Model Misbehavior

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“Model Misbehavior”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 10
Written by	Steve Callaghan
Directed by	Sarah Frost
Production no.	4ACX13
Original airdate	July 24, 2005
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"Model Misbehavior" is an episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The episode is a parody of the TV movie Model Behavior.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

During a visit with her parents, Lois recalls her teenage aspirations to be a model. In defiance of her father's wishes, she begins modelling and becomes very successful. Soon, however, she takes diet pills that her agent Karin Perrotta gives her, and stays out all night, and Peter becomes very jealous of the lust she inspires in other men. Desperate to get her out of the fashion world, Peter collaborates with Carter to get her back on track. They kidnap her at a Vogue party and bring her back to the Griffin's, where Carter demands that Lois quit her modeling career. Seeing his wife's great desire for modeling, Peter soon acquieses to Lois' career, insisting to Carter that it is her right. Realizing that she indeed has the full freedom to fulfill her wishes, she quits the career anyway, and Peter and Lois have sex on Carter's back. Meanwhile, Stewie starts a pyramid scheme business ("Cash$cam"). Brian learns he has worms and, unable to afford the medication but too embarrassed to ask Peter for money, reluctantly agrees to work for Stewie.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

While playing the DVD containing this episode, after the Griffins win the boat race and Lois holds up a newspaper, then, if looked closely at or while paused, the headline on the newspaper reads "DVDS PAUSED FOR HEADLINE GAG, MILLIONS DISAPPOINTED."
In one part of the episode, Stewie asks Brian to get rid of the "Life's a Beach" coffee mug because the "other employees" find it offensive. Brian then asks who else works at CashScam and Stewie replies "Fuck you, that's who works here!" The "Fuck" is bleeped out on FOX and Adult Swim, but can be heard on the uncensored track of the DVD.
In the scene before Lois uses Diet Pills her eye make-up dissapears but return in the scene after.

[edit] Cultural references

A worm in Brian's stomach says that even though he knows nothing of the world outside the dog, he still thinks Six Feet Under is pretentious.
Stewie talks to Grover on a play phone.
When Brian gets a job at Stewie's Cash Scam, Stewie tells Brian "If Cookie Monster calls, tell him I'm not talking to him until he gets out of rehab." Later in the episode, Lois sees him as a desperate, jittery addict, seated in a bathroom stall of the Drunken Clam trying to freebase cookie dough using a spoon and a cigarette lighter. Earlier in the episode, the monster also screams "You guys are freaking Nazis, man" when he is discovered with hiding cookies in his cell. This is a line from the movie Fight Club.
John Hinckley fires the starting pistol at the regatta, then walks away with Jodie Foster. In 1981 Hinckley attempted to murder Ronald Reagan in order to impress Foster, with whom he was obsessed.
The famous Maxell "Blown Away Guy" is parodied during the flashback when Carter initially disapproves of Lois's modeling career.
The founding fathers are shown debating on whether to call the state of Rhode Island, Rhode Island or Cacapoopoopeepeeshire. They eventually decided on flipping a coin to make the decision and RI prevailed. The comical sounding name is a portmanteau word fusing the Spanish slang word for feces: caca, poopoo, peepee, and the place name suffix: -shire. In Spanish it was translated as Cacapupupipílandia literally, caca, poopoo (pupu), peepee (pipí), and -landia meaning land, replacing -shire; it therefore translates back to English as Shitpoopoopeepeeland.
When Peter asks Lois "aren't you going to go do your little turn on the cat walk, Lois, on the catwalk, yeah on the catwalk. Do your little turn on the catwalk?" he makes reference to the 90s song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
When the evil monkey from Chris' closet lies on Chris' bed, this duplicates a scene when Mitch Kramer lies in his bed from the film Dazed and Confused, except that the evil monkey rolls himself a joint, while Mitch did not.
Stewie's line to Brian "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right" is very similar to a quote attributed to Henry Ford.
One of Lois's photoshoot (when the dog is tearing off her underwear), is a parody of the Coppertone girl.
In the crowd on the yacht scene one of the ladies closely resembles Veronica Lake.
When Stewie is in Louis's room as a teenager, he sees a trophy. He refers to this trophy as the second most impressive trophy he has ever seen. A clip is shown where bachelor Stewie calls out "Album of the year goes to Justin Timberlake". When Timberlake walks onstage to accept, Stewie clubs him in the face with the trophy, then says "Actually, it goes to Nelly... Nelly".