Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
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| Family Guy Episode | |
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| "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" | |
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| Episode no.: | 8 |
| Prod. code: | 1ACX08 |
| Airdate: | September 23, 1999 |
| Writer(s): | Chris Sheridan |
| Director: | Jeff Myers |
| Guest star(s): | Robin Leach , Fairuza Balk |
"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. It was produced for season 1 and aired in season 2. Guest starring Robin Leach as himself and Fairuza Balk as Connie D'Amico. This is the first episode of the season, the last episode of the previous season is "Brian: Portrait of a Dog."
[edit] Plot summary
Lois' wealthy aunt Marguerite Pewterschmidt comes to visit, but drops dead on their doorstep (much to Peter's relief) "be careful what you wish for, eh Lois". A videotaped message from Aunt Marguerite informs Lois that she inherits Cherrywood Manor in Newport, Rhode Island. There, the Griffins receive a warm musical welcome from the house's staff, who immediately leave afterward ("The old bag only paid us up through the song."). Peter hires them back after admitting that he secretly sold their former house in Quahog.
Naturally, Peter has trouble fitting in with the blueblood crowd, while Stewie adapts immediately to ordering servants around, even commanding two to fight to the death for his amusement. Peter begs Brian to teach him how to be a gentleman. After several attempts through regular methods, Brian resorts to shock therapy. When Peter arrives at a ritzy auction that night, Lois is shocked to see him behaving himself and conversing easily with the upper crust crowd. Unfortunately, he also appears to believe himself fabulously wealthy, as he nonchalantly bids $100,000,000 for a vase.
Lois demands that the family return to Quahog as soon as possible; she says that she left Newport because it changed people in much the same way that her family is changing. Brian is only able to snap Peter out of his delusion by comparing him to Lando Calrissian and smashing his Star Wars collector's glasses. Although Peter returns to reality, he is still $100,000,000 short on covering his auction bid when a representative from the Historical Society comes to collect. After several futile attempts to "prove" that Cherrywood Manor has enough historical value to cover the bid, Peter finds a set of hidden photographs. The pictures show several prominent American figures (including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant) at Cherrywood Manor, which was a whorehouse at the time. Not only does the discovery make Cherrywood enormously valuable, but Peter auctions off one of the pictures to repurchase their old house.
[edit] Notes
- A commercial with shadows and visible jewelery is a spoof of the De Beers commercial. The part in the commercial parody where the female shadow slides down to orally pleasure the male shadow was cut short after it first came on and has been shown that way on FOX reruns, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim showings, and on the DVD.
- During the musical number, "This House is Freakin' Sweet", Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist is hired to help Chris with his homework. Interestingly, Hawking taps his right foot to the music despite the fact he was rendered a quadriplegic by motor neurone disease.
[edit] Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.
- Peter does the "Big money, no Whammys!" spiel used by contestants on the game show Press Your Luck.
- Marguerite's video is based on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and is actually narrated by Robin Leach.
- When making the $100 million bid during the charity auction, Peter is doing a hand gesture reminiscent of Dr. Evil's signature gesture from the Austin Powers series.
- This House is Freaking Sweet, the song sung by Peter and the Cherrywood servants, parodies the song I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here from Annie.
- The two little girls from the The Shining appear in a hallway in front of Stewie.
- The two waiters fight to the death to music from the James Kirk and Spock duel from the Star Trek Original Series episode Amok Time.
- One scene shows Ted Turner announcing that he has colorized the moon. In the 1980s, Turner caused controversy by digitally adding color to black and white films. A tongue-in-cheek announcement of the colorization of Citizen Kane caused wide public outcry. In actuality, Turner did not own the rights to the film (the rights were owned and held by Orson Welles himself), and had no plans to colorize it.
- The Breakers and Rosecliff are real mansions in Newport.
- Lois' flashback of her dancing with Peter is a reference to a scene from Dirty Dancing; the song playing in the background is "Do you love me" by The Contours.
[edit] References
- Callaghan, Steve. "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater ." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 44 - 46.
- Delarte, Alonso. "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2." Bob's Poetry Magazine May 2005: 5 - 7. http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf
| Preceded by: "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "Holy Crap" |
