Just Do It--Don't Talk!

Family Guy, S11E11

Peter and the guys had a wild night of drinking that led to Quagmire accidentally getting married to a prostitute.  At first, Quagmire tried to make their marriage work, so that he wouldn't have to lose everything in a divorce, but he changed his mind when Charmese thought he was gay.  However, she wouldn't consent on a divorce unless Quagmire proved that he was really into men.

The biggest shock about Quagmire being married isn't who he married because let's face it--him marrying a prostitute doesn't sound below the quality of life he's lived so far.  It's just weird to see him married at all.  This was true when he had that fiancee in another episode who was too crazy for Quagmire.  At least this time Quagmire was involved with a woman who didn't seem so bad, despite her profession.  I mean, she was mostly just a sight to look at.  She did refuse to divorce him unless he had sex with a man in front of her, but since Quagmire was playing her in the first place, I couldn't see her as being psycho.  She probably never intended to let it get as far as it did.

I was surprised that Peter agreed to do that for Quagmire.  He's a really good friend, even though Peter seemed sort of into it more than he was letting on.  I can't forget that he said he had been "full sail" way before he and Quagmire got into the room.  Raises an eyebrow, but not such much that I'll probably remember it by the time the next episode comes out.

More than not wanting to see Peter and Quagmire actually get it on, I just wanted them to stop narrating what they were doing and "feeling."  They made it so much more uncomfortable to watch when they were saying such unnatural things.  And when they were barfing back and forth in each others' mouths--one of the grossest parts of the story.  It definitely beat when Charmese spit on Chris' face (yuck!)

There were a few jokes that I liked in this episode.  The first was a cutaway when Peter was comparing them sticking out at Harvard to a black guy in Sweden.  Unexpectedly when they started saying "Blackin sippin," I was laughing.  It was such bad fake Swedish that it couldn't be anything else but humorous.  It almost makes me want to say that next time I see a black guy sipping from a cup.

Next, I liked when Peter was confused about Beowulf:

[Peter] Hey, was Beowulf a Teen Wolf sequel with Scott Baio? 

[Joe] No.

[Peter] Then I just totally failed that Medieval Lit midterm.

I don't know why, but any kind of joke about Beowulf that you can make is funny to me.  I guess because since high school, I've always thought that title and story were strange to me.

The last joke I liked was a parody of It's A Wonderful Life:

[Girl] Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time a bell rings, some gay guy’s gonna have sex with another gay guy. 
[Father] We’re gonna pull you out of that school.

I'd like to know what school it is that says things like that to their students.  Sounds like a bizarre place.


This was a good episode.  I wouldn't mind watching it again, except I don't really want to listen to Quagmire and Peter talk about what they're going to do to each other in bed.  If they had just been a little quieter it might have been more tolerable to watch (although, I doubt they would show Quagmire screwing Peter for real).  There were enough jokes throughout that it was generally funny, and the story itself about Quagmire was interesting enough that I wasn't entirely so concerned about laughing every few minutes.

Meg Can't Let Go Of The Fantasy

Family Guy, S11E07

Meg finally went out with the boy she's been fantasizing about, Kent, to find out that he was gay and liked Chris.  Wanting to live through Chris, Meg schemed to roofie Chris so that Kent could have sex with him and Meg could hear the details later.

Well, for an episode about Meg, this one wasn't too bad.  I think that's mainly because even though she still couldn't catch a break, the one who made things worse for her was Meg herself instead of someone victimizing her.  Yeah, it sucked that Kent ended up being gay after she finally asked him out, but her refusal to accept reality was really pathetic.  She could have easily been Kent's friend, at least--that was better than him hating her like he did at the end.  Meg was also pretty selfish, wanting to disregard Chris's feelings just to fulfill her fantasy.  I don't know.  Meg should really take the small victories when she can.  She wanted the gold prize (a real relationship with Kent), when she could have been really content with bronze (friendship).

Also, Meg was really rude when she kept denying that Kent was gay because he didn't act like a stereotypical gay man.  I would think that she would be smarter to know that you can't cook-cut people like that.  But maybe she was too blinded by her desire for Kent to use her brain.  Just one more reason that Meg looked like a horrible person who sort of deserved to be bullied upon like she always is.

Anyway, there were a few moments that I liked.  My second favorite was when Meg was squealing with joy about successfully asking out Kent.  Stewie came to the door and before closing it said:

I’m gonna go ahead and shut this for you.

Stewie's irritation at her loud voice just made me laugh.  It's like he was doing something so important that Meg was interrupting or something.

