- 8.2/102,510 votes
#1 - Emmy-Winning Episode
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2017
Tired of not winning an Emmy, Peter embarks on his own For Your Consideration campaign for Family Guy by making the show more like Emmy-winning shows - and no category is off limits.
Director: Peter Shin, James Purdum, Dominic Bianchi
Writer: Aaron Lee
- 7.1/101,354 votes
#2 - Foxx in the Men House
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2017
Peter becomes friends with a cool, handsome paramedic named Stryker Foxx. Wrapped up in his newfound "coolness," he soon dumps Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland.
Director: Brian Iles
Writer: Andrew Goldberg
- 7.2/101,383 votes
#3 - Nanny Goats
Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2017
Peter and Louis find themselves with a golden opportunity to reconnect as a couple after Lois' parents get a nanny to take care of the children for them.
Director: Steve Robertson
Writer: Tom Devanney
- 7.1/101,393 votes
#4 - Follow the Money
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2017
Chris receives a special one-dollar bill as a birthday present, but he quickly loses it and the dollar passes into the possession of everybody in Quahog.
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: Kevin Biggins
- 7.8/101,858 votes
#5 - Three Directors
Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2017
The story of Peter's firing from the brewery, as told in the styles of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay.
Director: Joe Vaux
Writer: Travis Bowe
- 8.1/101,997 votes
#6 - The D in Apartment 23
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2017
When Brian posts an offensive tweet that goes viral and the rest of the Griffins are also treated as outcasts, he's forced to move out of the Griffin house.
Director: Julius Wu
Writer: Artie Johann
- 6.7/101,422 votes
#7 - Petey IV
Season 16 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2017
Vladimir Putin comes to Quahog after Peter writes to him about an alternate ending to the Russian version of Rocky IV (1985).
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: Anthony Blasucci
- 7.3/101,280 votes
#8 - Crimes and Meg's Demeanor
Season 16 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2017
Peter encourages Meg to attend a high school party, where she takes up drinking, which both concerns and delights her father. Meanwhile, Brian begins spying on his neighbors and suspects Principal Shepherd of a crime.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Mike Desilets
- 7.0/101,265 votes
#9 - Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2017
In this special holiday episode, a selfish Peter loses his Christmas spirit and is visited by ghosts of Christmas past, present and future who take him on a journey around Quahog in the style of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
Director: Jerry Langford
Writer: Danny Smith
- 7.0/101,268 votes
#10 - Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)
Season 16 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/2018
Brian is smitten with a female show dog and enters a show dog competition in which the winner gets to breed her; Peter and Lois go to extreme measures to try to convince Chris that Arthur Valentine doesn't exist.
Director: Brian Iles
Writer: Steve Callaghan
- 7.5/101,470 votes
#11 - Dog Bites Bear
Season 16 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2018
Stewie and Brian get into a friendship-ending fight after Brian commits a terrible act to one of Stewie's beloved toys. Meanwhile, Peter refuses to wash his hand after meeting his favorite breakfast cereal mascot, Boo Berry.
Director: John Holmquist
Writer: Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
- 6.3/102,701 votes
#12 - Send in Stewie, Please
Season 16 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/2018
When Stewie gets sent to see his school's child psychologist for a surprising session, he reveals major secrets about himself.
Director: Joe Vaux
Writer: Gary Janetti
- 6.8/101,296 votes
#13 - V Is for Mystery
Season 16 Episode 13 - Aired 3/25/2018
Stewie and Brian are detectives who embark on solving a string of mysterious murders set in Victorian-era London.
Director: Joseph Lee
Writer: David A. Goodman
- 6.7/101,175 votes
#14 - Veteran Guy
Season 16 Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/2018
After Peter and the guys get caught pretending to be military veterans and are found guilty of the Stolen Valor Act, a judge sentences them to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
Director: David A. Goodman
Writer: Patrick Meighan
- 7.2/101,201 votes
#15 - The Woof of Wall Street
Season 16 Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/2018
Brian convinces Stewie to teach him how to invest in the stock market after learning Stewie has a knack for making money from it. Meanwhile, Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe look after the Drunken Clam while Jerome is away.
Director: Steve Robertson
Writer: Alex Carter
- 6.8/101,254 votes
#16 - 'Family Guy' Through The Years
Season 16 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/2018
FAMILY GUY is reimagined as a series that’s been on the air for 60 years and, in a special retrospective, it looks back at the cultural events and issues that were tackled on the show in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
Director: Julius Wu
Writer: Chris Sheridan
- 7.9/101,452 votes
#17 - Switch the Flip
Season 16 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2018
To help get Brian's life in order, Stewie and Brian swap bodies using a machine that Stewie invents, but chaos quickly ensues around Quahog when the machine goes haywire.
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: Kevin Biggins
- 7.6/101,524 votes
#18 - HTTPete
Season 16 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2018
To help promote the brewery to millennials, Peter adopts the millennial lifestyle, and his methods soon attract the attention of a high-powered Silicon Valley executive.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/101,106 votes
#19 - The Unkindest Cut
Season 16 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2018
Quagmire's most treasured body part gets cut off in a freak accident and he is forced to learn how to live without it. Meanwhile, Stewie and Brian search for Mort after learning there is a $10,000 reward for turning him into the police for his involvement in a drug scam.
Director: Jerry Langford
Writer: Mark Hentemann
- 6.6/101,154 votes
#20 - Are You There God? It's Me, Peter
Season 16 Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/2018
After Peter falls into a coma, Peter meets God face-to-face, which leads him to ask some of life's tough questions.
Director: Joseph Lee
Writer: Travis Bowe
The Best Episodes of Family Guy Season 16
Every episode of Family Guy Season 16 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Family Guy Season 16!
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids....
Genres:AnimationComedy
Network:FOX
Season 16 Ratings Summary
"Emmy-Winning Episode" is the best rated episode of "Family Guy" season 16. It scored 8.2/10 based on 2510 votes. Directed by Peter Shin, James Purdum, Dominic Bianchi and written by Aaron Lee, it aired on 10/1/2017. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Foxx in the Men House".