Family Guy Season 24 has wrapped, and this run sounds like one of the show’s more experimental recent seasons — shorter, stranger, and more willing to leave the usual Quahog comfort zone.
According to ComicBook Anime’s season ranking, the big context here is that Family Guy has been going through a scheduling shift at Fox. The long-running animated comedy has been moved away from the traditional fall lineup and placed into a midseason version of Animation Domination. The knock-on effect: fewer episodes overall, which means every story has to work harder.
For Malaysian and SEA fans, that matters because Family Guy is one of those shows many of us don’t necessarily follow weekly like anime simulcasts. We catch clips, revisit old seasons, or binge when episodes become easier to access. So a shorter season with more “event” episodes actually makes it easier to know what’s worth checking out first.
Season 24 also crossed a huge milestone: the 450th episode. That episode leaned into Lois and Stewie having a more direct, reflective conversation than usual, including nods to long-running fan theories and Stewie’s old desire to kill Lois. It sounds like the kind of episode made for longtime viewers — not necessarily the funniest of the batch, but important for fans who have stuck with the Griffins since the early chaos days.
The season also had several anthology-style episodes. ComicBook highlighted “Viewer DMs” as a fun throwback to the old “Viewer Mail” format, with segments including a fast Lord of the Rings parody, the Griffins on the Oregon Trail, and a Quagmire-focused spinoff idea. Another anthology, “High School History,” used Brian teaching history as its framing device, covering periods like the French Revolution, the American Civil War era, and World War II in the show’s usual loose, joke-heavy style.
But the top pick from the ranking was “A Few More Ways to Die in the West,” a full alternate-universe Western episode. Peter becomes “Quiet Burp,” chasing a train robber who stole his money, while Brian and Stewie try to get rich. The episode apparently works because it fully commits to the genre makeover instead of treating it like a quick gag. Honestly, that’s usually when Family Guy is at its best — when the show stops pretending to be normal and just goes all-in on a ridiculous format.
Not every episode landed. “Man-Fest Destiny” was placed at the bottom, with ComicBook criticising it for recycling old Peter sexuality jokes and wasting its Fire Island setup. Other lower-ranked entries included episodes built around Brian’s exaggerated Tony Montana-style accent, and a Meg/Tom Brady story that had a decent idea but not enough memorable payoff.
Still, there were bright spots outside the big anthology and milestone episodes. “Average Joe” focused on Joe becoming a more exciting version of himself after taking sleeping pills, while the gang eventually misses regular Joe. That is interesting because Joe has slowly become one of Family Guy’s more flexible characters, especially when the writers move beyond just making him the sad punchline.
For SEA viewers, Season 24 sounds like a useful reminder that Family Guy is no longer just running on old shock humour. The weaker episodes may still fall back on tired bits, but the stronger ones show a series trying different structures — Western, anthology, milestone character work — even after hundreds of episodes.
If you are not planning to watch the full season, the safest picks seem to be “A Few More Ways to Die in the West,” “Viewer DMs,” “High School History,” “Average Joe,” and the 450th episode. For a show this old, that is not a bad shortlist at all.
Source: ComicBook Anime