My favorite part, though, was when Meg told Kent that Chris had a dark side.  I wasn't sure if she was making it up (because she was lying about Chris being gay in the first place), but that cutaway was so creepy!  Chris was sitting in their room in the dark, sitting in a rocking chair or something.  Then he got up started to gently stroke Peter's face while Peter was trembling in the bed.  I don't know what the hell was going on, but it was so uncomfortable that it was hilarious.

I also thought it was kind of funny that one of Meg's teachers informed her and her friends that he would be in the park later, which was one of his technically not illegal invitations.  That teacher is like intentionally being the bare minimum sleaze-bag that he's allowed.

There were some disturbing things as well in this episode.  The number one thing was the plant that kept raping things.  First it raped a roofied plant, and then it raped a roofied Stewie.  Eww!  It was almost funny because you wouldn't expect a plant to do that, but instead it was just a frightening thought to imagine a plant attacking a person like that.

Another thing was when Meg went to get roofies from Quagmire.  That wasn't too weird because it was Quagmire, but his comment after she left was a bit unsettling:

That’s what it’s all about, Glenn.  Don’t rape it back, rape it forward.

Yeah, let's not rape it forward or back or at all.  I can see why Quagmire would be willing to be Meg's contact if she got arrested for those roofies because he has no business having them nor giving them to unbalanced teenagers.

There was this moment when Peter was on the slip-n-slide and a giant spider was pulling him away wrapped in a web.  That wasn't disturbing, but more like what the hell was going on??  I almost wish that it had come back later in the episode to sort of answer that question because it was so random (but not unwelcome).

Finally, the last thing I wanted to comment on was how I was a little annoyed with that cutaway about how women and men differ in friendships.  I don't think that the difference is as simple as women use half-insult compliments to their friends, while men are straightforward.  I guess what bothers me the most is that whenever there are gender-difference jokes, it's always to paint women in a worse light than men.  I can't think of time when it was the other way around.  Just gets a little tiring to see that constantly.

I liked this episode, even though Meg was being an obsessive jackass. It's not the first time she's let her fantasies run wild, nor will it be the last.  For someone who is so desperate like her, these sort of stories are kind of a given.  She doesn't get affection or positive attention, so if she has a chance for it, she's definitely going to use unorthodox methods to get it and not give up easily.  Luckily, there were quite a few jokes to distract you from Meg trying to help someone unknowingly date rape her brother.  I can't imagine how horrible it would have been if there wasn't some good comedy to shift the focus away from that.

Ya'll Messed Up The Grinch Story

Family Guy, S11E05

The man responsible for shooting Joe and paralyzing him escaped from the police after finally being caught after 15 years, and Peter volunteered himself and Quagmire to help Joe find him and bring him to justice.

The moment that Joe started talking about Briggs, I was like um, I thought the damn Grinch was the one that put him in a wheelchair.  Family Guy, however, is pretty good at addressing new stories that contradict old ones, so Joe explained that the Grinch story was just a coverup for the real story.  Boo!  I loved that the Grinch was the one that hurt him.  With that in mind, I couldn't really get into this story where Joe was trying to find Briggs.  Instead, I was just hoping he would capture him quickly and perhaps that would lead to a better story.  No such luck.

I think I disliked the stripper club part the worst where we saw a pair of twins that were fathered by Quagmire.  Ugh.  The last thing I want to see is a female version of Quagmire grinding up a man, saying his catchphrase.  I really wish he would use a condom sometime and stop having so many random children all around the world.  It was also sick that Quagmire made Tanya spit up in the air and catch it back in her mouth.  So freaking gross.  I had to look away before she caught it because that's the kind of thing that sickens me even if it's not real.

Also, when Brian was freaking fondling Lois' breasts--come on!  He needs to cut that shit out!  I'm glad that Lois woke up and didn't just overlook him acting like such a pervert.  Man, they really need to get him a damn girlfriend so he can stop drooling over Lois.  It's like his obsession with her gets worse and worse.  I seriously don't want to see that part again.

If I had to pick the part that was the funniest, it might be when Joe had shot Briggs in the legs and saw that he had killed him instead of just wounded him.  Quagmire very casually just slid over Briggs' body with his foot and said they could just kick him into Mexico like he wasn't even a person.  That was so wrong.  It was also messed up that Joe just killed the guy with no repercussions, but I guess that's not really shocking where this show is concerned.  A lot of people die and the other characters simply shrug about it.

