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21st episode of the eighth flavour of Family Guy

"Partial Terms of Endearment"
Family unit Guy episode
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Episode no.	Flavor 8 Episode 21
Directed by	Joseph Lee
Written by	Danny Smith
Product code	7ACX10
Original air dates	June twenty, 2010 (2010-06-20) (BBC Three)[1] September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28) (United states, DVD)
Guest appearances
Gary Embankment equally Various Jackson Douglas as Dale Robinson Phil LaMarr every bit Various Volition Sasso as Various Julia Sweeney equally Naomi Robinson Rutina Wesley equally Cheryl Wil Wheaton as Protester Michael York every bit Nature Narrator
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"Partial Terms of Endearment" is the 21st and final episode of the 8th flavour of the animated comedy series Family Guy. Directed by Joseph Lee and written past Danny Smith, the episode originally aired on BBC Three in the United Kingdom on June xx, 2010, and has not been allowed to air in the United states on Fox, the original television set network of the serial, due to its controversial nature. This is the last episode that is presented in standard format, before the series' switch to high-definition format, and information technology is the final episode to feature the opening sequence that was updated during the second season.

In the episode, Lois is approached by an old friend from college who asks her to become a surrogate mother. Afterwards arguing with her married man Peter who is confronting the thought, Lois agrees and undergoes in vitro fertilisation. Notwithstanding, while Lois is pregnant, the biological parents are killed in an machine blow. Lois and Peter accept to decide whether to abort the fetus, or carry it to term and give the babe upwardly for adoption. Peter attempts to persuade his wife to get an ballgame but changes his listen later on pro-life activists convince him that abortion is murder. Despite Peter'due south objections, Lois goes ahead with the ballgame.

The episode was banned from airing on the Fox network due to concerns over its portrayal of the controversial bailiwick of abortion. This is the second episode of Family Guy to exist prevented from airing during the episode's respective regular flavor run; the first episode was the third season'southward "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". Unlike that episode, Drawing Network's developed-oriented block Adult Swim refused to air "Partial Terms of Endearment" upon Fox'due south request. Information technology was kickoff announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Critical responses to the episode were mostly positive; critics praised the storyline, cultural references and its assessment of the subject of ballgame. The episode was watched in only under a million homes in its original airing in the United kingdom. Guest performances included Gary Beach, Jackson Douglas, Phil LaMarr, Will Sasso, Julia Sweeney, Wil Wheaton and Michael York, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the serial. "Fractional Terms of Endearment" was released on DVD in the Us, along with Seth and Alex Nearly-Live Comedy Show, on September 28, 2010. Fifty-fifty though this episode was placed at the end of season eight, the episode was placed between "Go Stewie Go" and "Peter-assment" in the UK.

Plot [edit]

While attending her higher reunion at Salvage Regina University with Peter, Lois spots her sometime roommate, Naomi Robinson, with whom she had a brief lesbian human relationship in college. Peter is shocked merely excited to discover that Lois was bisexual in college. Naomi indicates that she would similar to discuss an important matter with them at their domicile. Assuming that he will participate in a threesome with Lois and Naomi, Peter sends Chris, Million, Stewie, and Brian out of the house. Afterward Naomi arrives, she introduces her hubby Dale. Peter expects that they will now exist participating in an orgy, and tries to seduce the three of them while dressed in various costumes. When they clear the air to a dismayed Peter that they're not there for sex, Naomi and Dale tell Lois and Peter they've had trouble conceiving and ask Lois to be a surrogate female parent for them, and Lois considers the affair.

As the family unit eats breakfast the next morning, Lois reveals her intention to go a surrogate mother for Naomi and Dale, causing Peter to become upset at the thought of her being significant for 9 months. Despite this, Lois decides to go to Dr. Hartman to have the in vitro fertilization performed, enduring more of Dr. Hartman'south shtick involving celebrity crossbreeds and having a tribe of bush men implant the egg with blowguns. A pregnancy examination comes back positive the next solar day, and a furious Peter attempts to cause Lois to accept a miscarriage before ultimately confronting her about the pregnancy. While she continues asserting her intention to provide a child to Naomi and Dale, Quahog five News suddenly reveals that Naomi and Dale died in a car crash on Interstate 95, ironically subsequently Dale won the lottery. Devastated by the proclamation, Lois questions whether she should have an abortion or continue with the pregnancy and put the baby up for adoption.

