Season 23 · Episode 1 · First aired 16 February 2025
Fat Gun
Episode 1 of Family Guy season 23 (S23E01), the 427th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Artie Johann and directed by Greg Colton. First broadcast on 16 February 2025.
Story
A parody of Top Gun casts Peter as Maverick and Joe as Goose, naval pilots in training. Lois plays their instructor Charlie, who is also seeing Maverick. A mission fails, Goose dies, and Maverick grieves for thirty-five years by acting out scenes from other Tom Cruise films. He returns to teach a new intake including Goose's son Rooster, played by Chris, who blames him for his father's death. Charlie, feeling scorned, shoots the pair down and takes them prisoner. They escape in a stolen jet, are rescued by Stewie as Iceman, and come home as heroes.
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 | Bruce the Performance Artist |
| Patrick Warburton | Joe Swanson |
| Arif Zahir | Cleveland Brown |
| Steve Callaghan | Pilot, Dad |
| Sean Kenin | Tiny Tom Cruise |
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
- Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson
- John Viener as Additional Voices
- Jay Pharoah as Additional Voices
- Sean Kenin as Tiny Tom Cruise
- Josh Robert Thompson as Red Cloak
- Steve Callaghan as Pilot, Dad
- Ali Raizin as Bartender
Season 23: episode 1 of 18
- SPPeter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater
- SPGift of the White Guy
- E1Fat GunYou are here
- E2Live, Laugh, Love
- E3Drunk with Power
- E4Lois C.K.
- E5The Chicken or the Meg
- E6Dog is My Co-Pilot
- E7Pitch Imperfect
- E8Hard Times at Adam West High
- E9The Elle Word
- E10A Real Who's Hulu
- E11China Doll
- E12One Foot in Front of the Mother
- E13The Fat Lotus
- E14Cool Hand Lois
- E15Martian Meg
- E16Row v. Wade
- E17Karenheit 451
- E18Twain's World
SourceFacts from Wikipedia: Family Guy season 23 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Spotted an error? See corrections.
Provenance
Facts only- Data refreshed
- 6 September 2026
- Verification
- Checked against IMDb: title, year, numbering and credits agree
- Licence
- Facts are not copyrightable. Source text on Wikipedia is CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikidata is CC0; IMDb data is used for verification under its non-commercial terms.
- 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.