“Wasted Talent” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy, guest starring Adam Carolla as Death. The episode's title refers to the phrase "wasted talent", in which someone with a special gift throws it away and does not utilize it in any way. However, in this episode, 'wasted' is used in the sense of 'extremely drunk'. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; as one of the members of Spinal Tap; as a Saturday Night Live cast member; and for other various appearances in... Adam Carolla (b. ... is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater” is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Holy Crap” is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Da Boom” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Brian in Love” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Love Thy Trophy” is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Death Is a Bitch” is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... The King Is Dead is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “If I’m Dyin’, I’m Lyin’ â€ is an episode from the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Running Mates is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Fifteen Minutes of Shame” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Road to Rhode Island is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “Let’s Go to the Hop” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Dammit Janet! is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “There’s Something About Paulie” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “He’s Too Sexy for His Fat” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “E Peterbus Unum” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... “The Story on Page One” is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... This article is about the Family Guy episode. ... “Death Has a Shadow” was the first episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy, which first aired after Super Bowl XXXIII, on January 31, 1999. ... “The Thin White Line” is an episode of Family Guy. ... The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Family Guy is an Emmy award winning American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... Adam Carolla (b. ...

Plot summary

Lois desperately searches for one piano student who can beat her rival Alexis’s student at the piano competition. Lois Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is a cartoon character on the TV show Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ...

Meanwhile, in a parody of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Peter drinks even more Pawtucket beer than usual in an attempt to find a hidden silver scroll and win a tour of the brewery. Almost ready to give up, he drinks one more beer, which turns out to have the silver scroll. Peter and Brian go to the brewery tour. Pawtucket Pat (Michael McKean) is seemingly killed on his front walkway, but the killer turns out to be Cheech Marin, hired to pull off a gag. Joe is kicked out before the tour begins, since the brewery is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and does not have wheelchair ramps. During the tour Peter and Brian split off from the group to try beer that never goes flat, in spite of Pat’s warning that they haven’t worked out all the kinks. When Pat finds Peter and Brian in the forbidden room, he ejects them from the brewery. For other uses, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (disambiguation). ... Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... For other uses, see Beer (disambiguation). ... Tour may mean: Concert tour, series of performances in different markets Tourism, travel for pleasure James Tour, nanoscientist Le Tour de France, the worlds biggest bicycle race This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The entrance of a brewery. ... Brian Griffin is a fictional character on the FOX animated television series Family Guy, and is voiced by show creator, Seth MacFarlane. ... Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; as one of the members of Spinal Tap; as a Saturday Night Live cast member; and for other various appearances in... “Richard Marin” redirects here. ... Lieutenant Joseph Joe Swanson is a fictional character in the Fox animated television show Family Guy. ... The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is the short title of United States Public Law 101-336, 104 Stat. ...

Angry at Pawtucket Pat, Peter tries to get Lois’s attention by playing the piano, showing that he can play piano perfectly when drunk. Lois decides to enter Peter as her student in the piano competition, and keeps him in a state of constant inebriation. Peter’s piano repertoire is movie and TV show theme songs, including Dallas, Nine to Five, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Files and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The theme music of a radio or television program is a melody closely associated with the show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... Nine to Five, also known as 9 to 5, is a 1980 comedy movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman and a television series of the same name starring Rachel Dennison, Rita Moreno, and Valerie Curtin. ... This article is about the live action series. ... The X-Files is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002. ... Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ...

At the competition, Peter can’t even find the piano. Lois has to turn him around and move him in a couple of inches. Peter and Lois win first place, but Lois frets that she may have harmed his health for her own selfish need to win. Peter defensively tells her all of his brain cells are intact. But deep inside his brain, there is only one left, who (in a parody of the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last") has just broken his glasses. Note, this page is about the television series and its two revivals. ... Time Enough at Last is a half-hour episode of the original version of The Twilight Zone. ...