In an attempt to come up to a determination, Lois and Peter determine to visit the local family-planning heart, and ultimately decide to arrest the embryo. Still, as Peter exits the centre he encounters an anti-abortion rally, where he is shown an anti-abortion video by 1 of the protesters. The video causes him to reconsider nearly aborting the unborn baby. Returning dwelling, Lois continues to advocate her right to choose, while Peter at present attempts to debate the unborn kid's right to life and whether Lois has the responsibleness of conveying it to term. At their wits' stop, the two determine to hash out the matter on civil terms. At dinner, Lois talks with the family nearly "the wonderful new fellow member of the Griffin family", but then, after a few seconds of silence, Peter turns to the photographic camera and says to the audition "Nosotros had the ballgame", promptly ending the episode.^[1]

Product and development [edit]

The episode was first appear at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 25, 2009, by series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane.^{[ii] [3]} It was written past swain executive producer and series regular Danny Smith^[4] and directed by Joseph Lee, during the show's eighth production flavor. The storyline was pitched past series regular Tom Devanney, and periodically references Billions and Billions (1997), a book of essays by Carl Sagan. Seth MacFarlane asked Danny Smith to read Sagan'southward essay, "Abortion: Is Information technology Possible to Be Both 'Pro-Life' and 'Pro-Choice'", earlier beginning to write the script.^{[6] [7]} The episode was originally intended to air forth with the rest of the eighth flavour schedule, and was approved for production by 20th Century Fox. However, the Flim-flam Broadcasting Company asserted their right not to air the episode due to the subject matter.^{[7] [6] [8]} This was the second time that MacFarlane had been warned by Fox nearly the sensitive nature of an episode'south subject. Previously, the network had too disapproved of the season iii episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", which was originally prevented from airing on Fox, but finally aired on Adult Swim, and eventually on Play a joke on more than iv years subsequently it was rejected.^{[half-dozen] [7]} Thinking the aforementioned would happen with "Partial Terms of Endearment", MacFarlane believed that Play a joke on would somewhen run the episode on their network, stating, "Most of the time these things plow out to exist nothing."^[7] In a statement released past Fox, they noted their full back up of "the producers' right to brand the episode and distribute it in any style they desire."^[vii]

Series' creator Seth MacFarlane announced on July 25, 2009 at the San Diego Comic-Con that the episode had been banned by Fox.

At the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International, MacFarlane appear that the episode would become bachelor on a special DVD release, with series producer Kara Vallow confirming the release would be available on September 28, 2010, along with Seth and Alex's Almost Live One-act Prove.^[9] A month subsequently the proclamation, Kevin Reilly, President of Fob Entertainment, stated that the final decision non to air the episode was largely due to concerns about finances and advertisers: "Of all the issues, [abortion] is the i that seems to be the most of a hot button. Especially at that moment in fourth dimension, the economic system was really struggling and there were a lot of very tough conversations going on with clients."^[10] Reilly said that "the advertisers know what they're getting" with Family unit Guy, and he idea that the episode handled the subject fine, but "this 1 felt like it could cause problem, and it was just not worth it."^[10] Despite the concerns in the U.South. virtually the episode, it aired on June twenty, 2010, on BBC Three in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, as a part of the season'south regularly scheduled Sunday night run on the station.^[1] Although it was originally speculated that Adult Swim might air the episode, Developed Swim stated that there were no plans to air it on their network.^[7] Several months before the episode debuted on idiot box, the script was performed in a live table read at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood, California on Baronial 12, 2009. The special reading was attended by Academy of Television set Arts and Sciences voters on the heels of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.^[8] Family unit Guy was nominated for Outstanding One-act Serial, becoming the starting time blithe program to be nominated in the category since The Flintstones in 1961.^[xi] Commenting nigh the event, MacFarlane said, "We did this to drum upwards Emmy votes, so we could lose by fewer votes."^[8]

In improver to the regular cast, player Jackson Douglas, then-husband of Alex Borstein, appeared in the episode every bit Dale Robinson, actress Julia Sweeney appeared as Naomi Robinson, extra Rutina Wesley appeared every bit Cheryl, histrion Wil Wheaton cameoed as an anti-abortion protester and histrion Michael York voiced the nature narrator. Actor Gary Beach, voice actor Phil LaMarr, and comedian/actor Will Sasso guest starred as diverse characters. Recurring guest phonation actress Alexandra Breckenridge, role player Ralph Garman, and writers Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin and John Viener made small appearances throughout the episode. Recurring guest cast member Patrick Warburton guest appeared in the episode also.^[12] This episode marked Sweeney'southward first invitee appearance since the season two episode "Wasted Talent".

