Airdate: October 4, 2009
When Lois thinks she has a lump on her breast, she goes to Dr. Hartman to see if it's breast cancer. It turns out she doesn't, but when Hartman looks through her family records, he shows Lois that her mother was a Holocaust survivor, revealing that she is Jewish.
"Family Goy" contains examples of:
- All Jews Are Cheapskates: Lampshaded with the Cash Lure mentioned below, but played straight with the revelation that Grandma Hebrewberg's original name was Hebrewbergmoneygrabber.
- Call-Back: This marks the second appearance of Max Weinstein from "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein".
- Cash Lure: Carter tries to attract Lois and Barbara with one of these so he can squirt them with a water gun. They don't fall for it, but he squirts them anyway.
- Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: Parodied in one Cutaway Gag where a mentally-handicapped rooster says "Goodnight everybody!" at the crack of dawn.
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Played for Laughs. Brian talks about how people can go overboard with what they think, leading to a cutaway about Quagmire thinking he was the one getting a spin-off.Quagmire: See you later, bitches! Have fun with your stupid, goddamn Giant Chicken jokes and your Conway Twitty—hey, why is there a moving truck outside Cleveland's house?
- Dirty Cop: Not only does he not arrest Peter for shooting at Mort (for simply being Jewish), Joe also shoots at Mort — and it's all as a friendly "good morning" (as Mort resignedly says).
- Easter Episode: The plot becomes this in the second half of the episode with Lois and the family having a Passover sedar which is crashed by Peter dressed as the Easter Bunny.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The plot goes from Peter's relationship with his Kathy Ireland cutout to discovering Lois's Jewish heritage.
- Hypocritical Humor: Brian agrees with Jesus that all religions are crap.
- Love Father, Love Son: The Kathy Ireland cardboard cut-out has been used by both Peter and Chris Griffin.
- Shout-Out:
- Peter tries to shoot Lois and Mort a la Amon Goetz, right down to the way he puts away a cigarette.
- Stewie tears Meg's heart out of her chest.
- Peter asks Francis' ghost to tell him "Luke, you must go to the Dagobah system".
- Shown Their Work: Stewie's prayer at the Seder is a real Jewish prayer.
- Special Edition Title: A sendup of Superfriends.
- Status Quo Is God: At the end of the episode, at the encouragement of Jesus, the Griffins all re-convert back into Catholics.
- The Internet Is for Porn: Quagmire doesn't believe in using the internet until Peter and Joe tell him that the internet is full of pornography. Because of this, he spends the next days cooped up in his home occupied.
