List of Family Guy episodes
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Family Guy
is an American animated
comedy
created by Seth MacFarlane
for the Fox Broadcasting Company
. Since its debut on January 31, 1999, the show has broadcast 171 episodes and began airing its tenth season
on September 25, 2011. The series centers on the dysfunctional
Griffin family
, which consists of father Peter
(MacFarlane), mother Lois
(Alex Borstein
), daughter Meg
(Mila Kunis
; Lacey Chabert
, 1999), son Chris
(Seth Green
), baby Stewie
(MacFarlane) and Brian
(MacFarlane), the family pet. The show is set in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island
, and lampoons American culture, often in the form of cutaway gags, and tangential vignettes
.
The concept of Family Guy was conceived by MacFarlane in 1995 while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design
. He created two shorts entitled The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, both of which played a key role in Fox executives' decision to pick up the series in 1998. After two seasons, Fox decided to cancel the show. Despite the cancellation, a third season was produced, after which the series was officially canceled at the end of 2003. Reruns on Cartoon Network's
block Adult Swim
drove up interest, and a letter writing campaign, along with impressive DVD sales, encouraged Fox to bring the show back permanently. Family Guy returned to production in 2005, and is contracted to continue producing episodes until at least 2013. Recently Family Guy was renewed for an 11th season running from 2012–2013.
Family Guy and its cast have been nominated for thirteen Emmy Award
s, with four wins. MacFarlane won the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
award for his performance as Stewie, Murphy and MacFarlane won the Outstanding Music and Lyrics award for the song "You Got a Lot to See" from the episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows
", Steven Fonti
won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his storyboard work in the episode "No Chris Left Behind
", and Greg Colton
won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his storyboard work in the episode "Road to the Multiverse
". The show was nominated for eleven Annies
, and won three times, twice in 2006 and once in 2008. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series
, becoming the first animated program to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones
in 1961.
Blu-ray releases
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
is an American animated
Animated cartoon
An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
created by Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...
for the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
. Since its debut on January 31, 1999, the show has broadcast 171 episodes and began airing its tenth season
Family Guy (season 10)
Family Guy tenth season debuted on the Fox network, on September 25, 2011. The series followed the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog...
on September 25, 2011. The series centers on the dysfunctional
Dysfunctional family
A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often abuse on the part of individual members occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such an arrangement is...
Griffin family
Griffin family
The Griffin family is a family from the animated television series Family Guy. The Griffins are a nuclear family consisting of the married couple Peter and Lois, their three children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their dog Brian. They live at 31 Spooner Street in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode...
, which consists of father Peter
Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is a fictional character and the protagonist of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the patriarch of the Griffin family. He is voiced by cartoonist Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998....
(MacFarlane), mother Lois
Lois Griffin
Lois Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. She is voiced by writer Alex Borstein and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Lois was created and designed by series creator Seth MacFarlane...
(Alex Borstein
Alex Borstein
Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein is an American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her long-running role as Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy, and as a cast member on the sketch comedy series MADtv.A native of Highland Park, Illinois,...
), daughter Meg
Meg Griffin
Meg Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. She is the eldest child of Lois and Peter and elder sister of Chris and Stewie. Meg is considered as the black sheep of the series due to the lack of attention she receives....
(Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis
Milena "Mila" Kunis is an American actress. Her work includes the role of Jackie Burkhart on the TV series That '70s Show and the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy...
; Lacey Chabert
Lacey Chabert
Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress and voice actress, known for her roles as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls...
, 1999), son Chris
Chris Griffin
Chris Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. He is the son and middle child of Peter and Lois Griffin, brother of Stewie and Meg Griffin. Chris is voiced by Seth Green.-Personality:...
(Seth Green
Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris...
), baby Stewie
Stewie Griffin
Stewie Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy. Once obsessed with world domination and matricide, Stewie is the youngest child of Peter and Lois Griffin, and the brother of Chris and Meg....
(MacFarlane) and Brian
Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. He is voiced by Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family, in a 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Brian was created and designed by MacFarlane himself...
