This is a list and description of the episodes from the animated television series Family Guy.
Season 1
Death Has a Shadow
Peter's on the job snoozing gets him fired from his job at the toy factory. To keep Lois from knowing, he applies for a welfare check, which is $150,000 due to a bureaucratic mistake. When Lois finds out, she prompts him to return the money to the taxpayers from a blimp at the Super Bowl. In court, Stewie uses his mind control device to make the judge suspend Peter's sentence to 24 months in prison and give him his job back.
First aired on January 31, 1999, after Super Bowl XXXIII.
I Never Met the Dead Man
Peter does a lousy job of teaching Meg how to drive and crashes into the local cable TV satellite dish. Peter doesn't cope with the loss very well at first, but eventually he spends more time with his family, wearing them out. Meanwhile, Stewie plans to kill a couple of broccoli, using an animal sound making toy for babies and turning it into a weather device.
First aired on April 11, 1999.
Chitty Chitty Death Bang
Peter loses the Cheesy Charlie's reservation for Stewie's birthday but promises Lois he will come up with a much better party. Meanwhile, Meg befriends a cult member who invites her to a mass suicide party, and Stewie worries that the birthday celebration has the hidden agenda of putting him back in the womb. The cult is a possible reference to the Heaven's Gate cult.
First aired on April 18, 1999.
Mind over Murder
Lois feels unappreciated by Peter, who would rather build a bar in the basement than go to a romantic dinner with her. Lois becomes a popular singer at the basement bar, to the delight of Peter's male friends and the chagrin of their wives.
First aired on April 25, 1999.
A Hero Sits Next Door
Peter must get a new ringer to replace the one he injured at the company baseball team practice. Lucky for him, his new neighbor, Joe Swanson, is an accomplished baseball player even now that he's paralyzed from the waist down. After Joe helps the company team win, Peter becomes jealous and cooks up a crazy scheme to become a hero.
First aired on May 2, 1999.
The Son Also Draws
Chris gets kicked out of the Scouts and Peter will do everything he can to get him back in. But Chris doesn't want to be in the Scouts and tries to tell Peter. On the way to New York City, Peter must go to a restroom, choosing a Native American casino where Lois develops a gambling addiction, losing the family car. To get it back, Peter pretends to be a Native American and goes on a vision quest.
First aired on May 9, 1999.
Brian: Portrait of a Dog
Brian reluctantly agrees to participate in a dog show to win an air conditioner for the family. But after feeling humiliated there, Brian leaves the family, so Peter tries to replace Brian with a cat, but the cat is very mean to them. So Peter tries to get him back.
First aired on May 16, 1999.
Season 2
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
Margherite Pewterschmidt comes to visit, and Peter's wish that she drop dead comes true. Aunt Margherite wills her mansion Cherrywood to Lois, and the Griffin family moves there. Peter has trouble fitting in with the blueblood crowd, but with Brian's help, he succeeds. Meanwhile, Lois doesn't like how rich living is affecting her family, so she takes them back to Quahog.
First aired on September 23, 1999.
Holy Crap
Peter's dad, Francis, reluctantly retires from the mill, and Peter insists that he come live at his house despite Lois's misgivings, hoping to have a special moment with his father. Francis makes Chris feel ashamed of going to the restroom and warns Meg against holding hands with a neighbor boy. At the toy factory, Francis shows proficiency and is hired as a foreman. Francis then fires Peter, who then decides to kidnap the Pope.
First aired on September 30, 1999.
Da Boom
A chicken-costumed man brings back memories for Peter, who fought a giant chicken for giving him an expired coupon. The costumed man warns Peter about the dangers of Y2K. Peter heeds the warning and locks his family up in a bomb shelter on December 31, 1999. Nuclear holocaust begins the new millenium. When the emergency food rations run out, the family heads to Natick, Massachussetts, in hopes that the Twinkie factory survived.
