| Family Guy | |
|---|---|
| Season 11 | |
 DVD cover | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 30, 2012 – May 19, 2013 |
| Season chronology | |
The eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy aired on Fox from September 30, 2012,[1] to May 19, 2013. The season consisted of 22 episodes.
The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the tenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The showrunners are Appel and Callaghan, with Appel replacing previous showrunner Hentemann.
In this season, the Griffins decide to climb Mount Everest ("Into Fat Air"); Lois has a mid-life crisis ("Lois Comes Out of Her Shell"); Meg falls for a boy who turns out to like her brother Chris ("Friends Without Benefits"); and Brian and Stewie leap into action after they discover the company owned by Lois's dad, Carter Pewterschmidt, has found the cure for cancer ("The Old Man and the Big 'C'").[2] This season also features the 200th episode of the series.
Further episode plots were revealed at Comic-Con 2012. Quagmire accidentally marries a hooker ("The Giggity Wife"), on episode 21,Peter becomes a meth dealer ("Farmer Guy"), and Chris moves in with Herbert ("Chris Cross"). Also, Brian and Stewie travel to Vegas by teleportation, but instead the device malfunctions and ends up cloning them, where two pairs of Brian and Stewie both go on a road trip to Vegas, with each pair having different experiences, in another '"Road to..."' episode as part of the season finale ("Roads to Vegas").[3]
A Valentine's Day episode, aired on February 10, 2013, in which Stewie rounds up all of Brian's ex-girlfriends, who take delight in pointing out Brian's flaws ("Valentine's Day in Quahog").[4]
The episode "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" was scheduled to air on December 16, 2012, but was replaced by a repeat of "Grumpy Old Man" out of sensitivity for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.[5][6] The episode aired the following week on December 23, 2012.[7]
Guest voices for this season include J. J. Abrams, Mark Burnett, Dick Wolf, Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Banks, Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta, Anne Murray, Christina Milian, Lacey Chabert, and Johnny Depp.[8]
On July 21, 2013, the season started on BBC Three in the UK.
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- ^ Smith, Grady. "'Family Guy': Drew Barrymore, Jessica Biel, Cheryl Tiegs among Brian's exes returning for Valentine's Day episode - EXCLUSIVE". Insidetv.ew.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ^ "Fox pulls new episodes of 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' after shooting". Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- ^ "Fox Pulls 'Family Guy' in Wake of School Shooting". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (December 18, 2012). "Preempted Family Guy Episode Rescheduled For This Sunday". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ^ "All-Star Roster of Talent to Guest-Voice on "Animation Domination" Starting this Fall". Facebook. Archived from the original on August 24, 2012. Retrieved November 4, 2012.