Season 23 · Episode 5 · First aired 16 March 2025
The Chicken or the Meg
Episode 5 of Family Guy season 23 (S23E05), the 431st Family Guy episode overall. Written by Emily Towers and directed by Julius Wu. First broadcast on 16 March 2025.
Story
Meg joins a dating reality show called Sex Farm in the hope of finding love. Wearing a pig costume, she pairs off with a contestant in a chicken suit, voiced by Amir Talai. Both are eliminated, and he turns out to be a real chicken called Nugget, son of Ernie the Giant Chicken. Peter discovers the secret romance and issues an ultimatum, so Meg moves in with Nugget's family. Peter soon misses her. The two families meet at the bowling alley, where Ernie mocks Peter and orders Meg to disown him. She leaves Nugget, beheads Ernie and goes home.
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 | Bowling Alley Employee |
| Gary Cole | Principal Shepherd |
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
- Gary Cole as Principal Shepherd
- John Viener as Announcer
- Travis Bowe as Additional Voices
- Rachael MacFarlane as Additional Voices
- Danny Smith as Ernie the Giant Chicken
- Damien Fahey as Corey
- Toks Olagundoye as Secretary
- Debra Wilson as Brittney Griner
- Ignacio Serricchio as Illusionist
- Steve Callaghan as Bowling Alley Employee
- Amir Talai as Nugget
- Mike Desilets as Crow
Season 23: episode 5 of 18
- SPPeter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater
- SPGift of the White Guy
- E1Fat Gun
- E2Live, Laugh, Love
- E3Drunk with Power
- E4Lois C.K.
- E5The Chicken or the MegYou are here
- 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.