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Here is your guide to all the episodes during the first two seasons of Family Guy.

EP 101 - Death Has a Shadow

Air Date : 1-31-99
Production Code : 1ACX01
Lois warns Peter not to get drunk but sure enough he does and the next day he goes to work with a hangover and Mr. Weed fires him from his job at Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory. Peter is forced to apply for welfare but they accidently send him a check for $150,000. The family goes on a spending spree and buys everything they've ever wanted. Peter feels guilty, so with the help of Brian Peter flies a blimp over the superbowl stadium and drops the money into the field. Peter and Brian are arrested and the rest of the family helps them get off.

Notes
  • This is the first episode to air. It aired during the Superbowl Half-Time Show.
  • This is the most-watched episode.

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    EP 102 - I Never Met the Dead Man

    Air Date : 4-11-99
    Production Code : 1ACX02
    Peter tries to help Meg learn how to drive but he accidently runs into a satellite and knocks out Quahog's cable. Peter can't live without cable but Lois seizes the opportunity to get Peter to interact with the family. Peter ends up annoying the rest of the family.

    Lois gives Stewie a vegetable and Stewie hates it very much. He decides to create a machine that will destroy all vegetables.

    Notes:
  • James Wood is an actor who grew up in Rhode Island. Meg attends James Wood Memorial High School.

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    EP 103 - Chitty Chitty Death Bang

    Air Date : 4-18-99
    Production Code : 1ACX04
    It's Stewie's first birthday and Lois wants everything to be perfect. She wants to join in on the fun instead of doing all the work. As a result, she books the party at Cheesie Charly's. Peter goes to confirm the reservation and ends up losing it. Peter tells Lois that he will make sure they everything works out fine for the party. He causes a parade/circus route to come right to The Griffin House.

    Meg meets a girl named Jennifer, who is the only one who has attempted to befriend Meg. Jennifer invites Meg to a party. Lois wants Meg to be at Stewie's first birthday party but Peter allows her to go to. What Meg doesn't know, is that Jennifer is part of a cult that plans to kill themselves at the party. Lois is angry that Meg isn't at the party so Peter goes to pick her up. Meg and Peter leave just as the rest of the cult kills themselves.

    Meanwhile, Stewie believes the party that is being planned is really a plan to return him to the womb. He tries to runaway from The Man in White but then decides to play the offense. The cult leader comes to Stewie's party to retrieve Meg, but Stewie thinks he is The Man in White and kills him with a deathray.


    Notes:
  • The title of this episode is from the movie is from Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang.

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    EP 104 - Mind Over Murder

    Air Date : 4-25-99
    Production Code : 1ACX03
    When Peter is at Chris's soccer game, he gets into a fight with someone he think is a man. He finds out that he accidently knocked a pregnant women unconcious. Peter is put under house arrest and is stuck at home. He turns his basement into a bar, but when Lois becomes a dancer she becomes the star of the bar.

    Meanwhile, Stewie is having teething pains. He decides that he'll build a time machine to get around it.



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    EP 105 - A Hero Sits Next Door

    Air Date : 5-2-99
    Production Code : 1AX05
    The Griffins get new neighbors, The Swansons. Lois becomse friends with Bonnie Swanson, the ever-pregnant wife of Joe Swanson. Mr. Weed needs a new player on the baseball team and Lois thinks Peter hsould invite Joe to play on the Happy-Go-Lucky Quahog Toy Boys baseball team. What he doesn't know is that Joe is paralyzed and shows up to the game in a wheel chair. Joe does many different tricks on his wheel chair and helps win the game. A jealous Peter decides that he wants to be a hero like Joe.

    Meanwhile, Meg keeps trying to meet Kyle Swanson.

    Notes:
  • The full-time characters, Joe and Bonnie make their introduction in this episode.

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    EP 106 - The Son Also Draws

    Air Date : 5-9-99
    Production Code : 1ACX06
    After Chris is kicked out of Youth Scouts because all he does is draw, Peter is determined to get him back in the Youth Scouts by taking him to New York. On their way, Peter has to use the restroom so they stop at Geranimo's Palace Indian Casino. Lois has a gambling problem and by the time Peter gets out of the bathroom, she has lost their car and al ot of money. Peter tries to convince the people at the casino that he has Indian blood in his veins.



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    EP 107 - Brian: Portraits of a Dog

    Air Date : 5-16-99
    Production Code : 1ACX07
    Peter persaudes Brian to enter a dog contest so the family can win some money. Peter and Brian get into an arguement when practicing for the contest and Brian decides that he has had enough being treated differently from people. To show him who's boss, Peter takes him down to the vet where Brian learns his lesson.

