Family Guy: I Wrote This Review On Adderall

Ever thought that you couldn't really pay enough attention?  Ever felt jittery, unable to sit still?  Well, this episode of Family Guy Stewie gets diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Adderall.  It's prescribed by Dr. Hartman in a scene where Stewie gives my favorite line of episode, a throwaway while pointing in the corner of the examination room and proclaiming, "There's a cat in here."  I died. Sorry, I got sidetracked, maybe I need Adderall.

This oddly seems like an early episode of South Park where all the kids get diagnosed with ADD.  The storyline is insanely similar, but has a twist to it, when Brian starts taking it too.  Brian becomes riddled with energy and becomes increasingly "creative".  The contrast between Stewie and Brian provides a lot of fun, culminating with Brian trying to pitch a fantasy world he created to George RR Martin.  Martin gives a great line saying, "Medication doesn't make you write well, it just makes you write a lot."  At the end of the episode, Brian and Stewie proclaim that neither of them have attention problems, they're just normal people who don't need medication.  Hopefully this gets a point across to the family guy viewers.

In B-Plot news, Quagmire gets a spot as a chef on a local TV show and Peter is cast as the goofy sidekick.  Peter is the reason Quagmire lands the gig, because the executives loved Peter's antics and wanted them as a duo.  The story seems like the Beefsquatch episode of Bob's Burgers.  

Peter and Quagmire of course split after they can't work together and then end up with individual cooking segments.  This ends up with them going Iron Chef on each other, with the loser leaving the Network.  The episode ends with Peter sacrificing his win for his friend and then together, they say the N word to get banned from food related television Paula Deen style.

Overall, I thought the episode had its funny points.  I was able to pick out storylines from two different shows that seemed to be picked from though.  I'm sure that's not the case at all, but you can't help but wonder sometimes.  Hopefully this season of Family Guy proves to be as good as its predecessors.  But only time will tell, until then...