This episode has no bearing on the continuity of the series, similar to the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes of The Simpsons. It was revealed to have been dreamt up by Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) from Dallas, who rushes to the shower so she can tell her husband Bobby (Patrick Duffy) about it.
First aired on December 26, 1999.
Brian in Love
Brian tries blaming Stewie for his carpet-wetting, but when he does it at a supermarket, he must go to a clinic, where the urologist gives him a clean bill of health. A psychologist suggests Brian do some traveling. When Brian comes back, Stewie wets some furniture with the intent of framing Brian. Brian sees the psychologist again, who is now certain that Brian's feelings for his best friend's wife are the cause of his incontinence.
First aired on March 7, 2000.
Love Thy Trophy
For Quahog's yearly harvest festival parade with floats, the theme by Peter, "that episode of Who's the Boss? in which Tony sees Angela naked," is chosen. The float built by Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe wins, but the men can't agree at whose house the golden clam trophy should reside. Brian solves the problem by burying it. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job so she can buy herself a Prava purse. She lets restauranteur Slappy believe that Stewie is her crack-addicted baby, leading child services to place Stewie in a foster home.
First aired on March 14, 2000.
Death is a Bitch
Peter's breast lump turns out to be a benign fatty corpuscle. But Peter does not want to pay the hospital bill, so he declares himself deceased on the insurance form. When Death shows up at his house, Peter tries to run away and Death sprains his ankle. Death demands that Peter quietly takes over his grim task, but Peter instead blabs about it to his drinking buddies.
First aired on March 21, 2000.
The King Is Dead
Lois is named director of the Quahog Players theatre group production, and she decides to produce The King and I. Lois names Peter producer in the hopes of keeping him out of the way, but Peter gradually takes over, radically changing the play.
First aired on March 28, 2000.
I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
To keep his job after telling a sexist joke to a female coworker, Peter is sent to a sensitivity training conducted by Gloria Ironbox. This has no effect, so Peter is sent on a woman's retreat, and after experiencing pain comparable to childbirth, Peter comes home acting effeminate.
First aired on March 28, 2000. Included in the "Freakin' Sweet Collection".
If I'm Dyin' I'm Lyin'
Peter becomes very upset when a television network cancels his favorite show, a cop drama starring brothers Bryant Gumbel and Greg Gumbel. To get the show back on the air, Peter tells the "Grant-A-Dream" Foundation that being able to watch the show is Chris's dying wish (he made up a disease called "Tumorsyphilisitisosis"). He then gets a reputation for being a healer when he "miraculously" cures Chris in a bid to get out of defrauding the organization.
First aired on April 4, 2000.
Running Mates
Visiting the old high school, Peter is upset to find out that his favorite teacher, Mr. Fargas, is no longer the fun teacher he knew years ago because he's required to take medication. Peter convinces Fargas to stop taking the medication, and soon Fargas is fired. Peter decides to run for School Board President, and so does Lois. Peter uses a glamorous picture Lois gave him as a gift to portray her as a "slut" in a campaign commercial. Peter is elected in a landslide, but the pornographic magazines he gave Chris earlier come back to end his political career.
First aired on April 11, 2000.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Bucks
For his birthday, a blindfolded Peter drives the family to Bob Funland's amusement park. Peter patches up his broken car window with a painting Chris gave him for his birthday. When snobby New York art dealer Antonio Monatti sees the painting, he decides he must have it and go on to promote the painter. The whole family (except for Brian) travels to New York, where Monatti has Chris made over, renamed "Christobel" and fixed up with a very skinny supermodel. Monatti keeps Peter away from Chris, who misses his father and paints a series of portraits on a large canvas. Monatti first sees the canvas at a public unveiling and immediately declares it an "eyesore." Meanwhile, Peter's attempt to make a star out of Meg fails. But "heterosexual fashion designer" Calvin Klein is impressed by Stewie and puts him in one of his commercials.
In one cutaway, former Murphy Brown colleagues Candice Bergen (as title character), Faith Ford (as Corky Sherwood) and Charles Kimbrough (as Jim Dial) make fun of the show's topical humor.