(MacFarlane), the family pet. The show is set in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
, and lampoons American culture, often in the form of cutaway gags, and tangential vignettes
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
.
The concept of Family Guy was conceived by MacFarlane in 1995 while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
. He created two shorts entitled The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, both of which played a key role in Fox executives' decision to pick up the series in 1998. After two seasons, Fox decided to cancel the show. Despite the cancellation, a third season was produced, after which the series was officially canceled at the end of 2003. Reruns on Cartoon Network's
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
block Adult Swim
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
drove up interest, and a letter writing campaign, along with impressive DVD sales, encouraged Fox to bring the show back permanently. Family Guy returned to production in 2005, and is contracted to continue producing episodes until at least 2013. Recently Family Guy was renewed for an 11th season running from 2012–2013.
Family Guy and its cast have been nominated for thirteen Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
s, with four wins. MacFarlane won the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance is a creative arts Emmy Award given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. It is awarded to a performer for an outstanding "continuing or single voice-over performance in a series or a special." Prior to 1992, voice-actors...
award for his performance as Stewie, Murphy and MacFarlane won the Outstanding Music and Lyrics award for the song "You Got a Lot to See" from the episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows
Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows
"Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 17, 2002...
", Steven Fonti
Steven Fonti
Steven Fonti also known as Steve Fonti , is a Primetime Emmy Award winner who has worked in the Art Department on movies such as Over the Hedge and Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Osmosis Jones and TV shows including Family Guy and Futurama...
won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his storyboard work in the episode "No Chris Left Behind
No Chris Left Behind
"No Chris Left Behind" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 6, 2007. The episode features Chris after he is kicked out of James Woods High School, and is forced to attend an upper-class academy...
", and Greg Colton
Greg Colton
Greg Colton is an American animation director. Colton is most notably known for directing several episodes of the animated series Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy....
won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation award for his storyboard work in the episode "Road to the Multiverse
Road to the Multiverse
"Road to the Multiverse" is the first episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. Directed by Greg Colton and written by Wellesley Wild, the episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009...
". The show was nominated for eleven Annies
Annie Award
The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
, and won three times, twice in 2006 and once in 2008. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series
61st Primetime Emmy Awards
The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place on September 20, 2009. CBS broadcast the Primetime event and E! the Creative Arts event; both take place at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The nominations for the Awards were announced on July 16....
, becoming the first animated program to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones
The Flintstones
The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...
in 1961.
Series overview
- The following table has release dates which apply only to the volume numbers. The volume numbers are entirely correct for Region 1; however, as Region 2 and 4 had a split release (of two volumes) of the 28 episodes which comprise Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Guy (whereas Region 1 had a release which contained all 28 episodes), to make up for the difference in volume numbers, two release dates are included for Seasons 1 and 2 in Regions 2 and 4. This means that Volume 2 in Region 1 equates to Season (as they are called in Regions 2 and 4, instead of "Volume") 3 in Regions 2 and 4 and so on. The latest release in Region 1, Volume 8, equates to Season 9 in Regions 2 and 4.
Season |Air date |DVD release date Region 1 DVD region codeDVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
Region 2 Region 4 1 7 1999 1 April 15, 2003 November 12, 2001
January 27, 2003October 20, 2003
August 2, 20042 21 1999–2000 3 22 2001–2003 2 September 9, 2003 July 21, 2003 May 2, 2005 4 30 2005–2006 3 November 29, 2005 April 24, 2006 May 29, 2006 4 November 14, 2006 October 30, 2006 November 1, 2006 Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story Stewie Griffin: The Untold StoryStewie Griffin: The Untold Story is a 2005 direct-to-DVD animated comedy film set in the Family Guy fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the film's main plot point concerns Stewie Griffin trying to find his real father...October 24, 2005 January 25, 2006 5 18 2006–2007 5 October 15, 2007 October 17, 2007 6 October 21, 2008 November 10, 2008 December 10, 2008 6 12 2007–2008 "Blue Harvest Blue Harvest (Family Guy)"Blue Harvest" is the hour-long premiere to the sixth season of the FOX series Family Guy and the first part of the series' trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. It originally aired on September 23, 2007. The episode is a retelling and parody of the 1977 blockbuster film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New...
