Holy Crap

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“Holy Crap”
Family Guy episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 9
Guest stars	Colm Meaney , Dwight Schultz, Carlos Alazraqui, Florence Stanley
Written by	Danny Smith
Directed by	Neil Affleck
Production no.	1ACX11
Original airdate	September 30, 1999
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"Holy Crap" is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. It was produced for season 1 and aired in season 2. After this episode, FOX put the series on hiatus and then new episodes were shown irregularly thereafter. Guest starring Colm Meaney as Francis Griffin, Dwight Schultz as the Pope, Carlos Alazraqui as Mr. Weed, and Florence Stanley as Thelma Griffin (the wife of Francis Griffin).

[edit] Plot summary

Peter’s religiously devout father Francis is forced to retire from his job at the mill. Peter brings his dad to live with his family (much to Lois’ chagrin, since Francis hates her because she’s Protestant and Peter's Catholic) and immediately problems start. He yells at Chris for masturbating in the bathroom when he is merely defecating, and makes Meg feel guilty for holding hands with a neighbor boy. When he is hired at the toy factory Peter works at, he displays excellent proficiency and is made foreman, he fires Peter. Peter decides to “kidnap” the Pope, and tries to have the Pope help him out.

Father and son reconcile at the end, and Francis is hired for a job with the Pope’s tour of the United States.

[edit] Notes

• Patrick Warburton, who voices Joe Swanson on the show, appears in this episode, voicing Superman (whom he also voiced on a commercial for American Express with Jerry Seinfeld).
• At the end of the episode when the Pope is walking to the church you can see an Atheist's symbol on the building behind him.
• Francis Griffin next appears in the episode "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" (and a cameo in "The Perfect Castaway" with Thelma for the mourning of Peter, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire). He also makes another (and last) appearance in Peter's Two Dads, where he is killed after Peter falls on him. It is also revealed in that episode, that he is not Peter's real father.
• Francis is voiced by Colm Meaney in this episode. In subsequent appearances, the character will be voiced by Charles Durning.
• This episode was temporarily banned from being aired between April 2, 2005 – April 19, 2005 because of the death of Pope John Paul II, as it was deemed inappropriate to air.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cultural references

• A commercial parodies the "Got milk?" ad campaign.
• After Brian mentions the Old Testament story in which "God told Abraham to kill Isaac," a cutaway shows President Abraham Lincoln shooting bartender Isaac from The Love Boat.
• Peter mistakes a Curious George story for one from the Bible.
• The Griffins watch an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which parodies Van Dyke’s physical humor.
• The lyrics to the unofficial Major League Baseball anthem “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” make their way into Brian and Peter’s conversation.
• Peter imagines his father-son business with his father as was that of Lamont Sanford and his father, Fred G. Sanford in Sanford and Son.
• Peter says that baseball worked as a means of male bonding that worked for “Rosie O'Donnell and his dad in A League of Their Own,” a 1992 film depicting the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
• When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about him being “faster than a speeding bullet.”
• The back of the jacket of one of the Pope’s road managers reads “Pope-a-Palooza,” a reference to the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza.
• Peter drives the Pope past the chain gang from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
• The Pope comments that he doesn't think that he is in Boston, and Peter supposedly points out Harvard, but instead points to a barn. When the Pope says "That's just a barn," Peter replies "Ohh, someone went to Yale!," a reference to the fierce rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
• Mirroring the end of The Wizard of Oz, Peter gives encouraging talks to the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, but instead of the Cowardly Lion, he compliments out-of-the-spotlight actress Kristy McNichol.
• The sequence in which Peter exclaims "To the Popemobile!" parodies sequences in which Batman and Robin rush to the Batmobile in the 1960s Batman television series, which starred Family Guy cast member Adam West.
• The license plate of the Popemobile reads ZL PA PA and IL PA PA. "Il papa" means "the Pope" in Italian.

[edit] Goofs

The cardinals in the pope a palooza room say that Jesus is misspelled "Jebus" on page 375. Jesus would not have been mentioned until the new testament.

[edit] References

• Callaghan, Steve. "Holy Crap." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 47 - 49.
• Delarte, Alonso. "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2." Bob's Poetry Magazine May 2005: 7 - 8. http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf

Preceded by "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater"

Family Guy Episodes

Followed by "Da Boom"