What Is the Funniest Season of Family Guy
30 Best Family Guy Episodes Ranked, Co-ordinate To IMDb
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Once the province of loftier schoolhouse boys and 20-somethings who should know better, Seth MacFarlane'southward sometimes sophomoric and e'er-irreverent "Family Guy" has at present go an establishment of American animation. Starting time introduced in 1999, information technology was canceled in 2002, but its syndicated reruns and DVD sales were successful enough that Trick resurrected the show in 2004, and it's been on always since. It's spawned everything from video games to the spin-off series "The Cleveland Show," and — believe information technology or non — has nerveless quite a few awards, including Primetime Emmys and Annies (an laurels created past the International Blithe Pic Association). While it's nonetheless the kind of testify y'all either love or hate, you take to acknowledge that they occasionally do things actually right.
According to IMDb voters, these are the 30 episodes "Family Guy" did actually, really right. There are some prime classics on here, some unlikely suspects, some complete surprises, and a ton of nostalgia. In the unlikely event you lot don't encounter your fave on the listing, get voting! You just might see it here next fourth dimension. Until then, enjoy our take on the best "Family Guy" episodes Seth MacFarlane et al take to offer.
xl. Petergeist (Flavour 4, Episode 26)
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In this episode-length parody of the 1982 horror archetype "Poltergeist," Peter gets so jealous of buddy Joe'south home theater that he tries to one-up him past building a movie house in his backyard. During construction, he finds the skull of a deceased Native American, which quickly becomes his favorite toy / affair he can desecrate. His disturbance of a burial site angers spirits, who invade the Griffin home — Idiot box static hypnotizes Stewie (who gets sucked into another dimension), and Peter helplessly rips off his own face skin to reveal he's "really" Hank Hill from "Rex of the Hill." To find and retrieve Stewie, the Griffins bring in soft-spoken Bruce, who apparently works as a medium, and since Stewie won't emerge from the leave (Meg's rear end), Lois gets him herself, just for the spirits to steal the Griffins' firm. To get it dorsum, they have to rebury the skull, which Peter threw out, after claimed by prop comedian Carrot Elevation.
39. Barely Legal (Season 5, Episode eight)
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Meg Griffin is nigh always the butt of the joke and the target of seething derision on "Family Guy." In the 2006 episode "Barely Legal," Meg gets to be the star of the episode, and viewers realize the darkly funny depths of only how starved she is for attention and amore. Meg can't get a date for the junior prom, and Brian, in a rare moment of sympathy, offers to accept the person who is essentially his sister to the dance. Brian gets extremely boozer at the prom and unleashes a barrage of putdowns so cruel and authentic to Meg'southward keen that Meg falls in love with Brian. They make out a little and Brian moves on, merely Meg grows obsessed, cured of her inappropriate vanquish merely after a surprisingly earnest middle-to-heart with Quagmire. In the episode's other storyline, Joe Swanson becomes Quahog's sole active police officer after unhinged Mayor West sends the rest of the force to Republic of colombia to search for the kidnapped adult female from the '80s movie "Romancing the Stone." Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire thus step in to become temporary (and incompetent) cops.
38. Road to Rupert (Flavor 5, Episode 9)
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"Route to Rupert" just might be the quintessential "Family unit Guy" episode because it revolves effectually two things at which the show excels and is all-time known for: a Brian and Stewie adventure, and Peter doing something recklessly stupid and immature inspired by popular civilisation. Brian accidentally gets rid of Rupert, Stewie'south dearest teddy bear (and unsaid partner) at a yard sale, and they go on a broad and wild chase to think him while hitchhiking to Aspen, Colorado, which somehow as well involves a helicopter flight and a trip the light fantastic toe number with archival footage of Gene Kelly. To go Rupert dorsum, Stewie must defeat the possessor'southward son in a ski race, '80s movie style. Back in Quahog, Peter buys a pair of Evel Knievel gloves and engages in a motorcar jump stunt that goes horribly wrong. His driver's license is revoked and a route rage-decumbent One thousand thousand has to bulldoze him effectually. Father and daughter bond, and Peter admits that he actually likes Million — simply he'll still publicly treat her similar garbage.
