The Family Guy Season 24 premiere not only served as the fan-favorite show’s 450th episode, but also showcased the most meaningful conversation between Lois and Stewie in the series’ history. In classic Family Guy style, the interaction occurred under extremely questionable circumstances, prompting showrunners Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin to address how the bizarre episode came to be.
Family Guy Season 24 premiere originally had Stewie smoke pot with Peter
In a recent interview with TV Insider, the Family Guy bosses revealed that Lois and Stewie engaging in a stoned discussion had been on their cards for a long time.
“We just always try to make every episode funny and special. And I think then, when we’re looking at, ‘OK, 450 is coming up. OK, it’s going to be our season premiere,’ we look at the pool of episodes that we could possibly use for that, and Rich and I have just, since the minute the outline was made for this one, it’s been one of our favorites, and it turned out great. Our writer, Travis Bowe, did an excellent job,” Sulkin noted.
In Family Guy Season 24 Episode 1, titled “The Edible Arrangement,” Stewie inadvertently consumes Brian’s marijuana gummies before slipping some of them into Lois’s wine glass. As a result, the two end up unexpectedly having a sensitive and tender exchange. However, despite revealing several personal secrets to each other, Lois and Stewie ultimately forget about their conversation as soon as the effects of the edibles wear off.
Appel also revealed that the Family Guy team had originally intended Stewie to have a stoned discussion with Peter instead of Lois.
“When this idea was first kicked around, for obvious comic reasons, it was, ‘Peter gets high with Stewie, and they go on kind of a buddy adventure,’ which has its fun,” Appel explained. He continued, “Then we realized, ‘Well, hold on, who’s got the interesting psycho-drama and emotional history with Stewie?’ It would be, obviously, the mother he’s wanted ‘to kill’ since the show premiered. And a conversation between them, we realized, ‘Oh, wait, that won’t just be funny, we hope, but it’ll be more meaningful and emotionally based than something with Peter.'”
