Send in Stewie, Please (Family Guy)

Send in Stewie, Please (Family Guy)
Don't Send in Stewie.
Series: Family Guy Part of Season: 16 Episode Number: 12 Air Date: March 18, 2018 Writer: Gary Janetti Director: Joe Vaux Previous episode: Dog Bites Bear Next episode: V is for Mystery

Send in Stewie, Please is the twelfth episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy. The episode guest stars Ian McKellen as Cecil Pritchfield.

Summary

Stewie gets sent to the office of his school's child psychologist, Dr. Cecil Pritchfield, after pushing one of his classmates. During the session, Stewie experiences a series of personal and emotional revelations about himself that fans will not want to miss.

Why It Should Be Sent In

1. This episode can be considered to be a filler episode since nothing happens in the episode aside from Stewie's tedious monologuing.
   • He just goes on for a whole episode basically about random things that most viewers actually wouldn't seem very interested in.
2. It's another example of how Stewie has become a usurper of this entire show, even though he is still a likable and an enjoyable character in recent seasons of Family Guy.
3. There is one scene where the psychiatrist tells his backstory, which Stewie claims is going on for too long. This is particularly ironic since earlier, he goes on for a whopping six minutes about Cecil's love life.
4. It tries to do the same thing that Brian and Stewie did, where it takes a concept of having a departure from a typical episode of Family Guy, and experimenting with a new idea that was never seen in any episode before, except that episode managed to do that concept very well, while this episode fails at it in comparison.
5. There's a gross-out scene where Stewie starts singing the opening number to Hamilton, and snot starts coming out of his nose while hiccupping. And this scene drags on throughout the first verse of the song.
6. The scene where Stewie’s psychiatrist dies of a heart attack drags on for way too long to the point where it becomes very disturbing and unsettling.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Stewie shows off his evil intentions as he refuses to give the psychiatrist his medications and let him die.
2. Much like Brian and Stewie, this episode could be considered a nice departure from the typical modern Family Guy episodes, even though it's not saying much.
3. The episode has no cutaways, which would have helped with storytelling purposes.
4. The scene where Stewie impersonates Peter, Quagmire, Elmer, Tom, Seamus & Roger is hilarious.

Reception

The episode received negative reviews from fans and viewers for being boring and pointless, However, critics were praised to this episode. It currently has a 6.1/10 rating on IMDb. Some complaints referred to the monologuing, and there may be a few that claim that Stewie's secrets aren't really interesting.

Trivia

• This episode was commercial-free when it was first aired.

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