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| Happy New Year Guy | |
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| Season 20, Episode 17 | |
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| Air date | December 26, 2021 |
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| Previous Christmas Crime |
Next The Lois Quagmire |
Happy New Year Guy is the seventeenth episode of the twentieth season of Family Guy. It is the four hundred and ninety fifth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
The people of Spooner Street say goodbye to the crapfest that was 2021 and take extra precautions to make sure that 2022 doesn't turn out the same way.
Plot[]
The episode begins with a cold opening, taking place on December 31st, 2020, where everybody is celebrating the new year at The Griffin House, albeit wearing masks and face shields and social distancing and stuff. Lois announces how although this year was horrible, we can all take solace in knowing that 2021 will be a far superior year and how everybody's gonna love it so much better. Then they count down to the new year and 2021 finally starts. A dark screen appears with some dark foreboding music and white text that reads "One Year Later"; After that, The Griffin Family sits in their house and Lois cusses.
When the actual episode starts, it's set on December 26th of 2021 and everybody is reviewing just how much worse this year was than the one before. Peter assumes that the reason this year was worse than 2020 was because everybody jinxed it by saying it'd be better.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
Minor Roles[]
- Glenn Quagmire
- Cleveland Brown
- Joe Swanson
- Bonnie Swanson
- Kevin Swanson
- Susie Swanson
- Donna Tubbs-Brown
- Cleveland Brown Jr.
- Roberta Tubbs
- Rallo Tubbs
- Rock Hudson
- Brick Baker
- Tom Tucker
- Joyce Kinney
- Ollie Williams
- Tricia Takanawa
- Seamus Levine
- John Herbert
- Mayor Wild West
- Zephyr
- Ginger
- Anna
- Bruce Hitlerdidnothingwrong
- Jeffrey Hitlerdidnothingwrong (Voice Heard)
- Preston Lloyd (Mentioned)
- Kimi Quagmire (Flashback/Mentioned)
Songs[]
- 2020
Quotes[]
- Peter: You know, Lois, I think 2021 might be a personal best for me.
- Lois: Are you kidding, Peter? This was one worst year in modern history! It was somehow even worse than last year and that was fucking disaster.
- Peter: Yeah, but something good happened: I didn't get hit in the crotch with a bag of nickels.
- [Due to him tempting fate, a bag of nickels on a rope comes soaring into his crouch]
- Peter: Damnit! I jinxed it!!
Trivia[]
- This is the last episode to air in 2021.
- This is Family Guy's first New Year's episodes since Season 1's, "Da Boom", which aired all the way back in 1999.
Cultural References[]
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Continuity[]
- Since this episode starts on December 26th, takes it place directly after the events of the previous episode, "Christmas Crime", which ended on December 25th of the same year.
- In the cold open, Peter notes there's been worse years and brings up 2001 and 2004. Though years are actually when Family Guy got it's first and second cancellations.
- Some of the bad things that happened last year refer to the events of actual episodes that aired in 2021:
- Quagmire getting cancelled on Twitter and getting divorced in "The Quagmire Show".
- Peter and Chris getting arrested in "The Marrying Kind".
- Brian getting dumped on Valentine's Day in "Boy's Best Friend".
- Meg getting a cat that almost killed her in "Family Cat".
- Meg getting expelled from college in "Meg Goes to College".
- Terminator robots trying to take over the world in "Peterminator".
- Cleveland losing his original voice actor and getting a dollar store downgrade in "80's Guy".
- Lois running over a kid in "LASIK Instinct".
- Peter getting his friends stolen by a corrupt lawyer in "Lawyer Guy".
- Lois getting addicted to heroin in "Prescription Heroine".
- Stewie getting cooties in "Cootie and the Blowhard".
- Stewie getting his first period in "First Blood".
- Peter getting a crappy new boss in "The Birthday Bootlegger".
- Lois' childhood nanny dying in "Peterschmidt Manor".
- Brian destroying the mayor's property and getting arrested in "Christmas Crime".
Errors[]
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