Family Guy

by Sarah Yesterday, showrunner and executive producer David Goodman held a conference call to talk about next week’s episode of Family Guy, called “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven,” which features a reunion of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. One of the big thrills for Goodman is that he actually gets to be in the episode as a convention-goer who not only gets a scene with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes, but who also gets into an age-old Trekkie argument about the questionable canon fidelity of the episode “Relics.”

While the guys are all at The Drunken Clam comparing driver’s license photos and discovering that Quagmire is 61 years old (carrots), FOX News comes on with its hot new anchorwoman, Rhonda, and the guys drool over her for a while. When FOX announces that it’s going HD, Peter gets an enormous new HDTV, and it turns out that HD Rhonda is a hag. She’s fired. Lois wants the job, despite Brian’s moral objections about working for a fake news network that’s in the Republican party’s pocket. Lois’ audition goes so well that she gets the job. She runs home […]

In this lost episode found in Peter’s basement, it’s March of 2007. While Lois goes to her book club, Peter has to babysit, even though last time he was left alone with the baby, he killed it in the worst and most unnecessary Family Guy “joke” ever. This time will be different, though, because Peter’s a 14-year-old girl reading Teen Beat and inviting the guys over for squeeing and “Truth or Dare.” The party gets out of hand when Joe and Cleveland start making out, and the resulting hubbub brings Stewie downstairs. His enjoyment of Out of Shape/In Shape Guy […]

At the brewery, Peter gets called to the CEO’s office, and on the way discovers the Executive Bathroom. His helicopter ride to the Jurassic Park-like jungle island toilet convinces him that he must move up in the company so that he can always poop in style. He tries everything he can think of to get promoted — wearing a suit, cleaning his office, building a robot that tries to kill people, blowing up a children’s hospital — but unfortunately, it turns out that he never completed the third grade, and if he wants to become an executive, he’s gotta go […]

After Peter and the gang watch Jackass and are inspired to new heights of jackassery, Brian has to save Peter from drowning in the river. In doing so, he hurts himself, and everyone attributes it to his getting old. Lois points out that when you figure in his drinking and smoking, Brian is 79 in human years. To take the burden of being the family dog off of Brian, Peter goes out and gets a New Brian. Great idea, no? No. The New Brian wakes Peter and Lois up with a flute serenade. He listens to Meg’s problems and vows […]

Hooray, we got the film-style opening credits! Road to Germany opens with the Griffins’ Oscar party. Mort’s intestines aren’t happy with his choice of pills that night, and he goes in search of a bathroom. Since Quagmire’s secretly recording Meg’s bathroom experience, Mort wanders into Stewie’s room, sees what appears to be a port-a-potty, and goes in. When he doesn’t come back downstairs, Brian goes in search, and he and Stewie discover (with the help of Rick Moranis and the backup singers from Little Shop of Horrors) that Mort actually stepped into Stewie’s time machine. Determined to rescue the poor […]