If you missed my Family Guy review of episodes 1-5, you can find it here.
I am so sorry I am going so slow on catching up on Family Guy. Next season I should be on time. These episodes are absolutely unhinged. They get more so the longer the show goes on I think. I mean, Meg couldn’t even get married in the US and burned bridges in Russia because she didn’t marry a quality guy. She is so abnormal she couldn’t anyway but that is beside the point. Though I do think it would be a great middle finger to the Griffins if she did. They treat her horribly so she should get a happy ending. But I digress. Needless to say, we are looking at five episodes today. Let’s see what stunts the Griffins pull this time.
E6. Boston Stewie
After Chris squishes Meg’s freshly baked cupcakes with his under-nut squash (can you hear my eye roll?) we find out Lois donated ten of her eggs when she was in college. One got used but they just destroyed the other nine just recently. She got a letter and Stewie read it to Brian. Stewie decides to find his brother, and he does, at Harvard. I can’t tell if he’s a baby like Stewie or a minuscule adult. It’s worse than Stewie. Stewie looks thirty-five, and his brother looks forty-five. Stewie is far from impressed by him until he beats up Peter. Then Stewie uses him to get what he wants until he sees his brother wants a family of his own. At that point Stewie’s heart is in the right place even if the words of “making you adoptable” aren’t.
Peter is weird. He got down on one knee and called Meg Master. For getting over 20,000 likes on a social media post. Because it was so popular they go in together on a Fansonly page where Chris sits on stuff crushing it. I mean, it’s probably a thing in real life not just Quahog. Of course, a good thing can’t last and Chris quits only for Peter to take over which was a disaster, like this whole thing could be any less.
This episode is ok. I like that Stewie put the needs of his brother ahead of his own selfish desires.
E7. Snap(ple) Decision
Oh geez, Meg has to pass a training video to fill in for Peter with Lois going on errands so he can goof off. He’s going on a pole climbing contest. Meg, of course, would rather be doing anything but running errands with Lois all day until Lois wins $10,000.00 from the Snapple she bought. After Meg gets upset because Lois wants to use the money for a water filtration system, she decides instead to do a mother/daughter trip with Meg, much to Meg’s delight. Two guys took notice. Later they were thrown in the back of a van and Lois tried negotiating. It was at this point my husband said: “This show is too much anymore.”
Brian and Stewie are going to friend therapy to work through the issue of not having a laundry list of stuff to talk about at lunch, and Brian being too drunk to remember they were trying a new ramen place for lunch. The therapy is a Stewie’s manipulation. That was a crap show. I failed to see the problem with their friendship though. It’s way healthier than the relationships I have with any of my siblings.
This episode was more cringy than funny in my opinion. More boring than funny too.
E8. Baking Sad
The episode opens with Meg waking up to find her goldfish dead then immediately finding out her horse died. The horse died in a kinda horse-sized fish bowl. The goldfish was tossed into a trash can overflowing with other goldfish. Her day doesn’t get any better from there. She makes cookies and of course, Chris, Brian, and Stewie eat almost all of them. Meg is obviously upset because she was going to eat her emotions but they rave about how good they are. They all decide to make a cookie company. Meg just has to cry into every batch. Oy vey.
Peter called in a bomb scare to get out of work and now Lois is forcing him to watch daytime TV. Later, Peter and the guys decide to make a talk show for dudes. It’s actually not doing bad. For some odd reason, even Lois’s dad likes the show. The wives are not happy.
My favorite part of the episode is the laughing. You’ll see what I mean.
E9. The Return of the King (of Queens)
The episode opens with the Griffins decorating for Christmas when Peter notices the TV is gone. Lois explained that not only did they need to sell the TV for Christmas money, but also because you don’t need a TV anymore. Use your device to stream. Peter doesn’t want to stream, he wants his old cable network shows and has the guys weigh in. Later on, Kevin James shows up because Peter was the last viewer of The King of Queens and now Kevin has nowhere to go so Peter insists to Lois, that they take him in temporarily. Peter is going to teach him how to be a real, real guy, and then Kevin can leave and take care of himself. Lois gives in.
Peter “teaches” Kevin how to pay bills and other stuff. Then Kevin starts to disappear just like Marty McFly in Back To The Future. When Peter takes Kevin to the doctor, the doctor says Kevin needs laughter. I had to roll my eyes.
The episode was a little boring but, I will say, Peter’s couch can kick some butt.
E10. Cabin Pressure
We open to the Griffins going to the picnic for the brewery that Peter works at. Somehow, he still works there, even after calling in a bomb threat just so the company could have the day off. There is an egg toss game to win a weekend at a cabin up in Maine. It’s where Peter can see a bear show. It’s the only thing he would want to do from the vacation. Lois and Peter win and invite Quagmire, Joe and Bonnie, and Cleveland and his family. This will be an absolute disaster, I am sure of it.
The vacation starts off with drama as soon as they get to the cabin and no one is listening to Peter. He really wants to get to that show and with Quagmire’s itinerary Peter is worried they will miss it. When they do end up missing it, Peter has a meltdown of epic proportions. This isn’t one of his little temper tantrums. This is nuclear for Peter.
Surprisingly there was no secondary plot in this episode. I know that not all of the episodes do but I was thinking back to the episode that had Lois and the family at the bed and breakfast and Stewie and Brian decided to go into the taffy business.
Do you think the episodes are getting more unhinged? Or that they are running out of ideas? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. I haven’t watched Family Guy from the very beginning but I have been watching regularly for the last five-plus years and that’s what I notice. Until next time, have fun storming the castle!
