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Plot summary

During a grocery shopping trip, Lois is caught short on cash. She pretends to return a ham to the meat department but instead hides it in her purse. She enjoys the rush from stealing so much that she indulges in a massive shoplifting spree culminating in the theft of a Matisse painting. Brian shows Lois the evil of her ways and she repents, but Joe Swanson arrests her before she is able to return the merchandise. Lois is sentenced to three years in prison, which she is resigned to serve. The Griffin household quickly plunges into filth and chaos in her absence, and during a visit Peter decides to smuggle her out of jail by stuffing her into his mouth. They hop into a laundry van and end up in "Asiantown" where they rent a shabby apartment and start new lives, such as Chris working as a rickshawdriver and Peter an unsuccessful Sumo wrestler. Joe tracks them down and pursues them in a rickshaw chase until the Griffins flee into the sewers; then he commandeers a police helicopter and follows them further. Lois decides to surrender and face justice, then saves Joe's life when he slips and is nearly swept off a nearby ledge. In gratitude, he somehow manages to get Lois' sentence remanded, and life returns to normal for the Griffins. Lois Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is a cartoon character on the TV show Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane. ... For other uses, see Cash (disambiguation). ... Ham with cloves Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar. ... Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared. ... Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. ... Brian Griffin is a fictional cartoon character on the FOX animated television series Family Guy, and is voiced by show creator, Seth MacFarlane. ... Joseph Swanson is a fictional character in the Fox animated television show Family Guy. ... Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the lead character in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... Christopher Chris Cross Griffin is the second child of Peter and Lois Griffin in the TV cartoon series Family Guy. ... Japanese rickshaw (jinrikisha), 1886. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... MBB/Kawasaki BK117 - callsign Polair 61 (Western Australia Police). ...

Notes

• At the end of the episode, 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter, Peter stated that the next Family Guy episode will be about him running for mayor of Quahog. This episode has nothing to do with him running for mayor at all.
• One restaurant in Asiantown has an English sign saying "Chinese Take-Out", duplicated in the Japanese katakana sign "チャニステイクアウト." A banner seen in the establishing shot reads "一二三四五六七八" (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), while a sign above a store reads "月曜日！" (Monday!).
• While chasing Lois as she drives away, Joe's wheelchair falls apart. Either this wheelchair or another wheelchair falls off a cliff in the sewers when Joe chases Lois again.
• According to the commentary, there was originally a sequence in which Brian is standing next to a rack where the tabloid magazines are and comments on how fat Kirstie Alley is. Lois then tells Brian that tabloid magazines always exaggerate celebrities' personal lives, until Brian points out a Godzilla-like Kirstie Alley running down the aisles.
• According to the commentary, Stewie's line after he fails to get the plastic bag over his head to asphyxiate himself was originally, "Either I was a C-section or you're Stretch Vagistrong", which was rejected by censors in favor of "Either I was a C-section or you're Wonder Woman."
• After escaping from jail, when the family left the van to start new lives, the view of Asiantown is incidentally identical to Songtan City, South Korea, just across the Main Gate of Osan Air Base.
• It is now known that Lois gives oral sex to Peter every Thursday.

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Censorship

• FOX cut a brief gag in which the "CBS Asiantown" logo is shown as a slanted eye version of the CBS logo (this was after they showed the clip of "Three's Company: Asiantown"). Cartoon Network, Canada's Global channel, BBC3, and the DVD version all have this gag uncut.

