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Plot summary

Because Peter takes Stewie on the golf course all day with him, Stewie gets a tan all over his body. Stewie decides he likes the tan and begins to frequently tan in a tanning bed in his room. But one day, Stewie tells Brian to wake him up after fifteen minutes of tanning. Brian falls asleep and does not wake up for six and a half hours. Stewie is extremely sunburnt and he discovers a mole on his stomach. Convinced it is skin cancer, Stewie begins to live out his dying wishes, with Brian helping him out since it was his fault for leaving Stewie in the tanning bed. In the end, Stewie does not have cancer, and he gives up tanning. Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... Stewart Gilligan Stewie Griffin is a fictional character in the animated television series Family Guy. ... This article is about the sport of golf. ... A suntanned arm showing browner skin where it has been exposed. ... A sunbed, with lights off. ... Brian Griffin is a fictional cartoon character on the FOX animated television series Family Guy, and is voiced by show creator, Seth MacFarlane. ... For other uses, see Sunburn (disambiguation). ... A mole, technically known as a melanocytic naevus, is a small, dark spot on human skin. ... Skin cancer is a malignant growth on the skin which can have many causes. ...

Meanwhile, Chris learns that his best customer, Herbert, has made Kyle, a boy who is normally mean to Chris, his new paper boy and he decides to confront Herbert and Kyle. He ends up getting pushed over by Kyle, which angers Peter. Peter goes to talk with Kyle, but after Kyle makes fun of him, Peter beats him up. Kyle’s mother agrees not to press charges if Peter apologizes to Kyle, which he reluctantly complies to. Kyle says that he would have done the same thing to Peter and he encourages Peter to bully again. Peter begins to do mean things to the people around him, but after Lois talks to him Peter decides he shouldn’t bully everyone, rather he should bully his old school bully, Randy. Peter finds Randy, who is now an insurance agent with multiple sclerosis. Thinking, by Randy saying “I have MS,” that he is bragging that he has a monkey’s scrotum, Peter is about to beat up Randy, but is stopped by Chris (who beats Peter up) and he convinces him bullying is wrong. Christopher Cross Chris Griffin (born 1993, in Quahog, Rhode Island) is the second child of Peter and Lois Griffin in the TV cartoon series Family Guy. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Notes

• When Peter beats Kyle up, Peter strikes Kyle 27 times. 4 hits in the face standing up, 3 hits in the stomach, 1 kick in the face (which knocks him down on the ground), and when Peter gets ontop of him, he hits him another 19 times in the face.
• There is another hint at Stewie’s homosexuality when Brian teaches him how to ballroom dance, leading him to say “I love you” to Brian who replies with a shocked “What?”; Stewie, to cover it up, claims he said Olive juice.” Brian responds by saying in confusion, “Olive...juice?” Stewie then says “Olive juice you too” (I love you too). With Brian, however, this could be considered bestiality
• Lois said that "They're Mega Bloks are the same thing [as Lego]." the Lego shape is non-copyrighted, and Mega Bloks are considered Clone Bricks.
• The previous episode, "Peter’s Two Dads", depicts Peter discovering that he is actually a McFinnegan and not a Griffin. However in this episode he makes reference to his great-grandfather “Turn-of-the-Century-Take-On-All-Comers Griffin,” who looks exactly the same as Peter with the addition of a moustache and slightly different hairstyle.
• Kermit the Frog appears in this episode for the fourth time in the series (the previous being in “Stewie Loves Lois,” “Deep Throats” and “Mother Tucker”).
• Killing Lois is not one of Stewie's final wishes. This further adds to Stewie’s recent tolerance of Lois (although he recently tried to kill her in “The Courtship of Stewie’s Father,” he has paid relatively little attention to either disposing of her or ruling the world).
• Stewie’s wistful ode to the “squiggly line” in his eye is actually a fairly accurate description of what is known as a floater, a deposit within the eyeball’s normally transparent vitreous humour. However, Brian does not write the memoir: he draws a picture of him hanging by the neck.
• Michael Clark Duncan, who did a voice in this episode, also worked with Mila Kunis in the video game Saint’s Row. Both were members of the same gang in the game.

