And the Wiener Is...
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| Family Guy Episode | |
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| "And the Wiener Is..." | |
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| Episode no.: | 33 |
| Prod. code: | 2ACX22 |
| Airdate: | August 8, 2001 |
| Writer(s): | Mike Barker and Matt Weitzmann |
| Director: | Bert Ring |
| Guest star(s): | Patrick Duffy |
"And the Wiener Is..." is an episode of Family Guy. Guest starring Patrick Duffy as Jack.
[edit] Plot summary
Peter is sure that Chris will never beat him at anything, from skating races to stacking dinnerware on top of his head. But at the sauna, he discovers Chris has a bigger penis. Suddenly insecure, Peter tries buying a long, red car (which is caught in a collision and shortened to an extreme amount as a bus full of girls drive by) and joining the National Gun Association (pace the National Rifle Association).
Meanwhile, Meg tries out for cheerleading but is accepted into the flag girl squad instead. At the game she is pelted with stale meat, and Lois devises a plan for revenge. Meg is reluctant at first, but goes along with Lois's cunning ideas.
[edit] Notes
- The American Dad! episode "Stannie Get Your Gun" also references the National Gun Association.
- The FOX version of this episode has a warning about sexual content.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title is a reference to the saying "And the winner is..."
- While ice skating, Lois says, “I’m that pretty, dark-haired figure-skater with the horse teeth, you know, the one who got what she had coming,” presumably a reference to Nancy Kerrigan.
- After Brian strikes Stewie in the butt with a snowball, he says Brian just "made my brown eye blue," a reference to country singer Crystal Gayle’s 1973 hit "You're Makin' My Brown Eyes Blue". Another reference can also be said that he turned his 'brown eye' (a derogatory term for anus) blue. Blue referencing the color of ones eye when they are punched (bruised).
- Stewie then attacks Brian with a snowball cannon, exclaiming, "Now is the winter of your discontent," paraphrasing a well-known line from Richard III by William Shakespeare. Stewie previously performed this soliloquy in the episode "The King is Dead."
- When Meg tries-out for cheerleading, popular girl Connie D'Amico makes an allusion to children's literature character Peter Rabbit.
- Peter plays darts with the title character of the comic strip Andy Capp.
- In a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer parody, a doctor tells Rudolph that the cause of his red nose is a malignant tumor.
- The marching band plays Eddy Grant's 1983 hit “Electric Avenue.”
- Meg's public embarrassment by a cadre of popular girls and the blood on her clothes, recalls the 1976 horror film Carrie.
- Peter refers to himself as “the white Larry Bird,” despite the fact that the NBA star is white.
- In a fantasy sequence, Stewie sings Elton John's “Rocket Man,” imitating William Shatner’s infamous performance of the song at a 1978 science fiction film awards ceremony.
- On the NGA’s shooting range, a Storm Trooper from the Star Wars film series shoots a cutout of Luke Skywalker and misses every time.
- Also on the shooting range, a blind man is seen shooting and "hitting the broad side of a barn", as the famous saying goes.
- While launching discs for Peter to shoot, Brian uses a number of past Madonna and Janet Jackson albums.
- Lois apparently learned how to use explosives while dating the pyrotechnician of the 1980s hard rock band White Snake.
- The NGA’s cartoon featuring “Petey the Pistol” is a parody of the NRA’s featuring Eddie Eagle.
- While hunting, Peter takes the name Rooster Cogburn, the main character of the 1969 western True Grit.
- Chris scares a bear away by repeating lines from Fox series “When Bears Attack,” including “stay tuned for an all-new Ally McBeal.”
[edit] References
- S. Callaghan, "And the Wiener is..." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 144 - 147.
- A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 3" in Bob's Poetry Magazine, 2.August 2005: 40 - 41 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02Au.pdf
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