A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas

Season 3, Episode 16, Aired
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Lois loves the holiday season and is excited about decorating the house, opening presents and introducing Stewie to Santa Claus. Stewie, on the other hand, is completely paranoid about this fat man in a red suit who can somehow maintain 24-hour surveillance on all the world's children! ''''Peter, sent to drop off one gift to Toys for Toddlers, accidentally gives all the family's presents to the charity. When he and Lois hit the mall to rebuy everything - they are caught up in the last-minute shopping madness. Lois and Peter are completely frazzled, but Lois clings desperately to the hope that they can still have wonderful Christmas. That hope is dashed, however, when they arrive home to find Brian, the house and the Christmas turkey burned to a crisp. Lois finally snaps and goes on quest to snatch the star from atop the city's huge Christmas tree. Only Stewie's motivational speech as the baby jesus (and a tranquilizer gun) can bring Lois back down to earth.moreless
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  • Christmas review 9: Perfect FG Christmas episode

    10
    "Perfect"
    By fsaenz0125, Dec 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    Lois loves the holiday season and is excited about decorating the house, opening presents and introducing Stewie to Santa Claus. Stewie, on the other hand, is completely paranoid about this fat man in a red suit who can somehow maintain 24-hour surveillance on all the world's children! ''''Peter, sent to drop off one gift to Toys for Toddlers, accidentally gives all the family's presents to the charity. When he and Lois hit the mall to rebuy everything - they are caught up in the last-minute shopping madness. Lois and Peter are completely frazzled, but Lois clings desperately to the hope that they can still have wonderful Christmas. That hope is dashed, however, when they arrive home to find Brian, the house and the Christmas turkey burned to a crisp. Lois finally snaps and goes on quest to snatch the star from atop the city's huge Christmas tree. Only Stewie's motivational speech as the baby jesus (and a tranquilizer gun) can bring Lois back down to earth.
    I thought this was a perfect Christmas episode. It is way better than the other Christmas special (which I will review in a bit). I laughed at Stewie's role in this episode (pretty much everything he's involved), the guys' part, the from/to thing, Brian wearing a jacket, Lois going on a rampage, hitting Frosty, the play, and the last part. Overall a perfect Family Guy Christmas episode. 10/10moreless

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  • Christmas Review #28

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    By tigerdude22, Dec 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    Lois loves the holiday season and is excited about decorating the house, opening presents and introducing Stewie to Santa Claus. Stewie, on the other hand, is completely paranoid about this fat man in a red suit who can somehow maintain 24-hour surveillance on all the world's children! ''''Peter, sent to drop off one gift to Toys for Toddlers, accidentally gives all the family's presents to the charity. When he and Lois hit the mall to rebuy everything - they are caught up in the last-minute shopping madness. Lois and Peter are completely frazzled, but Lois clings desperately to the hope that they can still have wonderful Christmas. That hope is dashed, however, when they arrive home to find Brian, the house and the Christmas turkey burned to a crisp. Lois finally snaps and goes on quest to snatch the star from atop the city's huge Christmas tree. Only Stewie's motivational speech as the baby jesus (and a tranquilizer gun) can bring Lois back down to earth. This wasn't the best Christmas episode I've seen but I still thought the episode was funny and I really like it. Unlike that Season 9 Christmas episode "Road to the North Pole" (ugh, that episode was awful... well, at least in the last 35 minutes of the 1-hour Christmas episode... the first 25 minutes were the only good parts). Anyways, the only thing that did keep my score a little low was how storyline did seem to lack a little but it was well written for the most part though. Parts that did make me laugh were Peter crushing over that blue car to park his car, the scenes with KISS Saves Santa, Stewie getting Hungry Hungry Hippo, Lois getting tranqulized near the end of the episode, and some more. Overall, a superb Christmas episode of "Family Guy". 9/10moreless

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  • Another perfect episode.

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    By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    Lois loves the holiday season and is excited about decorating the house, opening presents and introducing Stewie to Santa Claus. Stewie, on the other hand, is completely paranoid about this fat man in a red suit who can somehow maintain 24-hour surveillance on all the world's children! Peter, sent to drop off one gift to Toys for Toddlers, accidentally gives all the family's presents to the charity. When he and Lois hit the mall to rebuy everything - they are caught up in the last-minute shopping madness. Lois and Peter are completely frazzled, but Lois clings desperately to the hope that they can still have wonderful Christmas. That hope is dashed, however, when they arrive home to find Brian, the house and the Christmas turkey burned to a crisp. Lois finally snaps and goes on quest to snatch the star from atop the city's huge Christmas tree. Only Stewie's motivational speech as the baby jesus (and a tranquilizer gun) can bring Lois back down to earth.

    one of my favorite episodes of the series

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  • mediocre

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    By futuramarama, Sep 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    what i liked- the conversation peter and brian have about "for/from" and Brian saying he was done and it was just easier to call Peter an idiot, Peter having the cops shoot Lois, who was clearly not mad anymore, Stewie getting the plutonium...
    Eh, this was alright. I don't like it a lot. The pacing was kind of weird. If you were describing this episode to a friend, what would you say? Some of the episode is Peter giving the presents away, half of it is the Griffins buying Christmas presents, some of it is Lois going berserk... it's an OK episode but the pacing was pretty weird, I felt. I also did not laugh as much as I would have liked. C- or so seems fair. It's not a terrible episode but it's not one of their better ones.moreless

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  • Not one of the better ones.

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    By ILLWILL1384, Aug 15, 2010 Report Abuse
    I've seen every Family Guy episode and am obsessed with the show and if yall honestly think this is one of the best episodes you have no idea what you are talking about. There are so many better episodes than this, like most of them. You probably rated it so high because it gave you something else to do after you opened your presents, but if you are a real Family Guy fan this honestly shouldnt even be considered for one of the better ones. If you want to rate the episodes make sure you actually watch the show and dont just flip to one time on Christmas and decide to say that is one of the best episodes.moreless

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    • Brian is seen adding a log in the fireplace. This is the only episode to depict a fireplace in the Griffin home. Edit
    • When Brian leaves to tend the turkey, he sets his glass of wine on the couch. When he comes back it's gone. Edit
    • When Peter gets back with the Christmas tree, he leaves the door open. A moment later, it's shut, but none of the characters were close enough to shut it. Edit

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    • When Fox reran this episode in 2004, they made an obvious edit to the lines, "I am the Virgin Mary; that's my story and I'm sticking with it! Behold our Savior!" to "I am the Virgin Mary; behold our Savior!" It's obviously not an edit for time because of the fairly visible pause of repeated frames to cover it. Edit

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    • Meg:: There are no paper towels. (Lois' eyes widen and ominous music starts to play) Lois: (angrily) No...paper...towels!?! (Lois screams at the top of her lungs and throws Brian's burnt turkey at the wall) Peter: Hey, I was gonna pick at that! Edit
    • Lois: So you can cook your own damned turkey, wrap your own damned presents - and while you're at it, you can all ride a one-horse open sleigh to Hell! Edit
    • Joe: Ah! Oh no, I've broken my legs! (Joe, Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire begin laughing.) Edit

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    • King Kong Lois climbing to the top of the town's Christmas Tree and holding up the star could be a reference to the 1933 film "King Kong" and it's 2005 remake. Edit
    • Rankin-Bass Frosty The Snowman Special Lois's angry rant about people thinking Christmas happened on it's own and "Santy Clause" was a pretty much direct quote from the villain from the old animated Rankin-Bass Frosty The Snowman Special. Edit
    • Animal House Brian: Can I buy some pot from you?
      This is a direct quote from Animal House. Edit

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