Family Guy (TV Series) And Then There Were Fewer (2010) User Reviews

I think even Agatha Christie would laugh!

[Sleepin_Dragon · 10/10 · 9 October 2017]

The Griffin family are invited to a dinner party in Peter's honour, when they get there they discover the entire village have also had invites. A tree crushes the bridge that leads out of the grand house, so all are trapped, and soon the murders begin. All fingers point to Tom Tucker, but Lois discovers who the real killer is.

Firstly the animation is superb, it looks amazing, almost what you'd expect on the big screen. Great to see all the characters together, even the show pokes fun at having Seamus and Doctor Hartman in the same scene.

Loads of jokes throughout, it's really very funny. Lots of jokes coming from the darker side of Stewie, Peter and the late Adam West. Drew Barrymore really funny again as Jillian. A good move to kill off some of the characters, keeps the show fresh, although I keep waiting for a shock Diane return.

Still my favourite episode, so much going on, looks awesome and packed with laughs. 10/10

The One With The Murder Mystery...

[taylorkingston · 10/10 · 28 October 2014]

I love this episode. It's so inventive and creative. It's one of the only episodes that actually follow on. What I mean by that is, everyone who dies, actually stays dead, and is talked about in other episodes. Not just that nothing ever happened. It is one of the best episodes of the entire series.

In this episode, it's a murder mystery that's taking it toll on the citizens of Quahog. Peter is invited to a dinner in his honor, which he doesn't find strange, but Lois does. The family drive out to the location of the dinner party and there they see a lot of other familiar faces. Including Bonnie and Joe, Quagmire, Jillian and her husband, Mort and Murial Goldman, Mayor Adam West, Tom Tucker, Diane Simmons, the guy who works at the convenience store that has seen every movie ever made, Mr. Herbert, Dr. Heartman, and Seamus. When they go inside they find out that they all got the same letter. That tonight was a dinner in their honor. It turns out that James Woods had invited them all there to apologize for wronging them in the past. But then, people start dying and the night involves them trying to figure out who. They all assume that it was James Woods, but it turns out that it was Diane Simmons. She wanted to kill James Woods, and frame Tom Tucker. You see, she and James had been dating and once she turned forty, he dumped her. Also at that time, the news station wanted to replace her for a younger woman. When Lois finds this out, Diane is about to kill her, when a shot from out of nowhere shoots Diane and she dies. It was Stewie, and he says the funniest line: "if anyone's gonna kill that bitch it's gonna be me". Funny.

The people that sadly were victims of Diane were: Muriel Goldman, Derek Wilcox (Jillian's husband), James Woods, Quagmire's girlfriend, Stephanie, Priscilla, James Woods' girlfriend.

Oh, and Consuela was also there. She was the maid.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10.

A Family Guy murder mystery where they permanently kill off a few minor characters? Amazing!

[adampkalb · 10/10 · 27 May 2019]

I can not describe the genius of this episode without spoiling important details. I thought it was very impressive that Family Guy was able to keep focus on this plot and not bog down the pacing of a serious murder mystery with random unrelated cutaways. Road to the Multiverse also only had one cutaway before the multiverse travel started, but no more after that. The premise is that 22 characters have been invited to James Woods' mansion for a dinner in their honor because he wants to make amends with them, and a news intern named Priscilla helped him become a born-again Christian. I loved having Ashley Tisdale, Candace Flynn's voice, play Priscilla, and she voices another character in another episode of Season 9, Brian Writes a Bestseller.

When Stephanie gets shot, everyone thinks James Woods is an evil banana who invited them just to kill them instead of making amends, but when James Woods is killed, it turns out one of them is actually the killer. Much like the writers of Community's Remedial Chaos Theory, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (cool name) knows how to keep us viewers guessing in suspense without lying to us. The killer turns out to be Diane Simmons, who just turned 40 years old and lost Tom Tucker and James Woods when she did. She got Priscilla to seduce James Woods and set up the apology dinner so she could kill James Woods with a gun timer and frame Tom Tucker for the murder. However, Stephanie got in the way when James left his chair, and the other murder victims happened because they saw Diane attempting to hide the evidence.

a perfect episode for a start!

[al-ki-biadis · 9/10 · 27 September 2010]

Well this episode was very good!It was directed pretty good,the story was clever and most of all it was funny!It wast't like some stupid episodes of family guy where the jokes weren't make any sense here the jokes were really!I mean stewie was hilarius as always (with his shorts) and really funny drew barrymore's voice. Very good idea bringing all the characters together!Also the story with the murders was very clever,but maybe it was getting boring in the end when they trying to figure out who is the killer!Another good was that the episode was big and i really like when the season premieres are big!The high-definition quality was great,and was the first episode in HD!So the episode goes like this: the Griffins and other residents of Quahog are invited to visit the mansion of James Woods, but all this turns into a real murder mystery and then everyone looking for the murder!And Then There Were Fewer" was the first episode of Family Guy season 9 and was a nice start,lets see the rest!

Clue parody

[dylnhudson-38462 · 10/10 · 1 November 2020]

I enjoyed this episode I felt like this was there version of the movie clue

The last good episode

[User6482828 · 9/10 · 19 September 2021]

It has good mystery and characters it's ok funny but the others make up for it.

