8.1/1017 votes#1 - Heroes of Patience
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2021
On the verge of completing his mission, Harry faces his own humanity.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.8/1023 votes#2 - Homesick
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/2021
In his first week at the clinic, Harry struggles to diagnose a strange feeling: human emotion.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.7/1011 votes#3 - Alien Dinner Party
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/2022
It's a surprise party as everyone gathers to celebrate Harry, but some dangerous guests cause havoc.
Director: Claudia Yarmy
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.4/1014 votes#4 - Old Friends
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/2022
Harry the alien is back on Earth and doesn't remember who he is, and only Asta can keep him safe.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.4/107 votes#5 - Lone Wolf
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/2024
In an attempt to gather information on the Grey Aliens, Harry puts Asta in harm's way.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.4/107 votes#6 - Homecoming
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/2024
Harry and Asta team up with an unlikely ally to try to save the Earth.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.3/1041 votes#7 - I Never Met the Dead Man
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/1999
While teaching Meg to drive, Peter crashes into the town satellite dish, which knocks out the city's cable. He promises Meg that if she takes the blame, he'll get her a car. Without TV, Peter goes crazy, which drives the family insane. Meanwhile, after refusing to eat the broccoli that Lois gives him, Stewie attempts to build a weather control device that would destroy all vegetables.
Director: Michael Dante DiMartino
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.3/1033 votes#8 - I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/28/2000
Forced to go to a women’s retreat for telling sexist jokes at work, Peter resists the idea at first. After two weeks, however, Peter becomes a sensitive male. No one likes the new Peter, especially Lois. While attending a charity dinner, Lois does something that snaps Peter out of his feminine phase.
Director: Monte Young
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.3/1018 votes#9 - Road to the North Pole
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/2010
Stewie’s favorite thing after his teddy bear, Rupert, is Christmas. So when he hears that Santa is making an appearance at the mall, he begs Brian to take him so that he can tell Santa in person what he wants for Christmas. Brian begrudgingly takes Stewie to the mall, only to get the brush-off from Santa. As a result, Stewie and Brian travel to the North Pole to find Santa and teach him a lesson in holiday cheer.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.3/1022 votes#10 - Peternormal Activity
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2015
The guys go to an abandoned asylum seeking inspiration for a new horror movie idea, but end up accidentally killing a man they think is keeping them hostage. Wracked with guilt, they each try to pin the murder on someone else. Meanwhile, Stewie is on a mission to destroy Brian's glasses because he's annoyed by how pretentious Brian's been acting when he wears them
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.2/1035 votes#11 - Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1999
Lois' aunt dies and leaves her mansion to the Griffins.
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.2/1034 votes#12 - If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/4/2000
Peter makes Chris pretend he's dying, in order to save a television program.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.2/1023 votes#13 - Peter's Daughter
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/2007
After Quahog is hit by a flood, Meg winds up in the hospital in a coma. When she wakes up and sees a cute med student, they immediately hit it off. Overprotective of his daughter, Peter is determined to drive the med student away. That is until Meg reveals that she is pregnant.
Director: Zac Moncrief
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.1/1030 votes#14 - He's Too Sexy for His Fat
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 6/27/2000
Peter talks himself into getting liposuction and other plastic surgery.
Director: Glen Hill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
7.0/1024 votes#15 - The Fat Guy Strangler
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 11/27/2005
Lois discovers she has a brother named Patrick and takes the family cross-country to meet him. It turns out; he’s locked up in a mental institution. Lois thinks he’s sane, so she checks him out to live with the Griffins. Meanwhile, Peter starts the Society for the Acceptance of Fat Men. But when all the fat men of Quahog are strangled one-by-one the group lives in fear. Who could the “Fat Man Strangler” be?
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.9/1028 votes#16 - Lethal Weapons
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/22/2001
New Yorkers invade the town in the fall; Lois hones her martial-arts skills.
Director: Pete Michels
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.9/1018 votes#17 - Stewie B. Goode
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 5/21/2006
After losing at a swim competition, Stewie trys to eliminate his rival by blowing up a lifeguard tower. His plan backfires though, and Stewie has a near death experience that seems to change him.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.8/1013 votes#18 - American Gigg-olo
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2016
After the local airline pilots go on strike, Quagmire looks for new work and becomes a gigolo. When his clients begin to avoid paying for his services, he asks Peter for help getting his money. Meanwhile, Brian is kicked off Peter’s health insurance, so he gets a job at a hardware store, until Stewie gets him fired and things get medical.
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.8/109 votes#19 - I Believe in Aliens
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 9/28/2022
Harry comes face to face with his greatest enemy and makes a choice that may affect Earth forever.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.4/1016 votes#20 - Burning Down the Bayit
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 3/4/2012
Overwhelmed with financial troubles, Mort asks Peter and Quagmire to help him save his pharmacy. However, things take a turn for the worse when the trio decides to burn it down to collect insurance money
Director: Jerry Langford
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.4/1017 votes#21 - Save the Clam
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/2013
When the owner of The Drunken Clam is killed, Peter and the guys must find a way to save the bar, after the bank threatens to close it. Meanwhile, Meg gets a part-time job at a funeral home.
Director: Brian Iles
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.4/1019 votes#22 - Brian's a Bad Father
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2014
Brian tries to use Dylan's television connections to further his career.
Director: Jerry Langford
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.3/1013 votes#23 - A House Full of Peters
Season 15 Episode 20 - Aired 5/22/2017
Peter's past as a sperm donor catches up to him when many of his children show up unannounced to his house.
Director: Joseph Lee
Writer: Chris Sheridan
6.1/1017 votes#24 - Peter-assment
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 3/21/2010
After Peter has some luck selling footage of a celebrity he caught off-guard, he decides to become a full-time paparazzo. To make matters worse, his new boss, Angela, finds him irresistible and plagues him with unwanted advances. When Peter rebuffs her, he winds up getting the ax. Meanwhile, Stewie makes his theatrical debut in a school play, only to be overcome with stage fright.
Director: Julius Wu
Writer: Chris Sheridan
5.8/1012 votes#25 - '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
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"Heroes of Patience" is the best rated episode written by Chris Sheridan. It scored 8.1/10 based on 17 votes. It was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill. It aired on 3/31/2021 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Homesick".