No Meals on Wheels

The episode features the Griffin family opening a restaurant, and eventually becoming overwhelmed by Joe Swanson and his wheelchair friends.

With the money, Peter and Lois decide to live their dream of owning a restaurant, naming it "Big Pete's House of Munch".

Peter is at first excited at the thought of his restaurant becoming the hangout for police officers, but eventually finds that Joe is actually bringing in fellow paraplegics.

In response, the handicapped unite into a giant robot known as "CrippleTron", which begins attacking the restaurant while Peter, Chris and Stewie are on the roof.

Stewie eventually takes matters into his own hands and covers Joe's eyes to defeat CrippleTron, which destroys the restaurant and falls on Peter, thus breaking one of his legs.

The episode was written by main cast member Mike Henry, who provides the voice for the Family Guy character Cleveland Brown, among others, and it was directed by series regular Greg Colton.

[2] "No Meals on Wheels", along with the four other episodes from Family Guy's fifth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 21, 2008.

[4] Once the restaurant begins hemorrhaging money, Peter decides to shoot a commercial parodying M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 film The Sixth Sense.

[6] Once Peter becomes handicapped, a montage of his difficulties as a paraplegic is shown, with Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" playing in the background.

Accepting his apology, Joe invites Peter to join him and Bonnie while they watch the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

[6] In a slight decrease from the previous week, the episode was viewed in 7.97 million homes in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings, in the United States.

[8] Brett Love of TV Squad found the cultural references to be a "mixed bag," but noted his enjoyment of the restaurant scenes, as well as Quagmire's brief appearance.