    Notes:
  • This is the first episode where we see Stewie talking to his teddy bear Rupert.


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    EP 201 - Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater

    Air Date : 9-23-99
    Production Code : 1ACX08
    Lois's rich aunt dies and leaves her massive mansion to Lois. Peter wants to live the high-life. He gets used to his new lifestyle and foolishly offers his mansion (which he believes vauled at $10 million) for an art piece. The Griffins find out that the mansion used to be a whorehouse and it has no worth. The family, being normal again, remain the same and do not hate Peter for his foolishness.

    Notes: Family Guy recieved an Emmy Nomination for the song We Only Live To Kiss Your Ass.

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    EP 202 - Holy Crap

    Air Date : 9-30-99
    Production Code : 1ACX11
    After Peter's dad retires, Lois convinces Peter it'd be a good idea if he spent some time with the family. It turns out that Peter's dad loves to boss everyone around. He tells everyone what they can and cannot do. To get his father away from home, Peter takes his dad a job at The Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory where his father gets hired and bosses everyone around there. He realizes that Peter is very lazy and they become distant. Finally, Peter decides to kidnap the Pope so his father will love him.

    Notes:
  • This is the first episode with Peter's father.

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    EP 203 - DaBoom

    Air Date : 12-26-99
    Production Code : 2ACX06
    Peter believes that the world is going to end at the turn of the millenium and so he forces the family to canacel all of their New Year's Eve plans. Peter's crazy idea turns out to be true. The family, desperate for food goes on a quest to the Twinkie factory to find food. On the way, Stewie is kidnapped by mutants.

    In a Dallas-style ending, Victoria Principal wakes up from and tells Patrick Duffy she just had a bizarre dream of a weird episode of Family Guy.

    Notes:
  • This episode celebrated the turn of the century.
  • This is the first episode with Mila Kunis as the voice of Meg.
  • This is the first appearance of the Big Chicken that Peter has a fight with.

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    EP 204 - Brian In Love

    Air Date : 3-7-00
    Production Code : 2ACX01
    Lois finds mysterious pee stains on the floor and thinks that it is time to potty-train Stewie. Stewie says he is not responsible for the pee stains and won't allow anyone to train him. Brian secretly knows that he is the culprit. His secret is fond out at the grocery store and Brian is sent to the a therapist who suggests Brian takes a vacation in Europe. Brian realizes that the reason for his pee-stains is his love for Lois.

    Notes:
  • As a result of a news story involving Mr. Rogers, his scene was cut in various locations. The appears in episodes syndicated now.

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    EP 205 - Love Thy Trophy

    Air Date : 3-14-00
    Production Code : 1ACX13
    Spooner Street wins the parade trophy for their "Who's The Boss" float. They decide to share the trophy by putting it in the street. The neighborhood declares civil war when they wake up the next morning and find the trophy gone.

    Meanwhile, Meg takes Stewie to Flappy Jacks and is mistaken for a lonely teenage mother and gets a job. Meg tries to get better tips by telling Flappy Jacks customers that Stewie is her illegitimate crack baby. This causes social services to come to Spooner Street while they're at war and they take Stewie away. The neighborhood forgets their differences and plan to get Stewie back.



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    EP 206 - Death Is A Bitch

    Air Date : 3-21-00
    Production Code : 1ACX14
    Lois finds a lump in Peter's death and Peter goes the hospital. To avoid paying bills, Peter writes on the form that he is dead. As a result, Death (The Grim Reaper) comes to the Griffins house to collect Peter even though he isn't really dead. The rest of the family (besides Stewie, whose idol is Death) doesn't want Peter to leave, so Peter runs away and Death is injured. To repay Death, Peter has to fulfill all of Death's duties. Since Death can't collect anyone, Peter gains money by proving he can survive many things.

    Notes:
  • This is the first episode featuring Death and the only one with Norm MacDonald doing the voice.

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    EP 207 - The King is Dead

    Air Date : 3-28-00
    Production Code : 1ACX15
    Lois is named new director of the Quahog Little Theatre Group. For her first production, Lois decides to do The King and I. Peter becomes very annoying about being a star so Lois makes him a producer just so he will shut up. Peter takes over the production and kicks Lois out of it. He makes the production into a play about cyborg battle.

    Notes:
  • Diane Seidelman is Dianne Simmons's real name.