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Cultural references

• The episode's title is a reference to the Neil Sedaka song "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do."
• Stewie threatens to asphyxiate himself like “that boy from INXS.” The band’s lead singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in 1997. The death was ruled a suicide but rumors that Hutchence died while performing autoerotic asphyxiation continue.
• At the supermarket, Chris is beckoned into a shelf by a drawn hand--into the animated world of the music video for a-ha's 1985 hit "Take on Me", and is lead through the things that happen throughout the music video, until he escapes by falling out of the freezer, and when Lois asks him where he was he shouts "I DON'T KNOW!!"
• When Brian suggested that he hadn't remembered another ham, Lois made an excuse that Brian was too busy eyeballing that Redbook with Glenn Close on the cover.
• Lois steals a painting by French post-impressionist Henri Matisse.
• Brian tells Lois her behavior is "worse than that Winona Ryder thing." Lois thinks he is referring to the actress’s 2001 shoplifting incident, but he actually meant her performance in the 1993 film The Age of Innocence.
• Stewie plays a game with Rupert that mimics common plots from Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Scooby-Doo: finding a ghost in an abandoned house.
• A cutaway shows Peter riding the luckdragon Falkor, from fantasy novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, and the movie of the same name. Falkor says Peter is too heavy and crashes into the ground. Throughout Peter's flight he was shouting "Yeah!" happily. When Falkor crashes he digs deep into the ground and a distinct "Yeah!" can be heard, though it does not sound as enthusiastic.
• A flashback shows Chris watching the 1958 science fiction film The Blob.
• Lois’ book club reads The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, a popular book club choice in the early 2000s.
• The Griffins' escape from prison via a laundry truck, only to end up in "Asiantown," is a play on the Chinese laundry stereotype.
• While in Asiantown, Peter mistakes three passer-bys for Chinese martial arts star Jackie Chan. Incidentally, Chan is in town and mistakes Peter then Chris for Caucasian actor Ethan Hawke and Meg for the child star Frankie Muniz of the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.
• In Asiantown, Stewie mentions that he has not seen any female babies. This is a reference to news reports of male-preference sex-selective abortion in China.[1]
• Peter tells the owner of the sumo wrestling association that he’s "a born athlete, just like Greg Louganis." The show then cuts away to a meta-reference in which Peter mentions that they could make a joke about the diver’s diagnosis with AIDS, the 1988 incident in which he hit his head on a diving board or the fact that his name rhymes with anus. They decide on a "no body hair joke."
• Adam West plays with a Lite-Brite toy.
• The sumo wrestling commercial was sponsored by "Asian Trix." A commercial parodies that of the American breakfast cereal. When told by a bunch of kids, "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids," the rabbit mascot yells back,"You share!" and beats up the group of children and even kills one of them by breaking his neck.
• The Asian operator of the helicopter Joe charters says that, when he fires rockets, he pretends he is shooting at Jamie Farr and Alan Alda, stars of the Korean War-set TV series M*A*S*H.
• When the Griffins are in the sewers, they encounter the characters from the 1985 film The Goonies. Peter asks Chunk to wave around his belly in a “truffle shuffle” as he does in the film.
• The Griffins run into 1980s teen star Corey Haim, who (when questioned by Stewie) actually lives in the sewer. He then catches a live rat with his bare hands and begins to eat it.
• The helicopter used by Joe near the end is very similar to the helicopter used in the movie and tv series Blue Thunder.
• After entering the sewer, Joe and his guide shoot down two TIE fighters, in a parody of the trench sequence from the original Star Wars movie.
• The chase scene between the Griffins and Joe in Asiantown is reminiscent of the final chase in Revenge of the Pink Panther in which Inspector Clouseau and company are chased through Chinatown to the same music as featured in this scene.
• One cutaway shows the time when Peter invited Karl Malden to do cocaine only for him to snort it all do to his large nose

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Goofs

• One restaurant in Asiantown has an English sign saying "Chinese Take-Out", duplicated in the Japanese katakana sign "チャニステイクアウト. This spelling, in English, sounds much like Chinese Take-Out. However, Cha-ni-Su, the romaji pronouncication of the first three katakana symbols, is not the proper term for China. チューゴク (Chūgōkū) is the real word for China and would probably be written in kanji in real life. チューゴクの would probably be used more likely if they were attempting to draw in a Japanese speaking crowd with katakana signs.
• The majority of the characters actually make up Japanese words instead of Chinese words.

References

• A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 4" in Bob's Poetry Magazine, 3.January 2006: 23 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs03Ja.pdf