Family Guy | |
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Season 11 | |
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No. of episodes | 22 |
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Original network | Fox |
Original release | September 30, 2012 – May 19, 2013 |
Season chronology | |
The eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy aired on Fox from September 30, 2012, [1] to May 19, 2013. The season consisted of 22 episodes.
The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional 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. The executive producers for the tenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The showrunners are Appel and Callaghan, with Appel replacing previous showrunner Hentemann.
In this season, the Griffins decide to climb Mount Everest ("Into Fat Air"); Lois has a mid-life crisis ("Lois Comes Out of Her Shell"); Meg falls for a boy who turns out to like her brother Chris ("Friends Without Benefits"); and Brian and Stewie leap into action after they discover the company owned by Lois's dad, Carter Pewterschmidt, has found the cure for cancer ("The Old Man and the Big 'C'"). [2] This season also features the 200th episode of the series.
Further episode plots were revealed at Comic-Con 2012. Quagmire accidentally marries a hooker ("The Giggity Wife"), on episode 21,Peter becomes a meth dealer ("Farmer Guy"), and Chris moves in with Herbert ("Chris Cross"). Also, Brian and Stewie travel to Vegas by teleportation, but instead the device malfunctions and ends up cloning them, where two pairs of Brian and Stewie both go on a road trip to Vegas, with each pair having different experiences, in another '"Road to..."' episode as part of the season finale ("Roads to Vegas"). [3]
A Valentine's Day episode, aired on February 10, 2013, in which Stewie rounds up all of Brian's ex-girlfriends, who take delight in pointing out Brian's flaws ("Valentine's Day in Quahog"). [4]
The episode "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" was scheduled to air on December 16, 2012, but was replaced by a repeat of "Grumpy Old Man" out of sensitivity for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. [5] [6] The episode aired the following week on December 23, 2012. [7]
Guest voices for this season include J. J. Abrams, Mark Burnett, Dick Wolf, Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Banks, Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta, Anne Murray, Christina Milian, Lacey Chabert, and Johnny Depp. [8]
On July 21, 2013, the season started on BBC Three in the UK.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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189 | 1 | "Into Fat Air" | Joseph Lee | Alec Sulkin | September 30, 2012 | 9ACX21 | 6.55 [9] |
The Griffins attempt to climb Mt. Everest because Lois gets competitive again with her ex, Ross Fishman. Unfortunately, the Fishmans win the competition but danger approaches in Mt. Everest and the Fishmans' son, Ben, had frozen to death. In order to survive, the Griffins eat Ben's dead body and then successfully rescue the Fishmans before they die looking for him. | |||||||
190 | 2 | "Ratings Guy" | James Purdum | Dave Ihlenfeld & David Wright | October 7, 2012 | AACX01 | 6.70 [10] |
The Griffins become a Nielsen Family and Peter decides to rig the ratings. But when angry neighbors let him know that he has gone too far with his absurd changes, he must find a way to restore normality to television. Note: This episode was dedicated to Phyllis Diller and Michael Clarke Duncan | |||||||
191 | 3 | "The Old Man and the Big 'C'" | Brian Iles | Mike Desilets & Anthony Blasucci | November 4, 2012 | 9ACX22 | 5.11 [11] |
When Brian discovers that Carter Pewterschmidt’s pharmaceutical company is withholding the cure for cancer from the public in order to gain more profit, he and Stewie plot to expose the big secret that could change the world. Meanwhile, Quagmire reveals a hair-raising secret of his own. | |||||||
