1x01 Death Has a Shadow - Family Guy Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Death Has a Shadow
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1ACX01
First Aired: Jan. 31, 1999

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Death Has a Shadow

Summary: After promising not to, Peter gets drunk at a stag party, and ends up sleeping on the kitchen table. The next day at work, Peter is too tired to work the assembly line, and falls asleep on the job; letting some dangerous toys slip through. He gets fired, and after a few days unemployed, he files for welfare. However, his first check is for $150,000...a week. He goes on a spending binge, and tells Lois that he got a big raise. But when she finds out it's the taxpayers money, she demands he return it. Peter chooses to do this in his own way, by dumping it out of a blimp over the Super Bowl. But when he is arrested, his family must come to the rescue.

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Jackson Douglas (01:13)

Marlee Matlin Impression (01:38)

All the News (02:45)

Sketches (01:05)

Who appeared in this episode?

Johnson	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Additional Voices	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Bill Clinton	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Barbara Pewterschmidt	voiced by Alex Borstein
Additional Voices	voiced by Alex Borstein
Additional Voices	voiced by Seth Green
Various	voiced by Butch Hartman
Judge	voiced by Phil LaMarr
Dick Clark	voiced by Joey Slotnick

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Death Has a Shadow

Jan Brady: Mom, Dad, I found cigarettes in Greg's jacket.
Mike Brady: Greg were you smoking cigarettes?
Greg Brady: No dad.
Mike Brady: Well he's lying. There's no doubt about that. Greg I'm afraid your punishment will be 4 hours in the snake pit. Maybe that will give you some time to think about what you have done.
Jan Brady: That will teach him.
Mike Brady: And Jan I'm afraid you have earned a day in the chamber of fire for tattling on your brother.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Death Has a Shadow

Peter Griffin: Not a word to your mother about my getting canned.
Lois Griffin: What?
Peter Griffin: Nothing. Ooh, the lost-my-job smells great.
Lois Griffin: Excuse me?
Peter Griffin: Uh, Meg, honey, could you please pass the fired-my-ass for negligence?
Lois Griffin: Peter, are you feeling okay?
Peter Griffin: What are you talking about, Lois? I feel great. I haven't got a job in the world!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Peter is being questioned by the judge, a microphone in front of him is shown in some scenes, but in others, there is no microphone.
FAKE: Peter's shirt, throughout the entire series, is buttoned on the girl's side - right over left.
FAKE: Quagmire is present at Peter's trial, but in several shots his face is drawn incorrectly.
CONT: In one of the courtroom scenes, Stewie is missing his overalls.
CONT: When Peter is having ice cream in a flash back, his eyes constantly change size.

TRIVIA

The Black Knight looks different than he later does in "Mr. Saturday Knight". The main difference is that his helmet is not beaked.
This episode originally aired immediately after Fox's airing of Super Bowl XXXIII on 31 January 1999.
Spoofs: G.I. Joe (G.I. Jew), Forrest Gump, Cocoa Puffs (CooCoo Puffs), John Madden, Aunt Jemima, Kool-Aid Man, Casablanca, The Brady Bunch, Joanie Loves Chachi, TV Bloopers, Seinfeld, Super Bowl, Philadelphia (Movie).
Death Has a Shadow and the next 3 episodes are from a time when Seth McFarlane wanted to do all the episodes like old Radio shows. Most of the old radio mysteries were stuff like Death Has a Shadow, Death Knocks Twice, Driver Death, and so on. However this proved unmanagable as the writers and producers found it hard to talk about the episodes unless they alluded to actions, not the titles such as The One Where Peter is Under House Arrest.
Brian sits down like a dog in this pilot. Later in the series, he sits like a human.