Lois and Bonnie take a trip to Paris, France. Bonnie then cheats on Joe with a handsome French loanshark, which she must explain to Joe. Meanwhile, after finding out about all of the tragedies that have occured in American public schools throughout the years, Peter homeschools Meg and Chris using some very unorthodox teaching methods. OR

Stewie goes back in time to mess around with Brian. Eventually, Brian catches him and in fighting over the controls in the time machine, they are accidentally transported out of the space-time continuum, where the laws of physics don’t apply, and where the return pad can’t get them home. Stewie decides to take a risky effort to overload his return pad to bounce them back into the space-time continuum. Stewie later determines that he was the cause of the Big [...]

When her ninth husband leaves her, a depressed Carol talks to Lois over the phone about it. Later, Carol arrives at the Griffin residence, with Lois to comfort her. Mayor Adam West also arrives at the Griffin residence, initially to ring doorbells of all the houses in the city. Discovering that they both share a lot of things in common, Carol and Adam go on a date, leading up to their first kiss at a beach. When the couple arrive [...]

Lois requests Peter to go pick up the dry cleaning. Peter tells her that he had gotten his favorite white shirt washed by the cleaners, but when he goes to pick up the shirt, he finds out that the owner, Mr. Washee-Washee, has lost it. This causes Peter to refuse to give him business any longer, but Lois steadfastly declines to find a new dry cleaner, and invites him to dinner. Peter fights with Mr. Washee-Washee during the meal about [...]

A drunk Tom Tucker is shown on the television, announcing a contest to win a dirtbike. Peter decides to enter the contest, in which the person who keeps their hand on the bike the longest wins. As time goes on, competitors continually begin to give up. Nine hours later, the last two contestants are shown to be Peter and Mayor Adam West, the latter of whom is tricked into taking his hand off the bike when Peter sends him a [...]

While in her home, Lois is approached by Bonnie, who asks her to look after her husband, Joe, and daughter, Susie, while she is out of town. Agreeing to do so, Lois asks her daughter, Meg to look after them for her. The next day, Meg visits Joe and Susie, and tells them that she will be helping them out while Bonnie is gone. As Joe and Meg bond on the way to school, the two become close, causing Meg [...]

On the search to find Chris a new hobby, he along with his father, begin collecting stamps and drinking, but Chris is amazed by neither. He soon discovers a puppet shop, however, with the shop’s owner, Franz Gutentag (“good day”), quickly befriending him. The two bond over the puppets, creating their own puppets and stories, but Herbert discovers their relationship and tries to break it up. Herbert confronts Peter, telling him that Franz is a Nazi named Franz Schlechtnacht (“bad [...]

Brian and Peter decide to attend a movie together, Peter sneaks in liquor, and the two become extremely intoxicated, disrupting the entire audience. Peter’s neighbor, Joe, is then called upon, who takes them both to court. The judge then sentences them to 30 days in Alcoholics Anonymous, much to their chagrin. At the first meeting, Peter is told that alcohol is a bad part of his life, with Brian becoming reluctant to give up drinking. Realizing that the people in [...]

As the family gathers around the television to watch the local news, Lois admits her fondness of the new co-anchor, Joyce Kinney. Later that day, the family attends church, and while there, Lois learns of a local bake sale, and decides to bring her own baked goods. Going to the store to buy ingredients, Lois notices Kinney shopping there as well, and approaches her. The two quickly become close friends, and they decide to spend the day together at the [...]

Peter becomes obsessed with drinking Red Bull. Upset with his over-energetic ways, Lois throws away all of his Red Bull. Peter then tries to make his own energy drink using car fuel. After drinking it, Peter has heart failure, and he needs a kidney transplant. Brian offers him one of his. Meanwhile, Chris is chosen to introduce United States President Barack Obama at his school after winning an essay contest. Trouble is, Meg wrote the essay. OR