“Patriot Games”
Family Guy episode
Tom Brady congratulates Peter for having the nerve to play against the New England Patriots on his own.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 20
Written by	Mike Henry
Directed by	Cyndi Tang
Guest stars	Tom Brady as himself Carol Channing as herself Bob Costas as himself Jay Leno as himself and Troy Brown as himself.
Production no.	4ACX25
Original airdate	January 29, 2006
Season 4 episodes
Family Guy - Season 4 May 1, 2005 – May 21, 2006
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Plot summary

At Peter's high school reunion, Peter pretends to be a cowboy astronaut millionaire to impress his classmates, but the truth comes out when he meets Tom Brady. He subsequently gets drunk and has to make a run for the bathroom, knocking over everyone between him and the toilet, in order to throw up. Brady is impressed and lands Peter a spot on the New England Patriots football team as the starting center. Peter is soon fired for showboating: i.e. driving on to the field then performing a largely-choreographed version of the song "Shipoopi"; and he’s traded to the London Silly Nannies. Peter decides to turn them around and challenges Tom Brady (who, meantime, is being threatened and stalked by Jay Leno) to a game between the Silly Nannies and the Patriots. The Patriots cause his team to run away, leaving Peter facing the Patriots alone. He attempts to play, but he is overwhelmed and defeated. However, Tom Brady compliments Peter on having the nerve to stand up to them. This article is about the Family Guy character. ... Thomas Edward Brady, Jr. ... City Foxborough, Massachusetts Other nicknames The Pats Team colors Nautical Blue, New Century Silver, Red, and White Head Coach Bill Belichick Owner Robert Kraft General manager Bill Belichick (de facto) Mascot Pat Patriot League/Conference affiliations American Football League (1960–69) Eastern Division (1960–69) National Football League (1970–present... Center (C) is a position in American football. ... “Shipoopi” is a song in the 1957 musical The Music Man. ...

Meanwhile, Stewie becomes a sports bookie. After Brian loses $50 betting on Mike Tyson to beat Carol Channing on Celebrity Boxing, Brian procrastinates in paying off the bet. Because of this, he’s savagely beaten by Stewie in the bathroom. Some time later, Brian still hasn’t paid up, and he tries to avoid Stewie by disguising himself with a fake mustache. Stewie sees through his disguise and pushes Brian down the stairs, beats him with more force, culminating with Brian getting shot in both knees and being set on fire. After they go to the bank and he settles the debt, Stewie offers “one free revenge shot” to make up for it. Brian leaves him in suspense as to when the free hit will be delivered, until Stewie is overcome with paranoia and starts beating himself up, hoping to satisfy Brian. At the very end of the episode, Brian takes the revenge shot by pushing Stewie in front of a moving London bus. Stewie redirects here. ... A bookmaker, or a bookie, is an organisation or a person that takes bets and may pay winnings depending upon results and, depending on the nature of the bet, the United States, with Singapore and Canada, the only legal bookmaker is state_owned and operated. ... Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a former two-time American world heavyweight boxing champion and is the youngest man to have won a world heavyweight title. ... Carol Elaine Channing (born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and actress. ... Celebrity Boxing was a 2002 Fox show pitting washed up former celebrities against each other in a boxing match. ... For other uses, see Debt (disambiguation). ... Look up Suspense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other senses of this word, see paranoia (disambiguation). ... A Routemaster in Piccadilly Circus. ...

