"Gronkowsbees" is the eleventh episode of the fifteenth season of the animated sitcom ''

Family Guy ''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom originally conceived and created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show centers around the Griffin family, Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter Griff ...

'', and the 280th episode overall. It aired on

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in the United States on January 15, 2017, and was written by

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and directed by

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. In this episode,

New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...

player Rob Gronkowski (guest starring as himself) moves into the Griffins' neighborhood and instantly befriends Peter,

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, Cleveland and

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, inviting them to parties every day. In the episode subplot, Brian and Stewie take up

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Plot

Inspired by

's mention of having to undergo flight training for drones, Peter buys one. But in a flight around the neighborhood, it is captured by a hawk and taken to the house behind the Griffin family's home. In the attempt to see if the neighbor could help them recover it, they find he has died. The home is quickly purchased by New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski. At first, the guys are amazed, but his non-stop partying soon gets on Peter's nerves, but when he tries to get them to quiet down, he is abused for his trouble. He tries to enlist the guys to help him, but their stunt of dressing Cleveland as a leprechaun fails and they are all collectively beaten up. Meanwhile, when forced to play "tea party" with Stewie, Brian finds he has taken up beekeeping and suggests marketing the honey at a farmers' market with him. They quickly sell out of their original production at a major profit, so to encourage the bees to make more honey, Stewie feeds them steroids. While the bees do increase their output, the boys find they have also become stronger and more aggressive, chasing them out of the market and following them home. After using

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to temporarily distract the bees, Stewie launches the hive over the back fence to get rid of the queen. The hive lands on Gronk, who samples the honey but becomes very frightened by the handful of stray bees and departs Quahog. Later on the news, the Griffins find that Gronk was suspended from the Patriots after steroids from the ingested honey caused him to fail a drug test. However, Gronk pitches a bus through the roof of the Griffin home in revenge.

Reception

The episode received an audience of 3.55 million viewers, a decrease from the previous episode, and making it the third-most watched show of the night, behind '' The Mick'' and '' The Simpsons''.

References

External links

* {{New England Patriots 2017 American television episodes Fiction about beekeeping Family Guy (season 15) episodes