All in all, this wasn't one of my favorite episodes by far. I guess there wasn't much hope for it since it was centered around Joe in the first place.  I can't think of any episode off the top of my head that was good where he was the main focus.  I'd also like to see even less of Brian sleazing on Lois if possible.  If not, there needs to be another story where Peter kicks his ass because Brian crosses the line too much.  Wish it was funny when he did, but it's far from that.

Didn't Make Too Much Of An Impression

Family Guy, S11E03

Quagmire was revealed to have a toupee and was convinced by his friends to discard it since it was public knowledge.  However, Peter and the gang got sick of his annoying new attitude as a bald man and suggested he get a hair transplant.  While at the hospital for the procedure, Brian discovered that Carter was diagnosed to have cancer.  When the Griffin family went o visit him to check on his conditon and found him completely healthy, Brian and Stewie went to investigate his company to make sure that Carter was the real Carter.

This story wasn't exactly bad, but I can't think of much that was really worth mentioning, even to complain about.   One of the few things that I slightly liked was when Peter was telling Quagmire about how he hated him now that he was bald and acting crazy.  His honesty, as usual, is so blunt that it ends up being funny, although it wasn't hilarious.  I also sorta liked when Stewie was waiting for Lois to get off the phone and she kept extending her conversation with Bonnie.  I just have a lot of instances with talking to my bestie where we keep saying goodbye, but then think of something else and want to talk about it real quick.  I guess it's not something that guys typically do.

There wasn't anything outrageous or disgusting in this episode, but I was a little disturbed by Stewie talking about his nipples being big from the cold and him pulling on them.  I could have lived without seeing that.  It's probably the most memorable part of the episode, unfortunately, because I didn't see that coming at all.

I did predict that Carter would have a cure for cancer on hand and that in the end he wouldn't make good on his promise to Lois.  He's not a sweet guy and cares more about money than his family.  So no surprise there.  It just sucks that they ended the episode with Lois and Peter sort of forgiving him because he was on a magazine cover.  Wish it could have been a better joke.

I don't think this will be an episode I'll remember.  I'll probably watch it again one day and only then recall that it existed in the first place.  It's sad that I can only keep in mind the really horrible ones or the really good ones.  Ones like this one are pretty much out of sight, out of mind.

Better The First Time

Family Guy, S10E22

There were three different stories, supposedly based on some suggestions by fans.  The first was a British version of Family Guy where Peter wanted to prove that he was related to the Queen of England.  The second was about Peter having the ability to turn anyone (and eventually anything) to Robin Williams.  The third was a story that took place entirely from Stewie's point of view.

I was expecting something pretty good from the episode since I enjoyed the first version of viewer mail stories.  However, it's hard for me to say which one I liked the best because all of them weren't that good.  It felt like they didn't try very hard to think outside of the box (which might have been a problem of them using fans' ideas if that were true) and the stories weren't as bizarre as they could have been.  They might have been limited to what they could accomplish with a story that had to be a third of the time they usually had to work with, but I still think they could have done better.

I think maybe the British version of Peter and the others was the most interesting of them all.  I liked seeing them with ridiculously bad teeth and more distinguished noses.  Plus, Brian was a horse instead of a dog, and Stewie had an American country accent instead of his usual British one.  Another interesting twist was that British Peter's random bitter enemy was not a chicken, but a quail and their fight was much shorter and ended on a more polite note than any of the Quahog Peter's fights have.  Basically this story's appeal was the funny differences between America and England.  But Peter chasing after the Queen of England and killing her in the process to get some hair for a DNA test, seemed like a pretty lame adventure for him to get into.  But perhaps that was the point--showing that British Peter can't measure up to the American one?  I don't know, but it was pretty boring.

The second story was just awful.  There is a limit to how many Robin Williams jokes I can tolerate, and I think they exceeded that within the first few minutes.  This one was more like a horror story, but not horrifically funny.  It was more like if I had to see one more Robin Williams appear, I was going to go as crazy as Peter did.  The best part was the end, surprisingly (not simply because it was ending), but because it was so disturbing.  Peter had kept 5 of the Robins and dressed them like his family.  That was so freaky and sad!  Then to make things even more so, Peter had chopped off his hands.  It was like the end to something from the Twilight Zone, but not even a fraction as enjoyable to watch.

