Death Is a Bitch

Death in Peter's house with Stewie behind him and Peter across Death

Death Is a Bitch
While at the Griffins', Death's ankle is injured while chasing Peter down the neighborhood and ended up in a puddle and cannot leave until he gets better, forcing Peter to take over his duties.

Season: 2 Episode: 6
Total Episode Count: 13
Prod. no.: 1ACX14
First Aired: March 21, 2000

Guest Starring: Norm MacDonald
Featuring: Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, Brian, Death
Also Appearing: Dr. Hartman, Tom Tucker, Diane Simmons, Tricia Takanawa, Quagmire, Cleveland, Adolf Hitler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Karen Black, James Van Der Beek
Director: Michael Dante Dimartino
Writers: Ricky Blitt
Storyboarders: Eric Fredrickson, Mark Miraglia


Plot: Lois finds a lump on Peter’s breast and worries that the lump could be cancer. Peter sees a doctor. It turns out to be a benign fatty corpuscle, but Peter does not want to pay the hospital bill, so he declares himself deceased on the insurance form. When Death shows up at his house, Peter tries to run away and Death chases him. One inch away from touching Peter's shoulder and killing him, Death falls down and sees that he has broke his ankle. Death does not want him to tell that everyone will be immortal until he heals his ankle. But Peter tells and proves that everyone is immortal when he is intoxicated. The fact that no one can die becomes top news.

Peter is forced to take over Death’s job in order to prove to people they can still die and is assigned by Death to kill the kids from Dawson’s Creek, but fails to do so because he says, “If I do, then I have nothing to watch on Wednesdays.” Instead, Peter unwittingly kills two airplane pilots, proving people are not immortal, and forcing actress Karen Black to land the plane.

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