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Family Guy :: Mind Over Murder (01x04)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Mind Over Murder |
| Episode #: | 01x04 |
| Production Number: | 1ACX03 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday April 25th, 1999 |
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Episode Summary |
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Peter gets put under house arrest (after punching out a man who turns out to be a pregnant woman) and builds a bar in his basement, where Lois becomes a sensation as a lounge singer. Meanwhile, Stewie begins teething and builds a time machine so he can fast-forward through the pain.
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Main Cast |
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| •Seth MacFarlane | voiced | Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glen Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Jake Tucker, Carter Pewterschmidt, Kevin Swanson, Seamus, Dr. Elmer Hartman, Jasper, God, Jesus, Various | | •Alex Borstein | voiced | Lois Griffin, Loretta Brown, Tricia Takanawa, Barbara Pewterschmidt, Various | | •Seth Green | voiced | Chris Griffin, Neil Goldman, Dylan (Brian's son), Various | | •Mike Henry (1) | voiced | Cleveland Brown, Herbert, Bruce, Fouad, Cleveland Jr., Greased Up Deaf Guy (Jay), Various | | •Lacey Chabert | voiced | Meg Griffin |
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Stewie: Ahhh damn it to the bowels of bloody hell.
Lois: Well the baby's up.
| Man: Wow, Lois Griffin, Hey, I love your act! Nice mellons.
Peter: Now listen pal!
Lois: Peter, I'm holding mellons.
Peter: Oh.
Man: And her hooters aint bad either.
Peter: Now hold on a second.
Lois: Peter! I'm holding hooters!
Peter: Oh, sorry.
Man: No problem.
(pause)
Man: Your wife's hot.
Peter: Alright that's it!
| Peter: Jeez Lois, I just spent all morning on a boat with my friends drinking beers telling jokes and skrewin' around. How 'bout a little me time?
| Peter: Boo Lois, Yay Beer.
| Stewie: For the love of God, shake me! Shake me like a British nanny!
| Peter: Apologize to my son!(drinks beer)
Manly Woman: OK. I'm sorry your kid's a no-good stinkin' grilled cheese (knocks down Peter's beer) FATASS!
Peter: Oh, oh that's it! (punches her out)
Kid: Hey, you hit my mom!
Peter: No, I hit your dad.
Man: Woah, stand back, give her some air!
Peter: Y-you mean give him some air!
Woman 2: Call an ambulance, she's going into labor!
Peter: Y-you mean he's going into labor...(newborn baby starts crying)...whoops!
| Patriot: Peter.
Peter: Hey you're the Pawtucket Patriot.
Patriot: Verily. Come hither and give heed.
Peter: Woah woah woah. I don't swing that way pal. Look I've got a date with my female wife. I just came down to get some beers.
Patriot: Why spend time with your wife? If you build a bar in this basement and stuff it with plenty of Pawtucket Patriots, your friends will come down here for a beer as well.
Peter: Build a bar! That's a great idea. Wait one last question! If I walk through you does that mean like..we've done it?
Patriot: Jeez what's with you and the gay jokes?
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Episode Goofs |
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On this episodes DVD summary it states Meg becomes an acclaimed lounge singer when it was really Lois.
| When the woman that appears to be a man is watching the soccer game she has a watch on, but when she stands up the watch is gone.
| When Peter walks in the house he tracks mud all over the floor, but then when the shot changes the mud is gone.
| The Griffin's basement is IMPOSSIBLY large in this episode.
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Cultural References |
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The opening “Mintos” scene is a commercial parody for the mints “Mentos”
| Stewie: “Shake me like a British Nanny”
This is a reference to Louise Woodward, a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen
| Mr. Tumnis: “Welcome to Narnia, I'm Mr. Tumnus”
Peter: “Hey give me back my sock you goat bastard!”
Peter is greeted by Mr. Tumnus the faun, when he visits the Land of Narnia from the book series “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C. S. Lewis
| Stewie: “E flat Salieri!”
This line is from the 1984 movie “Amadeus”, about the life of Mozart from the point of view of Salieri, a rival composer
| Peter: “I can't leave the premises, they're monitoring my every move”
Instead of monitoring Peter's movements, the guard is watching the first video game, “PONG”
| Peter: “...all the shows are starting to run together”
Peter's watching Homicide: Life on Sesame Street. A parody of the NBC drama “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1993-1999), featuring the characters Bert & Ernie from the long running PBS series “Sesame Street”
| Peter: “I feel just like Tim Allen, I build stuff and I have a criminal record”
Tim Allen was the star of the ABC sitcom “Home Improvement” (1991-1999).
In 1978, he was arrested on drug charges and spent two years in jail.
| Misty: “I have a Barney pen in my purse”
(Obvious) reference to the PBS show “Barney & Friends” that began in 1992
| Stewie: “Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed”
Stewie sings the first 2 lines of the folk song and drinking tune “Show Me the Way to Go Home”
| Lois sings the songs...
“You'll Never Know”, it was first featured in the 1943 movie “Hello, Frisco, Hello”,
“You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)”, it was first published in 1913 & performed by Al Jolson, Judy Garland, George Burns and the Muppets, Bette Midler among others,
“Don't Rain on My Parade” from the 1964 musical “Funny Girl” starring Barbra Streisand &
“Steam Heat” from the 1954 musical “The Pajama Game”
| Peter: “For god's sake, if I wanted to marry Lola Falana I would have”
Peter (apparently) had the chance to marry American dancer/actress Lola Falana however it wasn't Lola Peter was in a relationship with but American actress/singer Leslie Uggams, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning work in “Hallelujah, Baby!”
| Man in bar: “A time machine sure, here's where the flux capacitor goes”
A quick reference to the 1985 movie “Back to the Future”. The flux capacitor is what powered Doc's Delorian time machine.
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