The season also marked the series move to airing in 16:9 high definition[1] on January 3, 2010 with the episode "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth".

The season initially ended its 13-episode run on February 21 with the episode "The Return of the Bling" to make room for the new Fox sitcom Sons of Tucson and was set to return to the schedule in September.

[3] The season premiered in the United Kingdom, on BBC Three on Sunday, November 6, 2011[4] at 10 pm, with a double bill (despite the fact it already was on FX).

Stan is upset when he cannot find his family a good seat for a Christmas Day church service, but that proves to be the least of his worries when Stan discovers that he, Roger, and Francine are the last people left on Earth and everyone else has ascended into Heaven as part of the Biblical end of days.

When Stan gets told by Francine to get rid of his gas-guzzling SUV, he switch bodies with a horse to avoid losing his car.