Hell Comes to Quahog
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| Episode no.: | 83 | ||
| Prod. code: | 4ACX33 | ||
| Airdate: | September 24, 2006 | ||
| Writer(s): | Kirker Butler | ||
| Director: | Dan Povenmire | ||
| Guest star(s): | Tyce Green | ||
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"Hell Comes to Quahog" is the third season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The title is a reference to the 1987 cult film Hell Comes to Frogtown starring 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper.
[edit] Plot summary
Meg complains after Peter leaves her at the roller rink, so Peter takes her to buy a car. However, convinced by a swindling salesman, Peter buys a tank instead. Meanwhile, Quahog suffers from a heat wave, exasperated by the electricity-hoarding shopping corporation, Superstore USA, whose arrival in Quahog has put strain on local businesses and cost many residents, including Peter, their jobs. Even though Meg works at the store, Peter spearheads a protest of the store, but flip-flops after experiencing its "industrial" air conditioning and gets a job there instead.
Meg is promoted to assistant manager at Superstore USA, and is given the job to fire her father, as he is grossly incompetent, sleeps on the job and plays hide and seek in the coat racks. However, she chooses instead to resign, causing Peter to begin to say "I love you"; it is interrupted, though, by Stewie and Brian, who use the tank to destroy the shopping center, reverting conditions in Quahog to normal.
[edit] Notes
- A scene cut from the FOX broadcast involves Brian shopping at a Kmart. Outside the store, there is a retarded child who pets Brian quite roughly, annoying him so much that he bites the child's arm. This scene was included during the Adult Swim broadcast and was pointed out in an Adult Swim bump.
- The Canadian network Global's airing of the episode left the one occurrence of the word "fucking" uncensored[1].
- The car dealership "Wilkins Hyundai and Subaru", which was last seen in the episode "Patriot Games", appears again in this episode.
- In the U.S., 9.65 million viewers tuned in to this episode[2].
- A poster at the start reads "PAWTUCKET PATRTOT ALE".
- "United Skates of America", the roller rink Peter left Meg at, is a real chain with 17 locations across the United States[3] including one in Rumford, Rhode Island[4].
[edit] Cultural references
- The disco song that plays during the scene where Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe are rollerskating is A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, who is the composer for Family Guy.
- When Joe sends the last ping-pong ball out the window, Peter says he will get some more from Mr. Moose, a reference to the character from Captain Kangaroo who, as a regular joke, has ping-pong balls dropped on the Captain.
- The Easter-egg hunt scene with Richard Gere is referring to an old urban legend about him going into an ER to get a gerbil removed from his rectum.
- While working at Superstore USA, one of Meg's duties is to give Sloth, the deformed strongman from the 1985 film, The Goonies, a Baby Ruth candy bar.
- While protesting outside the Superstore USA, Peter raises his fist and erroneously chants "GATTACA!" (a movie from 1997) instead of the famous line "ATTICA!", from the movie Dog Day Afternoon.
- The General Lee is one of the cars available at the dealership.
[edit] References
| Preceded by: "Mother Tucker" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "Saving Private Brian" |
