Family Guy | |
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Season 21 | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 7 |
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Original network | Fox |
Original release | September 25, 2022 present | –
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The twenty-first season of the American animated television series Family Guy premiered on Fox on September 25, 2022. This season will air the series' 400th episode.[1]
The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog, Rhode Island.
Season twenty-one premiered the run of the twentieth production season, which is to be executive produced by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Tom Devanney, and Patrick Meighan. Sulkin and Appel returned as the series' showrunners.
Production
On September 23, 2020, Fox announced that Family Guy had been renewed for a twentieth and twenty-first season, ensuring that the series will last another two years.[2] As revealed at Comic-Con 2022, Season 21 is featuring guest stars like Mario Lopez, Gerald McRaney, Jay Pharoah, Martha Plimpton, and Casey Wilson.[3] It will also feature the series' milestone 400th episode.[4]
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title [5] | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [5] | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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390 | 1 | "Oscars Guy" | Greg Colton | Damien Fahey | September 25, 2022 | LACX18 | 1.57[6] |
Nearing the night of the Oscars, Peter decides to pay homage to three different Oscar-winning stories, picking each one by spinning a roulette:
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391 | 2 | "Bend or Blockbuster" | John Holmquist | Artie Johann | October 2, 2022 | LACX19 | 1.12[7] |
Jealous after seeing the Tubbs-Brown family enjoying each other's company, Lois tries to get her family to spend the day together, but all her attempts fail. Peter suggests watching a movie. Shooting down ideas to watch a movie from Netflix or Amazon Prime, Peter states that they should rent a movie from Blockbuster together. With the local branch closed, he decides to visit the last one in existence, bringing his reluctant family along for the road trip to Bend, Oregon. The Griffins arrive, but Peter is barred from renting any of the movies by the clerk due to the immense late fee for his copy of Ladyhawke which Peter does not have the money to pay. They attempt to flee with the armed Blockbuster clerk and his co-worker (Haley Joel Osment) on their tail, briefly escaping into the forest and taking refuge in an abandoned cabin in the woods. As the two Blockbuster employees corner them and prepare to shoot them, Peter admits his idea was dumb, but his children don't mind as they reveal that they always enjoy his shenanigans. Just before the family can get shot, a group of Amazon delivery drones arrive to fight off the Blockbuster employees and carry the Griffins home. Back at the house, Chris reveals that he ordered Sliver for the family to watch, but Peter realizes that they don't have the right cables to plug in their VCR. Loading a shotgun, Lois suggests visiting the last Circuit City in St. Augustine, Florida to obtain the cables. The family is unaware of Jeff Bezos spying on them through their Alexa device. | |||||||
392 | 3 | "A Wife-Changing Experience" | Steve Robertson | Steve Callaghan | October 9, 2022 | LACX20 | 1.49[8] |
At a pool party for their wedding anniversary, Peter and Lois are gifted a Range Rover from Carter, only to find that he mistakenly bought the miniature model aimed at children. Lois accepts the gift anyway, but while she is changing out of her swimsuit, Joe accidentally walks in on her and sees her naked. When Bonnie details her rekindled sex life the next day, Lois suspects that Joe was only able to perform well because he was thinking of her, but decides to keep seducing him anyway in hopes of bettering his marriage. Meanwhile, Stewie grows to love his mini Range Rover and adopts a new lifestyle to go with it. However, he discovers how much of a hassle taking care of a car is after Brian vomits on it. Stewie ultimately decides to get rid of the car after seeing another kid enjoying his big wheel and almost killing Rupert in a crash. After Quagmire rats her out, Lois confesses that part of why she is doing this is because she feels ignored by Peter, who admits that being married to her for so long has made her less exciting. After Joe tells her to stop seducing him, Lois decides to give some elderly veterans a show instead, but gets arrested alongside Peter, who tried to get back at her. The two decide that they would rather be bored with each other than with anyone else and start to incorporate more roleplay into their sex life. | |||||||
393 | 4 | "The Munchurian Candidate" | Joe Vaux | Mike Desilets | October 16, 2022 | MACX05 | 1.01[9] |
