Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air

"Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Family Guy.

Joe Swanson (Patrick Warburton) gets the impression that his wife Bonnie (voiced by Jennifer Tilly) is tired of being married to a disabled person, so he decides to get a leg transplant.

Excited about his new ability to walk, Joe dives head first into extreme sports and begins to hang around more active friends.

When Joe comes out of the operation, he invites his friends to go do physical activities such as rock climbing, karate, and dance.

[2] Recurring guest cast members Adam West, Jennifer Tilly, and Patrick Warburton also made appearances.

Peter remembers a movie he watched with actor Jack Black in it, a (fictional) film called The Unconventional Butler.

[5] Joe makes Cleveland, Quagmire and Peter sing and dance "Good Morning" from the film Singin' in the Rain.

When Bonnie, Lois and Cleveland's new girlfriend come to dance at The Drunken Clam, they state that they would like to make the bar their place to hang out and afterwards Peter grabs Joe's gun and kills himself.

Cleveland replies that he hates shows that leave the story for a gag or joke, referring to the numerous cutaways Scrubs and Family Guy contain.

After a while the same cutaway reappears, but this time Peter shows up and knocks Hitler off the unicycle and punches him in the face and breaks the fourth wall by saying "See.

[5] Brad Trechak of TV Squad also praised the episode, stating "Family Guy is starting to stick to what it does best", though he called the ending "somewhat predictable".

Club wrote that the episode had "a fairly interesting storyline", but she was distracted by the absence of Joe's son, Kevin.

[6] In contrast, Robert Pierson from the TV Critic gave the episode a negative review criticizing the episode's self-referential humor and the fact that the characters would be so selfish that they would cripple their own friend, he stated that the scene where Peter and the others attack Joe made him "dislike the show because there is nothing funny, positive or entertaining about it", he ended his review by saying that the episode's humor is "evidence of a writing team which is too lazy and incompetent to write good humour".