37. Halloween on Spooner Street (Season 9, Episode 4)
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The boilerplate "Family unit Guy" episode usually involves some kind of barely controlled chaos, much like Halloween can feel like for the rest of the world. In "Halloween on Spooner Street," very little goes right as each Griffin has their own nightmarish experience with the vacation. Chris attempts to hit Quahog dressed equally Nib Cosby (consummate with blackface makeup), only winds up at a party and makes out with a girl in a nighttime closet ... who turns out to be his sis Meg. Already apprehensive about costumed people in the nighttime, Stewie gets his candy stolen past some awful teenagers who spray paint Brian and he tries to kill them with a rocket launcher. Lois steps in to get his candy dorsum by going directly to one of the kids' moms, who she extorts greenbacks from, too. Meanwhile, Peter and his friends start out playing pranks on Quagmire, who exacts revenge with a terrifying flight on a stolen Japanese Earth War 2 fighter plane.
36. Roads to Vegas (Season xi, Episode 21)
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The "Route" episodes of "Family Guy" are always a treat, both an homage and parody of the old Bing Crosby / Bob Hope "Road" movies, just centered on the Griffin family unit dog Brian and infant Stewie going on some kind of tumultuous, chaotic journey. "Roads to Vegas" is a mashup of the "Road" format with one of Stewie's gadget-powered sci-fi mishaps. Brian and Stewie win tickets to run into Celine Dion in Las Vegas and wing out, while a different Brian and Stewie, sent via the latter's brand-new teleporter, arrive, which leads to some mistaken identity shenanigans in addition to some bad and dangerous gambling mistakes. At least ane Brian and at least i Stewie is going to have to die to make things right with the universe again.
35. Death Lives (Season 3, Episode six)
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What with its fantastical cutaway gags and talking animals, "Family unit Guy" eschews realism, embodied by the fact that the personification of the concept of Death — as a scythe-wielding Grim Reaper — is a recurring character. He and Peter are pretty good friends, and in the 2001 episode "Death Lives," Death shows up to collect Peter's soul after he's killed past a falling tree during a golf game. In a twisted have on "It's a Wonderful Life," Death takes Peter on a tour of his life to show him where he strayed, but he's also dim to acquire any lessons that would merit him returning to life. Instead, Peter brokers a deal: He can go back and live with Lois in exchange for helping the lovelorn, bad-with-women Death land a date with his crush (who turns out to be extremely dull).
34. I Dream of Jesus (Flavour 7, Episode 2)
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We could talk virtually the not-so-subtle critique of mod celebrity that runs through this episode, or the dig at the way some people employ religion. Simply, as far as we're concerned, in that location's only 1 reason "I Dream of Jesus" appears on this listing. No, it's not the spot-on Jay Leno impression. Or the delicious takedown of Dane Cook. (Who? Don't worry about it. Really. Don't fifty-fifty carp to Google him; you'll only depress yourself). It can only exist the glorious shot-for-shot recreation of i of the best scenes in "Office Space." For those of us of, ahem, a sure historic period, that flick was the perfect collision of workplace satire and Stephen Root (If you've never seen it, when you're done with this list, go find it. You can thank the states later). Its inclusion guarantees a place on any best episodes list anywhere, period.
33. Stew-Roids (Flavor seven, Episode 13)
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"Stew-Roids" from 2009 foisted upon the "Family unit Guy" audience the cursed images of a musculus-spring infant — information technology'south all nearly baby Stewie Griffin getting super-shredded following his embarrassment over being beaten up by a girl. To accelerate his progress, Peter lets a shady trainer at the weightlifting gym inject his baby son with steroids, which practise make Stewie all potent and ripped but too turn him into a raging narcissist and violent bully who makes life horrible for Brian the dog. The B plot of the episode involves social misfit Chris dating popular hateful daughter Connie D'Amico, who surprisingly actually likes Chris because of his sweet disposition. A taste of popularity turns him into a wiggle, all the same, and he callously dumps Connie to date other popular classmates.
