Sibling Rivalry (Family Guy)
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| Family Guy Episode | |
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| "Sibling Rivalry" | |
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| Episode no.: | 72 |
| Prod. code: | 4ACX24 |
| Airdate: | March 26, 2006 |
| Writer(s): | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong |
| Director: | Dan Povenmire |
| Guest star(s): | Wallace Shawn |
Sibling Rivalry is an episode from season 4 of FOX animated television series Family Guy. Guest starring Wallace Shawn as the voice of Bertram.
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[edit] Plot summary
After a pregnancy scare, Peter reluctantly agrees to get a vasectomy, but before the surgery, he goes to donate his sperm in case he and Lois want another baby. However, while donating his sperm, he accidentally knocks a large rack of samples over and replaces them himself so that he won't get in trouble. One of the recipients of his sperm are a lesbian couple, who give birth to Stewie's half-brother, Bertram, who appeared in the episode "Emission Impossible".
After the vasectomy, Peter's sex drive becomes nonexistent. Lois channels her sexual frustration into eating and she becomes fat. Peter ridicules her for the weight gain, but after they inadvertently have sex Peter's interest is renewed (claiming it to be the hottest sex they've had yet) and things heat back up, until her unhealthy eating habits get the best of her. She suffers a heart attack, and during the surgery the doctor removes the fat (to get to her heart) and return her to normal.
Meanwhile, Stewie's half-brother and archrival Bertram confronts him and they declare an all-out war for control over the playground. A confrontation between Stewie's stealth fighters and Bertram's helicopter gunships is inconclusive. Bertram resorts to biological warfare, infecting Stewie with chicken pox.
Stewie infiltrates Bertram's camp and engages him in a swordfight. After a long fight, Stewie finally prevails, disarming Bertram. Later in the night, Stewie and Christopher Moltisanti suspiciously dig a hole - which is later revealed to be for planting a young tree. Stewie then comments that Bertram ran off.
[edit] Cultural references
- Stewie presses his face into Lois' arm and remarks, "You're like those memory foam mattresses" (referring to the Tempur-Pedic mattresses).
- A cutaway shows Lee Harvey Oswald defending President John F. Kennedy from a gunman on the grassy knoll. Oswald loads his sniper rifle and says he will become a American hero. This is a play on several conspiracy theories regarding the JFK Assassination.
- For their sexual role-playing, Peter uses the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. While Lois claims to be a schoolgirl who needs to be spanked, he claims he is a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points who has a Helm of Disintegration and does 1d4 (one roll of a 4 sided die) damage as his half-elf mage wields his +5 Holy Avenger. After Lois reminds him that a Paladin can't use a Helm of Disintegration, Peter says he is a "black guy", an obvious misspelling (another example of his stupidity) of the "Blackguard" which is the evil opposite of the Paladin.
- When naming his kids, Peter mentions the kids from various shows that are currently airing on Nick at Nite, including Family Matters and The Brady Bunch (in reality, Family Matters has never aired as part of the Nick at Nite lineup), then Growing Pains. When Brian mentions this, Peter begins naming Street Fighter II characters, specifically Zangief (although Peter pronounces the name "Zang-geef"), Chun-Li, Blanka, E. Honda, and Guile, before naming various colors. Let it be noted that while he mentions Chris and Stewie, he doesn't mention Meg, most likely another jab at her character.
- When infiltrating Bertram's H.Q. Stewie's clothing and maneuvers are reminiscent of the movie Rambo: First Blood Part II.
- Sauron, the villain from The Lord of the Rings is shown as The Eye of Sauron in a scene where he is trying to find his lost contact lens.
- At the playground, Stewie's giving orders and quotes a flophouse resident in the Blues Brothers, "Did ya get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?" as a man who looks like Dan Aykroyd from the movie throws him his Cheez Whiz.
- After recovering from the chicken pox, Stewie returns to the playground to confront Bertram. As Stewie approaches his tent, Bertram quotes Darth Vader from Star Wars: "I sense something, a presence I've not felt since..."
