Family Guy (season 17)

Family Guy's seventeenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 30, 2018, and ended on May 12, 2019.[1] 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 season's executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Tom Devanney, Patrick Meighan and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong. The season's showrunners are Sulkin and Appel.

Family Guy
Season 17
DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	September 30, 2018 – May 12, 2019
Season chronology

This season sees Brian trapped in a marriage with a dying woman (played by Casey Wilson) in a two-part arc ("Married... with Cancer", "Dead Dog Walking"), another two-part arc focused on Peter becoming a scaremongering news anchor, which lands him a job as President Trump's press secretary ("Hefty Shades of Gray", "Trump Guy"), Quagmire once again bonding with an estranged child who's biologically his ("No Giggity, No Doubt"), Meg qualifying for the Winter Olympics in Korea ("The Griffin Winter Games"), Brian and Stewie shrinking to microscopic size ("Big Trouble in Little Quahog"), Peter and Brian competing to become the next Pawtucket Brewery mascot (“Pawtucket Pete”), Meg becoming an Internet influencer ("Girl, Internetted"), Peter identifying as transgender ("Trans-Fat"), a meta episode where The Griffins record DVD commentary ("You Can't Handle the Booth!"), and Quagmire running against Brian for mayor ("Adam West High").

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
310	1	"Married... with Cancer" (Part 1)	Mike Kim	Aaron Lee	September 30, 2018	HACX02	2.57[2]
Brian falls in love with a woman named Jess Schlotz (Casey Wilson), who reveals she has cancer. He decides to take her hand in marriage and quickly comes to regret his choice when they find out her cancer has regressed after this discovery was made by Dr. Gravitas.
311	2	"Dead Dog Walking" (Part 2)	Julius Wu	Chris Sheridan	October 7, 2018	HACX03	2.69[3]
Brian's marriage to Jess is not what he had imagined, so he decides to let himself go at Peter's suggestion, which leads Jess to make a surprising announcement that would have Brian secretly euthanized. Meanwhile, Chris and Stewie take up vaping after attending a party.
312	3	"Pal Stewie"	Brian Iles	John Viener & Matt Pabian	October 14, 2018	FACX18	1.99[4]
Much to his surprise, Stewie befriends a boy his age named Hudson, but feels betrayed when he appears to not have been invited to Hudson's birthday party and decides to go back to his dark side. Meanwhile, Peter learns to be more assertive after attending a self-empowerment seminar hosted by Tony Robbins with Lois.
313	4	"Big Trouble in Little Quahog"	Joe Vaux	Dominic Bianchi & Joe Vaux	October 21, 2018	FACX19	2.57[5]
After being teased by Brian for his small stature, Stewie invents a shrinking machine to even the score, only for it to backfire with both of them shrinking to microscopic sizes. While in microscopic size, they befriend a group of water bears led by Vernon (Kyrie Irving) with the group also containing a water bear version of Patrick Stewart. Meanwhile Lois and Peter deal with a lonely exterminator.
314	5	"Regarding Carter"	Greg Colton	Alex Carter	November 4, 2018	HACX04	2.60[6]
Lois gets an unexpected present from Carter for her birthday in the form of a gun, but an accident leaves him in the care of the Griffins while Barbara is away in Antarctica.
315	6	"Stand by Meg"	Jerry Langford	Billy Domineau	November 11, 2018	HACX05	2.29[7]
After being saved from choking to death on a grape, Stewie attempts to help Meg with her life with the help of Brian. Meanwhile, Chris attends a vocational school at the suggestion of Principal Shepherd.
316	7	"The Griffin Winter Games"	Steve Robertson	Artie Johann	November 18, 2018	HACX01	2.66[8]
In an attempt to surprise the Griffin family, Meg successfully manages to get into the U.S. Olympic team as a biathlete and prepares for the Winter Games. Things, however, take a turn when Peter ends up in North Korea.
317	8	"Con Heiress"	Brian Iles	Mark Hentemann	December 2, 2018	HACX07	2.72[9]
Stewie discovers that Brian is trying to win the affections of wealthy widowed heiresses, particularly one extremely rich one, and joins him in an effort to win the estate, only to discover Quagmire is running the same con. Meanwhile, Peter teaches Chris to mow lawns and in his outdoor attire, is mistaken for another chubby child by Herbert, with whom Peter spends time with, making Chris, who is mowing the lawn, jealous.
318	9	"Pawtucket Pete"	John Holmquist	Chris Regan	December 9, 2018	FACX20	3.50[10]
Following the death of his boss Angela (to coincide with the death of her voice actress Carrie Fisher), the Pawtucket Brewery gets two new bosses named Bert and Sheila- an interracial couple, who demote Peter to recycling. However, his luck changes when the bosses decide to make Peter the new face of Pawtucket Patriot Beer...and things go south when Brian the dog who started out as Peter's sidekick becomes more popular as the brewery's Spuds McKenzie-esque party dog.
319	10	"Hefty Shades of Gray" (Part 1)	Joseph Lee	Mike Desilets	January 6, 2019	HACX08	2.42[11]
