You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives

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Family Guy Episode

"You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives"

Episode no.:

Prod. code:

4ACX28

Airdate:

April 30, 2006

Writer(s):

David A. Goodman

Director:

Dominic Polcino

Guest star(s):

Adam West

"You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives" is an episode from season 4 of FOX animated television series Family Guy. The episode deals with the controversy of same-sex marriage.

[edit] Plot summary

Brian's gay cousin Jasper comes to Quahog with his Filipino boyfriend, Ricardo.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

They eventually reveal they came to Quahog to get married.

Meanwhile, Mayor Adam West makes a solid gold statue of Dig 'Em, dedicated to the Quahog servicemen who died in the "recent Gulf conflict". This puts the city in enormous debt and makes his approval ratings plunge. In order to distract his constituency, he makes a bill outlawing gay marriage.

Brian vows to make West change his mind. He creates a petition, eventually getting 10,000 people to sign. Lois, who is against gay marriage, refuses to sign. To escape this, she eventually decides go visit her parents with Stewie. The day before he can present the petition to the mayor, Chris burns it because a girl he likes (who is a Young Republican) tells him he can touch her breasts if he destroys the petition.

Brian eventually gets 10,000 more people to sign, but the Mayor doesn't change his mind. Brian eventually takes a security guard's gun, holding the mayor hostage.

Lois hears about Brian on TV, finds out that her parents don't love each other, and changes her mind on gay marriage. She returns to Quahog, and convinces Brian to free the mayor. Since Brian's antics distracted everyone from the Dig 'Em fiasco, the mayor no longer needs the bill and destroys it, and Jasper and Ricardo get married.

[edit] Notes

This episode has an alternate version of the closing theme song.
We find out Mr. Bottomtooth (first seen in the episode "Brian Goes Back to College") is a fundamentalist Christian, and apparently resides in Quahog. After turning Brian away, he sings a hymn (Amazing Grace) in his customary Locust Valley Lockjaw as he accompanies himself on piano.
When people are protesting, Adam West uses his Political Diversions List. It reads: Outlaw Flag Burning, Use Escape Pod, Scapegoat the Jews, Suicide, Scapegoat the Blacks, Scapegoat the French, Scapegoat the Jews again (Call them New Yorkers), start a war, and Jingle Keys. He chooses "Jingle Keys".
Chris is seen with short hair in this episode because he had it trimmed to join the Young Republicans club. The only other times where he was shown with short hair was in "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Bucks" (though it was spiked and dyed green) and in Stewie Griffin, The Untold Story (thirty years in the future).
Mayor Adam West mentioned in the episode The Story on Page One that he never speaks to the press, but here he is seen at a press conference speaking to reporters.
Jasper's fiancee Ricardo had appeared in the episode "Brian Does Hollywood." Jasper explained in that episode that Ricardo doesn't speak a word of English, and in this episode he doesn't say a word (though in a deleted scene on the Family Guy Volume 4 DVD, he has a conversation with Stewie in Filipino about what is going on and Stewie replies that it's his wedding, with Ricardo laughing thinking it's a joke).
Meg, played by Mila Kunis, does not speak in this episode at all, although she is shown at the dinner table when Jasper arrives and at the wedding at the end of the episode.

[edit] Cultural references

Peter hopes that Jasper would be a better house-guest then their last one, Moby Dick, who complains about Peter's cereal selection.
Stewie intentionally directs Matthew McConaughey's private jet into the ocean while taking over air traffic control. When McConaughey comes to the Griffins' house looking for him, Stewie shoots the actor dead with an arrow and goes off to bury the body.
Adam West spends taxpayer money on a solid gold statue of Dig 'Em, the frog mascot for Honey Smacks cereal.
Peter asks Jasper if showering at 'The Y' is like Supermarket Sweep for gay people, or if there is some kind of etiquette.
In a cutaway, a doctor tells Popeye that his large forearms are actually due to huge tumors in his arms and that his eye tic and speech impediment are due to a stroke he had a few years ago. (Similar to a scene in And the Wiener Is..., but with a different patient, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.)
Lois thinks that David Schwimmer is a homosexual.
In order to become a Young Republican, Chris is told he must go through a rite of initiation. This rite involves throwing raw eggs at Bill Clinton. Chris screams at Clinton that he is a liberal chubby chaser.
Bill Clinton also appeared in the episode "E. Peterbus Unum"; in both episodes he is seen naked.
Stewie found a spare Volkswagen Scirocco key in a candy dish, along with a Luden's cough drop, a fishing lure, and an eyeglass lens. The spare key was later given to Adam West to drop charges against Brian.
To keep himself prepared for a hostage situation, Adam West swallowed a board game of Stratego, a life raft, and a 1989 issue of People, with a Paul Hogan interview that tells about the "real Crocodile Dundee."
Brian mentions having to do something he is not proud of, having to watch Sex and the City. He then asks if the show is about "three hookers and their mom." The mom being, of course, Kim Cattrall. Yet in the episode Brian Does Hollywood, he says it's an alright show.
Peter recalls how he helped Luke Skywalker by taking the place of Han Solo's Tauntaun (a reference to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back).
Peter makes the unseen audience laugh by doing catchphrases in a mock African-American accent. This could possibly be a reference to Chappelle's Show, where catchphrases were used as a source of comic relief.
Brian, Stewie, and Jasper are watching Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The Sound of Music'. At the end of the movie, where the Von Trapp family gets away and the Nazis are stranded at the nunnery due to the nuns removing car parts, one of the nuns claims that she, too, has sinned; she has beheaded Rolf.
Glenn Quagmire sings the chorus to Ross Bagdasarian's song Witch Doctor after declining to sign Brian's petition.

Brian and his cousin Jasper

When Lois realizes she's been brainwashed by her family, a cutaway shows Elizabeth Smart back with her family.
In a cutaway, Peter does a studio recording on I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) with The Proclaimers.
When the priest shows the video about homosexuals to Lois, it says it was made by Pat Robertson Industries; this is a reference to Pat Robertson, an American Evangelist who often spoke against Gay Rights. The creature that comes out of the person and attacks the doctor is a reference to Alien.
When Chris visits the "Society of Arch-Republican Students" the sign on the window exhibits the acronym SARS, meaning Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
According to Brian, he was with a woman three years before the Challenger Disaster, breaking continuity with the episode "Road to Rhode Island", which has Brian was born around 1993.
When Chris tells Brian that gay marriage is against the Bible, Brian responds by saying, "The Bible also says that a senior citizen built an ark to house two of every animal. It then cuts to Noah on the ark, arguing with a penguin and elephant who produced a penguin with an elephant's head. The fight ends with Noah saying he'll throw the creature overboard.
When Stewie complains that Jasper and Ricardo were making too much noise, Jasper says that they were playing Clue and that "[Ricardo] got me in the bedroom with a lead pipe".