"Family Guy" Sends Peter to Fire Island with Cole Escola in Season 23, Among Other Shenanigans (Exclusive) by Andy Swift
February 16, 2025
"Family Guy" returns to Fox on Sunday (8/7c) with a Top Gun parody, complete with an oiled-up reenactment of the movie’s iconic volleyball scene — and that’s just the tip of Season 23’s homoerotic iceberg.
Another particularly gay episode sends Peter and his friends on a dangerous sailing expedition, only for them to get shipwrecked on Fire Island. Lois annoys Peter before the trip, prompting him to wish he could live in a world of only men — and his wish is granted.
“They don’t know what Fire Island is, but they love it,” executive producer Richard Appel tells TVLine. “We got Cole Escola from [the hit Broadway play] Oh, Mary! to play Julian, the head gay on the island who befriends them.”
Peter will make an unexpected friend in controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Appel says their bond can basically be reduced to “I like beer!” and “I like beer, too!”
"Family Guy" won’t be revisiting the Oval Office.
(Peter briefly joined President Trump's administration in a two-part arc in 2019)
“That was an exceptional episode for us because you would think an episode about a political leader would depend on topical comedy, but we found a way to tell it where it seemed character-based and would survive a viewing five years after,” Appel explains.
He added, “Coming up with another 22 minutes of original stuff about such an examined and discussed person doesn’t seem worth it.”
EP Richard Appel Previews "Family Guy" Season 23
