Family Guy (Season 2)

Family Guy Season 2	Family Guy Season 2
DVD box set for Volume one.	
DVD box set for Volume one.
Series 	Family Guy
Country of origin 	United States
Network 	FOX
Original run 	September 23, 1999 –August 1, 2000
No. of episodes 	21
DVD release date 	Volume One – April 15, 2003 (Box set)
Previous season 	Season 1
Next season 	Season 3
Family Guy's second season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 23, 1999 to August 1, 2000 before being released as a DVD box set and in syndication. It premiered with the episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" and finished with "Fore Father". The second season of Family Guy continues the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the second season were David Zuckerman and series creator Seth MacFarlane.
By the end of the second season, due to low ratings, Fox resorted to canceling Family Guy. However, following a last-minute reprieve, it returned for a third season in 2001. The series was canceled again in 2002; however, high ratings on Adult Swim and high DVD sales renowned Fox's interest in the series. The series returned for a total of 35 new episodes in 2004.
The season received a favorable reception from critics, who called the series "extremely witty and darkly hilarious," and was "unfortunately" canceled. The Volume One DVD box set was released in Region 1 on April 15, 2003 and Region 2 on November 12, 2001. All twenty-one of the season's episodes are included in the volume. The first season's seven episodes were also included in the volume.
==Production==
In 2002, Family Guy was canceled after three seasons due to low ratings. The show was first canceled after the 1999–2000 season, but following a last-minute reprieve, it returned for a third season in 2001. 
During the third season, Fox announced that the show was canceled for good. Fox tried to sell rights for reruns of the show, but it was hard to find networks that were interested; Cartoon Network eventually bought the rights, "basically for free", according to the president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. When the reruns were shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2003, Family Guy became Adult Swim's most-watched show with an average 1.9 million viewers an episode. Following Family Guy's high ratings on Adult Swim, the first season was released on DVD in April 2003. Sales of the DVD set reached 2.2 million copies, becoming the best-selling television DVD of 2003 and the second highest-selling television DVD ever, behind the first season of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. The second season DVD release also sold more than a million copies. The show's popularity in both DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest in it. They ordered 35 new episodes in 2004, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales. Fox president Gail Berman said that it was one of her most difficult decisions to cancel the show, and was therefore happy it would return. The network also began production of a film based on the series.
==Reception==
The second season of Family Guy received favorable assessments from critics. Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk said "Often brilliant, extremely witty and darkly hilarious, Family Guy was unfortunately canceled after Fox bumped it around six or seven different time slots. Fans of the show should definitely pick up this terrific sets, while those who haven't seen it should consider giving it a look. Fewer critics responded negatively to the season, including Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly, who graded the series a "D", and named it the worst show of the 1999-2000 television season. Mark Graham noted "MacFarlane's incredibly rocky relationship with both the magazine and its lead television critic, Ken Tucker" in a blog on the New York magazine website. Tucker has also criticized the show for perceived anti-Semitism. L. Brent Bozell III expressed in a column of his written in 1999 that he felt that the episode "Holy Crap" promoted anti-Catholicism.
The Parents Television Council, a watchdog and frequent critic of Family Guy had initially speculated that Family Guy would be "pushing the envelope" before the series' 1998 premiere. In May 2000, in its weekly "E-Alert" email newsletter, the PTC launched a letter-writing campaign to the Fox network to persuade the network to cancel Family Guy following a return from a long hiatus in the show's second season, due to what the PTC claimed were "strong advertiser resistance and low ratings". In addition, Family Guy made the PTC's 2000 "worst prime-time shows for family viewing".
==List of episodes==
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* In the # column:
** The first number refers to the order it aired during the entire series.
** The second number refers to the episode number within its season.
===Season 2 episodes===
#	Title 	Directed By 	Written By 	Original Air Date 	Production Code	Episode Number	Total	Short Summary
1	"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater"	Jeff Myers 	Chris Sheridan 	September 23, 1999	1ACX08 	1 	8 	One of Lois' relatives passes away, leaving Lois and the rest of the family her posh summer mansion in a will. However, when Peter becomes convinced that he is rich and ultimately bids $100 million at a charity auction, he attempts to convince the landowners his house is valuable enough to trade instead. After several futile attempts to "prove" that Cherrywood Manor has enough historical value to cover the bid, Peter makes up with Lois and uncovers a set of hidden photographs which show several prominent American figures (including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant) at Cherrywood Manor, which was a whorehouse at the time. This discovery allows Peter to buy back his home after selling the pictures to the tabloids.
2	"Holy Crap" 	Neil Affleck 	Danny Smith 	September 30, 1999	1ACX11 	2 	9 	Peter's devoutly religious, recently retired father Francis comes to visit, though he is intolerant of the others and makes life miserable for them; nevertheless, Peter tries to bond with him, since he had always been neglectful of his son. When all else fails, Peter resorts to kidnapping the Pope by taking the place of his regular driver to settle their conflict. He then brings the Pope back to his house, where His Holiness attempts to mediate his problems. Afterwards, Peter reconciles with Francis, who is hired for the job of working as the Pope's security guard during his tour of the United States, pushing down people who are not allowed to be near the Pope and those who are allowed to be near the Pope, but are in his way, including Fox personnel, much to the Pope's dismay. At the end of the episode, Peter's mom shows up at the door and wishes to live with the family, prompting them to flee the house in an escape pod.
