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Plot summary

Peter plays a magical clam in a historical re-enactment of Quahog’s founding. The celebration is led by Mayor Adam West, making his first appearance in the series. Meg compares Peter's job to having Ronald McDonald as a father. Meg is further embarrassed when he shows up ashore naked. This is bad but when he embarrasses her at her slumber party, she decides to take action. She gets the family invited on The Diane Simmons Show talk show to discuss their dysfunction. But instead of ending the embarrassment, this gets the family their own reality show, The Real Live Griffins. Meg leaves the family, and the show. Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... The fictional version of Adam West on the animated television series Family Guy is a caricature of actor Adam West, who also supplies his voice. ... Megan Meg Griffin (born 1990, in Quahog, Rhode Island) is the eldest child of Lois Griffin in the animated TV series Family Guy. ... Listen to this article ( info) in media player in browser This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-01-14, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Her replacement is a teenage sex symbol who steals the show. Eventually, the whole family is replaced. The replacement cast is Tom Arnold as Peter, Fran Drescher (who is later shown in the season five episode “The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou”) as Lois, “that fat guy from Boogie Nights” (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) as Chris, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as Stewie and Brian. The real Griffins are forced to live in a motel room until the reality show contract runs out. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Thomas Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. ... Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress. ... “The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou” is the eleventh episode of season five of the FOX animated television series Family Guy and ninety-first episode overall. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (both born June 13, 1986) are American actresses, best known for playing the role of Michelle Tanner on the sitcom Full House. ...

Meg ends the episode typing a diary entry into her laptop, like the title character from Doogie Howser, M.D.. Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), was a television dramedy starring Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenaged doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager, despite having graduated from Princeton University at age 10[1]. The show was set in Los Angeles, California and...

Notes

• Once the family has been completely replaced, they re-enact a scene from “Death Has a Shadow” in which a hung-over Peter lies on the kitchen table. The flashback of Peter at Church drinking communion wine appears in the DVD release of that episode too.
• Chris chastises Meg for “breaking the fourth wall.”

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Censorship

• A FOX rerun of this episode cuts the part where Meg is at Quagmire’s house and walks in on him about to have sex with a woman on the kitchen counter (and Meg runs out of the house).But is seen on the dvd and on adult swim.

Goofs

• When Peter is wearing the Reagan mask, Chris is seen laughing, but not heard.
• When Chris is staring at Beth after Peter and Lois are done having sex, his hair is green, but no one else’s hair has changed color.
• On the commentary, it is stated that this is the 8th episode of season 2. In truth, it is the 12th episode of the second season. While it is possible that this was the 8th episode made but only the 12th episode aired.

Cultural references

• In the episode’s opening scene, Peter learns to paint from an episode of the PBS art show The Joy of Painting. Peter paints a portrait of the cast of Family Ties, a sketch of the family being painted started the show’s opening credits.
• The story of the founding of Quahog mirrors the founding of “neighboring” Providence, Rhode Island. Providence-founder Roger Williams was exiled for speaking his mind and sought the assistance of Native Americans. Quahog founder Miles “Chatterbox” Musket is exiled for speaking non-stop and befriends not native people but a magical, talking clam.
• The undersea rescue during the story of the magical clam is a parody of a scene in Disney's The Little Mermaid where Ariel rescues Eric from drowning.
• Peter pulls out a Ronald Reagan mask to hide from Meg’s friends and says “I am not a crook,” a famous quote from another President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
• Peter apologizes to Meg’s friends for ruining their slumber party by promising to get Davy Jones for their school dance, a reference to an episode of The Brady Bunch where Marcia tries to get Davy Jones to perform at their school dance.
• The talk show featured is poking fun at many of the talk shows that air during the day such as The Jerry Springer Show or The Jenny Jones Show. There is even a scene that implies one of the producers of that show sees the violence (after the family starts throwing chairs) as a way to increase ratings like some daytime talk shows have been doing for years.
• There is a cutaway involving a man revealing himself to his girlfriend as a woman, then a horse, and finally a broom. The horse stage is a reference to the "I Married A Horse" episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
• Bonnie compares Joe to the character Larry from the sitcom Three’s Company.
• A cutaway shows one possible way to write Meg out of The Real Live Griffins: Brian says “Meg Griffin’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan,” parodying Henry Blake’s death on the show M*A*S*H due to the departure of McLean Stevenson from that series. Stewie then shows up in a dress and high-heeled shoes and says, “Who do I have to see about a Section 8?” This is a reference to M*A*S*H character Corporal Klinger’s attempts to prove himself mentally unfit for military service (as well as one of many Family Guy references to Stewie possibly being a closeted homosexual).
• Trying to get the cameras on him, Peter acts out a Wayland and Madame routine featuring a ventriloquism dummy. He mentions a song, “The Rainbow Connection,” sung by Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie.
• The scene where Peter tells Meg that he won’t give her the antidote to the poison she just drank is from the Shanghai nightclub scene in the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
• When Peter gets stuck in the stairs on the night of the slumber party, Meg says, "God, kill me now." God is shown aiming a gun at her, but he gets a call on his phone. When he picks up the phone, he says, "Hello, Ka-har-har-en!"

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References

• S. Callaghan, “Fifteen Minutes of Shame.” Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 86–89.
• A. Delarte, “Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2” in Bob’s Poetry Magazine, 2.May 2005: 17–19 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf