Jungle Love (Family Guy)

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“Jungle Love”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 13
Guest stars	Carrie Fisher, Will Ferrell and Jay Mohr
Written by	Mark Hentemann
Directed by	Seth Kearsley
Production no.	4ACX16
Original airdate	September 25, 2005
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"Jungle Love" is the thirteenth episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. Guest starring Carrie Fisher as Angela and Jay Mohr as the Joe Pesci-like Vinny.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Chris is excited to become a freshman at the local high school, until Joe tells Chris about the "Freshman Hunt", a hazing ritual in which the freshmen are beaten with paddles by everyone. When Chris shows up at school Lois yells out "Freshman!" to lure over other students. After a short chase Chris is caught, and is paddled by several people, including the mayor, playing a part in the movie Dazed and Confused. Chris asks Brian for advice.

In the meantime, Peter, who has been unemployed for quite some time, goes to work at the Pawtucket Brewery, where drinking on the job is allowed as long as the employee can control himself. But Peter can't control his drinking, so he is demoted to working for a mentally handicapped man whom he can't understand, but is more qualified than him (Opie).

Brian tells Chris about his time in the Peace Corps. Chris decides to join the Corps and goes to South America, where he becomes popular with the natives and as according to the tribe's customs, is now married to the chief's daughter.

When Lois learns of this she immediately travels down to the country with the rest of the family. Disillusioned with his new job, Peter is as eager to go there as anyone else. Upon their arrival Peter is seen as the richest man in the country with just $37. Many of the natives of the country then become Peter's slave for just nickels and dimes. When Chris accuses Peter of "using" the natives to escape his troubles Lois points out that that is also what Chris did. Chris then decides to return to Rhode Island, telling his wife that he must leave her, casually referring to his status as a freshman. The natives respond exactly as the upperclassmen in Quahog do, so they chase the Griffins with spears and poison darts. They escape on a plane, but forget about Meg, who is shot down by many darts.

[edit] Notes

From this episode forward, Peter is employed as a shipping clerk (a brewer before he was demoted) at the Pawtucket Pat Brewery. It was last seen in "Wasted Talent" (in a spoof of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) and has changed since Pawtucket Pat sold it. Chris also becomes a freshman at James Woods High.
Even though Meg is shot with darts, she appears well in the next episode.
Peter's ideal jobs are cowboy, astronaut, warlock, more powerful astronaut, and beer expert. This is referenced in a further episode Patriot Games when Peter pretends to be a "Secret Agent Cowboy Astronaut Millionaire" in order to impress his old friends at a high school reunion.

[edit] Cultural references

The episode's title is a reference to a single of the same name by Steve Miller Band (Morris Day also has a song with the same name).
At the beginning of the episode, Peter and his friends watch an episode of the HBO western drama Deadwood, which puns on the word wood (a slang for erection).
The scene in which Chris is beaten with paddles is from the movie Dazed and Confused. As in the film, the song in the background is "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper. Mayor Adam West's sequence is directly referencing Ben Affleck's character from the same film.
Peter gets his new job (at the Pawtucket Brewery) from an unemployment office worker who uses a Commodore 64.
In a cutaway, Peter has a job as "Sandy Duncan's glass eye." Duncan is a Broadway and television actress who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1972. She said that she lost sight in one eye and unconfirmed rumors persist that it was removed and replaced with a prosthetic. Sandy Duncan was referenced in the musical number from Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows.
When Peter is Sandy Duncan's glass eye, he tells her to get Boo Berry instead of the breakfast cereal she had chosen.
When Lois tries to recall which of the family’s acquaintances was in the Peace Corps, Peter suggests actor Beau Bridges who was never in the Peace Corps.
In a cutaway, Peter was "Kevin Federline's magic mirror". In which he told Kevin to not shave or shower, keep wearing his muscleshirt that he slept in all day, and walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment after he asked Peter how he could be a douchebag that day.
Stewie is also shown dressed as Dustin Hoffman from the film Tootsie.
The chief has a cousin named Vinny, an obvious parody of Joe Pesci's character in the movie My Cousin Vinny.
The chief says "Never had it, never will" and laughs. This was a commercial slogan for 7 Up from the 80's, indicating that 7-Up was always caffeine free.
Peter asks Chris who was the female star of in the 1980s detective series Remington Steele. Chris is right; it was Stephanie Zimbalist.
The song Chris leads the tribe in singing is Wham!'s 1984 hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".
Peter pays the natives to re-enact the infamous "Contest" episode from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The dialogue spoken by the high priestess playing Elaine, however, is from the episode "The Stall".
In a cutaway, Stewie tours Europe with a musical rendition of My Left Foot, Irish author Christy Brown's memoir of his struggle with cerebral palsy, which was turned into an acclaimed film starring Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989. Neither the book nor the film were as whimsical as Stewie's interpretation.
There is an extended sequence in which Stewie flies to Los Angeles to punch actor/comedian Will Ferrell for his role in the 2005 film remake of the television series Bewitched, which generally opened to poor reviews [1]. The writers of the show stated in the DVD commentary for this episode that they like Will Ferrell, but they hated the film remake of Bewitched and felt let down by him (and mentioned that the joke was originally Stewie going to beat up Steve Martin after seeing him in "Bringing Down The House"). Ferrell previously guest starred in the episode Mr. Saturday Knight.
The ending, including the music played, is a reference to a scene in Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Chris makes a reference to Lou Gehrig being a hero, a clip is then shown of Lou creating a poison he calls Lou Gehrig's disease to enslave the Earth. The poison then spills on Lou causing him to contract the disease, he is then shown in a wheelchair saying "I guess the joke's on me."
Peter has a flash-back to when he was an assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, showing Peter morphed into a Beaker design and meeping. Bunsen laughs and remarks "Agreed, Peter".