Top 20 Times Family Guy Made Fun of Disney
#20: The Shrimp
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“Peter's Def Jam” Peter has a variety of careers throughout the show, and he and his buddies stumble their way into becoming DJs. The gang is surprisingly successful. However, when Peter is encouraged to go solo, he dumps his friends. Karma can be quick to strike, and he soon goes deaf. Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire are less than sympathetic at first. Peter laments his fortunes to Stella, his coworker who’s also deaf. He claims that he’d rather be on a Disney cruise. A cutaway then shows Mickey Mouse in a bout of gastrointestinal distress. This particular gag is a reference to an outbreak of norovirus on a Disney cruise ship in 2016. Hopefully, Mickey reached the bathroom…
#19: Mickey Rabbit
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“Turkey Guys” Thanksgiving at the Griffin household usually results in an entertaining level of chaos. And while Peter and Brian being forced to find a replacement turkey last minute is fun, there’s also comedy to be found on TV. Chris and Stewie watch the JCPenney Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is akin to the famous Macy’s Parade, only with knock-off versions of popular cartoon characters. Along with Mickey Rabbit, a thinly veiled Mickey Mouse ripoff, there are several other non-Disney characters parodied. It’s too bad we didn’t get to see Donald Dog, Fuzz Lightspeed, or Randolf the snow guy, from the hit movie, “Chilled!”
#18: Disney Wakes Up
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“Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure” Stewie has frequent trips through time, but on one occasion he meets a potential future version of himself. After following himself to the future, Stewie demands to know more about his future life, finding it disappointing that he hasn’t taken over the world. The diabolical baby has several ideas about what the future should be like. And while beaming “Mork & Mindy” directly into your brain probably hasn’t happened, future Stewie tells him that Walt Disney has, unfortunately, been unfrozen. And while there’s no evidence that Disney was cryogenically preserved, his opinions on the state of the future have been long rumored.
#17: Firing Tink
“Dammit Janet” Peter is usually the major breadwinner of the Griffin household, somehow, but in this episode, Lois wants to get a job of her own. Although Peter complains to Cleveland and Quagmire about it, almost seeming to make a lewd joke, it turns out to be just a misdirect. Even so, Quagmire suggests that Lois work as a flight attendant, claiming that their spouses fly for free. Peter is excited about the prospect and decides that he no longer needs his previous flight provider - Tinker Bell. Personally, we feel like it’s another bonehead move on Peter’s part. Pixie dust is a small price to pay for an unrestricted flight!
#16: Eisner & Brian
“Brian Does Hollywood” Brian’s attempt to make it big in Hollywood is rough going at first. He works a number of odd jobs, including washing cars. During one of these, he discovers that one of his clients is former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner. Brian attempts to impress Eisner with his service and offers him a script he’s been working on. However, Eisner merely gives him a Mickey Mouse hat, which, admittedly does have Brian’s name on it, and offers what “Family Guy” appears to believe is the typical Disney attitude towards creatives and its fans.
#15: Genie Jesus
“I Dream of Jesus” After discovering that Jesus Christ is alive and walking around, Peter befriends the religious figure and the two become fast friends. The two even sing a musical number about their friendship. The irreverent song features many jokes, both in the lyrics and through visual gags. These include everything from then-current political satire to references to films and pop culture. One of the latter sees Jesus appearing as the Genie from the Disney movie “Aladdin.” Peter “ain’t never had a friend like him,” though, if Jesus’ behavior the rest of the episode is any indication - that’s probably a good thing.
#14: Geppetto Is Kinky
“North by North Quahog” Brian and Stewie are always entertaining to watch together, and their attempts to parent Meg and Chris while Peter and Lois are away make for good comedy. When the duo decides to chaperone them to the school dance, Stewie claims he knows the best ways to deal with children - unlike Geppetto. A cutaway gag then shows the woodcarver “accidentally” dropping his glasses and then pausing while bent over to ask if Pinocchio took a cookie without asking. Pinocchio owns up to it, though based on his positioning and Pinocchio’s nose growing longer when he lies… well, let’s just say Geppetto would clearly prefer if his wooden child were dishonest in this case.
