Family Guy (season 19)

Family Guy's nineteenth season debuted on Fox on September 27, 2020.[1][2][3]

Family Guy
Season 19
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Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes10
Release
Original networkFox
Original releaseSeptember 27, 2020 (2020-09-27) –
present
Season chronology

Season nineteen premiered the run of the eighteenth production season, which was 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 reprise their roles as the series' showrunners.

This season contains the series’ 350th episode, which is also the season premiere.

Production

Casting

On June 26, 2020, Mike Henry announced that he would no longer voice the African American character Cleveland Brown, after Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell announced in the wake of the George Floyd protests that they would no longer voice their mixed-race characters on Big Mouth and Central Park.[4] Actor Wendell Pierce launched a campaign to become Henry's replacement.[5] It was later announced on September 25, 2020 that YouTube personality Arif Zahir, who is known for voicing Cleveland in several videos, will be the new voice for the character. Henry will still voice the character in some episodes made before the recasting.[6]

Release

The season premiered on September 27, 2020.[7] The season will be airing on Sundays as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, along with The Simpsons, Bless the Harts, and Bob's Burgers.

The season premiered on ITV2 in the UK on October 26, 2020.

Episodes
See also: List of Family Guy episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [8]Directed byWritten byOriginal air date [8]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
3501"Stewie's First Word"Mike KimPatrick MeighanSeptember 27, 2020 (2020-09-27)JACX191.86[9]
While at church, when Stewie learns that the Wi-Fi is bad and they are not giving out cookies, he drops an F-bomb, which everyone at church somehow hears, causing Lois to be shunned by the entire town. Brian and Stewie begin to consider it had to do with him shouting his true feelings. Wondering where Stewie could have heard what she believes is his first word, Lois initially suspects television, but Brian points out that all Stewie watches now is Caillou, which she learns has no curse words, just odd dialogue. She then guesses Peter to be the source of Stewie swearing, and waxes the stairs for him to fall down (again), though Peter only shouts proper terms as he has been hanging out with Caillou's beta dad. When Lois eventually discovers herself to be the root of Stewie's profanity, she goes to a rehabilitation facility, where she gets scolded for using the F-word as her meditation mantra, and decides to accept her swearing habits and states she is fine how she is. Meanwhile, Peter tries to bond with Stewie, but ends up getting drunk on Lois' frozen booze and pelting him with rocks using the lawnmower. When Lois returns home, Stewie says "Mommy!" — which Lois unsuccessfully attempts to catch on video a few times. Brian thinks Stewie is finally over his desire to kill Lois, but Stewie tells him that it was a trick.
3512"The Talented Mr. Stewie"Greg ColtonGary JanettiOctober 4, 2020 (2020-10-04)JACX201.36[10]
Stewie dumps Rupert when he learns he used to belong to Chris. He tries to get revenge by getting a new teddy bear and then a toy giraffe, but neither helps him feel better. After taking a spiritual journey, Stewie concludes he must kill Chris and Rupert. Stewie lures Chris to a lake house he rented and knocks him out. He fights Chris in the rowboat while discussing The Talented Mr. Ripley and that it is not an Alfred Hitchcock film. Stewie knocks Chris out and into the water. Using the nanny cam he put in Rupert earlier to keep an eye on him and Chris, Stewie learns Chris was going to give him back. After a few unsuccessful tries, Stewie manages to save Chris. As the latter recovers in the hospital, they agree to never reveal what happened.
3523"Boys & Squirrels"Joe VauxSteve CallaghanOctober 11, 2020 (2020-10-11)KACX021.48[11]
Peter chops down a tree with a chainsaw, leaving a young squirrel orphaned, which Chris and Stewie decide to raise together. Peter goes to Dr. Hartman and gets chiropractic therapy, making him taller. Depressed, he seeks Lois' help and she is able to shrink him by verbally abusing him. Meanwhile, after Chris and Stewie's squirrel recovers, they try to shoot a video of its first steps, only for Brian to snatch and maul it to death. After the funeral, Chris starts to pack the squirrel's things away but this triggers an argument and blame game between him and Stewie. They end up going for counseling with Bruce, and work out most of their issues. At Christmas, Stewie retrieves the mail and finds a Christmas card that they had sent with their picture with the squirrel, causing him to break down in tears.
