Lottery Fever

"Lottery Fever" is the tenth season premiere of the American animated television series Family Guy.

This ultimately causes the group to end their friendship, to the dismay of Peter's wife, Lois, who tells her husband that the money has changed him for the worse.

A local news story on the lottery influences Peter to buy a ticket in hopes that he will win and set the family on a better financial platform.

Peter reveals to his family that he has bought several thousand lottery tickets, admitting that he has taken out a second mortgage on the house in order to buy them.

After Peter agrees to invest in Quagmire's projects and gives money to Joe for Bonnie's birthday, he demands that they hang out with him in order to pay him back, and perform random, often painful or humiliating tasks.

Quagmire and Joe finally get fed up with Peter's demands and both decide to end their friendship with Peter when he makes them both perform a musical duet on "making whoopie" for his entertainment and shoots them with a BB gun, causing Joe to get shot in the eye and Quagmire getting shot in the throat.

Peter continues to spend the money with no regard, and Lois warns him that he is changing for the worse, along with the other family members.

After buying more lottery tickets, winning again, and then blowing it again, the family is distraught over losing their fortune, and Peter returns to the local bar later that day to repair his friendship with Joe and Quagmire.

[9] The bar scene in which the waiter Peter likes starts to sing, is a reference to the "Trolololol" internet meme featuring Eduard Khil.

[11] "Lottery Fever" was broadcast on September 25, 2011, as a part of an animated television night on Fox, and was preceded by the season premiere of The Simpsons ("The Falcon and the D'ohman") and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's spin-off series The Cleveland Show ("BFFs").

It was watched by 7.69 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Desperate Housewives on ABC, The Good Wife on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC.

[8] She disliked the parts where Peter "[was] acting like a douche to his friends", calling them "[not] interesting enough to watch for 23 minutes".