Family Guy

Mariela Quintuna       

Reviewing the Arts

20 November 2010

TV Show Review

Family Guy (Season 6, Espisodes 4 & 5: “Stewie Kills Lois,” FOX)

            Like any hysterical animated family animated comedy, “Family Guy” is the most hilarious TV shows compared to “The Simpsons” and “South Park.” Creator Seth MacFarlane created the main characters in the hilarious TV comedy which are the Griffen Family.  Dad, Peter Griffen (voice by Seth MacFarlane) who is an obnoxious man who works in a toy factory and also is a drunk. Mom, Lois (voice by Alex Borstein) is a stay-at-home mom who has a drug addiction and a gambling problem.  Daughter Meg, is a 17 year-old (voice by Lacey Chabert) where a pink shirt and blue jeans and wears a pink beanie under other headgear.  She is the oldest from the other two siblings.  Son, Chris (voice by Seth Green) is a 15 year-old middle child who is terrified by an evil monkey that hides in his closet.  And baby Stewie (voice by Seth MacFarlane) is a one year-old infant who as a mind of a serial killer who is also obsessed with world domination and has always planned to kill Lois.  Dog, Brian, (voice by Seth MacFarlane) is the family’s pet, but is considered to be a family member who primarily works as a writer in various styles such as essays, novels, scripts, and newspaper articles.

            The episode, “Stewie Kills Lois,” began on a restaurant on Lois’s birthday when the family gives Lois her birthday gifts and Brian’s gift to her is two tickets for a cruise.  His plan was to go with her, but Lois ends up going with Peter.  At the dock where the Lois and Peter leave for the cruise, Stewie comes in and thinks that he is also coming with them, but ends up staying home.  Stewie gets mad and begins to plan his revenge for Lois.  This one-year-old baby makes this show hilarious because he comes up with these ideas to kill Lois, but backfires.  In the episode, he thinks he succeeded when he finds a way to get on the cruise and finds his mom.  He takes out a machine gun and shoots Lois until she fell overboard.  He jumps up and down and runs with joy.  At this point the episode ends and continues the following week in episode 5. 

            In episode 5, the show mostly takes place in the courtroom when the police suspect Peter as the murderer.  There is a scene where is a bit funny it is when the police finds evidence that Peter might have done it, (but in reality it is Stewie’s writing, but was mislead by Peter’s poor writing) and the judge finds Peter Griffen guilty.  Everyone out loud says “Oh no!” and repeats it two times until the Kool-Aid guy comes in breaking the wall and says “Oh Yes!”  It’s funny because he came out of nowhere and he felt awkward and just left from the wall he tore down.  Later has world domination and controls everything.  At the end of the episode, Stewie ends a simulation of killing Lois and taking over the world.  It kind of made it seem like it was not a good episode because it had a sense that Stewie finally was going to kill Lois, but it was all like a dream. 

            Family guy is a great show and hilarious, but this episode was not a success.  Creator Seth MacFarlane should have thought of this episode a bit deeper so it wouldn’t have a stupid ending.