Meanwhile, Lois replaces the stairs after Stewie gets a splinter, but Peter constantly slips and falls on them and eventually decides to stay upstairs for good.
It features guest performances by Jessica Barth, Carrie Fisher, Sara Fletcher, Hunter Gomez, Alyson Stoner, Christine Lakin, Marlee Matlin, Tara Strong, Wendee Lee, Nana Visitor, and Robert Wu, along with several recurring voice actors for the series.
After Opie gets fired from the brewery (apparently for excessive on-the-job masturbation), Peter's new co-worker is a very attractive deaf woman named Stella.
Meanwhile, Stewie gets a splinter from the house's badly decaying staircase, and Lois decides to replace it (while ignoring a fallen roof beam that has trapped Meg in the living room for two days).
Club gave the episode a B+, saying "The cutaways that came out of this plot didn’t work for me, particularly Peter’s contraption that lifts Joe, leading him to ecstatically believe that he’s dead and is rising to Heaven.
It’s not as good as “Back to the Pilot,” which remains the high water mark of the season so far, but “The Blind Side” can rest comfortably in second place for now.