#13: Minnie Models
“A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks” When Chris is discovered by an art dealer, the family goes to New York. Peter is characteristically impatient, wondering why Chris isn’t famous immediately. Brian reminds him that good art can take lots of training, and Peter wonders if Walt Disney also had to study. Cut to the man himself, sketching Minnie Mouse. Disney urges her to pose nude to make it big. While Minnie does it, Disney appears a little too excited by his muse. “If you can dream it, you can do it,” but this version of Disney needs some less creepy dreams…
#12: Mice in the Walls
“Peter's Daughter” Brian and Stewie love to get into various business ventures together, and one of their most disastrous is their attempt to renovate a rundown house. While both of them are so exhausted that they eventually quit, dramatically, Brian is sick of the project the whole way through. Stewie annoys him frequently through his radio chatter, but even before they start, he has his doubts. Upon being shown the house for the first time, he points out that you can hear mice humping in the walls. One of said mice is clearly identifiable as Mickey. Hopefully, it was Minnie he was with…
#11: A Place Disney Supported
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“Hot Pocket-Dial” When Quagmire’s feelings for Lois become public, things between him and Peter get uncomfortable and he stops hanging out with Peter and the guys. Despite their falling out, Peter is miserable. Lois, fed up with the situation, decides to take Peter to Quagmire to reconcile them. However, Peter recalls another time Lois took him somewhere he didn’t want to go. Cue a cutaway to the two of them visiting Auschwitz, which Peter thought was somewhere built by Walt Disney. Lois corrects him, referring to Disney’s supposedly antisemitic attitude - and reported hospitality to Nazis.
#10: Fievel Mousekewitz
“Nanny Goats” Fed up with Peter’s shenanigans, Lois hires a nanny named Natalia to help raise the kids. Tough, brawny and stereotypically Eastern European, Natalia turns out to be a Belarusian assassin. When confronted by Stewie, Natalia claims to be doing her job in pursuit of Russian ex-patriot Fievel Mousekewitz, the protagonist from Don Bluth’s “An American Tail.” Mousekewitz appears, claiming to be named “Frank Maxwell,” and nervously gets into his car -- which then explodes, though Natalia denies responsibility. Well who should be lurking around the corner but Mickey Mouse, who sarcastically laments the Jewish mouse’s “bad luck” -- playing on Walt Disney’s rumored anti-Semitic views, and the fact that Bluth once worked for Disney.
#9: Quagmire Romances Joan
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“I Take Thee Quagmire” Despite his reputation as a perverted bachelor, the Griffins’ neighbour Glenn Quagmire has actually had a few touching romances in his life. Arguably the most notable of these was with the Griffins’ one-time maid, Joan. Their courtship becomes a parody of not just one Disney movie, but several! They share a dance in magnificent “Beauty and the Beast” fashion, they go on a dinner date reminiscent of “Lady and the Tramp,” and even take a romantic “Aladdin”-style flight on a magic carpet. But since this IS “Family Guy,” that “whole new world” is a modern-day Baghdad plagued by war.
#8: Ariel Wishes for Legs
“Hot Pocket-Dial” Poor Joe Swanson just can’t catch a break! Recalling a parasailing trip with Quagmire, Joe is shown losing both his legs when they dip into the water, presumably bitten off by a shark or other sea creature. Cut to: Ariel from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” sitting on the seafloor wishing for a pair of legs… and Joe’s bloody ones float down from above. Yikes. What’s even more darkly amusing is the reveal that Ariel wished for a pair of legs to eat rather than use to walk on land. Watch out, Prince Eric!
#7: Goofy in Hell
“Dial Meg for Murder” Writing an article on teenage girls, Brian tries to spy on Meg from a ladder outside her room, but Stewie warns him not to fall - as not all dogs go to heaven. Leaving nothing to the imagination, a cutaway reveals that famed Disney dog Goofy is in hell. Why? Apparently he was involved in the 9/11 attacks - and Goofy happily confesses to it in his familiar southern drawl. Once again drawing on the anti-Semitic rumors surrounding Walt Disney, Goofy tacks on his distaste for Israel. The real kicker though is when Goofy does his characteristic holler as he’s pushed into the eternal pit of fire!
