Throw It Away
After Lois reads a new book on the joys of decluttering, she challenges the rest of the Griffins to throw anything out of the house that does not spark joy. While all starts out well, Lois soon takes the decluttering to a surprising extreme.
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Lois drags Peter to Joyce Kinney's talk show, The Flow, where she learns that Tricia Takanawa has a new best selling book titled Throw it Away. Inspired by a trip to Mount Asia, it recommends clearing clutter by getting rid of things that no longer bring you joy. She makes the family go on a house cleaning binge, but when one of Peter's stunts at bedtime annoys her, she declares he no longer brings her joy and orders him out of the house. After annoying Quagmire with a brief stay, he ends up taking up residence in a storage facility.
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She soon turns her attention to the rest of the family and quickly kicks them out as well, where they join Peter. With the house a gutted, white shell, happiness continues to evade her. The family returns and finds a note she left behind, and they deduce that she went to Mount Asia for answers. There, they find her on a rope bridge high over a river, trying to collect her thoughts. But when Peter tries to cross to her, his movements on the bridge cause her to fall over and plummet towards the river. She is saved when she falls into a passing garbage barge and, realizing that every little thing in the house brings her joy, decides to keep it all.