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    EP 208 - I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar

    Air Date : 3-28-00
    Production Code : 2ACX02
    Peter tells horrible female jokes and gets sued for harrassment. His negative views toward women don't help. As a result, he is forced to go to women's retreat. Peter gets in touch with his feminine side a little too much though. He evens tries to breast-feed Stewie. Peter and Lois go to a party and Peter gets turned on when Lois has a catfight with the retreat leader and turns back to his old self.

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    EP 209 - If I'm Dyin' I'm Lyin'

    Air Date : 4-4-00
    Production Code : 1ACX12
    Peter's favorite television show, Gumbel 2 Gumbel is about to be cancelled. He's forced to take drastic measures to save it. Peter takes Chris to The Make-A-Dream-Come-True" Foundation and tells them that Chris is terminally ill and his last wish is for Gumbel 2 Gumbel to remain on the air. The plan works until the foundation comes to The Griffins to check on Chris. Peter tells them that Chris has recovered, almost like a miracle. As a result, people keep coming to Peter to perform miracles. Lois forces Peter to stop pretending after the family is plagued by bloody bathwater and other unusual things.

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    EP 210 - Running Mates

    Air Date : 4-11-00
    Production Code : 1ACX09
    Lois runs unopposed for school board until Peter runs against her so he can get his favorite teacher a job at the school. To beat Lois, Peter shows naked photos of Lois and tells horrible rumors and lies about her. His plan works and Peter is voted in to school board. Then, Peter allows Chris to bring a pornographic magazine to school so he won't peep into the girls locker room and he is forced to resign and apologize. During Lois's time running for school board, Stewie realizes that he might actually miss his mother.



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    EP 211 - A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks

    Air Date : 4-18-00
    Production Code : 2ACX07
    Peter is worried that he will not leave behind a legacy when he dies after he sees a former classmate running the amusement park where he is having his birthday celebration. Chris gives Peter a painting for his birthday. Peter doesn't like it very much and he puts it in his car window. Someone offers to buy it from Peter. Peter realizes that he can use Chris to leave behind his legacy and to make money. Peter takes the whole family to New York and tries to make Chris famous.

    Notes:
  • In the opening credits, you can actually see Stewie, Chris and Meg's pictures in the background. Before this episode they were just blurry faces.


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    EP 212 - Fifteen Minutes of Shame

    Air Date : 4-25-00
    Production Code : 2ACX08
    Meg is embarassed by Lois and Peter at a party she hosted so she takes her family on a talk show. That is where television producers discover the Griffin family and give them their own 24/7 reality television show called The Real Griffins. In the end, Meg is recasted by a teenage whore because the producers consider her too boring.

    Notes:
  • The scene where Peter is drunk in church was cut out of a previous episode because FOX censors did not like it but the Family Guy producers added it into this episode anyway.

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    EP 213 - Road to Rhode Island

    Air Date : 5-30-00
    Production Code : 2ACX12
    Brian offers to go pick up Stewie from his grandparent's house so Lois can stay home. However, Brian has been sad remembering his mother and how he was taken away from her and he gets drunk at bar. Stewie loses their airline tickets and they are forced to trek their way home. Along the way, they go back to the farm where Brian was born and Brian learns that his mother died long ago but was stuffed. Stewie helps Brian give his mother a proper burial.

    Notes:
  • There is a scene where Stewie sings a musical number to distract airport security staff so he can get through his weapons through security and then he says he hopes Osama Bin Laden doesn't know show tunes. THen we Osama Bin Laden singing a selection from A Chorus Line. This scene was deleted after September 11th.
  • This was the episode that was nominated for Outstanding Animated Telvision Show.

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    EP 214 - Let's Go to the Hop

    Air Date : 6-6-00
    Production Code : 2ACX04
    The students at James Woods Memorial High School discover that licking toads will get them high and it becomes the new "in drug." Peter goes undercover as a student named Lando to stop the drug abuse and everyone likes him and he is very popular. He helps Meg become much more popular by asking her to the school dance but then he dumps her for the popular cheerleader Connie.

    Notes:
  • This whole plot is based on Never Been Kissed with Drew Berrymore.

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    EP 215 - Dammit Janet

    Air Date : 6-13-00
    Production Code : 2ACX09
    Lois thinks that Stewie needs to become more social with other babies his age and enrolls him into a daycare. He hates the daycare until he meats Janet. He wins Janet over when he gives him his cookies. In the end, he finds out that is all Janet ever wanted to do with him.

    Since Lois doesn't have to watch any children, Peter thinks that Lois should become a flight attendant. His main objective is to use the free traveling benefit. Peter's plan is ruined though when a plane that Lois and Peter are both on is hijacked and lands in Cuba.

