8. Da Boom
Season: 2
Episode: 3
Original Air Date: December 26th, 1999 As Quahog prepares for New Year's Eve, there is tension and uneasiness in the air, as the "Y2K" scare is upon everyone. You remember that, don't you? Back when 1999 was ending, and 2000 was coming, people thought that the world would end with computers, etc, not being able to recognize the year changes and all that mumbo jumbo. After midnight, a nuclear holocaust occurs. The world is in ruins, and the citizens of Quahog are pretty much all dead, seriously injured, or mutated. The Griffins were locked in their basement, so of course, they're safe, and they head out to survey the damage and find other survivors. Quagmire and Cleveland have been fused together, forming "Clevemire" or "Quagland", depending on who you ask. Joe and his wheelchair have been melted into his driveway. It's madness in Quahog, but the survivors head to Natick, Massachusetts (at the time of the episode, Natick actually was home to a Hostess factory) in order to see if the rumor about Twinkies being able to survive things like nuclear holocausts is true. When they get there, sure enough, the entire factory and its contents are in pristine condition. The group creates a new town, calling it New Quahog, around the factory, and look to survive on nothing but Twinkies. Peter as the leader of anything sounds like a terrible idea, but he ended up being the leader of New Quahog, anyway, because why not. It wouldn't take long for Peter to begin screwing things up, though. When he realizes that the peaceful town is completely defenseless from attack (even though pretty much everyone else is dead), he takes the pipes from the town's water irrigation system to make guns and other weapons. The town is enraged, and they run the Griffins out of New Quahog. Immediately after the townspeople burn all of the weapons that Peter created, the town comes under attack by hundreds of half-human, half-octopus hybrids that Stewie gave birth to. Read that last sentence again, soak in its sheer insanity, and then understand what makes Family Guy tick. There is history in this episode, as it is not only the first episode that features Mila Kunis providing the voice of Meg Griffin, but it is also the first instance of Peter having a lengthy fight with a giant chicken, a favorite running gag within the Family Guy viewing community.