1x01 Death Has a Shadow - Family Guy Episode Guide

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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)

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Guest Stars:

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

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Episode Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Death Has a Shadow Lois Griffin: It seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies, and sex on tv. Peter Griffin: But where are those old fashioned values, on which we used to rely. Lois Griffin: Lucky there's a family guy. Peter Griffin: Lucky there's a man who, positively can do, all the things that make us. Stewie Griffin: Laugh and cry.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Death Has a Shadow Brian Griffin: Amazing, you can barely drive a car and yet you're allowed to fly a blimp? Peter Griffin: Yeah, America's great, except for the South.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Peter is having ice cream in a flash back, his eyes constantly change size.
FAKE: Quagmire is present at Peter's trial, but in several shots his face is drawn incorrectly.
FAKE: Peter's shirt, throughout the entire series, is buttoned on the girl's side - right over left.
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.
CONT: In one of the courtroom scenes, Stewie is missing his overalls.

TRIVIA

This episode originally aired immediately after Fox's airing of Super Bowl XXXIII on 31 January 1999.
The scene in which Peter gets drunk on communion wine at church was cut from the original airing. A shorter version was included in the later episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame".
For the 10th Anniversary of "Family Guy" (Feb. 01, 2009), television networks aired this pilot on "Super Bowl Sunday".
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.
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).