Family Guy Sends Peter to Fire Island With Cole Escola in Season 23, Among Other Shenanigans (Exclusive)
Family Guy returns to Fox on Sunday (8/7c) with a Top Gun parody, complete with an oiled-up reenactment of the movie’s iconic volleyball scene — and that’s just the tip of Season 23’s homoerotic iceberg.
Another particularly gay episode sends Peter and his friends on a dangerous sailing expedition, only for them to get shipwrecked on Fire Island. Lois annoys Peter before the trip, prompting him to wish he could live in a world of only men — and his wish is granted.
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“They don’t know what Fire Island is, but they love it,” executive producer Richard Appel tells TVLine. “We got Cole Escola from [the hit Broadway play] Oh, Mary! to play Julian, the head gay on the island who befriends them.”
One person you shouldn’t expect to see in Season 23 is President Donald Trump. Even though Peter briefly joined his administration for a two-part arc back in 2019, Family Guy won’t be revisiting the Oval Office in his second term.
“That was an exceptional episode for us because you would think an episode about a political leader would depend on topical comedy, but we found a way to tell it where it seemed character-based and would survive a viewing five years after,” Appel explains, adding that “coming up with another 22 minutes of original stuff about such an examined and discussed person” doesn’t seem worth it.
Peter will, however, make an unexpected friend in controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Appel says their bond can basically be reduced to “I like beer!” and “I like beer, too!”
“Kavanaugh romanticizes Peter’s life as just a working stiff who gets to go to a bar all the time, so they swap places and we take Peter to the Supreme Court,” Appel says. “That’s a bit of a swing for us. This show doesn’t typically do very topical stuff. We’re not a late-night monologue, because it takes us more than a year [to make an episode], and it wouldn’t be fresh. We’d be the 10th person to make the joke.”
Hit PLAY on the trailer below for an extended look at what Season 23 has in store for Peter and the gang:
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