--- title: "Fighting Irish (S13E17) | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e17-fighting-irish/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "Fighting Irish: Family Guy season 13 episode 17 (S13E17), first aired 3 May 2015. Written by Jaydi Samuels and directed by Brian Iles." --- # Fighting Irish Episode 17 of Family Guy season 13 (S13E17), the 248th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Jaydi Samuels and directed by Brian Iles. First broadcast on 3 May 2015. ## Story Quagmire holds a party to mark his thousandth sexual conquest. Peter, drunk, keeps boasting that he could beat a cartoon version of the actor Liam Neeson in a fight, and Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland tire of hearing it and arrange for him to prove it. Neeson is filming in Waterbury, Connecticut, and Peter's attempts to reach him end in arrest after he tells security guards what he came for. Neeson bails him out and, instead of fighting him, puts him to work on errands. Peter tells his friends he won, then has to admit the lie in front of them. He finally refuses one last errand, Neeson beats him easily, and his friends are impressed that he went through with it. Stewie, meanwhile, grows jealous of the attention Lois gives another child at his preschool. ## Production and reception - The script was by Jaydi Samuels, who had joined Family Guy in 2008 as a production assistant. ([Wikipedia: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy))) - Neeson agreed to deliver any line the writers gave him bar one, a boast about his age, which he altered on the grounds that he had been 55 when he made Taken. ([Wikipedia: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy))) - Neeson had been parodied on the show before, played by John Viener in a joke about his American accent, and had appeared as himself in an earlier season. ([Wikipedia: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy))) - The first broadcast drew 3.71 million viewers, the lowest figure in its timeslot but the highest of any Fox programme that night. ([Wikipedia: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy))) - Jesse Schedeen of IGN judged it a middling instalment weighed down by too many cutaways and pop culture references, though he thought Neeson's willingness to mock his own fame lifted it. ([Wikipedia: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy))) ## Facts | Fact | Detail | | --- | --- | | Season | 13 | | Episode | 17 of 18 | | Overall | No. 248 | | Code | S13E17 | | First aired | 3 May 2015 | | Directed by | Brian Iles | | Written by | Jaydi Samuels | | Production code | CACX15 | | Source | Wikipedia: Family Guy season 13 | | Wikidata | Q19873367 | | IMDb | tt4596524 | | Verification | Checked against Wikidata and IMDb: title, date, numbering and credits agree | | US viewers | 3.71 million | ## Voices | Voice | Characters | | --- | --- | | Seth MacFarlane | Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Glenn Quagmire | | Alex Borstein | Lois Griffin | | Seth Green | Chris Griffin, Chris Griffin | | Mila Kunis | Meg Griffin, Meg Griffin | | Mike Henry | Cleveland Brown | | Christine Lakin | Joyce Kinney | | Rachael MacFarlane | Miss Tammy | | Liam Neeson | Liam Neeson | 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 - Liam Neeson as himself, Liam Neeson - Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson ## Links - Season: [13](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-13/) - Source: [Wikipedia: Family Guy season 13](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_13) - Wikidata: [Q19873367](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19873367) - IMDb: [tt4596524](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4596524/) - US viewers: [3.71 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Irish_(Family_Guy)) ## Navigation - Previous: [S13E16 Roasted Guy](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e16-roasted-guy/) - Next: [S13E18 Take My Wife](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e18-take-my-wife/) - Season hub: [Season 13](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-13/) - All episodes: [Family Guy episode guide](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/) ## Season 13: episode 17 of 18 - S13E01 [The Simpsons Guy](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e01-the-simpsons-guy/) - S13E02 [The Book of Joe](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e02-the-book-of-joe/) - S13E03 [Baking Bad](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e03-baking-bad/) - S13E04 [Brian the Closer](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e04-brian-the-closer/) - S13E05 [Turkey Guys](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e05-turkey-guys/) - S13E06 [The 2000-Year-Old Virgin](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e06-the-2000-year-old-virgin/) - S13E07 [Stewie, Chris, & Brian's Excellent Adventure](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e07-stewie-chris-and-brians-excellent-adventure/) - S13E08 [Our Idiot Brian](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e08-our-idiot-brian/) - S13E09 [This Little Piggy](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e09-this-little-piggy/) - S13E10 [Quagmire's Mom](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e10-quagmires-mom/) - S13E11 [Encyclopedia Griffin](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e11-encyclopedia-griffin/) - S13E12 [Stewie Is Enceinte](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e12-stewie-is-enceinte/) - S13E13 [Dr. C and the Women](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e13-dr-c-and-the-women/) - S13E14 [#JOLO](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e14-jolo/) - S13E15 [Once Bitten](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e15-once-bitten/) - S13E16 [Roasted Guy](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e16-roasted-guy/) - S13E17 Fighting Irish (this entry) - S13E18 [Take My Wife](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s13e18-take-my-wife/) --- Unofficial fan resource. 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