Secondhand Spoke is the fifteenth episode of the twelfth season of the
animated comedy series Family Guy and the 224th episode overall. It
aired on Fox in the United States on March 30, 2014, and is written by
Dave Ihlenfeld and David Wright and directed by Julius Wu. In the
episode, Peter is asked to be the face of an anti-smoking campaign
just as he has taken up the habit of smoking cigarettes, while Stewie
helps Chris face bullies at school.Brian gives Chris a ride to school,
where he is confronted by four bullies. Seeing this, Stewie feels
sorry for him and later offers to help him. He goes to school with
Chris the next day and preps him to insult the bullies back; Chris
flubs it, so Stewie hides in Chris' backpack to coach him, which is
successful. The bullies later target Neil Goldman during lunch; Chris
intervenes and soon finds that his Stewie-assisted gift of gab has an
unexpected positive side: he becomes popular and nominated for class
president. Stewie feels that his work is done after this, so Chris
kidnaps him to keep him handy, keeping him in his backpack. One day
Chris leaves him in the restroom; after freeing his legs, Stewie tries
and fails to run blind. At the debate, Stewie points out that Chris
has become the bully himself, and he realizes the truth. He steps on
the stage to announce he is dropping out of the race and asks Stewie's
forgiveness. At home, Stewie congratulates Chris for his guts and
mentions that two of the bullies who picked on Chris committed suicide
over Chris' rebuttals.Meanwhile, Peter takes umbrage at Stella taking
extra breaks to smoke at work and decides to start smoking. He soon
begins smoking every chance he gets to stop whatever task he is doing.
When Peter's smoking begins to affect his sex life with Lois, she
tries to make him stop but he's unable to break the habit and starts
sneaking smokes during any little task, becoming fidgety and irritated
when unable to get away. The smoking has an effect on his appearance
and Lois takes him to the doctor. At the hospital, Dr. Hartman refuses
to help with Peter's condition and bribes Peter and Lois to leave. At
a stop-smoking clinic, a man named Mr. Stone wants Peter to be the
face of their anti-smoking campaign but Peter must continue smoking to
maintain his poor health. Peter appears in advertisements and becomes
a celebrity, but his health continues to suffer to Lois' irritation.
After Mr. Stone discovers that Peter is unremarkable after a NASCAR
event, he releases him, to Peter's sorrow. Back at home, Peter
announces that he is ready to go back to normal, but Lois and Brian
explain that everything he has done is irreversible. Peter hastily
requests for a repeat of the ending, hoping that he will be cured
after the transitional shot of the house cuts to him and the family,
but this has no effect.Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club gave the episode a
B, saying "Phew. “Secondhand Spoke†is just a solid,
middle-of-the-road episode of Family Guy, and after the last couple of
weeks, that’s all I really wanted. Everything in this episode is
pretty straightforward, within the bounds of the characters (for the
most part), and doesn’t use horrible sources of humor. Exhale (with
smoke). The good qualities of this episode are immediately apparent,
when, after a brief scene of Chris getting bullied to set up the
B-story, we jump right into the main plot: Peter getting addicted to
cigarettes. Starting the main story without a few minutes of unrelated
material is rare for this show, and it calls attention to how tightly
plotted this episode is for a half-hour of Family Guy." Secondhand Spoke Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter