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16 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Season 7 continues the animated antics of the constantly grousing Griffin family and touches on a number of topical subjects. Among them: homosexuality, religion, and two drug-themed episodes. In order: Peter gets involved in a medical test in which he is given a gay gene; Meg becomes a born-again Christian after watching a spiritual TV show; Stewie tries to tone up at a gym and becomes the recipient of steroids; Brian gets arrested for possession and decides to launch a campaign to legalize marijuana. Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Fallon appear as themselves in live-action sequences in the "We Love You, Conrad" episode.
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 28, 2008 30 mins
In the seventh-season opener, Brian falls in love with a woman he meets in a book store, but Stewie urges him to take the relationship slowly, then proceeds to see that he does. This leaves an opening for the lovelorn Cleveland (voice of Mike Henry, who wrote the script). Meredith Baxter has a voice cameo as herself.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 5, 2008 30 mins
Peter makes friends with Jesus Christ, who works in the record store Peter goes to in order to replace his copy of the 1963 Trashmen hit "Surfin' Bird", which Brian and Stewie had destroyed because Peter wouldn't stop playing it.
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 19, 2008 30 mins
Mort Goldman mistakenly enters Stewie's time machine (he thought it was a bathroom) and is transported back to Poland on September 1, 1939. It's the day of his grandparents' wedding, as it happens, but the Nazis interrupt the reception.
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 2, 2008 30 mins
Peter gets a year's supply of free petrol and takes the family on a road trip. Destination: the Grand Canyon. The only thing missing: Stewie, who's inadvertently left home alone.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 30 mins
Eight-year-old Brian (who is 56 in dog years) seems to have lost a step or two, so Peter gets a new talking dog, New Brian. Johnny Knoxville has a voice cameo as himself.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 30 mins
Peter strives for a promotion at the brewery because he wants a key to the executive bathroom, but first he has to go back to school because he never passed year 3. Meanwhile, Brian and Frank Sinatra Jr (who provides his own voice) buy the down-on-its-heels Quahog Cabana Club, but it's Stewie who livens it up.
Episode 7
Sun, Feb 15, 2009 30 mins
After Bonnie (voice of Jennifer Tilly) has a baby, husband Joe must come up with $20,000 to pay the medical bills. The situation soon becomes desperate, calling for desperate measures. Meanwhile, Stewie falls hard for the baby, a girl named Susie, and struggles to write a song for her.
Episode 8
Sun, Mar 8, 2009 30 mins
To pay for damages caused by a mentally challenged horse he bought at an auction, Peter takes a job as a subject for medical experiments. First, he's injected with the "Seth Rogen gene", then with a lifestyle-changing gene. Guest voices include Rogen (as himself).
Episode 9
Sun, Mar 15, 2009 30 mins
Peter cashes in a winning 1989 raffle ticket that he had lost. The prize: a round of golf with OJ Simpson. Peter, who had been unaware of Simpson's notoriety, thinks this is a fine idea. Not surprisingly, no one else does.
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 22, 2009 30 mins
Lois gets a job as a news reporter. Her first assignment: an exposé of a certain liberal documentary filmmaker who's usually seen wearing a baseball cap. Meanwhile, Peter and Chris dream up a cartoon show to pitch to a network.
Episode 11
Sun, Mar 29, 2009 30 mins
Stewie fumes when he's unable to question "Star Trek: The Next Generation" cast members at Quahog's Star Trek convention, so he builds a transporter and beams them to his bedroom. "Next Generation" cast members provide voice cameos. Among them: Patrick Stewart and Levar Burton.
Episode 12
Sun, Apr 19, 2009 25 mins
Quahog goes up in smoke when Mayor West legalises marijuana in town. Spearheading the measure: Brian, after he's caught with his stash and jailed. But first, Quagmire undergoes a personality transformation after he acquires a cat.
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 30 mins
Stewie decides he needs a pair of six-pack abs after getting whipped in a fight by Joe's baby daughter. Meanwhile, Chris begins dating one of his school's popular girls. Wentworth Miller and Chace Crawford have voice cameos as high-school students.
Episode 14
Sun, May 3, 2009 30 mins
Jillian announces her engagement to a guy who is, for all intents and purposes, perfect. So Brian gets drunk, and hooks up with Lauren Conrad of "The Hills" (providing her own voice), who turns out to be no slouch herself. Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson have voice cameos as themselves, as does Conrad's "Hills" costar Audrina Patridge.
Episode 15
Sun, May 10, 2009 30 mins
Stephen King meets "The Family Guy" (with vocal help from Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and George Wendt). The tales include 12-year-old Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe heading off in search of a dead body and finding themselves; Brian getting rescued by his "No 1 fan" after being hurt in a car crash; and Cleveland and Peter becoming friends in prison.
Episode 16
Sun, May 17, 2009 30 mins
A fortune-teller tells the family of their past lives in Merrie Olde England in the age of King Stewart and the new American colony Quahog (founded by an earlier version of Peter). "How I Met Your Mother" stars Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris and Josh Radnor have voice cameos as themselves.