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“PTV”
Family Guy episode
The FCC censors Quahog.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 14
Written by	Alec Sulkin Wellesley Wild
Directed by	Dan Povenmire
Production no.	4ACX17
Original airdate	November 6, 2005
Season 4 episodes
Family Guy - Season 4 May 1, 2005 – May 21, 2006
North by North Quahog Fast Times at Buddy Cianci, Jr. High Blind Ambition Don't Make Me Over The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire Petarded Brian the Bachelor 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter Breaking Out Is Hard to Do Model Misbehavior Peter's Got Woods Perfect Castaway Jungle Love PTV Brian Goes Back to College The Courtship of Stewie's Father The Fat Guy Strangler The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz Brian Sings and Swings Patriot Games I Take Thee Quagmire Sibling Rivalry Deep Throats Peterotica You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives Petergeist Untitled Griffin Family History Stewie B. Goode (1) Bango Was His Name Oh! (2) Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure (3)
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Plot

Opening sequence

In a cave somewhere in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and his associates are getting ready to film their next message to send to Americans, but keeps breaking character following a blooper on his first take. Stewie shows up and starts to fight everyone, parodying the opening sequence of the first The Naked Gun film, as well as Yoda fighting Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones. During the fighting the music (Drebin - Hero!) from The Naked Gun film series can be heard. For other uses, see Cave (disambiguation). ... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... The Naked Gun is the name of a series of comedy movies starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and OJ Simpson. ... Yoda is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe, who appears in all of the franchises films except for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ... Count Dooku, also known as Darth Tyranus, is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe and Palpatines apprentice. ... Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones is a 2002 science fantasy film directed by George Lucas. ... The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is the first film in a series of comedy movies starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O.J. Simpson. ...

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Episode summary

Peter is very excited about watching the Emmy Awards, however Lois tells him that he has to attend Meg’s play. Peter voices his frustration but is coerced to go when Lois beats him up, presses his face to the floor and traps him in an hammerlock. At Meg’s play, Peter tries many ways to watch the Emmys, even trying to convince Lois to leave early, but he fails. Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... An Emmy Award. ... Lois Griffin (nee. ... A hammerlock is a martial arts restraint technique where the restrained persons arm is held behind them, and their hand forced upwards behind their back. ...

Back at home, the news anchors are reporting that due to a “trouser malfunction,” David Hyde Pierce revealed his testicles in the Emmy Awards. Peter is outraged that he “missed a moment in television history.” In the Federal Communications Commission building, the Board of Commissioners are discussing what to do about the David Hyde Pierce incident. Their Chairman, Cobra Commander, tells them that they have to censor television. Wardrobe malfunction is an euphemism used to describe the accidental exposure of an intimate part or parts of the body due to a defect in an article or articles of clothing. ... David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer. ... Human male anatomy The testicles, known medically as testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... FCC redirects here. ... Cobra Commander Cobra Commander is a character from the G.I. Joe franchise. ... For other uses, see Censor. ...

The FCC gets to work on television shows, cutting out anything that might be deemed inappropriate, including Chrissy's bikini on Three’s Company, Ralph Kramden’s threats of spousal abuse and even two thirds of Dick Van Dyke’s name. Peter is enraged, and swears to fight the ban. With advice from Tom Tucker, Peter starts his own television network called PTV. He broadcasts classic shows in their original, unedited versions, as well as original programming, such as Cheeky Bastard, Midnight Q, Dogs Humping, The Peter Griffin Side-Boob Hour, and (in a DVD exclusive scene), a parody of MTV's "Jackass" called Douchebags. Information Nickname(s) Chrissy Gender Female Age Twenties Date of birth Mid-1950s Occupation Typist Family Reverend Luther Snow (father) Mrs. ... Threes Company is an American sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House. ... For the 2005 film, see The Honeymooners (film). ... Richard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning 5 decades. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Lois is furious about Peter’s obscenity in his shows. She calls the FCC, prompting Peter, Brian, and Stewie to perform an elaborate musical number about how insane the FCC’s regulations are. The song ends with Peter, Stewie and Brian in bras, fishnet stockings, heels, garter belts, and what appears to be thongs or g-strings. Despite being impressed with a song about them, the FCC still shuts down PTV. After Peter tells them that they can’t stop people from being who they are or how they live, they decide to take on the challenge.

