No Chris Left Behind

Season 5, Episode 16, Aired
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After Chris is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school that his grandfather Carter attended, but Chris doesn't exactly fit in. Meanwhile, the chicken returns to pick a fight with Peter.
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  • Boring

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    By jmbsonic555, Nov 19, 2011 Report Abuse
    After Chris is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school that his grandfather Carter attended, but Chris doesn't exactly fit in. Meanwhile, the chicken returns to pick a fight with Peter.

    I didn't like this episode, the atmosphere was very boring and bland, and the chicken fight was boring.

    1/10

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  • I loved this episode, but what was the point of the chicken fight?

    8.5
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    By PrincessOfLove5, Jan 31, 2011 Report Abuse
    This was a fantastic episode! The scenes with Stewie playing the tuba were so hilarious! The only thing I didn't like was the chicken fight. I mean, what was the point of that? I keep thinkng it was to add some humor to the ep, but I'm also assuming it was to take up time. It was random, pointless, and unnecessary. Plus, it kind of took away from the main plot, which was Chris being expelled from school. I think the episode would have been much better without the fight. Otherwise, I really liked it (the episode)! I want to give it a ten, but because of the unnecessary fight, I'll give it an 8.5.moreless

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  • Season 5, Episode 16.

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    By Wanted23, Mar 15, 2009 Report Abuse
    Chris is expelled from school for being the stupidest student in the school and so their funding can be increased. LMAO, I loved the beginning! Stewie: A lot of supermodels are anorexic, and it seems to be working for them, so, yeah... Hippity Hippity Hop...

    LMAO! And Meg has pot connections! Ah, and at last, another chicken fight!!!! I loved when the chicken screamed for the first time, and then went they fell into the sewer... Then on the train! Hehe. LMAO I loved when they knocked the train operator out and the train ran him over! Haha, Seth MacFarlane is awesome at creating these fight scenes. It was choreographed excellently, and it was very long and entertaining. LMAO! I like how they made up and started fighting again over who paid the bill! Genius! The chicken is still alive though! It would be cool if he died, though. Good episode, definitely. :)moreless

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  • One of the better episodes of this season to be sure.

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    By Iverson82094, Feb 01, 2008 Report Abuse
    Lois takes the family out to the ballet on a late school night. As Chris studies at the breakfast table for an upcoming exam later that day, Brian notices that Chris's history textbook is hopelessly out of date (published in 1896 in the Adult Swim version of the show, 1948 in the Fox version). Upset by this, Lois goes to a PTA meeting to complain. Principal Shepherd explains that the school cannot afford new textbooks; as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, the school has lost its federal funding due to low test scores. His solution for raising the school's performance average is to expel the dumbest student, who happens to be Chris.

    After several failed attempts to find another school for Chris (and an extremely long intermission featuring Peter and the Giant Chicken), Lois asks her father, Carter, to use his influence to get Chris admitted to the upper-class Morningwood Academy. Carter agrees, on the condition that Peter humiliate himself by starring in a shot-by-shot remake of Liar Liar.

    Chris is shunned by the wealthy, snobbish, privileged students at the academy. After hearing his plight, Lois asks her father to help him, who invites him to become a member of Skull and Bones with the other students, who eventually come to accept him. The Griffins, meanwhile, have all taken extra jobs to pay for Chris' tuition; Peter is selling "butt scratchers" at the ballpark, Lois and Meg are working as prostitutes (though Lois is obviously the more successful of the two), and Stewie is following fat people while playing "The Air Is Getting Slippery" on a tuba.

    Feeling his family shouldn't go through so much trouble to keep him satisfied, Chris asks Carter to help him get back into his old school. Carter complies, and Chris moves back home.moreless

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  • lol silly

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    By anime1023, Sep 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    this episode was just silly and i realy love silly episode i just like them but the thing i dont like about this episode is that peters dad is here. peters dad is annoying in some episodes and this is the one though hes not annoying in ALL episodes just some this episode was good too when i first saw this episode i was lauging alot cause its so funny chris was also funny in this episode hes like the main charcter i this episode and hes harly not the main charcter in any episodes so i give this episode a 8.5/10 funny episodesmoreless

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    • When Peter and the chicken have dinner together, Peter comments that he had never been inside the restaurant together, but he and Lois went there in "Petarded". Edit
    • In the restaurant scene during the chicken fight, after Peter says "oh yeah? what are ya gonna do about it?" the chicken already has a blackeye just before they begin fighting Edit
    • The chicken fight reveals that the chicken's name is Ernie. Edit

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    • A tagline for this episode describes it as having "The longest chicken fight in TV history." Edit

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    • Lois: Meg and I have been working at nights. (scene cuts to Meg and Lois in an alley dressed as hookers. Car pulls over) Man: I'll take the one in the right. Lois: (opens the car's door ) Well, once again, Meg, I'll be back in an hour. Edit
    • Peter: Chris, I would give you a hug, but I'm exhausted for working two jobs for paying your scholarship. I've been selling buttscratchers-BUTTSCRATCHER! ( shows Lois a tiny hand on a stick ) Lois: No, Peter. Peter: BUTTSCRATCHER! ( shows buttscratcher to Lois again ) Lois: Peter, no! Peter: BUTTSCRATCHER! ( shows buttscratcher to Lois once again ) Lois: NO! Peter: ( sad ) Buttscratcher... Edit
    • (When reading a 1948 history text book) Lois: Israel. The brand new country everyones gonna love. Edit

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    • Snakes on a Plane During the fight between Peter and the chicken, they get launched upward into a small two-person plane and continue to fight. During this small skirmish, the chicken reaches into the plane and takes out a snake, which he throws at Peter. Peter tosses the snake out of the plane. Edit
    • Skull and Bones Morningwood Academy's secret society is named and modeled after the actual secret society of the same name at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Edit
    • Enjoy Del's Frozen Lemonade Seen on the plane's advertising banner during the fight between Peter and the chicken, Del's is an actual, popular, drink, made in Providence, Rhode Island. Edit

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