Family Guy: Lois Kills Stewie (Part 2)

However, to begin at the beginning, I found the unintelligible recap by Ollie amusing. It was consistent with the character but being that it couldn't be understood, it didn't really work as a recap. Seth McFarlane (and his writing team) was probably trying to mock recaps from multiple part episodes of other shows.

I became suspicious of the episode when certain things happened. I know it's a cartoon, but even cartoons have their own internal logic. Certain logical inconsistencies of the two-parter struck me as odd. I didn't buy Lois being saved by the merman, particularly with a half-dozen bullets in her chest. How did the merman heal up the bullets? How did a year pass and none of the characters really changed? I also wondered when Stewie's gun never ran out of bullets as he kept the family hostage. But the clincher was Cleveland's death. They wouldn't kill Cleveland any more than they would kill either Lois or Stewie. At that point, I knew the episode would end as a dream or hoax (or, in this case, simulation).

Admittedly, if I switched bodies with a woman the same way Peter and Lois did, I'd probably react initially the same way Peter did. I also liked the scene at the Fortress of Solitude: "Mr. Superman no is here." And the scene of Stewie singing "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson was worth the price of admission (as well as the subsequent skewering by Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson).

Through the show's history, there have been episodes which have been "Brian and Stewie on the road". I liked the twist of this episode which had Stewie holding Brian hostage. And then the episode turned into a standard James Bond plot. Seth McFarlane did let his political opinions on our current president be known during that final fight between Lois and Stewie. And there was a surprise cameo of McFarlane's other Fox creation, American Dad.

I did enjoy the two-parter of Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie. I wasn't so keen on the ending and would have preferred one with more meat, but it was really the only logical way to end the story so nobody would get hurt and the show could pick up where it left off next week (or whenever the writer's strike permits the next episode to be shown).