page_title: Fighting Irish (Family Guy)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Fighting Irish (Family Guy) / Production
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Liam Neeson au festival de Deauville English: Liam Neeson at the Deauville Film festival
context_page_description: "Fighting Irish" is the seventeenth episode of the thirteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 248th episode overall but it is advertised as the 250th episode. It aired on Fox in the United States on May 3, 2015, and is written by Jaydi Samuels and directed by Brian Iles.
  In the episode, Peter's friends grow tired of his drunken boasts that he can beat up Irish actor and former amateur boxing champion Liam Neeson; when Neeson finds out, he promises not to beat up Peter if he becomes his personal servant. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes jealous of the attention Lois gives to another boy.
context_section_description: The episode was written by Jaydi Samuels, who started out in 2008 as a production assistant on Family Guy.  The show's writers were excited after Neeson agreed to say any line that they wrote except, "I’ve been a world-famous tough guy since 56", which he altered on the basis that he was 55 when he filmed Taken.
  In an interview with Entertainment Weekly ahead of the thirteenth season, Family Guy executive producer Steve Callaghan told reporter Dan Snierson of Neeson's performance in the episode "This ranks up there with Taken. Maybe not Taken 2, but definitely Taken".
  Neeson had previously been parodied in the episode "Prick Up Your Ears", in which John Viener played him in a joke mocking his attempts at an American accent. He also had a cameo role as himself in the twelfth season episode "Brian's a Bad Father".
caption: Liam Neeson voiced himself in the episode.
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