Lottery Fever

Lottery Fever" is the first episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. The 166th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25, 2011. The episode follows the Griffin family after they win the state lottery, and go on to spend the money with no regard. Peter becomes power hungry, and demands that Quagmire and Joe perform tasks for him when he invests in one of their projects. 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. After continually wasting the money on various expenditures, the family discovers that they have gone broke, and return to their lives as a lower middle class family. Peter also apologizes to Quagmire and Joe, repairing his broken friendships.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Peter is extremely unlikable in this episode! He forces his family to scratch off fake lottery tickets, he shoots Joe and Quagmire while they preform, "Makin' Whoopie", he makes Quagmire eat a fudge pop, causing him to get a brian freeze and making him smear it on his face, and dropping it on him, he then shoots Mort when he preforms "Fiddler on the Roof".
 * 2) It's a pretty horrible way to start off a season off Family Guy.
 * 3) HORRIBLE ENDING! Peter tells the family they go to different rooms and look out the windows sadly saying nothing to one another.
 * 4) The intro is interrupted with Peter noticing that one off the singers is pregnant, and calls in two guards who kick her off the set. And instead of continuing the theme song, Peter just goes: "Na, na. Family Guy!" Embarrassing isn't it?
 * 5) Joe doesn't arrest Peter for shooting him in the eye with a B B gun.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Peter does apologies in the end.
 * 2) A handful off good jokes.
 * 3) Quagmire calls Peter out for his idiotic actions.
 * 4) Makin' Whoopie can be pretty catchy.

Recception
The episode received mixed reviews. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club graded the episode a C, stating "I would have less of a problem with the typically shallow excuse for a plot if there was more funny material, but even by Family Guy standards, there wasn’t a whole lot in this episode". Kate Moon of TV Fanatic gave a 3/5 rating. She disliked the parts where Peter "[was] acting like a douche to his friends", calling them "[not] interesting enough to watch for 23 minutes". She also stated the episode would have "vastly improved" if the plot was on Brian and Stewie.