Stewie B. Goode

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“Stewie B. Goode”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 4 Episode S1
Written by	Chris Sheridan Gary Janetti
Production no.	4ACX05
Original airdate	May 21, 2006
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"Stewie B. Goode" is an episode from season 4 of FOX animated television series Family Guy, consisting of the first part of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Peter and Lois try to teach Stewie how to swim. After meeting the star pupil of the swimming class, Brad, Stewie finds he can not stand the other child. Attempting to beat him in a race, Stewie ends up barely leaving the starting line. He attempts to kill Brad by luring him with a piece of marzipan to the lifeguard tower (which has dynamite strapped to the legs). Due to a delay of the detonation mechanism of the TNT, Brad is able to finish the marzipan and escape. Stewie investigates what went wrong when the dynamite explodes, bringing the lifeguard tower down on Stewie. He wakes in Hell, sitting on a bed in a hotel room with a 'Welcome to Hell' sign above it. Stewie mentions "it's not bad" before Steve Allen walks in and gets ready to take off his clothes (refer to Cultural References below). Stewie is able to climb out of the collapsed tower and starts acting politer. He begins treating Brian nice until Brian brings a perfectly destroyed spider-web and said he ate the spider which results in Stewie calling him 'a bastard' and whacking him with a rolled-up newspaper. Brian then says that Stewie should try to find something to make him kind and nice like Brian who drinks alcoholic drinks like a martini. This leads Stewie to wanting a drink though Brian does not oblige him. Once Brian has left, Stewie takes a glass. This leads to him becoming extremely inebriated. As Stewie refuses to stop drinking, Brian decides to make Stewie so drunk he'll never want to touch alcohol again. After five martinis at the Drunken Clam, Both are extremely drunk. Stewie attempts to drive them home and ends up crashing into the Drunken Clam. The next day, Stewie ends up with a hangover. Brian's plan has worked. This plotline is Part One of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

At the video store Peter starts ranting on how the new video store will not sell pornography. At the same time Tom Tucker from Quahog News is there and wants to give Peter his own segment called 'You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?' The segment instantly becomes popular, prompting a jealous streak in Tom as he becomes jealous of Peter's fame. The next day he attempts to sabotage Peter's segment, leading to the network head's firing of Tom. After a short period, Tom Tucker learns of Stewie's drinking and driving the car into the Drunken Clam. Peter's lack of parenting skills lead to his being fired and Tom Tucker being rehired.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

The episode title is a parody of the Chuck Berry song "Johnny B. Goode".
Mark Hoppus says the line, "You know what really grinds my gears?" as a reference to this episode on his podcast.
The things that grind Peter's gears are:

The part of the Bible that says you can't watch pornography.
The sheer length of the Bible.
How people haven't made a "Priest and a Rabbi" joke in years.
Lindsay Lohan, and women not wanting to have sex.
How he can't find the droids he's looking for. (The reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is further driven home by the fact that two stormtroopers are shown watching the program.)
That bread is square and bologna is round. This may be a reference to the movie This Is Spinal Tap
Parents who let their kids do whatever they want.
Being interrupted.
X-ray glasses from comics that don't work.
People in the 19th century.
America, which results in Peter saying "Fuck you!" (censored on TV version).

[edit] TV Edits/Alterations

The following items from the first third of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story were not in the TV version of this episode:

The special opening credits are replaced by the standard theme song.
The red carpet premiere featured at the beginning of the DVD.
The first few gags at the swimming pool were cut (Lois telling Chris how she went pro-choice after her pregnancy with Meg cost her the chance to be in the Olympics, Peter and Meg getting injured while trying to push Brian in the pool, and Quagmire and an unknown woman leaving a pump cabin after having [oral] sex inside [hence Quagmire's "I guess I won't be swimming for another half-hour" comment]), going straight to Peter trying to get Stewie to swim.
Lois telling Peter that he never should have been replaced by John Goodman on Roseanne and the cutaway where Peter plays Dan in a scene from "Roseanne".
Stewie finishing shaving his "coin purse" and remarking that it bares an odd resemblance to Michael Chiklis. Also, the cut-away featuring an episode of The Shield with Chiklis and "Det. Scrotes" (Stewie's testicles) is gone.
Stewie saying grace at the dinner table and Peter bringing up his great aunt Ella Fitzgerald Griffin (and the cutaway where Ella Fitzgerald Griffin blinds Ray Charles while singing).
The scene where Stewie and Brian play Pac-Man in the Drunken Clam and arguing over getting the fruit that's near the ghost is cut on the FOX version (for time reasons, as opposed to content), but can be seen on the Adult Swim version.
When Peter is describing a porn film to the worker at Lackluster Video, the phrase "stuff comes out" is cut.
The scene where Stewie is naked and has 'Property of Roger Moore' tattooed on his chest after his night out with Brian is replaced by Stewie wearing pajamas and finding a handkerchief with Roger Moore's initials stitched on it.
The cutaway where Ghandi performs stand-up comedy replaces the line "And black people are all like 'Hey bitch'..." with "And Americans are all like 'Hey bitch'..."

[edit] Cultural reference

A cutaway shows Stewie as "Short Round" from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In it, Stewie says "Lady only here cause she humping director!" a reference to director Steven Spielberg's later marriage to actress Kate Capshaw.

It shows a scene from The Prince of Tides where they censor Barbara Streisand's nose because the new video store is against non-Christians. Family Guy is using the stereotype that Jewish people have big noses.

Peter once hosted Family Feud, a show in broadcast syndication, with repeats shown on GSN.

Someone mistakes Peter for Michael Moore.

A scene shows Stewie and Casper playing ball and as Stewie throws it into the street and Casper fetches it, he gets run over and then says he was going to off himself on Tuesday.

In hell, Stewie meets Steve Allen and thought he was going to have sex with him but really just wanted Stewie to fix his collar.

After Stewie comes back to life, Steve Allen tries to watch TV in hell, but the only show that is on is Who's the Boss.

A scene while Stewie is talking to Brian shows Stewie singing "I Have Confidence in Me" as Maria von Trapp from "The Sound of Music"

A scene shows Elmer Fudd hunting, shooting, and graphically killing Bugs Bunny, which Brian labels as "disturbing."

Peter once provided nighttime heat for Lara Flynn Boyle using his stomach fat.

Stewie tells a fan to catch a foul ball while attending a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, which is reference to Steve Bartman, a fan whose actions some fans say affected the outcome of Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and the Florida Marlins when he caught a ball which could have been caught by the Cubs outfielder, Moisés Alou.

At the Drunken Clam, Stewie sings "Suicide Is Painless," the theme song from M*A*S*H.

[edit] Goofs

In the scene when the family are sat at the table and Stewie is drunk, the first shot of Brian shows him eating egg and bacon, while the shot after Stewie falls off the shelf shows him with 2 eggs.
When Tom Tucker is in the bathroom of the restaurant the person sits on the toilet without lifting the seat.