Family Guy Viewer Mail No. 1

Season 3, Episode 21, Aired
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In a special three-story episode, Brian reads viewer mail and tries to answer profound questions:
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''"No Bones About it"
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''Peter rubs a beer bottle and a Genie pops out to grant him three wishes. Peter first wishes that Jackie Gleason wasn't dead. A zombie-like Gleason terrorizes the Griffins until Stewie blasts it dead. His second wish is for his own theme music. Peter then wishes he didn't have any bones. The Genie transforms him into a gelatin blob and he can no longer have sex. Upset, Peter flushes himself down the toilet and winds up in Hollywood. He meets a doctor who tells him about a re-boning procedure. Peter gets the operation, which turns out came from bones donated from his own family.
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''"Super Griffins"
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''A tanker truck containing radioactive waste slams into the Griffin house. The radiation affects each Griffin in a different way. Lois gains super strength while Peter has morphing ability. Lois tells her family that they must not abuse their powers. Of course that doesn't work and the town is forced to hold a meeting to see how to stop the Griffins from wreaking havoc. Adam West realizes he must fight fire with fire. He volunteers to roll around in toxic waste but he only gets lymphoma as a result. The Griffins, racked with guilt, use their powers to make Adam's recovery more comfortable.
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''"Li'l Griffins"
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''The Griffins as the Little Rascals. Kid versions of Peter, Joe, and Brian decide that they don't need girls. When they first meet Lois however, they quickly abandon their anti-girl sentiment. In school, Lois reads a book touting the virtues of bravery, and Peter and Quagmire try to prove who's the bravest by staying in a haunted house overnight.moreless
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  • One of the best episodes ever.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    "No Bones About it" Peter rubs a beer bottle and a Genie pops out to grant him three wishes. Peter first wishes that Jackie Gleason wasn't dead. A zombie-like Gleason terrorizes the Griffins until Stewie blasts it dead. His second wish is for his own theme music. Peter then wishes he didn't have any bones. The Genie transforms him into a gelatin blob and he can no longer have sex. Upset, Peter flushes himself down the toilet and winds up in Hollywood. He meets a doctor who tells him about a re-boning procedure. Peter gets the operation, which turns out came from bones donated from his own family. "Super Griffins" A tanker truck containing radioactive waste slams into the Griffin house. The radiation affects each Griffin in a different way. Lois gains super strength while Peter has morphing ability. Lois tells her family that they must not abuse their powers. Of course that doesn't work and the town is forced to hold a meeting to see how to stop the Griffins from wreaking havoc. Adam West realizes he must fight fire with fire. He volunteers to roll around in toxic waste but he only gets lymphoma as a result. The Griffins, racked with guilt, use their powers to make Adam's recovery more comfortable. "Li'l Griffins" The Griffins as the Little Rascals. Kid versions of Peter, Joe, and Brian decide that they don't need girls. When they first meet Lois however, they quickly abandon their anti-girl sentiment. In school, Lois reads a book touting the virtues of bravery, and Peter and Quagmire try to prove who's the bravest by staying in a haunted house overnight.

    I loved every minute of this episode

    No Bones about it: 10/10
    Supergriffins- 11/10
    Lil' Griffins- 9.5/10

    OVERALL: 10/10moreless

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  • Great trilogy of episodes!

    8.5
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    By LukeJames525, Sep 17, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was a great episode trilogy!

    No Bones About It: This was my least favorite out of the three shorts. I like it, but I just don't think it's as funny as the others. The only part I really liked was the beginning, and Peter's theme music. It's just okay to me.

    Grade: B-

    Super Griffins: My favorite out of the three! I loved the story, and it had a lot of hilarious parts. My favorite part was the Britney Spears gag. An excellent short.

    Grade: A

    Li'l Griffins: Not as good as Super Griffins, but still pretty funny. The entire haunted house scene was great, and the ending was really funny. Another great short.

    Grade: A-

    An overall hilarious episode trilogy.

    Grade: A-moreless

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  • I this special edition episode, they feature 3 episodes that were suggested by audience and writers. They are; super-griffins, bone-less, and baby griffins

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    By zachehrenfeld, Apr 16, 2010 Report Abuse
    Super Griffins: a tanker truck that is carrying toxic waste falls off and lands on the griffins front yard. Not knowing what it is, they open it and toxic waste goes all over them. They then accumulate super powers. Lois gets super strength, chris gets fire power, peter gets morphing ability, stewie gets telecanisess, brian gets super speed and meg has the amazing ability to grow her fingernails...
    They let the powers go to their heads and they use their powers for their own gain.
    PETER: "Lois said not to use our powers for our own gain... but i guess doing the exact opposit couldn't hurt".