32. A Lot Going On Upstairs (Season 14, Episode 15)
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"A Lot Going On Upstairs" finds the ordinarily precocious and jaded Stewie Griffin dealing with actual toddler problems, specifically nightmares about monsters and a Glenn Close-hosted dinner party that are so terrifying he forgets the lyrics in the "Family Guy" theme song. With his vow to never slumber again proving futile, Brian helps Stewie address the hidden, psychological root of his problem — which, after bringing the dog into his dream, turns out to be a fear of disappointing Brian. Considering Stewie is sleeping in his parents' bed for comfort and solace, Peter is forced to bunk downwards elsewhere and turns the cranium into a man cave he calls "Pete's Pad," where he and his friends get stuck inside later angering Lois with their dangerous games of backyard darts and insulation fights.
31. Switch the Flip (Season sixteen, Episode 17)
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In "Switch the Flip," Brian Griffin, ever the badly solitary and deluded ladies man, falls in love with Brandee, the vocalism of an Alexa-esque smart speaker. To impress the A.I., Brian buys a ton of expensive stuff, merely to accept it repossessed, prompting a concerned Stewie to build a body-swapping device — he'll place his personality into Brian'south body and get his life under control. While they're switching back, yet, Peter and Chris barge in and become in the way, leading to a four-style bandy: Stewie and Peter switch, every bit do Brian and Chris. And there's a ticking clock to get everybody back where they belong, because an extra-randy Lois is about to go abroad for a romantic weekend with Peter — or whoever happens to be in Peter's body, and nobody wants that to be Stewie. A loftier-speed car chase ends with the family crashing into a power pole which makes a transformer malfunction and send the body-switching rays out into all of Quahog, requiring Stewie leading Brian (through others' bodies) to fix the machine and return everyone to their biological dwelling. It works, although not before Brian's greatest fantasy comes truthful — while stuck in Peter's trunk, he gets to savour the sexy weekend with Lois.
thirty. Fat Guy Strangler (Flavour 4, Episode 17)
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Kicking off with a classic, "Fat Guy Strangler" sees the show at the first elevation of its comedic powers. They even managed to entice Robert Downey Jr. to voice the hilarious Patrick Pewterschmidt, cloak-and-dagger brother to Lois. A serial killer with an unusual trigger, Peter's blood brother-in-law manages to hit that murderous Jackie Gleason sweet spot with alarming regularity. Cue tons of reasons to become rid of Peter, a cute dig at Baton Joel, and one of many, many hilarious George West. Bush cutaways. The star, though, is Downey Jr., who gives Patrick that innocent but evidently disturbed persona that can only from Carter Pewterschmidt's repressed-rich-guy genes. We ever knew that Peter would somewhen turn someone into a homicidal bedlamite; nosotros just thought it would exist Meg.
29. Emission Incommunicable (Season 3, Episode 11)
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In this episode, "Family Guy" does "Inner Space" via the Enterprise'southward figurer. A hopelessly jealous Stewie tries to thwart his parents' attempt to have another baby past shrinking himself and infiltrating Peter's torso in a spaceship to destroy his sperm. The only sperm he tin can't eradicate is the diabolically clever Bertram. Realizing how much he has in common with his potential hereafter sibling, Stewie abandons his sabotage, only for Lois and Peter to modify their minds. The episode also features same national treasure Wallace Shawn's debut. Is there a voice meliorate suited to being more annoyingly shrill and evil than Shawn'south? We think not. Who knew information technology was so difficult being the youngest child?
28. I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar (Flavor 2, Episode 8)
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Consider yourselves warned: This is the episode that features a newly feminized Peter attempting to breastfeed Stewie, a gag that scarred many a viewer. Luckily, the rest of the episode actually features some fantastic comedy comeuppances, the best beingness Peter's lesser lip getting pulled to the back of his head as penalisation for making sexist jokes at a women'due south retreat. The experience — purportedly about equally painful as childbirth — chastens Peter and makes him less hateable. When he inevitably reverts back to toxic masculinity, for a few seconds information technology actually feels similar a 18-carat loss, akin to that Simpson's episode where Homer, unable to tolerate the misery of intelligence, sticks the crayon that kept him stupid dorsum up his nose. God knows we could all practise without the faux breastfeeding, though, and then it's probably for the best.