3	"Da Boom" 	Bob Jacques 	Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan	December 26, 1999 	2ACX06 	3 	10 	After a man in a chicken suit warns Peter that the world will end because of Y2K, Peter locks his family up in their basement on December 31, 1999. A nuclear holocaust then occurs, destroying much of the world and mutating, injuring, and killing many of the citizens of Quahog. The family then travel with the surviving citizens of Quahog to Natick, in hopes that the Twinkie factory survived; during the process, Stewie is exposed to the radiation and mutates into an octopus. However, upon their arrival, they find the factory to be deserted, and must survive alongside the citizens of the city in Natick (dubbed "New Quahog"). Peter is elected head of the town, but makes several fatal mistakes and is chased out of "New Quahog" alongside his family by an angry mob, singing "Left foot, right foot" the whole way out. The episode ends with a sequence involving Pamela Barnes Ewing waking up to find her husband Bobby in the shower. She tells him about the episode, which was a dream, thus retconning the entire episode, a parody of the Dallas episode "Blast from the Past".
4	"Brian in Love" 	Jack Dyer 	Gary Janetti 	March 7, 2000 	2ACX01 	4 	11 	Stewie is blamed for urinating all over the house; however, it is actually Brian who is responsible; after urinating on the carpet once more overnight, Stewie is blamed. The next morning, Peter decides to potty train Stewie, with little success. When the family goes to the local supermarket to buy groceries, Brian urinates in the checkout line, revealing to the family that Stewie is innocent. The family attempts to counsel Brian with therapy, where Brian's psychiatrist Dr. Kaplan believes that he is having a mid-life crisis. Brain attempts to entertain himself by exploring the world, but upon returning home, Stewie gets revenge on Brian and frames him by urinating all over the living room. Brian is falsely accused and the family return him to Dr. Kaplan to find the true cause. After revealing that his most recent accident happened after watching Lois and Peter engaging in a water fight on the car, Dr. Kaplan informs Brian that he is most likely in love with Lois. After discussing the situation, both agree to remain friends. Afterwards, Brian decides to live life to the fullest by golfing with Peter on the local golf course.
5	"Love Thy Trophy" 	Jack Dyer 	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman 	March 14, 2000 	1ACX13 	5 	12 	The neighbors fight over a trophy won for the best parade float, and when it ends up getting stolen, everyone in town becomes a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Meg takes a job as a waitress at a pancake restaurant to earn money for a Prada bag, and claims that Stewie is her crack-addicted son for sympathy tips.
6	"Death Is a Bitch" 	Michael DiMartino 	Ricky Blitt 	March 21, 2000 	1ACX14 	6 	13 	Peter gets out of paying a hefty hospital bill by declaring that he's dead, only to get a surprise visit from Death himself. However, Death injures himself while chasing Peter and is unable to do his job, which makes everyone on Earth immortal, so Peter must stand in as the new Grim Reaper.
7	"The King Is Dead" 	Monte Young 	Craig Hoffman 	March 28, 2000 	1ACX15 	7 	14 	Lois is appointed the director of Quahog's theatre company after the former director dies and attempts to produce The King and I. She appoints Peter as the producer to keep him out of her way, but his plans to recreate the play send him on a power trip that replaces her as the show's director.
8	"I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" 	Monte Young 	Chris Sheridan 	March 28, 2000 	2ACX02 	8 	15 	After telling a sexist joke at work, Peter is forced to go to a women's retreat camp and comes back acting sensitive and effeminate. Lois and the others become greatly disturbed by his new attitude, and when his condition worsens, they do everything in their power to restore his manhood.
9	"If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'" 	Swinton O. Scott III	Chris Sheridan 	April 4, 2000 	1ACX12 	9 	16 	When Peter and Chris' favorite TV show is cancelled, Peter pretends Chris is terminally ill and tells the "Grant-A-Dream Foundation" that his "final wish" is to get the show back on the air. When Chris doesn't die, however, Peter goes too far and declares himself to be a healer, starting his own religion.
==DVD release==
The Volume One DVD box set was released in Region 1 on April 15, 2003 and Region 2 on November 12, 2001. All twenty one of the season's episodes are included in the volume. The first season's twenty-one episodes were also included in the volume.
Volume 1 	Volume 1 	Volume 1 	Volume 1
Set Details 	Set Details 	Set Details 	Special Features
* 28 episodes
* 4-disc set
* 1.33:1 aspect ratio
* Languages:
** English (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)
** French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
** Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)	
* 28 episodes
* 4-disc set
* 1.33:1 aspect ratio
* Languages:
** English (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)
** French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
** Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)	
* 28 episodes
* 4-disc set
* 1.33:1 aspect ratio
* Languages:
** English (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)
** French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
** Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0, with subtitles)	
* Optional commentaries for "Death Has a Shadow", "The Son Also Draws", "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater", "Holy Crap", "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", "Let's Go to the Hop", "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", and "E. Peterbus Unum"
* Behind-the-scenes featurette
* Online promo spots
Release Dates 	Release Dates 	Release Dates	
* Optional commentaries for "Death Has a Shadow", "The Son Also Draws", "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater", "Holy Crap", "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", "Let's Go to the Hop", "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", and "E. Peterbus Unum"
* Behind-the-scenes featurette
* Online promo spots
Region 1 	Region 2 	Region 4 	
* Optional commentaries for "Death Has a Shadow", "The Son Also Draws", "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater", "Holy Crap", "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", "Let's Go to the Hop", "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", and "E. Peterbus Unum"
* Behind-the-scenes featurette
* Online promo spots
April 15, 2003	November 12, 2001	2003 	
* Optional commentaries for "Death Has a Shadow", "The Son Also Draws", "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater", "Holy Crap", "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", "Let's Go to the Hop", "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", and "E. Peterbus Unum"
* Behind-the-scenes featurette
* Online promo spots
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