Family Guy Season 5 Episode Guide
Family Guy's fifth season first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 10, 2006 to May 20, 2007 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It premiered with the episode "Stewie Loves Lois" and finished with "Meet the Quagmires". The Family Guy series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the fifth season were David Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith and series creator Seth MacFarlane. The showrunner for the fifth season was Goodman.
Episode 1: Stewie Loves Lois
Stewie suddenly begins to appreciate everything his mother does for him and feels deeply affected to her. Lois is content at first, but as Stewie’s affection grows close to manic – with Stewie being on her back 24/7 and threatening Brian to stop hitting on her – she becomes worn out. Meanwhile, Peter goes to see his doctor to get a flu vaccine because of a current wave of infections. While there, his doctor finds out Peter has never had [...]
Episode 2: Mother Tucker
Peter’s mom starts dating TV anchor Tom Tucker, causing Peter to turn to him as the father figure he always wanted. And Brian and Stewie begin hosting their own raunchy radio program.
Episode 3: Hell Comes to Quahog
Meg takes a job at the local “superstore,” but the store causes Peter to lose his job and his electricity. So he becomes the store’s most vocal critic–until it offers him a job.
Episode 4: Saving Private Brian
Stewie and Brian join the army, go through basic training, and are sent to Iraq. Meanwhile, Chris becomes the lead singer of a rock band until Peter and Lois get Marilyn Manson to talk him out of it.
Episode 5: Whistle While Your Wife Works
Lois does Peter’s work at the brewery while he recovers from getting his fingers surgically reattached, and Brian doesn’t want the family to know that he’s dating an idiot.
Episode 6: Prick Up Your Ears
Lois becomes the high school sex ed teacher, but is fired for having “radical” views. So she is replaced by a Christian group that uses fear, misinformation and lies to promote abstinence.
Episode 7: Chick Cancer
Stewie tries to win over a retired child actress, and Peter becomes a fan of “chick movies” and makes his own.
Episode 8: Barely Legal
Meg can’t find a date to her junior prom, and even though he is dating Jillian, Brian ends up going with Meg. At the prom, Brian gets drunk to make the night pass, but ends up making out with Meg. Meg begins to think of Brian as her boyfriend and becomes obsessed with spending every moment with him. Meanwhile, Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire join the police force to help Brian.
Episode 9: Road to Rupert
Brian sells Rupert at a garage sale. Stewie, who is upset with Brian, takes him cross country to Colorado to find his beloved teddy, and ends up having a ski-off to win back Rupert. Meanwhile, Peter loses his license, so Meg has to drive him around.
Episode 10: Peter’s Two Dads
Peter and Lois upset Meg when they forget that her 17th birthday is a few days away. They hastily plan a birthday party that Meg complains she won’t want to be seen at. Peter gets drunk and makes a fool out of himself. Eventually, he dresses up as a hobo clown and attempts to drive a unicycle down a set of stairs, but he is unable to control the unicycle and falls over the banister, landing on top of his [...]
Episode 11: The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Peter becomes the neighborhood bully after trying to take care of Chris’s bully, and Stewie has a cancer scare after staying in the tanning bed too long.
Episode 12: Airport ‘07
Peter becomes a redneck and gets Quagmire fired. So the gang sets out to get Quagmire his job back.
Episode 13: Bill and Peter’s Bogus Journey
Peter’s attempts to become physically fit lead to a friendship with Bill Clinton, which inadvertently nearly destroys Peter & Lois’ marriage.
Episode 14: No Meals on Wheels
After Peter finds a valuable coin and sells it for $50,000, he and Lois open their own restaurant. Peter is dismayed, however, when Joe and all of his handicapped friends begin using the restaurant as their hangout, and bans them all. This leads to a huge showdown and an ironic fate for Peter.
Episode 15: Boys Do Cry
Lois gets a job as the church organist, so the family decides to begin going back to church. When Stewie gets sick after receiving communion, the congregation becomes convinced that he has been possessed by the devil. While on the run, the family ends up in Texas, where Peter begins to fit right in with the cowboys, Stewie enters the “Little Miss Texas” pageant, and Chris and Meg sneak into George W. Bush’s house.
Episode 16: No Chris Left Behind
After being expelled by his school for dragging down their average standardized test scores, Chris is accepted into a snobby private school, which forces his family to struggle to pay the tuition.
Episode 17: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One
Lois runs for mayor of Quahog, though she doesn’t become the front-runner until she dumbs down her political views. Once in office, she becomes corrupted with the power that she now holds, and begins accepting bribes so that she can buy herself expensive things. Meanwhile, Peter comes to enjoy being the “first lady” of Quahog, and all of the perks that go along with it.
Episode 18: Meet the Quagmires
Death grants Peter’s wish to go back in time to 1984 when he was 18, but only for one night. He end up bailing on a date with Lois to hang out with a movie actress. When he returns to the present, he soon realizes that everything is but normal, as he is now married to the former actress, and Lois is with Quagmire.
