The BEST episodes directed by Pete Michels
#1 - A Rickle in Time
Rick and Morty - Season 2 - Episode 1
Rick, Morty, and Summer get into trouble when time is fractured by a feedback loop of uncertainty that split reality into more than one equally possible impossibilities. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry go to extreme lengths to save a deer struck by their vehicle.
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#2 - Mortynight Run
Rick and Morty - Season 2 - Episode 2
Rick teaches Morty to drive while leaving Jerry at a popular day care made just for him. Morty's conscience has him hunt down an assassin rather than spending the day at an alien arcade.
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#3 - Auto Erotic Assimilation
Rick and Morty - Season 2 - Episode 3
Rick gets emotionally invested when meeting an old friend, while Beth and Jerry have a falling out after making a discovery under the garage.
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#4 - Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure
Family Guy - Season 4 - Episode 30
Stewie finds out that his life in the future is miserable. So he decides to go back in time and change events for the better.
#5 - Lost Our Lisa
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 24
Bart’s latest stunt thwarts Lisa’s plan to attend a museum exhibit. When she tries to go alone and takes the wrong bus, Homer sets out to find her.
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#6 - Das Bus
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 14
When Otto drives the school bus off a bridge, the kids wind up on a deserted island, fending for themselves in a “Lord of the Flies” parody. Back in Springfield, Homer takes on Bill Gates.
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#7 - Brother From Another Series
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 16
When Sideshow Bob is released from prison, his brother Cecil puts him in charge of building Springfield's new hydroelectric dam.
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#8 - Stewie B. Goode
Family Guy - Season 4 - Episode 28
After losing at a swim competition, Stewie trys to eliminate his rival by blowing up a lifeguard tower. His plan backfires though, and Stewie has a near death experience that seems to change him.
#9 - Bango Was His Name Oh!
Family Guy - Season 4 - Episode 29
Stewie convinces Brian to go on a road trip with him to San Francisco to search for a man Stewie believes is his real father.
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#10 - The Cartridge Family
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 5
Alarmed by a soccer riot, Homer buys a handgun. His reckless behavior drives Marge and the kids out of the house, and even his new gun club buddies desert him.
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#11 - Treehouse of Horror X
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 4
In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" the SImpsons fear they have killed Ned Flanders. "Desperately Xeeking Xena" satirizes superheroes of yore with "Stretch Dude" Bart and "Clobber Girl" Lisa. And "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die" depicts the upcoming horror of Y2K.
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#12 - Livin' on a Prayer
Family Guy - Season 10 - Episode 12
When Stewie's new best friend falls ill, Lois takes him to the hospital where she finds out he has a critical, but treatable, disease. However, the boy's parents refuse treatment due to their religious beliefs, leaving Lois no choice but to take drastic measures to seek treatment for the boy herself. Meanwhile, Peter has a religious experience of his own.
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#13 - Quagmire's Quagmire
Family Guy - Season 12 - Episode 3
Quagmire is excited to meet a woman with a sex drive equal to his own, until she kidnaps him to make him her sex slave; a love triangle forms between Stewie, Brian and Stewie's teddy bear.
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#14 - Homer to the Max
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 13
Homer changes his name to "Max Power" after discovering that he shares his name with a dimwitted TV character.
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#15 - Quagmire's Dad
Family Guy - Season 8 - Episode 18
Quagmire can accept his dad's lifestyle choices, but not when they involve Brian.
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#16 - 12 and a Half Angry Men
Family Guy - Season 11 - Episode 16
Mayor West becomes the prime suspect when a murder occurs at his mansion.
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#17 - Business Guy
Family Guy - Season 8 - Episode 9
When Peter gives Lois’ father the bachelor party he never had, Mr. Pewterschmidt slips into a coma and not even Dr. House (guest voice Hugh Laurie) can bring him out of it. With her father incapacitated, Lois is given control of Pewterschmidt Industries. Peter convinces Lois to let him run the operation, but he gets power-hungry and fires the board. Mr. Pewterschmidt soon bounces back and tries to regain control of what he’s built – even though it may be more difficult than Christmas shopping for Peter
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#18 - Chick Cancer
Family Guy - Season 5 - Episode 7
Stewie ties the knot with his old flame Olivia, but their relationship quickly turns, and becomes normal dull marriage. It all escalates when they go on a double date with Brian and Jillian. Meanwhile, Lois introduces Peter to chick flicks, so he decides to make his own movie with a plot based on every chick movie ever.
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#19 - Space Cadet
Family Guy - Season 11 - Episode 9
When the Griffins try to pick Chris up from space camp, they find themselves accidentally launched into space and reliant on Chris to get them home.
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#20 - Brake My Wife, Please
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 20
When Homer loses his driver's license, Marge has to drive everyone everywhere, which becomes so stressful that she accidentally runs over Homer, leading to the two seeing a marriage counselor.
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#21 - Tea Peter
Family Guy - Season 10 - Episode 21
When city hall threatens to close Peter's business, he joins the Tea Party and campaigns to shut down the government.
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#22 - No Chris Left Behind
Family Guy - Season 5 - Episode 16
After Chris is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school that his grandfather Carter attended, but Chris doesn't exactly fit in. Meanwhile, the chicken returns to pick a fight with Peter.
