratings and its lack of an audience. He also turns up in the title sequence in Mort's place. The Browns move into their old house, which past tenants have wrecked, and Rallo is rebuffed by Stewie. Chris breaks a vase over Rallo's head, Donna spanks him, and Lois and Donna fall out over parenting and forbid their husbands to meet. Peter and Cleveland resort to meeting on an aeroplane and at a staged traffic stop, and are caught both times. At Susie's first birthday party the two men insist on running the three-legged race together, and their wives make peace.
Production and reception
- The broadcast took a 2.1 rating among adults aged 18 to 49 and 4.16 million viewers, the best figures of the night on Fox. Wikipedia, He's Bla-ack!
- Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club graded the episode B minus, calling the montage of past moments between Peter and Cleveland cynical but effective, and marking down the many race jokes. Wikipedia, He's Bla-ack!
Voices
| Voice | Characters |
|---|---|
| Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin |
| Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin |
| Seth Green | Chris Griffin |
| Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin, Meg Griffin |
| Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown, Rallo Tubbs |
| John G. Brennan | Mort Goldman |
| Sanaa Lathan | Donna Tubbs |
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
- Sanaa Lathan as Donna Tubbs-Brown
- Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
- Johnny Brennan as Mort Goldman
- Mike Henry as Rallo
Season 12: episode 20 of 21
- E1Finders Keepers
- E2Vestigial Peter
- E3Quagmire's Quagmire
- E4A Fistful of Meg
- E5Boopa-dee Bappa-dee
- E6Life of Brian
- E7Into Harmony's Way
- E8Christmas Guy
- E9Peter Problems
- E10Grimm Job
- E11Brian's a Bad Father
- E12Mom's the Word
- E133 Acts of God
- E14Fresh Heir
- E15Secondhand Spoke
- E16Herpe the Love Sore
- E17The Most Interesting Man in the World
- E18Baby Got Black
- E19Meg Stinks!
- E20He's Bla-ack!You are here
- E21Chap Stewie
SourceFacts from Wikipedia: Family Guy season 12 and the episode's article (CC BY-SA 4.0). Spotted an error? See corrections.
Provenance
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- 6 September 2026
- Verification
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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.