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Episode Guide > Season 3, Episode 11

Family Guy: Emission Impossible

 

Episode Score

 
9.1 Superb
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Air Date

Thursday November 8, 2001

Production Code

3ACX01

Episode Summary

Peter goes with Lois to visit her sister Carole, who is now pregnant, but alone since her husband walked out on her. Carole goes into labor and Peter helps deliver the baby. Caught up in the moment, Peter and Lois decide that they want another baby. Stewie however, does not agree. Stewie does everything possible to keep Peter and Lois away from each other, but when he is locked out of their room, he is forced to take desperate measures. Stewie ends up shrinking himself down to microscopic size and seeking out his sperm-brother inside Peter's body. Instead of trying to kill his unborn brother Stewie and him unite to destroy Lois.

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    10 Perfect

    Impressive! hide show

    I thought this was an exceptional episode of Family Guy and I was very impressed with it. Overall, the storyline was interesting, and I loved the fact that Stewie was so against the idea.

    They executed the storyline immaculately, in my opinion, and I enjoyed the episode extremely thoroughly, and I felt that this was one of the most enjoyable episodes of this season.

    I would recommend this episode quite highly, because in my opinion, it had all the aspects of a great episode, including a great storyline, excellent humour and a very enjoyable series of events. Well done, Family Guy, and I hope there is more greatness to come!

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    8.6 Great

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    This was very good episode. One of the most entertaining episodes of the show to date. It was just so freaking hilarious with a nicely balanced storyline.

    -The sex
    -The sperm
    -the new brother of Stewie

    But just maybe the new brother is too smart?! Wow... It was a highly impressive episode and one of the best from this season.
    I couldn't find a thing wrong with it. Just don't understand why Stewie and the new (unbourn) brother would like to kill Lois so much...
    So in conclusion, this was a very great episode with the most memorable storylines yet. Kill the sperm Stewie.

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    9.6 Superb

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    Quagmire babysits Meg, Chris, and Stewie while Peter accompanies Lois on a visit to her pregnant, newly single sister Carol. When Carol goes into labor, Peter drives her to the hospital, stopping only for cheeseburgers (and a kids meal of course). Carol's obstetrician, Dr. Hartman mistakenly jabs himself with several needles and faints, leaving Peter to deliver the baby himself. Reminded of the wonderful experience of childbirth, Peter tells Lois that he wants to have another child. Lois gleefully tells the rest of the family, but Stewie is less than enthusiastic. He feels threatened in his position as the youngest and resolves to prevent the conception of another sibling. Stewie attempts to interfere in a romantic moment by crying for attention. Foiled in this effort, he smears one of Peter's shirt collars with lipstick but gets distracted by his own image in the mirror. In another attempt, he chloroforms Peter and utilizes a mechanical replica of him to insult Lois, but Chris accidentally knocks him out the window, where Stewie jumps out in front of Cleveland. When a candlelit dinner threatens to lead to intimacy between his parents, Stewie shrinks himself and a spaceship-like vessel and enters Peter's body to destroy his sperm. In his well-armed craft, Stewie easily slaughters the defenseless sperm with one exception: Bertram, who seems to be just as diabolically clever as Stewie himself. After a brief struggle and standoff, Stewie realizes that they have much in common. Additionally, with Bertram's help, he could accomplish many goals, including Lois' murder. They part on amicable terms, but Stewie has only moments before the ship reverts to its normal size. After a narrow escape through Peter's tear duct, Stewie steers the craft back to his room with no time to spare. Peter and Lois, however, reconsider having another child, to Stewie's chagrin. He frantically tries to get her and Peter to resume their plans ("You must receive his seed!"), but Peter retreats to the bathroom and masturbates with the assistance of a lingerie catalog. Stewie, appalled at the apparent death of Bertram, despairs until he notices a twinkle in Peter's eye signifying that Bertram is still alive. His relief is only momentary as he realizes that his unborn brother may be too clever. It was great!

