Family Guy (season 20) (Johnsonverse)

The twentieth season of Family Guy aired on Fox from September 26, 2021, to May 22, 2022.
The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, Meg's girlfriend Courtney, and the family dogs Brian and Vinny, who reside in their hometown of Quahog.
During this season, the Griffin men spend a day with Stewie's rival Doug (LASIK Instinct), Peter has a secret meal affair with Bonnie (Cootie & The Blowhard), the Griffins must cover the death of a pizza delivery man and deliver pizzas to the rest of Quahog (The Lois Quagmire), Lois and Carter attend the funeral of Lois' old babysitter (Peterschmidt Manor), Meg becomes a getaway driver and dates a robber (Hard Boiled Meg), Stewie helps Chris put on a school play for Romeo + Juliet (The Jersey Bore), and Peter and Chris go on a road trip to Canada to prove the existence of Chris' girlfriend (Girlfriend, Eh?). This season also featured a cameo from Mike Judge, who reprised his role as Hank Hill from the American television series King of the Hill, who previously cameoed in Season 18 as Beavis and Butt-Head.
Season twenty premiered the run of the nineteenth production season, which is executive produced by Seth MacFarlane, Tim Johnson, Chloe Johnson, Alec Sulkin, Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Tom Devanney, and Patrick Meighan. The Johnson twins returned as the series' showrunners.
The season premiered on ITV2 (UK) Monday 8th August 2022.
== Production ==
On September 23, 2020, Fox announced that Family Guy had been renewed for a twentieth and twenty-first season, ensuring that the series would last another two years.
This season also marks the first full season of the series in which Cleveland Brown is voiced by Arif Zahir, following Mike Henry's departure from the role. Henry continues to voice Herbert and other characters. Before the premiere, Henry sent a video on Twitter saying that he was "handing the torch" onto Zahir and said a farewell message in Cleveland's voice.
Starting with "Rock Hard", long-time recurring actor Patrick Warburton was promoted to the main cast.
=== 20th anniversary ===
Fox celebrated the twentieth season with a special digital panel, with a promotional trailer unveiled during the San Diego Comic-Con 2021 Virtual Convention, teasing clips from the season. In commemoration, FXX set a near full series marathon of all 19 seasons of the show, running from December 25, 2021 to January 2, 2022. A promotional PSA short made to promote COVID-19 vaccines was released on September 21, 2021. MacFarlane himself remarked on the show's milestone.“We’re really excited to continue marketing to the key ‘force of habit’ demographic for a nearly unprecedented 20th season, Our longtime fans who will continue to only occasionally glance up from their computers or phones every so often can look forward to being disappointed all over again that they fought so hard to bring this show back. Whether they’re laughing at the occasional brilliant or biting satirical take, or groaning at our lazy, lowbrow, punch-down jokes, they can at least remember how this show used to be well-written and subversive while arranging anonymous hookups on Grindr."
=== Release ===
The season premiered on September 26, 2021, airing on Sundays as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, along with The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Duncanville and The Great North. In the UK, the season started airing new episodes every Wednesday on Netflix starting on November 3. In Australia new episodes air weekly on Netflix simultaneously with 7 Mate.
=== Critical reception ===
== Episodes ==
# LASIK Instinct (written by Chloe Johnson) - Lois accidentally hits Doug with her car while dropping Stewie off at daycare. Doug's parents state in order to prevent them from pressing charges, Lois has to build Doug a tree house and go get her eyes checked, and she agrees to have the boys build it while she goes to the doctor to check out her vision. Dr. Hartman convinces Lois to get LASIK to correct her vision. However, the surgery is botched thanks to Dr. Hartman's cat, so she is rendered blind. Lois feels unseen as a result, so Meg, who feels unseen all the time, advises her mother to vent online, which is the only normal technique that makes her feel better. Lois becomes an internet celebrity as she starts the ICU program and exploits her condition for financial gain, but is surprised to discover her sight has come back. She attempts to keep the charade going until she accidentally outs herself on The Helen Disingenuous Show upon Reese Witherspoon bringing out a giant check, where she owns up to her mistakes. Meanwhile, after building Doug's tree house, the male Griffins are tasked to keep spending time with Doug in order to avoid a lawsuit by his father. Eventually, a fed up Stewie tells Doug they would rather be sued, since Peter basically has nothing, seeing as he drove Brian's car there. Stewie tries to call Doug's father to end the deal, but learns he was just faking the extra demands to make up for his father's neglect, and actually enjoyed their time together. Doug's dad arrives only to get his phone from Doug and immediately leaves to be with his mistress. While Brian and Chris plan to poop in the shoes of Doug's father, Stewie agrees to be friends with him in private as long as they remain rivals in public.
# Chaos with Ms. Armstrong (written by Belle Armstrong) - Meg and Courtney meet their owner's wife, Belle Armstrong, while Peter sings Surfin' Bird once again, Peter then fights Lois in a one-on-one fight,
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