Top 10 Worst Family Guy Episodes of All-Time

1. Seahorse Seashell Party

   While this wasn't the episode that made me quit watching this show, it was one of the signs to my grown man mind that it was really going downhill. The episode has Stewie's character at his absolute worst, being oblivious to what's going on with Brian to the point where you really have to question whether he actually cares about his own friend. It's not fun or funny to watch Brian have a racket, which is a really stupid thing to do, by the way. While his problem doesn't look so bad at first, he involves into his seizure that's not even pleasant to look at. The scene where Stewie had transformed into a monster. There's a reason that this is considered one of the worst episodes of the show, if not the worst: It's absolute crap.

2. Life of Brian

   While Family Guy began to lose its charm around Season 8 (when Cleveland left), I felt like this episode was truly the moment when Family Guy hit rock bottom. It was no longer a solid, fun comedy to enjoy but instead a sad, miserable shell of its former self.

   While I don't think this episode is as bad as Herpe the Love Sore or Brian's a Bad Father (the worst in the series), there's no denying that this is one of the worst episodes of the entire series. It truly marked the moment when Family Guy hit rock bottom. Watching this episode made me realize how little Seth MacFarlane and the rest of the writing team cared for the show anymore.

   Even The Simpsons, as much as they've declined since Season 10, still show that their writers care about the show and want it to stay relevant.

3. Herpe the Love Sore

   At first I was happy to see Brian back on the show. It was a miracle to me.

   But now after watching this episode I couldn't believe I actually liked Brian in the first place. Brian gave an infant a ruthless disease that will last for his entire life and he doesn't care about in the slightest. He's treating it like he accidentally bumped into Stewie at the store.

   I really don't know about you but that really is evil. He just gave someone an STD and he doesn't care at all. How could you guys not see how screwed up that it?! Brian ruined someone's life. And this is another reason I have to hate this stupid piece of crapcharacter. Yes I know I said that I was happy that they brought Brian back, but even before his death I started knows lots of things wrong that have been wrong with him lately.

4. Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q

   This episode is probably the worst episode of the show for me, as not only was it just violent and disturbing to watch, with a gross and creepy aura surrounding it, it probably has one of the worst media portrayals of domestic violence out there. At first, I kind of felt bad for Brenda, as she gets hit by her husband on a daily basis and uses sunglasses to hide her black eye, but then it's revealed that she LOVES the abuser. Seriously, this is the main reason why this portrayal is unrealistic. You don't just give in to what the abuser says and does! I just feel bad for anyone who grew up in abusive households and had to watch this episode later in their life... my father used to listen to a lot of Chris Cagle (a country singer who got arrested under accused domestic violence charges)... yikes.

5. Fresh Heir

   I may like the funny jokes, but the problem kinda sucked. What makes this episode fail is Peter marries Chris. He's pretty obnoxious, stupid, and hard to root for here, even when the episode tries to make him flanderized. While the show can do a lot of comedy with the facial expressions, there's something about this one that made them a little too creepy. The story is weak, the humor isn't that funny, and the story can be pretty padded. The supporting characters also felt really out of place. Even in what I feel is a very horrible episode, everything had way too many problems for me to forgive.

   Well...I'm going to try to sum up this episode really quickly because this episode smushes in as much awkward and disgusting imagery as possible.

   1. We can see Carter's broken bone piercing the skin.

   2. We see his wife on a magazine with something close to varicose veins.

   3. Chris gives a...uh...handjob to his grandpa.

   4. Peter has a hairless twin.

   5. Peter holds private parts in his hands.

   6. Meg and Chris take baths together.

   7. Peter kills an innocent peer of Chris's

   8. Peter tries to marry Chris.

   This episode is disgusting. Though "Herpe The Love Sore" is WAY more disgusting.

6. Brian's a Bad Father

   I actually don't HATE this episode. Was Brian a dick? Yes. Did he have a funny moment? Yes, which was when he drove off with the entire buffet table after Dylan pretty much holds a mirror to his face. What people need to realize about this one is that Brian doesn't stay as a jerk the whole time; he feels so guilty and angry at himself that he drinks to try to cope with depression. He's clearly sorry and he's man enough to face what he did! Cut the guy a little ' slack! I mean, Peter can burn down a children's hospital, abuse his daughter, "bond" with Stewie by torturing Lois, kick Joe out of his restaurant for being handicapped, attempt to marry his son just for money, and yell the "you-know-what" word in a black neighborhood, and no one says anything to him because he's Peter Griffin. Meanwhile, Brian can't write a book, be a little bit smug, go out with women, or try to advance his writing career by collaborating with his son (even though he screws up) without being the most hated guy on the show.

7. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven

   Family Guy just showed a perfect display of how in the beginning you can root for someone till the end they end up the villain. That was Meg when she brought religion into the family, but when Brian said he was an atheist Meg tried to to shove religion down his throat. But, Brian lied to Meg About being converted just so he can buy alcohol. That just made him look weak. Then he takes Meg to a BOOK BURNING, so Seth MacFarlane is saying that all religious people think that all books are harm to God and we want to go back to the Dark Ages. This insults religious people, atheists and all people in between this is the worst episode of the worst season of Family Guy

8. Brian Griffin's House of Payne

   This was the episode that made me stop watching Family Guy. The episode is terrible even by recent Family Guy standards.

   The "Plot A" of the episode is boring. Brian tries to pitch his T.V. pilot, and James Woods ruins it. None of the jokes involving this were funny. The "Plot B" of the episode is the real reason this episode reaches a new level of bad. Chris and Meg accidentally knock Stewie down a flight of stairs resulting in him cracking his head and exposing his brain, so they try to hide Stewie's injury from the rest of the family by making him wear hats and drawing eyes on his head. Peter finds out about the situation and helps Chris and Meg hide it from Lois.

   This episode is chocked filled with gross out moments and characters who are at their most abhorrent. One cutaway gag shows Stewie at the park in what appears to be a coonskin cap, but then, the cap stars moving and reveals itself to be a REAL racoon. The racoon starts chewing and tugging at Stewie's brain, and Chris just watches LAUGHING. That entire cutaway gag was the worst part of the episode. As Chris, Meg, and Peter continue to hide Stewie's injury from Lois, Stewie's brain becomes gross and infected, but they still won't take him to the hospital. Finally, Meg takes a stand and convinces the others that Stewie needs medical help, but instead of just telling Lois what happened, Peter throws Stewie behind Lois' car making it look like she caused the injury. The way this scene was set up implied that it was supposed to be played for laughs, but I was too busy feeling sorry for Stewie because of how his family had treated him this entire episode. Lois wants to frame someone else for it, but Peter suggests taking Stewie to the hospital. The ending angered me so much that I wanted to throw my T.V. out the window.... read more

9. Brian and Stewie

   This is an AMAZING episode. I honestly consider this the BEST episode of the series. Yet somehow the website ranks Quagmires dad as one of the best. wow America. Anyway this episode is beyond amazing and shows a new side of the writers. There were no stupid cutaways and the showed a new side to Brian. Brian is by far my most hated character on this show but this episode actually made me like him. (Until the one that came out after Quagmire's dad). The ending also really shows how much Brian and Stewy really love each other. This episode is the best of the series and I have no idea why you would put this on a list like this.

   I know some people like this episode for the serious moments and doing something new. But ambition does not equal quality and by god, this episode is just boring. The jokes aren't funny, its just gross out humour, if I can even call it humour. It doesn't feel like Family Guy, especially without the cutaways. And those serious moments? Yeah, way to make a 180 and go the opposite way of the show. Especially if you know that these moments won't have any effect on the rest of the series. It isn't engaging, it isn't funny, it isn't enjoyable and its emotionally draining.

10. Fore, Father

    Why all the hate for Seth? He hasn't even written any episodes on this list. I don't think he's written any since North By North Quahog way back in Family Guys golden era. Also, it's an ADULT cartoon, if you're looking for serious intellect and day to day bull just stick to daytime dramas.

    This is just a badly made episode. Now, I know that the FG team have a lot to do, bu to be honest, this is terrible. Its 5hit I'm afraid.

    Even though this is an old episode I still hate it.