27. The Sparse White Line (Season three, Episode one)
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One of the underrated aspects of "Family Guy" is that in between all the fart jokes, they occasionally make a serious point. "The Thin White Line" is an episode where they practice just that. Yes, information technology's near substance abuse — Brian's well-intentioned attempt to become a drug-detecting canis familiaris for the Quahog police department inadvertently turns him on to cocaine — but information technology's also nigh abuse of ability and how easily practiced intentions can be subverted. At that place's too the stunning revelation that non just is Peter literate, but he even reads Hemingway. Equally a bonus, the episode too contains our favorite-ever review of cult camcorder caricature "The Blair Witch Project." To whit: " ... Nix's happening, cypher's happening, something nearly a map, nada'southward happening, it's over, a lot of people in the audition look p*ssed."
26. Wasted Talent (Season ii, Episode 20)
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Peter really does have a talent, but it'south not the casual racism, insulting people, ignoring his kids, or drinking you lot'd expect (although it is alcohol-adjacent, natch). The mostly useless father-of-three tin can expertly play obscure TV theme tunes on the piano when intoxicated. Or, as Lois puts it, "Y'all're like the idiot from 'Smoothen'!" Merely with less grade, obviously. For our money though, this episode besides features on this list because Brian's drunken ear is hilarious and stays like that for an age. The Willy Wonka-esque Pawtucket Pat helps, too.
25. Route to Federal republic of germany (Season 7, Episode 3)
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It came as absolutely no surprise to us here at Looper HQ that "Road to Germany" made this listing. Despite the slightly risky central theme, it'due south full of not-cease gags and film references all the mode dorsum to World War ii-era Deutschland. From the superb "Little Shop of Horrors" fix to "The Blues Brothers," "Dorsum to the Future," and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," at that place's an astonishing assortment of moving picture jokes on display hither. The episode likewise features one of the show'southward many and varied takes on idiotic Nazi leadership. All this and they still have time to muse over how weird French cows sound, how gross Quagmire is, and the vagaries of bacon pants.
24. PeTerminator (Flavor 19, Episode 13)
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This is i of the virtually recent episodes on the list. Right from the start, you know it ways business. How? The title sequence alter! The business doesn't stop there — the "Rick and Morty" dig is priceless and in no mode sour grapes, or, say, hypocrisy. And then at that place's the fact that Brian causes the whole sorry mess by beingness his usual douchebag self on Instagram. When volition Stewie learn? The chicken fight might non be the first, just for our coin it's by far the all-time of all the poultry-related battles in the show. Equally if yous'd need any more reasons to honey this episode, can we just quickly mention the bluesy version of "Surfin' Bird" from "I Dream of Jesus"? As far equally callbacks go, they don't get much cooler than that.
23. The Large Bang Theory (Season ix, Episode 16)
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Stewie really is the center of the universe. Aye, according to "Family unit Guy" lore, without that evil little genius, nothing would be. Likewise, he's responsible for some of the earth's best fine art. Just we recollect the existent reason this episode made the list isn't just downward to the hilarious time-travel gags. It's actually about Brian discovering that he'south the Art Garfunkel of the universe, which (almost) completely explains all of his character flaws. Also, any time Wallace Shawn (the voice of Stewie's nemesis, Bertram) appears in the show, you know you're in for a good time. It's almost distressing when Bertram is finally dispatched — though we're still not quite sure how Stewie managed to invent cryogenesis during the Renaissance.