The last story wasn't too bad, but it was just amazing how everything through Stewie's eyes wasn't more interesting.  After all, he's a baby that acts like an adult most of the time.  There were two creepy moments that worked well in the story.  The first was Quagmire asking Stewie to come over so he could see if the smell of Lois' boobs were still on him.  Geez.  There is really no low he won't go when perving on Lois.  The second is when Stewie saw Herbert hanging underneath a school bus and Stewie warned him to stay away from his brother's butt.  That was probably my favorite joke in the whole episode.  The last thing in that story I thought was a little funny was the book Lois read Stewie to bed.  It was about the town from Footloose.  I liked how Stewie wondered who the intended reader of the book was and how one line from the book referenced "the church where you slap your daughter."  That was a pretty good joke.

I was pretty disappointed that they weren't able to top the first of this kind of episode.  This was one of the last episodes in the season, I so I expected something a little more flashy and memorable.  Instead, there were just a lot of stories that felt uninspired and boring.  Mostly this was the fault of a story about an invasion of Robin Williams, but the others had their faults as well.  If this had been the last episode of the season, I would have been incredibly dissatisfied.

Stewie Finds His Soulmate

Family Guy, S10E19

Lois got she and Peter separate beds after suffering another injury after he rolled over her in his sleep.  Peter, unable to sleep properly without someone to cuddle, asked Quagmire to be his substitute in that manner.  However, Peter started living with Quagmire completely, living his life with him in an intimate way that looked like they were a couple.  He finally went home after Lois agreed to sleep in the same bed with him and confessed that she missed cuddling with him too.  Stewie met his soul-mate with a wicked girl named Penelope.  Brian, after watching the news of the international terrors Stewie and Penelope had perpetrated together, told him that she was a bad influence on her and should stop seeing her.  When Stewie told Penelope about Brian's thoughts, she demanded that Stewie kill him.  Stewie couldn't do it, so Penelope came to do it herself.  After an intense battle, Stewie bid farewell to Penelope and admitted to Brian that he was right about her.

I had to agree with Lois' decision to not sleep with Peter in the same bed since he didn't seem to think her breaking numerous ribs was a problem, nor did the doctor want to admit that Peter had any fault in her injuries.  If that wasn't bad enough, he was really annoying with his plume pen writing at night where he would actually say "dip" each time he dipped his pen into the ink.  It might not have been a bad idea for her to get her own place entirely if he was going to be that obnoxious.

It was also smart of her to leave Peter be for a while after he decided to sleep with Quagmire.  It was kind of weird when they first laid together and Peter was taking off Quagmire's boxers with his foot.  At least let him take it off himself.  Eww.  But I think when Peter moved into Quagmire's and they had a montage about how their were interacting with each other every day, it was kind of sweet (if you imagined they were a couple).  It's funny that just snuggling in the same bed could make them that close. I could have stood to see more of how their relationship deepened (besides that "giggity band") before Lois came to get her man back.  I'm glad that Peter didn't make too much of a fuss about it since, as his wife, I would hope she would be his top choice for spooning.  I felt bad for Quagmire that he was stuck to Peter's back and crushed just like Lois had been at the beginning.  Not sure if I can call that karma or not.  Or ironic.  But it is a little funny.

Stewie's story was okay.  It was interesting to see him find another person like himself who was perhaps a bit more evil.  She, unlike Stewie, didn't have a dog best friend who could convince her to stop creating havoc for kicks.  I liked when Stewie had to make a 20s theme with his tidal wave destruction and he chose flappers dancing on surf boards on the waves.  That was cute.  I'm just surprised that Brian figured out what Stewie and Penelope were up to so quickly, seeing as they were doing everything by themselves.  It was even better when Stewie defended his actions by saying it was nothing new for him:

[Stewie] I’ve always been about world domination.  What the hell did you think I was talking about when I said, “Victory shall be mine”?

[Brian] You have not said that in a very long time.
[Stewie] Well, I’m back on it.

I laughed at that because I had forgotten that Stewie did use to say that.  This episode reminds me of when Stewie killed Lois (in a simulation) because Brian questioned whether he had gotten soft about being evil.  Truth be told, I don't miss that Stewie too much because he's funny enough without being a mastermind trying to take over the world.  With Brian usually by his side, there's hardly any time for him to be thinking about killing his mother and such.

It was cute when Stewie kept coming up behind Brian and trying to kill him different ways, but just couldn't kill him.  We've seen enough episodes to know that Stewie doesn't give a damn about anyone when push comes to shove unless it's Brian, so it would be a little out of his character for him to off Brian now, even when he met the love of his life.  It wasn't surprising that a girl  who surpassed Stewie in evil would go off to finish the job herself.  I liked that before she arrived, the mail carrier kept looking like he was listening in on Brian and Stewie's conversation and even waiting at the door to for them.  However, he had just been killed by Penelope and was standing there dead.  Nice.

