Lois is appointed the director of Quahog’s theatre company after the former director dies and attempts to produce The King and I. She appoints Peter as the producer to keep him out of her way, but his plans to recreate the play send him on a power trip that replaces her as the show’s director.
After Brian has a near-death experience in the hospital, he decides to lead a new life. He ends up getting a nightly singing gig with Frank Sinatra Jr., but his new lifestyle doesn’t last very long. Meanwhile, Meg, after joining a new after-school group, pretends to be a lesbian.
Jack Shephard’s decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and John Locke recruits Ben Linus to kill Jacob together.
Tired of New York City life, Floyd plans a move to the Midwest and asks Liz to consider going with him. Meanwhile, Jack takes a trip to Paris out of which he returns engaged, and Tracy works on financing his latest career move.
The neighbors fight over a trophy won for the best parade float, and when it ends up getting stolen, everyone in town becomes a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Meg takes a job as a waitress at a pancake restaurant to earn money for a Prada bag, and claims that Stewie is her crack-addicted son for sympathy [...]
A request by Jim leaves Michael feeling insecure and defensive. Meanwhile, Pam deals with the guest list for the wedding, and Dwight convinces Toby to investigate Darryl’s worker’s comp claim.
Sheldon finds himself out of the gang’s Physics Bowl team and replaced with Leslie. Not taking this sitting down, Sheldon decides to start a team of his own to prove that he’s the best out of the gang.
Sean tries to come to grips on her feelings for Julia, as he prepares to operate on Olivia. Liz and Christian analyze their relationship after having an intimate encounter. Christian meets someone who is familiar with his emotions as he attends a beast-cancer support group.
With Leonard, Howard and Raj away camping in the desert, an injured Penny has only Sheldon to rely on.
When Jin Kwon is having a serious quarrel with his wife Sun Kwon, Michael Dawson defends her. Later, when Michael’s raft is set afire and Jin has his arms injured by heat, Michael and Sawyer blame him for the incident. Sun finally reveals her secret when she speaks in English to defend her husband and [...]
As Mystic Falls gets ready for a festival to celebrate the passing of a comet, Vicki continues to recover in the hospital following Damon’s attack. Stefan heads to the hospital to try to use his abilities to make Vicki forget who attacked her, but his efforts are cut short by Matt. Meanwhile, at a parent/teacher [...]
Jor-El mysteriously arrives at the Kent farm searching for his son, Kal-El, but meets Chloe instead. Convinced the Blur is Jor-El, Zod enlists Tess’s help in finding him to force him to reveal the secret to his powers. Clark realizes Jor-El is alive and on Earth and races to find him before Zod does.
Dwight and Jim receive poor customer service reports, and while Jim is merely disappointed, Dwight immediately suspects sabotage. Pam buys small Bluetooth phones for herself and Jim so they can talk all day at work without getting caught. Meanwhile, Andy and Angela finally agree on a wedding location.
Liz heads to Chicago to get out of jury duty and on her flight back to New York she is assigned a seat next to Oprah. Liz seizes the opportunity to ask Oprah for advice with some of the problems she’s been having. Back in New York, the feud continues between Tracy and Jenna; and [...]
With Jessica in tow, Bill and Sookie head to Dallas to carry out Eric’s vampire-reconnaissance mission – but a surprise awaits them at the airport. At the Light of Day Institute, Jason falls victim to a practical joke, but has the last laugh when the Newlins anoint him for a higher calling. Maryann throws Tara [...]
Meg becomes extremely religious, and tries to convert Brian from Atheism. Meanwhile, after the family visits a Star Trek convention, Stewie kidnaps the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and forces them to hang out with him.
Sheldon attempts to help Penny understand Leonard’s work, and Wolowitz becomes jealous when Leonard starts hanging out with his new girlfriend.
Lois discovers she has a brother named Patrick and therefore takes the family cross-country to meet him. However, it turns out that he’s in a mental institution, but Lois thinks he’s sane, so she checks him out to live with the Griffins. Meanwhile, Peter starts a Society for the Acceptance of Fat Men. However, the [...]
