Save the Clam

"Save the Clam" is the 20th episode of the

During a Drunken Clam softball game against Mort's team Goldman's Pharmacy, Jerome is brought in as a player for Mort's team. To win the game, Horace attempts to strike Jerome out. Unfortunately for Horace, Jerome hits the ball so hard it accidentally flies into Horace's face and fractures his skull, killing him. During the funeral, Jerome expresses to Peter how awful he feels about it; noting that Horace was a good bartender and a good guy, and wishing there was something he could do. Peter tells Jerome that he knows he didn't mean to kill Horace. After the funeral, the guys go to drink at The Drunken Clam to pay respects to Horace only to find the bar has been foreclosed. The guys are forced to drink at Peter's house, but after Lois objects. They sneak into the Clam for a night of drinking. The next morning, they find the Clam is about to be demolished and Peter demands they stop as he claims ownership of the bar. During the stand-off, Jerome suddenly appears and he reveals that he used his sports earnings from playing lacrosse (which is also his brother's name) to buy The Drunken Clam so he can keep it open to redeem himself for what he did and honor Horace's legacy. The trio find the Drunken Clam modified by Jerome and then they are relegated to a space on the floor near a pile of garbage since there are three black guys in their usual booth.

In a sub plot, during Horace's

Reception

The episode received a 2.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic and was watched by a total of 4.79 million viewers. This made it the second most watched show on Fox's Animation Domination line-up that night, beating The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers but losing to American Dad!.^[2] The episode was met with mixed reviews from critics. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B, saying "That’s a pretty standard way to appreciate anything that Family Guy does these days, tuning out the deliberately provocative jokes as though they're comments made by an older relative at Thanksgiving who gets a pass because they 'grew up in a different time.' Family Guy doesn't have that excuse, so when the material doesn't work because it trades in lazy stereotypes, it hurts the episode. Still, I laughed more this week at the remaining bits than I have in a few months."^[3] Carter Dotson of TV Fanatic gave the episode three out of five stars, saying "This was a rather pedestrian episode of the show, not a classic but not terrible. If your DVR didn't record it, you didn't miss much."^[4]

References

External links

• "Save the Clam" at
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• The plot description was adapted from Save the Clam at Family Guy Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.