What I noticed about the Stewie and Penelope fight was that she really came prepared.  I mean, she had all kinds of gadgets and weapons ready to slash and fry someone to death.   My favorite part of their fight was when Penelope shrunk a car and Stewie later threw it at her and enlarged it to full size while it was still in the air so it would fall on her.  Too much happened that I can remember it all, but I did like her blade in her shoe.  I just kept wondering when Stewie would reveal some weapon on himself because he was a little disadvantaged.  Finally, at the end he pulled out a knife from his ankle and told her to stay away from his dog.  Aww.  He does care.  Plus, Penelope kissed him and sent him flying so the cord around him would be tied around a light pole.  It's possible she might return one day.  But I kept wondering how Stewie would get down from there.  Then again, a baby like him that can fight on top of a moving truck is capable of anything.

It was stupid at the end they had Brian ask Meg about her day, but she just opened her mouth and no sound came out.  Come on now.  Stop shoving it our faces that you don't give a damn about Meg's character.  You might as well kill her off instead of treating her like a roach.  Seriously.  It's hardly funny anymore.  It's like that damn chicken Peter fought or those vaudeville guys.

Not the funniest episode, but not bad.  I wish I could have enjoyed the guest star, but I'm not too familiar with her work, so it wasn't anything special for me.  I did like to see that Stewie could fall in love for once, instead of watching Brian's many desperate one-night stands.  That's getting old.  I wish that there had been more jokes that I enjoyed, but I guess it the stories were interesting enough that it didn't matter too much.

Peter and Brian: True Blue Friends

Family Guy, S10E17

Basically, the answer to the question that no one was probably wondering beyond Stewie was given last Sunday:  Are Peter and Brian friends of convenience or friends through and through?  Well, through the magic of science, Peter and his buddies are thrown into a world by themselves where a spoof newspaper article makes the others think that Peter is an evil, human-destroying alien.  It was very interesting to see how these four would get along if their memories were wiped and they were the sole residents of the world.  It was a little eerie in a Twilight Zone-like way and funny in the regular Family Guy way.

I think what I liked the best was when Quagmire was trying to teach Brian "gimme paw," and it took forever.  Brian contrasts his normal dog qualities by blurting out some pseudo-intelluctual crap afterwards before Quagmire tells him to shut up.  No surprise that the deep-rooted hatred that Quagmire has for Brian still manages to seep out even though they don't have their memories back.  Two other gags that I enjoyed were Peter pulling out the Chex Mix to see if anyone else was around, and the revised "Who Else But Quagmire?" joke ("Who Else But Shirt Pants?").  However, I will say that the oddity of their situation and whether the mystery would be revealed was a lot more interesting to me than the comedy in this episode.

What I didn't particularly like was the "shock" joke this time.  There was a cutaway to a gorilla petting a kitten next to a pile of dead ones it had already torn to bits.  So gross.  It's very hard for me to laugh at a dead animal or one suffering in a bloody manner.  I would have preferred that Peter had just told us that had happened rather than us having to see the death pile.

Also, I didn't much care for the ending of this episode where the girls were put in the same scenario as the guys, but all they were doing was fighting and pulling each others' hair.  Apparently they hadn't even tried to name each other.  What bullcrap.  As if women would naturally just hate each other and not work together.  I think women would fight less if men were out of the picture.  Damn you, Seth MacFarlane, and your anti-women position.  Sometimes when I stop to think about it (which I do more now that he has more than one show where I can compare the women characters he's made), it irritates me how women are represented in SF world.  But then again, it's just a cartoon.  It's nothing to march about.  Still, I wish he would have a women character who wasn't in a position where it seemed like she was ranked lower than her husband (or father).

Anyway, I was a little touched by how deep Peter and Brian's friendship turned out to be.  Brian may be an asshole most of the time, but he does love Peter, and the feeling is mutual.  Brian took a damn bullet for him.  Sometimes you might question whether Peter has a heart, but seeing his best friend die before his eyes and all the tears, you know that his love for Brian is more than that of a pet.  It's a nice change of pace because they haven't really had a moment where if you were soft-hearted enough you might just say, "Aww" while watching Family Guy.  They used to have touching family moments like this in the first season, but the eventually disregarded this for a general feeling of tolerated hatred among the family (or indifference, at best).

