Peter's Lost Youth

"Peter's Lost Youth" is the seventeenth episode of the fifteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 286th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on March 26, 2017, and is written by Danny Smith and directed by Julius Wu.^[1]

Plot

Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe attend a raffle at their church. Peter wins two tickets to Boston for a Fantasy Weekend at Fenway Park. His friends try to butter him up for the extra ticket, but he dismisses them since they are better baseball players than he is. Brian advises him to take Lois, since she doesn't care much for baseball.

With Peter and Lois gone, Lois leaves Meg in charge of the house after she objects to Brian initially being left with the position, despite his statements on how much of a handful Stewie is. However, Stewie misbehaves, threatening to defecate on the wall when Meg walks in while he was working on his Dora the Explorer erotic fan fiction. This prompts Meg to put him in time-out in his room. After failing to convince Brian (who is high on a pot cookie) to help him, Stewie decides to run away from home where he briefly encounters a childless woman desperate to take Stewie in after her car runs into him.

At Boston, Peter and Lois meet the baseball team, where Peter compares the heights of former Red Sox baseball players Wade Boggs and David Ortiz. Lois attempts to vacate the baseball team when she and Peter arrive, but the coach and other players persuade Peter to have Lois remain. When Lois pitches, she turns out to be a very skilled ball player, making Peter jealous. At a banquet that is also attended by Ted Williams' reanimated severed head in a jar, Lois is given a spot at the head table, making Peter even more upset. Despite Lois's insistence that Peter should be given the spotlight, the coach insists that Lois take the spot.

When Meg and Brian find out that she forgot to take Stewie out of time-out, they and Chris set out to find him, but fail.

At the game the next day, Lois is selected to play second base while Peter is chosen to run against her. His attempt to impress the guys with his slide ends up breaking Lois' leg. While Lois is carried away by the paramedics, Peter is kicked off the team by the coach. When Lois visits him in the dressing room with her leg in a cast, Peter admits that as a child, he was always neglected to be on a baseball team and saw the trip as an opportunity to get the chance he never had. Since Lois got all the attention, he lost his mind. Lois then says that he can rejoin the team by threatening the Red Sox players with a law suit for sexually harassing her, including Ted Williams' head.

Lois calls Meg to tell her to drive up to Boston so that she, Chris, Brian, and Stewie can watch the ball game. As Meg covers up Stewie being missing by stating that he is seeing their puppet show, Meg is told by Lois to have the puppet show shown to Peter upon their arrival as well. Upon entering the house while thinking of what the puppet show should be about, Meg, Chris, and Brian find that Stewie has returned and admits he ran away from Meg in fear, prompting Meg to apologize for putting him in time-out and they make up. They are then interrupted by the childless woman, who asks from outside to adopt Stewie, to which Stewie replies, "Don't let her in!"

With Peter back on the team, he makes a feeble batting move and tries to run. Due to lack of hydration amongst other things upon a discussion between the workers in the brain and the muscles, Peter has a muscle failure. He receives encouragement from his family which helps him to overcome this. As Peter continues to run around the bases, he narrates off-screen that he had two torn hamstrings and a pulled groin, but scored as the third base player collapsed with a massive coronary due to his terrible play. As the ambulance is seen arriving at the scene of the death, Peter also narrates how he laughed during the kids' puppet show enough to wreck the car on the ride home which broke Lois' other leg. Peter concludes that he won't have Lois sleep in the bedroom due to a smell from the leg casts.

Reception

The episode received an audience of 2.17 million viewers, a decrease from the previous episode,^[2] and making it Fox's most-watched show of the night.^[3]

John Schwartz of Bubbleblabber gave the episode a 6/10.^[4]

References

External links

• "Peter's Lost Youth" on IMDb
• "Peter's Lost Youth" at TV.com