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Plot summary

Meg is turned down by a popular boy for a date and begins to feel sensitive about her appearance, so she looks to her family for support. In an effort to cheer her up, Lois takes Meg to the mall to go clothes-shopping, though that has very little effect. Discovering Channel 5 Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa is giving away free makeovers, Lois suggests Meg get the ultimate makeover. After the makeover, Meg becomes extremely attractive and her popularity skyrockets. Lois Griffin (nee. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... These are characters from the animated TV series Family Guy. ... A makeover is a term applied to changing ones appearance, usually through cosmetics. ...

Meanwhile, The Drunken Clam is suffering due to the aforementioned mall having been built right across the street, so Peter and friends drag out a karaoke machine that Horace had kept in a storage room. When Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe team up to sing Journey's song "Don't Stop Believing", people swarm to the bar. Thrilled with their success, the group starts a band and travel to their first gig at a prison. The band, named "Fat, Horny, Black, and Joe", is about to launch into their opening number when they realize at the very last minute that they don't know any songs, and the prisoners riot as a result. Peter's family, who are attending to support him, hastily take the stage and sing "Buy Me a Rainbow." They are an enormous hit, and they sign a contract with a record executive, Jimmy Iovine (who was imprisoned for stomping on a cat). For other uses see Karaoke (disambiguation) Karaoke from Japanese kara(空), empty, and ōkesutora, orchestra) (pronounced ; in Japanese IPA: ;  ) is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. ... This article is about the Family Guy character. ... This article is about the Family Guy character. ... Glenn Quagmire (sometimes spelled Glen) is a character on the animated series Family Guy, best known for his sexual deviancy. ... Lieutenant Joseph Joe Swanson is a fictional character in the Fox animated television show Family Guy. ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... Dont Stop Believing is a song by the American rock band Journey. ... Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with riot police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934. ... Jimmy Iovine was born on March 11, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Despite the family's talent, their producer Dr. Diddy is more interested in exploiting Meg's new look to make her a teen sex symbol. Meg's newfound stardom goes to her head, causing resentment among the other family members; nevertheless, they travel to New York to perform on Saturday Night Live. Meg is immediately seduced by Jimmy Fallon and loses her virginity to him; she fails to realize that the entire encounter is being aired on live television as part of the show (even as Fallon keeps glancing at the camera and chuckling) until it is too late. Peter attacks Fallon on stage and beats him up; this, however, was because of Fallon's aforemention bad acting and, although he had every intent of coming to Meg's aid, he was oblivious to the fact that Fallon was the culprit. The Griffins return home, where Meg reverts to her old look, saying "being beautiful is too much work." Lois replies sotto voce, "Well, not for me." It is then revealed that the entire show is on a set, and the Griffins leave the living room and walk to the rest of the cast that appeared in the episode, and Peter thanks everyone in the style of Saturday Night Live. For the New York radio and television presenter, see Doctor Dre. ... Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969[1]) is an American record producer, CEO, clothing designer, actor, and rapper. ... Marilyn Monroe, one of the most iconic and famous female sex symbols of all time. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... SNL redirects here. ... // In sociology, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person into an act. ... James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and Grammy nominee best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ... Virgin redirects here. ... Sotto voce (literally under voice), an Italian expression, means to speak under ones breath or to speak confidentially. ...

Notes

• When Peter says "you mean I get to meet John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, and Horatio Sanz? Sweet!" Everyone he mentioned except Horatio Sanz are dead SNL alumns.
• The Craig Hoffman character is named after the supervising producer for the first three seasons.
• Gene Simmons of KISS makes a cameo to encourage Peter. Simmons, an old friend of Lois, previously appeared in the episode "Road to Europe".
• The scene where Chris notices his hair was braided before going on stage is cut out in syndication.
• This is the first episode which implies Brian's racism against African Americans. In the recording studio, he suddenly barks at Dr. Diddy but blames the impulse on his father. This suggests, that Brian is a White Dog. Later, after watching Peter's SNL-style closing on TV, he abruptly turns off the TV during the opening title sequence of Showtime at the Apollo. Breaking the fourth wall, he justifies this by saying he is tired at 1am, the time at which SNL normally ends and Showtime begins.
• The second episode that implies Brian's racism against African Americans is "Chick Cancer", when Stewie asks what kind of a man Stewie would be if he immediately gave up on life after Olivia dumped him, and Brian says, "You'd be a black man." Then once again, Brian apologizes profusely in the exact same manner, and blames the impulse on his father.

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Cultural references

• As Stewie rides on Brian’s back, he quotes Yoda from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
• On a dare from Brian, Stewie runs naked through the mall, screaming, "Help! I’ve escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement!" a reference to tabloid questions regarding the actor’s sexuality. The original line cited Roman Polanski instead of Kevin Spacey.
• News anchor Tom Tucker says that the next news story will concern "Joan Rivers speaking from beyond the grave," despite the fact that the actress is still alive.
• Peter and his friends attempt to revive the Drunken Clam with a Coyote Ugly theme that fails when Joe accidentally kicks himself in the head.
• For their band Peter dresses like a member of Devo, Cleveland like a member of a funk band, Joe as Geddy Lee of Rush , and Quagmire like Tommy Lee, drummer of Mötley Crüe.
• Peter attempts to satisfy angry inmates by telling a story about Lake Wobegon, the setting of Garrison Keillor’s radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, which often featured quaint stories of rural life.
• Dr. Diddy’s name is a cross between Dr. Dre and Diddy, two well-known hip hop music performers and producers.
• Miss Swan shows up when Meg is sassing Lois. Miss Swan was a character from Alex Borstein’s tenure on MADtv. Borstein is also Lois' voice actor. Peter later mocks MADtv, a competitor to Saturday Night Live.
• Upon hearing that he will be on Saturday Night Live, Peter replies “You mean I’m going to get to meet John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley and Horatio Sanz?” All except Sanz are former cast members who are deceased. The implication is that the overweight Sanz is the next one to die.
• When Lois worries that Meg might develop a "coke problem," Peter replies "No Coke! Pepsi!" a catch phrase from the "Olympia Cafe" sketches of the show’s late 1970s era. (When Howard Hesseman hosted SNL in 1982, he joked in his monologue that John Belushi would still be alive if he had said "No Coke, Pepsi.")
• During the faux SNL episode ending, in the far right of the screen, Gene Simmons can be seen licking (President) Bush. To the far left of the screen, Meg’s former "real boyfriend" (an obviously dead and decaying person) can be seen getting attacked by a wolf as was shown earlier in the episode.

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Music

• During the "1980s fixing-stuff-up montage (from the movie "Revenge Of The Nerds")," "One Foot in Front of the Other" by Bone Symphony is heard.
• When the guys temporarily give the Clam a Coyote Ugly theme, they dance on the countertop to a tune in the style of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by The Charlie Daniels Band.
• While the Clam is a karaoke bar, Mort Goldman performs Maureen McGovern’s 1973 hit "The Morning After."
• Peter, Cleveland, Joe, and Quagmire sing "Midnight Train," a 1981 hit from Journey.