While at lunch with Bonnie, Elle, and Donna, Lois recollects her date with Peter the previous night, but expresses disappointment in the fact that he didn't "go to Australia" with her afterwards. With help from a therapist (Naomi Ekperigin), they decide to hypnotize Peter into satisfying Lois, accidentally selecting the Extra jingle as his trigger phrase. It works nonetheless, prompting Lois to use it as often as she wants in order to keep her mood and marriage happy. However, the two later humiliate themselves at Pewterschmidt Manor when Peter hears the jingle through the TV while delivering a plate to an ailing Barbara, prompting him to pleasure her instead. Meanwhile, Stewie has a modern treehouse built in the backyard, but feels insulted when he learns that Brian and Chris feigned being impressed by it. He renovates the home into a man cave, but it turns out that Brian and Chris don't like this either. Vowing revenge, Stewie force-feeds them dry Costco quiches and almost kills them with a crossbow, but they manage to escape with more fake flattery aimed at the weapon's craftsmanship. Stewie ultimately shoots them with a crossbow as payback, before shooting himself after seeing Meg topless. Upon getting home, Lois allows Peter to throw up in the trash, only to see Meg watching Extra as the jingle triggers him again. | |||||||
394 | 5 | "Unzipped Code" | Julius Wu | Matt McElaney & Matt Pabian | October 23, 2022 | MACX06 | 1.42[10] |
When a sex-related injury leaves Jerome bound to a wheelchair, Peter and the guys decide to raise money for his restorative surgery by shooting a sexy men-in-uniform calendar. While the plan is a success, everyone discovers that Cleveland accidentally exposed a testicle while posing, which gets him fired as a mailman. Peter takes Cleveland to work where his expertise with the local roadmaps convinces Preston Lloyd to offer him a delivery job at the Pawtucket Brewery. While dealing with his friend's incompetence on the job, Cleveland soon manages to earn a promotion while Peter gets demoted to kitchen banter, much to his ire. After being upstaged at a neighborhood party, Peter tries to sabotage Cleveland by sneaking a rat into the main beer tank, but his plan fails and gets him fired by Preston. Cleveland vouches for him, claiming that every workplace needs some mediocre employees. Preston agrees not to fire Peter and offers Cleveland a promotion, which he refuses. While Peter receives the promotion, Cleveland goes back to his old job, only for the postmaster to reveal that a reinstatement form had been sent a week prior since all firings have to be approved by the "union head". Cleveland tries and fails to bind his testicle with a rubber band in order to avoid a repeat of the incident. In the final scene, Peter congratulates Cleveland for getting his job back as Peter goes to take a selfie with Mort. | |||||||
395 | 6 | "Happy Holo-ween" | Joseph Lee | Evan Waite | October 30, 2022 | MACX03 | 1.53[11] |
While at the Halloween Carnival with his family and friends, Peter stumbles across the owner of a hologram-themed attraction, who shows off a device that can create interactive holograms. After bribing the inventor, Peter decides to make a hologram based on the best version of himself to get out of menial tasks. While he enjoys this at first, he grows jealous after seeing his hologram kiss Lois. The hologram agrees to disappear after being confronted, but turns on his creator and vows to take his family for his own while keeping him trapped in the basement. Lois soon discovers that this new Peter is a fake after noticing his unusually excellent hygiene, but she and the children are trapped by him when they try to escape. The two Peters brawl with Hologram Peter ultimately vanishing after Stewie creates an electrical current via static. After reconciling with his family, Peter later suggests they spend time together only for Lois to suspect that he made another hologram. | |||||||
396 | 7 | "The Stewaway" | Mike Kim | Travis Bowe | November 13, 2022 | MACX07 | 1.58[12] |
During a fundraiser at his daycare, Stewie is introduced to Hide-and-seek and becomes addicted to it. Peter and Lois successfully bid on tickets to Vermont which they win from the auctioneer (Toks Olagundoye) where Lois intends to break Bonnie's Instagram like record. During one of many attempts to play it with Brian, he hides in Quagmire's suitcase and is accidentally brought to Paris, France. Quagmire agrees to babysit him after being guilt-tripped by Lois, and the two end up getting along, only to have a drunken night on the town as Stewie wanders off to chase Madeline. After several failed attempts in Vermont, Lois ends up falling off a cliff while trying to take a scenic photo when the cliff breaks away and had to be airlifted to the nearest hospital. Quagmire calls Brian over to help find him, ultimately finding him lost in a graveyard. Brian humors him by saying he was too good at hide-and-seek and the three head off to enjoy Paris together. As Lois recuperates at the hospital, she states that no record is worth injuring herself over. Peter discovers that the picture of Lois' broken leg managed to break Bonnie's record after all, much to her glee. | |||||||
397 | 8 | "Get Stewie" | TBA | TBA | November 20, 2022 | TBA | TBD |
398 | 9 | "Carny Knowledge" | TBA | TBA | December 4, 2022 | TBA | TBD |
399 | 10 | TBA | TBA | TBA | December 11, 2022 | TBA | TBD |
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