Episode Description: When former Griffin family neighbor
Cleveland Brown returns to Quahog for a week, he visits his old friends Peter,
Joe and Quagmire at the local bar. When Peter gets tired of his wife, Lois,
constantly demanding for him to do chores, the group decides to take a road trip
to New Orleans, Louisiana. While driving through a rural area in Georgia, the
group is pulled over by a police officer, causing Peter to talk down to the
officer. This results in the sheriff punching out one of their headlights, and
planting a bag of marijuana in their trunk. He then takes the group to the
county work camp, where they are forced to perform various tasks, including
ditch digging and rock crushing. As their stay in the jail supposedly comes to
an end, the warden then approaches them and tells them that their stay has been
extended an additional thirty days. Another prisoner then tells them that his
imprisonment was also extended, and he has been in the jail for 45 years. Scared
that they’ll also be locked up forever, they decide to break out of the prison
once the prison guards’s eyes are diverted. Successful in their attempt, they
soon come across a home, and discover a set of handcuff and shackle keys. They
then find out that the home belongs to the sheriff that originally arrested
them. When the[.
Family Guy is an animated American television sitcom created
by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox and regularly on other
television networks in syndication. The show centers on a semi-dysfunctional
family that lives in the fictional town of Quahog,
Rhode Island. The show uses frequent “cutaway gags”, jokes in
the form of tangential vignettes.
Family Guy was canceled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but
strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network’s Adult
Swim convinced Fox to resume the show in 2005. It is the first cancelled show to
be resurrected based on DVD sales, and the only one to be resurrected twice on
that basis.
Family Guy is a show originally created in 1999 after the
Larry shorts (its predecessor) caught the attention of the Fox
Broadcasting Company during the 1999 Super Bowl commercial. Its
cancellation was announced, but then a shift in power at Fox and outcry from the
fans led to a reversal of that decision and the making of a third season after
which it was cancelled again. Reruns on Adult Swim drove interest in the show
up, and the DVD releases did quite well, selling over 2.2 million copies in one
year, which renewed network interest. Family Guy returned to
production in 2004, making three more seasons (for a total of six) and a
straight-to-DVD movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold
Story. The show celebrated its official 100th episode during its sixth
season in autumn of 2007, resulting in the show’s syndication. Season 7 began airing Sunday,
September 28, 2008. The show is contracted to continue producing episodes until
2012.
