Barely Legal (Family Guy)

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“Barely Legal”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 88
Guest stars	Drew Barrymore Garrett Morris
Written by	Kirker Butler
Directed by	Zac Moncrief
Production no.	5ACX03
Original airdate	December 17, 2006
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"Barely Legal" is a season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After Mayor Adam West deploys the entire Quahog police department to Cartagena, Colombia to search for a character from Romancing the Stone, Joe becomes bogged down at work, being the only officer not sent to Colombia (he was not sent because South America is "not wheelchair accessible"). Because of this, Peter and the guys decide to become police officers to help Joe.

Meanwhile, Meg comes home from school threatening to commit suicide because she does not have a date for her school dance. As a last resort, Brian agrees to take her. Brian hides his unhappiness in attending by getting drunk, but at the end of night he manages to bring Connie D'Amico down a level when defending Meg. He has so much to drink that he ends up kissing Meg at the end of the dance (followed by vomiting, which he claims is from the drinking) .

After the dance, Meg begins to consider Brian her boyfriend, but Brian tells her he has no intentions to date her. However, Meg becomes obsessed with Brian and she begins to make bizarre advances at him. She ends up knocking him out and tying him up at a hotel in an attempt to have sex with him, but she is stopped by Peter and his friends.

Quagmire offers his services to straighten Meg out. Meg comes to his house and instead of sleeping with her as expected, Quagmire has a heart-to-heart talk with her, explaining that she doesn't need to have a boyfriend to have fun as a teenager and gives her a book, Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece to guide her.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Censorship

Several lines were changed and one scene was cut for the FOX version, but were shown on Cartoon Network:

When Brian drunkenly stands up to Connie D'Amico, he states in the FOX version that Connie was insecure because she put out for guys when she was 12 years old. The Cartoon Network version uses the original version where Brian states that Connie D'Amico was insecure because she gave handjobs to guys when she was 12.
The FOX version only had one use of the word "masturbate," whereas Adult Swim had two more mentions of the word.
In the FOX version, Stewie states that Meg's pubic hair (her "carpet") and the hair on her head (her "drapes") are the same in color and length. The Adult Swim version replaces "length" with "quantity".
In the Adult Swim version, Brian tells Lois that Meg made him eat her "hair pie" while the FOX version has the less explicit line "hair in her pie".
The Adult Swim version has Peter mentioning the man Woody Allen brought home as a Chinaman while the FOX version uses the phrase "Oriental guy".
The Adult Swim version has a scene after the part where Quagmire gets a cavity search where Quagmire, Peter, Mort, and Cleveland drink from a cup to test for traces of Phencyclidine (PCP). While Peter wonders which cup has the PCP, Quagmire (having drunk the liquid laced with PCP) is freaking out and ripping the skin from his arm.

[edit] Cultural references

Meg is the third family member that Brian has kissed. The first family member was Peter (Brian: Portrait of a Dog) (although it was a lick on the cheek) and the second was Stewie (Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?, Deep Throats and Saving Private Brian).
Peter names the giraffe he steals from the zoo Allison Janney.
The townsfolk (after they remove their white disguises and are revealed to be black) sing "Everybody Rejoice/A Brand New Day", a song from The Wiz. The scene spoofs that in which the Wicked Witch of the West's slaves (grotesque, leather-skinned creatures) shed their skin to reveal attractive young black people underneath.
The music playing when Peter and the gang arrive at the Quahog Police Academy is the theme song from the Police Academy movies. Peter mentions that "it is their first day at Police Academy 4", in which ordinary civilians are trained as police officers. Quagmire specifically also wears a t-shirt that says "ONE IN THE OVEN" as worn by Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg).
Meg's friends think that Brian resembles actor Ben Affleck.

"Meg with her date..."

Garrett Morris cameoed as the "headmaster of the New York School for the Hard-of-Hearing", a part that he played while a cast member on Saturday Night Live during Weekend Update (particularly during the first season, when Chevy Chase was Weekend Update anchor). At the end, he says "Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow", which was the closing line during Chevy Chase's tenure on Weekend Update.
The scene in which Brian is kidnapped and tied up by Meg is a parody of The King of Comedy.
There is a running joke about a phonological distinction of words like while and whip, where one character will pronounce the "h" and Brian will insist it sounds odd to do so. See the pronunciation of wh.
During a body cavity search that Peter performs on Quagmire at the Police training course, Peter extracts a cellphone, a doorknob, a piece of Swiss Cheese, a wind-up toy car, a barely-alive fish, a DVD copy of Good Burger, and a xylophone set.
Quagmire hands Meg the book The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein, a book that deals with relationships using a round creature missing a piece.
The two songs being played during the prom scene are "Hold On To The Nights" by Richard Marx and "Why" by Annie Lennox
Most of Meg's scenes (where she obsesses over Brian) are reminiscent to Glenn Close's scenes in the movie Fatal Attraction
During the scene when Peter and the boys raid Meg's hotel room (where Brian is tied up), Cleveland yells "Don't move, dirtbag!", a line that was said by Sgt. Hooks from Police Academy. It is also said on the Family Guy video game and a frequent line used by Joe, though he occasionally changes it to "Freeze, Dirtbag."