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Season 2 - 21 Aired Episodes



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201 - Peter Peter Caviar Eater
Lois's Aunt Marguerite decides to pay Lois and Peter a visit. However, she dies on their doorstep. Oh yeah, she was filthy rich, and leaves her Newport mansion to Lois and Peter in her will. Peter sells the house in Quahog, but soon finds that the Griffin's can't keep up with living in high society. Peter tries to impress Lois and the Yacht Club by buying a very expensive vase at auction. However, the only way he can pay for it is to sell the mansion to the Newport historical society...which they only accept when they find out it used to be a 19th century Presidential brothel.
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202 - Holy Crap
Peter's disciplinarian father retires from the factory and comes to live with Peter. The whole family can't stand Francis's religious fire-and-brimstone personality, except for Stewie, who loves his hard-nosed attitude. Very soon, Francis starts to feel useless and wants a job, so Peter gives him a job at the toy factory as a manager. Francis turns the place into a hellhole by working everyone to the bone. Peter gets fired, and he decides that he needs to show his father a thing or two. He abducts the Pope, who is visiting Boston, and drives him to Quahog to talk to his dad. The Pope doesn't succeed in getting Peter's father to love him, but Peter eventually does.
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203 - Da Boom
Even though he only learned about it five minutes earlier, Peter becomes very paranoid about the Y2K bug and stocks up supplies. He even traps his family in the basement to wait out what might happen...and to everyone's surprise, it does happen. In fact, the whole world has become a total nuclear wasteland where it's every man for himself. In search of food, the Griffins head off to the Twinkie factory in Natick, MA. They find an endless supply of Twinkies and build a community around the factory. They call it New Quahog, and Peter delclares himself mayor for life. However, his plan to make guns for the town gets him kicked out...but an army of mutant octopus Stewies invade the now un-armed town....ah, irony. OH, by the way, this was all just a strange dream.
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204 - Brian in Love
Random pee stains begin showing up all over the place, and the family thinks it's Stewie's fault. However, they soon find out that it is Brian with the bladder control problem. The Griffins send him to therapy, where Brian discovers he is most likely having a mid-life crisis. Stewie doesn't help the matter by blaming his own pee stains on Brian as well. After some thinking, Brian realizes his problem is that he is in love....with Lois! However, Lois has a talk with Brian and convinces him that their friendship is as good as it gets.
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205 - Love Thy Trophy
A theme for the harvest festival parade is selected randomly...and what do you know, Peter's submission is selected: "The episode of Who's The Boss where Tony sees Angela naked in the shower." All of Spooner St. gets together to build a float, and they actually win the trophy! However, they can't decide how to share it. They display it on the street, but eventually someone steals it for themselves, and paranoia runs rampant. Meanwhile, Meg passes Stewie off as her crack baby so she can get a job to buy a Prada bag. This lands Stewie in a foster home, but the neighbors unites to rescue him from the creepy foster parents. Oh yeah, turns out Brian buried the shiny trophy. That's what dogs do.
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206 - Death is a Bitch
Lois finds a lump....in Peter's chest. They go to the doctor, but the tests show it's just a fatty corpuscle. However, Peter skips out on the hospital bill by signing as *Deceased*. However, this prompts a visit from Death himself (Norm MacDonald). Peter tries to run away, but Death sprains an ankle bone and is laid up at the Griffin's house. During this time, Stewie takes quite a liking to Death, treating him as an idol. Also, Peter realizes that he can't die during this time, so he does some insanely deadly things, and soon everyone finds out that the rules of death don't apply. To make things right again, Death tells Peter to kill the kids from Dawson's Creek. However, he can't go through with it. He does accidentally kill the pilots on their plane, however, so Death lets it slide and spares Peter's life.....for now......
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207 - The King is Dead
Lois is named the new artistic director of the Quahog Players, and everyone starts clamoring to be in their latest production, The King and I. Fed up with his boss Mr. Weed, Peter wants a job in the play as well. Peter has zero talent, so Lois makes him "producer". Peter takes this job title and runs with it, changing the show entirely because he feels the original is too boring to draw a crowd. He recasts newswoman Diane Simmons as the lead, but she quits forcing Peter to take over the role of Anna. Even though he has turned the play into a spectacle of robots, ninjas, and partial nudity, the crowd loves it. Peter even farts at the end for good measure, sending the crowd into laughter.
