He's Too Sexy for His Fat
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| Episode no.: | 24 |
| Prod. code: | 2ACX10 |
| Airdate: | June 27, 2000 |
| Writer(s): | Chris Sheridan |
| Director: | Glen Hill |
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"He's Too Sexy for His Fat" is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The title is a reference to the song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
[edit] Plot summary
Brian catches fleas, which spreads to the rest of the family. The exterminators turn out to be more like mercenaries, who attack the fleas with assault rifles and fragmentation grenades, destroying the house's interior in the process.
To compensate, Brian puts the family up in a hotel. When the staff and guests make fun of his weight, Chris becomes self-conscious about his weight.
When his diet and exercise regimen fails to yield results, Peter takes him to a surgeon to discuss liposuction. Chris decides to stick to his diet and exercise, but Peter goes in for extensive cosmetic surgery and gets invited to the Quahog Beautiful People's Club. While admiring himself in the rear view mirror, he crashes his car and is thrown into a vat of lard, which turns him back into his formerly fat self.
In the Subplot, Stewie grows fatter when trying to make Chris want to quit his diet, as a way to mock Chris he began eating more before he developed an eating disorder. It came to a point where he was so fat his arms couldn't reach his face. He surprisingly and oddly lost all the weight at the end of the episode.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title is a reference to the 1991 hit “I'm Too Sexy” by the British band Right Said Fred.
- The party in Stewie’s fantasy sequence is based on those at the Playboy Mansion. Stewie invites actor James Caan, who punches a girl in the face, a reference to his history of playing violent characters as well as the fact that In 1980, Caan was charged with beating his ex-wife Sheila Ryan after she told him she planned to remarry.
- Chris reads a comic book featuring the superhero She-Hulk.
- As Stewie slips on the Griffins’ floor, he says “Damn you, Mop & Glo,” a popular cleaning product
- Stewie refers to the Griffins’ home as a hooverville, a Great Depression-era term for a shantytown.
- A cutaway parodies the infamous ending of the 1957 film Old Yeller
- Peter slaps Lois in the bathroom, yelling "Get ahold of yourself," a parody of a scene from the 1980 film Airplane!
- Stewie uses an “ultra violet scanning light” on the hotel. He says he first heard of the device from “that yummy exoskeleton” Maria Shriver. Shriver often contributes high-tech investigative pieces for NBC’s magazine program Dateline.
- After discovering oatmeal, spittle and semen in the hotel room, Stewie concludes that the room was the scene of an incident where character actor Wilford Brimley was strangled by Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane. Crane was an amateur pornographer and Brimley the spokesperson for Quaker Oats oatmeal.
- When swimming, Stewie says he feels like “a young Johnny Weissmuller,” a 1920s-era Olympic swimmer from Austria-Hungary, who gained fame playing Tarzan.
- After a lifeguard mistakes Chris for a van, Peter places the automotive protective device The Club on Chris.
- Chris' “great-great-great-uncle” Jabba the Griffin is an obvious parody of Jabba the Hutt
- After Stewie eats a meatloaf and expresses extreme delight, Brian says "I'll have what he's having," a famous line from the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally....
- Cleveland claims that his brother Broderick performed liposuction on actress Nell Carter and used the excess fat to “make the two kids from Good Burger,” a 1997 comedy film starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson.
- After seeing the new Peter, Stewie quotes he imploded like a neutron star. This is because at one point a star becomes dense enough to collapse into a neutron star.
- While reading a newspaper, Brian states his admiration for former First Lady and New York Senator Hillary Clinton
- A cutaway shows that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt was born an Eskimo boy and later had cosmetic surgery.
- Brian finds Stewie on the floor and asks “Orson fall down?,” a reference to actor/director Orson Welles’ weight gain later in his career, or possibly to the character Orson Pig from the comic strip U.S. Acres
- Peter says that he wants to get his remaining fat placed on his feet so he can “dance on Paul Bunyan’s giant skillet,” a reference to the popular folk legend.
- At the end, the doctor treating Peter takes off Peter's bandages and reveals what looks to be his new face in the shape of the popular children's toy, the Mr. Potato Head doll. We find out it's really just a “protective mask” and that Peter's face is back to normal.
- When Peter couldn't stop staring at the mirror and was "horribly disfigured", it was a parody of Narcissus, a man in Greek mythology who fell in love with himself and drowned to death in a pool of water that reflected his own image.
- After crashing his car Peter falls down a hill. This fall is almost identical to the one that Homer Simpson experienced - down the Springfield Gorge - in the second season episode - "Bart the Daredevil".
- Lois says that Stewie is "starting to get a little Buddha belly"
[edit] Trivia
- A signed picture of Channel 5’s “Asian Reporter Trisha Takanawa” can be seen on the Chinese/Irish acupuncturist’s wall.
[edit] References
- S. Callaghan, "He's Too Sexy for His Fat." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 108 - 111.
- A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2" in Bob's Poetry Magazine, 2.May 2005: 23 - 24 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf
| Preceded by: "There's Something About Paulie" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "E. Peterbus Unum" |