#6: The Nightmare Before Independence Day
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“Peter’s Sister” Peter is picked on mercilessly by his sister Karen when she visits for Thanksgiving. At one point, Peter complains that she’s as bad as Tim Burton’s version of the 4th of July. A cutaway then demonstrates an Independence Day celebration akin to the song “This Is Halloween” from “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” complete with many of the characters from the film. With on-the-nose lyrics lampooning Burton’s particular style of spooky movies, the scene’s funny whether you’re a fan of the movie or not. And Jack Skellington’s final line is disturbingly accurate.
#5: “It’s a Tiny World”
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“The Courtship of Stewie's Father” In order to bond with Stewie, Peter does the one thing guaranteed to get a child’s approval – he takes him to Disney World, and naturally, Stewie’s over the moon about it. This gives the show’s writers ample opportunity to make fun of Disney as much as possible. While the gag featuring Disney’s stock prices as a slide is fun, the least subtle of these jabs occurs when Stewie is separated from Peter and gets discovered by two security guards. Promptly kidnapped and chained up with other lost children, Stewie is forced to sing, “It’s a Tiny World” as part of a ride, playing off of Disney’s real ride, “It’s a Small World.”
#4: “Aladdin 4: Jafar May Need Glasses”
“Lois Kills Stewie” Season 6 shows a hypothetical future where Stewie becomes President of the United States. Obviously mad with power, the diabolical infant does try to do one good thing: banning direct-to-video Disney sequels, citing the fictitious “Aladdin 4: Jafar May Need Glasses” as a key example why. What, did Stewie not want to see the sorcerer go through the tedious comparisons of different lenses at his optometrist’s office? But that’s not the last we see of him! We get a follow-up in a later season with “Aladdin 5: Jafar Answers the Census,” in which Jafar lamely describes his personal income and how unsure he is of his sexuality. Personally, we’d love to see more sequels! Where’s “Aladdin 8: Jafar Goes to the Supermarket” or “Aladdin 17: Jafar Applies for a Bank Loan?”
#3: Peter’s Face Transforms into Mickey’s
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“A Hero Sits Next Door” In one of the series’ early episodes, Joe Swanson and his family move in next door to the Griffins. Although Peter doesn’t make the best first impression, he later tries to be nice to Joe in order to get him to fill in on his company’s softball team. Joe voices an interest, thinking it would be a good time, to which Peter emphatically agrees it’s almost TOO good a time. Peter’s head then morphs into Mickey Mouse’s, and he delivers Mickey’s signature laugh. That’s one way to comment on Disney’s notoriously draconian attitude towards copyright infringement.
#2: Disney Reboots
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“Disney's The Reboot” Given that Fox, the network that airs “Family Guy,” was sold to Disney in 2019, it only makes sense that the show would become more overt in their parodies of the company. In the season 18 episode “Disney’s The Reboot,” Fox hold a focus group for potential reboots of the show. Although the reboots themselves don’t directly lampoon Disney, the types of shows they feature, from comedies about empowered moms, supernatural teen dramas, and lame reboots only featuring lesser characters, is definitely a dig. It wouldn’t be the first time someone’s called Disney’s penchant for reboots a hollow cash-grab.
#1: Brian & Stewie Visit the Disney Universe
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“Road to the Multiverse” This classic episode features Brian and Stewie visiting alternate universes. The multiverse-hopping duo soon find a Disney universe, and are quickly won over -- and it’s not hard to see why. With a sickly sweet atmosphere, talking animals and objects, gorgeous animation, and a show-stopping musical number about pie, this universe embodies nearly everything we love about Disney animations. However, “Family Guy” yet again brings up the anti-Semitism rumors when everyone instantly turns on and beats up Mort Goldman, which prompts Brian and Stewie to move on. If it weren’t for that disturbing bit, we’d love a whole episode in this style!
