During a backyard party at the Swansons’ house, Joe’s baby daughter Susie takes a Barbie doll from Stewie, and beats him up when he attempts to get it back. Ashamed by the fact that his own son got beat up by a girl, Peter takes Stewie to the gym to teach him how to be a man. A man at the gym gives Peter some steroids to help Stewie, which Peter gladly accepts due to his tendency to “believe everything everyone says everywhere,” and Stewie becomes incredibly strong and muscular as a result.

But instead of actually using his new found strength to his advantages, he begins acting like a stereotypical macho man and begins bossing Brian around until the steroids wear off, making his skin incredibly loose and flabby. Stewie jumps out of his bedroom window to avoid Brian’s wrath, his loosened skin inadvertently allowing him to glide to safety.

Meanwhile, Connie D’Amico, the most popular girl at school, has hooked up and broken up with every popular boy in school. She goes out with Chris with the intent of making him popular before breaking up with him. However, when they go out, Chris honestly falls in love with Connie, something no other boy has done with her. Connie decides to stay with Chris, but his newfound popularity goes to his head and he starts cheating on her. Heartbroken and unpopular, Connie turns to Meg, whom Chris had not invited to a party at their own house, for revenge.

Meg at first refuses, citing the many times Connie and her friends made fun of her and showing the self-inflicted cut wounds on her arm as proof, but changes her mind when Chris hurls a spear into her arm. With Neil Goldman’s help, they publicly show a video of Chris dancing naked with lipstick, a silk cape, and his penis tucked between his legs, destroying his popularity (and parodying a scene in The Silence of the Lambs). Chris makes up for his behavior to Meg by vividly describing how wonderful it felt to be popular. The episode ends with Stewie saying, “I flew today.”

“Stew-Roids” is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of Family Guy. The episode aired on April 26, 2009 on FOX.

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