Jan arrives at the Scranton branch to lead a ‘women in the workplace’ seminar for the ladies of Dunder Mifflin. Michael, upset that he is excluded from this event, leads his own male bonding workshop down in the warehouse.
While Sheldon is attempting to make a better Penny with a chocolate-based behavior modification, Koothrappali and Howard go to a Goth nightcub hoping to pick up women.
Peter’s boss, Mr. Weed, dies during a dinner with the Griffin family, and the toy factory is demolished as a result. Now unemployed, and failing to find himself other jobs, Peter decides to live his dream of being a Renaissance fair jouster, where he must defend his family’s honor from his jerkwad idol.
Jason gets approched from an unlikely group. Sookie is doing her best to find the killer.
After writing a story for a local magazine, Brian gets a job at The New Yorker. He admitted that he didn’t graduate from college and lost his job. So he went back to college. In the end, he failed.
The Griffin family decides to start their own restaurant, though have a hard time attracting customers. After Joe promises to help, Peter is excited at the fact of it becoming a local hangout for the police. However, things don’t really turn out as hoped, and instead it begins to be popular with the handicapped. When [...]
Peter and Lois go to the Pewterschmidts for the weekend, bringing Brian along. Brian, meanwhile, has some “issues” of his own to work out. Find out if Brian’s future is to make puppies or become “less” than he is.
Michael and his staff challenge the warehouse workers to a basketball game with a bet looming over both parties.
Liz gets a phone call from her ex-boyfriend Floyd, whose flight has been cancelled and needs a place to stay overnight. After a decision by the Board of Directors’, Jack is demoted down to the 12th floor causing him to question his future with the company. Meanwhile, it’s Annual Sandwich Day at TGS, and the [...]
Brian moves to Los Angeles with his cousin after his drug rehabiliation and inadvertently becomes a film director. The family decides to visit Brian for support in his new career, though it turns out Brian is directing pornography. Not wanting his family to find this out, he tries to cover it up.
After discovering a sailboat just offshore containing former hatch oversee Desmond, Jack and Sayid come up with a plan to confront “The Others” and hopefully get Walt back. Meanwhile, Eko and Locke come to blows as Locke makes a potentially cataclysmic decision regarding the “button” and the hatch.
Meg signs up for the high school newspaper club as Brown University’s academic requirement, but Peter replaces her original article with one about Luke Perry’s supposed homosexuality. This lands Meg in hot legal water with Perry, so Peter decides to “prove” that the actor is gay.
Liz struggles to keep Jack out of the writers’ room, and Kenneth learns that working for Tracy may be more than he expected.
Sheldon and Leonard are two brilliant, but socially inept theoretical physicists who share an apartment. In the series premier, they meet their new neighbor, Penny, a stereotypical beautiful dumb blond. In spite of the obvious hopelessness of the situation, Leonard is utterly smitten.
When Peter’s dad visits the family, he tries to impose his religious beliefs on the family. But after a mixup with holy-water leaves Stewie in a bubble, Peter decides to form a church around his hero, The Fonz.
Ben tries to escape Keamy’s custody so that he and Locke can follow through with Jacob’s request to move the island. Michael tries to neutralize the explosives on the boat, while the “Oceanic 6″ move closer to rescue.
When Brian accidentally kills another dog he is surprised to see that no one cares so he tries to convince everyone that the life of a dog should have the same value as a human one. Meanwhile, Lois hires a maid who doesn’t listen to Peter.
Death grants Peter’s wish to go back in time to 1984 when he was 18, but only for one night. He ends up bailing on a date with Lois to hang out with a movie actress. When he returns to the present, he soon realizes that everything is anything but normal, as he is now [...]
Not sure he trusts himself anymore, Sam decides to give up hunting, but a late-night visitor won’t let him off the hook that easily. Dean, intent on stopping the Apocalypse, continues hunting on his own and teams up with Castiel to find the Archangel Raphael, as Castiel believes Raphael knows God’s location.
Sawyer believes that a boar is harassing him. So he and Kate go to find it. They bond on the journey. They run into Locke, who tells them a story that seems to mean something to Sawyer.
