Synopsis

• On Y2K, Peter is obsessed with the apocalypse theory and so holds the family in the basement in case of such an event. To everyone's surprise, the apocalypse actually does happen and the Griffins must help re-build a society where the remaining living beings can survive.

Unanswered Questions

Best Moments

Best Quotes

• Lois: "Good-bye, sweet home. Maybe someday we'll return."
  Peter: "Hey, Joe, can you keep an eye on the place?"
  Joe: "I might as well. I'm melted to the ground."
  Meg: (lays mousetraps around Joe) "There you go, Mr. Swanson. These ought to keep the rats away."
  Joe: "Thanks, hon. Stay in school!" (Mutant rat walks up, slapping away traps) "BRING IT ON!!"

• Stewie: "Oh dear me, yes yes, this is how I wanted to enter the new millennium...locked in the basement with imbeciles dressed like a gay Neil Armstrong."

• Peter: (To the Cleveland/Quagmire fusion) "Hey, Clevemire."
  Quagmire: "That's Quagland!"
  Cleveland: "Quagland? Oh, you are dreaming."
  Quagmire: Not about kickin' your fat ass!"

Trivia

• After the citizens of New Quahog kick the Griffins out and slam the city gates, Brian is absent for several scenes. Only after they start walking down the road in a line does he return.
• This is the first episode starring Mila Kunis as Meg.
• The fight with the big chicken that we see in Peter's flashback actually continues during the Season Four episode "Blind Ambition."