Seahorse Seashell Party

**Seahorse Seashell Party** is the second episode of the tenth season of the American animated television sitcom *Family Guy*, and the 167th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on October 2, 2011. It is also the second part of "The Night of the Hurricane" crossover special.

## Summary

Taking place during the events of *The Cleveland Show* and *American Dad*, the Griffins are homebound during the hurricane and are stuck without any electricity for 36 hours. Brian gets addicted to drugs and nearly has a heart attack. Meanwhile, a fed up Meg lashes out at her family after she "interrupts" Peter's humming and lets out an episode long rant at them.

## Why we wish a hurricane would blow this episode away?

1. To start things off, this episode is a MASSIVE Meg torture episode! She is once again abused and neglected by her family. And once we get to Peter's obnoxious humming, she opens a can of soda in which he scolds her just for that causing her to snap at him.
2. This episode is worse than the other Hurricane episode of the Family Guy universe, in this case *The Cleveland Show* hurricane episode, which is a ripoff of Not All Dogs Go to Heaven when Cleveland Jr. reveals that he dumped Christianity after Cleveland and Loretta split up.
3. This episode is extremely boring, uneventful, and has a very predictable plot.
4. Peter, Lois and Chris are completely unlikeable and mean-spirited in this episode when they scold Meg just for lashing out at Peter.
5. While her family is unlikeable, Meg is at her worst in this episode when she criticizes them.
6. Brian's subplot is NOT helping its case when he becomes a drug addict and cuts off his ear.
7. All it takes for Brian to be cured of drugs is a drink of water which completely wastes the entire subplot of this episode.
8. The Italian Guy vs The Black Woman and the Irish bar fight cutaways are downright racist.
9. Meg calling Chris a fat, zitty loser who has no friends is not true (apart from being fat), because he has friends, but they are not around much.
10. Lois is a son of a bitch who chimes in on the argument and tells Meg that she's just taking her own problems and anger out on everyone else.
11. Meg mentioning Lois being "the shoplifter, the drug addict, the pornstar" and "the who\*e who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton (U: climb inside her/C: go to town on her)" is completely distasteful, even though she learned from those mistakes.
12. Meg telling Lois that when she turns 18, she never wants to see her family again foreshadows the events of "Quagmire and Meg", when she dates Quagmire to get revenge on them.
13. Lois' crying is annoying, because it's proof that she's a bitchy mother.
14. Meg indirectly mentions the events of the previous episode, when she tells Peter that he "drinks way too much and barely makes enough money to support his family!", which he nearly got them homeless.
15. After Meg rants at Peter for his failure as a father, he flat out ignores her and tries to get Lois to shut her up.
16. According to Chris, Lois is the reason they have brussel sprouts and broccoli for dinner like an Irish bar fight and Peter is the reason he never gets to have any Dannon Yogurts.
17. This episode gives out two bad morals that things will only get worse if you stand up for yourself and being bullied will prevent arguments.
18. In the most infamous, controversal, and infuriating scene/ending of this episode, Meg apologizes for standing up to her family and tells them to keep harassing her for the rest of her life and never mention her argument again. It becomes completely pointless when they hug it out.

## Redeeming Qualities

1. This episode at least has a call back to "Dial Meg for Murder", when she beats up everyone who harasses her.
2. The first few minutes were decent, up until Peter's super-obnoxious humming causes Meg to snap.
3. Some scenes are funny like The Italian Guy vs The Black Woman, the Irish bar fight (both depending on your view), "Stewie just said that!", and the "I faked all my orgasms" part.
4. Peter, Lois, and Chris do get their comeuppance throughout the entire episode, up until Meg ruins it at the end.
5. Despite its controversal ending, Stewie talking about drugs to the viewers is actually pretty funny.
6. In response to this episode, Meg has been less abused and more likable since Season 15 in 2016.

## How to fix this episode?!

* Instead of it showing Meg lashing out at her family and Brian's drug addiction, at least have Peter and Lois tell a story about how one of their kids were born.
* Censor out Brian's nightmare sequence.
* Cut the entire scene with Peter humming the opening chase music from *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*.
* Cut the two offensive cutaways of this episode.
* At least change the controversial ending into a happy ending where Peter, Lois and Chris make amends with Meg and they treat her like a princess until she at least goes to college.

## Reception

This episode was universally panned by critics as one of, if not the worst episodes of the entire series as it shows Meg ranting at her family about how awful they are. That and the ending received controversy and criticism from fans and viewers in relation to real life bullying for people. This episode and the ending would ironically lead to Meg's death in the future by her family if canon or not. Some fans and viewers stopped watching the show after this episode aired.

## Trivia

* This episode is part of "The Night of the Hurricane" crossover special.
* Peter hums the opening chase music from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", which is used at the very beginning of the film.
* This episode is not the only one that received criticism and controversy from Fox Animation Domination in the 2011-12 season. The next episode of the tenth season of Family Guy received criticism in relation to domestic violence and sexual assault and The Simpsons also had the most controversial episode called, "Lisa Goes Gaga" which was a terrible way to end Season 23 due to that episode being the same as the now banned episode Stark Raving Dad except featuring the most popular female singer Lady Gaga and it also shows the way they treated Lisa Simpson because of how unpopular she is.
* This episode was so controversial that Freeform and FXX (and formerly TBS and Adult Swim) almost never air this on TV (much less than "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Quagmire" and/or "Life of Brian").
* Stewie makes a point about drug addiction at the end and is not a laughing matter and suggests that the viewers should visit their local library to learn more about drugs.