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208 - I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
Peter gets an invitation to a timeshare presentation, where he could get a free boat out of the deal...but goes for the mystery box instead: free tickets to a comedy club. At the club, Peter gets drunk and makes an ass of himself. Everyone laughs at Peter, but he takes it to mean that he is funny. So at work the next day, he tells a very sexiest joke...to a woman...and is punished to take sensitivity classes by the woman's lawyer, Gloria Ironbachs. However, the treatment is so extreme the Peter becomes super feminine. Lois gets royally annoyed by the new Peter, and wants to be treated like a woman. However, Peter forgets his feminine ways when he sees a catfight (of course!) between Lois and Gloria.
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209 - If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'
Peter's favorite show, Gumbel 2 Gumbel, gets cancelled, so Peter goes to the network to complain. However, they cannot put the show back on the air. Peter hears about the Grant a Dream Foundation, and he tells the Foundation Chris is dying and his dying wish is to see Gumbel 2 Gumbel back on the air. However, the white lie goes too far when the entire town hears about Chris's terrible 'disease'. When Chris doesn't die right away, the Foundation becomes nervous so Peter claims he used 'divine powers' to cure Chris. The whole town then jumps on the Peter-as-God bandwagon, which he takes full advantage of. Naturally, Peter breaks a few commandments in the process, and the family starts experiencing the Plagues of the Old Testament. Peter apoligizes to God in the end, and all is well.
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210 - Running Mates
Because she want to efect some change, Lois decides to run for school board president. Peter has his own ideas about education, such as taking his favorite aging teacher, Mr. Fargus, off his mood medication, and showing Chris skin mags. In fact, after Mr. Fargus gets fired for dropping condor eggs, Peter runs for school board as well. Peter can't compete with Lois, so he takes out inflamatory ads against her, calling her a slut. Peter ends up winning by a landslide, and makes drastic changes at school. At first they seem very productive, but a scandal eerupts when the town finds out the Peter gave Chris porn. Peter eventually fesses up, and resigns his position in honor.
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211 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Bucks
At his birthday party at Bob's Funland, Peter sees an old classmate (owner Bob Funland) who questions Peter's life accomplishments...then kicks him out of the park. To cheer dad up, Chris paints him a painting..which Peter sells to a gallery owner for 5K. However, it is so good that Chris is invited out to New York City where he tries to make a big splash on the art scene. The art scene tries to change "Christobel", but Peter is just jealous of Chris's potential success. To spite Chris, Peter tries to develop Meg's bird calling ability..to no avail. In the end Chris's great masterpiece is: a portrait for his dad. This doesn't win accolades, but it does win the approval of Peter.
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212 - Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Peter embarrasses Meg to no end. Naked on clam day, naked at the gas station, falling through the stairs at a slumber party...it never ends. So Meg drags her family onto the Diane! show where they start a riot. Of course, this gets such good ratings that a TV producer starts a reality TV show about the Griffins. This embarrasses Meg even more, so she quits the show and gets replaced with a hotter version of herself. Peter and Lois want to get out as well, but can't just leave under the contract...so they get replaced by Tom Arnold and Fran Drescher, the fat guy from Boogie nights, and the Olsen twins.
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213 - Road to Rhode Island
Brian's therapist says that his drinking problem is due to abadonment issues with his mother, and recommends that he go see her. Brian needs an excuse to travel, so he volunteers to go out to Pasadena to pick up Stewie (conveniently visiting grandma). (CONTAINS CUT OSAMA BIN LADEN SCENE)However, on the way back the plane tickets get stolen, so Brian and Stewie have to pick their way back to Rhode Island. On the way, they stop in Austin, where Brian finds that his mom is dead...and stuffed. He steals her away from the owners and gives her a proper burial. In the meantime, Lois buys a "relationship" video for Peter, but it is just a woman tempting Peter to buy other videos where she takes her clothes off...and it works because he does buy them. Of course Lois catches this, but plays along *wink*.
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214 - Let's Go to the Hop
After a plane from Colombia crashes in the forest, the town gets infested with spotted toads (the psychedelic kind). Soon the toad-licking craze is in full force in the schools, and something needs to be done. Peter wants to stop his kids from doing drugs, so he volunteers to go undercover at the high school to wipe out toad. It works, but "Lando Griffin" becomes so popular that Meg lies and says Lando is taking her to the Winter Snow Ball. The popularity gets to "Lando"'s head however, and he ask Connie DeMico instead. The Griffin women are furious, but Peter/Lando sneaks out of the house to go to the dance anyway. However, he wants to set things straight, so Lando proclaims his love for Meg and stages his own death. Meg is popular again, and everyone is happy.