    Baby Griffins: This shows the gang when they where small kids in school. it shows how peter first met Lois and how they all went there ways. Quagmire and Peter wanted to impress lois with courage so they decided to stay at the haunted house for a night. They all flunked out and NED GOLDMAN ended up with lois (she said she liked smartness more than courage).
    HOWEVER!!! this episode does not make any sense. In this episode, Joe is being carried around in a wheel barrow but in a different episode, he breaks his legs as an adult!
    AND brian didnt know them then!

    BONE-LESS: in this episode peter opens his beer to find a genie. he uses his first wish willingly and uses his 2nd for his own theme music. When sitting on a bus with the theme music running, someone gets ticked off at him and says "i'm gonna break every bone in your body" so Peter wishes that he didnt have any bones. When he gets home and over hears his wife talking he says to himself " i may have screwed up my life, but im not going to screw up theirs" so he flushes himself down the drain and ends up in hollywood where he is used as a human stuntbag. a professor then finds him and offers him to participate in a new experiment he's doing which is implanting bones to a body. the operating is a complete success and Peter then finds out that the bones they put in him where his families bones!!!
    WHAT A HAPPY ENDINGmoreless

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  • Stewie and Brian show clips from viewer fan mail. These fan letters ask to see what it would be like if "Peter found a genie lamp", "What would the griffens be like with super powers", and "What the whole gang was like as children."moreless

    8.5
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    By claymate73, Apr 16, 2010 Report Abuse
    I thought this was overall a good episode, I liked the "little rascal" part. I thought that it was cute to see these big personalities as children. You could really imagine that that is exactly as each person would have acted if they knew each other that early.

    The beginning of the three wishes part was funny, when Peter got his own theme music, but the episode declined when he wished for no bones. It turned into a very strange episode.

    When the Griffens become Super Heroes, it is fitting that Meg gets the powers she does. The writers always stay true to the characters when they do these quirky episodes. Overall not bad, not my favorite.moreless

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  • Li'l Griffins, No Bones about it & Super Griffins-all great!!

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    By captaindillo456, Apr 16, 2010 Report Abuse
    Allright here it comes my reveiw here are the three segments and what I though of them:

    Li'l Griffins:

    It was truly great seeing the characters as little kids I found the plot and jokes good aswell, there probaply isn't a better spin-off to be made even if it were only like 6 episodes, overall 4 stars...

    No Bones About It:

    My least favourite of the three, but still hilarious, who would have thought Peter having no bones would be funny, I never thought Family Guy would stoop to having one of the Family Members finding a genie but they did, yet again though this is a "different" episode.

    Super Griffins:

    I'll get right down to it - I think the superpowers thing could have been handled better, but the way they did it was still funny.

    A nice episode in all. Tmoreless

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    • In "Li'l Griffins" every young boy has a tooth sticking out of their mouths. Edit
    • When we see Meg dragging herself on the floor in the doctor's office, she's wearing shoes, but when she and the rest of her family leave, she's in her bare feet. Edit
    • In "No Bones About It", you can hear Stewie shout "Surprise" to Peter with everyone else when they show that it's their bones in Peter, but his lips don't move. Edit

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    • This was originally the last episode of Family Guy to air on FOX until they ordered a fourth season 3 years later due to high DVD sales and cable ratings on Adult Swim. Edit
    • The theme music that plays for Peter while he's ridin' on the bus has been used in the show before, most notably in 2x20 Wasted Talent (see if you can spot where) Edit

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    • Little Quagmire: I bet you're not brave enough to laugh at Death. Little Peter: Watch me. (Points at Little Death and laughs at him) Little Death: Oh great. Like I don't have enough trouble fitting in. Edit
    • Mayor West: Citizens of Quahog, we have a problem. Justin Timberlake: You're damn right we do! Peter Griffin stole my hair! Mayor West: Settle down, Jeffrey. Justin Timberlake: Justin. Mayor West: Michael. Edit
    • Peter: Wait, if we're here, and Quagmire is there. (pulls down a map and points) And Istanbul is somewhere in this general area,(points to ghost) WHO THE HELL IS THAT? Edit

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    • The Cage Stewie's appearance in the second sketch -- especially the throbbing vein when he uses his mental powers -- is a reference to this unscreened pilot for Star Trek. Edit
    • Peter: Hey is the Count a vampire? Count von Count is a well-known vampire Muppet from Sesame Street, best known for teaching numbers and counting. Performed by veteran Muppeteer Jerry Nelson, he debuted on the show in 1972 and still appears on the show today. Edit
    • The Facts of Life In "Super Griffins" the statue that Peter wants erected is from the show "The Facts of Life" about a girls boarding house at a private school. The episode Peter specifically refers to is "Emily Dickinson", where Blair plagiarizes a poem by Emily Dickinson. Edit

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