Mort Almighty | |
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Season 16, Episode 20 | |
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Air date | January 14, 2018 |
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Mort Almighty is the 20th episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy. It's the 388th episode, overall.
Synopsis[]
Mort becomes Moses for a week and decides to make his own Commandants with the power he possesses to get back at others. Which gets the attention of Father Bob, who is envious on Mort gaining power he feels he deserves. Meanwhile, Neil and his friends abuse Mort's new power for all its worth.
Plot[]
Mort's lack of pharmacy business has him desire to be more from the pharmacy. When Mort's possible day he hopes will be good for business goes to a Superstore instead, a vulgar outburst leads to his business landlord putting his pharmacy for sale. After a series of misfortunes, Mort complains to God that "He's the one that should be succeeding" and receives a message on his phone that takes him to an empty warehouse where he meets God. God offers to give Bruce his powers for a week.
Mort at first uses his powers for personal gains, such as getting his job back, exacting revenge on a group of hooligans who TPed his pharmacy earlier, and causing havoc on the Superstore to drive customers to his store instead. While he does that, his son Neil reveals his dads secret to his friends and the four cause miraculous events to occur at otherwise mundane events using Mort, such as discovering a misssing person (Jeffrey), or causing a hail storm during the outside school events. Bruce also causes Evan to embarrass himself on-air, consequently getting Evan fired, and Bruce becomes the new anchor. Bruce, however, also starts hearing voices in his head and re-encounters God, who explains the voices are prayers that Bruce must deal with. Bruce creates a computerized email-like system to handle the prayers but finds that the influx is far too many for him to handle, and thus sets the program to answer every prayer 'Yes' automatically.
During a party celebrating Bruce's promotion, Grace finds Bruce kissing his co-anchor Susan Ortega (who forcefully comes on to him) and quickly leaves. Bruce tries following her and then using his powers to convince her to stay but cannot influence her free will. Bruce later discovers that Buffalo has fallen into chaos due to his actions: parts of the city believe the Apocalypse is nearly upon Earth due to the meteor strikes, while a large number of people, all having prayed to win the multi-million dollar lottery and received only seventeen dollars in return, have started rioting in the streets. Bruce returns to God, learning he cannot solve all the problems and so must figure a way out on his own. Bruce thus starts helping others without divine powers, including giving Evan his job back. As he returns to his computer at home and goes about answering prayers, he finds one from Grace, wishing for his success and well-being. Another prayer from Grace immediately arrives, this one wishing not to be in love with him anymore, to avoid further pain.
Finally realizing his selfishness, Bruce walks alone on a highway, asking God to take back his powers and leaving his fate in his hands. Bruce is suddenly hit by a truck and meets God in the afterlife. When he asks Bruce what he really wants, Bruce admits that he only wants to make sure Grace finds a man that would make her happy. God agrees, and Bruce is resurrected and taken to the hospital, where his doctors help him recover. Grace finally arrives at the hospital and rekindles her relationship with Bruce. Following his recovery, Bruce returns to his field reporting, but decides to take more pleasure in the simple stories.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
Minor Roles[]
- Peter Griffin
- Meg Griffin
- Joe Swanson
- Bonnie Swanson
- Cleveland Brown
- Donna Tubbs-Brown
- Glenn Quagmire
- Kimi Quagmire
- Tom Tucker
- Joyce Kinney
- Ollie Williams
- Angela Everwood
- Seamus Levine
- Bruce Straightman
- John Herbert
- Mayor Adam West
- Carol West
- Lois Griffin (Cameo)
- Brian Griffin (Cameo)
- Stewie Griffin (Cameo)
- Yousief (Cameo)
- Jeffrey Hitlerdidnothingwrong (Voice Heard)
- Stan Thompson (Mentioned)
- Muriel Goldman (Mentioned)
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- The title and plot follows the formula of the "Almighty" movie franchise.