When Brian accidentally becomes a local hero, an old street pal who is now a successful millionaire dog reaches out and tries to convince him to get neutered; Lois gets a pixie cut against Peter's wishes.
Peter is told to work from home when his sweat becomes a liability; Stewie and Chris create a fake Kickstarter campaign with Brian to pay for the damages done to an electronics store.
The Griffins experience life without Meg when she's erroneously reported to have died in a car crash, and she goes along with the story to start a new life elsewhere.
Following another blackout, the Griffins re-imagine three stories from the Bible about Adam and Eve, Noah, and the Last Supper while cooped up in a motel room during a storm.
Principal Shepherd moves in with the Griffins when he gets fired for fat-shaming Chris at school; Brian sues Stewie for portraying him as an idiot in a series of children's books.
Stewie finally says his first word - and it's a swear, leaving Lois shunned by the other moms, so she tries to figure out where Stewie could've heard it.
When Peter hurts himself and a family of squirrels in a chainsaw accident, Chris and Stewie nurse one of the squirrels back to health; a chiropractor realigns Peter's spine and restores him to his true height.
Brian gets a job as a journalist and discovers that Pawtucket Pat, the hero of Quahog and founder of the brewery, was a racist, so the town becomes divided over whether to take down his commemorative statue.