22. Forget-Me-Not (Season 10, Episode 17)
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One of the weirder, more than mysterious episodes of "Family Guy," "Forget-Me-Not" finds Peter, Brian, Joe, and Quagmire getting drunk at the Drunken Clam, and after encountering some eerie lights, blacking out. They awake in a infirmary with farthermost amnesia, no retentivity of who they are or what happened, and in a Quahog that is devoid of all homo life. A little investigative work leads the guys to the Griffin firm, where they further wrongly ascertain that Brian is Quagmire'south dog, that Joe is an exotic dancer, and — based on a fake newspaper printed up at a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation tag loonshit — that Peter is a laser-wielding alien who annihilated Quahog. A directly-upward war breaks out catastrophe in Brian's death, but he'southward fine, considering the whole thing was merely a simulation cooked up by techno genius Stewie.
21. Da Boom (Season two, Episode 3)
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In this episode, Y2K was an actual thing, leaving a complete moron in charge of rebuilding America, or, at the very least, Rhode Island. Yes, following the complete devastation of the U.S. thanks to the new millennium, Peter leads the survivors (ie, the Griffins) on a quest to a Twinkie Factory before founding New Quahog and declaring himself Mayor for Life. Thanks to the throwback "Dallas" ending, though, it was all a dream; no one sleep-walked into letting a moron lead the state (leastways not in "Family Guy" — wish we could say the same for reality). Stewie'southward surprise egg-laying is somehow the most hilariously disturbing turn of events in a globe where Joe is fused to his yard and giant rats abound. Also, Brian's post-apocalyptic stubble is both hilarious and completely unnecessary. Is information technology a nod to the futile attempts to survive in a earth without Twinkies, TV, and martinis? Probably.
20. Due east. Peterbus Unum (Season ii, Episode 18)
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Peter volition get to insane lengths to get his ain swimming puddle. An apologue for the Iraq War (but generally an excuse to let Peter annex Joe's yard and rub shoulders with fellow dictators), "E. Peterbus Unum" revels in the overzealous U.S. response to the not-very-threatening Petoria. And we're not just talking near the military; fifty-fifty Tom Tucker can't be trusted to report the truth. Who knew? There'south ane affair that makes this episode actually stand out, though: naked Pecker Clinton. "Family Guy"'south Clinton has always been the best of many, many caricatures, standing the test of fourth dimension.
19. To Love and Die in Dixie (Season 3, Episode 12)
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This episode is a fave for more than than the "Dukes of Hazzard" references or Stewie's newfound love of banjos and nappies. In an unusual movement, this episode strays into "The Simpsons" territory past including a genuinely sweet moment. In "The Simpsons," heartfelt episodes are more often than not reserved for Lisa; in the "Family Guy"-verse, it'south Chris who has the most potential for 18-carat emotion. "To Dearest and Die in Dixie" explores that potential with a surprisingly light bear on. Clearly feeling a tad sentimental that calendar week, the writers even allow habitual loser Meg briefly experience something akin to popularity. At that place's too the best bike theft joke ever and the fact that even Peter can tell when a civil state of war reenactment isn't authentic. Genius.
18. Stewie Loves Lois (Season 5, Episode one)
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This episode most likely fabricated the list because, frankly, who can blame Lois for attempting to ignore the cloying attentions of her weird-looking progeny? She'due south clearly happier with a footling (or a lot) of altitude. Of class, it wouldn't be "Family Guy" if Stewie didn't end up hating his mom again, merely we totally get it. There's too Peter running home trouserless afterwards a medical encounter with an extended digit. Despite, or peradventure because of, that utterly ridiculous prepare-upward, the little buns-in-the-cakewalk run cracked us upwards. We practise not, however, condone suing medical staff for carrying out legitimate medical procedures, no affair how much they sound like Dr. Hartman. Get yourself checked, people.
