Mixed assessments came from Robin Pierson of "The TV Critic", giving the season an overall mixed score of 59 out of 100. Though he praised the series as "a different kind of animated comedy which clearly sets out to do jokes which other cartoons can't do" and found "enough promise to believe the show could become really funny", he criticized the season's "slightly lame collection of flashback jokes." Pierson considered "I Never Met the Dead Man" to be the best episode of the season, and regarded "The Son Also Draws" as the season's poorest. The ending joke of "The Son Also Draws" (which consisted of Peter stating that "Canada sucks"), caused controversy with Canadian viewers. Ken Tucker gave the series a D in "Entertainment Weekly", calling the animation clunky, which he said made Hanna-Barbera's animation look state-of-the-art. He also hoped that smart people would use the "Family Guy" half hour to turn off the television set and start a debate over the air strikes in Kosovo. The premiere of "Family Guy" was the Super Bowl XXXIII lead out program, achieving a total of 22.01 million viewers.