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    10 Perfect

    Classic Family Guy right here. A must see for anybody that wants to see what Family Guy is all about!!! hide show

    Peter goes with Lois to visit her sister Carole, who is now pregnant, but alone since her husband walked out on her. Carole goes into labor and Peter helps deliver the baby. Caught up in the moment, Peter and Lois decide that they want another baby. Stewie however, does not agree. Stewie does everything possible to keep Peter and Lois away from each other, but when he is locked out of their room, he is forced to take desperate measures. Stewie ends up shrinking himself down to microscopic size and seeking out his sperm-brother inside Peter's body. Instead of trying to kill his unborn brother Stewie and him unite to destroy Lois.

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    9.3 Superb

    Emision Impossible. hide show

    Woohooo!! An all time classic. I truly and really love this episode I fell in love with it the first time I watched and what's better then Stewie inside Peter's Testicle's destroying his seamen because he didn't want a brother or sister. And who could forget Peter driving Lois and her pregnant sister carol to the hospital and then stopping to get some drivethrough, not me that's for sure and what about Peter using Carol's ex-husband's shirt so he could do the hulk thing. That was bloody hilarious!!!

    I really think this episode is pure brilliance oh and one last thing I like Peter getting excited by watching batman lol.

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  • In the beginning of the episode, Lois says she promised her sister shed be on the first train to get to her, but when Peter and Lois take Carol to the hospital, which is exactly the same as the Quahog hospital, they are in the family's station wagon. []
  • When Stewie wakes up from the sleeper hold, he puts coffee into the holder without a filter. But when he turns to see his future brother waking up, he drops the holder and there's clearly a filter in it. []
  • The code Stewie used to open the storage area with his ship is 3515. []
  • The blow-up sex doll Quagmire had was the one he bought in the episode E. Peterbus Unum. []
  • Wallace Shawn (Bertram) and Carol Kane (Carol) both had roles in the classic movie The Princess Bride. Shawn played Vizzini, and Kane played Valerie. []
  • Gary Cole voices Mike Brady, whom he played in the two Brady Bunch movies. []
More Notes
  • Peter: (imitating Ted) Carol? It's me, Ted. Listen, I came back because I love you and... (starts laughing) I'm just kinding it's me, Peter!
    Carol: (laughs) It was so nice of you to come Peter. You're so considerate.
    Peter: It was nothing! (smacks lamp off of the nightstand and it breaks. Pulls the bed over the broken lamp. Backs out of the room and breaks something else, moving furniture over it as well.) []
  • Lois: Peter listen to me. My sister just called. Her baby's due any day now and Ted just walked out on her.
    Peter: Woah! Woah! Back it up. You have a sister?
    Lois: I promised her I'd be on the next train. Poor Carol. All alone in that big house.
    Peter: Wait a minute. Carol. Is she the one with the Jacuzzi and the pool table?
    Lois: Yeah.
    Peter: Yeah, better come with you.
    Lois: Really? Well, that's a surprise.
    Peter: Come on, Lois. When have I not been there for you?
    (Flashback to Lois driving Peter)
    Robber #1: Get out of the damn car, now!
    Robber #2: Scream and your dead!
    Peter: Thanks for the ride, lady!
    []
  • Lois: Peter, why are you staring into the dryer?
    Peter: I'm watching the latest episode of Laundry Theater. See? Now those are Chris' socks, right? They don't know that Stewie's shirt is having an affair with Meg's trousers. It's fun to watch rich people be naughty! []
More Quotes
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation

    The computer voice is an allusion to "Star Trek: The Next Generation". The computer is also voiced by Majel Barrett who did so on ST:TNG. []
  • Galaga
    If you listen closely, the sound the "sperm" ships make when they're shot is the same sound in the video game Galaga. []
  • Hogan's Heroes

    Cleveland: Hey, Peter. (watches Stewie escape from the Mecha-Peter lying on the ground) I see nothing... nothing!

    This was a catch phrase of Sergeant Hans Schultz, the bumbling German sergeant from the 1960's sitcom Hogan's Heroes, about a group of allied prisoners of war and their efforts to sabotage the German war effort. Schultz, secretly sympathetic to the cause of the allies, often shouted the phrase to acknowledge that he would not report the prisoners' shenanigans to his superiors. []
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