The twenty-third season of the American animated television series Family Guy premiered with a holiday special on Hulu on October 14, 2024, followed by another holiday special on November 25, 2024 on Hulu, with the rest of the season premiering on February 16, 2025, on Fox.[1][2][3]
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.
Production
On January 26, 2023, Fox announced that Family Guy had been renewed for a 22nd and 23rd season.[4]
It was announced in April 2024 that the season would air two holiday specials exclusively on Hulu.[5] The trailer for Season 23 was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con.[1] This marks the first time since the eighth-season episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" in 2010 that an episode of the series has not aired on Fox.
In May 2024, it was announced that a full season would be broadcast in 2025.[6]
This season sees the show returning to air new episodes on Sundays instead of Wednesdays; this time the series airs at an 8 PM timeslot;[7] the February 16, 2025 broadcast, however, would air at 10 PM due to extended broadcasting of the 2025 Daytona 500.
25th anniversary
The series celebrated its 25th anniversary on April 19, 2024, at PaleyFestLA in which the cast and crew did a live table reading of an upcoming episode of the series.[8] The holiday specials premiering on Hulu were announced the following day.[9] The Halloween and Christmas episodes Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater and Gift of the White Guy were released in celebration of the series' 25th anniversary.[10] In addition, Peter guest starred in an episode of Hot Ones.[11]
Joe intends to enter a local giant pumpkin contest, which he has repeatedly lost to Patrick McCloskey (Glen Powell), but when Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland get fed up with his obsession, they decide to sabotage him by hiding his entry, only to accidentally break it. Peter hides inside the pumpkin as an apology, and his weight nets Joe first place. McCloskey catches Joe cheating before it turns out that all entrants, including McCloskey himself, lied by hiding obese men inside their pumpkins. Meanwhile, Stewie intends for himself and Brian to go trick-or-treating as Sonny & Cher, but a falling out prompts Brian to walk out and try looking for some new friends to hang out with. Stewie brings Rupert (voiced by Derek Jacobi) to life, who hears his venting about wanting Brian dead and attempts to murder him. Stewie catches on to this and confronts Rupert, who is hurt that he always comes second to Brian and wants to eliminate the competition. Stewie reluctantly drowns Rupert in a toilet, reverting him to normal as Brian admits he has no other friends and apologizes for his selfishness. In the end, Stewie receives Rupert from the dryer and tells him everything that went down.
Peter is mandated to attend a white elephant gift exchange at the brewery, but forgets to bring a gift until the last second. He ends up giving away a Christmas tree brooch that Lois received as a child, which ends up in the hands of Preston's mother, Widow Lloyd (Debra Wilson). Peter infiltrates the senior home with help from Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire by dressing up like pest control guys, and the brooch is recovered without any complications. Meanwhile, after Brian hints that he might be on Santa Claus' naughty list, Stewie strives to be good, throwing away all his weapons and performing good deeds in order to get his desired gifts. After Meg finds his discarded vaporizer, however, the two wrestle with it, accidentally zapping Meg. Although initially concerned with covering up the mess, Stewie feels remorse and writes the truth in his letter to Santa, giving up his other requests in exchange for getting Meg back. On Christmas Day, Meg turns up alive under the tree, albeit with her legs on backwards. Peter returns Lois' brooch and explains what went wrong, with Lois ultimately deciding to return it to Widow. The two unknowingly stab her while trying to put it back on Widow Lloyd causing her to bleed to death.
In a parody of Top Gun, Maverick (Peter) and Goose (Joe) are aspiring Naval pilots attending the titular flight school with Charlie (Lois) as their instructor who is also in a relationship with Maverick. After one of their missions ends in failure, Maverick feels guilt over the death of Goose and resigns to grieve for thirty-five years by playing out scenes in other Tom Cruise movies. Upon his return, he is tasked with instructing a new generation of pilots, including Goose's son Rooster (Chris) who is resentful over the death of his father as well as having his mother written out of the sequel. The two men succeed at their mission and manage to reconcile after a scorned Charlie shoots them down and captures them. After escaping in a stolen jet and being saved by a supposedly dead Iceman (Stewie), Maverick and Rooster return to base and are hailed as heroes. In the final scene, Peter mentions how well Top Gun: Maverick performed as he jumps out of an airplane with Tiny Tom Cruise.
Peter jokes about eating his annual salad while texting the guys, but notices that Joe merely likes his texts whereas Cleveland and Quagmire always laugh. Peter confronts Joe about it and is told that he has never found him funny. Meanwhile, after worrying about the lack of proper supervision on Chris and Meg's field trip to Washington D.C., Lois decides to chaperone the trip, only to embarrass her children and earn scorn from their friends. She bonds with Principal Shepherd over their shared sadness and he opens up about his first love, Shellie Barnes, whom he broke up with over a disagreement whether to do a Combination ofPizza Hut and Taco Bell franchise. Peter tries sneaking into Joe's room at night and leaving a "Ha Ha" on his joke for him, but sets off the traps by his bed and gets injured falling down the stairs while running away. In the hospital, Peter apologizes for overreacting. Upon describing the injuries he's received, Joe finally laughs at him as he sheds a tear of joy. Lois discovers that Shellie lives near the hotel. After arriving at a Taco Bell where Shepherd is with help from Meg driving the bus, Lois persuades Shepherd to talk with Shellie. After being directed to her house next door by a neighbor, Shepherd eventually talks to Shellie (Casey Wilson) only to find that her dream failed, she got addicted to certain drugs, and she has let herself go while having a live-in uncle who is currently on dialysis. Although Shepherd's time is ultimately wasted and he fends off a thought cloud with Jared Fogle in it, Lois tells Shepherd to take heart in the fact that his life ended up better than hers.
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"Drunk with Power"
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Peter runs into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a brewery tour, and the two become best friends, drinking the night into oblivion together. When Peter wakes up, he realizes their lives have swapped, and he joins the Supreme Court as Brett Kavanaugh, and Brett returns to Quahog as Peter. As Peter assimilates his way into the Supreme Court, he is forced to make a ruling on the constitutionality of gay marriage. Meanwhile, Brett tries to become friends with Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe.
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"Lois C.K."
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Louis provides his own voice when he appears in "Emmy-Winning Episode" when Peter bumps into him outside of The Drunken Clam. He gives his endorsement of Peter's attempt to win an Emmy, which is noted that everyone has to like what Louis does.
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"The Chicken or the Meg"
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When Meg starts dating a chicken she meets on a reality dating show, "Sex Farm", Peter disapproves of their love, prompting her to move out. Saddened by her absence, he decides to get her back from the Giant Chicken's House.
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