# Family Guy season 11

The eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy aired on Fox from September 30, 2012, to May 19, 2013. The season consisted of 22 episodes.
The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional 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 executive producers for the tenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The showrunners are Appel and Callaghan, with Appel replacing previous showrunner Hentemann.
In this season, the Griffins decide to climb Mount Everest ("Into Fat Air"); Lois has a mid-life crisis ("Lois Comes Out of Her Shell"); Meg falls for a boy who turns out to like her brother Chris ("Friends Without Benefits"); and Brian and Stewie leap into action after they discover the company owned by Lois's dad, Carter Pewterschmidt, has found the cure for cancer ("The Old Man and the Big 'C'"). This season also features the 200th episode of the series.
Further episode plots were revealed at Comic-Con 2012. Quagmire accidentally marries a hooker ("The Giggity Wife"), on episode 21, Peter becomes a meth dealer ("Farmer Guy"), and Chris moves in with Herbert ("Chris Cross"). Also, Brian and Stewie travel to Vegas by teleportation, but instead the device malfunctions and ends up cloning them, where two pairs of Brian and Stewie both go on a road trip to Vegas, with each pair having different experiences, in another '"Road to..."' episode as part of the season finale ("Roads to Vegas").
A Valentine's Day episode, aired on February 10, 2013, in which Stewie rounds up all of Brian's ex-girlfriends, who take delight in pointing out Brian's flaws ("Valentine's Day in Quahog").
The episode "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" was scheduled to air on December 16, 2012, but was replaced by a repeat of "Grumpy Old Man" out of sensitivity for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The episode aired the following week on December 23, 2012.
Guest voices for this season include J. J. Abrams, Mark Burnett, Dick Wolf, Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Banks, Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta, Anne Murray, Christina Milian, Lacey Chabert, and Johnny Depp.
On July 21, 2013, the season started on BBC Three in the UK.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 189 | 1 | "Into Fat Air" | Joseph Lee | Alec Sulkin | September 30, 2012 (2012-9-30) | 9ACX21 | 6.55 |
| The Griffins attempt to climb Mt. Everest because Lois gets competitive again with her ex, Ross Fishman. Unfortunately, the Fishmans win the competition but danger approaches in Mt. Everest and the Fishmans' son, Ben, had froze to death. In order to survive, the Griffins decide to feast on Ben's corpse and then successfully rescue the Fishmans before they die looking for him. ||||||||
| 190 | 2 | "Ratings Guy" | James Purdum | Dave Ihlenfeld & David Wright | October 7, 2012 (2012-10-7) | AACX01 | 6.70 |
| When the Griffins become a member of the Nielsen Family, Peter decides to rig the ratings, this leads to a angry mob to let him know that he has crossed the boundaries with his absurd changes, so Peter must find a way to restore television back to normal. Note: This episode was dedicated to Phyllis Diller and Michael Clarke Duncan ||||||||
| 191 | 3 | "The Old Man and the Big 'C'" | Brian Iles | Mike Desilets & Anthony Blasucci | November 4, 2012 (2012-11-4) | 9ACX22 | 5.11 |
| When Brian discovers that Carter’s pharmaceutical company is withholding the cure for cancer from the public in order to gain more profit, he and Stewie plot to expose the big secret that could change the world. Meanwhile, Quagmire accidentally loses his toupée going for a fly ball at a Red Sox game and it is put up on the scoreboard and YouTube, so he decides to ditch the wig. ||||||||
| 192 | 4 | "Yug Ylimaf" | John Holmquist | Mark Hentemann | November 11, 2012 (2012-11-11) | AACX04 | 5.57 |
| When Brian accidentally reverses the direction of time on Stewie’s time machine, the duo find a way to reset the direction of time before Stewie is "unborn." ||||||||
| 193 | 5 | "Joe's Revenge" | Bob Bowen | Julius Sharpe | November 18, 2012 (2012-11-18) | AACX03 | 5.14 |
