Family Guy’s 2025 Christmas special goes all in on poking fun at those cheesy Hallmark holiday movies we see every year.The episode throws Lois Griffin straight into the middle of a Hallmark-style romance, and the show doesn’t hold back. They mix Family Guy’s usual sharp humor with every corny holiday trope you can imagine. It’s a playful roast of everything people both love and roll their eyes at in those films.Fans get the smart, over-the-top comedy they expect, while even newcomers can jump in for the laughs. Lainey Wilson, who you might know from Yellowstone, brings her own musical flair to the special. It’s a fun twist that grabs your attention and adds some extra buzz.Mixing parody with music, Family Guy sticks to its usual style of pushing comedy as far as it will go, especially when it comes to holiday stories.People aren’t just talking about the laughs. The special nails that holiday vibe we all recognize, poking fun at classic tropes and letting viewers enjoy the Griffin family’s wild holiday chaos.Family Guy 2025 Christmas special: Hallmark movie parody explained View this post on Instagram Instagram PostFamily Guy’s 2025 Christmas special aims at Hallmark movies, grabbing the whole cozy, romantic holiday vibe and turning it into pure comedy. They are not just tossing in a quick joke about Hallmark. The entire episode leans into the predictable, sugary storylines and pokes fun at how formulaic they are.This time, Lois Griffin steps into the spotlight. She basically stars in her own Hallmark-style story, landing right in the middle of a small town, surrounded by snowy scenery, awkward romantic twists, and those classic warm-and-fuzzy endings you always see in these movies.Family Guy showrunners Alec Sulkin and Rich Appel spoke with Collider about how all this came to be. Sulkin said:“Well, I think it gets harder and harder every year to try to think of an original — or what we hope is an original — Christmas episode. So this year, we just decided to give up trying to be original and just used every single thing that's been used before. It’s fun for a show like Family Guy that obviously, in tone, doesn’t have a ton in common with the classic Hallmark family-friendly movies. So it was a fun area to explore.”What really sets this special apart is the way it throws Family Guy’s off-the-wall humor right up against the sugary wholesomeness you find in Hallmark movies. The script pokes fun at all the classic Hallmark stuff: small towns that seem too perfect, picture-perfect snowy nights, those “meant to be” love stories, and happy endings. Putting Lois in the middle of all this means she gets to play the Hallmark heroine, but the show doesn’t stop there. It stirs in the wild twists and grown-up jokes you expect from Family Guy, and that clash is where all the fun comes from.Lainey Wilson, famous for her role on Yellowstone, brings something fresh to the mix. Her country music style clashes in a funny way with the sparkly, sweet world of Hallmark movies. She doesn’t just sing; her music actually drives the comedy, pulling people in with catchy songs that fit the holiday vibe but keep things a little edgy.Adding a modern country star like her connects two totally different parts of pop culture, which makes the special stand out and pulls in all kinds of viewers. The parody just hits harder with her in it.Sulkin added:“She came in, she’s very hot right now, and she loved doing it. She even suggested a harmony for the song that she then filled in herself. It’s fun when you get to use somebody like that, who seems kind of perfect for a high-end Hallmark movie.”The 2025 Family Guy Christmas special drops on November 28 on Hulu. This time, they are ditching Quahog and heading to a brand new snowy town called Townsville. According to Collider, the whole thing looks nothing like a regular Family Guy episode. The animation team had to start from scratch, building nearly every background and character for this new place. It turned into a way bigger project than usual.As Sulkin told Collider:“Every background is practically new, every character is redesigned. Any episode that requires that much new background work and design has to get the manpower it deserves. So we can’t have too many of those in one season. It’s special because we know it’s a bigger effort.”Family Guy has always gone big with their Christmas episodes, and the showrunners say nothing has changed there. The writers chase the funniest, weirdest ideas they can think of, and the team just leans in to make it feel unique.