“Believe It or Not, Joe’s Walking on Air” is a season six episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. This episode drew 8.4 million viewers on its first airing (4.0/9). The episode title is a play on the title of the theme song from the television series The Greatest American Hero. “Stewie Loves Lois” is the first episode of season 5 of Family Guy. ... The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ... The Greatest American Hero is an American television series which aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC. It premiered as a two hour movie pilot on March 18, 1981. ...

Plot summary

When Lois, Bonnie, and Bernice (Cleveland's girlfriend) start hanging out at the Drunken Clam, Peter, Quagmire, Joe, and Cleveland build a men's club in Peter's back yard. Eventually the women come there as well, but everyone (with the exception of Peter) turns out to be okay with them hanging out there.

Bonnie doesn't really feel like dancing with the others because of Joe being disabled and unable to dance with her. Upset about this, Joe sees a doctor, who tells him that a leg transplant could allow him to walk again. The transplant is successful, and Joe is back on his feet.

Soon, he realizes he only hung out with Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire because they were lazy and he was crippled. Now that he has new legs he decides to hang out with friends who enjoy exercise (and also resemble his old friends in names and facial features).

Since Joe seems to be moving on with his life, Lois suggests to Peter that he and the others should try finding a new friend, though that doesn't turn out too well. For example, Buzz Killington turns out to be a buzzkill. These are characters from the animated TV series Family Guy. ...

Peter is soon outraged when he discovers Joe is leaving Bonnie, and everyone decides that they need to re-cripple Joe so he'll stop acting like a jerk. Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire attempt to do this by ganging up on Joe, but he is able to fight them off. Bonnie then tries to shoot Joe in the spine with his gun to get him back to his old self, but misses many times, prompting Joe to just shoot himself there, and become paralyzed again.

Joe apologizes to the guys and they begin to hang out again, despite them all having serious injuries.

Notes

• This marks the second time in the series Joe has had a leg transplant. In "Perfect Castaway," after Peter eats his legs while at sea, Joe has a dead prisoner's legs attached to his stumps, who also happened to be paraplegic. Also in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a future Joe receives his late wife, Bonnie's legs.
• Cleveland has a new girlfriend, the first since his divorce from Loretta. Wendy Raquel Robinson voices Bernice.
• Several meta-references to the show itself are made, particularly on the use of cutaway gags. When Peter praises Scrubs, Cleveland expresses his dislike of "shows that cut away from the story for some bull crap," followed by a cutaway of Adolf Hitler riding a unicycle, juggling fish. Later, the same cutaway is used when Peter claims that re-crippling Joe is right, "like taking out Hitler". In this cutaway, Peter kicks him off the unicycle and knocks him out. He then tells the audience, "See? We had a plan for that all along." In another self-reference, Peter sets up a cutaway, stating that Joe's new legs and attitude are "like giving a monkey the keys to an amusement park". Instead of showing the cutaway, a confused Lois questions how the two subjects can even relate to each other. These could be seen as a retort to the criticisms in South Park's Cartoon Wars episodes. Lastly, at the very end of the episode, Peter hums a segment of the Family Guy theme song.
• In a cutaway, Stewie hangs out with Colin Farrell, and eventually shoots him with his laser. This gag was made available on the Volume 5 DVD set as a deleted scene, apparently cut for time, and used here.
• Spider-Man saves Cleveland, he saved Peter in "Let's Go to the Hop." His motto of "Everybody gets one." is mentioned again. Here his costume is normal, before he had different colors because of copyright issues.
• Carter Pewterschmidt and Dr. Elmer Hartman, both voices by Seth MacFarlane, appear and converse in the same scene for the first time. The DVD commentaties for You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives and The Fat Guy Strangler mention this topic.

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Censorship

• When Peter takes the picture of Lois' poo, FOX removes his line, "She should've handed out cigars after that one."
• On the FOX promo clip, and the adult swim airing, the newly-built Quahog Men's Club has a sign; "No balls, no entry."
• On Adult Swim, an extended version of the How-to tape that Dr. Hartman watches is shown.
• While waiting for Joe to come out of surgery, Cleveland wonders what's taking so long. On Adult Swim, Bonnie replies, "My Joe's a fighter. He'll come out of this."
• The scene where Joe and Bonnie are in bed is extended on Adult Swim, showing them having sex in the dark, complete with Joe screaming, "YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! GET SOME! GET SOME! YEAH! SEX! SEX!! SEX!!!"
• On Adult Swim, when the guys agree to help Joe live his new life with legs to the fullest, Peter asks Joe what happened to his wheelchair. Joe says that he gave it away, followed by a cutaway of Chris riding it downhill in the street. Chris crashes into Adam West's tulips, who exclaims "My tulips! You dick."
• One of Joe's new friends says, "I'm gonna do sit-ups till I crap myself!" When the episode aired on FOX, the word "crap" was changed to "poop". On Adult Swim, the original is used.
• On Adult Swim, the scene where Joe leaves Bonnie is extended, showing Peter asking Joe why he's leaving her, and Peter stating that Joe has become a jerk just like Peter did when he went through puberty (followed by a cutaway of Peter asking his friends if they want to play ball, but his voice suddenly changes and he blows them off so he can go masturbate). Also, when the scene goes to the bar, Peter's line mentioning that Joe left Bonnie is cut, and goes right to "...and then the bastard completely blew me off to hang with those new douchebags."
• The following were cut from the FOX and Adult Swim airings of the episode, but are seen in the Promotional clip on the Family Guy home page. It is unknown if any will make it to DVD:
  • In the promo for this episode, there is a scene where Peter, Cleveland, and Quagmire are going to play tennis and Peter uses Joe as a sweater tied to his neck. This did not appear in the FOX episode, though the promo was shown during the new King of the Hill on FOX.
  • When Peter and Joe are waiting to be seen by Dr. Hartman, Peter explains that he tore down the Quahog Men's Club. The cutaway that follows shows what happened to the wood; it was used to build a ridiculously small fence across the U.S./Mexico border. One Mexican tries to cross it, but is let across by the guard so he can help build the rest of it.

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Cultural references

• At the bar, Lois, Bernice, and Bonnie dance to I Will Survive.
• At the bar, Peter shoots himself in the head, and refers to it as one of his "Scrubs fantasy moments," referring to the fantasy sequences J.D. experiences throughout the series.
• While scanning the donors for leg transplants, Big Bird's legs are seen along with a mermaid's tail, and horse's legs.
• One of the frogs says, "You know, I hear Madonna's raising this guy's kid.", in reference to David Banda.
• The "How-to" video for leg surgery is hosted by Jamie Farr, who provided his own voice.
• Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland are watching "Who Wants to Marry Corky from Life Goes On?"
• Lois tells Peter to look for a new friend, like how Judas found a new friend in Pontius Pilate. A cutaway shows Judas and Pontius talking about nailing Jesus to a cross. They then skip off together while the song "It's a Sunshine Day" (from The Brady Bunch) plays.
• When Joe gets inside his house, he asks for his Soloflex.
• Joe makes Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland rehearse the number "Good Morning" from Singin' in the Rain.
• When Joe does the nut punch to Cleveland, it was Johnny Cage's first attack to Goro from Mortal Kombat: The Movie. [[1]]

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External links

• Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air at Family Guy wiki, a Family Guy Wikia site
• Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air at the Internet Movie Database
• "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air" at TV.com