3534"Cutawayland"Brian IlesPatrick MeighanNovember 1, 2020 (2020-11-01)KACX011.83[12]
While spending a day on the beach with their children, Lois and Peter try to find a secluded spot to have sex, but keep getting interrupted by the children. At home, when Brian and the kids annoy them again, the two yell at them and do a cutaway joke simultaneously, causing them to be sent into the cutaway. They soon understand they have been teleported to an alternate universe where all the show's cutaways reside and new ones are made, which Peter dubs "cutawayland". They also learn it takes two people to send them to cutawayland and one person to move them around cutaways by creating one or mentioning a previous one. While Brian and the kids call Joe to find Peter and Lois, the two enjoy their time in cutawayland, until the latter decides she wants to return to their family and persuades Peter to do the same. However, they instead cause the rest of the family to be teleported into cutawayland as well. Unable to return home or change cutaways, Peter calls Joe for help. Joe does some research online and discovers that, in order to return home, they must go back to the very first cutaway of the show and kill Adolf Hitler. Meg decapitates him, allowing them to return home. It is revealed that Peter fell asleep while at the beach and the entire adventure was a dream.
3545"La Famiglia Guy"John HolmquistAlex CarterNovember 8, 2020 (2020-11-08)KACX031.52[13]
The Griffins attend Susie's christening at an Italian restaurant, during which Joe asks Peter to be Susie's godfather. Mistaking the term for the title used by the Mafia, Peter begins acting like a Don, after scaring the restaurant staff, who give him anything he wants. Three times in the episode, Brian does something that angers Peter, Chris and Stewie leading them to kill him twice and almost kill him once in different ways seen in the Mafia movies. He later recruits Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland into his crew, and together they run various rackets and run afoul of the real Mafia. Peter tries to call Chris, whom he sent to Italy earlier in the episode, to tell him the mafia might go after him separately seconds before Chris' new wife dies in a car bombing. Joe then devises a plan to take down the Mafia bosses. While attending a meeting with other Mafia Dons in Quahog, Peter wears a wire, but blows his cover when the Dons decide to go out for karaoke. Peter is saved when Joe and his men storm the meeting to apprehend everyone in attendance. One of the Dons takes Peter and Joe hostage, but they are rescued when a jar of Prego spaghetti sauce guns down their captor. As the Griffins return to their normal life, Brian admits to drinking Lois' last bottle of wine. While the two have a walk in the woods, Lois tells Brian that she does not watch Mafia films, and kills him in a Fargo-inspired fashion by throwing him into a wood chipper.
3556"Meg's Wedding"Steve RobertsonMike DesiletsNovember 15, 2020 (2020-11-15)KACX051.79[14]
Unable to secure a date for a school dance, Meg instead hangs out at the bowling alley with her friend and shoe rental guy Bruce. They build up a relationship, but Lois is concerned that Bruce, who has always been shown to be attracted to men, does not love her. She tries to convince Meg to break up with him. Under pressure from his parents, Bruce later proposes to Meg, who accepts. At Bruce and Meg's wedding, Lois finally decides to accept their relationship, but Meg realizes Bruce is gay and that he is not happy and encourages him to reveal his homosexuality to his parents. Bruce then proposes to his boyfriend Jeffrey, and the two get married by Peter after the priest was unable to marry them because they were gay.
3567"Wild Wild West"Jerry LangfordKirker ButlerNovember 22, 2020 (2020-11-22)KACX081.68[15]
Since the death of Mayor Adam West, Quahog has been left in rough shape. Lois chooses a librarian named Elle Hitler (who quoted "No relation" after her introduction) to run for office. Upset Lois would choose a third tier character, Peter tries to persuade West's cousin, the rugged cowboy Wild West (voiced by Sam Elliott[16]) from a cigar commercial, to do so. While West initially declines, he arrives in Quahog on the day of the nomination and accepts Peter's offer. Lois is irritated that Peter only approached West to become mayor because he is a man, so to make amends, Peter takes her to spend a few days with him and West at the latter's mustache farm. To Peter's joy, this ends up working, but while having sex with her