Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater

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“Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 8
Guest stars	Robin Leach , Fairuza Balk
Written by	Chris Sheridan
Directed by	Jeff Myers
Production no.	1ACX08
Original airdate	September 23, 1999
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"Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. It was produced for season 1 and aired in season 2. Guest starring Robin Leach as himself and Fairuza Balk as Connie D'Amico. This is the first episode of the season, the last episode of the previous season is "Brian: Portrait of a Dog." This episode's title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Lois' wealthy aunt Marguerite Pewterschmidt comes to visit, but drops dead on their doorstep (much to Peter's relief) "be careful what you wish for, eh Lois". A videotaped message from Aunt Marguerite informs Lois that she inherits Cherrywood Manor in Newport, Rhode Island. There, the Griffins receive a warm musical welcome from the house's staff, who immediately leave afterward ("The old bag only paid us up through the song."). Peter hires them back after admitting that he secretly sold their former house in Quahog.

Naturally, Peter has trouble fitting in with the blueblood cluster, while Stewie adapts immediately to ordering servants around, even commanding two to fight to the death for his amusement. Peter begs Brian to teach him how to be a gentleman. After several attempts through regular methods, Brian resorts to shock therapy. When Peter arrives at a ritzy auction that night, Lois is shocked to see him behaving himself and conversing easily with the upper crust crowd. Unfortunately, he also appears to believe himself fabulously wealthy, as he nonchalantly bids $100,000,000 for a vase.

Peter claims to have the Underground Railroad.

Lois demands that the family return to Quahog as soon as possible; she says that she left Newport because it changed people in much the same way that her family is changing. Brian is only able to snap Peter out of his delusion by comparing him to Lando Calrissian and smashing his Star Wars collector's glasses. Although Peter returns to reality, he is still $100,000,000 short on covering his auction bid when a representative from the Historical Society comes to collect. After several futile attempts to "prove" that Cherrywood Manor has enough historical value to cover the bid, Peter finds a set of hidden photographs. The pictures show several prominent American figures (including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant) at Cherrywood Manor, which was a whorehouse at the time. Not only does the discovery make Cherrywood enormously valuable, but Peter auctions off one of the pictures to repurchase their old house.

In the end Peter no longer cares what Lois's family thinks of him, since her ancestors were nothing more then a bunch of pimps and whores.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

This is the first episode to not have a sequence before the opening credits.
A commercial with shadows and visible jewelery is a spoof of the De Beers commercial. The part in the commercial parody where the female shadow slides down to orally pleasure the male shadow was cut short after it first came on and has been shown that way on FOX reruns, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim showings, and on the DVD.
During the musical number, "This House is Freakin' Sweet", Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist is hired to help Chris with his homework. Interestingly, Hawking taps his right foot to the music despite the fact he was rendered a quadriplegic by motor neurone disease.
The Star Wars collector glass that Brian shows Peter apparently depicts scenes from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. However, Luke is shown holding a green lightsaber, which he doesn't get until the next movie, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

[edit] Cultural references

Marguerite's video is based on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and is actually narrated by Robin Leach.
This House is Freaking Sweet, the song sung by Peter and the Cherrywood servants, parodies the song I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here from Annie.
The infamous "A diamond is forever" commercial by De Beers is parodied, where silhouettes depict a man slipping a diamond ring around a woman's finger. However, after they kiss, the woman appears to kneel, presumbly to perform oral sex, and the slogan is instead "She'll pretty much have to".
The two little girls from the The Shining appear in a hallway in front of Stewie. They also appear in the beginning of PTV.
The two waiters fight to the death to music from the James Kirk and Spock duel from the Star Trek Original Series episode "Amok Time".
One scene shows Ted Turner announcing that he has colorized the moon, in reference to Turner's tongue-in-cheek announcement of the colorization of Citizen Kane.
The Breakers and Rosecliff are real mansions in Newport.
Lois' flashback of her dancing with Peter is a reference to a scene from Dirty Dancing; the song playing in the background is "Do you love me" by The Contours.
Near the end of the episode, The Cosby Show is parodied during a skit in which Theo tells his dad that he got a girl pregnant.
Brian borrows dialogue from Star Wars Episode V to explain to Peter he's not really a millionaire.

[edit] Goof

In the reference to the Coca-Cola commercial, Mean Joe Greene's surname is misspelled as "GREEN".

[edit] References

Callaghan, Steve. "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater ." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 44 - 46.
Delarte, Alonso. "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2." Bob's Poetry Magazine May 2005: 5 - 7. http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf