Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey
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| “Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 13 |
| Guest stars | Roy Scheider as himself |
| Written by | Steve Callaghan |
| Directed by | Dominic Polcino |
| Production no. | 5ACX07 |
| Original airdate | March 11, 2007 |
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"Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey" is a season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The title of this episode is a parody of the film title Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. The episode accumulated a 4.8/7 Nielsen rating on its original airing -- around 7.88 million viewers tuned in.[1]
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[edit] Plot summary
After a run in with an octopus at an aquarium, Peter realizes he is out of shape and goes to a gym to work out. His feelings of being fit are dashed, however, when he injures himself trying to help former President Bill Clinton change a tire. While lying in the hospital, Peter begins to feel depressed about getting old, until Bill Clinton himself decides to cheer him up by showing him a good time and that age is merely a state of mind. When Bill and Peter's partying starts to get out of hand, Lois decides to try and convince Bill to not be friends with Peter anymore. When she arrives at his hotel, however, she ends up sleeping with him instead. Peter, expecting to hang out again with Bill, walks in on them, leading to a guilt-ridden Lois deciding the only way to make things right is to let Peter sleep with someone of his picking. To Lois's shock, Peter chooses Babs, Lois's mother. Though Babs turns out to be quite willing, Peter can't go through with it and forgives Lois. He then goes to talk with Bill himself to break off their friendship, but, just like Lois, he instead ends up in bed with him.
In a side story, Lois forces Brian to potty train himself (in a toilet instead of the yard), but even with Stewie's help, he is less than successful and ends up finding Mayor West's yard to be a suitable place to relieve himself rather than the Griffin's. Mayor West believes that it is a result of his "sausage seeds" (no innuendo intended).
[edit] Notes
- The previous appearance of Bill Clinton in Family Guy was in the episode "You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives." He also appeared in the episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Da Boom", and "E Peterbus Unum". However, this is his first major appearance involving much of the plot.
- While in the hospital Peter refers to Bill as Reagan.
- This is the second show of Seth McFarlane's to have a US president hang out with the main characters. In the American Dad episode "Bush Comes to Dinner", Stan Smith spends the episode with current President George W. Bush and also the second time the show mentions Reagan.
- This is the second time in the series that Lois has received a thoughtless Christmas gift. The first time was in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, where she gets an arcade-style Galaga system from Peter, only to end up getting thrown out a window along with the Christmas tree by Peter. In this episode, Brian gives Lois a dead bird and Chris a dead cat.
[edit] Censorship
The following were changed or deleted on the Fox airing of this episode, but aired on Adult Swim:
- Roy Scheider's toilet training video was slightly edited. FOX deletes the shot of him pulling his pants down and his grunting noises when "demonstrating". FOX also changed a line to remove the word "pushing", and changed his line about having Susan St. James "help me wipe" to "powder my ass" instead.
- On Adult Swim, Bill tells an offensive joke about NAFTA (he calls it "'Nother Afternoon of Fucking That Ass", with "fucking" bleeped out) after having sex with Lois. This joke was omitted from the original FOX broadcast and replaced with him asking Lois to hand him the cigar he stuck inside her so he can smoke it.
- Bill Clinton's "exit polling" joke is cut short on FOX to remove the use of the word "jizz".
- The scene in which Quagmire asks to drag his sack across Peter and Lois' faces, then apologizing and explaining that he "asks many women that" while they are in his house is completely deleted.
[edit] Cultural references
- The saxophone solo Clinton plays at the hospital is the theme song to Night Court.
- Footage of country singer Conway Twitty was featured twice in this episode (singing "Your Love Had Taken Me That High" and "You've Never Been This Far Before"). The scene transition to his appearance is similar to a format used on Hee Haw.
- Carter Pewterschmidt is watching an episode of Medium and wishes that he could talk to ghosts.
- When Seamus throws the octopus right into a wall, the octopus goes down it like a Wacky Wall Walker, an octopus-like toy from the 1980's.
- The "Lost City of New Orleans" is a reference to Hurricane Katrina and the city of Atlantis.
- When Peter and Bill Clinton are playing Dance Dance Revolution, the song they are dancing to is Aqua's "Barbie Girl".
- When Bill and Peter make their first crank call, Bill dials the number for Linda Tripp and then makes a sexist remark at her regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
- In a cutaway, The Thing from The Fantastic Four is a victim of Lorena Bobbitt, who in 1993 cut her husband's penis off. The orange rock penis is possibly a reference to the 1995 movie Mallrats, where Brodie Bruce asks Stan Lee if Thing's penis is made of orange rock.
- Brian and Stewie watches a toilet training video featuring Roy Scheider.
- In the scene where Meg approaches Clinton after his saxophone performance wearing a white bra and pink panties may be a reference to Empire Records where Liv Tyler's character approaches a musician wearing similarly colored undergarments.
[edit] Goofs
- Stewie refers to The Elephant Man as John Merrick, but he was actually named Joseph Merrick. This may have been intended as a reference to the movie in which the Elephant Man is named John.
- In this episode, Brian doesnt know how to use a toilet. Although Brian has been shown to use a toilet before, such as in Screwed the Pooch and Stewie Loves Lois.
| Preceded by "Airport '07" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by "No Meals on Wheels" |
