Posted by Sarah
We finally made it to the 100th episode, and such an occasion deserves … a recap special! Hosted by Seth MacFarlane, the half-hour special looked back at some of his favorite Family Guy moments and heard from regular people just how horrible his show really is, but the best parts were his comments in between segments:
- “We celebrate 100 episodes of doing just enough to get by.”
- “We look back at the show that turned me from a poor, Vietnamese immigrant into a Caucasian millionaire.”
- “Dharma and Greg … what an awful awful show.”
- “[He laughs] I forgot how funny I am.”
- His description of what his show’s function is: “We hold a mirror up to society and say, ‘Society — you’re ugly and we don’t like what you’re doing.'”
- His closing line, “Hopefully, we won’t get canceled for two and a half %&#@ing years in the middle again.”
Then we got to see the 100th episode, which has been promoted for weeks as the one in which Stewie finally kills Lois.
It starts at Lois’ birthday dinner, at which she’s presented with gifts. Chris and Meg give her smoker’s toothpaste, Peter gives her Lionel Richie’s “Can’t Slow Down” album, and Brian gives her a cruise for two (apparently in violation of the 20-dollar limit).
On the day the ship departs, Stewie’s all packed and ready to go aboard, only to be told that he can’t go. When he and Brian get home, he tells Brian that he’s going to kill Lois, and Brian tells him, “No you won’t. You’ll do what you always do: As soon as she walks through that door, you’ll forget all about it, beg for your apple juice, go poop and fall asleep.”
Stewie rents a speedboat and goes out to sea to meet the cruise ship, on which Peter’s been doing nothing but embarrass Lois by telling inappropriate stories and by taking the poop deck literally. Once aboard, Stewie finds Lois sulking Rose-from-Titanic-style. He pulls out a gun and shoots her repeatedly in slow-mo, and she falls off the back of the boat a la Throw Momma From the Train.
Flash forward a year, when the search has been called off and Peter’s dating again, while the kids are watching Harrison Ford Telling Random People He Wants His Family Back. Apparently, no one’s told Chris that Lois is dead — they just keep saying she’s on vacation. Joe took him school supply shopping, dressed as Lois.
Stewie hints to Brian that he actually followed through with his plan, but Peter’s the main suspect since he took out a life insurance policy on Lois while they were on the boat, just after they had a horrible argument. In an attempt to keep Brian from turning Stewie in, Stewie takes all the mementos of his death plot — drawings of possible murders and the gun — and throws them in the trash, just in time for Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe to go through the trash looking for evidence that Peter’s guilty.
Peter’s put on trial, where he gets life without possibility of — just as the judge is about to finish the sentence, a blurry figure enters the courtroom. Lois! And she says Stewie tried to kill her. Then “To Be Continued” comes up in the Star Trek: The Next Generation font with the corresponding music, and we’re left to wait until next week to find out what the deuce is going on.
This episode was lots of fun. Highlights included:
- Peter finding himself while listening to Lionel Richie
- Stewie’s innuendo-laden assessment of what being on a cruise ship will mean for him
- The douchebag’s guitar serenade lyrics, “Every beer I’ve ever had is on a shelf above my bed”
- Stewie having so much fun listening to the cool echo in his head that he thinks, “PIGS … IN … SPACE!”
- The telephone killing the telegraph sex business
- The Kool-Aid Man busting through the courtroom wall
