Baby Got Black

"Baby Got Black" is the eighteenth episode of the twelfth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the 228th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on April 27, 2014, and is written by Kevin Biggins and Travis Bowe and directed by Brian Iles.[1] In the episode, Chris falls in love with Jerome's daughter, Pam, much to her father's chagrin. When the two kids run away, Peter and Jerome team up to look for them.

Not to be confused with Baby Got Back.
"Baby Got Black"
Family Guy episode
Episode no.Season 12
Episode 18
Directed byBrian Iles
Written byKevin Biggins
Travis Bowe
Production codeBACX15
Original air dateApril 27, 2014
Guest appearance(s)

Jon Daly
Keke Palmer as Pam
Kevin Michael Richardson as Jerome
Cedric Yarbrough as Lobster
Uncredited:
Tom Kane as Chief Justice (deleted scenes)

Plot

At the Drunken Clam, Peter, Quagmire, and Joe hear a news story from Tom Tucker of a kid who dies trying to stay awake playing Halo all night. Afterwards, the guys wager each other over who can stay awake the longest. To pass the time, the guys prank call Cleveland Brown and Mort Goldman over their dead wives. Sixty two hours without sleep later, the guys start to hallucinate. Joe falls asleep first as Peter and Quagmire struggle to stay awake. The next morning, Lois comes over to Quagmire's house and wakes Peter, Joe, and Quagmire up so that she can ask Peter if she can remove some episodes of iCarly from the TiVo. Peter and Quagmire review Quagmire's security camera footage and determine Peter won the bet. To celebrate, he takes the family out to eat.

When Chris goes to pick out a lobster, he and Meg bump into their classmate Pam, and her father Jerome. But when they part, Pam erotically kisses Chris. He later introduces Pam to the family as his girlfriend to Peter and Lois's unease. Lois nervously notes she voted for Obama (once), and Peter is impressed that she is not fat. But at the Clam, Jerome forbids Pam from seeing Chris, and Peter accuses him of being racist, despite his objections. He invites Jerome and Pam to dinner, but Jerome strongly resists any overtures of friendship, and Peter's attempt to convince him (in a musical number) that white people have done a lot of good only makes him angrier as he drags Pam away.

The next day, an enraged Chris mopes over Pam as he questions whether he will ever find anyone else and decides to go and kill Jerome. Meg then tells Peter and Jerome of finding a note that Chris and Pam have run away together. As they hide out in a motel, they try to figure out what to do, and Pam tells him to get undressed while she prepares herself as well in the bathroom. As Chris does the same thing, he finds Randy Quaid in one of the beds sleeping and urinating while talking about his movies. Chris reluctantly admits his inexperience and Pam admits hers as well. As Peter, Jerome, and Meg cruise town, they're pulled over by a cop who harasses Jerome for no reason, and Peter becomes sympathetic to Jerome's having to go through racist "shit" like that all the time. Blowing off some steam, Jerome notes that most of his anger is in his protection of Pam and that he likes Peter. They arrive at the motel to find Chris and Pam making out. Jerome is angry and it seems that he's not going to listen to anyone, but after Chris and Meg both sharply tell him off, Jerome sighs and apologizes for overreacting and gives Pam and Chris his blessing to date, though both he and Peter are relieved that their kids didn't have sex with each other. When Randy Quaid makes another comment while in his bed, Peter and Jerome plan to kill Randy Quaid.

Reception

Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club gave the episode a D+, saying "“Baby Got Black” is the rare episode of the show that seems like it might have maybe had a tiny impulse to say something interesting, and falls totally and utterly flat, first because, well, it’s Family Guy, and second because it’s not very funny."[2]

The episode received a 2.1 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic and was watched by a total of 4.02 million people. This made it the most watched show on Animation Domination that night, beating American Dad!, Bob's Burgers and The Simpsons.[3]

References
  1. "Family Guy Episode Guide 2014 Season 12 – Baby Got Black, Episode 18". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  2. Thurm, Eric. "Family Guy: "Baby Got Black"". Avclub.com. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  3. "Sunday Final Ratings: 'Once Upon A Time', 'Revenge' & 'The Simpsons' Adjusted Up; 'Believe', '60 Minutes', 'Dateline' & 'American Dream Builders' Adjusted Down". Tvbythenumbers. 2014-04-29. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
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