Disney's The Reboot
Family Guy looks for a makeover.
Season: 18 Episode: 04
Total Episode Count: 333
Prod. no.: JACX02
First Aired: October 20, 2019
Featuring: Griffin Family
Also Appearing: Quagmire, Joe, Cleveland, Patty, Ruth Cochamer, Neil Goldman, Bert, Tricia Takanawa, Jerome, Von Jiner, Smarmy, Dana Walden, Judy Greer, Gary Newman
Musical Numbers: Theme From ''Lois''
Director: Greg Colton
Writers: Kirker Butler
Storyboarders: Annemarie Brown, Dante Leandado, Michael Rundle
Plot:
Disney conducts focus groups with the thought of rebooting the show. Their first effort is on Lois, changing her into a busy executive up-and-comer with Peter relegated to a house husband. When she's nearly cheated out of a promotion at work, Peter poses as a big executive who credits Lois for landing his contract, but Lois tries to insist that she saved herself, with the pair ripping off successive masks until Peter is left as a bare skull. This concept fails to generate any interest in the focus group who is busy with their own lives.
The next effort is titled The Q, an angsty teen drama. After Meg is killed, the teams all go to a club. When Patty slips away to get her nipples hard, she is attacked by a wolf. The rest of the teens as well as Quagmire follow, revealing themselves to be minor Marvel characters. Before they can act, Peter kills the wolf, having been the town sheriff all along. This concept also meets with indifference from the group.
The third effort features most of the cast fired except for Chris and a few secondary characters, having killed the rest off or their having moved away. Chris and Tricia Takanawa are cohabiting with Joe sharing a room, but when Joe becomes troublesome, he is tossed out. The group wants to call it quits as Peter angrily confronts them. Finding out they want something binge-worthy, he quickly presents a show that only features a few moments of footage an episode. Bouncing around other ideas, he finds that the group likes other shows so he creates other short versions of them. The host of the group suddenly announces that Family Guy will remain as-is after the executives discover that the orders to change the show came from a squirrel that snuck into the building.
The family is happy just to have the show the way it normally is, although they can see one little concession had to be made as Joe arrives with his big band records with the mandate to include more of him in the show.
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