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Family Guy Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Road to the Multiverse
Tue, Sep 29, 200930 mins
Brian and Stewie explore a series of alternate universes.
Episode 2
Family Goy
Sun, Oct 4, 200930 mins
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 way things were.
Episode 3
Spies Reminiscent of Us
Sun, Oct 11, 200930 mins
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
Fri, Nov 13, 200922 mins
Brian becomes the laughing stock of the family when he begins dating an older woman, but things get worse when she breaks her hip and he has to be her errand-boy.
Episode 5
Hannah Banana
Fri, Nov 13, 200930 mins
When Stewie scores tickets to a famous teen pop singer's concert, he ends up meeting and becoming great friends with her, but things get weird when he discovers one of her darkest secrets. Meanwhile, Chris tries to prove to the family that the Evil Monkey is real.
Episode 6
Quagmire's Baby
Sun, Nov 15, 200922 mins
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
Sun, Nov 22, 200930 mins
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 black man - let alone anyone - once had a relationship with Lois, and he demands an end to the friendship, Lois of course refusing. One night, a drunken Peter, fuming over Jerome, throws a beer bottle through the window of his house, knocking over a lamp and sparking a fire that destroys his house. The next morning, Peter learns that Lois invited Jerome to stay with the family until he can find a new place to live. Peter is unable to contain his jealousy, and after a series of pratfalls - including Jerome using "alternate methods" to save Lois from choking when the Heimlich doesn't work; and later, Peter wearing a KKK outfit and carrying a flaming torch - he eventually kicks Jerome out. That night, Lois tells Peter that she is disgusted with him, and shows him a present that Jerome bought him in gratitude for their friendship and giving him a temporary place to live. Peter realizes that he nearly ruined a promising friendship and goes to the Drunken Clam to apologize; Jerome accepts the apology. In the subplot, Brian seeks to find out why Quagmire acts so coolly distant with him. After several attempts to start a friendship with Quagmire fail, Quagmire speaks his mind about Brian, telling him - in essence - that he thinks he is a phony, pretentious, hypocritical, judgmental and vain individual. Brian is deeply hurt by all this, but Stewie (of all people) soothes Brian over, basically telling him that he doesn't need Quagmire.
Episode 8
Dog Gone
Sun, Nov 29, 200930 mins
After accidentally killing another dog and surprised that no one cares, Brian tries to convince everyone that dogs should have the same value as humans.
Episode 9
Business Guy
Thu, Dec 17, 200930 mins
After Carter suffers a heart attack that renders him comatose, Peter takes control of Pewterschmidt Industries. Peter quickly becomes power hungry and makes a series of horrendously bad decisions that threaten the company's survival, forcing Lois and a recovering Carter to intervene. becomes power hungry, however, causing Lois and her father to trick him into relinquishing control of the company
Episode 10
Big Man on Hippocampus
Sun, Jan 3, 201030 mins
The Griffins are invited to be contestants on the game show "Family Feud." After winning the game and advancing to the show's bonus round (called Fast Money), Lois puts the Griffins in prime position to win the game, but Peter bungles the opportunity when he stubbornly refuses to change his answer to the first question. Host Richard Dawson tries to remind Peter of the rules, but when Peter continues to argue and grabs Dawson, he gets pushed through a podium on the set and is knocked unconscious. At the hospital, Dr. Hartman tells Lois that Peter has amnesia. At home, Lois has to re-teach Peter everything about his life, including re-introducing him to his friends and family and menial skills such as eating, driving and sex. After the latter, Peter realizes that he enjoys sex and believes he can sleep with any woman. When Peter introduces Tiffani Amber Thiessen to Lois, she loses patience with her husband and moves herself and the rest of the family out to sort out her feelings. Quagmire learns that Lois has moved out of her house and begins to court her. Brian realizes what is about to happen and warns Peter, only to learn that Peter had regained his memory but didn't tell anybody. (Peter had regained his memory after being clubbed on the head repeatedly by his nemesis, Ernie the Giant Chicken, and had kept quiet since he enjoyed his new bachelor life so much). Peter eventually walks in on Quagmire and Lois as they are engaged in foreplay, and Peter apologizes for his recent behavior and calls on her to come home. Lois accepts, and the two leave Quagmire behind, wondering what's going on.
Episode 11
Dial Meg for Murder
Sun, Jan 31, 201030 mins
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
Sun, Feb 14, 201030 mins
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!