later, Lois calls out West's name. This prompts Peter to try to make West lose the election. First he tries to support Hitler, yet she is a basket case who likes Garfield more than Peter. Then, he tries to destroy West's mustache in his sleep, yet is unable to because the roots are strong. This leads to Peter getting beat up by Wild. Finally, he tries to vandalize the library and frame West for it. While vandalizing, he accidentally sets the library on fire with a branding iron, leaving Hitler trapped inside, but West arrives in time to rescue her using levitation which he said he had yet no one believed him because he never demonstrated. After winning the election with a very low turnout, West makes amends with Peter by gifting him a basket of baby mustaches, and ends the episode with a song alongside the Griffins, Peter's friends and various animals, a few from past episodes.
3578"Pawtucket Pat"Julius WuAlex CarterDecember 6, 2020 (2020-12-06)KACX071.43[17]
Brian gets a job at a news website called the Hog. After writing various articles, he does some research about Quahog's town hero and brewery founder Pawtucket Pat, and finds his diary, which reveals that his famous beer recipe was stolen from the local Indian tribe, whom he killed to keep the secret. Once Brian publishes his findings, a protest is held to determine the fate of Pawtucket Pat's statue. Numerous townspeople, including Peter, want to keep it, so a frustrated Brian, who wants it removed and cannot get support to do so, decides to take matter into his own hands. Alongside Stewie, he tries to tow it away, but ends up ripping his car in half. Despite this setback, his actions have the desired result, as the statue falls into a river. The following day, while Stewie fears that he and Brian might go to jail and has trouble keeping the secret, the two opposing forces meet near the statue's original location and prepare to clash, when they are stopped by the Indians, who are upset that nobody asked for their opinion on their entire ordeal and make them aware that there are bigger issues at hand than just the statue. The two sides eventually make peace as the statue is recovered from the river and put on display at the museum, where no one will likely see it ever again.
3589"The First No L"Joseph LeeDamien FaheyDecember 13, 2020 (2020-12-13)KACX061.84[18]
Lois tells the family that unlike usual Christmases, they will be helping with the Christmas shopping while she gets everything else ready. They end up at the strip mall because Peter did not fill up the gas tank and fail to get anything, much to Lois' anger. Peter rushes out the door and jumps in the car to get presents and a tree, but falls asleep and dreams he bought a tree and saved their Christmas. A furious Lois leaves, claiming she needs to spend Christmas with her cousin in Cabo. The Griffins decide to try and do Christmas themselves, but find it harder than they thought, while Lois secretly spies on them from a nearby motel. In the night, Peter manages to decorate the roof in a rage, giving the family hope. A jealous Lois breaks into the house on Christmas Eve and then steals the presents and tree in the style of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. The Griffins wake up to no presents and Lois returns dressed like she was in Mexico. The family is sad but revealed they made her a long heartfelt note about how much they care for her, and gift her a poorly made bowl the family crafted together. Lois loves it and hugs the family and thanks them, and does not reveal she stole the gifts.
35910"Fecal Matters"Mike Kim & Dominic BianchiArtie JohannJanuary 17, 2021 (2021-01-17)JACX093.22[19]
Peter volunteers as a nurse in the hospital when he is the only Griffin to not catch the flu during an outbreak. He is confronted by a moral dilemma when he learns that Ernie the Giant Chicken is on the verge of dying in hospice as his wife left him for a bigger rooster. Peter eventually decides to save him, not wanting to take full responsibility for the destruction caused by their many fights and believing that having a nemesis makes his own life more exciting. Meanwhile, Brian takes a 23andMe test and learns that he is 1% cat, making him question his lifestyle. After Brian gets severely injured in a failed attempt to land on his feet trying to prove his claim to Quagmire, Stewie assures Brian that his genetic makeup does not matter, as long as others appreciate him for who he is.
36011"Boy's Best Friend"TBASteve CallaghanFebruary 14, 2021 (2021-02-14)KACX09TBD
36112"And Then There's Fraud"TBAKevin BigginsFebruary 21, 2021 (2021-02-21)KACX10TBD
36213"PeTerminator"TBATBAFebruary 28, 2021 (2021-02-28)TBATBD

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