Family Guy (season 14)

Family Guy (season 14)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20[1]
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	September 27, 2015 – present

Family Guy's fourteenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2015. The season will contain 20 episodes.^[1]

Guest stars for the season will include Joe Buck, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Kate McKinnon, John Mellencamp, Ed O'Neill, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

During this season, the guys head to Korea after Quagmire is found to be a Korean soap-opera star ("Candy, Quahog Marshmallow"), Chris becomes a registered sex offender ("An App a Day"), Stewie has a nightmare and sends Brian into his mind to find the root of the problem ("A Lot Going on Upstairs"), Peter and Lois buy a new mattress ("Guy, Robot"), Stewie and Brian open an Italian restaurant and are met by Frank Sinatra, Jr., Peter accidentally gets the drinking age raised to 50 ("Underage Peter"), Brian and Stewie get hooked on Adderall ("Pilling Them Softly"), Peter meets his long-lost sister ("Peter's Sister"),^[2][3] and Chris runs for homecoming king ("Run, Chris, Run").^[4]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (millions)
250	1	"Pilling Them Softly"	Jerry Langford	Hayes Davenport	September 27, 2015	CACX17	2.87[5]
When Stewie is diagnosed with ADHD, he receives a prescription for ADHD meds. Brian soon learns of the productive benefits of them, and uses them to write a book proposal to author George R. R. Martin. Meanwhile, Peter and Quagmire compete against one another to decide who gets to keep their own cooking show.
251	2	"Papa Has a Rollin' Son"	Steve Robertson	Danny Smith	October 4, 2015	CACX18	3.56[6]
Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire set out to find Joe's estranged father, when Father's Day approaches. However, when they learn that Joe's father hates handicapped people, Peter volunteers to pretend to be Joe. Meanwhile, Stewie befriends Tom Cruise when he is disappointed to learn that he will grow up to be 5'1.
252	3	"Guy, Robot"	Mike Kim	Chris Regan	October 11, 2015	DACX02	2.79[7]
Stewie builds himself a new robot friend after he and Brian get themselves into a fight. Meanwhile, Lois forces Peter to buy a new mattress.
253	4	"Peternormal Activity"	Greg Colton	Chris Sheridan	October 25, 2015	CACX16	3.85[8]
When Peter and the guys believe they can make a better horror movie, they seek out for inspiration. However, they accidentally murder a man and attempt to blame it on someone else. Meanwhile, Stewie sets out to destroy Brian's pretentious glasses.
254	5	"Peter, Chris, & Brian"	Joe Vaux	Patrick Meighan	November 8, 2015	DACX03	2.58[9]
Peter finds an old video tape, when returning to his mother's old house to retrieve his porn collection. When he views the video tape, he realizes that he is a failure. Because of this, Peter forces Chris to spend time with Brian, so he doesn't turn out a failure as well.
255	6	"Peter's Sister"	John Holmquist	Tom Devanney	November 15, 2015	DACX04	2.91[10]
When Peter's estranged sister, Karen, who is a wrestler, comes to visit for Thanksgiving, Meg finds that Karen is a bully who treats Peter the same way he treats her. Peter decides to become a female wrestler in order to defeat his sister in the ring.
256	7	"Hot Pocket-Dial"	Steve Robertson	Aaron Lee	November 22, 2015	DACX06	3.37[11]
Quagmire discusses with Ida that he is in love with Lois, during an accidental pocket dial to Peter. Peter becomes furious with Quagmire over this, which results in Lois attempting to resolve the situation.
257	8	"Brokeback Swanson"	Julius Wu	Ted Jessup	December 6, 2015	DACX07	3.63[12]
When Peter and the guys decide to run with the bulls, Joe is injured during the run and becomes a quadriplegic. Meanwhile, Brian sleeps with a woman, who is married to a Navy SEAL. In order to avoid the ire of her husband, he pretends to be the family's new dog.
258	9	"A Shot in the Dark"	Brian Iles	Mike Desilets	December 13, 2015	DACX05	3.74[13]
Due to Peter's couch being stolen from his lawn, he forms a neighborhood watch group. While on duty, Peter accidentally shoots Cleveland Jr. and is immediately arrested for a hate crime. When Peter apologizes to Cleveland, Cleveland voluntarily takes the blame for the crime.
259	10	"Candy, Quahog Marshmallow"	Joseph Lee	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	January 3, 2016	DACX01	3.26[14]
When Peter and the guys find out that Quagmire starred in an Asian soap opera, they set out to find the final tape of the series. Unable to do so, they travel to Korea in order to find it. When they arrive in Korea, Quagmire ends up falling in love with his co-star/former lover, Sujin.
260	11	"The Peanut Butter Kid"	Greg Colton	Artie Johann	January 10, 2016	DACX08	3.92[15]
After the Griffin family's bank account begins to run dry, Peter and Lois have Stewie star in a peanut butter commercial. Peter and Lois soon start getting hooked on making Stewie a child star, which causes Brian to be concerned about their motives.
261	12	"Scammed Yankees"	Jerry Langford	Ray James	January 17, 2016	DACX09	3.40[16]
Peter and Carter go to Africa to get their money back after they are swindled in an e-mail scam. Meanwhile, Brian pursues Meg's friend, Patty.
262	13	"An App a Day"	Mike Kim	Anthony Blasucci	February 14, 2016	DACX12	2.57[17]
When Peter overloads his phone with apps, he gets a new one and gives the old one to Chris, with disastrous consequences. Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie join a tennis club.
263	14	"Underage Peter"	Joseph Lee	Shawn Ries	February 21, 2016	DACX13	2.72[18]
Thanks to dog years, Brian is the only one old enough to drink when Mayor West raises the drinking age to 50 following Peter's latest drunken rampage, so Peter makes Brian buy his beer.
264	15	"A Lot Going on Upstairs"	Joe Vaux	Steve Callaghan	March 6, 2016	DACX11	2.74[19]
Peter turns the attic into a man cave when Stewie begins to have nightmares and refuses to sleep in his own bed, so he builds a device for Brian to go into his dreams and help him face his fears.
265	16	"The Heartbreak Dog"	Brian Iles	Lew Morton	March 13, 2016	DACX14	2.98[20]
Brian has an affair with Bonnie during her 46th birthday party. Meanwhile, Meg starts stealing from a retirement home after the residents she volunteered to help mistreat her.
266	17	"Take a Letter"	John Holmquist	Kevin Biggins	April 17, 2016	DACX15	2.93[21]
Lois takes a job as a postal worker to pay for Stewie's private school, and discovers a letter Peter wrote to an old girlfriend, who tries to come between them. Meanwhile, Stewie befriends a fellow student named Chadley and enlists Brian to help impress him.
267	18	"The New Adventures of Old Tom"[22]	TBA	TBA	May 8, 2016	DACX16	TBD
Peter ends up getting lost in the Quahog Mall overnight after his family leaves him. Meanwhile, Brian attempts to win over a girl by pretending to be a millionaire.
268	19	"Run, Chris, Run"[23]	Julius Wu[24]	Damien Fahey[24]	May 15, 2016	DACX17	TBD
Chris gets elected homecoming king, but Meg discovers that the cool kids only voted for him in order to prank him. Meanwhile, Peter and the gang get jealous when Cleveland starts hanging out with Jerome, so they look for a new black friend.
269	20	"Road to India"[25]	TBA	TBA	May 22, 2016	DACX18	TBD
Brian and Stewie go to India to find a tech support worker with whom Brian has fallen in love. Meanwhile, Peter becomes the center of attention when Joe invites him to bingo night.

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