
This animated series features the adventures of the Griffin family. Endearingly ignorant Peter and his stay-at-home wife, Lois, reside in Quahog, R.I., and have three kids. Meg, the eldest child, is a social outcast, and teenage Chris is awkward and clueless when it comes to the opposite sex. The youngest, Stewie, is a genius baby who is bent on killing his mother and destroying the world. Brian, the talking dog, keeps Stewie in check while sipping martinis and sorting through his own issues.
When Joe fails to keep up with a thief, Peter volunteers to train him for a decathlon; Stewie, Meg and Brian fight over $26.
The Griffins spend Christmas Eve at the mall after Peter accidentally gives away all the family's presents.
After drowning his loneliness in alcohol, Brian is charged with drunken driving, and a judge sentences him to care for a cranky elderly woman.
Stewie gets the acting bug and enters the Quahog School of Performing Arts; Peter saves a nudist from the ocean.