First aired on April 18, 2000.
Fifteen Minutes Of Shame
Peter plays the clam in a historical re-enactment of Quahog's founding, but shows up ashore naked. Meg is of course embarrassed by this, but when he embarrasses her at her slumber party, she decides to take action. She gets the family invited to Diane Simmons' talk show, but instead of stopping the embarrassment, this gets the family their own reality show, The Real Live Griffins. Meg leaves the family, and the show. Eventually, the whole family is replaced, and forced to live in a hotel until the reality show contract runs out.
The final scene parodies a typical final scene on Doogie Howser, M.D. where a character writes a diary entry on a computer.
First aired on April 25, 2000.
Road To Rhode Island
Brian goes to California to escort Stewie home from his visit with his grandparents, but the dog's drinking binge results in the two travelers losing their luggage and tickets, prompting them to jump trains and trucks all the way back to Rhode Island.
This is also the episode with the infamous deleted Osama bin Laden scene, now only to be found on "The Freakin' Sweet Collection" DVD.
First aired on May 30, 2000.
Let's Go To the Hop
When a craze involving frog-licking hits the high school, Peter goes undercover to stop the euphoria-causing trend and winds up as an icon of cool.
First aired on June 6, 2000.
Dammit Janet
Stewie falls in love with a toddler at day-care named Janet, while Lois, now a stewardess, and Peter, taking advantage of free trips, board a plane that is hijacked to Cuba.
First aired on June 13, 2000.
There's Something About Paulie
After the Mob helps Peter get his car repaired, he entertains the Don's loud, fat and annoying nephew Big Fat Paulie. In a failed attempt by Peter to get Paulie off his back he accidentally puts a hit on Lois.
First aired on June 27, 2000.
He's Too Sexy For His Fat
Although Chris rejects the idea of liposuction in his efforts to lose weight, Peter becomes addicted to plastic surgery.
First aired on June 27, 2000.
E. Peterbus Unum
A technicality allows the Griffin home to secede from the US as an independent country, but Peter's abrasive behavior towards his neighbors prompts sanctions against "Petoria" by the federal government.
First aired on July 12, 2000.
The Story On Page One
Meg writes an unflattering newspaper article on Mayor Adam West, which Peter discovers before press time and replaces with an article claiming that actor Luke Perry is gay; Peter then tries to seduce Perry to prove the validity of his article.
First aired on July 18, 2000.
Wasted Talent
An over-zealous Lois chloroforms her young piano student in order to force-train Meg to win the State Piano competition, only to discover that an inebriated Peter is a piano-playing genius.
First aired on July 25, 2000.
Fore Father
Peter unsuccessfully teaches Chris to be responsible on a camping trip and then on the golf course. Meanwhile, Brian successfully convinces Stewie that the booster shots he just received are part of an attempt to control his mind.
First aired on August 1, 2000.
Season 3
The Thin White Line
After becoming addicted to cocaine while working as a drug-sniffing police dog, Brian goes to rehab only to find Peter, faking an addiction, is his roommate.
First aired July 11, 2001.
===Brian Does Hollywood=== (a sequel to "The Thin White Line," introduced with a "Previously on The Family Guy..." sequence showing action-packed events which never actually occurred) Brian moves to Los Angeles to write screenplays but only finds work directing pornos, while Stewie's twisted rants on Kids Say The Darndest Things are thwarted by host Bill Cosby.
First aired July 18, 2001.
Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington
When Happy-Go-Lucky Toys is bought out by a tobacco conglomerate, Peter is made President and sent to Washington to lobby on behalf of the cigarette peddlers.
First aired July 25, 2001.
One If By Clam, Two If By Sea
Peter and his friends are arrested for allegedly burning down their favorite bar after it is transformed into a British pub; meanwhile Stewie tries to get rid of the neighbor baby's Cockney accent in a parody of My Fair Lady.
First aired August 1, 2001.
