One of Lois' relatives passes away, leaving Lois and the rest of the family her posh summer home in a will. Peter likes the place so much that he sells their house so that they could live there, where Brian trains Peter to be more sophisticated.

Peter's devoutly religious, recently retired father Francis comes to visit, though he seems to make life miserable for the others. Nevertheless, Peter tries to get his father to tell him he loves him by letting him work at the toy factory with him.

In this dream episode, Peter's newly adopted fears of the Y2K bug are realized. Now the Griffins must find a Twinkie factory in order to stay alive and establish a new town. This episode features the first fight between Peter and the Giant Chicken.

Stewie is being blamed for urinating all over the house and is made to learn how to use the toilet, but when the culprit turns out to be Brian, Brian seeks therapy about his accidents. The cause: he's in love with Lois.

The neighbors fight over a trophy won for the best parade float, and the situation only worsens when the trophy ends up missing. Meanwhile, Meg takes a job at a pancake restaurant, where she lies to her boss and the patrons about being an unwed mother with a crack-addicted baby (Stewie) in order to earn money for a Prada bag.

After a cancer scare, Peter gets out of paying a hospital bill by declaring that he's dead and gets a surprise visit from Death himself. However, Death injures himself while chasing Peter and is unable to do his job while he heals, which makes all of mankind immortal.

Lois is appointed the director of Quahog's theater company after the former director dies and appoints Peter the producer to keep him out of her way, but her plans to produce "The King and I" get uprooted when Peter wants to recreate the play.

After telling a sexist joke at work, Peter is sent to a women's retreat camp and comes back acting effeminate. Lois and the others become greatly disturbed by his new attitude, so they do everything they can to restore his manhood.

When Peter's favorite TV show is cancelled, he pretends Chris is terminally ill so the "Grant-A-Wish Foundation" can get the show back on the air. When Chris doesn't die, however, Peter declares himself to be a healer, and starts his own religion.

Lois runs for President of the Quahog School Board, but Peter runs against her so he can save the job of his favorite science teacher. Things eventually turn desperate for Peter, so he slings mud. Meanwhile, Chris becomes addicted to pornography.

Chris' birthday painting to Peter lands the family in New York, where an art dealer wants Chris to be the next Andy Warhol. Peter, of course, wishes to exploit his talents for personal gain, but when Chris is forced to leave the family, Peter turns his sights.

After being embarrassed by her family during her slumber party, Meg brings them on a daytime talk show out of revenge, where a TV producer turns the Griffins' dysfunctional life into a reality show. She is then further humiliated, so she abandons her family.

Brian volunteers to bring Stewie home from his grandparents' house in Palm Springs so he can visit his mother. Meanwhile, Peter becomes addicted to watching a collection of marriage counseling videos hosted by a porn star.

When two kids get high off licking Colombian toads, several youths across Quahog start licking the toads themselves. Not wanting his own children to be put at risk, Peter goes undercover as a high school student to kick users off the habit.

Lois begins wishing that her life were more exciting, so she gets a job as a flight attendant at Peter's request, who uses Lois' job position as a means to get free travel. Meanwhile, Stewie discovers the meaning of love and heartbreak.

Peter buys Lois a new car, but ends up inadvertably putting a hit out on her when he makes friends with a member of the Mafia. Any attempts to call off the hit make the situation worse, so Peter and Lois head to the head of the Mafia personally.

Chris becomes insecure about his weight, so Peter trains him with diet and exercise, but abandons his son's method of getting thin for plastic surgery. Meanwhile, Stewie, while trying to make Chris feel bad about his diet, eats too much and starts to develop an eating disorder, which results in a dramatic weight gain for him.

While confronting the mayor about zoning issues around his house, Peter discovers that his house isn't anywhere on the map, prompting him to secede his house from the rest of the United States, creating the country "Petoria."

Meg signs up for the high school newspaper club as a college's requirement, but Peter puts her chances in jeopardy when he replaces her original article with one about Luke Perry's supposed homosexuality. Meanwhile, Stewie, sick of being patronized for his height, uses Chris to do his evil bidding.

Peter wins a tour of a magical brewery owned by Pawtucket Pat, while Lois desperately searches for a talented piano player to beat her rival at an upcoming talent competition, finding one in the form of her husband, who can only play professionally when he's drunk.

Peter thinks his son won't amount to anything, so he gets him a job at a golf course. However, when Peter begins training Cleveland's son to be a pro golf player, Chris finds a father figure in Quagmire. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes paranoid after receiving a vaccination at the doctor's office.