Family Guy Season 8 Episode Guide
Family Guy's eighth season first aired on the Fox network in twenty episodes from September 27, 2009 to May 23, 2010 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family-father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The eighth season, which premiered with the episode "Road to the Multiverse" and ended with "Partial Terms of Endearment", was produced by Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan as well as series creator Seth MacFarlane along with showrunners Hentemann and Callaghan.
Episode 1: Road to the Multiverse
In a take off of the scifi show “Sliders” (1995-2000), Stewie and Brian travel to different versions of Quahog.
Episode 2: Family Goy
When Lois finds a lump on her breast, she goes to the doctor to test for cancer. The tests come back benign, but the doctor looks at her family medical history and reveals some news about Lois’ heritage. Peter takes to the family’s newfound faith eagerly, but when he is visited by the ghost of his father, he changes his tune. After a visit from an old friend sets him straight, Peter and Lois agree to go back to the [...]
Episode 3: Spies Reminiscent of Us
Stewie and Brian are suspicious when two guys move into Cleveland’s old house, and when they find out Dan and Chevy are spies and they have dossiers of all the people in Quahog they follow them on a mission to Russia and end up in hot water.
Episode 4: Brian’s Got a Brand New Bag
When Brian snags an older woman, he’s the laughingstock of the family, but things get really bad when she breaks her hip and Brian has to be her errand-boy.
Episode 5: Hannah Banana
Stewie attends a concert of a teen superstar and discovers a surprising secret about the singer. Meanwhile back at home, Chris tries to prove to the family that the Evil Monkey is real.
Episode 6: Quagmire’s Baby
When Quagmire assumes responsibility for a baby who looks just like him, he quickly realizes he may be in over his head. Meanwhile, Stewie clones himself in order to have a personal assistant.
Episode 7: Jerome Is the New Black
Peter, Joe and Quagmire are depressed over their previous foursome still being a threesome, months after Cleveland’s departure. The group decides to begin “auditioning” for a replacement to round out their group, and eventually settle on a smooth-jiving black man named Jerome. Peter hits it off with Jerome, until learning that Lois dated Jerome 20 years earlier. To Peter, it could just have well have been yesterday, and he soon develops an angry, jealous fit over the thought that a [...]
Episode 8: Dog Gone
When Brian accidentally kills another dog, he is surprised to see that no one cares, so he tries to convince everyone that the life of a dog should have the same value as a human one. Meanwhile, Lois hires a maid who doesn’t listen to Peter.
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Peter makes good on another power outage at home – by entertaining his family with a retelling of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Newcomers to the story include Mort as Lando Calrissian, Chris’ boss Carl as Yoda, and the Giant Chicken as the nefarious Boba Fett.
Episode 9: Business Guy
When Peter gives Lois’ father the bachelor party he never had, Mr. Pewterschmidt slips into a coma and not even Dr. House (guest voice Laurie) can bring him out of it. With her father incapacitated,Lois is given control ofPewterschmidt Industries. Peter convinces Lois to let him run the operation, but he gets power-hungry and fires the board. Mr. Pewterschmidt soon bounces back and tries to regain control of what he’s built – even though it may be more difficult than [...]
Episode 10: Big Man on Hippocampus
After Peter hits his head and develops amnesia, he forgets everything, including his family and his friends. Lois takes extra care of Peter and tries everything to jog his memory and until he starts hitting on other women. Fed up with his antics, Lois takes the kids and leaves, giving Quagmire his opportunity to swoop in and score.
Episode 11: Dial Meg for Murder
Brian gets a gig writing for a teen magazine about the average American girl, but when he starts trailing Meg for research he discovers that her desperate attempts at dating have led her to a guy in the slammer. When Brian tries to expose Meg’s secret to the family, he finds that her boyfriend, Luke, has broken out of jail and has been hiding in the Griffin’s house.
Episode 12: Extra Large Medium
When Chris and Stewie go missing for several days, Lois is at her wit’s end until she sees a psychic who assures her they are safe. Even after the boys return home, Lois and Peter’s psychic obsession continues, and Peter takes it a step too far when he starts charging neighbors for his extrasensory perception. Meanwhile, Chris develops a crush on a girl at school.
Episode 13: Go, Stewie, Go!
Stewie pulls a “Tootsie” and cross-dresses in order to star in the American version of Jolly Farm Revue. Meanwhile, Peter makes Lois feel bad about her age, and she gets a bit jealous of Meg’s new boyfriend.
Episode 14: Peter-assment
Peter and Lois go to watch first Stewie’s musical and record it on camera. Instead, Peter records Richard Dreyfus. He sent the tape to TV and got paid for it, so he decided to become full-time paparazzi.
Episode 15: Brian Griffin’s House of Payne
Lois encourages Brian to submit his pilot script to a network but Brian is shocked after he sees what Peter and Brian’s arch-enemy, James Woods has done to his new show.
Episode 16: April in Quahog
After it’s announced that the Apocalypse is coming in 24 hours, everyone in Quahog tries to live out their last day to the fullest.
Episode 17: Brian and Stewie
In the “celebrated” 150th episode Brian and Stewie get locked in a bank vault, they are forced to deal with each other on a whole new level. Unlike any other Family Guy episode, the acts will play out in real time as Brian and Stewie react to being locked in a small space with no baby food or martinis to keep them from losing their minds while they create an escape plan.
Episode 18: Quagmire’s Dad
Quagmire gets the surprise of his life on Mother’s Day, when his father starts to go through the change of his life.
Episode 19: The Splendid Source
Peter, Quagmire and Joe search to find the source of all dirty jokes leads them to Virginia, where they reunite with Cleveland and meet his new family.
Partial Terms of Endearment (Banned Episode)
A friend asks Lois to be a surrogate mother, and she agrees. But when her friend unexpectedly dies, Lois isn’t sure what to do. This episode has been refused by FOX to air on television in the US. It will appear on BBC3 in the UK for it’s premier.