Notes

Peter as a New England Patriot

• Although the United Kingdom does not have a professional Gridiron league, the amateur British American Football League features two teams in London: the London Blitz and the London Olympians. Tom Brady refers to the London Silly Nannies as the worst team; the London Olympians are actually the most successful club in the history of the league.
• The part where Stewie beats up Brian in the bathroom is referenced in the episode “Airport ’07” when Brian goes to warn Stewie not to drink from Peter’s spit cup, only to recall how badly Stewie assaulted him in the bathroom. Brian then says, “Ah, never mind,” leaving Stewie to drink and scream in disgust.
• The first football team the Patriots play against is the Washington Redskins; the second is the Dallas Cowboys.
• Quagmire’s mention that he was looking for Lois’s toenails in the garbage is a callback to the scene in “Emission Impossible” where Quagmire puts the hair from Lois’s hairbrush on a sex doll with Lois’s face on it and says, “A couple of teeth and some toenail clippings and we’ll be ready for our date.”
• Even though Carol Channing beats Mike Tyson on the spoof of FOX's Celebrity Boxing, Tyson technically won before he fell down exhausted since Channing was knocked down three times in one round.
• In most syndicated regions, this episode, along with "Death Has A Shadow", were shown on the weekend of Super Bowl XLII, most likely because of Tom Brady's appearance in this episode. That also happened in 2008.
• Al Michaels and John Madden can be seen in the press box in one scene before the "shipoopi" song ends.

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DVD Exclusive Scenes

• On the Volume 4 DVD release, a deleted scene involved Peter showing the London Silly Nannies the American version of the sitcom The Office and pointing out how the American version is vastly different from the British version to get them mad and prepped for the game against the New England Patriots.

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Cultural references

• After watching Celebrity Boxing, Peter makes a reference to Mike Tyson beating up his wife Robin Givens saying there's nothing funny about that only to soon start chuckling.
• Fred Flintstone stammers “Bet-bet-bet-bet!” as he did in The Flintstones episode “Betting Freddy,” where Fred goes crazy whenever someone mentions the word “bet” (only in the Family Guy version, he realizes there’s nothing funny about having a gambling addiction and ends up discouraging Indian Gaming).
• To impress his fellow classmates, Peter attends his High School reunion dressed as an astronaut with a cowboy hat or a "Space Cowboy." It is seen in an exterior shot that the High School he attended was James Garner High School. James Garner was in a movie titled Space Cowboys. Since the whole Astronaut cowboy gag is such a brief part of the story, it isn't made clear if this connection is a reference made by the show or just a coincidence.
• At one point in the episode, Mr. Bean's lime-green Mini is shown outside of the Griffin's flat.
• According to DVD commentary, the way Stewie severely beats Brian up is a reference to The Sopranos.
• Stewie's dunking Brian’s face in the toilet, yelling “Where’s my money?” is similar to the opening scene of The Big Lebowski and to the fight scene between The Bride and Elle Driver in Kill Bill Vol. 2.
• Before beating up Brian, Stewie drinks a glass of orange juice, a reference to The Godfather movies' use of oranges as a symbol of imminent death or injury.
• Lois mentions Peter's frivolously spending money on a wax sculpture depicting Gwyneth Paltrow having sex with Harriet Tubman. On the commentary, it was revealed that originally the creators wanted R2-D2 having sex with Gwyneth Paltrow, but LucasFilm turned them down, for the first time.
• The song Peter sings while showboating after a touchdown, “Shipoopi,” is from the 1957 Broadway play The Music Man.
• The Silly Nannies dance around a maypole and sing Gilbert and Sullivan’s “If You'll Marry Me ” from The Sorcerer.
• Whilst in England, Lois watches a program on the digital channel BBC Four. The show depicted is a parody of the channel’s intellectual, esoteric content. Family Guy is actually shown on analog channel BBC Two and digital channel BBC Three.
• During the fight between Mike Tyson and Carol Channing on Fox Celebrity Boxing, during one of Tyson’s bashings, it cuts away to two men ringside, which is the same shot as in the final round in Rocky III where Apollo Creed says, “He’s getting killed!” and Paulie answers, “No, he’s getting mad!”
• The song that Peter sings in his commercial has the same melody as Homer Simpson’s “Mr. Plow” jingle. Both are parodies of a long-running jingle for Roto-Rooter.
• On the stadium wall one sign says “John 3:16.” This is the third time in the series that sign is seen. The first is in the "Death Has a Shadow" episode when Peter drops all of his extra welfare money out of a blimp above the Super Bowl, and two guys on the field fight with signs that say "John 3:16." The second is in the episode “Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington” in which Chris Griffin holds up a sign which reads "John 3:16"; Brian later looks for this quotation in the Bible and pretends to read: 'And the Lord said, "Go Sox"'.