Ratings guy

After an exciting trip to the fire station, the Griffins return home. Brian checks the mail - it turns out that a letter came from the Nielsen Research Center - the Family Family was selected for the role of the Nielsen Family . Brian says that this is a great chance to influence the development of television, offering to watch the public channel PBS . Stewie says it’s all just because Brian once got a cup from this channel’s prize.

The guest of the fifth channel, Tom Tucker, comes to visit the Family Guy, who learned that the Family Guides have now become Nielsen’s family. He asks Peter for something to advise on the news broadcast so that their ratings improve. Giving some stupid advice to Taker (at the end of every news release trying to get a saw , take off his mustache and wear a carnival hat during the broadcasts), Peter realizes that he can control the TV to his taste. But Brian observes that Peter will not be able to influence ethers globally, because he has only one prefix. Peter steals several hundred consoles from a manager who came to take readings from the meter. Peter is satisfied, he begins to blackmail the creators of various series and programs for changing stories.

Residents of Quahog cannot understand what is happening and why their favorite shows turned into something terrible. After finding out who is guilty of this, the furious residents of the city gather at the Griffin’s house, Peter gets away from the crowd, but they don’t even want to treat him in the hospital - Dr. Hartman is also angry with Peter for what he did with television. Realizing his mistake, Peter decides to fix it. Brian tells him that now he needs to re-stimulate television for the better, watching only smart and informative programs. But at this moment, all the consoles are shot by Adam West , who is also angry with Griffin.

Peter decides to re-create the show himself, like those that were before, having arrived at an emergency meeting with television producers and giving them instructions for action. It helps: Peter, Joe , Glenn are again sitting in the bar, forgetting about their quarrel about television.

At this time, Herbert, who is surrounded by Nielsen prefixes, shows up on the television and advises the television to show "more boys in their underwear . "

• The rating of the episode was 3.4 among the age group 18-49 years. ^[one]
• About 6.70 million people watched the series ^[2] .

Kevin McFarland of AV Club gave the episode a rating of B-, explaining that the episode was good only until the first commercial break.

• Ratings Guy on the Internet Movie Database