Family Guy (season 16)

Family Guy's sixteenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on October 1, 2017, and ended on May 20, 2018.[1]

Family Guy
Season 16
DVD cover
Starring	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis Mike Henry
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01) – May 20, 2018 (2018-05-20)
Season chronology

The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the sixteenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Alec Sulkin, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, and Kara Vallow. Sulkin returns after a two-season absence as the new showrunner for the series, replacing previous showrunner Callaghan. Appel continues to serve as showrunner alongside Sulkin.

The season features guest appearances from Bill Maher, Sir Ian McKellen, Kristen Bell, Louis C.K., and Modern Family cast members Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen and Sofía Vergara.[2][3]

The season also marks the final appearances of Adam West and Carrie Fisher following their deaths, as well as the show's 300th episode ("Dog Bites Bear").[4][5]

Episodes this season include: A three-episode arc where a seemingly offensive Tweet turns Brian into a social pariah ("The D In Apartment 23", "Petey IV", and "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor"), a Christmas Carol parody where Patrick Swayze's ghost shows Peter what will happen if he never gets his Christmas spirit ("Don't Be a Dickens on Christmas"), Meg becoming a problem drinker ("Crimes and Meg's Demeanor"), the Griffins pulling every TV trope and trick in the book in order to win an Emmy ("Emmy-Winning Episode"), Ian McKellen guest starring as a child therapist who has Stewie as a patient ("Send in Stewie, Please"), a send-up of Sherlock Holmes-style Victorian mysteries ("V is for Mystery"), Brian playing the stock market ("The Woof of Wall Street"), Quagmire losing his penis in an accident ("The Unkindest Cut"), Family Guy being reimagined as a sitcom that's been on TV since the 1950s ("Family Guy Throughout The Years"), and Peter meeting God again ("Are You There, God? It's Me, Peter"). The season includes the 300th episode of the series (“Dog Bites Bear”) where Stewie’s friendship with Brian is nearly destroyed when he drunkenly tears apart his teddy bear Rupert.

As of season sixteen, the series' first-run cable syndication rights have switched from Adult Swim and TBS, who had premiered the first fifteen seasons, over to Disney-owned Freeform and FXX, who will continue to premiere new episodes on cable with the coming seasons. Freeform and FXX will begin exclusively broadcasting the first fifteen seasons starting in 2021.[6]