192 | 4 | "Yug Ylimaf" | John Holmquist | Mark Hentemann | November 11, 2012 | AACX04 | 5.57 [12] |
Brian uses Stewie's time machine and accidentally reverses the direction of time. Now Brian and Stewie have to find a way to reset the direction of time before Stewie is "unborn." | |||||||
193 | 5 | "Joe's Revenge" | Bob Bowen | Julius Sharpe | November 18, 2012 | AACX03 | 5.14 [13] |
When Bobby Briggs, the criminal who shot Joe years ago, leaving Joe in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, becomes a fugitive, Quagmire, Joe, and Peter team up to hunt the bad guy down. | |||||||
194 | 6 | "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" | Joe Vaux | Danny Smith | November 25, 2012 | AACX05 | 5.77 [14] |
Lois gets a midlife crisis and her ripe 20-year-old behavior stresses Peter. Meanwhile, Stewie finds a turtle in the park that wants nothing else than to kill him. | |||||||
195 | 7 | "Friends Without Benefits" | Jerry Langford | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | December 9, 2012 | AACX02 | 5.64 [15] |
Meg is saddened when she learns a boy she has a crush on is gay. She decides that having Chris sleep with him is the next best thing, but when he refuses, she plans to drug him and have the boy have sex with him while he is asleep. | |||||||
196 | 8 | "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" | Julius Wu | Tom Devanney | December 23, 2012 | AACX07 | 5.49 [16] |
As the Griffin family is preparing for Christmas, Peter tells his own version of the Nativity story. | |||||||
197 | 9 | "Space Cadet" | Pete Michels | Alex Carter | January 6, 2013 | AACX06 | 7.21 [17] |
After Chris gets sent to space camp, he realizes that it is more than he can handle and asks to come home. But while the Griffins are there to get him, they look inside a rocket, and Stewie launches them into space. | |||||||
198 | 10 | "Brian's Play" | Joseph Lee | Gary Janetti | January 13, 2013 | AACX08 | 6.01 [18] |
Brian writes a play that becomes a hit in Quahog but grows jealous when he finds that the play Stewie wrote is better than his. | |||||||
199 | 11 | "The Giggity Wife" | Brian Iles | Andrew Goldberg | January 27, 2013 | AACX09 | 5.63 [19] |
Quagmire accidentally marries a washed up prostitute during a visit to Harvard with Peter and Joe. When it turns out the only way for Quagmire to get a divorce is to prove to his new wife that he is gay, he has to ask Peter for help. | |||||||
200 | 12 | "Valentine's Day in Quahog" | Bob Bowen | Daniel Palladino | February 10, 2013 | AACX11 | 4.71 [20] |
To engage in romance for Valentine's Day, Peter and Lois decide to spend the day in bed. Meanwhile, Stewie travels back in time to the '60's and "visits" a little girl who turns out to be his infant mother to his dismay; Meg learns a secret about the boy she met online; Quagmire learns to treat women with respect or else; Chris grows a crush on Herbert's niece; Consuela crosses the border to be with her husband; Brian is visited by his ex-girlfriends; and Mayor West saves Carol from making another love mistake. | |||||||
201 | 13 | "Chris Cross" | Jerry Langford | Anthony Blasucci & Mike Desilets | February 17, 2013 | AACX10 | 4.87 [21] |
Unable to buy new sneakers, Chris steals money from Lois's purse, but is caught by Meg, who blackmails him into doing her chores in exchange for not turning him in. Chris gets fed up and takes off to live with Herbert. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes obsessed with Anne Murray's hit song "Snowbird", and makes Brian also love the song. The two argue over the meaning of the song and decide to travel to her house to find the true meaning behind the song. | |||||||
202 | 14 | "Call Girl" | John Holmquist | Wellesley Wild | March 10, 2013 | AACX12 | 5.27 [22] |
When Peter loses everything in a lawsuit, Lois gets a job. She starts working on a phone sex line, and ends up with Peter as a client. | |||||||
203 | 15 | "Turban Cowboy" | Joe Vaux | Artie Johann & Shawn Ries | March 17, 2013 | AACX13 | 4.92 [23] |
