Chick Cancer
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| Episode no.: | 87 | ||
| Prod. code: | 5ACX02 | ||
| Airdate: | November 26, 2006 | ||
| Writer(s): | Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild | ||
| Director: | Pete Michels | ||
| Guest star(s): | Drew Barrymore Alan Alda (uncredited)[1] |
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"Chick Cancer" is the 7th episode of Season 5 of the FOX animated television series Family Guy.
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[edit] Plot summary
Stewie sees on the news that his old friend, child actress Olivia's Hollywood career is coming to a close and she is making one last appearance at the Quahog mall. He goes to the mall to gloat but winds up falling in love with her. She does not return his feelings. Stewie takes Brian's advice to be mean to her, and soon they tie the knot with Rupert officiating. But their relationship quickly turns into a stereotypical marriage filled with resentment and bickering, which comes to an ugly head when they join Brian and Jillian on a double date. When he discovers that Olivia is cheating on him, Stewie sets fire to their pretend house.
Meanwhile, Lois introduces Peter to chick flicks, and he decides to make his own "chick movie". His movie, called Steel Vaginas, is hated by everyone.
[edit] Notes
- This is the second episode featuring Stewie's show business partner Olivia (voiced by Seth MacFarlane's sister Rachael), after "From Method to Madness". Her last name is also said to be Fuller.
- Brian's comment about black men to Stewie is a running joke on the show, suggesting that Brian's father was a racist, first shown in "Don't Make Me Over", and later in "Peter's Got Woods".
- Stewie's troubled relationship with Olivia is a running joke about his ambiguous sexual orientation. This ambiguity is furthered during the closing credits scene.
- Meg did not have any lines in this episode.
[edit] Cultural references
- The Star Wars cutaway in the opening is a recreation of a similar scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, complete with theme music.
- In a scene with Sandra Oh, Peter speaks to her slowly, under the misapprehension that she does not understand English.
- The name of Peter's film, Steel Vaginas, is a play on the film Steel Magnolias.
- The scene where Brian continually tells Stewie "it's not your fault" recreates the same scene in Good Will Hunting.
- Chester Cheetah is seen, snorting orange powder from a tray as if it were cocaine and listening to Rush's Tom Sawyer. He states, "...there is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart!"
- During the advertisement for a compilation of 80's television punchlines, Howard Hesseman provides a testimonial in exchange for cannabis.
- Stewie relates that he was once roommates with Q*Bert.
- Peter claims that he was the original Pretty Woman. A cutaway shows him, in a red dress, replacing Julia Roberts' role opposite Richard Gere.
- The George and Ira Gershwin piece Someone to Watch over Me plays over the scene under the suspension bridge.
- Several Woody Allen films are referenced: the scene where Stewie and Olivia are people watching is similar to a scene in Annie Hall in which Allen and Diane Keaton make similar quips about people walking by. Alan Alda's appearance as a pompous writer also parodies Crimes and Misdemeanors. The scene where they're sitting under a bridge is a parody of Manhattan[2].
- Stewie makes a reference to the Don McLean song American Pie while talking to Brian.
- During a newscast, Tom Tucker refers to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana by the failed federal levee system following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
[edit] References
| Preceded by: "Prick Up Your Ears" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "Barely Legal" |