A brilliant display of a murder mystery and the best season premire. (Spoilers for season 12 episodes 6 and 8

[x-18273 · 10/10 · 6 November 2023]

The characters didn't act out of character, they never leave out the possibility that it could be someone else besides the person who they all suspect, as people like asgary-howe, durham100, and lee-wilson have pointed out, this episode does not have a lot of humor, but it's a murder mystery, do you expect there to be a lot of humor in the episode? In my opinion, there being almost no jokes works in the favor of this episode, this episode takes itself seriously by saying that those characters are dead forever and cannot be revived, unlike season 12's Life of Brian which joked about Brian's death at basically every chance they got and replaced him with Vinnie, only to revive him in season 12 episode 8 Christmas guy. Overall the reason this episode is a 10 out of 10 for me is this episode gets into it straight away, they don't leave out the possibility that someone could have planted the body and the trophy in Tom Tucker's room, and the episode takes itself seriously by making little to no jokes and saying that the characters that died in this episode are dead forever also more minor characters are seen like Derek, Seamus, Muriel, Jillian, Diane Simmons and Tom Tucker when most of the time these characters aren't even seen in the same episode No characters are neglected, the episode is takes itself very seriously and the plot makes sense and unlikely combos are seen. With the murderer being someone we never would suspect.

Should've been the finale

[davidaempatton · 10/10 · 26 July 2022]

This would've made the perfect family guy finale since it had all of the main and secondary characters excluding Cleveland and it has a perfect final plot.

And Then There Were Fewer New Storyline

[mcclearyr-11562 · 10/10 · 26 June 2023]

And Then There Were Were Fewer is a detective episode and new storyline. The Griffins and there friends were invited to the manor for a dinner but it turned into a tragedy when the murders started Ollie Williams was falsely accused of murder and was arrested. Stewie and Diane teamed up to find out who really committed the murders. Lois finds out it was Tricia Takanawa. Tricia explains to Lois about her problems and her jealousy while Stewie and Diane over herd everything including framing Ollie Williams. Tricia takes Lois to edge of the cliff and plans to kill her but Stewie shot her right in the heart. Lois goes into shock, Diane pointed a gun at her and blanked out her memory with blanks.

Victims: Stan Thomson-Fuller, Carol West Thomson-Fuller, Seamus, Muriel Goldman and unknown character.

Tricia Takanawa's final appearance.

Nicely done but, this type of plot is cliche

[celiawatsonanime · 7/10 · 11 February 2022]

Other than that, this was done great.

Nice twists and turns with them looking for clues about who was the murderer.

That plot where everyone is in a mansion and, one person is a murderer but no one knows who and there is no escape.

Have seen that type of plot used in other media before, at least a few times.

Great animation and fun story but they forgot to add any jokes!

[lee-wilson · 4/10 · 28 September 2010]

I love Family Guy but this episode just wasn't very funny at all. They have obviously stepped up the quality of animation. It looked fantastic and it was a great premise for an episode, spoofing Agatha Christie thrillers. However it was let down by a serious lack of actual comedy. I laughed out loud twice in 50 minutes of screen time. The writer had no idea how to write lines for many of the characters apart from occasionally Peter and Quagmire.

It was intriguing that they killed off some of the characters but personally I would have gone further, slight spoiler follows as I name people that survived. Can they do anything more with Herbert, he has harassed the hell out of Chris for years and it just isn't funny anymore? Or with Consuela who was a one joke character anyway? Or with Mayor West who again seems to have run his natural course in the show?

The first poor Family Guy

[durham100 · 1/10 · 28 September 2010]

I am a great fan of Family Guy but this episode was just plain awful. I laughed twice throughout and the gags for each character were a cliché of themselves. it was as if an amateur fan had written it and had tried to pack it full of everything they had seen in every episode previous which is a surprise as it was written by experienced writer/supervisor cherry chevapravatdumrong. The premise was good and it looked great so should be counted as a missed opportunity as the writing was slack and predictable, the jokes either nonexistent or a reworking of previous material making the whole thing appear half hearted and slap dash. let's just hope and pray that this usually magnificent gem of a show isn't headed down the Simpsons route already.

Mystery Time

[gary-howe · 1/10 · 2 October 2010]

A 'mystery' episode. The real mystery however is why on earth this episode has an average of over 8 out of 10 from people. As 2 other reviewers have pointed out, there was virtually no humour in it. A direct parody of very dull 'mystery murders' means it was almost as dull and unimaginative as the genre it was parodying. The first 5 minutes was sort of quite amusing but then it went downhill from there. It was nice to see a 'widescreen' episode for once, but that was just about all there was to recommend about this one. Without any doubt this was the worst Family Guy episode I've ever seen. I didn't think it was possible for a series this great to have an episode this bad.

Clever But Less Quirky

[gavin6942 · 5/10 · 7 July 2013]

When the Griffins and other residents of Quahog are invited to visit the mansion of James Woods, the evening turns into a real murder mystery when guests end up dead and everyone scrambles to figure out who done it.

Another reviewer summed this up as great animation but without the jokes. And that is more or less spot on. This is some of the best animation you will ever see on "Family Guy", and even the plot is pretty great (with some variations on "And Then There Were None" and "Clue"). But the jokes are few and far between, especially in the second half.

I loved Herbert and the "Pinocchio" joke, and having James Woods be the central character automatically helps... but it just did not have the non-stop pop culture humor that we have come to expect (and who really think Jennifer Connelly's hands look like a bag f snakes?)