Peter's Sister (Family Guy)

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"Peter's Sister"
Why give Peter a sister when you already established that Peter doesn’t have a sister?
Series: Family Guy Part of Season: 14 Episode Number: 6 Air Date: November 15, 2015 Writer: Tom Devanney Director: John Holmquist Previous episode: Peter, Chris, & Brian Next episode: Hot Pocket Dial

"Peter's Sister" is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of Family Guy.

Plot

Peter's estranged sister Karen arrives in Quahog for Thanksgiving, and Peter's friends soon recognize her as a pro wrestler named Heavy Flo. When Karen mistreats Peter, Meg advises her dad to confront his sister, leading to a showdown in the ring!

Why It Lost the Wrestling Match

1. First and foremost, this episode fails at continuity since it's already established that Peter never had a sister in the first place.
   • However, it's implied that Karen's abuse towards Peter was so bad that he wanted to forget she even existed.
2. Karen is extremely unlikable since she likes to pick on and bully Peter.
3. The Griffin family, sans Peter and Meg, and Peter's friends are unlikable since they laugh at Peter getting abused by his sister.
4. Almost the entirety of this episode is mostly just Peter getting abused and bullied by his own sister just for cheap entertainment, which comes across as cruel and mean-spirited since Karen has no reason to abuse Peter and nearly everyone in the episode acts horrible to Peter simply because they find it funny seeing him getting abused, despite being out of character for him since they never acted this horrible to him before. So to put it together, it's a torture episode for Peter himself that decipts him being the victim of abuse in an awful way and it isn't a very good one at that.
5. The alternate ending to Back to the Future cutaway gag with Marty banging his mom and becoming retarded comes off as offensive to Back to the Future fans and people who are handicapped, this also comes off as incest.
6. The Chico's Monkey Farm cutaway drags on for too long and serves as nothing but filler.
7. The episode suffers from the typical shock value problem that plagues modern Family Guy, since scenes like the wrestling match are filled with it and it just comes off as gross and disgusting.
8. Some disturbing scenes such as Stewie coming across Brian Griffin watching porn on his computer and Karen choking Peter with her legs which causes Peter to wet himself.
9. While Karen did get knocked into a coma, it can be seen as way too disturbing and insulting.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Peter and Meg are the only likable characters on this episode and they’re not flanderized like they usually are.
2. It was nice to see Meg sympathize with her father after getting abused by Karen and thinks that the reason why Peter keeps mistreating Meg is because he got bullied by his sister.
   • Meg also saves Peter from being killed by Karen during the fight.
3. Some funny moments such as Stewie's monster energy drink commercial, The Nightmare Before Christmas parody, and the cutaway gag where Peter pretends that he’s the President to get into the White House.
4. The Chico's Monkey Farm jingle is catchy.
5. The episode brings back the butt scratcher joke.
6. Karen does get comeuppance by getting knocked into a coma by Meg during the wrestling scene and Peter refuses to given her his blood for a transfusion, leaving her to die.

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