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Censorship

• The scene where Brian comments on Stewie’s new tan and Stewie says, “I’ll be getting more sex than that Wisconsin nymphomaniac who used to live upstairs,” followed by a cutaway of Stewie wide awake in his crib listening to a woman with a Midwestern accent having an orgasm offscreen, was cut on the FOX airing, but not on Adult Swim.
• When Brian squirts the lotion on a severely sunburned Stewie and Mr. Furley walks in (and thinks Brian is ejaculating on Stewie), Brian originally says, “Oh! Uh, hi, Mr. Furley. This isn’t what it looks like!” before Mr. Furley says, “Never mind, I’ll come back later!” and leaves. The “This isn’t what it looks like” line is cut from the Fox version to make it less obvious that it is an ejaculation joke
• Glen Quagmire, after missing a hole in golf, was ranting "Goddamn it! Come on! Come on! Shit! Shit! Shit! Come on, Glen! Come on! Get your head in the Goddamn game!" The word "Shit" and the "God" part in "Goddamn" were censored in the FOX and [adult swim] versions, but will be left uncensored in the DVD version.

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Cultural references

• The scene at the golf course includes Quagmire going into a censored rant much like Adam Sandler's character in the 1996 golf comedy Happy Gilmore.
• The scene in which Stewie visits the Art Institute of Chicago (erroneously referred to as the Chicago Museum of Art) is a direct homage to the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The painting Stewie stares into is Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The song accompanying this segment is the original from the film, an acoustic cover version by The Dream Academy of “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” by The Smiths.
• Mr. Furley, the landlord portrayed by Don Knotts on Three’s Company, walks in on Brian applying the lotion to Stewie in a (due to the camera angle) manner as though Brian was ejaculating on Stewie’s face.
• Parodying Gremlins, Peter feeds a mogwai a drumstick after midnight, causing it to turn into Fran Drescher, whose head Peter then microwaves. Fran Drescher was last seen in the episode “Fifteen Minutes Of Shame.”
• Peter, behaving like a bully, dangles Joe from his shoulders with rope and performs “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music, using Joe as a marionette.
• Brian is given a copy of a movie that “is essentially Brokeback Mountain from the point of view of the horses” where one of the horses peeked inside the tent and learned their relationships the “hard way” [1].
• Martin Landau’s distinct speech pattern is parodied after Stewie is disgusted with Lois’ saliva being used to wipe off his fake moustache.
• After getting tanned, Stewie says he resembles a young Eartha Kitt and then impersonates her trademark feline drawl and the statements she made about the Vietnam War to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Stewie sings Kokomo by The Beach Boys in his tanning bed. Similarly, when he is tanning in the garden, the song he is listening to is an instrumental version of “I Say a Little Prayer” by Dionne Warwick.
• The song Brian and Stewie ballroom dance to is an instrumental version of Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin (first featured in the film Top Hat, also featured as an important plot point in The Green Mile).

Kermit, Fozzie, and Swedish Chef at the end of the episode.

• When Herbert says his phone is ringing, he imitates the Nokia tune.
• When Brian advises Stewie to “wait and see” whether or not he has cancer, Stewie says “Jim Henson had a wait and see attitude, and look what happened to him. Now we’ve got wrong-sounding Muppets,” a reference to Henson’s failure to properly address a cold he had, which led to pneumonia, and ultimately his death in 1990. The scene then cuts to Kermit the Frog and the Swedish Chef (two characters Henson voiced) in a dialogue sequence, with much different voice tones. The two later appear at the end of the show, discussing the preceding events, when Fozzie Bear walks in, and says in a deep voice (supplied by actor Michael Clark Duncan): “Wocka wocka. Who wants to hear a funny-ass joke?” Unlike Kermit and the Chef, Fozzie would not fall into the category in real life, as he was voiced by Frank Oz, who is still alive today. It should be noted this gag could also refer to The Walt Disney Company’s decision to have the Muppets be performed by different puppeteers rather than their usual ones outside of the movies.
• Stewie's mention that a tan 'is a lifestyle' is held true by people who are referred to as Tanorexic's, people who are addicted to tanning by sun, fake tan, or sunbed.
• Dick Cheney is portrayed as a Wal-Mart greeter in a cutaway. He greets each customer with “Go fuck yourself,” a reference to a 2004 incident where he said those words to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) after he asked the Vice-president about Halliburton’s alleged war profiteering.
• During his tan party, Stewie wears the kind of shades that are the trademark of movie producer Robert Evans.
• This episode’s title is a reference to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. This is the second Fox series to reference that movie in a title in 2007, the first being a The Simpsons episode, “The Wife Aquatic,” which aired on January 7.
• After getting off his beach chair during a tan, Stewie drinks a can of TaB, then slowly looks at the camera—a parody of TaB commercials in the ’80s.
• Britney Spears’ parenting skills are questioned in a scene where she is holding her baby while talking on a phone, pushing in his fontanelle and using it as an ashtray, and then dropping him.
• There is a dispute between Peter and Lois in regards to how different LEGO is from Mega Bloks.
• A parody of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger called Terry the Tiger is seen in the Griffin kitchen, saying “They’rrrrrrrrrre foooood!”