After a skydiving accident, Peter becomes friends with a Muslim man who convinces Peter to convert to Islam, leaving Joe and Quagmire with suspicions about this new friend. | |||||||
204 | 16 | "12 and a Half Angry Men" | Pete Michels | Ted Jessup | March 24, 2013 | AACX14 | 5.16 [24] |
Mayor West is brought on trial for murder, leaving Brian to try and clear his name. | |||||||
205 | 17 | "Bigfat" | Julius Wu | Brian Scully | April 14, 2013 | AACX15 | 5.02 [25] |
Peter, Quagmire and Joe take a road trip to Canada, but their private plane crashes and Peter goes missing for two months. When his family finds him, he can no longer communicate intelligibly. | |||||||
206 | 18 | "Total Recall" | Joseph Lee | Kristin Long | April 28, 2013 | AACX16 | 4.89 [26] |
After Rupert is recalled, Stewie and Brian head on an adventure to reclaim Stewie's best friend. Meanwhile, due to illness, Peter is replaced by Lois in his bowling tournament. However, he begins to get annoyed by the brewing friendship between his wife and his buddies. | |||||||
207 | 19 | "Save the Clam" | Brian Iles | Chris Sheridan | May 5, 2013 | AACX18 | 4.79 [27] |
The owner of The Drunken Clam is killed, and it is up to Peter and the gang to try and stop the Clam from being shut down by the bank. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job at a funeral home. | |||||||
208 | 20 | "Farmer Guy" | Mike Kim | Patrick Meighan | May 12, 2013 | AACX19 | 4.82 [28] |
After Peter buys a farm to get away from Quahog's rising crime problem, he becomes a meth dealer. | |||||||
209 | 21 | "Roads to Vegas" | Greg Colton | Steve Callaghan | May 19, 2013 | AACX20 | 5.28 [29] |
Brian and Stewie decide to spend a trip in Las Vegas. But when they attempt to use a teleporter to get there, a glitch in the system causes the duo to get split into two pieces each, with one pairing having the greatest time in Vegas while the other has the worst time in Vegas. | |||||||
210 | 22 | "No Country Club for Old Men" | Jerry Langford | Teresa Hsiao | May 19, 2013 | AACX21 | 5.16 [29] |
The Griffins join a country club, after Chris begins dating the daughter of Rhode Island's richest family, and Peter ends up getting Lois's father, Carter, thrown out of his beloved country club. |
The season received mixed reviews. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club gave a C+ rating for the season. [30]
# | Title | Air date | The A.V. Club (A-F) | TV Fanatic (5) | Sources |
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1 | "Into Fat Air" | September 30, 2012 | C | 3.3 | [31] [32] |
2 | "Ratings Guy" | October 7, 2012 | B- | 3.4 | [33] [34] |
3 | "The Old Man and the Big 'C'" | November 4, 2012 | B | 3.0 | [35] [36] |
4 | "Yug Ylimaf" | November 11, 2012 | C | 4.2 | [37] [38] |
5 | "Joe's Revenge" | November 18, 2012 | B | 4.0 | [39] [40] |
6 | "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" | November 25, 2012 | B- | 3.6 | [41] [42] |
7 | "Friends Without Benefits" | December 9, 2012 | B | 2.3 | [43] [44] |
8 | "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" | December 23, 2012 | C | 3.5 | [45] [46] |
9 | "Space Cadet" | January 6, 2013 | B- | 3.0 | [47] [48] |
10 | "Brian's Play" | January 13, 2013 | A- | 4.0 | [49] [50] |
11 | "The Giggity Wife" | January 27, 2013 | C- | 2.2 | [51] [52] |
12 | "Valentine's Day in Quahog" | February 10, 2013 | B | 4.6 | [53] [54] |
13 | "Chris Cross" | February 17, 2013 | C | 1.5 | [55] [56] |
14 | "Call Girl" | March 10, 2013 | C- | 3.2 | [57] [58] |
15 | "Turban Cowboy" | March 17, 2013 | D | 2.5 | [59] [60] |
16 | "12 and a Half Angry Men" | March 24, 2013 | B- | — | [61] |
17 | "Bigfat" | April 14, 2013 | C | 2.8 | [62] [63] |
18 | "Total Recall" | April 28, 2013 | C- | 3.4 | [64] [65] |
19 | "Save the Clam" | May 5, 2013 | B | 3.0 | [66] [67] |
20 | "Farmer Guy" | May 12, 2013 | B | 2.0 | [68] [69] |
21 | "Roads to Vegas" | May 19, 2013 | B+ | 4.4 | [30] [70] |
22 | "No Country Club for Old Men" | C+ | 1.5 | ||
Season | C+ | 2.4 | [30] [70] | ||
Average | C+ | 3.1 | Average |
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