And the Wiener is...
Peter becomes competitive with Chris when he discovers that his son has a bigger penis, as Meg unsuccessfully tries to fit in with the cool crowd at school and is pelted with rancid meat.
First aired August 8, 2001.
Death Lives
After being struck by lightning while playing golf on his wedding anniversary, Peter pleads with Death to give him another chance to make it up to Lois, with a little help from Peter Frampton.
First aired August 15, 2001.
Lethal Weapons
Although her newly discovered Tae-Jitsu abilities are handy in dealing with obnoxious New Yorkers ("leafers"), Lois fears her own rage and enters the family into anger management therapy, which angers everyone.
First aired August 22, 2001. Included in the "Freakin' Sweet Collection".
The Kiss Seen Around the World
Meg leaps at an opportunity to intern at a local news station in order to be closer to her crush, news anchor Tom Tucker, only to discover that Neil, who has a crush on her, will also intern there. Meanwhile, Stewie swears revenge on the bully who stole his tricycle.
First aired August 29, 2001.
Mr. Saturday Knight
After Peter's boss chokes to death at the Griffin home, the toy factory is sold and Peter is forced to take a job jousting at the local Renaissance fair. Macfarlane comments that for this episode the censors would not allow them to use the term half and half in the scene where Peter tries out prostitution as a job. The censors did allow the term "Cleveland steamer".
First aired September 5, 2001.
A Fish Out of Water
Jobless, sitting around the house, Peter becomes morbidly obese. He resolves to lose the weight and become a fisherman, while Stewie already has a job as some sort of cleaner. Joe takes Peter to a police auction where Peter buys a boat for $50,000, which he names "S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spiderman, And The Incredible Hulk Put Together." He takes out a loan with his house as collateral. When the loan defaults, another family moves in. Peter's new fishing career is not going so well, and his new colleagues haze him. Rejecting Quagmire's idea of prostituting himself to fat women, Peter decides to catch the legendary fish Daggermouth.
Meanwhile, Lois and Meg go on spring break, but Lois fits in better with the party crowd than Meg does. Lois turns the situation around by making Meg flash her breasts.
When Lois and Meg come home, the other family is still in the Griffin house.
First aired November 19, 2001. This episode would've aired in September, but because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was postponed.
Emission Impossible
When Lois and Peter decide to have another baby, Stewie hops aboard a microscopic spacecraft and enters Peter's body in an attempt to terminate his sperm. Majel Barrett guest-starred as the voice of Stewie's microbionautical ship.
First aired November 8, 2001. This episode would've aired in September, but because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was postponed.
To Live and Die in Dixie
After Chris identifies an armed robber who is now bent on revenge, the Griffins enter a witness protection program in a small southern town, where Peter becomes sheriff.
First aired November 15, 2001. Included in the "Freakin' Sweet Collection".
Screwed the Pooch
While visiting Lois's parents, Brian falls in love with Sea Breeze, the family greyhound, prompting an ugly custody battle when the bitch becomes pregnant.
First aired November 29, 2001.
Peter Griffin Husband, Father...Brother?
Discovering he has black ancestry, Peter tries to connect with his alter-ethnicity, while Stewie becomes obsessed with discovering the mind control secrets of cheerleaders.
First aired December 6, 2001.
Ready, Willing, and Disabled
Lois organizes a car wash to raise money for a boy in an iron lung. A thief wearing a Jimmy Carter mask steals the proceeds, Joe chases after him and recovers the money, but fails to catch the perp. This failure severely depresses him, until a conveniently timed news announcement leads Peter to suggest to Joe that he should enter the Special People’s Games (a parody of the Special Olympics, with a logo consisting of five interlocking wheelchairs). Joe's most important rival at the event is a wheelchair-bound motor neurone disease patient whose computer-generated voice sounds like the Mac OS voice Fred. Peter encourages Joe by citing George W. Bush's unwillingness to quit after losing the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election.
