When Lois sends Peter in to check on Stewie who is having trouble sleeping, he sits down to read Stewie some fairy tales.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack is sent out by his wife to sell their cow for money to buy food. Despite her warnings not to buy magic beans, he crosses paths with a troll who trades him magic beans for the cow. The wife is displeased and throws them outside, and demands that Jack get a real job. That night, the beans grow into a giant beanstalk. Jack decides to climb it and discovers a castle in the clouds. There, he finds The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs, but wakes up the Giant, who challenges him to a fight. Jack chooses to run away and flees down the beanstalk where Rumpelforeskin is sawing it down for blocking his view of Little Miss Muffet's tuffet, though he couldn't get help from the off-screen Little Boy Brown since he can't find his gloves. Jack reaches the ground and the beanstalk falls which kills the giant. With the goose in their possession, their financial troubles are solved but their sexual troubles are still very much a problem.
Little Red Riding Hood is given a basket of food from her mother to take to Grandma and, after complaining about why Grandma would need a 'Coors Party Ball' sets out through the forest. After encountering enchanted creatures, "she" runs into the Big Bad Wolf as they discuss the “Three Little Pigs” as Red explains that she is on her way to Grandma's. At Grandma's house, Little Red Riding Hood's grandfather heads out to the Old Woman in the Shoe's house to get the Old Woman to tidy up in there or he will rent her house to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The Big Bad Wolf gets there first and tricks Grandma into letting him into the house and eating her. After starting to go through the charade that the Big Bad Wolf is really Grandma, Red can no longer keep it up and the Big Bad Wolf agrees. Although he wonders why she's upset when he is aware that he's about to be slaughtered by the woodsman who chooses that moment to burst through the door and violently bisect the wolf with a chainsaw exposing the remains of Grandma before rushing onto the next house. Red wonders if he was really the hero or just a lunatic going from house to house randomly killing people; screams are then heard from off-screen, indicating that the woodsman has killed another victim.
Cinderella
In the same storyline as the Disney film, Cinderella is forced to work for her mean stepsisters when a message arrives with an invitation to a ball by Prince Charming. Cinderella arrives, ready to go to the ball with her stepfamily, but her stepsisters tear the dress at the urging of her stepmother. Her fairy godmother arrives and grants her a new dress and carriage to go to the ball as well as turning the dog into a horse to pull the carriage. At the ball, Prince Charming meets the evil stepsisters and rejects their advances but falls for Cinderella. After they dance and start to kiss, the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella is forced to flee losing her glass slipper on the way out. The next day, Prince Charming orders the Captain of the Guards to send out his men to search for the girl whose foot will fit the slipper. After failed attempts at the houses of different women, Prince Charming and his men arrive at Cinderella's house. Before Prince Charming can try the glass slipper on the stepsisters, he meets Cinderella as his dream girl and they were married until they separated seven months later in order to renew their relationship.
Finale
Stewie falls asleep as Peter tucks him in and says goodnight to him. Peter also says goodnight to Chris and goodnight to Meg.
Reception
Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C–, saying ""Grimm Job” has just enough time to run through the basic beats of each story, doing the most superficial possible version of a Family Guy fairy tale. Not only does that reduce the quality of many of the jokes, it also reduces the room in the episode for cutaways, which sure are random but are also often an opportunity for the writers to shove in random stuff they think is funny. Without cutaways, Family Guy just has to rely on the story, which has never really been its strong suit." He also noted that the Stewie and Brian segment was "the funniest of the night." The episode received a 2.7 rating and was watched by a total of 5.22 million people. This made it the most watched show on Animation Domination that night, beating American Dad!, Bob's Burgers and The Simpsons.
