Episode
Family Guy: Brian Griffin's House of Payne
Overview
Lois encourages Brian to submit his pilot script to a network. James Woods gets involved and things don't exactly go according to Brian's original plan. Meanwhile, Stewie has a bit of a mishap.
Details
- Series
- Family Guy
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2010-03-28
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Brian Griffin's House of Payne is Episode 15 in Season 8 of Family Guy. It aired on 2010-03-28. The runtime is 22 min.
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