Meanwhile, Meg, Chris and Stewie fight over a $26 money clip while hoping no one else claims it. Joe recognizes the first claimant as the car wash thief, and chases him again, this time leading to the thief's arrest and death.
First aired December 20, 2001.
Peter mistakenly donates to a less fortunate family the Christmas gifts meant for the family. He wants to watch KISS Saves Santa but Lois insists he go to the mall to buy new gifts for the family. Also, Lois convinces Stewie to star as baby Jesus in a nativity scene. When the family comes back from the mall, they find the house burned up despite Brian's efforts because Peter bought a joke fire extinguisher instead of a real fire extinguisher. When Meg reports there's no paper towel, this pushes Lois over the edge, and on a mad quest to destroy the town Christmas tree.
First aired December 21, 2001.
Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows
Brian frets he'll never find a woman who loves him and gets arrested for drunk driving. So he is sentenced to aiding a short-tempered old woman, who is later identified as a former commercial singer whose attempt to become a serious artist failed. Peter decides to grow a beard and a rare bird decides to nest in Peter's facial hair.
First aired January 17, 2002. On some airings of this episode, frames showing the World Trade Center were excised.
From Method to Madness
Stewie becomes a hit with Olivia singing a love song, but when they have a fight onstage, Stewie quickly falls out of favor with the public. Meg deals with her father's dislike of her new boyfriend, a nudist boy.
First aired January 24, 2002.
Stuck Together, Torn Apart
Peter and Lois act extremely jealous of anyone who makes the slightest pass at the other. In trial separation, Peter lands a date with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Brian and Stewie accidentally get stuck together for a 3 weeks.
First aired January 31, 2002.
Road to Europe
Stewie travels to England in hopes of living on the set of Jolly Farm Revue. Peter and Lois go to KISS-stock.
First aired February 7, 2002.
Family Guy Viewer Mail #1
Viewer mail inspires three short stories:
No Bones About it: Peter becomes a boneless blob due to a genie's interpretation of his wish.
Wish #1: I wish I couls see what Kelly Ripa was like off the set. Wish #1(Deleted scene, DVD only): I wish my favorite entertainer Jackie Gleason wan't dead. Wish #2: I wish I had my own theme music. Wish #3(said quickly): I wish I had no bones!
Supergriffins: The Griffins develop superhuman abilities.
Stewie: Telekinesis / Chris: Sets Fires / Peter: Morphs into anyone or anything / Lois: Strongest woman / Meg: Grows fingernails / Brian: Speedy(can avoid sniper rifle attacks, travels close at the speed of sound)
Lil' Griffins: Young Peter and Lois live in a "Little Rascals"-type alternate reality.
These short stories have no bearing on the continuity of the series, and are roughly akin to the Treehouse of Horror episodes that appear once every season on The Simpsons.
First aired February 14, 2002.
When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Peter is looking for a Jew to help him handle his money better. Later Peter decides to have Chris converted to Judaism as he thinks that will make him both smarter and more successful.
Originally unaired on FOX until November 9, 2004. Included in the "Freakin' Sweet Collection".
Season 4
Peter and Lois go on a second honeymoon to put the life back into their marriage, but run into trouble with Mel Gibson and his Catholic cronies. Brian and Stewie are left in charge at home and Chris is caught with alcohol at the school dance.
First aired on May 1, 2005
Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High
When Chris' beloved teacher wins the lottery and quits, Brian fills in as substitute but is moved to another class for troubled kids and teaches them to aspire to low-level jobs. Meanwhile, Chris is instantly smitten with his new teacher (guest voiced by Drew Barrymore), who ends up promising to be with him if he kills her husband. When Lois finds the teacher's written instructions in Chris' laundry, she and Stewie conspire to cover up the plot with hilarious results.
