Review: Family Guy – Run, Chris, Run (S14Ep19)

And I run so far a-wa-aaay.

 

Spoilers Below

Chris found himself in the running for Homecoming King while Brian and Stewie were attempting to figure out the “how” and “why”. In what I thought would be a play on “Carrie”, it was refreshingly not. Cleveland felt excluded from the group and tried to find friendship with Jerome; causing Peter, Joe, and Quagmire to try to reconcile things with him in their own ways.

This episode came out swinging from the beginning. My eyes were opened wide when the word “smegma” came out of Chris’s mouth in his speech as to why he should be elected Homecoming King. Shortly after his riveting dialogue, he was miraculously crowned as the winner. Still a shock to Brian and Stewie, they looked for clues as to why this would happen. As they were watching TV, they saw a news program covering Chris emerging victorious and that’s when it all clicked – he won by a pity vote. They broadcasted the popular kids saying how they felt bad for how he looked and acted.

After getting stuck with the bill at the Clam, Cleveland decided that maybe it was time to separate a little from Peter, Quagmire, and Joe. They took it as it was a color thing instead of their lack of effort in the friendship. With that mentality, they showed up at Cleveland’s doorstep dressed as their favorite black characters; Peter and Joe both donned Baggar Vance costumes and Quagmire suited up as Kazaam.

I was also reminded how many flaws NES games had during this episode. Overdubbed YouTube clips from 2006 and 2009 (respectively) were used to simulate Peter and the gang playing Tecmo Super Bowl and Double Dribble.

It would be unjust not to mention that Stewie sat around a campfire with One Direction and Simon Cowell telling horror stories of pants that weren’t skinny jeans and shirts that weren’t extremely tight.

That’s 3 corner 3’s minus half a point for the cheapness of Bo Jackson.
If you or anyone you know has a game genie, let him out of the lamp. We all know you’d end up being stuck with a genie that looks like @Capo_Sandwich instead of Christina Aguilera.