| "Fore, Father" | |||
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Stewie sees Mr. T as birds in his fever-induced hallucination. |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 21 |
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| Directed by | Scott Wood | ||
| Written by | Bobby Bowman | ||
| Production code | 2ACX16 | ||
| Original air date | August 1, 2000 | ||
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"Fore, Father" is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated series Family Guy. It is the 28th episode of Family Guy and the final episode of season two, before Family Guy was officially canceled, until the series was renewed in 2001, but yet again canceled in 2002. This episode is rated TV-14 S.
When Lois asks the family to help her with spring cleaning, Peter attempts to clean the house with a hose. This method ends up breaking things in the house. Because of this, Lois tells Peter to go somewhere else. He decides to go camping with Joe and Cleveland. While camping, Peter leaves Chris to guard the food supplies while he goes fishing with his friends. Upon returning, Peter, Joe, and Cleveland find all of the food missing. Chris displays a flipbook showing racoons stealing the food. He apologizes for messing up the trip. Peter admits to Chris that he was a bad father to him, and volunteers his friends as his new father. They all refuse, a reindeer volunteers to teach Chris, but gets shot. Quagmire then starts hanging out with Chris full-time.
Meanwhile, Stewie uses Brian's books to create papier-mâché replicas of the houseboat from the 1960s campy detective show Surfside 6 and the fort from the post-Civil War-era sitcom F Troop, another 1960s show. Brian of course is furious with Stewie at this revelation, but Stewie gets away with it by hiding into Lois and saying "Mommy, doggy's scary". Lois scolds Brian for scaring Stewie and walks away. Brian then threatens to get revenge on Stewie for destroying the books when Lois and Stewie are going through the door. Lois brings Brian some of Peter's books, which include Mr. T by Mr. T, an autobiography of The A-Team star; T and Me by George Peppard, an actor who co-starred with Mr. T on The A-Team (Peppard and Mr. T did not get along until right before Peppard's death) and For the Last Time, I'm Not Mr. T by Ving Rhames, an African American actor with a physique like that of Mr. T (with the exception of Mr. T by Mr. T, all of these books are fictitious).
As revenge against Stewie, Brian leads Stewie to believe the vaccine shots he received are some kind of mind control after he begins to have an unforeseen reaction. Stewie begins to suspect Lois of deliberately making him ill. When encouraging himself to fight his perceived illness, Stewie tells himself "do not go gentle into that good night". He first attributes the quote to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan but then corrects himself; it was written by poet Dylan Thomas.
When Meg asks why Stewie is freaking out, Lois explained that he is having hallucinations from the fever, just like one time when Meg accidentally ate "adult" brownies (presumably containing drugs) that Lois was saving for a Doobie Brothers concert.
Chris is sitting on the curb and Glenn Quagmire asks him what is wrong. Chris tells him that Peter has been a bad father to him, and Quagmire helps Chris by being his temporary father. They go to a bowling alley and Quagmire takes a ballet flat out of an unknown woman's purse. Quagmire smells it, and then lets Chris smell it, and Chris thinks the odor is bad. They also go to a strip club where a stripper asks Chris how old he is. He replies "old enough to know that you people are whores". Whilst the stripper strips for Chris she asks why he looks sad. He tells her his dad is ignoring him, so she suggests Chris just to talk to him. Chris says she's smart. Both Chris and Quagmire then get thrown out of the club when Quagmire swipes his credit card through the rectum of a stripper after running out of cash.
Cleveland, Jr. is about to win a tournament when he kicks a golf ball. He runs off, shouting "I'm Pelé!" At the end, Peter and Chris make up by hitting golf balls in the wrong direction.
In his 2009 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN, rating it a 9.3/10, called "Fore, Father" a "strong episode, and a fantastic way to close out the second season".[1]
In September 2010, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane said on Twitter that he believes Fore, Father is the least funny episode of the show ever produced,[2] retracting an earlier statement about "If I'm Dying, I'm Lying".
| Preceded by Wasted Talent |
Family Guy (season 2) | Succeeded by The Thin White Line |