REVIEW: FAMILY GUY “FRIENDS WITHOUT BENEFITS”
Episode Synopsis: Meg finally screws up the courage to ask out her crush, Kent, who unfortunately for her, turns out to be gay. But when she learns he’s taken a liking to Chris, Meg uses her brother to ingratiate herself with Kent. Original Air Date: Dec 9, 2012
Guest Cast Chris Cox: Kent Christina Milian: Esther
Spoilers Below
To start off the episode, Meg is at lunch with her friends staring at a guy named Kent and yells ‘There’s the reason why my bed post is so shiny” which might be the most wrong thing I’ve ever heard. Yep, Meg has the hots for a jock named Kent of whom she wants to have space sex with her. Later, Stewie and Brian find Meg’s diary and go to town reading all about this Kent guy. Turns out this guy is on Meg’s mind all the time and as such she decides to work up the courage to ask this poor bastard out.After calling the guy, Meg asks Kent out of which he says yes thereby getting her PUMPED!
Meg and Kent go to the movies, but when Meg tries to go in for the good night kiss, he breaks the news to her that he’s gay and would rather bang out her brother, Chris instead of her. Despite Brian trying to get out of talking to her, Meg tells all and decides to make sure Kent becomes straight as an arrow. After meeting with Chris and his deaf friends, Kent decides to ask out Chris of which the fat kid says yes. When she hears about it, Meg tries to plea her case, but Kent seems pretty adamant about sleeping with her brother. Soon, Meg thinks of this as a good idea, because if Kent bangs out Chris, Meg can just ask her brother how it was so she can get some closure.
Meanwhile, Stewie thinks that he is the brother that Kent wants and as such thinks he’s a bad ass. But, when Chris hears about Meg’s proposal he wants nothing to do with it. Meg decides to get some backup in the form of drugs, and after a trip to Quagmire’s gets a hold of a bunch of roofies of which she plans to use on her brother. Despite the fact that she later backs out, Meg has to come clean when Kent breaks into the house to bang out Chris, but instead he leaves in disgust leaving the Griffins in the dust(Stewie included).
Cutaway Gags
Space Sex, Peter at a diner, Printing Press, Kent and Meg on a horse, Job Exchange, Philly Prequel, Adrien Brody 3D, Jewish See and Say, Girls talking shit, Peter scared of Chris, Chris-Felicity, Plant sex
There are a couple of types of episodes of Family Guy. For example, sometimes you get the episodes that have a really great plot but not great jokes/gags. Other times you get episodes like this that are only Ok with the plot, but the cutaways somewhat carry the episode to a conclusion you didn’t care about anyway. That’s what happened here as this week’s episode of Family Guy felt somewhat cliched, and the almost B-plot with Stewie came off as lame at best. That said there were a lot of funny ass-cutaways like the Printing Press with John Viener, and the Adrien Brody in 3D, or maybe the best one of the episode with Chris and his Felicity-hair. That said, I kinda was able to point out all of the spots that Meg/Kent were going to hit during the course of the episode none of which left me with any benefits at all.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs