"No Chris Left Behind" is a season five episode of the FOX animated series Family Guy. The title is a parody of the No Child Left Behind Act. It received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
Lois takes the family out to the ballet Swan Lake on a late school night. As Chris studies at the breakfast table for an upcoming exam later that day, Brian notices that Chris's history textbook is hopelessly out of date (publish...
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"No Chris Left Behind" is a season five episode of the FOX animated series Family Guy. The title is a parody of the No Child Left Behind Act. It received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
Lois takes the family out to the ballet Swan Lake on a late school night. As Chris studies at the breakfast table for an upcoming exam later that day, Brian notices that Chris's history textbook is hopelessly out of date (published in 1896 in the Adult Swim version of the show, 1948 in the Fox version). Upset by this, Lois goes to a PTA meeting to complain. Principal Shepherd explains that the school cannot afford new textbooks because the school lost its federal funding due to low test scores as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act. His solution for raising the school's performance average is to expel the dumbest student, who happens to be Chris (though he is so dumb that he himself does not ascertain that).
After several failed attempts to find another school...
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