"Three Kings", alternatively spelled "3 Kings", is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Family Guy. The episode aired on May 10, 2009 on FOX. This episode was broken into three segments, each parodying a film based on a Stephen King story, rather than the stories themselves. Guest star Richard Dreyfuss reprised his role as the narrator from Stand by Me. Roy Scheider appears as himself, making this one of his final performances prior to ...
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"Three Kings", alternatively spelled "3 Kings", is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Family Guy. The episode aired on May 10, 2009 on FOX. This episode was broken into three segments, each parodying a film based on a Stephen King story, rather than the stories themselves. Guest star Richard Dreyfuss reprised his role as the narrator from Stand by Me. Roy Scheider appears as himself, making this one of his final performances prior to his death.
The episode opens with Peter sitting in a study, explaining that "Lois has been bitching that I watch too much TV and don't read enough books." He then picks out three novels by "the greatest author of the last thousand years," Stephen King, and proceeds to share them with the viewer.
In the year 1955, four 12-year old boys—Petey LaChance (Peter, with Richard Dreyfuss's voice in his head narrating the story), Quag Chambers (Quagmire), Joey Duchamp (Joe with Roy Scheider's voice in his head), and Cleve Brown (Cleveland)—set out to...
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