The FCC start to censor any foul language and inappropriate behavior in Quahog--a black "censor's bar" is pulled over Peter's genitals by FCC suits after he leaves the shower, all expletives are overdubbed with an air horn, and audible farts are banned in public (replaced by a machine that converts the sounds into Steven Wright jokes), they even consider censoring Peter's chin, due to its similarity to a pair of testicles; Lois approves of their actions, believing Peter needs a lesson in decency. Finally, seeing how upset Peter is, Lois attempts to cheer him up with violent sex. In an ironic twist, while they still can have intercourse, there is to be no "moaning, tongue-kissing, thrusting, or any movement whatsoever". As she is taken aback by this, Peter grows tired and falls asleep on top of her after almost immediately (possibly as revenge for being beaten up earlier). f u ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Lois is celibate for two weeks, thus making her very tense. Finally frustrated with the FCC's presence, she regrets getting them involved and concedes that Peter was right about them and about freedom of speech. They both lobby Congress to have the FCC's rulings reversed. At first they resist, but they relent when Peter points out the resemblance of many Washington area buildings to various naughty body parts. Celibacy may refer either to being unmarried or to sexual abstinence. ...

The oppression of the FCC is gone, and the family settles down to watch an episode of the Brady Bunch that features bathroom humor jokes. The Brady Bunch was a US television situation comedy, based around a large family. ...

Notes

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• Brian's cousin Jasper, and his boyfriend Ricardo, appear for a couple of frames while Stewie rides through a gay pride parade. (Ricardo was introduced in "Brian Does Hollywood" and appears again with Jasper in "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives.")

• In his June 25, 2007 appearance on the radio show Loveline, Seth McFarlane admits that the prologue with Osama bin Laden was added after the episode ran three minutes short.

• During the FCC song, which Peter, Brian and Stewie sing, Stewie says "Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops" with holding a book "Everybody Poops" which appears before in Brian in Love.

• The FCC song in this episode was voted #2 on the Museum of Television and Radio special "TV's Funniest Moments" which aired on FOX on June 1, 2007 behind The Chris Rock Show segment "Black Progress."

• The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards opened with Stewie and Brian singing about the upcoming TV season using the tune from "The FCC Song", originating from this episode. The awards show aired nearly two years after "PTV"'s original airdate, noting the song's lasting appeal.

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Censorship

• According to the DVD commentary, the part where Quagmire passes out after overhearing Peter saying, “I like eating red carpet!” originally had Quagmire holding a running hose instead of a newspaper, but the FOX Standards found it too obscene because the running hose would have looked too much like a penis ejaculating when Quagmire passed out.
• Also, the cutaway where Peter gets raped on his 16th birthday (in a parody of the end of the movie Sixteen Candles) originally had Jake Ryan undoing the belt to his pants, but FOX objected.
• The version of this episode that is on the DVD has a different sequence of the part where Peter decides to put original programming on PTV after obtaining success from airing uncut versions of old sitcoms:
  • TV Version: Cheeky Bastard and Midnight Q were shown after Peter decides to put original programming on PTV. When Lois complains about the new shows and Peter says, “There’s nothing offensive about my programming,” it then goes to The Side-Boob Hour, the scene then cuts to the outside of the Griffin house and Lois can be heard saying, “The Side Boob Hour?!” followed by a cut to Lois telling Peter that she called the FCC about his offensive programming.
  • DVD Version: The Side Boob Hour is shown first, followed by Cheeky Bastard and Midnight Q. A fourth show, called Douchebags (a parody of the MTV show Jackass) is shown, where Cleveland and Peter are at a bridge over a highway doing an episode called “I Dare You to Crap Off of That.” Peter craps off the bridge (because Cleveland dared him) and his feces lands on the windshield of Lois’s car, causing it to crash. The scene then cuts to Peter reminding Lois that she was the one who "recklessly drove into oncoming crap." Lois points out that Stewie (who was in the car with her at the time of the accident) is so traumatized from the experience that he may never ride in the car again (with a shot of Stewie cowering in the corner, mumbling, “Turn off the windshield wipers. They don’t work; they’re just making it worse”). Nevertheless, Stewie actively participates in the following musical number as he did before; also, he is riding in the car later in the episode when the family drives to Washington.