First aired on May 8, 2005
Blind Ambition
Jealous of his friends' achievements, Peter attempts to set a world record by swallowing the most nickels in order to be remembered. Unfortunately, he becomes blind due to nickel poisoning. Later, the Drunken Clam catches on fire but Peter is unaware of this because of his blindness. Horace calls for help and Peter pulls him out. He is presented an award by the mayor and he gets his vision back when a dead hobo donates Peter his eyes. It is interesting to note that the entire ending scene of the episode is a reenactment of the ending of the original 1977 Star Wars film (A New Hope) complete with John Williams music, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2.
First aired on May 15, 2005
Don't Make Me Over
When Meg asks a cute boy at school on a date and he turns her down, she looks to her family for support. In an effort to cheer her up, Lois takes Meg to the mall, where she gets the ultimate makeover. The Drunken Clam is suffering due to a mall built across the street so Peter and friends install a Karaoke machine. When they sing Journey's song Don't Stop Believing people swarm to the bar. Peter then tries to start a band with the guys, but when they realise they dont know any songs, the Griffins join together and sing "Buy Me a Rainbow". The band gets signed to a company but it’s Meg’s new look that has the record producers singing their praises. So the Griffins form a traveling family band that takes them all the way to New York to perform on “Saturday Night Live”, where Meg is embarassed on national tv by Jimmy Fallon, who Peter then beats up.
First aired on June 5, 2005
On a group fishing trip, Quagmire picks a fish from Loretta's cleavage and gets invited by her for sex, as she feels her husband Cleveland doesn't satisfy her anymore. Later, Peter and Brian happen across Loretta and Quagmire(clothes on the floor, "together" in the living room)leading to their temporary parting of ways.
First aired on June 12, 2005
Petarded
At a game night among friends, Lois lets Peter win at Trivial Pursuit, which leads Peter to gloat and think he’s a genius. Brian knows the truth and challenges Peter to prove his intelligence by getting an IQ test. The test comes back proving that Peter is, in fact, mentally retarded and he spends the rest of this episode capitalizing on the fact that, as a mentally challenged individual, he will not be held resposible for anything stupid he does.
Although it might seem a bombshell that Peter turns out to be mentally handicapped, it is in keeping with various other jabs taken at his IQ prior to this episode. He finally learned how to urinate standing up only after being married, and it took him several decades to complete the fourth grade.
First aired on June 19, 2005
Brian the Bachelor
When The Bachelorette comes to Quahog, they recruit Brian to be a contestant. He signs up for the free martinis and food, but ends up falling in love with the reality starlet, Brooke (Jessica Biel). Brian wins her heart and the final rose, but when the cameras are turned off, this romance made in TV heaven takes a turn for the worse. Meanwhile, Chris gets a horrible case of acne, whom one seems to have a mind of its own.
First aired on June 26, 2005
8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter
When Peter runs up a tab at the local pharmacy, the only way out of paying the bill is to sell Meg to the Mort’s son Neil, who has been stalking her for months. But when Neil starts dating another girl, Meg becomes jealous and goes on the hunt to find a boyfriend of her own. Meanwhile, Stewie goes gaga over his hot new babysitter, Liddane.
First airs on July 10, 2005.
Stewie B. Goode
After a near-death experience, Stewie hits the road in search of his real dad. Part 1 of 3 of a Direct to DVD movie. Not shown with the rest of Season 4 episodes. (Play on Johnny B. Goode)
Bango was his name, oh
After a near-death experience, Stewie hits the road in search of his real dad. Part 2 of 3 of a Direct to DVD movie. Not shown with the rest of Season 4 episodes.
Stu & Stewie's Excellent adventure
After a near-death experience, Stewie hits the road in search of his real dad. Part 3 of 3 of a Direct to DVD movie. Not shown with the rest of Season 4 episodes.
Breaking Out Is Hard to Do
When Lois is short on cash and can't pay her grocery store bill, she resorts to stealing. The adrenaline rush from shoplifting sends her on a stealing spree that spirals out of control and leaves her behind bars. Back at home, the family is a mess without Lois, so Peter and the kids decide to break her out of the clinker to get things back to normal
Model Misbehavior
TBA
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