17. Blue Harvest (Season 6, Episode ane)
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"Blue Harvest" is by far the nearly original and best of the MacFarlane "Star Wars" reimaginings, a witty, hilarious, and heartfelt dearest letter to the movie that changed a generation. The entire team is clearly having a smash, no pun intended. But even with "A New Hope" at its core, this is still an essential "Family Guy" episode, which ways "Blues Brothers" getaways, Leslie Nielson, Darth Vader's actual theme as elevator muzak, and Meg equally the garbage monster. It also features an extended burrow gag that would make "The Simpsons"... gag. Sorry. All that plus an extended run time and a crawl written past and for Peter himself. Sublime and essential repeated viewing. It's weird that this episode isn't higher in the rankings, but when you meet what's coming, y'all'll know why.
16. Three Kings (Season 7, Episode xv)
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These "Family Guy" album-type episodes can sometimes be a bit hitting-and-miss. This Stephen King-themed variation, though, contains what may be the best one-act casting known to humanity. You know we're talking most Adam West as the Kiefer Sutherland equivalent in the "Stand up By Me" vignette, along with his oddball gang of random Tv set characters. All together now: Norm! Quagmire is less likable as the River Phoenix facsimile, just that was probably the point. As for "Misery," having Stewie exist Annie but as an actual infant, big wheel and all? That's actually kind of inspired. Call back near it: In the moving-picture show, Annie really is merely throwing an enormous tantrum, throwing information technology straight at the man responsible for information technology. "Shawshank" was a trivial more obvious, only the "Friends" claps allowing Peter to escape on taco night is genius. Thanks, Stephen King.
15. Emmy-Winning Episode (Season 16, Episode one)
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"Family unit Guy" once got an Emmy nod in the outstanding comedy serial category. It has fifty-fifty won a couple of times over the years for outstanding voice acting, music, and sound mixing. Still, relative to how long information technology'due south been airing, it seems like the Emmy committee habitually overlooks the bear witness. That might non seem surprising given the show'due south brassy, juvenile tone, which isn't exactly typical award-garnering fare. Even so, snub obviously stings. This episode, which pokes fun at any and all shows with an Emmy to their proper name, has plenty going for information technology, simply by far the strongest chemical element is its spot-on tribute to Jon Stewart. Information technology's incredible. We miss him. By dissimilarity, the addition of that aging perma-smirk in a inexpensive accommodate commonly known every bit Neb Maher might take been a step too far. But to be fair, Emmys, isn't it about time "Family Guy" won for Oustanding Comedy or Animated Program?
14. The D in Apartment 23 (Season xvi, Episode 6)
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The best matter about this episode isn't the incredibly loud critique of the destructive power of social media. No, for the states, it'south that Brian deserved information technology. "The D in Apartment 23" confirms what Quagmire has said for years and what nosotros've all been thinking for almost equally long: That Brian is not a nice dog-person. Like, at all. He may have started out equally a kind of external conscience a la Jiminy Cricket for Quahog's special dad, only past this point, his amorality has been painfully exposed. Don't hate him because he's a douchebag; hate him considering he's proud of information technology, and then hate Stewie for allowing this crap to go on happening.
13. Death is a Bowwow (Season 2, Episode 6)
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In this episode, Peter is allowed to self-declare his expiry to get out of paying a hospital beak — a disastrous determination, since apparently Death himself takes orders from infirmary paperwork. We also learned that eye-aged men actually fabricated up the majority of the "Dawson's Creek" audition, a programme aimed squarely at teenage girls. Plus, the premise that death is a self-serving douche is beautifully executed, perfectly utilizing the whiny tone that naturally comes from stand up-up comedian Norm Macdonald. Simply perhaps the existent reason this episode made the list has more to do with the giant squid the entire family is ignoring than anything else.
12. Petarded (Season 4, Episode vi)
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There'south really only one thing to say virtually this episode: Information technology contains one of the best lines of dialogue written anywhere, at any fourth dimension in man history. Fact. Set up? Describing confusion over his special dad status, quoth Peter, "Black is east, up is white." Yep, we're serious. Retrieve nearly how frickin' smart that is for a second. Or don't and consider instead the fact that this episode too contains the about surreal cutaway of the prove's entire run so far. That's right, folks: burn down trucks hunting gazelle on the savannah. "Family Guy" gags practise not get whatever weirder or funnier than that. Then there'south the Spooner Street callback at the end, MacArthur grants, soup helmets, and Trivial Pursuit questions that separate the men from the boys. An undeniable classic.
