10 Family Guy Episodes Probably Made Out Of Spite

10. The Father, The Son, & The Holy Fonz (S4E18)

There are countless times Family Guy has taken its shots at organised religion since 1999, with Jesus Christ even becoming a semi-recurring character on the show. There is one episode that stands out however as feeling like a real slap in the face to the very idea of religion.

Though he was raised as a Catholic, Seth MacFarlane is now a proud atheist, and would have a lot to relate to with Peter Griffin in this episode. Francis, Peter’s father, was a devout Catholic, and hated anybody who disagreed with him. He wanted Stewie baptised, and wouldn’t even let the Protestant Lois sit at the same dinner table as him.

It wasn’t until Lois told Peter that he was a grown man and could choose whatever religion he wanted that he realised he didn’t have to follow his father’s faith. In real life, this was where Seth MacFarlane renounced religion altogether, but in Quahog, Peter decided to set up the First United Church of the Fonz.

The point of this episode came from Brian, in that really this was no different to any other religion, it was still based around the exploitation of the ignorance of others through singing songs and telling tall tales.