According to DVD commentary, the Douchebags segment was supposed to air on TV, but only if edits were made to the sequence (i.e., Peter isn’t supposed to be shown pulling down his pants, the wet, plopping sound of Peter’s feces hitting the windshield can’t be heard). Instead of adhering to the censor’s notes, the scene was taken out altogether and further edits were made to cover it up. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

• Syndication edits (in addition to the above edits made for FOX):
  • The "Are we there yet?" exchange between Chris and Lois is cut.

“Explicit” Scenes from the FCC song

Near the end of the FCC musical number, a rapid montage of explicit scenes is shown. Many of them are scenes from previous episodes of Family Guy.

• Explicit scenes from the FCC song:
  • Stewie, dressed in leather bondage gear, spanks Brian, who is tied up and ballgagged.
  • Peter, in a skimpy pink bikini, flashing his boobs on Howard Stern’s radio show.
  • Peter, with his pants down and standing on a stool, farts while Stewie holds up a lit match. He and Brian watch, wearing welder's visors.
  • Peter, naked, on a date with a blow-up doll (that looks similar to the ones that Quagmire owns).
  • Justin Timberlake removes Peter’s nipple covering in a parody of the Janet Jackson incident.
  • Peter sucks on a popsicle, simulating oral sex (a reference to an incident on The Gong Show where two girls seductively suck on orange popsicles as part of their act).
  • Peter, Brian and Stewie, in nightgowns, having a pillowfight.
  • Brian, wearing a miner’s cap, puts on rubber gloves, presumably about to give Peter a cavity search.
  • Peter chokes Lois with a watermelon slice (“Emission Impossible”).
  • Amanda Rebecca, the woman from the marriage counseling videos, rips off her blouse (“Road to Rhode Island”).
  • Peter hurriedly covers up his genitals with a pillow as a door is opened (“Road to Rhode Island”)
  • Stewie admires himself wearing lipstick (“Emission Impossible”).
  • Dave Campbell, naked, bends over to feel the lawn (“From Method to Madness”).
  • Stewie caresses a Miss Piggy doll (“Brian Does Hollywood”).
  • Peter, naked, makes pelvic thrusts at Meg (“From Method to Madness”).
  • Stewie gives a public speech and realizes he is naked (“He’s Too Sexy for His Fat”).
  • Peter licking his boob (“He’s Too Sexy for His Fat”).
  • Quagmire gets his penis slammed in a window (“Lethal Weapons”).
  • Lois in a leather S&M outfit (“Let’s Go to the Hop”).
  • Stewie sucks on Peter’s nipple (“I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar”).
  • Peter, without pants, passes out on the laps of Meg and her friends (“Jungle Love”).
  • Jeff Campbell, naked, squirts a super-soaker covering his penis (“From Method to Madness”).
  • Peter makes orange juice using his nipple (“The Story on Page One”).

