Trading Places (Family Guy) shotgun similar to the one used in the massacre. Chris compares his high school's hierarchical structure to "Lord Of The Flies". The title is a reference to the film "Trading Places", in which Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy have their lives swapped around in attempt to resolve a wager on the significance of someone's upbringing vs their genes (nature vs nurture) in determining what kind of person they become. The episode was watched by 6.55 million viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Rowan Kaiser of "The A.V. Club" gave "Trading Places" a mostly positive review, calling it "relatively entertaining", and stating
Trading Places (Family Guy) his heart attack". The episode was among four other episodes submitted by the "Family Guy" production team for consideration of an Emmy Award nomination, in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series category. "Trading Places" was submitted, along with "Halloween on Spooner Street", "Road to the North Pole", "New Kidney in Town" and "And I'm Joyce Kinney". The series was successfully nominated in 2009, but failed to merit an award. Mark Hentemann, executive producer and showrunner of "Family Guy" said of the nominating process, "We had internal discussions in the writers' room, and it seemed like we were much