Christmas Specials Wiki
Christmas Specials Wiki

"The First No L" is the ninth Christmas-themed episode of the FOX animated sitcom Family Guy, that aired in the show's nineteenth season.

Synopsis[]

When Lois insists on the family helping her with Christmas, they blow it and she decides to leave them on their own for the holidays to see how they would do. At first they despair, but things actually go their way and they have a good time. However, Lois, who told her family that she was going to take care of cousins in Mexico, holds up at a motel with a pair of binoculars where she can spy on them and wait for them to call begging her for help. Seeing that they've become a successful and loving family without her, she vows revenge.

In a stunt worthy of the Grinch, she sneaks into the house to take all of their Christmas goods, but not before she ends up doing the household chores and buying groceries. The family is disappointed at first, but when she pretends to return from Mexico, she finds that they're happy because her gift from the heart was still safe and she's deeply moved by the gesture. Again reminiscent of the Grinch, her heart grows three sizes, but this lands her in the hospital as a Muslim neighbor is blamed for the theft and deported.

Recalling an earlier gag, in which Quagmire pretends to have family for a customer service agent in an attempt to convince her he isn't alone on Christmas. Lois pretends to have cousins that are destroying various family belongings after they press her for details about her family that she went to visit.

Cast[]

Voice actor/actress Character(s)
Seth MacFarlane Peter Griffin
Brian Griffin
Stewie Griffin
Glenn Quagmire
Tom Tucker
Alex Borstein Lois Griffin
Seth Green Chris Griffin
Mila Kunis Meg Griffin
Mike Henry Greased-Up Deaf Guy
Johnny Brennan Mort Goldman
Naomi Ekperigin Hoda Kotb
Ralph Garman H
Mark Hentemann H&R Accountant
Rachael MacFarlane Savannah Guthrie
R
Waitress
Marlee Matlin Stella
Liam McIntyre British Announcer
Nolan North Lois' Driver
Chris Parnell Card Store Owner
Danny Smith Announcer
Alec Sulkin Cobra
Josh Robert Thompson Willie Nelson
John Viener Quahog Motel Announcer
Racist Man

External links[]

20th Century
Movies
Miracle on 34th Street (1955 remake) (1973 remake) (1994 remake) • Die HardDie Hard 2Home AloneHome Alone 2: Lost in New YorkGeorge Balanchine's The NutcrackerTrapped in ParadiseJingle All the WayHome Alone 4The Family StoneDeck the Halls12 Men of ChristmasHome Alone: The Holiday HeistJingle All the Way 2Home Sweet Home AloneA Very Jonas Christmas
Television episodes and specials
20th Television
M*A*S*H "Dear Dad" • "Dear Sis" • "Death Takes a Holiday" • "All About Christmas Eve"
Tracey Ullman "Santa Baby" • "Kay's Gift" • "Merry Catnip"
The X Files "Christmas Carol" • "Emily" • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
Malcolm in the Middle "Christmas" • "Christmas Trees" • "Pearl Harbor" • "Hal's Christmas Gift
Bones "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" • "The Santa in the Slush" • "The Goop on the Girl"
How I Met Your Mother "How Lily Stole Christmas" • "Little Minnesota" • "False Positive" • "Symphony of Illumination" • "The Over-Correction" • "The Final Page, Part 1" • "The Final Page, Part 2"
Glee "A Very Glee Christmas" • "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" • "Glee, Actually" • "Previously Unaired Christmas"
New Girl "The 23rd" • "Santa" • "LAXmas" • "Christmas Eve Eve"
The Mindy Project "Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party" • "Christmas Party Sex Trap" • "Christmas" • "When Mindy Met Danny"
Last Man Standing "Last Christmas Standing" • "Putting a Hit on Christmas" • "Elfie" • "Wedding Planning" • "Gift of the Wise Man"
Other shows "Christmas Story" • "The Worst Noel" • "Haus Arrest" • "Amends" • "Blue Christmas" • "A Christmas Story" • "Cookies for Santa" • "In God We Trust" • "Road to Tradition" • "Afternoon Delight" • "Christmas" • "The Glitch That Stole Christmas" • "Secret Santa"
20th Television Animation
The Simpsons "Simpson Christmas" • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" • "Marge Be Not Proud" • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" • "Grift of the Magi" • "Skinner's Sense of Snow" • "She of Little Faith" • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" • "Simpson Christmas Stories" • "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" • "The Fight Before Christmas" • "Holidays of Future Passed" • "White Christmas Blues" • "I Won't Be Home for Christmas • "The Nightmare After Krustmas" • "'Tis the 30th Season" • "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" • "The Way of The Dog" • "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" • "Manger Things" • Feliz Navidad • "O C'mon All Ye Faithful"
King of the Hill "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" • "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" • "Hillennium" • "'Twas the Nut Before Christmas" • "The Father, the Son, and J.C." • "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" • "Ms. Wakefield"
Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Story Never" • "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" • "Rapture's Delight" • "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" • "Road to the North Pole" • "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" • "Murray Christmas" • "Season's Beatings" • "Die Semi-Hard" • "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" • "'Tis the Cleveland To Be Sorry" • "Minstrel Krampus" • "Christmas Guy" • "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" • "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" • "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" • "Ninety North, Zero West" • "Gifted Me Liberty" • "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" • "Santa, Schmanta" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Yule. Tide. Repeat." • "The First No L" • "Christmas Crime" • "The Grounch" • "The Return of the King (of Queens)" • "Into the Jingleverse" • "Gift of the White Guy" • "Nasty Christmas"
Futurama "Xmas Story" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas"
Bob's Burgers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins" • "Christmas in the Car" • "Father of the Bob" • "Nice-Capades" • "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" • "The Bleakening" • "Better Off Sled" • "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" • "Yachty or Nice" • "Gene's Christmas Break" • "The Plight Before Christmas" • "The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas" • "Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon"
Other cartoons "Hook's Christmas" • "A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman" • Olive, the Other ReindeerIce Age: A Mammoth Christmas • "The War on Grafelnik" • "Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard" • "A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special" • "Dip the Halls Adventure" • "Xmas with The Skanks Adventure"