"Fractional Terms of Endearment", along with Seth and Alex Most-Alive Comedy Show, was released on DVD in the Us on September 28, 2010. The fix includes a cursory audio commentary by Seth MacFarlane, voice actress Alex Borstein, writer Danny Smith and director Joseph Lee,^[ix] equally well equally animatics, a table read of the episode, and nine downloadable original Family Guy songs. Information technology was also released for digital retail in the United States the same day without the bonus features included on the DVD.^{[xiii] [14] [15]}

Clips from the episode were shown during the special Family Guy: 200 Episodes Subsequently, in which MacFarlane describes it every bit being the closest the writers have come to doing a modern-day All in the Family episode. Additionally, Smith calls information technology a relatively counterbalanced and intelligent discussion of a very hard discipline and Sulkin claims that it, like "When You lot Wish Upon a Weinstein", is not controversial at all. Post-obit the inflow of the series on Disney+ in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland in 2021, the episode was omitted.^[xvi]

Cultural references [edit]

The episode parodied pro-life protesters.

In the opening scene of the episode, Peter and Lois are shown inbound her alma mater at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.^[17] Afterwards, later they are approached by Lois'south ex-roommate Naomi and her hubby Dale, Lois announces her intention to carry the couple's babe, causing Peter to question why Lois is the one who has to go the couple'south surrogate. Their daughter, Meg, suggests that she could acquit the infant herself, just Lois objects due to Meg'due south inability to have a boyfriend "for more than than a few weeks." Meg notes her relationship with Sesame Street character Count von Count, who but left her later discovering she had at least 3 nipples.^[vii]

Before Lois prepares to undergo in vitro fertilization, Dr. Hartman shows her several photos of babies conceived by celebrity couples, including actress Shelley Duvall and singer-songwriter James Edgeless; extra Hilary Swank and actor Gary Busey; Olympic medalist Florence Griffith-Joyner and physicist Stephen Hawking; and extra, writer and comedian Tina Fey and player Joaquin Phoenix.^[eighteen] Beginning the process, Lois objects to Dr. Hartman's method of embryonic insertion. In response, he replies, "Well, perhaps y'all could tell them—if just you spoke Hovitos," a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark. After, in an attempt to crusade Lois to have a miscarriage, Peter lays downward a serial of Grey'southward Anatomy DVDs in lodge to lure Lois into beingness punched in the stomach by the "Acme Miscarriage Kit", a boxing glove attached to a crossbow. In a reference to the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner,^[vii] Peter ultimately ends upwardly missing with the crossbow, causing the glove to bounce and hitting a big stone and state inches in forepart of him every bit he is standing on a narrow cliff. The ground then drops out from underneath his feet, causing him to fall like Wile Eastward. Coyote.^{[8] [xix]}

As Peter exits the abortion clinic, he notices a pro-life rally nearby. At the rally, a protester shows Peter a video record discouraging abortion (equally a reference to the cult classic 1936 American propaganda exploitation motion picture Reefer Madness), portraying it as murder, larceny, jaywalking and securities fraud. The tape claims that abortion prevented Nazi leader Adolf Hitler'due south would-be assassin, a fourth Stooge brother, of The Three Stooges, and Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden's America-loving brother from beingness born.^{[19] [20] [21]}

Reception [edit]

The episode was viewed in merely under a 1000000 homes in its original airing on BBC 3 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, earning an audition share of v.7 percent, despite airing simultaneously with Desperate Housewives on E4.^[22] The reception of the episode represented a slight decrease from the previous calendar week's ratings.^[23]

Reviews of the episode's release on DVD were mostly positive, calling the episode "wickedly funny, no matter how offensive."^[19] Frazier Moore of the Associated Press commented that "What, in other hands, could have been a serious, even heart-wrenching story is on Family Guy a devilish burlesque — not to mention a wickedly astute examination of the electric current abortion disharmonism."^[xix] Moore besides noted, however, that "the uninitiated, the faint-of-heart and, near of all, the anti-abortion crowd should maybe choose to take a pass."^[19] Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times deemed the episode "typical of that audacious Fox animated comedy, teeming with rapid-burn jokes and willfully offensive not sequiturs about disabled animals, God, Nazis, bodily functions and the sexual habits of 'Sesame Street' characters."^[7] In a slightly more mixed review of the DVD release, Cindy White of IGN criticized the episode for its shock value, but appreciated "that the writers didn't cop out in the terminate, and actually picked a side." White went on to comment that it was "hard to believe that the writers ever expected 'Fractional Terms of Endearment' to brand it to air" and that "even devoted, longtime fans of the evidence may be a little uncomfortable with the bailiwick matter." White gave the release a vii out of 10 rating.^[21] Assessing Family Guy 's touch on goggle box, Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon commented on the portrayal of abortion: "That Family Guy, that doofy, generally unfunny bastion of sophomoric jokes, should be i of the few shows brave plenty to fifty-fifty address the topic is bananas [...] And that Play tricks wouldn't air the episode says we're nevertheless a long way from having everyone on 'Glee' or 'The Office' or 'House' look at those telltale lines on the stick and finally decide what millions of American women have — that they're just non prepare for maternity."^[24]

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External links [edit]

• "Partial Terms of Endearment" at IMDb

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