"Death Has a Shadow" is the pilot episode of the animated series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31, 1999, just after Super Bowl XXXIII. The episode is based on series creator Seth MacFarlane's original pitch to Fox, The Life of Larry, and is a remake of the original Family Guy pilot. In the episode, Peter loses his job after drinking too much at a stag party and falls asleep at work. He signs up for welfare to keep his wife Lois from finding out, but gets much more money than he expected. Lois finds out and Peter decides to dump it from a blimp at the Super Bowl. He is arrested and must await his family's rescue.