7.5/1020 votes#1 - Lois Kills Stewie (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2007
Presumed dead, Lois returns from the wilderness and names Stewie as her killer. On the look out for Stewie, Joe leads a manhunt around Quahog. Determined to take over the world again, Stewie auditions for the American Idol. Desperate to stop Stewie, Lois realizes what she must do.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.2/1029 votes#2 - The Thin White Line (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2001
Brian's keen sense of smell gets him a job with the police department.
Director: Glen Hill
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.2/1024 votes#3 - Whistle While Your Wife Works
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2006
When Peter gets hurt and can't work, his boss tells him he needs to speed things up. So Lois goes to the brewery to help him out. Meanwhile, Stewie finds out that Brian is dating a very attractive but not very intelligent woman. He tries to get Brian to break up with her, but Brian can't do it.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.2/1016 votes#4 - A Lot Going On Upstairs
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/2016
When Stewie refuses to sleep in his own bed because of nightmares, Peter can’t stand it, so he goes to sleep in the attic. Peter turns the attic into a man cave and all of the guys begin hanging out there, which makes Lois incredibly angry. Meanwhile, Brian helps Stewie overcome his fears by building a device to go into his nightmares and defeat his demons.
Director: Joe Vaux
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.1/1028 votes#5 - To Love and Die in Dixie
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/15/2001
The Griffins are put into the witness protection program.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.0/1031 votes#6 - Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/25/2000
Meg exposes her family on a talk show.
Director: Scott Wood
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.0/1021 votes#7 - Airport '07
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/4/2007
Quagmire takes Peter to work but Peter messes things up, causing Quagmire to lose his job as a pilot. After not being able find another job, Peter and Cleveland make plans to help him get his old job back. When the plan fails, Quagmire receives advice from his idol, Hugh Hefner.
Director: John Holmquist
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.0/104 votes#8 - Carny Knowledge
Season 21 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2022
Peter and Chris finish last in a "Generation Gap" game at a carnival, forcing them to try to reconnect. Brian starts to date a carny, whom he can't break up with even after witnessing some of her crude habits.
Director: Brian Iles
Writer: Steve Callaghan
7.0/106 votes#9 - Take This Job and Love It
Season 22 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/2024
Peter and his friends wonder aloud about what their dream jobs would be. Peter enters a sequence a la James Bond, where he goes by the name Band and has to fight his nemesis, Blofella (aka Stewie). Quagmire reflects on his job as an aerobics instructor in the '80s, which was his dream before he got run out of business by Jane Fonda. Cleveland and Joe take part in a Lethal Weapon sequence, where together they complete a drug bust.
Director: Joe Vaux
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.9/1017 votes#10 - Be Careful What You Fish For
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2012
After Peter half-heartedly makes a promise to a helpful dolphin, the dolphin moves to Quahog.
Director: Julius Wu
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.8/1027 votes#11 - Mr. Saturday Knight
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 9/5/2001
Peter decides to pursue his dream career as a knight.
Director: Michael Dante DiMartino
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.8/1021 votes#12 - Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure
Season 4 Episode 30 - Aired 5/21/2006
Stewie finds out that his life in the future is miserable. So he decides to go back in time and change events for the better.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.8/1019 votes#13 - The Former Life of Brian
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/2008
Brian, afraid that he may have lost his last chance at love, searches for a former flame, Tracy. To his surprise, he discovers that he is the father to her son, Dylan. Tracy decides that Brian should raise the boy, and she drops him off at the Griffin's house. When Dylan runs rough-shot in the house, Brian's attitude towards parenting doesn't settle too well with Lois and Peter.
Director: Pete Michels
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.7/1023 votes#14 - Model Misbehavior
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 7/24/2005
Lois fulfills a lifelong dream of being a model. Stewie starts on a multi-level marketing company. Brian in need of cash to buy his de-worming medication agrees to become his salesman.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.7/1019 votes#15 - Dog Gone
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2009
When Brian accidentally kills another dog, he is surprised to see that no one cares, so he tries to convince everyone that the life of a dog should have the same value as a human one. Meanwhile, Lois hires a maid who doesn’t listen to Peter
Director: Julius Wu
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.7/1013 votes#16 - The Peter Principal
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2017
Peter becomes the temporary principal at the high school, and Meg uses his new power to get even with her bullies. Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie open a bed & breakfast that quickly turns into a brothel.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.6/1026 votes#17 - Blind Ambition
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/15/2005
After Mort bowls a perfect game, and Quagmire gets a key to the city by performing CPR, Peter notices he has nothing to be proud of. He then attempts to achieve fame by setting the world's record for most nickels swallowed. However, a slight miscalculation leaves him blind with nickel poisoning.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.6/1024 votes#18 - I Take Thee Quagmire
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/2006
When Peter wins a maid for a week as a prize on a game show, Quagmire gains an interest in her, and they eventually marry. Quagmire, stricken with his bachelor ways, tries to get out of the marriage. Meanwhile, Lois stops breast-feeding Stewie, who, as a result, goes through withdrawals.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.6/1017 votes#19 - Roads to Vegas
Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2013
Duplicates of Brian and Stewie each see a road trip differently.
Director: Greg Colton
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.5/1011 votes#20 - 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
6.5/108 votes#21 - Island Adventure
Season 17 Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/2019
In search of Stewie's cherished big wheel tricycle, that Peter threw out, Stewie and Brian embark on an adventure to "Garbage Island," a giant floating mass of trash out in the sea. Meanwhile, Lois tries to help Quagmire elevate his dating game, as he courts a middle-aged woman.
Director: Jerry Langford
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.5/106 votes#22 - A Wife-Changing Experience
Season 21 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2022
Joe accidentally sees Lois naked, leading to a reinvigoration of his sex life with Bonnie. Meanwhile, Stewie is gifted an electric SUV and quickly embodies the "Range Rover" lifestyle.
Director: Steve Robertson
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.3/1022 votes#23 - Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/11/2007
Peter helps Bill Clinton with his flat tire, and they soon become friends. They begin spending a lot of time together and Lois begins to believe that Bill inflicting bad influence on Peter. But when she confronts Bill, they end up having sex. Peter, upset that his wife would do this, tries to get back at Lois by having an affair of his own, but soon realizes that he loves her too much to do so. Meanwhile, Lois and Stewie try to potty-train Brian.
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.3/1017 votes#24 - Extra Large Medium
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/2010
When Chris and Stewie go missing for several days, Lois is at her wit's end until she sees a psychic who assures her they are safe. Even after the boys return home, Lois and Peter's psychic obsession continues, and Peter takes it a step too far when he starts charging neighbors for his extrasensory perception. Meanwhile, Chris develops a crush on a girl at school.
Director: John Holmquist
Writer: Steve Callaghan
6.3/1013 votes#25 - Trading Places
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 3/20/2011
Chris, Meg, Peter and Lois all trade places to teach each other a lesson.
Director: Joseph Lee
Writer: Steve Callaghan
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"Lois Kills Stewie (2)" is the best rated episode written by Steve Callaghan. It scored 7.5/10 based on 20 votes. It was directed by Greg Colton. It aired on 11/11/2007 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Thin White Line (1)".