Season 4

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Season 4
No. of Episodes	26
Premiere	May 4th, 2003
Finale	March 14th, 2004

Season 4 is the fourth season of Family Guy, and the only season of Family Guy's second run. It premiered on May 4th, 2003 with "North by North Quahog" and ended on March 14th, 2004 with "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure"

Synopsis

This wildly irreverent, shrewdly crude animated sensation that has been confounding the PC police since the last millennium is back! Not even the insufferable humiliation of network cancellation was enough to keep "TV's most outrageous cartoon clan" (TV Guide) down. So raise your martini glasses in unison as Family Guy returns with a vengeance for 26 more hilarious episodes that find Peter and his old teacher Mr. Fargus switching bodies, Chris befriending a pimple, Lois gaining weight, Meg getting a makeover, and Brian and Stewie going on a European Road Show. Take a bow, Family Guy!

Episodes

• North by North Quahog
• Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High
• Peter's Got Woods
• Don't Make Me Over
• Petarded
• 15 Minutes of Shame
• The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire
• Brian the Bachelor
• 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter
• Road to Europe
• Stuck Together, Torn Apart
• The Perfect Castaway
• Flights of Disaster
• Jungle Fever
• The Courtship of Stewie's Father
• Hell Comes to Quahog
• Deep Throats
• PTV
• A Star is Born... Kind Of
• Petergeist
• Full Metal Jackass
• Mother Tucker
• Sibling Rivalry
• Stewie B. Goode
• Bango Was His Name, Oh!
• Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure

Events

• Loretta leaves the recurring cast in "The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire", when she divorces Cleveland Brown and moves out of the neighborhood.
  • This, in turn, also cues off the story arc of Cleveland being single and looking for a new partner.
• Peter loses his job as a fisherman, when the S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk Put Together gets destroyed in a shipwreck in "The Perfect Castaway". He gets a new job working for Pawtucket Brewery, which becomes his permanent job, starting with "Jungle Fever".
• Kevin also leaves the recurring cast in "Full Metal Jackass", when he gets drafted to fight the war in Iraq.
  • Chris also graduates from Buddy Cianci Junior High School in the same episode, making this the final season where he's a middle schooler. After this season, he's officially enrolled as a high schooler at James Woods Regional High School.
• Francis and Thelma finally divorce in "Mother Tucker"
• This season has a story arc, where Stewie meets his future self, Stu Griffin and travels to the future to see what his life is like, starting with the episode "Stewie B. Goode" and ending with the season finale, "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure".

Trivia

• This is the not only the first season of Family Guy after it's first cancellation, but also the only season of Family Guy's second run before its second cancellation.
• Starting with this season, a few things change:
  • Peter and Lois have their noticeable "thin-line" eyebrows removed from this season onwards (however for the former, they do appear again in "New Star Stew-Dent").
  • Chris no longer wears his golden hoop earrings on his ears.
  • Meg now wears white shoes instead of tan.
  • The theme song has been reanimated to reflect the new animation and has had its instrumental changed to the original end credits arrangement of the theme.
  • Starting with this season, Seth MacFarlane would begin to hand over showrunner duties to other people. With David A. Goodman and Chris Sheridan taking over as showrunners until Season 7 (with the exception of four episodes here and one episode next season that were made under MacFarlane and David Zuckerman).