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20 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Season 16 of the animated series opens with Peter trying to make "Family Guy" similar to other award-winning shows in order to win an Emmy. Later the family gets a nanny for the kids so that Peter and Lois can focus on their relationship, Chris loses a valuable item, Meg takes up drinking, Brian gets kicked out of the house because of a racist tweet, and Stewie is forced to speak to a psychologist. Among the guest voice actors for the season are Danny Trejo, Ian MacKellen, Bill Maher, and Louis C.K.
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 1, 2017 25 mins
The Season 16 premiere finds Peter, who's tired of not winning an Emmy, embarking on his own "For Your Consideration" campaign for "Family Guy" by making the show more like Emmy-winning shows—and no category is off limits.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 8, 2017 30 mins
Peter becomes friends with a cool, handsome paramedic named Stryker Foxx. Wrapped up in his newfound "coolness", he soon dumps Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland.
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 15, 2017 30 mins
The Griffins get a nanny for the kids, courtesy of Lois' parents, which gives Peter and Lois the opportunity to reconnect.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 22, 2017 30 mins
After Chris gets a special dollar bill for his birthday and quickly loses it, the dollar gets passed from character to character throughout Quahog.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 5, 2017 30 mins
In a special anthology-style episode, Peter gets fired from his job at the brewery in the signature styles of three famous Hollywood film directors.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 12, 2017 30 mins
When Brian posts an offensive tweet that goes viral and the rest of the Griffins are also treated as outcasts, he's forced to move out of the Griffin house.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 19, 2017 30 mins
On Thanksgiving weekend, Peter discovers an alternate ending in the Russian version of one of his favourite films and writes to Vladimir Putin, who comes to Quahog. Meanwhile, a strapped-for-cash Brian gets a job at a suicide hotline centre and attempts to strike up a romance with a co-worker.
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 3, 2017 30 mins
Peter encourages Meg to attend a high-school party, where she takes up drinking, which both concerns and delights her father. Meanwhile, Brian begins spying on his neighbours and suspects Principal Shepherd of a crime.
Episode 9
Sun, Dec 10, 2017 30 mins
In this special holiday episode, a selfish Peter loses his Christmas spirit and is visited by ghosts of Christmas past, present and future who take him on a journey around Quahog in the style of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 30 mins
At the vet's office, Brian meets a female show dog named Ellie. Smitten with her, he enters a show dog competition in which the winner gets to breed with her. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois go to extreme measures to try to convince Chris that "Arthur Valentine" doesn't exist.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 14, 2018 30 mins
Stewie and Brian get into a friendship-ending fight after Brian commits a terrible act to one of Stewie's beloved toys. Meanwhile, Peter refuses to wash his hand after meeting his favourite breakfast cereal mascot, Boo Berry. The series' 300th episode.
Episode 12
Sun, Mar 18, 2018 30 mins
Stewie gets sent to see his school's child psychologist, Dr Cecil Pritchfield, for a surprising session, which causes Stewie to reveal major, never-before-told secrets about himself.
Episode 13
Sun, Mar 25, 2018 30 mins
In a Dickensian-themed episode, Stewie and Brian are detectives who embark on solving a string of mysterious murders set in Victorian-era London.
Episode 14
Sun, Apr 1, 2018 30 mins
After Peter and the guys get caught pretending to be military veterans and are found guilty of the Stolen Valour Act, a judge sentences them to join the US Coast Guard.
Episode 15
Sun, Apr 8, 2018 30 mins
Brian convinces Stewie to teach him how to invest in the stock market after learning Stewie has a knack for making money from it. Meanwhile, Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe look after the Drunken Clam while Jerome is away.
Episode 16
Sun, Apr 22, 2018 30 mins
"Family Guy" is reimagined as a series that's been on the air for 60 years and, in a special retrospective, it looks back at the cultural events and issues that were tackled on the show in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
Episode 17
Sun, Apr 29, 2018 30 mins
To help get Brian's life in order, Stewie and Brian swap bodies using a machine that Stewie invents, but chaos quickly ensues around Quahog when the machine goes haywire.
Episode 18
Sun, May 6, 2018 30 mins
To help promote the brewery to millennials, Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle, and his methods soon attract the attention of a high-powered Silicon Valley executive.
Episode 19
Sun, May 13, 2018 30 mins
Quagmire's most treasured body part gets cut off in a freak accident and he is forced to learn how to live without it. Meanwhile, Stewie and Brian search for Mort after learning there is a $10,000 reward for turning him into the police for his involvement in a drug scam.
Episode 20
Sun, May 20, 2018 30 mins
The Season 16 finale: After Peter falls into a coma, Peter meets God face-to-face, which leads him to ask some of life's tough questions.