A ghost hunt gone wrong leads Peter to have white hair, which leads him to become a local news anchor who dishes out fake news and argues with Tom Tucker. Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie discover that Chris' lack of interest in girls is because he's addicted to online porn and teach him how to sexually fantasize without using the Internet.
320	11	"Trump Guy" (Part 2)	Joe Vaux	Patrick Meighan	January 13, 2019	HACX09	4.04[12]
Peter's fake news career advances and he moves the family to Washington, D.C. to become Donald Trump's new White House Press Secretary. Things go south when Peter finds Donald sexually harassing Meg as she earlier claimed, following her encounter with Ivanka Trump.
321	12	"Bri, Robot"	John Holmquist	Patrick Meighan	February 10, 2019	HACX10	1.81[13]
After celebrating his latest birthday, Brian becomes depressed knowing he has never had a chance to write his autobiography. Stewie offers his help, but instead decides to create a robot clone of Brian that mirrors everything he says and does. Meanwhile, a new massage parlor opens in Quahog and Peter wants in on the action until Peter learns that it's the front for a prostitution ring when Joe and the police raid it.
322	13	"Trans-Fat"	Steve Robertson	Wellesley Wild	February 17, 2019	HACX11	2.23[14]
After using the transgender bathroom at a baseball game, Peter is mistaken for being transgender and begins dressing as a woman to reap several benefits at work due to Bert and Sheila supporting the transgender community. However, things get complicated after an incident at a low ceiling fan club knocks him into a coma and Bert and Sheila give him Sexual Reassignment Surgery. Ida Davis comes to Peter's rescue after his unsuccessful attempt at life as a woman.
323	14	"Family Guy Lite"	Mike Kim	Anthony Blasucci	March 3, 2019	HACX12	2.10[15]
Peter takes the stairs at the Pawtucket Brewery upon not wanting to take the elevator with a man who has a mutual thing in common with him. After Joe fails to rescue him and Peter accidentally sets off the fire alarm, he gets reprimanded by Bert and Sheila for him being obese enough to not make it up the stairs and the water damage that he unintentionally caused. This causes Peter to turn to Quagmire for help in losing weight. Meanwhile, Brian reads something from Lois' creative writing club as he and Stewie suspect that Lois is having an affair with Horatio, a Stop & Shop worker, that matches the description of one of her story's characters.
324	15	"No Giggity, No Doubt"	Julius Wu	Kevin Biggins	March 10, 2019	HACX13	2.25[16]
When the guys volunteer to chaperone the high school prom, Quagmire hits it off with a girl named Courtney (Mandy Moore) only to discover that she is his daughter after she says "Giggity" and Quagmire used his Emergency DNA Test kit to confirm it. To his and the gang's surprise, Quagmire makes a serious effort to embrace parenting Courtney, joining Peter and Meg on an ill-fated father-daughter camping trip.
325	16	"You Can't Handle the Booth!"	Greg Colton	Damien Fahey	March 24, 2019	HACX14	2.01[17]
The Griffins go meta when they record a DVD commentary track for a fictional Family Guy episode, where Lois finds out that Peter was married previously to Sarah Paulson (playing herself) and that Chris might just be Philip Seymour Hoffman's son, not Peter's, and things get more surreal when the Griffins meet their own voice actors.
326	17	"Island Adventure"	Jerry Langford	Steve Callaghan	March 31, 2019	HACX06	2.15[18]
Stewie sets out to Garbage Island (the floating mountain of trash mentioned in the American Dad! episode, "News Glance with Genevieve Vavance") to recover his tricycle after Peter throws it away. Brian who has accompanied him on the trip decides to stay back when he discovers the leisurely island lifestyle.
327	18	"Throw It Away"	Brian Iles	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	April 28, 2019	HACX15	1.95[19]
Inspired by Tricia Takanawa's new book "Throw It Away" which she promotes on Joyce Kinney's show "The Flow", Lois asks the family to toss things that don’t make them happy. Eventually, she takes it to an extreme by kicking the entire family out and throws everything out, becoming depressed when she has nothing left.
328	19	"Girl, Internetted"	Joe Vaux	Chris Regan	May 5, 2019	HACX17	1.72[20]
Peter takes the family to a screen con and influences Meg to become an internet celebrity. Meg instantly becomes popular as Refrigerator Meg, but only when she gives in her lifestyle to unhealthy food and loses her legs from type 2 diabetes. Meanwhile, Brian falls asleep behind the wheel and crashes his Toyota Prius into another car. He is forced to drive around in a Hummer provided by the body shop owner (Denis Leary) with certain parts of this subplot narrated by Sam Elliott. When it’s time to return the Hummer, Brian doesn’t want to give it up because of the power he feels driving the car around.
329	20	"Adam West High"	Joseph Lee	Artie Johann	May 12, 2019	HACX16	1.78[21]
Mayor West dies, and Brian successfully petitions to rename James Woods High School to Adam West High. Now with Mayor West gone, the city of Quahog needs a new mayor. Brian decides to run, but Quagmire tries to sabotage his campaign by running against him because he feels that Brian's intentions are fake, causing a near-death experience for the two rivals when the bus falls down a cliff.

Notes

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