Model Misbehavior
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| Family Guy Episode | |
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| "Model Misbehavior" | |
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| Episode no.: | 60 |
| Prod. code: | 4ACX13 |
| Airdate: | July 24, 2005 |
| Writer(s): | Steve Callaghan |
| Director: | Sarah Frost |
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Model Misbehavior is an episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The episode is a parody of the TV movie Model Behavior.
[edit] Plot summary
During a visit with her parents, Lois recalls her teenage aspirations to be a model. In defiance of her father's wishes, she begins modelling and becomes very successful. Soon, however, she takes diet pills that her agent Karin Perrotta gives her, and stays out all night, and Peter becomes very jealous of the lust she inspires in other men. Desperate to get her out of the fashion world, Peter collaborates with Carter to get her back on track. Meanwhile, Stewie starts a pyramid scheme business ("CashScam"). Brian learns he has worms and, unable to afford the medication but too embarrassed to ask Peter for money, reluctantly agrees to work for Stewie.
[edit] Notes
- Apparently, Meg didn't start her period until she was at least 15, since the cutaway shows that Joe had already moved next door by then.
[edit] References
- A worm in Brian's stomach says that even though he knows nothing of the world outside the dog, he still thinks Six Feet Under is "pretentious."
- Stewie talks to Grover on a play phone.
- When Brian gets a job at Stewie's Cash Scam, Stewie tells Brian "If Cookie Monster calls, tell him I'm not talking to him until he gets out of rehab." Later in the episode, Lois sees him as a desperate, jittery addict, seated in a bathroom stall of the Drunken Clam trying to make a cookie by holding cookie dough in the bowl of a spoon over a lighter flame as if it were heroin.
- John Hinckley fires the starting pistol at the regatta, then walks away with Jodie Foster. In 1981 Hinckley attempted to murder Ronald Reagan in order to impress Foster, with whom he was obsessed.
- The famous Maxell "Blown Away Guy" is parodied during the flashback when Carter initially disapproves of Lois's modeling career.
- The founding fathers are shown debating on whether to call the state of Rhode Island, Rhode Island or Cacapoopoopeepeeshire. They eventually decided on flipping a coin to make the decision and RI prevailed. The comical sounding name is a portmanteau word fusing the Spanish slang word for feces: caca, poopoo, peepee, and the place name suffix: -shire. In Spanish it was translated as Cacapupupipílandia literally, caca, poopoo (pupu), peepee (pipí), and -landia meaning land, replacing -shire; it therefore translates back to English as Cacapoopoopeepeeland.
- When Peter asks Lois "aren't you going to go do your little turn on the cat walk, Lois, on the catwalk, yeah on the catwalk. Do your little turn on the catwalk?" he makes reference to the 90s song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
- When Stewie finds out Brian has worms, he says to him, "you know, perhaps you should worry a little less about your pride and a little more about the creepy crawlies shawshanking their way out of your balloon knot." This is a reference to the 1994 movie "The Shawshank Redemption" where a man escapes from prison.
- When the evil monkey from Chris' closet lies on Chris' bed, this is an exact copy when Mitch Kramer lies in his bed from the film Dazed and Confused, except that the evil monkey rolls himself a joint, while Mitch did not.
| Preceded by: "Breaking out Is Hard to Do" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "Peter's Got Woods" |