Although this episode reminds me a little of when Stewie killed Lois (it all turned out to be a simulation), I still thought it was good in general.  I wouldn't mind more of this style where things are unusual for a reason you can't determine right away, nor would I mind a little more sentimental stories (if not to offset all the stories where the characters are being jerks to one another).  We're fast approaching the end of this season, and I'd hate to see it end with me disliking more episodes than I liked.

Do We Really Care About Mort?

Family Guy, S10E15

This week's episode was about Peter and Quagmire helping Mort commit insurance fraud while Joe tried to get to the bottom of the "accident."  I have nothing against Peter and Quagmire adventures (and even Joe as long as he's in the background), but I have no desire to watch any story that deals mainly with Mort.  He's just annoying and not in a good way where he bothers others to hilarious rage.  Of course, I was even less happy with this setup because I knew that it wouldn't involve Stewie at all (yes, I know--I just love those Seth MacFarlane babies).  The little guy only had 2 scenes in this episode, and it wasn't enough to compensate the boredom I felt through most of it.

If I had to pick the part I disliked the least, it would be when Peter was trying to interrupt Joe's investigation by texting him about dinner arrangements.  Joe's frustration over the endless messages about each detail of it were easy to relate to; who hasn't gotten to the point that they wanted to throw their phone after being beaten by an array of texts?  As a joke it wasn't bad, but wasn't that good either.

Another thing that almost had me smiling was Joe wondering if Chris might be his friend.  However, Peter didn't think it was possible since Chris would be afraid of him:

He thinks you're a transformer that broke halfway through.

I like that only because I like anything that will poke fun at Transformers, a show I've disliked since childhood.

I guess this show doesn't want to always do things so typical, because Peter did, for once, buy something random that wasn't insane (Lois yelled at him for his superfluous spending habit, but it was nothing like the "Petercopter") like a lawnmower.  That led to a steak bone getting stabbed into Quagmire's forehead, but nothing too incredible by Family Guy standards.  I don't mind if they want Peter to act a little normal and then have something extraordinary happen to him, but this time it was almost a story you could see on another show and could be done in the same fashion.  I come to this show for stories that go down roads that you would never think.  Sort of how I used to depend on The Simpsons for that before they got too old.  Where am I supposed to go now if FG ain't gonna bring it?

FOX Sunday night was a let down this week.  After being without them for a week, I was ready to be entertained with some of my favorite current animated shows.  Now I'm wondering if I'll like these shows better if a month went by before I watched again.  I might just have too much on my plate at the moment to appreciate the gems in front of me.  However, I'm tempted to give Napoleon Dynamite another chance if things keep going like this.  Perhaps, watching that crap will have the same effect as when I gave Allen Gregory a go.  I was happy to get back to The Simpsons and Seth MacFarlane world after that.

A Hollywood Agent Is A Meh Job

Episode 13, season 10, of Family Guy wasn't very interesting to me.  Peter decides to move to Hollywood to become Tom Tucker's agent.  I think it's crazy that Lois doesn't really put up much of a fight, but with Peter, why would you bother?  He'll do whatever he wants whenever he wants.  You could say the same about Homer Simpson, maybe, but I feel like Peter is even more selfish and random about the sorts of endeavors he choose to do.  Anyway, Peter ultimately drops Tom for James Woods (not him again--damnit!!), who later drops Peter.  It's amazing how boring his little time in Hollywood was.  There was nothing really glamorous or funny about it.

What was mildly brow-raising was Chris dating a girl that looked just like Lois.  Um...was this the week for mommy issues, Seth MacFarlane?  Lois is oblivious for a while until Bonnie points it out again (because when Stewie and Brian talk, you have to ignore them).  I'm surprised that things turned out all right without it getting too weird or emotions bubbling over dramatically like this show is known for.  However, all it took was a talk with Chris (about his girlfriend's infidelity), and Lois set him straight.  Huh.

The little twist that made me gasp (if it's a good Family Guy episode, there's at least two of them) was that Lindsay's rebound guy after Chris was Quagmire.  He had her dressed in Lois' clothes.  Oh, God.  I should have seen that coming, but I didn't.  And apparently he had been using Mort as a Lois substitute before her.  Man.  Quagmire is such a creeper.

I hate saying this, but we needed more Stewie and Brian.  Or Peter's adventure needs to be grander and stupider.  This one was just selfish and boring.  And we don't need any guest stars unless they are going to be in the cutaway scenes.  Please, Family Guy, no more James Woods!