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13. Quagmire's Dad

    If you're going to try to portray a sensitive topic like that of transgender people your first step should be actually trying to find out what things are like from their perspective. When you don't you become as bad as a highlight reel of the status-quo bigoted jokes that EVERYONE HAS TOLD 1000 TIMES ALREADY. Ignoring the outright offensiveness of this it's just lazy. They even had Brian puke when he realized that he slept with a "man". Did they just find a laundry list of transphobic cliches and decided to use it as a checklist as they wrote it?

    If you're going to be bigoted at least come up with a new way to be bigoted.

    Yet another terrible episode from Season 8. Here we go again with the show lacking more and more development on Quagmire. These writers are sure are getting lazy and they keep on focusing more on the plot rather than the characters.

    Part of the episode, starting with Brian meeting Brenda and they "hit the beds together", is just an excuse to torture Brian even more than the lazy ass writers did in "Jerome is the New Black", Brian has done nothing to do to deserve being hated and getting beaten up by Quagmire so it really fails at trying to be funny, what didn't even make sense is that when Quagmire was beating up Brian, no one seems to be home and all in all this just makes it the worst episode for Brian, and makes Season 8 the worst and laziest season of all.

14. Peter-assment

    Ugh this episode... is cringe inducing. It acts like men can't be sexually assaulted but they can. Lois is even more obnoxious and unlikable in this episode. Peter tries to tell her that he doesn't want to sleep with his boss. Yet Lois makes things way worse for him. Then his boss tries to commit suicide just because Peter doesn't want to sleep with her. Which is TERRIBLE by the way. Then Peter wears a disguise and does his boss. The overall message to this episode is bad, the writing is bad and the concept is bad overall. This is one of the worst episodes of the series.

    See ladies, you're not the only ones who have harmful stereotypes placed on you, apparently in this episode everyone says Peter is wrong for saying that he was sexually harassed because all men are perverts and should want sex all the time. The worst part is the fact that this stereotype is EVERYWHERE! Nearly 100% the media in the world treats it that way. So apparently all men are sex addicts and all women are asexual but chose to get married because hell if I know

15. The Juice is Loose

    This list is pretty terrible. I see nothing wrong with a bunch of these, like... Probably the entire top 10. This episode, however, is terrible. There are a few good jokes, but the entire thing seems like 3 good ideas and 17 bad ideas poorly meshed together. The Conway Twitty part went on for way too long, definitely, but my least favorite jokes were the "dumb beaver" jokes. I also hated the scene where OJ randomly killed 2 people in the crowd after his terrible speech. The intro said this was a lost episode. It should've stayed lost.

    The entire Conway Twitty songs ruined this episode for me. It has its funny moments like every other episode but as a die hard fan, this episode is always skipped or turned off when it's next in line.

16. Peter Problems

    The the scene where Peter eviscerates a whale with a forklift was the worst moment in Family Guy history bar none. I can't believe that everyone is complaining about "Life of Brian," but ignoring this abomination of an episode. I'd rather watch a 24 hour marathon of "Life of Brian" than this episode once again (especially the whale scene and the scene where Peter accidentally cooks his kids). When will the Family Guy writers realize that disturbing does not automatically equal funny?

    Come on I love this episode! Yea the whale scene was gross and dragged out but I'm not going to condem the whole episode for that joke. I know that I don't like every single one of family guys jokes will be funny so I don't allow myself to hate an entire episode for one part unless the entire episode truly is horrible.

17. A Fistful of Meg

    The main plot is good, but the subplot is just as lazy as the two season 8 episodes. Brian has seen Peter naked numerous of times before this episode so it definitely doesn't make sense and its lazy writing at it's most extreme. Another Brian-abused episode.

    This episode was disgusting, very, VERY, violent, with a few sex jokes, and why the hell would Quagmire have a main role in this episode? It was very disturbing especially when brian goes naked.

    This episode was hilarious and had no reason to be this high.

    "HUNGRY, HUNGRY, more food on my pile! " Give the man who animated that cutaway a cookie. This is the only episode of the season I truly liked.

18. Dead Dog Walking

19. Vestigial Peter

    This episode is good, Chip is cute and when Peter gets angry it's hilarious.

20. Stewie Is Enceinte

    How is this not brought up with episodes like Herpe the Love Sore or Brian Griffin's House of Payne or A Fistful of Meg?

