Con Heiress (Family Guy)

Con Heiress is the 8th episode of the 17th season of Family Guy.

Plot
Stewie and Brian compete for the inheritance of a wealthy, older heiress; Peter and Chris battle for Mr. Herbert's affection.

Why This Con Sucks

 * 1) Pip's full name is just laughably stupid: "Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap Wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabbana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Buren Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louis-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes Higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis."
 * 2) *It doesn’t sound like a real name at all because it consists mostly of famous last names and obvious product placements.
 * 3) *This name is said thrice in the episode. Furthermore, each time the joke is done it takes 45 seconds to completely run through.
 * 4) **If you add the time up, it amounts to about 2 minutes and 15 seconds lost just so they can say some long name.
 * 5) The episode uses the recycled and cliched "Brian dates a woman and then have the relationship which gets broken at the end" plot.
 * 6) This episode literally only exists to further show how much Brian and Stewie have usurped the entire show.
 * 7) The subplot about Peter and Chris fighting for Herbert's infection is just unfunny.
 * 8) Peter is unlikeable for trying to compete with Chris for Herbert's affection, portraying him as a man-child yet again.
 * 9) *Herbert was also unlikeable, he mistakes Peter as another teenager and starts focusing more attention with him than Chris.
 * 10) The musical number "Torn Between Two Lovers", while decent, went a little too long.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) To some extent, the ending is kind of clever.
 * 2) Stewie, Quagmire, and Chris are likeable in this episode, and Quagmire isn’t flanderized like he usually is.
 * 3) The "Pip's name" joke was kind of funny, but only the first time.
 * 4) As mentioned above, "Torn Between Two Lovers" was a decent song, despite went a little too long.
 * 5) The joke about Herbert becoming Baby Groot from “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2” was hilarious.

Reception
Con Heiress received fairly negative reviews, along with a score of 5.6/10 on IMDb. PhantomStrider reviewed this episode, and listed it as the fourth worst Family Guy episode from 2015 to 2020.

Trivia

 * Herbert dies in this episode, although he just comes back as a plant.

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