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"Trump Guy"
Family Guy episode
Episode no.Season 17
Episode 11
Directed byJoe Vaux
Written byPatrick Meighan
Featured musicWalter Murphy
Editing byMike Elias
Production codeHACX09
Original air dateJanuary 13, 2019 (2019-01-13)
Running time22 minutes
Guest appearances
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"Trump Guy" is the eleventh episode of the seventeenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 320th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on January 13, 2019, and is written by Patrick Meighan and directed by Joe Vaux. Family Guy follows an American nuclear family led by oafish Peter Griffin in the fictional New England town of Quahog. Continuing from "Hefty Shades of Gray," Peter is invited by Donald Trump to become the White House Press Secretary.

Although the producers of Family Guy have mocked Trump as well as many prominent Republican figures in the past,[1] this was the first episode focused on Trump.

Plot

Peter Griffin and his family move to Washington D.C. after he was hired to work for Donald Trump, at the end of the previous episode, "Hefty Shades of Gray". Meg Griffin is less than pleased about the move, but after meeting Ivanka Trump and getting a makeover, she suddenly becomes more attractive, at least by "Washington D.C. standards". But when Ivanka leaves her with Donald, he grabs Meg inappropriately by her privates, leaving her shocked and her family refusing to believe her when she tells them. But when he tries to molest her a second time, the rest of the Griffins catch him in the act. This leads Peter to resign his job and to try to be a kinder man. But when he is unsurprisingly unable to keep this vow, Trump rubs it in his face and insults him as a failed role model. Peter and Trump engage in a protracted fight, after the former questions his actual net worth. The fight leads to a point where their lives are threatened by falling off the Washington Monument before being saved by Justin Trudeau with an industrial air mattress. In the finale, the Griffins break the fourth wall to encourage Americans to read the Steele dossier.

Reception

The episode courted some controversy prior to airing for a joke included at the end of "Hefty Shades of Grey" with Trump making sexual advances to his daughter Ivanka Trump,[2] in reference to a 2006 appearance on The View when the then-reality television star said, "If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her."[3]

References

  1. ^ Snierson, Dan (January 13, 2019). "Family Guy Producers Break Down Episode Skewering Trump". Entertainment Weekly.
  2. ^ Bell, Amanda (January 9, 2019). "Trump Creeps on Ivanka in Family Guy Teaser That's Sure to Cause a Tweetstorm". TV Guide.
  3. ^ Sadler, Jack (January 11, 2019). "'Donald Trump' Set to Appear in Family Guy". The Independent.
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