- A cutaway scene features Peter in a jail surrounded by inmates who force him to strip, squeeze his boobs together, and sing the chorus from Kelis's 2004 hit "Milkshake". This is possibly an homage to the scene after the credits in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story in which Ben Stiller does the same thing in his fatsuit. The chorus goes:
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard/And they're like, it's better than yours/Damn right it's better than yours/I could teach you/But I'd have to charge."
- Stewie and Brian find a black version of Waldo in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue.
- The helicopters flown by Bertram and his army may resemble the G.I. Joe Dragonfly XH-1; however, this may not be intentional as the XH-1 was simply modelled after the real-world AH-1 Cobra. Stewie's army's planes flown are similar to the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter. The scene may also be a reference to the movie Rambo III, as Bertram has a similar headset to the general of the Russian forces.
- Parodying George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Stewie says "We've got to fight him over there at the swingset, so we don't have to fight him here at the sandbox." He also comments on his lack of an exit strategy.
- The sword fight is a parody of the sword fight in The Princess Bride. Many of the moves are similar or the same to moves in the film between Inigo Montoya and the Dread Pirate Roberts. Wallace Shawn, the actor who voiced Bertram in this episode had a lead role in The Princess Bride, playing the Sicilian outlaw, Vizzini. His distinctive voice is another reference to this film.
- In one scene, Scrat from the movies Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown is shown trying to take a nut out of a side of a glacier, and Peter tells him off for trying to steal his nuts. Apart from Peter, the scene was animated in 3D, and Chris Wedge reprised his role as Scrat from the original movies. The episode originally aired the week before Ice Age: The Meltdown opened. Fox aired promotions for the movie throughout the evening.
- Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos helps Stewie plant a tree.
- Stewie makes fun of the comic strip B.C. during the episode.
- During the scene right before Lois and Peter have sex, Peter is watching Morgan Freeman in a fictional program called "The Narrarator", making fun of Morgan Freeman's voice (and probably his being typecast in narrator roles as of late).
- An extra scene on the extended DVD version of the episode includes Lois and Peter racing, with the loser having to undergo the operation. When Lois is very behind in the race, she turns on the radio and Shania Twain's song "You're Still the One" is playing.
[edit] Notes
- Stewie's sperm brother, Bertram from the episode "Emission Impossible", is finally born and returns in this episode. Stewie refers to the events of the previous episode as "our microscopic encounter."
- The barbershop quartet from "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" also returns. A continuity error occurs when the quartet starts: the bass enters and has a blond mustache, when Peter asks about how the vasectomy is done, the quartet sits him down and the next transition shows the bass with a brown mustache. The next time we see the bass, his mustache is blond again.
- This is the second episode in a row where Brian expresses his sexual desire for Lois, this time to Peter: When Peter asks Brian if he would have sex with Lois, he says, "Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I would do everything to her, I don't care what she looks like. I would wreck that chick." Peter then comments with, "Well, you are a trooper."
- The harmonious spoke-word segment of the vasectomy song is comprised of a single sentence which lasts for roughly sixty seconds.
- Peter appears to have a fat fetish in this episode (which is only discovered after inadvertently having sex with the fat Lois), but on "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", one of Peter's T-shirts reads, "No Fat Chicks". Also on "A Fish Out of Water", Peter rejects Quagmire's idea to whore himself out to fat chicks in order to pay off the loan for the boat,and in The Fat Guy Strangler Peter's "Fat Pride" group's sign said "No Fat Chicks"
- Stewie mentions that pressing the button with the cow on it is used to fire weapons, but he clearly uses a button on his flight control to actually do so.
- The barbershop quartet mentions Peter's sexual harassment charges from "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar".
- It is unclear how Bertram could be born and mature to the age of 1 years old without Stewie becoming any older. Although this is obviously because the characters in the show never grow older, with the exception of Meg. There is no explanation for this in the episode.
[edit] Trivia
- Peter says Lois' "elbow cleavage" resembles a schwa, which is a letter used in phonics with the shape Ə.
| Preceded by: "I Take Thee Quagmire" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "Deep Throats" |
