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Piolet Episode
Peter loses his job and is forced to resort to recieving welfare. All the while, Stewie is trying to take over the world using a mind-control device. Unfortunately for him, his mother is continually interfering. When Peter receives his first welfare check, he discovers that a few extra 0's have been added to the amount. \. So, Peter imorally indulges his family with his newfound wealth.

After some advice from Brian, Peter decides that it would be best to get rid of the money. Peter decides that during the SuperBowl, he will drop the money from a blimp. After being caught by the poilice, he is sent to jail, has his trial, and eventually released.

Rating: 9.0

I Never Met The Dead Man
While Peter s teaching Meg to drive, Peter crashes into a satellite dish and knocks out all of Quahong's cable television. Peter ends up having "TV withdrawl" and is on the virge of going insane. So, Lois urges him to start spending more time with his family.

After spending a day with his family, Peter can't get enough of it. However, cable is restored. The entire family is excited except for Peter who would rather go out. In comes William Shatner. He and Peter end up going to a Bavarian Folk Festival together.

Meanwhile, Stewie is waging a war against broccoli. He creates a weather control device to rid the world of broccoli by making it freezing cold. He set his device to freezing rain. At the same time, William Shatner and Peter are on their way back from the festival when it starts to rain. So, the two take their shoes off to run around in the rain barefoot. Andm alos at the exact same time, Lois takes Meg out on the road for a driving lesson. Unfortunately, due to the weather, Meg ends up hitting her father and William Shatner with the car, killing Mr. Shatner. As for Peter, while laying in a hospital, in a full-body cast, there is nothing for him to do but watch television. So, he resorts to his old ways.

Rating: 8.5

Chitty Chitty Death Bang
It is Stewie's first birthday, and the family is preparing for his party. After being given a check from Lois, for Cheesie Charlie's, Peter accidently revokes his reservation and is left without a place to have the party for Stewie. After giving the bad news to his wife, Peter quickly tells her that he has already hired entertainment to come to the house for Stewie's birthday party.

Meanwhile, Stewie thinks that this celebration is just a means to have him put back in the womb. He sees the docter that delivered him as the professional that his parents hired to put him back in the womb. So, he tries to hire a band a mercenaries from overseas to help him fight in combat. But, when he goes to the airport to book a flight, the people there assume that he just a lost child and think of him as a "run-away." It is then that Stewie realizes that it is up to him to face his fear one-on-one.

At the same time, Meg, being despirate for friends, ends up becoming friends with a cult member and is invited to a party/cult meeting. While there, Peter comes to bring her back home for Stewie's party and is followed by the cult leader. While the family is preparing the birthday cake, the cult leader enters the house, only to be greeted by Stewie. Stewie mistakes the sult leader as the evil doctor who gave him birth. So, Stewie ends up killing the cult leader to prevent his return to his mother's womb.

Rating: 9.5

Mind Over Murder
The episode begins with Stewie complaining about the pain of teething. At the same time, Peter is on a fishing boat with his friends, drinking beer. When he returns home, Lois complains about how little Peter does around the house. So, Peter is forced to drive his son, Chris to his soccer game. While there, he sees a friend (who happens to have beer), and decides to "down a few" with his friend. While drinking beer and watching Chris play soccer, he ends up getting into a fight with a mother and punches her in the face (thinking that he was a man due to her gruff exterior).

After punching the woman in the face, Peter is put under house arrest. While confined to his house, Peter realizes that his friends have better things to do than sit at Peter's house all day. Peter then realizes that if he builds a bar in his basement, his friends will want to hangout with him while he is under house arrest. His bar becomes an instant success with Peter's friends, but not with his wife.

At the same time, Stewie is still upset about the pain that he is going through, so he makes plans to create a time machine that will speed up the teething process. Later, Peter sees that Stewie is in pain and gives him a small taste of his whiskey. Needless to say, it instantly makes Stewie feel better.

After a relaxing bath, Lois goes down to the basement to talk with her husband and realizes that Stewie is drunk. While down there, Peter coaxes her into playing the piano and singer as entertainment for the crowd. Lois turns out to be spectacular and the bar crowd absolutely loves her. Unfortuneatley for Peter, he becomes jealous of his wife's instant success/popularity. Peter's friend begin to oggle his sexy wife, so Peter resorts to telling all of his friend's wives to drag them out of his basement.

On the same night, Lois comes across Stewie's blueprints for a time machine. Thinking that it was just a simple and loving drawing made for her, she proudly shows it to the crowd. Stewie is furious, and runs away cursing at everyone. Moments later, a crowd of wives enter the bar demanding that their husbands leave with them. Seeing how the party is going downhill, one of Peter's friends begins to leave, but accidently starts a fire by tossing a cigarrette into the trash.

The fire begins to become unbearable and Lois and Peter end up trapped in the basement. At the same time, Stewie is regretting ever making the blueprints for a time machine, so he decides to reverse time, and go back in time before he ever made the time machine. By reversing time, he not only puts an end to his inventions, but also saves his parents' lives.

Rating: 9.0

A Hero Sits Next Door
A handicapped person moves next door to Peter and his family. Peter needs him to play in a baseball game for his company, not knowing that he was in a wheelchair. He turns out to be the star of the game anyway and draws all the attentoin. Peter gets jealous because he his new neighbor is a cop and puts his life on the line everyday. Peter decides to rob a bank to impress his family and it goes all wrong and his neighbor needs to pull him out of it and does.

Stewie is fascinated by this man in a wheelchair (assuming that half man, half machine person is suppior). Stewie tries to take controll of it but doesn't know how and looses it.

This was a hilarious episode with many great scenes. Make sure you download it and some sound clips if you haven't already.

Rating: 9.5

The Son Also Draws
Peter has to prove he has American Indian blood in him to win back Lois' gambling losses at a reservation casino.

 

Rating:7.5

Brian: Portrait of a Dog: THE SEASON FINALE
To get enough money for the family to get an air condition, they need Brian to enter in a dog contest. It all goes well until Peter wants Brian to lose his pride as a dog to do a stupid trick. Brian runs away and gets thrown in jail for drinking at a water fountain. This event makes Brian go crazy and he starts biting people only for Peter to make up with him.

You don't see much of Stewie in this episode and that is why it is the worst yet.

Rating: 7.0