Carter purchases Pawtucket Brewery and becomes Peter's new boss. With great pleasure, he forces Peter to assume a variety of humiliating roles. Peter overhears Carter order staff to illegally make beer cans out of dangerous and cheap materials.

It's Christmas time in Quahog, and the first snow has arrived. The whole town goes sledding, including Peter who destroys the family dining table by using it as a giant sled.

Peter and his friends take full advantage of Quagmire's "family and friends" airline discount and decide to take a trip to San Francisco. While flying back to Quahog, the plane they're on gets hi-jacked by three terrorists.

As the guys go through Quagmire’s father’s old clothes, Peter finds a bunch of VHS tapes of a Korean soap opera called Winter Summer. It turns out Quagmire starred in the show years earlier while he was stationed in Busan with the Navy.

Stressed about their poor finances, Lois and Peter try to find a way to save money for Stewie's college fund. Peter buys a metal detector to search for expensive metals on the beach.

After blowing his fingers off lighting firecrackers, Peter needs Lois to help him do his work so that he doesn't lose his job. Meanwhile, Brian is spending a lot of time out of the house and Stewie realizes that he is dating a new woman. After much persuasion, Brian finally agrees to take Stewie to meet this mystery woman, Jillian. At first Stewie is very impressed; she's stunning, but after a few minutes he realizes she is a moron.

When Lois learns that proper sex education is not being taught at Meg's high school, she decides to teach the class herself. All goes well until a conservative speaker tells the kids to abstain from intercourse, causing the kids to instead have "ear sex."

Peter learns the joys of the "chick flick" after Lois forces him to go see the movie "Autumn's Piano." Inspired by this film, he decides to make a movie of his own starring his friends and family. After years of not seeing his old flame Olivia, Stewie attempts to attempts to act older in order to gain her affection. He wins her over, but their relationship is strained after marriage and the presence of another man.

With the police force away, Joe recruits his buddies to fill the vacancies in the Quahog Police Department. Meanwhile, Brian reluctantly agrees to take Meg to her school dance. She is thrilled and falls madly in love with Brian. He tells Meg that it was a mistake and they are to remain only friends, but Meg doesn't handle this rejection well and begins to stalk Brian.

Brian accidentally sells Rupert to a man at the Griffin's garage sale. With Stewie absolutely devastated, Brian attempts to get the bear back. Unfortunately, the man who purchased Rupert has moved to Colorado with his family, so the two hit the road to recover the beloved bear.

After an unfortunate unicyle accident at Meg's 17th birthday party, Peter tumbles down the stairs and into his father, Francis. On Francis' deathbed, he leaves his son with the unsettling parting words "You're a fat stinking drunk." During hypnotherapy, Peter remembers a time where Francis told him that he was not his real father. Peter then goes on a journey to find his real dad.

After his presidential limo breaks down in front of the Griffins' house, Bill Clinton and Peter become good friends.

When Stewie vomits after chugging wine from the chalice in Sunday morning church, the Griffins are run out of Quahog by an angry mob of townspeople who fear that Stewie is possessed by the devil. The family escapes to Lois' sister's house in Texas where they each try to adapt to their new environment.