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"Dial Meg for Murder" is the 11th episode of season eight of the animated comedy series ''Family Guy''. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 31, 2010. The episode follows teenager Meg as she dates and falls in love with an inmate at the local prison. She eventually ends up hiding the fugitive in the Griffin family home, however, and is convicted and sent to jail. After returning home, she becomes a hardened criminal, who continually tortures her family. While starting a life away from home, Meg sees the magazine article family dog Brian wrote about her. Touched by what he wrote, Meg returns home and thanks Brian in return. Meanwhile, her father Peter attempts to win a local championship rodeo competition, albeit by cheating, which gets the best of him after getting raped by the bull he rode on. The episode was written by Alex Carter and Andrew Goldberg, and directed by Cyndi Tang-Loveland. It received mostly positive reviews for its storyline, and cultural references, in addition to receiving criticism from the Parents Television Council. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 6.21 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Dave Boat, Peter Chen, Chace Crawford, Camille Guaty, Victor J. Ho, Allison Janney, Rachael MacFarlane, and Lisa Wilhoit along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. It was first announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. "Dial Meg for Murder" was released on DVD along with ten other episodes from the season on December 13, 2011. ==Plot== When the news announces a local rodeo competition in Quahog, Peter decides to enter the competition. He trains using Chris and Meg in various ways, such as using Chris as a bronco, or Peter roping Meg and branding her, although he finds out that Mayor West already did it, who takes her away. However, during the competition he quickly falls off his anthropomorphic bull, and ends up being raped, off-screen, by the bull. While that occurs, Brian meets the editor of ''Teen People'' (Allison Janney), who gives him a job writing an article about the average American girl. When he starts following and spying on Meg with Stewie for research, they discover that she has fallen in love with a man in jail named Luke (Chace Crawford), whom she met through a school pen-pal project. After Brian reveals Meg's secret to Peter and Lois, who don't want her seeing Luke again, he soon breaks out of jail during a prison riot and tries to hide in the Griffins' house. When Brian comes to Meg's room to apologize for what he did to her, he finds him just as Peter enters, who only knows what is happening when reading ''TV Guide'', which details the plot of the episode, and is the same reason he entered the rodeo. As Luke escapes out the window, Peter alerts Joe, who apprehends Luke. Joe also arrests Meg for harboring a fugitive, and she is sent to prison. Luke is never heard from again in the episode. Three months later, Meg returns home with the mind and attitude of a hardened criminal, complete with a new thuggish and rebellious look. She immediately begins abusing her family, retaliating to the many years of abuse she had endured under them, such as curb-stomping Peter, raping him in the shower with a loofah, and using her mother's shirts as toilet paper (while also keeping a "poop bucket" next to her bed and refusing to empty it until it gets full). In addition, she continues habits she picked up in prison, and beats up the kids who make fun of her at school (specifically Connie D'Amico and her friends with a bag of full soda cans which she hits them with, cracking 3 of the popular kids' skulls open and tongue-kisses Connie afterwards) for which she is suspended. Wanting to start a new life away from home, Meg ambushes Brian in his car and threatens him with a gun to drive to Mort's Pharmacy so she can rob him. Brian, however, shows her the article he wrote, in which he describes her "far sweeter and kinder" than the typical American girl. Touched by the fact that Brian actually cares for her just as she was, Meg changes her mind and returns home with Brian. Back at home, she makes a bad joke involving Wesley Snipes, and Peter, presumably not amused at this, ends the episode by saying "Always end on a strong joke". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dial Meg for Murder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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