Review: Family Guy “The Fatman Always Rings Twice”

Overview

Family Guy delivers a noir-style tale that sees Peter investigate the murder of Meg.

Our Take

I hate when Family Guy does these alternate takes on the show. Aside from the Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy, every time this franchise puts the characters in another parody or style, it usually ends in boring results. “The Fatman Always Rings Twice”, is no exception. We get yet another parody that sees Stewie in a dress (he’s almost always in a dress when they do these) and both Peter and Lois typically end up together just to showcase that the couple was always meant to be together. Family Guy‘s parody episodes have their own tropes, and this ones follows them to the nth degree.

I honestly don’t think I laughed once through this entire episode. Every line of dialogue was a bore aside from an occasional punchline here or there (the American Dad line had me going). Other than that, this is one of the more forgettable episodes of Family Guy. All of it was terribad and with another new episode not coming until December 19th, I’ll have almost a month to smash my head against the wall with the sole purpose of trying to forget all about it.