Family Guy Season 4 Episode Guide
Family Guy's fourth season aired from May 1, 2005 to May 21, 2006. The season consisted of thirty episodes. The first half of the season is included within the Volume Three DVD box set, which was released on November 29, 2005 and the second half is included within the Volume Four DVD box set, which was released on November 14, 2006. Season 4 was split into seasons 4 and 5 in regions outside the United States, leading to confusion over season numbers between US and Australian/UK fans. The last three episodes of season 4 were the basis for the movie known as Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, and are edited for content; Fox does not include these episodes in the official episode count.
Episode 1: North by North Quahog
Worried that their love life is growing routine, Peter and Lois decide to try going on a second honeymoon, and manage to sneak into Mel Gibson’s personal suite at a fancy new hotel. While there, they discover film for a horrible new movie Mel is producing, and decide that it must be destroyed before he can release it. Meanwhile, Chris is caught drinking at a school party, and it’s up to Stewie and Brian to discipline him.
Episode 2: Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High
Chris’ new English teacher turns out to be a seductive young woman. When she begins returning the attention Chris shows her, he finds himself falling in love with her. The teacher’s intentions, however, extend far beyond simple romance. Meanwhile, Brian gets a job as a substitute teacher and is assigned to a class of gang thugs. Somehow, he must find a way to inspire them to learn.
Episode 3: Blind Ambition
Quagmire gets caught spying on Lois in a public toilet and is forced to confront his sex addiction. In the course of his recovery he saves a woman’s life and is hailed as a hero. Jealous of Quagmire’s new fame, Peter hatches a plan to get into the world records book by swallowing the most nickels. Unfortunately, swallowing so many coins has a side effect that Peter hasn’t counted on.
Episode 4: Don’t Make Me Over
Meg receives a free makeover from a TV station and becomes beautiful. When the Griffin family starts a band, the producer decides to put the now-gorgeous Meg at the front and promote her as the star. Meg comes to believe the hype about her and feels that the rest of the family is holding her back. When they go to New York to perform on Saturday Night Live, will Meg’s ego get her in trouble?
Episode 5: The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire
While looking around town for someone to rescue, Peter bursts into Cleveland’s house, only to catch Loretta having sex with another man. After investigating through the neighborhood, they discover that Quagmire has betrayed his best friend by sleeping with his wife. Loretta leaves Cleveland, and Peter and Lois are left trying to help their friend learn how to be more assertive with others.
Episode 6: Petarded
After winning a game of trivial pursuit, Peter becomes convinced that he’s a genius. Brian gets tired of his friend’s gloating and tells Peter to apply for a MacArthur grant. When the results come back, we learn that not only is Peter not a genius, he’s actually mentally disabled. While being a ward of the state has some advantages which he’s abuse, Peter learns that his actions have consequences.
Episode 7: Brian the Bachelor
Brian decides to take a break from things by auditioning for a TV show called “The Bachelorette” in which a beautiful model picks her true love from a pack of hopefuls. While he’s first skeptical of the program, he discovers the bachelorette is actually an intelligent and interesting woman, and begins to fall for her. Chris meanwhile, is occupied with talking to his new pimple, but the zit is determined to get him into trouble.
Episode 8: 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter
When Peter learns that Mort’s pharmacy runs a tab system, he goes crazy buying everything he can get his hands on. Unfortunately, he doesn’t realize that he eventually has to pay for everything, and ends up thousands of dollars in debt. Peter makes an offer to sell Meg to Mort’s son Neil in exchange for canceling the debt. Mort agrees, but Neil has already found a new girlfriend. Stewie, meanwhile, falls in love with his new babysitter.
Episode 9: Breaking Out Is Hard to Do
Lois starts finding herself compelled to steal things from stores, getting an almost sexual rush from breaking the law. She eventually gets caught, however, and is sent to prison. Unable to cope without her, the family decides to break her out of jail. On the run from the law, they try to make a new life for themselves while hiding out in Asiantown.
Episode 10: Model Misbehavior
After a yacht race that the Griffins win through disobeying Lois’ father, Lois decides to fulfill her dream of being a model, which her father never allowed. After she begins partying and using drugs, it is up to Peter and Lois’ father to bring her back.
Episode 11: Peter’s Got Woods
Brian falls for an African-American teacher at Chris’ high school, and tries to impress her by pushing to have the school renamed from James Woods High to Martin Luther King, Jr. High. Peter, not wanting to see the name changed, brings James Woods himself to speak at the school board meeting. Things go further than expected, however, when Woods takes Brian’s place in the household as Peter’s best friend and the family pet.
Episode 12: The Perfect Castaway
While on a deep sea fishing trip, Peter, Joe, Cleveland, & Quagmire are left stranded on an island after a hurricane. After being pronounced dead, Brian decides to take Peter’s place as the man of the house and even marries Lois. Upon his return Peter is informed that even though he is back Lois isn’t leaving Brian. So now Peter attempts to win her back.
