Family Guy: 5 Episodes With Terrible Lessons

5. April In Quahog (Season 8, Episode 16)

The Town of Quahog is turned on its head when it is reported a black hole will devour the Earth in 24 hours. Peter delivers on his standard level of reckless and crazy, but the problems really start when he confesses that he hates spending time with his children seconds before their supposed end. Turns out, the black hole was an April Fool's joke and Peter is left to deal with his confession.

Learning that one of your parents hates spending time with you has to be a blow and Meg, Chris and Stewie are all reasonably upset. Peter makes a few clumsy attempts to build a bond with his kids but nothing works....until he buys them an Xbox.

After such a revelation, repairing the relationship with your family would take some serious time and effort. It was never going to be easy, but Peter could have built an honest and meaningful relationship with his kids, but I guess a video game console is just as good.

The conclusion was probably just a way to wrap up the episode as cleanly as possible, but it just leaves the audience with an entirely hollow experience.