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| Episodeno. | Season 12 Episode 13 | ||
| Directed by | Bob Bowen | ||
| Written by | Alec Sulkin | ||
| Production code | AACX17 | ||
| Original air date | March 16, 2014 (2014-03-16) | ||
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"3 Acts of God" is the thirteenth episode of thetwelfth season of theanimatedcomedy seriesFamily Guy and the 223rd episode overall. It aired onFox in the United States on March 16, 2014, and is written byAlec Sulkin and directed by Bob Bowen.[1] In the episode, Peter is sick of opposing football teams thanking God for beating the Patriots, so he and the guys go on a quest to find the Lord and ask him to stop determining the outcomes of football games.
The Griffins and their friends, includingCleveland, tailgate at theNew England Patriots game atGillette Stadium vs. therivalBuffalo Bills. However, at the end of the game, the Patriots blow their chance to win and lose their 10th straight game. At The Drunken Clam, Peter,Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe angrily discuss the missed chance. During a postgame interview, Bills playersC. J. Spiller andMario Williams (voiced by themselves) attribute their win toGod and Peter proposes they find and confront God about messing with their games.
Starting at a church, Cleveland enters in the style ofSherman Hemsley inAmen, but exits stating that there is a baby's funeral inside. They move on toNashville, Tennessee to seek outCarrie Underwood, who attributes her success to God, but she doesn't know where God lives. Taking things to the extreme, they travel toGreece where they hope to run into success with theGreek Gods onMount Olympus. They meetChronos, the Titan of Time, on Mount Olympus, but he just gives Peter a gift basket and tells them the current time. Moving on toIsrael, they find everyone is like Mort Goldman. InIndia, they decide that conditions are not fitting for God (including a theater whereAziz Ansari is performing) and leave. Back home at the Drunken Clam,Death stops in forThe Cleveland Show and takes them on to visit God.
InHeaven, God meets them personally and Peter tells Him to quit causing the Patriots to lose, which God blames on coachBill Belichick for not smiling. He agrees to give the Patriots a break if they make Belichick smile. Their attempt to make him smile is met with stiff resistance until helaughs at Joe's condition, and they finally succeed in persuading God to leave the Patriots alone, and God then tells Peter that he has a message fromConway Twitty, stating that Twitty just wants Peter to do a joke instead of a cutaway.Lois states to Peter that he should have asked more from God, Peter states that he did ask God something else;Meg starts to fade from existence.
Kevin McFarland ofThe A.V. Club gave the episode a B, saying: "′3 Acts of God′ certainly has its moments where it touches thethird rail and feels likeFamily Guy giving into its worst tendencies. Those brief scenes in Jerusalem and India specifically feel unnecessarily mean, as well as the final joke of what else Peter asked God about besides the Patriots. But more cutaways landed than many of the episodes I reviewed over the last two seasons, which made for a surprisingly pleasant visit back to Seth MacFarlane's main gig."[2]
The episode received a 2.3 rating in the 18–49 years old demographic and was watched by a total of 4.62 million people. This made it the most watched show onAnimation Domination that night, beatingAmerican Dad!,Bob's Burgers andThe Simpsons.[3]
A writer in the Israeli newspaperHaaretz claimed that a scene in the episode was evidence of long-held anti-semitism by MacFarlane.[4]
The plot description was adapted from3 Acts of God at Family Guy Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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