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Cultural references

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• The PTV line-up includes
  • The Waltons: The signature scene of the Waltons where they say their “good nights,” edited where John Boy doesn’t respond, and replies, “Damnit, can’t a guy masturbate in this house?”
  • Midnight Q: Quagmire’s midnight talk/sex show, which he hosts nude.
  • The Side-Boob Hour: Peter’s own show where he presents the “side boobs” (the partial reveal of a woman’s breast, from the side) from Baywatch and Dynasty, followed by his own.
  • Cheeky Bastard: A sitcom staring Stewie and Brian as bickering roommates, in a style akin to The Odd Couple. Stewie also provides the show’s laugh track, contrary to the claim that it was filmed in front of a "live studio audience."
  • Dogs Humping: A Discovery Channel-type show that shows animals having sex. According to Peter it is the highest-rated show on PTV’s Wednesday night line-up.
  • Douchebags: A Jackass copycat.
• Shows censored by the FCC:
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show: The FCC bleeps the name The Dick Van Dyke Show, making it “The (censored) Van (censored) Show, starring (censored) Van (censored),” a reference to “dick” being used as a vulgar slang term for a penis and “dyke” being used as a derogatory term for a lesbian, both of which can’t be said on television (though “dick” is allowed on some channels if it’s used as an insult to someone and not as a vulgar slang term for a penis).
  • Three’s Company: Chrissy appears with her bikini top censored, despite the fact that she was not exposing anything. This is a reference to an episode of Three's Company in which John Ritter's testicles were briefly visible through a pair of shorts he was wearing, a discovery which was not made until Three's Company began airing in syndication on Nick at Nite. ^Snopes.com
  • The Honeymooners: The quote “One of these days, Alice.. Pow! Right in the kisser!” is dubbed over, making it “One of these days, (new voice) I’m going to stimulate the economy by buying an American car.”
• Apache Chief from the Super Friends helps Peter with his satellite dish.
• The incident with Hyde-Pierce accidentally revealing a testicle is a reference to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show incident, in which Janet Jackson accidentally revealed a nipple. Jackson claimed the incident was a “wardrobe malfunction” whereas Tom Tucker refers to Pierce’s incident as a “trouser malfunction.” The actual incident (with Peter as Janet Jackson) is featured in a rapid-cut montage at the end of the FCC song.
• Osama bin Laden appears in the show for the first time since the now-excised “show tunes” scene in “Road to Rhode Island.”
• When Peter sings the FCC Song, the line “You’re gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling” is a reference to Chuck Berry’s song “My Ding-a-Ling,” a song that was a double entendre.
• When Peter fails to be able to successfully watch the Emmys at Meg’s play, he mentions that it’s worse than his 16th birthday, followed by a sequence where Peter is raped by Jake Ryan, the main love interest in the film Sixteen Candles.
• When Peter is told to start his own TV station by Tom Tucker, he mentions that he hasn’t had a business since a mail-order operation. Wile E. Coyote is seen waiting to return a large Acme slingshot.
• When Peter says “Lois, these eggs are scrambled,” captions say “Lois, these eggs are fried.”
• Meg’s play God and His Magical Rainbow Suspenders is a parody of Godspell and/or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
• In the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup spoof, two drunk drivers (one eating chocolate and the other eating peanut butter) get in a car accident. Officer Reese comes along, tastes the combination of peanut butter and chocolate that has resulted from the horrific crash, then looks furtively around and shoots both drivers to steal their product.
• An Ozzy Osbourne reference is made. The FCC says Ozzy cleaned up his act and stopped biting the heads off bats. The scene cuts to Ozzy on stage at a concert eating a sandwich instead of a bat. The reference made is to the early 1980s, when Ozzy used to throw pig intestines and calves’ livers into the audience and they would throw things back. Someone threw a bat onstage and Ozzy, thinking that it was a fake rubber bat, bit its head off. The bat was real and alive, only stunned by the throw. Ozzy was taken to the hospital and tested for rabies after the show.
• The song lyric: “Any baby with a brain can tell them everybody poops” is a reference to a popular children’s book entitled: Everyone Poops, presenting the myriad forms and shapes of animal and human feces.
• In a flashback, Chris imitates Jackie Mason, a former rabbi who is now a stand-up comedian.
• Peter says that Sarah Jessica Parker's face looks like a foot.
• The tune for the FCC song is taken from Volunteer Fire Picnic, a song from the obscure 1959 Broadway Musical Take Me Along which featured Jackie Gleason.
• The Brady Bunch is parodied in the scene with Brady family examining Cindy's unflushed feces in the toilet. It pokes fun at the fact that the network censors didn’t want a toilet to be seen in the bathroom of the Brady house in any episode. Additionally, actor Gary Cole, who performs various voices for the cartoon, provides the voice of Mike Brady, reprising his role in the Brady Bunch movies.
• When the FCC tells Peter they are going to close PTV he puts on the jetpack from the 007 movie Thunderball and repeatedly runs into the wall.
• The exaggeration of the number of complaints to the FCC refers to when "Married by America", which aired on FOX, received 90 complaints from 23 people instead of the reported 159 complaints.
• The chairman of the FCC in this episode is revealed to be Cobra Commander from the G. I. Joe franchise. His appearance is based mostly on that from the 1980's animated series.
• The FCC straps everyone at the bar with belts that translate flatulence into Steven Wright jokes.