Review: Family Guy “Boston Stewie”

Overview

Stewie tries to civilize his half-brother, Boston Stewie, so that he may be adopted; Meg and Chris start a venture in which people online pay Chris to sit on and smash cupcakes.

Cutaways

Chris’ Jack-in-the-box, Harvard Grads, French Painter George Seurat, David Harbour Red Carpet, Dune

Our Take

I don’t care HOW MANY relatives to Stewie we’ve seen, either scientifically grown or natural, I’m always game. This week’s episode featuring a Boston Stewie was hilariously well-done even if I did get a few “Vinny Griffin” vibes from the plot.

Meg and Chris’ “B”-plot was so-so. We’ve seen a number of hair-brain schemes that Meg and Chris have worked on and doing one with Only Fans at the center is a recent tradition of the producers working through all of the popular apps of the world and putting the Family Guy magnifying glass over them. And while the premise of Chris sitting on sweets sounds ridiculous, we’re talking about a website that gave a vehicle for a 90 Day Fiance star to sell farts to her adoring fans, so the reality of Only Fans is far surpassed that of which the producers of Family Guy had even come up with here. The Meg montages were a bit underwhelming given that when I think of songs about montages, I think of Team America: World Police, so that didn’t do much for me.

As for the cutaways, I only liked half of them tonight, most notably the David Harbour and Dune ones which goes to show that this franchise, when given enough leash, still has the irons to roast famous people.

Overall, Boston Stewie’s main plot maybe does just enough to keep this one from being sent to cliche hell. Yes, I know that Stewie re-teaming with siblings has been done before, but the Boston Stewie character was funny enough that I kind of didn’t care either way.