    Notes:
  • This episode was banned by FOX after 9-11, although Adult Swim still airs it.

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    EP 216 - There's Something About Paulie

    Air Date : 6-27-00
    Production Code : 1ACX10
    Peter and Lois decide they need a second car. Peter's poor negotiating skills lands him a horrible car. A mob boss tells Peter that he will steal his car so he can convince his insurance company to let him buy a new one. Peter goes along with the plan only to be met by the mob boss again, but this the mob boss asks Peter to take his nephew, Big Fat Paulie out to the movies. Peter brings Paulie back home and the whole family hates him. Peter kicks Paulie out of the house and tells him it is because Lois doesn't like him. As a result, a hit is put out for Lois's life.

    Notes:
  • The title of this episode is taken from There's Something About Mary.


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    EP 217 - He's Too Sexy for His Fat

    Air Date : 2ACX10
    Production Code : 6-27-00
    Lois and Peter find out that Chris is skipping gym class because he thinks he is embarrased about being overweight. Peter tries to talk Chris into getting liposuction. Chris declines, but Peter decides to go for it anyway. After his surgery, Peter looks better than ever. All of a sudden people are nice to Peter and are doing him favors. Lois is infurated by Peter's behavior and gets even angrier when he joins "The Beautiful People's Club." Peter's fun doesn't last for long though. He accidently drives off a cliff and goes back to the way he was.

    Meanwhile, Brian has a horrible flea problem and the family has to move out while the house is fumigated. Stewie also gains weight while trying to tease Chris.

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    EP 218 - E. Peterbus Unum

    Air Date : 7-12-00
    Production Code : 2ACX13
    Peter gets the family a new accountant so he will get a bigger tax refund. He decides that he will build a pool with the money. Peter learns that the city doesn't allow digging for pools on his property. Peter goes to the Mayor West's office to learn the truth. On the map, Peter sees that county doesn't even have a record of his property. As a result, Peter declares his property Petoria, an independent country. After attending the United Nations meeting, he realizes that no one will respect his country until he expands his horizons. Peter invades US propetry by swimming in Joe's pool and the country goes to war against the country. Lois and the children move out and Peter finally sucumbs to the US Military.

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    EP 219 - The Story on Page One

    Air Date : 7-18-00
    Production Code : 2ACX14
    The Head of Admissions at Brown University tells Meg that she needs to be involved more in extra-curricular activities to be accepted. Meg tries a variety of activities and fails miserably at all of them. Her last resort is asking Neil Goldman for a position on the school newspaper. Neil tells Meg she will only get the job if she gets an interview with Adam West. Meg gets the interview and makes a very interesting article. Peter (trying to be helpful) breaks into the school and switches Meg's article with his own article about Luke Perry being gay and he puts Meg's name on it.

    The next day, everyone is thrilled with Meg's story. Everyone except Luke Perry who sues The Griffins. Luke tries to prove that Luke Perry is gay. Luke Perry ends up in The Griffins house and Peter explains his reasons. Luke decides that he will drop the lawsuit if The Griffins write a new article about Luke Perry not being gay.



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    EP 220 - Wasted Talent

    Air Date : 7-25-00
    Production Code : 2ACX15
    In this Willy Wonka type introduction, the brewry decides that it is going to give a tour to lucky people who find scrolls in their drinks of beer. Peter and Brian find one and go to the factory but end up getting kicked out.

    Meanwhile, Lois is trying her best to beat her rival piano teacher at the piano playing contest who has beaten her every year. Lois drives her best student nuts and has no student to place in the contest. Lois learns that Peter can play the piano wonderfully while drunk. She keeps him drunk until after the piano competition so she can win.

    Notes:
  • Norm MacDonald is replaced by Adam Carola as the character Death starting this episode.

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    EP 221 - Fore, Father

    Air Date : 8-1-00
    Production Code : 2ACX16
    Peter thinks that Chris is very irresponsible after he allows a squirrel to ruin their camping trip. He gets Chris a job at the golf course. Chris feels rejected when Peter decides to enter the father-son golf contest with Cleveland, Jr.

    To get revenge, Chris starts hanging out with Quagmire and goes to various strip joints. Cleveland, Jr. leaves Peter, so he gets Chris to take his place. They lose the competition and Chris gives Peter his paycheck to repay all the people who put their money on Cleveland, Jr.

    Notes:
  • After this episode, no more episodes would air for almost a year due the show's status being in limbo with FOX.

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