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215 - Dammit Janet
Lois feels that Stewie is having trouble playing with other kids his age, so she enrolls him in daycare. However, now Lois is bored and wants to get a part time job. Peter finds out from Quagmire that husbands of stewardesses fly for free, so Peter convices her to become a flight attendant. Meanwhile, Stewie gets a crush on a flaky girl in daycare named Janet. Eventually, Lois finds out Peter is using her for free trips, and Stewie finds out Janet is using him for his cookies. Things go bad when Lois and Peter's plane is hijacked to Cuba, but they find their way back....in a raft.
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216 - There's Something About Paulie
Lois is tired of doing all of the day's errands in a taxi, so she demands a second car for the family. Peter buys a flashy car without Lois's input, but it turns out to be a lemon. However, Peter runs into a mobster who offers to "steal" the car for insurance money. This works, but now Peter is in debt to the mob. His job?: To entertain the family's annoying Big Fat Paulie for the evening. They get along surprising well, but Lois hates Paulie. In an effort to sympatize with Paulie, Peter inadvertently implies that Paulie put a hit out on Lois. Lois quickly realizes she is a target, but before Peter can stop it Paulie is gunned down. Therefore, Peter has to go to the Don's daughter's wedding to ask a favor....that the hit be called off. And it is, just in time....sorta.
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217 - He's Too Sexy for His Fat
Chris is ashamed of being fat, which is natural since everyone makes fun of him. Lois convinces Chris to go on a diet. The diet is unsuccessful at first, even though he is constantly tempted by Stewie (resulting in Stewie's eating disorder). Peter takes Chris to get lyposuction. However, Chris doesn't go through with it...but Peter does! Peter becomes so skinny that he doesn't stop there: He gets a facelift and muscle implants. He even gets invited to join the Quahog Beatiful People's Club. However, Peter becomes so enamoured with himself that he gets into a car accident while looking at himself in the mirror. The resulting fall into a tub of lard and recupurative surgery: back to the same ol' Peter.
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218 - E Peterbus Unum
In this hilarious episode, everyone in the neighborhood got a tax refund, and is spending it on fun things. Peter wants a pool for his family.....but never even gets a refund. So he tries to dig his own pool, cutting the power line. When the town says he need a permit for a pool, Peter goes to town hall to complain...only to find out his property isn't even part of Qauhog...or the US. Therefore Peter creates his own country: Petoria. This gives him diplomatic immunity, but no respect. To get respect, he invades a country. Namely, the US. Namely, Joe Swanson's pool. The US retaliates by cutting off utilities and the property line. His family turns on him, world dicators love him, but eventually Peter relents and rejoins the US, getting nothing out of the deal.
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219 - The Story on Page One
Meg wants to get into Brown, but is rejected because she has no real extracirricular activities. She asks nerdy Neil for a position on the school newpaper, so he asks her to go interview Mayor Adam West. The paranoid Mayor West proves to be a difficult interview to get, but eventually Meg gets the story: the mayor's expensive investigation of where the water goes when it disappears in a plant, drain, etc. Peter doesn't think it is an exciting story, so he replaces it with another one: That Luke Perry is gay. Perry threatens to sue, so Peter tries to forge evidence that he really is gay....by trying to seduce him. It doesn't work, but in the end Meg gets to write a real story about Luke. While this is going on, Stewie zombifies Chris to do his bidding, with hilarious results.
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220 - Wasted Talent
Pawtucket Pat starts a contest ala WIlly Wonka wereby anyone who finds one of the four scrolls in Pawtucket Patriot beer gets a free plant tour. Peter drinks himself silly trying to find one. He is lucky enough to find the last one, and goes on the plant tour, where he sees the ChumbaWumbas and all the wonders. However, he gets kicked out when he drinks the experimental ever-corbonated beer. Peter then tries to drink his sorrows away. However, Lois finds out that Peter is a great piano player....when he's drunk. No matter, because she needs his talent as a "student" so that she can win the upcoming piano competition. So lois keeps Peter drunk, even taking him to a high school party, and they win the competition.
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221 - Fore, Father
The guys go on a camping trip, and they take their sons along. While on the trip, it is obvious that Peter hasn't disciplined Chris properly to be a man. So chris gets a job at the the driving range as a ball shagger. It is there that everyone finds out what a golf prodigy Cleveland's son is. Seizing the opportunity Cleveland has left for him, Peter becomes a father figure to the son, leaving Chris fatherless...until Quagmire lakes him under his wing. So Chris goes to a nudie bar while Peter plays with Cleveland Jr. in the Man-Boy golf tournament. However, Cleveland Jr. runs off when his attention turns to playing soccer. This leaves Peter back with Chris, but he realizes he is a good dad after all.




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