11. Road to Rhode Island (Season ii, Episode thirteen)
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In which Brian'south origin story is partly explained past taxidermy. What isn't explained, yet, is how he's getting away with drinking a Big Gulp-sized loving cup of wine for breakfast and then beingness trusted with an infant's safety. On the mode dorsum from Palm Springs via Texas for some reason, Brian finally meets what's left of his mom, and Stewie makes amazing utilise of the underappreciated word "slattern." Thus a classic "Family Guy" trope is born and Bob Hope's estate warms up its lawyers. Spawning some of the show'south most flamboyant musical episodes, this intro is a surprisingly nighttime affair, to the betoken that Brian buries his own stuffed mom in a random park. Never allow information technology exist said that "Family Guy" lacks range.
10. Road to the North Pole (Season 9, Episode 7)
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Despite looking for all the world similar a traditional holiday special fronted by the jolly face of one Mr. MacFarlane Sr., "Road to: Festive Edition" turns out to be annihilation merely trad. Afterwards Quagmire gives Brian the gift of searing honesty, he would, of course, rather elevate a baby to the North Pole than face the consequences of his canine thoughtlessness. Cue a Tim Burton-esque treatise on the capitalism of the holidays, besides an uncanny prediction about Gary Busey'southward actual reality long before the remainder of the states caught on. Although we nevertheless haven't worked out exactly what Stewie has against Mrs. Claus. This episode is a darkly festive romp that leaves you wondering what the hell used to happen in the MacFarlane household at Christmas.
ix. Run into the Quagmires (Flavor v, Episode xviii)
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This episode, hands down, contains the most disturbing of all the "Family Guy" alternate realities. And it's not but the creepy hellspawn that Quagmire's genes produce. It's that Lois is happier as Mrs. Quagmire than she e'er was equally Mrs. Griffin. Throw in the idea that they now inhabit an nearly perfect world, Chevy Chase still, and you lot take grounds for someone putting an finish to Peter right there and then. We're looking at you, Brian. This episode represents the height of Peter's pathological need to go his ain way, and evidently, everyone is just fine with that — even when giving Peter his ain way means going back to a world where literally anybody is unhappy. Hence the Griffin pathology. Having said that, the Axel F-inspired theme callback over the closing credits totally rules.
8. Lois Kills Stewie (Season half dozen, Episode 5)
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Reverse to Brian's prediction that the "Dallas" ending would upset a lot of people, its position on the listing proves that actually, we really did savour the ride. And the fact that the whole affair is a simulation allows the episode to transport Consuela to the Fortress of Solitude, reveal a smoking Willem Dafoe under Stewie's bed, and turn Stewie into the devil's spawn. Just because he'southward a murderous infant dictator doesn't hateful he's not her murderous infant dictator. Peter finally does something useful, though, and that, surely, is the biggest clue that none of it was existent, plus the fact that everyone was of a sudden able to understand Stewie, including Simon Cowell of all people. To peak it all off, naked Bill Clinton'south portrait hangs in Stewie'southward Oval Office. "Dallas" rules!
7. Stewie Kills Lois (Season half dozen, Episode iv)
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While Stewie most immediately regrets getting rid of his beloved mama, anybody else seems merely fine. Peter'south dating and even Meg is incredibly comfy playing mom to her youngest sibling. The Griffins appear to motion on very quickly. For our money, though, this episode fabricated the list purely because when Joe dressed up as Lois to go Chris to go shopping, his delivery to the character did not extend to changing his vocalisation, even so Chris somehow fails to notice that "she" sounds exactly like Joe or that she's now in a wheelchair. It's either that or the old-timey "Say Anything" reference. John Cusack, you know?