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#23 - Ghost Protocol
Inside Job - Season 1 - Episode 7
Reagan sets an elaborate plan in motion to ghost a debonair British secret agent who grows too attached after a fling.
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#24 - They Saved Lisa's Brain
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 22
Mayor Quimby flees Springfield, leaving the town chapter of Mensa in charge. As the group's new power goes to their heads, they take their utopian plans too far and the townspeople revolt.
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#25 - Screwed the Pooch
Family Guy - Season 3 - Episode 13
Peter and Lois go to the Pewterschmidts for the weekend, bringing Brian along. Brian, meanwhile, has some "issues" of his own to work out. Find out if Brian's future is to make puppies or become "less" than he is.
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#26 - Papa's Got a Brand New Badge
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 22
Homer becomes chief of police after a scandal forces Wiggum out.
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#27 - When You Dish Upon a Star
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 5
After a chance encounter with Hollywood celebrities secretly living in Springfield, Homer becomes their friend and gofer... until he spills the beans to the gang at Moe's.
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#28 - Brian's Got a Brand New Bag
Family Guy - Season 8 - Episode 4
When Brian begins dating an older woman, the family begins to make fun of him. After Brian's new fling breaks her hip, he gets the pleasure of becoming her errand boy.
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#29 - New Kidney in Town
Family Guy - Season 9 - Episode 8
Peter needs a new kidney after his energy-drink addiction causes renal failure. Meanwhile, Chris is chosen to introduce United States President Barack Obama at his school after winning an essay contest. Trouble is, Meg wrote the essay.
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#30 - Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High
Family Guy - Season 4 - Episode 2
Brian becomes a substitute teacher at Chris' school after his teacher wins the lottery. When Brian is moved to teach a class of troubled kids, Chris falls in love with his new teacher, Mrs. Lockhart, who promises to love Chris only if he kills her husband. When Lois finds out, she and Stewie decide to teach Chris a lesson.
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#31 - Pig Trouble in Little Greenpoint
Bless the Harts - Season 1 - Episode 6
Violet tries to deal with the moral dilemma of eating meat; Betty runs into an old fling.
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#32 - Unpresidented
Inside Job - Season 1 - Episode 1
As Reagan prepares to replace the president with a robot, she finds her hard-earned promotion threatened by a clueless but likable new colleague.
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#33 - Clone Gunman
Inside Job - Season 1 - Episode 2
When an expensive blunder forces budget cuts at Cognito Inc., J.R. orders Reagan and Brett to decide which of their co-workers should be fired.
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#34 - Strong Arms of the Ma
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 9
After being mugged at the Kwik-E-Mart and afraid to leave the house, Marge takes up body-building to boost her self-esteem.
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#35 - Foreign Affairs
Family Guy - Season 9 - Episode 17
Bonnie and Lois take a little trip to Paris, but Bonnie crosses the line in the City of Love. Meanwhile, Peter home schools Chris and Meg using some unorthodox teaching methods.
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#36 - Padre de Familia
Family Guy - Season 6 - Episode 6
Peter starts an anti-immigration group, however, he quickly changes his mind when he finds out that he was born in Mexico. Unable to prove his citizenship, pass the naturalization test or convince investigators that his marriage to Lois is for real, he ends up working for Carter as a landscaper, all the while fighting for immigration rights.
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#37 - The Former Life of Brian
Family Guy - Season 6 - Episode 11
Brian, afraid that he may have lost his last chance at love, searches for a former flame, Tracy. To his surprise, he discovers that he is the father to her son, Dylan. Tracy decides that Brian should raise the boy, and she drops him off at the Griffin's house. When Dylan runs rough-shot in the house, Brian's attitude towards parenting doesn't settle too well with Lois and Peter.
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#38 - Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard
Bless the Harts - Season 1 - Episode 9
Betty tries to figure out how to give the family the best Christmas presents on a budget.
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#39 - The Kiss Seen Round the World
Family Guy - Season 3 - Episode 8
When Meg, due to her crush on Tom Tucker, the newscaster, applies for an internship at the local television station and gets the job, she is disappointed to find that her news partner is the most reviled nerd in school, Neil. Caught in a life-threatening news situation, Meg laments that she never had a first kiss and agrees to kiss Neil only to find that he taped the whole thing in order to broadcast it across the world. Meg broadcasts her own news that she has no interest in Neil, sending him to the ledge on top of Town Hall. She breaks his fall, only to find out that he had no intention of jumping and was just trying to get her attention again. Stewie's prized new tricycle is stolen by the neighborhood bully, but the bully soon learns not to screw with Stewie.
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#40 - FOX-y Lady
Family Guy - Season 7 - Episode 10
Lois gets a job working for FOX News and has to do a report on a liberal filmmaker. However, she loses the job when her story implicates a conservative radio host.
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#41 - Hug N' Bugs
Bless the Harts - Season 1 - Episode 1
Jenny discovers a secret of Betty's that may help her pay overdue bills; Wayne builds a tree house.
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#42 - Chuckie Loses His Glasses
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 30
Angelica plays a hide and seek game with the babies, but its all a plan to steal Chuckie's glasses. Chuckie tries to look for them but he can't see so he tries to find his "eyes", but breaks Grandpa Lou's instead. In the end Angelica literally gets sick of them and Tommy gives them to Chuckie.
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