Lois’s kleptomania lands her in jail, leaving the Griffin household in a worse state of disarray than usual. In an effort to restore their lives Peter breaks Lois out of jail, only to find themselves fugitives living in “Asian Town” Peter takes up sumo wrestling to pay the bills, until Joe sees Peter on television [...]
Bill goes through with his punishment; a good Samaritan comes to the aid of Tara when she cries for help; Lafayette has a surprise for a two-faced state senator on the campaign trail; Jason finds himself once again in trouble with the law; and Sookie struggles for an explanation of what her latest vision means.
Hurley begins to think the island is affecting him in a very strange way, so Libby attempts to offer him support. Hurley also recalls his past in a mental hospital with his friend Dave. Meanwhile, the prisoner calling himself Henry Gale offers new information about the Hatch, which severely shakes Locke’s sense of purpose.
With the crisis in Bon Temps careening out of control, Bill seeks out the advice of Sophie-Anne, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, but must exercise patience before she gives him critical information. Meanwhile, Sookie and Lafayette find that protecting Tara from herself is more difficult than they anticipated; a desperate Sam turns to an unlikely [...]
Todd Packer convinces Michael to liven up the wedding showers for Bob Vance and Phyllis by hiring a stripper, and Ben Franklin. Karen confronts Pam about her history with Jim.
Lois gets a job working for FOX News and has to do a report on a liberal filmmaker. However, she loses the job when her story implicates a conservative radio host.
The office reviews its sexual harassment policy in light of explicit e-mails.
Quagmire is forced to take care of a baby he fathered when she is left on his doorstep, while Stewie creates clones of himself and Brian.
Stewie ties the knot with his old flame Olivia, but their relationship quickly turns, and becomes normal dull marriage. It all escalates when they go on a double date with Brian and Jillian. Meanwhile, Lois introduces Peter to chick flicks, so he decides to make his own movie with a plot based on every chick [...]
Michael is caught in the middle when the sales team wants their old clients back from Pam and Ryan. Meanwhile, ‘Casual Friday’ becomes a problem when certain members of the office staff dress inappropriately.
A wounded Eric plays Sookie for a sucker, to Bill’s dismay, and ends up getting inside her head. Later, Sookie and Jason bond over their recent adventures. Blaming Eggs for Tara’s bruises and bizarre behavior, Lafayette and Lettie Mae try to figure out a way to pry their kin from Maryann’s clutches. Hoyt defends his [...]
Meg can’t find a date to her junior prom, and even though he is dating Jillian, Brian ends up going with Meg. At the prom, Brian gets drunk to make the night pass, but ends up making out with Meg. Meg begins to think of Brian as her boyfriend and becomes obsessed with spending every [...]
When Dwight must give a speech as the Dunder Mifflin Salesman of the Year, he turns to Michael and Jim for advice on how to overcome his fear of public speaking. The staff battles for control of the office thermostat, and as Pam plans her wedding, Jim plans a vacation away from Scranton.
Leonard and his friends want to help Sheldon overcome his fear of driving with an intervention.
Tara heads to LaFayette in order to relax. Dawn returns home to see if Jason is still tied up. Meanwhile, Sookie meets some of Bill’s friends.
Brian swallows his pride when Peter convinces him to join a dog show so they can win money for a new air conditioner. But after an argument over a trick gone bad, Brian realizes he’s a second-class citizen and runs away from home, but his fight for his civil rights lands him in the pound [...]
Brian’s gay cousin Jasper visits the Griffin house and announces that he is engaged to his partner and wants to be married at their house. When Mayor West bans gay marriage in an effort to cover up and bring attention away from a scandal of his own, Brian resorts to hostile actions to try to [...]
When Oscar discovers a surplus in the yearly budget, the staff argues over how Michael should spend the cash. One group, led by Oscar, wants to purchase a new copier, and the other, led by Pam, wants new chairs. Everyone tries to get Michael on their side, but he just can’t seem to make a [...]
With GE ‘going green,’ Jack must come up with an idea for a green mascot
Peter finds an old winning raffle ticket from 1989 that entitles him to a golf outing with O.J. Simpson. After befriending him, Peter brings O.J. home to meet the family. However, the people of Quahog aren’t too fond of the former running back.
