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| Episodeno. | Season 16 Episode 1 | ||
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| Written by | Aaron Lee | ||
| Production code | FACX06 | ||
| Original air date | October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01) | ||
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"Emmy-Winning Episode" is thesixteenth season premiere of the Americananimated sitcomFamily Guy, and the 290th episode overall. It aired onFox in the United States on October 1, 2017, and is written by Aaron Lee and directed by James Purdum, Dominic Bianchi, andPeter Shin, with James R. Bagdonas directing the live-action chicken fight. Guest voices includeLouis C.K.,Jonathan Kite,Bill Maher,Miriam Margolyes,Christina Pickles,Modern Family cast membersTy Burrell,Julie Bowen, andSofía Vergara, and a live-action cameo fromAsa Akira.[1]
As theGriffin family is watchingVedderCall Saul,Peter is displeased thatFamily Guy hasn't won a singleEmmy since it debuted in 1999, and thecrossover withThe Simpsons didn't help (in reality, the show had won six by the time the episode aired).Lois even mentions that they shouldn't do another episode withThe Simpsons because it only helped the other show (or madeFamily Guy look bad when fans condemnedThe Simpsons for agreeing to the crossover at all). Peter then embarks on his ownFor Your Consideration campaign by spoofing other shows who won the award.
Peter first aims at winning an Emmy for Best Comedy, which includesModern Family,Girls, andTransparent and other comedy traits (with two beingSofía Vergara taking Lois' role, Lois portraying a delivery person, Chris acting likeSheldon Cooper fromThe Big Bang Theory, a pass-by fromTracy Morgan, and Peter playingtransgender). He even encountersLouis C.K. outside the Drunken Clam, where the comedian says he's glad his career has cooled off just enough that Peter was able to get him to make a cameo on the show. When Peter goes into the bar, everyone greets him in the style ofNorm Peterson fromCheers. After that, Peter is sent to the hospital, whereDr. Hartman comes in to change his sex. Peter insists that it was just a gag, and Hartman continues on anyway. His final narration on that has him stating "And that's how I became your mother."
The comedy submission fails, as the Emmy producers hate it and say thatFamily Guy now owesthem an Emmy. Brian insists on moving to Best Drama in which spoofs ofBreaking Bad,The Wire,Homeland,The Sopranos,Orange Is the New Black,House of Cards, andGame of Thrones follow. The sketch ends with theNight King about to attack Peter with an undeaddragon. It is watched by two people and a dragon, who feels that he and his fellow dragons were accurately represented.
The drama submission also fails, because a message from the Emmy board demands that Peter stop, but he refuses and continues trying to make more Emmy spoofs including stunts, documentaries, reality shows and castings in a comedy series - enough for him to do some interaction with a live-actionAsa Akira. After doing a spoof ofThe Daily Show, he is called aside byBill Maher, who states thatFamily Guy will never win an Emmy, due to the fact that the same shows other than it win the award every year. Taking Maher's tip-off, Peter goes to the library, where he sees a lot of names and shows that won Emmys.
Peter returns home to tell Lois about it where she reveals that they have a selection of Emmy winners visiting them: C.K.,Alec Baldwin,Julie Bowen,Tina Fey,Kelsey Grammer,Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Shonda Rhimes, andAaron Sorkin. They pick at the show's faults such as constantly plagiarizing other media, that many minority characters are voiced by white actors, the contrived episode wrap-ups and that the show is just a complete waste of time.
Realizing thatFamily Guy will never win an Emmy, Peter finally gives up and is happy to have his family as his award. Anemail that Peter reads from achemotherapy patient mistakes the show forThe Simpsons, with the fan stating how he liked theepisode where Homer stays home from church. Peter ends the episode with a live-action sequence ofTy Burrell fighting and strangling arubber chicken. The hand of an unidentified man presents him with an Emmy Award, but Burrell tells the man that he does not have any more room in his house for it.
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The episode was watched by audience of 2.80 million viewers, making it the fourth most-watched show on Fox that night afterGhosted,The Simpsons andBob's Burgers.[2]
Jesse Schedeen, a staff writer forIGN[3] gave the episode a 7.6/10. He noted "LikeThe Simpsons,Family Guy kicked off its new season with a themed episode tonight. Surprisingly, of the two it wasFamily Guy that emerged the clear winner. This series tends to have a solid track record whenever it gets unusually meta, and 'Emmy-Winning Episode' was no exception". Schedeen praised the first and second acts; however, he criticized the third act.[4]
