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“Airport '07”
Family Guy episode
Quagmire meets Hugh Hefner.
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 12
Written by	Tom Devanney
Directed by	John Holmquist
Guest stars	Hugh Hefner as himself
Production no.	5ACX08
Original airdate	March 4, 2007
Season 5 episodes
Family Guy - Season 5 September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007
Stewie Loves Lois Mother Tucker Hell Comes to Quahog Saving Private Brian Whistle While Your Wife Works Prick Up Your Ears Chick Cancer Barely Legal Road to Rupert Peter's Two Dads The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou Airport '07 Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey No Meals on Wheels Boys Do Cry No Chris Left Behind It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One Meet the Quagmires

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"Airport '07" is the twelfth episode of season five of Family Guy. The working title of this episode was Keep On Truckin'. The title of this episode is a parody of Airport '77 (and to a lesser extent the other Airport films).

1 Plot summary
2 Censorship
3 Cultural references
4 Character development
5 References

[edit] Plot summary

After seeing a redneck comedy show, Peter purchases a pickup truck and decides to become a redneck. He does such stereotypical redneck things as bringing the couch out onto the lawn, propositioning Meg and chewing tobacco. Eventually, after having to bring Quagmire to the airport (because he painted over the back window and crashed into Quagmire's car), Peter steals Quagmire's plane's fuel (thinking it will make his truck fly), causing TransNational Airlines Flight 37 to crash. Quagmire loses his job and lives for three weeks with the Griffins, first in the treehouse, and then in the house. During this, he exhibits his typical sex fetishes, such as sticking his foot into Meg's mouth while she's sleeping and getting Chris, on the calculator, to get "8008" spelling out "Boob". After living with them for a month, Quagmire has overstayed his welcome, so Peter tries to help Quagmire get a new job. They have very little success, so Peter, Cleveland and Joe decide to attempt a hare-brained scheme to get Quagmire's old job back: Quagmire would board TransNational Airlines Flight 209, while Peter and Joe take flight attendant uniforms while Cleveland distracts the guards. When they are in the air, Peter will drug the pilots so Quagmire would save the day. However, Quagmire is distracted when he has sex with a woman, not only losing his flight and chance, but putting his friends in extreme danger. Inspirational advice from Hugh Hefner then prompts Quagmire to save the day. He uses the tower radio to advise his friends on how to land the plane, similar to Airplane!. In an epilogue, Quagmire has gotten his job back, while Peter, Joe and Cleveland have just been released from federal prison for hijacking.

[edit] Censorship

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In the news simulation of the plane crashing into the school of bunnies and the man going home to beat his wife, the wife was originally slapped eight times (which was shown on Adult Swim, TBS and on the DVD). The version shown on FOX in America, Peachtree TV and TVtropolis in Canada cuts down the smacking to four times.
An entire cutaway, which shows Quagmire's job as Joe's nurse (where Joe asks Quagmire to help him commit suicide after putting up with Quagmire's incessant baby talk) was cut on the FOX version, but not on Adult Swim and the DVD.
After Quagmire had sex with the airport clerk, he tells her "Please exercise caution when standing up as the contents of your panties may have shifted during coitus". The Adult Swim & DVD versions use the original word "vagina" instead of "panties".
A DVD-only scene features a cutaway to a funeral (framed by the "He's Quagmire" song, first seen in the season 4 episode "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do") where Quagmire interrupts a eulogy of a young woman by emerging from her casket. The scene was cut from both FOX and Cartoon Network airings, likely because of the possible hinting towards necrophilia. According to the DVD commentary, the bigger issue was the fact that the writers implied that the woman died a virgin.
When Hugh Hefner quotes John Holmes, he says "You know, I've got a 13-inch member...". On Adult Swim and on the DVD, he says "You know, I've got a 13-inch penis...".
On the uncensored DVD version, the "crotch shot" isn't blurred. This is when Peter says " No more crotch shots of me getting out of a car."

[edit] Cultural references

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Starting with the title, this episode has many references to the Airplane! movies. The cameo scene of Hugh Hefner giving Quagmire a pep talk is a direct parody of Leslie Nielsen's pep talk from Airplane!, complete with the "Notre Dame Victory March" playing in the background. This was, in turn, a reference to the famous Gipper Speech from the 1940 movie Knute Rockne, All American. This scene is also a reference to the scene in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story where Lance Armstrong (appearing as himself) tells Vince Vaughn's character not to give up while at an airport bar. Some external shots of the airplane Peter, Joe and Cleveland are on have the sound of propellers rather than jet engines. The movie Airplane! also does this. The manner in which the plane piloted by Peter, Joe and Cleveland landed was very similar to that of the hijacked plane in the movie Executive Decision. The climax of the film further parodies Airplane!. Various movements of the score are used, the flight number (209) is the same as the flight number in the film, the first line Quagmire radios to the cockpit is directly lifted from the film, and the crash landing of the plane is similar.
The four comedians at the beginning of the episode are a reference to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
The scene where Peter gets a severe ice cream headache resulting in his head exploding is an homage to the Cronenberg film Scanners.
Stewie comments that living with Quagmire would be worse than living with Marlee Matlin. A flashback is shown of Stewie living with Matlin, who, being deaf, is unaware of her chronic flatulence.
When Peter has a flashback to his "other" comedy club that he and Cleveland went to, it is a reference to the Laugh Factory incident where Michael Richards verbally abused two black hecklers.
During Peter's "flying truck" fantasy, the Top Gun anthem song plays in the background. Also in the sequence is a bit where Peter, flying upside-down, approaches an enemy fighter pilot and takes a picture of him as Goose did at the beginning of the film. In addition, the enemy fighters are F-14 Tomcats, complete with USN written on the sides.
When Quagmire crashes the plane that he was flying (as a result of the plane being out of gas), his copilot is revealed to be Nien Nunb from Return of the Jedi.
When Peter talks about his crotch shot photo, it cuts to a parody of the infamous photo of Britney Spears getting out of Paris Hilton's car. In the uncensored DVD version the scene shows Peter's penis.
During the end credits, Quagmire is running down a hill of tall grass and flowers similar to the end sequence of Little House on the Prairie where young Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls runs gleefully down the hill. The end music is from the first season of the Little House series.
The scene where Peter disagrees with Lois about whether Quagmire should leave their house, later changing his mind after Quagmire defaces Stewie's pacifier, is a parody of a typical joke on the American sitcom Will & Grace. Straight after this, a montage of clips going past each other, the music and the font of the words 'Family Guy' are copied off of Will & Grace.
When Cleveland, Joe, Quagmire and Peter hatch the plan to get Quagmire his job back, the background music is an homage to the Usual Suspects original score.
Three mice announce a three-week-later change in time. This is the same transition used in the movie Babe. The theme music from the movie is used as well.
The scene right after the airplane crashlanded, Mayor West is reading My Pet Goat to students stops and thinks about it, then continues. This is a parody of President Bush when he was informed of the attacks on 9/11.

[edit] Character development

When Peter crashes into Quagmire's car, thus freeing the women trapped inside it, Quagmire speaks fluent Thai to them as they flee: "Hey, where are you going? Come back here, you bitches! I already paid for you! Cheaters! I made a deal with your parents, why do you disobey me?"^[1] According to the DVD commentary, Seth MacFarlane didn't know the actual translation of what he said when he voiced Quagmire yelling at the Thai hookers.