| When Joe’s former enemy, Bobby Briggs becomes a fugitive, Quagmire, Joe, and Peter team up to hunt Bobby down before it’s too late. ||||||||
| 194 | 6 | "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" | Joe Vaux | Danny Smith | November 25, 2012 (2012-11-25) | AACX05 | 5.77 |
| When Lois goes through a midlife crisis, her ripe 20-year-old behavior stresses Peter out. Meanwhile, Stewie finds and adopts a turtle in the park and names him Sheldon, who seeks to kill him, so Stewie tries to get rid of him once and for all. ||||||||
| 195 | 7 | "Friends Without Benefits" | Jerry Langford | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | December 9, 2012 (2012-12-9) | AACX02 | 5.64 |
| When Meg learns that her crush Kent reveals to be gay, she decides that having Chris sleep with Kent can be her next idea, but when he refuses, she plans to drug him and have Kent have sex with him while he is asleep. ||||||||
| 196 | 8 | "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" | Julius Wu | Tom Devanney | December 23, 2012 (2012-12-23) | AACX07 | 5.49 |
| As the Griffin family prepare for Christmas, Peter tells his own version of the Nativity story. ||||||||
| 197 | 9 | "Space Cadet" | Pete Michels | Alex Carter | January 6, 2013 (2013-1-6) | AACX06 | 7.21 |
| After Chris gets sent to space camp, he realizes that it is more than he can handle and asks to come home. But while the Griffins are there to get him, they look inside a rocket and Stewie launches them into space, and it’s up to Chris to bring his family and himself back to earth. ||||||||
| 198 | 10 | "Brian's Play" | Joseph Lee | Gary Janetti | January 13, 2013 (2013-1-13) | AACX08 | 6.01 |
| Brian writes a play that becomes a big success in Quahog but grows jealous when he finds that the play Stewie wrote is better than his, causing a augment. ||||||||
| 199 | 11 | "The Giggity Wife" | Brian Iles | Andrew Goldberg | January 27, 2013 (2013-1-27) | AACX09 | 5.63 |
| When Quagmire accidentally marries a washed up prostitute named Charmese during a visit to Harvard University in Massachusetts with Peter and Joe. He knows the only way for him to get a divorce is to prove to Charmese that he is homosexual, he asks Peter for help from getting married. ||||||||
| 200 | 12 | "Valentine's Day in Quahog" | Bob Bowen | Daniel Palladino | February 10, 2013 (2013-2-10) | AACX11 | 4.71 |
| To engage in romance for Valentine's Day, Peter and Lois decide to spend the day in bed. Meanwhile, Stewie travels back in time to the '60's and "visits" a small girl who turns out to be his infant mother to his dismay; Meg learns a secret about the boy she met online; Quagmire learns to treat women with respect or else; Chris grows a crush on Herbert's niece; Consuela crosses the border to reunite with her husband; Brian is visited by his ex-girlfriends; and Mayor West saves Carol from making another love mistake. ||||||||
| 201 | 13 | "Chris Cross" | Jerry Langford | Anthony Blasucci & Mike Desilets | February 17, 2013 (2013-2-17) | AACX10 | 4.87 |
| Unable to buy new sneakers, Chris decides to purloin money from Lois's purse, but is caught by Meg, who blackmails him into doing her chores, he gets fed up and takes off to live with Herbert, When he pushes things too far by making a mess and refusing to get ready for a night out, Herbert expels him out of his house. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes obsessed with Anne Murray and makes Brian also love her too. ||||||||
| 202 | 14 | "Call Girl" | John Holmquist | Wellesley Wild | March 10, 2013 (2013-3-10) | AACX12 | 5.27 |
| When Peter loses everything in a lawsuit, Lois decides to get a job, where she starts working on a phone sex line, which ends up with Peter as a client. ||||||||
| 203 | 15 | "Turban Cowboy" | Joe Vaux | Artie Johann & Shawn Ries | March 17, 2013 (2013-3-17) | AACX13 | 4.92 |
| After a skydiving accident, Peter befriends a Muslim man named Mahmoud, who convinces Peter to convert to Islam, only to reveal himself to Peter that he is a radical terrorist, leaving Joe and Quagmire with suspicions about Mahmoud. ||||||||
| 204 | 16 | "12 and a Half Angry Men" | Pete Michels | Ted Jessup | March 24, 2013 (2013-3-24) | AACX14 | 5.16 |