6. Yug Ylimaf (Flavor 11, Episode 4)
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Yeah, this is basically an excuse to revisit some classic Griffin moments, add some super-gross new ones, and confirm that children definitely don't save marriages. As Stewie is Benjamin Buttoning it all the way back to that dreaded ovarian fortress, Brian quietly steals the episode, from his discomfiting habit of dating at disaster zones and to the style the writers handed him the best lines. While blaming the time machine malfunction on Meg, Brian says he saw her "leaving a minute agone, going, 'Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.'" Information technology'due south so beautifully thrown abroad you lot may well have missed it, simply it'southward genius. And no, we are not going to mention the diaper reversal, because it's 100% the nastiest affair they've always — Ever — done. Ever.
v. The Simpsons Guy (Flavor thirteen, Episode one)
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This episode occupies some rarefied state indeed. Most crossovers are disappointing diplomacy, but "The Simpsons Guy" is anything just. It succeeds partly because it doesn't be solely to advertise another MacFarlane production, though information technology absolutely does that, thanks to the appearance of Stan Smith et al. But information technology also manages to perfectly blend the two bigger shows, a feat beautifully encapsulated past Homer's mail-fight exclamation of "Roadhouse." Genuinely sugariness in places, truly gross in others, and fifty-fifty managing a random dig at "Bob's Burgers," "The Simpsons Guy" lands squarely in in one case-in-a-generation crossover territory, and we are super-grateful for it. If for no other reason than One thousand thousand finally finds a temporary friend ... and some equally temporary talent. Bless. A neat idea, beautifully and thoughtfully executed. You couldn't peradventure ask for more from your friendly Fox-based animators.
4. PTV (Season 4, Episode 14)
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This is a strong showing for i of the best "Family Guy" episodes of all time. The Federal Communications Committee and the strange standards they force Goggle box shows to adhere to may seem like easy targets, and they are, but this episode puts a fresh spin on time-tested critiques past making a jaunty tune that throws so many unbroadcastable gags at the FCC that they just couldn't take hold of them all. It's a genius style to prove how unworkable the system really is. Let's not forget, that melody went out live at the actual Emmys. That's why nosotros love this frickin' testify. Might help explicate that lack of Emmy wins, though. Also, they called "Jackass" absolutely right.
3. And Then There Were Fewer (Flavor 9, Episode ane)
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"Family unit Guy" arguably crossed from comedy into art here. "Fewer" is non simply a pastiche of "Clue" and other mysteries, merely it's also a successful whodunit in its own right, with a plot that would make Agatha Christie herself proud. Cute, funny, and full of twists and turns, the episode confirms that no i is meliorate prepared or more than psychotic than Stewie Griffin. A lovingly crafted homage to a bygone era, "Fewer" proves that simply because they're good at fart gags doesn't hateful they can't do sumptuous murder mysteries or gorgeous Art Deco-inspired vistas.
2. Back to the Airplane pilot (Flavor ten, Episode v)
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What better way to gloat making information technology to flavor 10 than with a visit to the episode that started information technology all? Well, the revelation that the entire show may exist based on Stewie's early memories, for a beginning. Or proving that no thing what'south going on, Brian can always be relied upon to make it entirely about him, and, in the process, commencement Ceremonious War 2. Yep, only in the "Family Guy"-verse can looking for a pee-covered ball kicking off the apocalypse and reveal that revolving hairdresser shop signs are life. In the stop, it'due south an ode to humble beginnings and a road well travelled. Thank God for DVD sales, right? Because without them, nosotros'd never take got this far.
1. Road to the Multiverse (Flavor 8, Episode ane)
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This is possibly the finest of the "Road to" serial, and, co-ordinate to IMDb, the finest of all "Family Guy" episodes. It's packed with gags, what-ifs, and a sickening vision of a future that features flying cars, lightspeed rails travel, and a human race one,000 years more than advanced than ours. Remote bathroom breaks, anyone? Never listen a dig at Disney, the genuinely inspired 2-headed universe, eating Mayor McCheese's hamburger brains, and the truthful role-reversal in the canine universe. As well, Peter works way ameliorate as a dog. Gross and hilarious, these 20-odd minutes of TV encapsulate the essence of "Family Guy" in every sense.
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