"Encyclopedia Griffin" is the 11th episode of the thirteenth season of the animated sitcom '' Family Guy'', and the 242nd episode overall. It aired on

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in the United States on February 15, 2015, and is written by

Lew Morton Lewis "Lew" Morton is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including ''Saturday Night Live'' (from 1993-1995), ''NewsRadio'', '' Family Guy'' and '' Futurama''. He worked as a producer for ''Undeclared'', but never aut ...

and directed by Jerry Langford.

Plot

After someone steals Stewie's

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Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

sets out to find who did it. He and his friends interrogate a child in the neighborhood and find the child who stole it. The successful feeling, and being hired to find another child's

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, inspire them to open a detective agency. They take cases such as a

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that takes a child's money. Pursuing a rash of thefts, they watch hidden camera footage of

Chris Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...

sneaking in and taking things. Searching his room, they find a life-size female doll made out of the stolen items as he arrives to protect "Heather." The doll creeps out Lois and she thinks it may be a reflection of her sex life with Peter. Peter has a talk with Chris and finds that the doll is not being used for sex, as she has been holding out so Peter tries to make Chris sexy for the doll. When she collapses into his lap, Chris takes it as wanting sex although Lois chews out Peter for ignoring her instructions to make him get rid of it so she gives him the silent treatment. She is almost fooled when flowers arrive for "Heather" but realizes that Chris treats his doll better than Peter does her. After finding out that Heather and Chris have a picnic planned, Lois asks if she and Peter can tag along so Peter can be reminded what romance is like, but his stupidity repeatedly backfires in Lois' face. Fed up with jealousy, Lois takes the doll in the night. She denies seeing it and encourages him to move on. Instead, he cries over her leaving. Lois sees him depressed and decides to show him where she buried the doll after stabbing it. She apologizes, but encourages him to treat a real girlfriend like he treated the doll and he will be happy. That night, Peter admits that he did learn a lesson as Chris arrives with a

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named Mistress Vita. Peter tries to fake the end of the show early when Lois notices that Mistress Vita knows his name.

Reception

The episode received an audience of 2.51 million, making it the second-most watched show on Fox that night after ''

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'' episode " My Fare Lady". The

Parents Television Council The Parents Television and Media Council (PTMC), formerly the Parents Television Council (PTC), is an American media advocacy group founded by conservative Christian activist L. Brent Bozell III in 1995, which advocates for what it considers ...

, a long-time critic of ''Family Guy'', named the episode as the "Worst of the Week", the second time in a row for the series, taking offense at what they saw as sexualization of children.

References

External links

* {{Family Guy episodes, 13 2015 American television episodes Family Guy (season 13) episodes Dolls in fiction Television episodes about theft