Season 3

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Season 3
No. of Episodes	21
Premiere	July 13th, 2000
Finale	February 18th, 2001

Season 3 is the third season of Family Guy, and the final season of Family Guy’s first run. It premiered on July 13th, 2000 with "Brian Does Hollywood" and ended on February 18th, 2001 with "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1"

Synopsis

The weird and wonderfully warped Family Guy is back for its hilarious final encore! So, what's new for the Griffin family? Well, Peter's got a new job as a fisherman, Brian goes on an unintentional foray into directing porn, Lois gets both Yuletide and Kleptomania insanity, Stewie ventures into a pyramid scheme business, and Meg dates a nudist. And the family's shocked to discover that Chris is more "endowed" than Peter is.

Episodes

• Brian Does Hollywood
• Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington
• Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
• Peter Griffin's All-Stars
• One if by Clam, Two if by Sea
• And the Wiener Is ...
• Blind Ambition
• Breaking Out is Hard to Do
• Mr. Saturday Knight
• A Fish Out of Water
• The Fat Man and the Sea
• A Cheater Runs Through It
• A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
• From Method to Madness
• Model Misbehavior
• The Fat Guy Strangler
• I Take Thee Quagmire
• Death Lives
• Ready, Willing, and Disabled
• Brian Wallows, Peter Swallows
• Family Guy Viewer Mail #1

Events

• Mr. Weed is killed off the series in the episode "Mr. Saturday Knight".
  • Following the death of Mr. Weed, Peter Griffin loses his job at The Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory and finds a new job as a fisherman, working for the S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk Put Together.
• Brian begins his author career in "A Cheater Runs Through It"
  • In the same episode, Randall Fargus marries Eliza Fargus

Trivia

• Starting with this season, two things change:
  • Stewie's line "Laugh and cry" in the Theme Song has been rerecorded due to it commonly been mistaken as "effin' cry", and to make the "l" more audible
  • The showrunners of the series begin to change. With David Zuckerman (who showran the show with Seth MacFarlane since the beginning) giving his showrunner role to Dan Palladino for the last two thirds of the season.
• First season to air entirely within the 3rd millennium, going from 2000-2001.
• This is the final season of a few things:
  • The final season where Peter works at the toy factory.
  • The final season of Family Guy’s first run before its first cancellation.
  • The final season to use the original theme song instrumental before being replaced in the fourth season.
  • The final season to use the original character designs.
  • The final full season to have Seth MacFarlane be a showrunner.
• This season has the first Christmas special of the series, this being "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas".
• This season introduces the first Viewer Mail episode of the series, this being the season finale, "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1".