The fifteenth season of ''

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'' aired on

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in the United States from September 25, 2016, to May 21, 2017. The series follows the dysfunctional

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, consisting of father

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, mother

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, daughter

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, son

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, baby Stewie and the family dog

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, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the fifteenth production season are

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Richard Appel Richard James Appel (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer, producer and former attorney. Since 2012, he has served as an executive producer and co-showrunner of ''Family Guy'' on Fox. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. As ...

Steve Callaghan Steve Callaghan is an American screenwriter, producer and voice actor, best known for his work on ''Family Guy''. He is a graduate of the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Callaghan started his career in 1999 as ...

, Danny Smith and

Kara Vallow Kara Vallow is an American television producer and animator. She has worked on four television series by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions: ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', ''The Cleveland Show'', and ''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. Fu ...

. The

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s are Appel and Callaghan. Guest stars for the season include

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, and

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. During this season, Chris dates singer

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while Peter becomes an

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driver ("Chris Has Got a Date, Date, Date, Date, Date"), Quagmire gets hooked on

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("The Dating Game"), and also becomes a

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during an airline pilot strike ("American Gigg-olo"). Other episode plots include Brian and Stewie writing songs for kids ("The Boys in the Band"), Chris becoming a star baseball player ("Bookie of the Year"),

moving in next to Peter with his party bus (" Gronkowsbees"), a homage to three novels commonly taught in (and, in some cases, banned from) American high school English classes ("High School English"), Peter and Lois joining the

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("Hot Shots"), Peter meeting the children he never knew he had ("A House Full of Peters"), Chris falling for a Mexican teen mom ("Dearly Deported"), and a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look of the show ("Inside Family Guy"). The

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includes a cameo by Vinny (voiced by

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), the dog who temporarily replaced Brian in

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. The season concluded with a one hour broadcast of two episodes. __TOC__

Episodes

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