Blood Money Brenda investigates when a greedy financier who is being investigated for investment fraud is kidnapped, but she believes this abduction was staged. Meanwhile, Provenza continues with his bizarre behavior; and Brenda’s cat scratches it’s way through a medical problem.
Liz messes up her chance to impress her new neighbor, a handsome, single doctor. Meanwhile, Jack’s stunning likeness to a Spanish soap star is making it hard to impress his grandmother or while continuing to woo Elisa. Also, Tracy tries to party with the newest interns yet can’t seem to keep up with their hard-carousing [...]
When Michael discovers his new company can’t survive financially for much longer, he panics. Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch is tired of losing clients, and makes a move to solve the problem.
When Peter becomes completely obsessed with “Surfin’ Bird”, a 1963 hit song from the Trashmen, Brian and Stewie are determined to destroy every last copy of it. When Peter goes searching every record store in Quahog for it, he runs into Jesus, who decides to make his second coming.
Jim pals around with Michael so that he can be sure his crush on Pam won’t be revealed to everyone else in the office. Unfortunately for Jim, this means a trip to Hooters. Meanwhile, Dwight suspects Oscar is faking illness to skip work, and his investigation turns up some interesting information about Oscar’s personal life.
Peter runs up his tab at Mort’s Pharmacy. When he is told he has to pay, he decides to sell Meg to the Goldmans, who gives Meg to Neil. When Meg finds out that Neil is dating another girl, she becomes jealous and tries to find herself a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with [...]
Chris gets a new job as the water boy for the basketball team. After being around the black players, Chris becomes a super-cool black dude in a white person’s body. Peter takes Chris to learn about his own Irish heritage at a museum. Chris later visits a library to look up his genealogy and is [...]
At his high school reunion, Peter tries to impress his fellow classmates. When Peter, heading for the bathroom, charges through the crowd of people, he impresses quarterback Tom Brady, who offers Peter a spot on the New England Patriots. Meanwhile, Brian owes Stewie money, after Stewie becomes a sports bookie.
Lucy finds couplings, dysfunctional or not, throughout the hospital
A case involving a deep history of domestic violence gets hairy when a when a TV-show hairstylist is found slain in Hollywood. Brenda’s visiting parents also have her on edge.
When Karen tells Michael that she’s luring Stanley to the Utica branch, Michael isn’t going to let Stanley go without a fight. Unable to offer him the same salary that Karen can, Michael and Dwight instead declare war on Utica, dragging Jim along for the ride. Back at the office, the exclusive ‘Finer Things Club’ [...]
Brian volunteers to bring Stewie home from his grandparents’ house in California, but the two miss their plane and must travel on foot for a cross-country journey back home. Meanwhile, Peter becomes addicted to watching a collection of marriage counseling videos hosted by a porn star.
Nikki and Paulo are two more of the castaways with a past just like any of the others. What have they been doing since the plane crash?
Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to camp where he has news about “The Others”. Meanwhile, Ana Lucia attempts to get the prisoner, Henry Gale to confess to being a spy for the Others, and he attempts to kill her. Also, Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby.
After Mort bowls a perfect game, and Quagmire gets a key to the city by performing CPR, Peter notices he has nothing to be proud of. He then attempts to achieve fame by setting the world’s record for most nickels swallowed. However, a slight miscalculation leaves him blind with nickel poisoning.
Flu is spreading amongst the ‘TGS’ cast and crew fast, and Liz is determined not to catch it too. Dr. Spaceman is giving vaccinations, but Jack is being selective over who gets one. Liz is offered one, but refuses to accept it, championing the rights of the crew. Meanwhile, Jack must be creative if he [...]
After Liz takes her ex-boyfriend, Dennis, back simply because he asks, Jack takes it upon himself to mentor her as he thinks that she is leading a life of mediocrity. Meanwhile, Tracy gets a tattoo in the face, Jenna gets botox and collagen injections, and Josh is given two black eyes by an angry Elizabeth [...]