Episode 13: Jungle Love
To avoid Freshman hazing, Chris runs away to South America to join the Peace Corp. When Peter and the family come to get him, Peter learns that he’s the richest man in the tribe and goes about exploiting the tribe.
Episode 14: PTV
After an incident at the Emmys the FCC overreacts and begins to censor anything and everything that may be viewed as unpleasant. So Peter gets the idea to start his own cable network dedicated to all of the “smut” television once offered. Lois, naturally being uncomfortable with this contacts the FCC who then shuts Peter down. Feeling that shutting him down is not enough the FCC then decides to begin censoring life.
Episode 15: Brian Goes Back to College
Brian lands a dream job at The New Yorker, but gets fired when it’s revealed that he dropped out of college. Frustrated, he decides to turn his life around by going back to school and finishing his degree. Peter and his buddies, meanwhile, win an 80’s TV look-alike contest dressed as the A-Team, and find that today’s world still has a place for a team of renegades who can get the job done.
Episode 16: The Courtship of Stewie’s Father
When Stewie’s day care instructor notes a lack of fatherly influence in his life, Lois insists that Peter take a more active role in raising his son. Not much works until Peter discovers how much Stewie enjoys it when Lois gets hurt, and soon the two are going to ever-greater lengths to torment and abuse her. Lois eventually puts her foot down, though, and Stewie feels betrayed when Peter agrees to knock it off. Can Peter ever make it up [...]
Episode 17: Fat Guy Strangler
Lois discovers that she has a brother, named Patrick, that her parents have been keeping in a mental hospital for years. He seems perfectly healthy when she goes to see him, however, so she arranges for him to be released and come live with her family. Patrick was hospitalized over trauma at catching his mother in bed with Jackie Gleason, and Peter’s appearance brings back the old memories, causing him to go on a killing spree of similarly fat men. [...]
Episode 18: The Father, the Son and the Holy Fonz
During one of his visits Peter’s father, Francis, discovers that Stewie has never been baptized, so without Lois’ permission Peter and Francis go to church and have him baptized. Upon discovering this, Lois convinces Peter that Stewie should have been able to worship whomever he wanted regardless of his father’s religion. Naturally Peter interprets Lois’ wisdom the wrong way so decides to start his own religious group that praises the television character, Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli.
Episode 19: Brian Sings & Swings
After a near-death experience (caused by Peter), Brian decides to live for the moment, and ends up joining (along with Stewie) Frank Sinatra Jr.’s stage show. Although things are great for them at first, Brian takes the hard living too far and nearly drinks himself to an early grave. Meg, meanwhile, finds a school group that wants her as a member, but it’s the Lesbian Alliance. How far is she willing to go to fit in?
Episode 20: Patriot Games
After quarterback Tom Brady witnesses Peter pummeling several people in order to get to the bathroom, he recruits him to play for the New England Patriots.
Episode 21: I Take Thee, Quagmire
Quagmire falls in love with and marries the Maid that Peter won on a game show only to find out that she’s a psycho and must figure out a way to get out of it.
Episode 22: Sibling Rivalry
Peter is set to have a vasectomy against his will, but has an accident at the sperm bank, which causes Stewie’s rival sibling to be born. Meanwhile, Lois gains weight after an angry Peter refuses to have sex with her anymore.
Episode 23: Deep Throats
While Meg interns for Mayor West, Brian uncovers a scandal; Peter and Lois decide to reunite their old groovy band.
Episode 24: Peterotica
Peter begins to write a novel, which gets him into trouble, for a certain reason. He has wrote the book under the name of Carter Puwterschmit, which gets him sued and left bank-rupt. Barbra leaves him, and Carter ends up living with Peter & Lois in there house.
Episode 25: You May Now Kiss the… Uh… Guy Who Receives
Brians gay cousin Jasper comes to town for a visit to see Brian. He then meets a guy he likes, but Mayor West won’t let them be married.
Episode 26: Petergeist
When Joe buys a new home theater system, Peter gets jealous and decides to build a multiplex movie theater in his back yard. But while doing so, he finds a human skull. It begins haunting the Griffin house, and Stewie gets sucked through a portal into the realm of the dead.
Episode 27: Untitled Griffin Family History
When burglars break into the house, the Griffins take cover in the attic where they discover Peter has built a ‘panic room’. They go in it, and Peter tells them about his history. They send Meg for food but the burglars catch her. The rest of the Griffins stay behind and Peter accidentally floods the room and they’re going to drown. Luckily Joe gets them out and we find out Meg has been accused of sexual harassment by the burglars.
Episode 29: Bango Was His Name, Oh
Stewie searches a man he saw on TV whom he believes is his real father.
Episode 30: Stu & Stewie’s Excellent Adventure
Stewie meets his future self, who lives a pathetic life.
