Talk:Lois Kills Stewie

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Contents 1 Writers' strike 2 More like a cameo. 3 Related Episodes 4 Merman Reference 5 Maid 6 Stewie's drawing 7 Tom and Katie 8 Closing the eyes reference... 9 Note section deleted 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Lois vs stewie.png 11 Cleaning up Goofs 12 Willem Dafoe as Himself? 13 Differences between individual episodes and hour-long version? 14 Removal of goofs 15 May 18 viewership

[edit] Writers' strike

Wouldn't it be appropriate to mention this was the last episode completed before the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike? Presuming this lasts more than a week or two, this should have some effect on subsequent episodes. / edg ☺ ☭ 07:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

i guess we could keep it in for now. Although there are a few episodes that are very close to being done, and they could just hire temp help to put the finishing touches on as the article states that this is the last one he will be part of until the strike is over. Im just saying that once the strike ends this info should be removed, so if thats the case should it even be added in the first place. Grande13 13:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this was the last episode made before the strike. These episodes are made well in advance. If you listen to the DVD commentaries the staff are already talking about episodes that haven't come out yet.

Not according to Seth MacFarlane.^[1] mrholybrain's talk 01:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

1. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975542.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

[edit] More like a cameo.

I just watched the episode and the two American Dad characters only had one line each. It seems to me that the true definition would be a cameo appearance rather than a full-blown crossover. JesseMeza 02:39, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Right. Fixed. WODUP 03:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related Episodes

Little Orphan Millie, Death Picks Cotton, and Lois Kills Stewie aired right after each other, and each one involved people not actually dying. Little Orphan Millie had Kirk and Luann, Death Picks Cotton had Cotton Hill (although he later died), and Lois Kills Stewie had Cleveland Brown and Stewie Griffin. Anyone else think this strange? mrholybrain's talk 03:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

More than likely, it's just a coincidence. JesseMeza 03:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, and Stan Smith was dead for six minutes after Haley killed him on American Dad. Weird. WODUP 03:41, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merman Reference

The part invovling the merman reminded me of the Futurama epidsode The_Deep_South_(Futurama), where Fry says, "why couldnt you be the other kind of mermaid, the one with the fish part on top." JohnDLG 05:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maid

When Joe is handing out fliers, he goes to the lair of Superman and the maid from 'Believe It Or Not, Joe's Walking On Air' answers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.138.131 (talk) 06:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Is that maid supposed to be Latina? She doesn't alot like one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.227.87.214 (talk) 00:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stewie's drawing

Isn't that drawing Stewie showed to Peter a reference to the cutback from Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey where Peter and Lois make fun of Stewie's drawing?

I'm positive it's not; Stewie said he made that picture the other week. Also, Lois was missing at that time, so there'd be no way for her to make fun of it. Also, if I may share a bit of personal information, I almost hated Peter and Lois for saying that stuff to Stewie's picture in that episode. I have to say that all the stuff that happened later (with Lois sleeping with Bill Clinton and feeling both she and Peter bad about it) almost made up for it to me, though I don't really know why. This episode also seemed to make up for even more, since we see Stewie in a way getting revenge for pretty much everything that's happened to him in general. Also, I wasn't too keen with Lois re-hooking Stewie to breast milk in "I Take Thee Quagmire" and being oblivious to Stewie's unhappiness, though this episode definitely made up for that as well. Immblueversion (talk) 02:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tom and Katie

Should be some mention of the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes bit after the power goes out -- it was the funniest scene in the parts of the episode that I happened to see... AnonMoos 12:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Closing the eyes reference...

From the Cultural references section:
"Peter closes Stewie's eyes after his death, a reference to The Boondock Saints."

Somebody closing the eyes of a dead person is a common scene in many movies and TV shows. Was there something specific in the way this was done in Boondock Saints to distinguish it from every other movie has used it? And was that same distinction made in this episode? --ΨΦorg 07:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note section deleted

It looks like the note section has been deleted from the article on this episode. Why is that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjurbeck (talk • contribs) 23:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Because there's a vocal bunch of anal retentives on Wikipedia whose panties get twisted up whenever they see something fun like trivia in an article. Wl219 (talk) 05:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Trivia, articles are supposed to be organized as meaningful prose, rather than unsorted lists of random information. Inconsequential detail, items that cannot be verified (and might be made up) and other things that don't belong are usually just removed. Wikipedia:Handling trivia is a pretty good guide to the process.

Wl219:If Wikipedia:Manual of Style bothers you so much, why are you even here? If all you are looking for is a playground, there are plenty of other places where you could either contribute meaningfully or just have fun. everything2 and Wikinfo are usually happy with unsorted information, and the Family Guy Wiki always needs help. / edg ☺ ☭ 05:58, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

An "if you don't like it then go away" argument? Please. Wl219 (talk) 07:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lois vs stewie.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaning up Goofs

An explanation of my editing of the goofs section. There are clearly 3 issues/disagreements about how FG episode pages should be handled, and they are 1. Cultural References 2. Trivia and 3. Goofs.

I'll make my case on goofs here. I might feel goofs are pointless to include at all and just serve to clutter reasonable info on these pages, but for the moment I'll concede that they might have use. However, using the goofs sections to identify every perceived tiny error for every single episode is cruft, non-notable, and cluttering. It makes it harder to get actual useful info from the page.

In the case of an animated show, the potential for "goofs" is limitless. On this list, there are goofs over the position of characters in frames, where bullets holes appear, how sound is synced up. These "goofs" are common if not totally expected in cartoony animation and the identification of every single one simply doesn't come across as notable or encyclopedic.

If I see a goof that deals with a plot point or is some other way significant to the events of the episode, then I'll leave it in. Goofs on things like which way an elbow is sticking or how it is "impossible" for Joe to do things because he is paraplegic will be removed. It has to be accepted that FG is a cartoon, is a joke, isn't real life or takes place in a real world.Gwynand (talk) 20:54, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Willem Dafoe as Himself?

I just saw this article say that Willem Dafoe guest starred in this episode as himself. Now I definitely saw Dafoe, but I'm positive that he was played by a common voice double like almost all celebrities are on these shows. Besides, I never saw him mentioned for the guest stars of this episode. Maybe you can tell me after checking the credits if anyone has access to them, because I don't; not now anyway. Immblueversion (talk) 15:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

{{fact}} tagged this; remove if unsubstantiated. Per Wikipedia:Verifiability, better to omit correct information than to include false information. / edg ☺ ☭ 17:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Differences between individual episodes and hour-long version?

By all means, keep the information up about how this episode was merged with the previous episode and aired as an hour-long episode, but I must ask something. I did not watch that episode when it aired as an hour-long episode and, as such, I do not know what was changed, if anything was changed at all. Could you tell me? Immblueversion (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of goofs

Agreeing with everything said above about the cleaning up of the 'goofs' section, I have removed it completely. The one 'goof' mentioned is very small, if true, completely irrelevant to the article and above all unreferenced. DanTheShrew (talk) 08:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 18 viewership

I just came across a Broadcasting & Cable report saying that a rerun of the episode on Sunday night was the highest-rated program that night on Fox, even beating the new episode of The Simpsons that night! Fox.com does confirm that this episode did rerun last night, but Eggerton of BroadcastingCable.com misidentified that airing as the "season finale" --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 04:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)