Almost fifteen years ago, I was involved in a small and relatively close-knit USENET community.  For April Fool's, I cooked up a "hilarious" plan with the person I was most closely aligned with.  She and I would pretend to have a big knock-down blow-out argument right out in public.  A real knuckle-duster.  Wouldn't that be funny!  

After the first few volleys of posts back and forth, everyone was horrified.  Some people were so upset by the fighting that they were literally sitting at their computers in tears.  

Then it really began to spiral out of control.  People started picking sides, and getting nasty with each other.  It soon devolved into an all-out war, with at least one very prominent person openly saying "I never liked her anyway."  

This "funny prank" pretty much tore the community apart.  It was never the same after that, even though everyone tried to pretend it hadn't happened.  It was all downhill from there, and within six months it was effectively a ghost town.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying, this kind of thing never ends well.  Pranks aren't funny.   Just ask Orson Welles - people actually died as a result of his "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

So.

In this episode, Peter gets assigned jury duty.  He thinks this is pretty awesome at first, but eventually learns that it's tremendously boring.  (They manage to sneak a "bird is the word" bit in there - tip of the hat on that one.)

Luckily Peter gets his wish, when the local news announces that a black hole is swallowing the solar system, and Earth has only a day left before it's next.  You could probably write the rest of the episode yourself.  

Avowed atheist Brian prays.  Meg makes a disturbing confession when Chris wonders aloud what death is like ( "I don't know, but from the look in the stray cat's eyes when you're pushing on its windpipe?  I think it's pretty terrifying.  Like, panicky.")  And Peter confesses that he hates being around the kids.

In order to make up for what he said, Peter tries to spend more time with the kids.  This leads to a funny mini running joke, when Peter brings a huge bag of crystal meth into Chris' room so that they can do some father-son bonding.   

Although overall this episode rates a solid "Meh" (except for having dredged up some truly awful memories), it does contain what I think is the funniest thing I have ever seen on Family Guy ever.  In all of its eight seasons, I have never laughed as hard as when Peter asked Stewie if he was having a tea party with his action figures.

"No," Stewie says, "we're working out a land deal.  Trapjaw is trying to get a variance to build an unpermitted structure within ten feet of Optimus Prime's property line.  Destro is the city councilman who's telling Trapjaw that he has to file it as an accessory structure, and even then it can only be built to the rear of the lot.  And the Care Bear is just a Care Bear."