Notes

• Julia Sweeney makes a brief cameo as the woman Quagmire hits on in the beginning of the episode (the one who says, "I'm with my husband.")
• Death reappears after “Death Is a Bitch” and it is revealed that he drives a Volkswagen Beetle. This part, also, reveals Death’s face. From this episode onwards, Death is voiced by Adam Carolla.
• The sad “Lonely Man” song from the Hulk TV series, which Peter played earlier at Stewie’s request, is heard instead of the theme during the end credits. Stewie again imitates Bill Bixby hitchhiking as a car and a truck roll by.
• The scene of Peter wincing in pain is referenced again in the A-Team spoof in the episode “Brian Goes Back to College.”
• The music playing when Peter is working out how many tickets are left is the same as the bus music in “No Bones About It” in “Family Guy Viewer Mail 1.”
• This episode is the only recognizable time in the series that Mila Kunis does another voice besides Meg; she can be heard as one of the girls at the kegger party. In contrast, Lacey Chabert did the voice of Nancy Bradford during the Eight Is Enough gag in Brian: Portrait of a Dog and the voice of the little girl in the bank robbery in A Hero Sits Next Door
• When Peter explains to Lois that "everyone has their sanctuary", he says "The Catholics have church, fat people have Wisconsin, and I have the Pawtucket Brewery." All the things that he explained apply to him, as he is Catholic and fat.

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Censorship

• Cuts made in syndication:
  • The entire scene showing Death drinking beer when he goes to the frat party to pick up 2 dead bodies and subsequently driving into a police car is cut.
  • The scene in the Pawtucket Brewery which shows the the giant statue of a man drinking beer and peeing it into a toilet sculpture is cut.
  • The Scene at the concert hall, when the father lectures his son about his friend selling him bad drugs, is cut.

Cultural references

• At the beginning of the episode, Meg is reading Popularity for Dummies.
• Most of the scenes involving the silver scrolls and the tour of the brewery are shot by shot copies of scenes from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with only slight changes including changing the theme to beer and adding in jokes.
• The Chumbawumba characters are parodies of the Oompa-Loompas. They appear almost exactly as they appear in the 1971 film except that they have beer cans with straws in their hair.
• When Pawtucket Pat is introduced, walking out with the cane and then getting "shot" by Cheech Marin is a parody of when Willy Wonka is introduced by walking with a cane and then doing a summersault to prove the cane was truly not necessary in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• When the group enter the Beer Room, you can see two people who look exactly like Grandpa Joe and Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
• A scene which Peter is on Password and Tony Randall is the opposite guesser, Peter says "you" as the hint for the password "Flaming".
• The Great Gazoo from The Flintstones appears.
• During Pat's song, he sings the line, "...you'll drive drunker than Oksana Baiul." This is a reference to Baiul's 1997 car crash incident.
• At the end of The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme that Peter plays, Mary Richards is seen in the audience, whereupon she throws her hat in the air as she did in the opening credits of that show. She and the hat freeze as they do in the credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but in typical Family Guy bending of the rules, the audience around her keeps moving at normal speed.
• Lois compares Peter to “the idiot” from Shine.
• As Joe is being wheeled out of the brewery, he screams, "That's okay, I'm a Coors man! Silver Bullet!", referring to the nickname of Coors Light beer.
• In a scene, Cap'n Crunch is speaking to the don from “There's Something About Paulie” (who himself resembles Vito Corleone), requesting a hit on Count Chocula in retaliation for claims made by Count Chocula stating that Cap’n Crunch cuts the roof of peoples’ mouths, which makes light of the fact that some people find the cereal's texture abrasive.
• The last scene, with the last brain cell in Peter’s brain, parodies The Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”. Also, the central plot involving Peter's musical talent bears some similarity to the episode "A Passage for Trumpet."
• The name of "that sad going away song from The Incredible Hulk" that Peter plays and Stewie walks away to is "The Lonely Man."
• Among the songs Peter plays on the piano while drunk include the themes from Dallas, The X-Files, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• In the first scene in the concert hall, a conversation takes place between a father, a mother and a son, where the father makes a reference to buying bad drugs from a friend of the son, this is a reference of the I learned it by watching you commercial which was part of the US anti-narcotics campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA). The commercial referenced first aired in the 1980s.

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References

• S. Callaghan, “Wasted Talent.” Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 120–122.
• A. Delarte, “Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2” in Bob’s Poetry Magazine, 2.May 2005: 27–28 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf