(S05E16) So I'm sitting in my new apartment, all alone, it's quiet as hell, and I'm watching the opening of The Family Guy and they show a scene from JAG. And I laughed, very loudly, all alone in my apartment. I felt kinda silly, but when Mac asks Harm if anyone even watches the show anymore and he says, "not really, they don't really pay attention" then looks at the camera and says "Remember the forties?" I just lost it.Sure, JAG isn't even on anymore, but it was still funny.
Joe ruins Peter's movie night by making his own multiplex (funny intro for the theaters, but the Rocky joke was predictable and lame). Peter is ticked off and vows to make his own multiplex. The following scene involves a gay mailbox and Peter using an old Indian skull for a Robin Williams parody. Um, wow. Deranged, but funny.
Meanwhile, the static from the television is drawing Stewie in, a la Poltergeist (and the TV asks him what's up with Friends and how the Joey spinoff is doing).
Brian wonders if the Indian skull is what's causing the odd stuff that's happening in the house. Lois tries to convince herself that the furniture moving was something she did and just forgot, and Brian says "I haven't seen this much denial since John Travolta married Kelly Preston" (cut to their wedding, with Travolta saying that he vows to "love her and stuff, touch her penis ...").
I turned away from the TV for 10 seconds, and when I turned back, the old guy with the walker was battling a killer tree in another dimension. Not sure what happened there. Meanwhile, Brian is trapped in another dimension via the TV, and uses the odd effect on his voice to do an impression of Phil Collins singing "In The Air Tonight."
"Stewie, if you can hear me, head for Meg's butt!" It seems that Meg's ass is the portal connected to the portal where Stewie vanished. Peter takes the opportunity to knock a few golf balls out of her ass, and stick his head out of it too. (Lots of funny Poltergeist takeoffs in this episode, even the music and special effects.)
Lois goes into the portal and grabs Stewie, and they escape out of her ass, covered in purple goo. (Stewie: "This is what Tom Arnold must have felt like on his wedding night.") The family runs out of the house, but Meg is left behind (Peter: "The plan was if we could only save two, we'd leave Meg behind!"). But Meg escapes and yells at her parents for leaving without her.
Brian asks Stewie how the other side was, and Stewie says he met Jesus. He's Chinese, and is last name is Hong ("He doesn't know where people are getting 'Christ' from").
The Griffins go to a soup kitchen (Quagmire couldn't have they stay because he was dressed as a baby and having sex with someone). The menu isn't too appetizing, so they go to the library to find out how to get rid of the poltergeist. They have to get rid of the Indian skull. So they go to the junkyard to get it, but they find out that Carrot Top took it during one of his weekly junk runs. They go to his giant mansion and find he's wearing it while sitting on his throne. Peter gets it away from him and he buries it in their yard. Lois tells Peter "I love you," and Peter says "I've grown fond of you too honey."
Final joke: Peter pushes the TV out of the house, but then reconsiders and brings it back in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-07-2006 @ 10:20PM
Samuel McConnell said...
FYI: That wasn't Grandpa Griffin, it was Herbert the Creepy Old Pedophile.
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5-07-2006 @ 11:35PM
nosidam said...
Lois pushed the TV outside. Peter brought it back in and put Meg out...kinda like Fred put Dino out at the end of each Flintstones.
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5-07-2006 @ 11:36PM
Anthony said...
The creepy, fruity old guy was battling the tree. He says "You shall not pass!" and the ground opens up and they both fall in a la Gandolf from The Lord of the Rings. It is supposed to be an old gay man joke. Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandolf, is gay.
Also, it wasn't Brian singing "In the Air Tonight" it was Stewie.
Last correction is to the final joke, Lois pushes the TV out of the house, Peter brings it back in, and puts Meg out instead.
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5-08-2006 @ 12:35AM
Clint said...
You forgot to mention when Peter is looking in the mirror and his face starts to peel off, it eventually comes completely off and he has the face of Hank Hill.
"Hee Hee.... propane."
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5-08-2006 @ 11:15AM
Mike Hoffpauir said...
Yes that part was fricken sweet! Lots of funny stuff in this ep. Lois-'Are you peein in the skull' Peter-'What you expect me to go all the way to the bathroom' Btw did u learn your lesson...never leave while Family Guys on...u might miss critical plot twists...hehe
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5-08-2006 @ 12:25PM
Rob said...
I don't know what was up with you Sunday night Bob, but that review was crap (no disrespect intended). You only covered certain moments of the show, but never described how they got from one scene to another. For example,.. you talk about the indian skull but never about where it came from or how it ties into the story. You also say "The Griffins go to a soup kitchen..." but never explain how or why they came to this point. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want you to write a novel, but I just think it was uninspired (and at times incorrect).
Maybe it was just me, but I don't think you did the show justice. Anyone reading this because they missed the episode would be downright confused and lost.
Anyway,..
This was one of the better shows of the past two weeks. I was a little disturbed by Peter peeing into the indian skull, but that was offset by Stewie singing Phil Collins with the poltergeist effects, and Meg's butt being used as the other portal.
Other funny points:
- Brian feeling Peter for the skull that Peter had been using as an athletic cup.
- Peter parodies the George W. Bush interview that was shown in Fahrenheit 911 by saying "We're gonna get those terrorists. Now, watch this drive."
- Stewie's take on "Jackass: the movie" where he beats peter in the bathroom. (Wow, that would sound bad if you didn't know what I was talking about)
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5-08-2006 @ 5:29PM
Richard Stembridge said...
Please tell me what these guys were referencing when Peter pulls his face off...It is not "The FLY" as Wikipedia states.
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5-08-2006 @ 6:10PM
Cecil Demske said...
The scene where Peter pulls his face off is also from Poltergeist. :-)
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5-09-2006 @ 12:48AM
shawn said...
i actually thought this episode wasn't that funny, but in the room i was viewing it in i was in the minority. this was another one of those parody heavy ones and if you weren't a huge fan of poltergeist then a lot of jokes you didn't get or just didn't seem that funny. i didn't get herbert as gandalf though, i'm gladd someone explained it because it got a little funnier. the joe swanson theatres bit might have been the funniest gag for me.
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5-09-2006 @ 4:55PM
Will C said...
Will C's favorite FG quotes of the week:
"i havent seen something that sucks this much since I hear huckabees"
"hee hee...propane"
"theres way too many ostriches...why are there so many ostriches"
"thats how my old scoutmaster shakes hands"
"looks like I made a wrong turn at alberqerque"
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