    For the record, my bottom 10:

    1. Seahorse Seashell Party (awful moral, boring)

    2. Screams in Silence (awful moral, fails to be a PSA)

    3. Herpe the Love Sore (kills Brian's originally likable character, gross)

    4. Brian's a Bad Father (kills Brian's originally likable character)

    5. Life of Brian (kills Brian, insulting, melodramatic)

    6. Fresh Heir (gross, stupid)

    7. Stewie is Enceinte (gross, stupid)

    8. A Fistful of Meg (gross)

    9. Not All Dogs Go To Heaven (awful moral)

    10. Peter Problems (awful moral, gross)

    And a few I don't mind so much: The Juice is Loose (Dust in the Wind scene was funny), Brian & Stewie (an interesting alternative to the norm), BG's HOP (the gross out just wasn't quite as bad and you knew he'd be fine, also the end was funny)

21. Foreign Affairs

    The plot was Bonnie goes to Paris because she wants to have an affair. Now let me say this. People who cheat on their spouse are scumbaggy, but Bonnie is a particularly loathsome type of scumbag. She openly tells Lois about it. She is hands down the most detestable character on the show. Dull and boring and also hates her own husband enough to cheat on him and in another episode wants to kill him. Joe should've broken it off then, but because his character is faithful to his family and his friends, he'll keep forgiving her until they both die. Joe deserves way better than Bonnie. The episode as a whole just fell flat. I can't even remember anything else about the episode. Horrible premise to an otherwise forgettable episode.

22. The 2000-Year-Old Virgin

    Hated it hated it hated it with every fiber of my being. I saw it once, never again. The "joke" in this episode is that Jesus is a manipulative, sex-crazed douchebag who wants to score with Lois. That's it. Now I understand that devout Christians are most likely not going to see this episode nor watch Family Guy at all for obvious reasons, but this just comes off as cringeworthy and not funny. Now, I'm not in any way perfect. I am myself a very lapsed non denominational Christian, however I am also aware of the sensitivities surrounding world faiths. In my view defaming revered icons of world religions is not funny. Where's the humor? "Oh look there's a sacred figure of a major world faith. Let's turn him/her into an ass." Were they taking a page out of Charlie Hebdo's playbook? Were they trying to be like South Park saying either it's all okay or none of it is? Is it just to push the boundaries of what they can get away with? They've already shown child murder, mass vehicular homicide, and teen suicide. And they think all of that is funny? There's always gonna be subtle blasphemy in movies and T.V., but this is just unfunny, blunt, down your throat, insulting, lowest common denominator writing Family Guy has ever done. Like seriously this episode should not have been made. It should be sucked out of the fabric of space and time. I can't believe television has devolved to such a low point. You'd think by 2014 there'd be some sort of collective wisdom when it comes to quality television. Forgive me for sounding preachy, but I'm really spurned by this one episode. This is even worse than "I Dream of Jesus". Although they do it here too, this one is at least memorable because of Surfin' Bird. At least it contributed something to the Family Guy universe. "2000 Year Old Virgin" is forgettable, unfunny, just awful in every way, yet somehow I remember it just enough to make me wish on every star that it would erase itself from all reality and parallel reality. There is no rating... read more

23. Brian Writes a Bestseller

    Ain't too bad an episode. Sure, Brian's a dick, but his rant about walking out of the back room of a restaurant was pretty funny. I can't blame him for feeling mortified about that. A lot of times, the back of a restaurant is where people go out and beat the crap out of each other; it makes a bit of sense to me

    Okay, I'll admit, Brian WAS a bit of a jerk in this episode. But then again, it's just the typical "fame goes into head" cliche.

    Bri leaned a little bit over the edge in this one, but come on, his half-hearted apology to Stewie was hilarious, if not a tiny bit true.

24. Married With Cancer

25. The Kiss Seen Around the World

26. Better Off Meg

27. Turban Cowboy

    This episode is so racist and cruel. Peter gets his butt impaled on an Eiffel Tower replica, runs over tons of people at the Boston Marathon, sets off a bomb, etc.. Did I forget to mention that this episode was so offensive and racist with it's portrayals of terrorists, Fox never reran it for a few months.

    Did I forget to mention the name sounds racist like they think what a Terrorist outfit looks like?

    This is one of the worst episodes in the series, and it needs to be in the top ten.