The season received a mixed but passionate response. While some critics felt the writing was becoming "lazy," others praised the creators for throwing out old conventions to try something radically different toward the end of the run.

: Quagmire's father, a war hero, comes to town for a sex-change operation to become a woman named Ida. The Splendid Source

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