| Mayor West is brought on trial for murder, it is up to the citizens of Quahog to determine if he is guilty or not, where Brian is on jury and tries to clear his name. ||||||||
| 205 | 17 | "Bigfat" | Julius Wu | Brian Scully | April 14, 2013 (2013-4-14) | AACX15 | 5.02 |
| When Peter, Quagmire and Joe decide to take a road trip to Canada, their plane crashes and Peter goes missing for a few months. When his family find him in the woods, he can no longer communicate intelligibly, so the Griffins decide to revert Peter back to his normal state. ||||||||
| 206 | 18 | "Total Recall" | Joseph Lee | Kristin Long | April 28, 2013 (2013-4-28) | AACX16 | 4.89 |
| After Rupert is recalled, Stewie and Brian head on an adventure to reclaim Rupert. Meanwhile, Peter is replaced by Lois in his bowling tournament mainly because of him being sick. However, he begins to get annoyed by the brewing friendship between his wife and his friends. ||||||||
| 207 | 19 | "Save the Clam" | Brian Iles | Chris Sheridan | May 5, 2013 (2013-5-5) | AACX18 | 4.79 |
| When Horace is killed during a softball game, it is up to Peter and the others to try and stop the Clam from being shut down by the bank. Meanwhile, Meg gets a job at a funeral home. ||||||||
| 208 | 20 | "Farmer Guy" | Mike Kim | Patrick Meighan | May 12, 2013 (2013-5-12) | AACX19 | 4.82 |
| After Peter buys a farm and sells the house on Craigslist to flee from Quahog's rising crime situation, he becomes a meth dealer, which causes the family to be responsible for a flood of drugs into Quahog and the citizens to be hooked on meth. ||||||||
| 209 | 21 | "Roads to Vegas" | Greg Colton | Steve Callaghan | May 19, 2013 (2013-5-19) | AACX20 | 5.28 |
| Brian and Stewie decide to spend a trip in Las Vegas. But when they attempt to use a teleporter to get there, a glitch in the system causes the duo to get split into two pieces each, with one pairing having a good time while the other has the bad time. ||||||||
| 210 | 22 | "No Country Club for Old Men" | Jerry Langford | Teresa Hsiao | May 19, 2013 (2013-5-19) | AACX21 | 5.16 |
| The Griffins join a country club after Chris begins dating a girl named Amanda and scores an invitation for the family to the Barrington Country Club as she is a member of the Barrington family, however, this leads with Peter ending up getting Carter, as well with the others, thrown out of his country club. ||||||||

## Reception

The season received mixed reviews. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club gave a C+ rating for the season.
Review grades :
| # | Title | Air date | The A.V. Club (A-F) | TV Fanatic (5) | Sources |
| 1 | "Into Fat Air" | September 30, 2012 (2012-9-30) | C | 3.3 | |
| 2 | "Ratings Guy" | October 7, 2012 (2012-10-7) | B- | 3.4 | |
| 3 | "The Old Man and the Big 'C'" | November 4, 2012 (2012-11-4) | B | 3.0 | |
| 4 | "Yug Ylimaf" | November 11, 2012 (2012-11-11) | C | 4.2 | |
| 5 | "Joe's Revenge" | November 18, 2012 (2012-11-18) | B | 4.0 | |
| 6 | "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" | November 25, 2012 (2012-11-25) | B- | 3.6 | |
| 7 | "Friends Without Benefits" | December 9, 2012 (2012-12-9) | B | 2.3 | |
| 8 | "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" | December 23, 2012 (2012-12-23) | C | 3.5 | |
| 9 | "Space Cadet" | January 6, 2013 (2013-1-6) | B- | 3.0 | |
| 10 | "Brian's Play" | January 13, 2013 (2013-1-13) | A- | 4.0 | |
| 11 | "The Giggity Wife" | January 27, 2013 (2013-1-27) | C- | 2.2 | |
| 12 | "Valentine's Day in Quahog" | February 10, 2013 (2013-2-10) | B | 4.6 | |
| 13 | "Chris Cross" | February 17, 2013 (2013-2-17) | C | 1.5 | |
| 14 | "Call Girl" | March 10, 2013 (2013-3-10) | C- | 3.2 | |
| 15 | "Turban Cowboy" | March 17, 2013 (2013-3-17) | D | 2.5 | |
| 16 | "12 and a Half Angry Men" | March 24, 2013 (2013-3-24) | B- | — | |
| 17 | "Bigfat" | April 14, 2013 (2013-4-14) | C | 2.8 | |
| 18 | "Total Recall" | April 28, 2013 (2013-4-28) | C- | 3.4 | |
| 19 | "Save the Clam" | May 5, 2013 (2013-5-5) | B | 3.0 | |
| 20 | "Farmer Guy" | May 12, 2013 (2013-5-12) | B | 2.0 | |
| 21 | "Roads to Vegas" | May 19, 2013 (2013-5-19) | B+ | 4.4 | |
| 22 | "No Country Club for Old Men" | May 19, 2013 (2013-5-19) | C+ | 1.5 | |
| Season | Season | Season | C+ | 2.4 | |
| Average | Average | Average | C+ | 3.1 | Average |