Review: Family Guy “Adult Education”

The opening bit featuring Meg doing an homage to Beauty and the Beast is proof that the two-parter “From Russia With Love” really should have been the season 21 finale for Family Guy. Package the episode as a “Road To” and you’ve got yourself a season finale that would’ve made ratings gold given that the episode premiered during a week in which Ukraine and Russia are still going at it on the battlefields.

Chris’ bit for Pornhub is yet ANOTHER example of Family Guy just going down the list of apps and taking on each one of them, and this one works just as well. Quite frankly, it’s one of the funnier episodes of the season with numerous cutaway gags, an entire slam on the Toyota Cressida, and even Arby’s getting one good lick before the season lets out. Let us also add in the increased presence of Principal Shepherd the last few seasons. Already this season he helped Peter turn the brewery into a speak easy, and now he turns the school into a porn studio. Gary Cole’s take on the Principal is always hilarious, and he’s one of the funniest actors in the Family Guy cavalcade of actors, but John Viener is just *chef’s kiss*.

We’ll go into a more detailed wrap of the season in our season review next week, but Family Guy’s season 21 had a back half of quality episodes that were of sound quality. The franchise is using seldom used actors to their fullest extent, and after quite a few seasons of struggling, the show seems to found some semblance of the dominance that it adhered in the early ‘oughts. There are still some things here and there that need to be cleaned up, my previous example of packaging episodes is a good place to start, but overall we had a solid season of Family Guy.