Peter enters Brian in a dog show for some extra money, and although Brian originally agrees to perform, once he realizes that he’ll have to beg for a treat he decides it’s all too humiliating. After not receiving the respect he feels he deserves at home, Brian takes off, returning to the streets where Peter originally found him, and gets arrested and sentenced to death. It’s up to Peter to save him, and he does so by bribing the city council.

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Chris is booted from the Youth Scouts, so Peter takes the family to the Big Apple to get him reinstated. But when Peter takes a wrong turn, they end up at a Native American casino where Lois hits the slot machine once too often, losing the family car. Peter must embark on a vision quest into the forest to prove he has Native American blood to get the car back - where he meets up with his idol, the Fonz.

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When a bubbly new family moves next door, Peter gets annoyed. Lois becomes fast friends with Bonnie, Meg tries to pick up on son Kyle and Peter is forced to invite Joe to play on his company baseball team. But when Joe shows up to the game in a wheelchair and wins the crowd’s hearts with his slick maneuvers and winning plays, Peter decides he wants to be a hero too. He attempts to foil a bank robbery to prove his worth, but just ends up caught in the middle.

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Peter punches out a pregant woman and is under house arrest. He builds a bar in the basement so that his friends will hang out with him, but it turns into a singing venue for Lois. Stewie builds a time machine to move time forward and alleviate his teething pain, but ends up making time go backwards instead to erase the fact that his blueprints for the device were seen by the entire bar.

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