Episode no. Season 14
Episode 13 Written by Anthony Blasucci | Directed by Mike Kim Production code DACX12 | |
Original air date February 14, 2016 (2016-02-14) | ||
"An App a Day" is the thirteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 262nd episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on February 14, 2016, and is written by Anthony Blasucci and directed by Mike Kim. In the episode, Peter learns about phone apps and when he gives his phone to Chris, he then sends a girl a photo of his genitals which results in him being labeled a sex offender. Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie take up tennis.
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Plot
At the Drunken Clam, Peter Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Cleveland Brown, and Joe Swanson are having drinks when the jukebox plays a song. Peter and Quagmire argue over which singer is singing on a jukebox until Cleveland solves the argument by using the mobile app Shazam. After Peter learns about phone apps, he takes an interest in them. Peter's phone eventually breaks because of the app overload and gives it to Chris.
At school, Neil jokingly suggests that Chris sends a picture of his genitals through his new cell phone to a girl he likes named Marcy Miller. He does it as he quotes "What could go wrong? It worked great for..." as it cuts away to a black background with the names of different people who did this while the Yakety Sax theme plays. This lands him in Principal Shepard's office with his parents and Joe. Despite their assurance that Chris will apologize, Joe tells him that this act of "child pornography" has made Chris a sex offender, because it as his idea, and Chris must take a rehab course, which is taught by Quagmire. Despite his dislike of the class, Chris manages to pass.
Meanwhile, Stewie asks Brian to drive him to the Quahog Racquet Club to play tennis. When they arrive at the club, Brian becomes interested in playing tennis, persuading Stewie to sign them up for the upcoming couples tennis player game. On their first practice course, Brian gets distracted by women. Pretty soon, Brian's inexperience with tennis starts to show, which makes Stewie angry but also drives Brian to become a good player. Chris decides to chemically castrate himself into a well-behaved, calm, diligent person via pills, much to his family's dismay. Peter attempts to get him to reconsider his choice by taking him to an orgy, to no avail. Peter and Lois eventually discover a silver lining to the situation as Chris becomes exceptionally elegant. During the tournament, Stewie explicitly curses out the referee after he makes a bad call causing himself and Brian to be kicked out and banned from the club. At the school library, Chris is successfully tutoring another student when Marcy notices this and Marcy apologizes to him, stating it was Marcy's father who saw the pictures and ratted him out. When she kisses him on the cheek, Chris' genitalia acts up as both of them get a strange feeling. This causes him to make a run to the more mature section of books and Chris regresses to his previous self where the very old school librarian Mrs. LaPorter catches Chris masturbating, an act so shocking that she has a fatal heart attack.
At the Griffins' house, Peter and Lois are happy that Chris is back to normal. When Peter asks Chris if his claim of chemical castration is not for everyone is the real lesson, Brian states that the lesson should involve being happy on the tennis court. Peter flatly asks Brian "Where have you been?"
Reception
The episode received an audience of 2.57 million, making it the second-most watched show on Fox that night behind The Simpsons.