"January 15, 2008 January 21, 2008 February 5, 2008 7 June 16, 2009 November 2, 2009 7 16 2008–2009 8 June 15, 2010 November 1, 2010 August 17, 2010 8 21 2009–2010 "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is the season finale of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and part of the series's trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 23, 2010...
"1December 22, 2009 9 December 13, 2011 May 9, 2011 June 15, 2011 9 18 2010–2011 10 TBA November 7, 2011 February 29, 2012 "It's a Trap!"2 December 27, 2010 December 22, 2010 10 TBA 2011–2012 TBA TBA TBA TBA
Blu-ray releases
- The following two specials are the only media releases to have become available on Blu-ray:
- 1 The episode was released on Blu-rayBlu-ray DiscBlu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
in Region A on December 22, 2009 in the United States, and released in Region B on December 23, 2009 in Australia, and December 26, 2009 in the United Kingdom.
2 The episode was released on Blu-ray in Region A on December 21, 2010 in the United States, and released in Region B on December 27, 2010 in the United Kingdom and December 22, 2010 in Australia.
Future episodes without scheduled airdate
The following are episodes that have not currently been scheduled but are planned to be released in the upcoming season(s).| Prod. code | Title |
|---|---|
| 9ACX03 | "Quagmire and Meg" |
| 9ACX13 | "Burning Down the Bayit" |
| 9ACX16 | "Leggo My Meg-O" |
| 9ACX17 | "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie" |
| 9ACX19 | "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2" |
| 9ACX20 | "Internal Affairs" |
| AACX01 | "All in the Nielsen Family" |
| ?ACX?? | "Be Careful What You Fish For" |
| ?ACX?? | "The Blind Side" |
| ?ACX?? | "Forget-Me-Not" |
| ?ACX?? | "Into Fat Air" |
| ?ACX?? | "Livin' on a Prayer" |
| ?ACX?? | "The Old Man and the Big 'C'" |
| ?ACX?? | "Tea Peter" |
| ?ACX?? | "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" |
| ?ACX?? | "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter G" |
Nielsen ratings
| Season | Season premiere | Season finale | Television season | Ranking | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Family Guy (season 1) The first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy aired on Fox from January 31, 1999, to May 16, 1999, and consisted of seven episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian,... |
January 31, 1999 | May 16, 1999 | 1999 | 33 | 12.80 |
| 2 | September 23, 1999 | August 1, 2000 | 1999–2000 | 114 | 6.32 |
| 3 Family Guy (season 3) Family Guy third season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-two episodes from July 11, 2001 to November 9, 2003 before being released as a DVD box set and in syndication. It premiered with the episode "The Thin White Line" and finished with "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein"... |
July 11, 2001 | November 9, 2003 | 2001–2003 | 125 | 4.50 |
| 4 Family Guy (season 4) The fourth season of Family Guy 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,... |
May 1, 2005 | May 14, 2006 | 2005–2006 | 68 | 7.90 |
| 5 Family Guy (season 5) Family Guy 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"... |
September 10, 2006 | May 20, 2007 | 2006–2007 | 71 | 7.20 |
| 6 | September 23, 2007 | May 4, 2008 | 2007–2008 | 84 | 7.94 |
| 7 | September 28, 2008 | May 17, 2009 | 2008–2009 | 69 | 7.56 |
| 8 Family Guy (season 8) Family Guy 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. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK... |
September 27, 2009 | May 23, 2010 | 2009–2010 | 53 | 7.73 |
| 9 Family Guy (season 9) Family Guy ninth season first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 26, 2010 to May 22, 2011 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication... |
September 26, 2010 | May 22, 2011 | 2010–2011 | 56 | 7.66 |
| 10 Family Guy (season 10) Family Guy tenth season debuted on the Fox network, on September 25, 2011. The series followed the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog... |
September 25, 2011 | Spring, 2012 | 2011–2012 | TBA | |