Sun, Mar 14, 201030 mins
Stewie poses as a girl so that he can appear on Jolly Farm, and falls for a female co-star; Peter makes Lois feel bad about her age.
Episode 14
Peter-assment
Sun, Mar 21, 201030 mins
After Peter has some luck selling footage of a celebrity he caught off-guard, he decides to become a full-time paparazzo. To make matters worse, his new boss, Angela, finds him irresistible and plagues him with unwanted advances. When Peter rebuffs her, he winds up getting the ax. Meanwhile, Stewie makes his theatrical debut in a school play, only to be overcome with stage fright.
Episode 15
Brian Griffin's House of Payne
Sun, Mar 28, 201022 mins
CBS turns Brian's pilot for a heartwarming drama into a sitcom starring James Woods; Meg and Chris try to hide Stewie's accidental head injury.
Episode 16
April in Quahog
Sat, Apr 17, 201030 mins
Peter spends more time with Meg, Lois and the Guys instead of Stewie, Brian and Chris during an apocalypse which was a later found out it was prank. Meg and Lois try to help Peter get the Chris, Stewie and Brian back after he hurt them by calling them boring.
Episode 17
Brian & Stewie
Tue, May 4, 201030 mins
In the special 30-minute 150th episode, Brian and Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) get locked in a bank vault overnight where they are forced to deal with each other on a whole new level. This episode is unique in that there are no cut-away gags or sub-plots; just one extended 30 minute sequence taking place inside the vault where both characters explore life, values and their unique relationship.
Episode 18
Quagmire's Dad
Sun, May 9, 201030 mins
Quagmire's father, Dan, comes to Quahog for a visit. Peter and Joe meet him, hoping to learn what makes Dan's son tick, but they soon suspect that he might be a homosexual and share their suspicions with Quagmire. At a Naval ball held in Dan's honor (where naval officers lace their praise with double-entendre statements), Quagmire finally confronts his father and learns that he is "a woman trapped in a man's body" and is planning to have a sex-reassignment operation. Quagmire is deeply upset by this, and - despite the surgery being a success, Dan emerging as an attractive blonde woman named Ida, and his friends' support - Quagmire can't accept his father's new identity. Ida decides she and Quagmire need time apart and leaves for a hotel. Meanwhile, Brian has been out of town attending a seminar on creating a Web series and is unaware of what has transpired. On his way home, Brian stops at a hotel bar, where this subplot begins to merge with the main plot. Brian meets Ida, the two quickly develop a relationship, and after both get drunk, they retire to Ida's room to have sex. The next morning, Brian returns home and tells Peter and Lois he has met a woman named Ida, showing pictures of her that he took with his cellular telephone. Peter and Lois break out in hysterical laughter, unable to reveal the truth about Ida; Brian chalks up this reaction to jealousy. Later, while talking about Ida, Stewie reveals that Ida used to be a man; Brian becomes violently ill and traumatized at this realization and begins to shower compulsively, to cleanse himself of this experience. Meanwhile, Ida returns home hoping for one last chance to explain things to Quagmire. This time, Quagmire - who has also sorted out his emotions - is more accepting, and the two reconcile. Ida then reveals that she has met someone. When Quagmire hears that it is Brian, he becomes outraged, barges into the Griffin home, immediately finds Brian trying to hide under the bed and beats into a bloody pulp. Brian gets in a profanity-laced parting shot, admitting to Quagmire he had sex with his "dad."
Episode 19
The Splendid Source
Sun, May 16, 201030 mins
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.
Episode 20
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Tue, May 25, 201044 mins
Peter makes good on another power outage at home by retelling Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Episode 21
Partial Terms of Endearment
23 mins
Lois meets up with an old friend, Naomi Robinson, at a college reunion event. Naomi requests Lois to do her a favor and to come to her house to discuss the matter. After Peter jumps to a series of conclusions about the "favor", Lois is asked to become a surrogate mother, as Naomi and her husband are unable to conceive a child of their own. Although Peter is upset, Lois agrees and the in vitro fertilization is performed. Peter tries several attempts to attack Lois and cause her to have a miscarriage, before confronting her one-on-one. Lois stands her ground, but then she and Peter learn that the Robinsons were killed in a car accident. Lois is devastated and, after a consultation with a family planning counselor, ultimately decides to terminate the pregnancy. However, as Peter is leaving the clinic, he is accosted by anti-abortion activists urging him to change his mind about aborting the baby; again, Lois stands her ground. That night, Peter and Lois argue their points abortion.