Episodes

See also: List of Family Guy episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
290	1	"Emmy-Winning Episode"	James Purdum Dominic Bianchi Peter Shin	Aaron Lee	October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)	FACX06	2.80[7]
Peter goes out of his way to earn an Emmy win after getting fed up with not being nominated. He tries to make Family Guy more like several Emmy-nominated television shows, including Modern Family and Transparent.
291	2	"Foxx in the Men House"	Brian Iles	Andrew Goldberg	October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)	EACX20	3.05[8]
After being wobbly-legged upon sitting on the toilet in the girls' bathroom and hitting his head on the counter, Peter meets a paramedic named Stryker Foxx (voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos), who tended to his injury. He later dumps Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe as friends, due to his friendship with Stryker giving him inflated self-esteem. Later on, Peter comes to realize he does not have the strength to do the physical activities that Stryker wants to do.
292	3	"Nanny Goats"	Steve Robertson	Tom Devanney	October 15, 2017 (2017-10-15)	FACX02	2.54[9]
Lois' mother, Barbara, hires a nanny for the Griffin family when she gets displeased with recent living arrangements for the kids. This enables Peter and Lois to revitalize with their love.
293	4	"Follow the Money"	Mike Kim	Kevin Biggins	October 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)	EACX15	2.69[10]
Chris receives a misprinted but extremely valuable dollar for his birthday from Carter, but loses it. They then go on an adventure to find it.
294	5	"Three Directors"	Joe Vaux	Travis Bowe	November 5, 2017 (2017-11-05)	EACX18	2.31[11]
The story of Peter's firing from the Pawtucket Brewery, as told in the directorial styles of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay.
295	6	"The D in Apartment 23"	Julius Wu	Artie Johann	November 12, 2017 (2017-11-12)	FACX03	3.11[12]
After Brian posts a tweet on Twitter involving Baywatch and Ride Along 3 that is deemed racist, it goes viral and the Griffins are hated by all of Quahog, prompting them to kick Brian out of the house and into an apartment run by Lou Spinazola.
296	7	"Petey IV"	Mike Kim	Anthony Blasucci	November 19, 2017 (2017-11-19)	FACX04	2.08[13]
Vladimir Putin visits Quahog after Peter writes an email to him about the ending to a Russian bootleg version of Rocky IV. Meanwhile, in light of moving out, Brian gets a job at a suicide hotline center to obtain some money to pay the rent to Lou Spinazola, where he falls for his co-worker, Martha (voiced by Kristen Bell).
297	8	"Crimes and Meg's Demeanor"	Greg Colton	Mike Desilets	December 3, 2017 (2017-12-03)	FACX05	2.59[14]
Meg takes up drinking at a high school party, which brings out her more outgoing and loosened side, both concerning and delighting Peter. Meanwhile, while recovering from a leg injury following the incident in the last episode, Brian suspects that Principal Shepherd has murdered his wife and enlists Stewie to help him out.
298	9	"Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas"	Jerry Langford	Danny Smith	December 10, 2017 (2017-12-10)	FACX07	2.98[15]
In a play on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Peter takes a journey around Quahog with the ghost of Patrick Swayze (voiced by Don Swayze) after he loses his Christmas spirit.
299	10	"Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)"	Brian Iles	Steve Callaghan	January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)	FACX09	3.40[16]
After Brian falls in love with Ellie (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), a female show dog, he enters a dog show competition, where the winner will get to breed with her. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois attempt to convince Chris that "Arthur Valentine" is not real.
300	11	"Dog Bites Bear"	John Holmquist	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	January 14, 2018 (2018-01-14)	FACX01	4.10[17]
Brian and Stewie's friendship is put to the test after Brian mutilates Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert. Meanwhile, Peter meets his favorite cereal mascot, Boo Berry, and refuses to wash his right hand after shaking it with him, grossing and creeping his friends out.
301	12	"Send in Stewie, Please"	Joe Vaux	Gary Janetti	March 18, 2018 (2018-03-18)	FACX10	2.24[18]
When Stewie gets sent to see his school's child psychologist Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voiced by Ian McKellen) for a surprising session, he reveals major secrets about himself. Note: This episode premiered on Fox without commercial interruption due to a sponsorship agreement with Sony Interactive Entertainment for their PlayStation 4 game, God of War, which was the sole advertiser at the end of this episode.
302	13	"V Is for Mystery"	Joseph Lee	David A. Goodman	March 25, 2018 (2018-03-25)	FACX08	1.91[19]
In a parody of Sherlock Holmes, the episode depicts Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Stewie) and Dr. Watson (portrayed by Brian) as they embark on solving a string of murder mysteries.
303	14	"Veteran Guy"	John Holmquist	Patrick Meighan	April 1, 2018 (2018-04-01)	FACX11	2.05[20]
Peter pretends to be a veteran after buying a cap with the name USS Nathan James on it, along with Joe and Cleveland, annoying Quagmire, who is an actual veteran. After they are caught, they are forced to join the Coast Guard where they end up in a life-or-death situation.
304	15	"The Woof of Wall Street"	Steve Robertson	Alex Carter	April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08)	FACX12	1.93[21]
Stewie teaches Brian how to invest in the stock market, but a gruesome product Brian likes could result in his death. Meanwhile, Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire look after the Drunken Clam while Jerome is away.
305	16	"Family Guy Through the Years"	Julius Wu	Chris Sheridan	April 22, 2018 (2018-04-22)	FACX13	2.00[22]
Family Guy is reimagined as a series that has 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.
306	17	"Switch the Flip"	Mike Kim	Kevin Biggins	April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)	FACX14	2.26[23]
Stewie uses one of his inventions to swap bodies with Brian in order to fix his life, but this plan backfires as chaos quickly ensues around Quahog.
307	18	"HTTPete"	Greg Colton	Damien Fahey	May 6, 2018 (2018-05-06)	FACX15	1.92[24]
In order to promote the brewery, Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle. This attracts a high-powered Silicon Valley executive's attention.
308	19	"The Unkindest Cut"	Jerry Langford	Mark Hentemann	May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13)	FACX16	2.15[25]
After Quagmire's most treasured body part is bitten off in a shark attack, he must learn to live without it. Meanwhile, Stewie and Brian try to search the country for Mort after they discover he has left town, due to being involved in a drug scam.
309	20	"Are You There God? It's Me, Peter"	Joseph Lee	Travis Bowe	May 20, 2018 (2018-05-20)	FACX17	1.83[26]
When Peter falls into a coma and gets the opportunity to have a conversation with God, he interrogates the deity with some tough questions.

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