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  Episode Information  
Title: A Hero Sits Next Door
Episode Number: 5
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 5
Production Number: 1ACX05
Original Airdate: Sunday May 02nd, 1999
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Episode Crew
Director: Monte Young
Writer: Mike Barker (1)
Matt Weitzman
  Episode Summary  
When Peter injures the star player on the company softball team he must find a replacement. While visiting the new neighbors, Joe and Bonnie, Peter learns that Joe is extremely good at baseball and asks that he play. But when Joe shows up at the game, Peter finds out that he is paralized from the waste down. Peter assumes this will mean Joe will be uncabable of doing a lot of things, and that people will feel sorry for him. But his world is shaken when Joe turns out to be very capable of doing everything in his wheelchair, and he becomes the talk of the town. This makes Peter jealous, and so he decides he must one-up him...by stopping a bank robbery. Meanwhile, Meg tries to impress the new neighbor's son, and Stewie tries to uncover the mystery of the wheelchair.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Butch HartmanvoicedVariousRecurring (5th appearance)
Carlos AlazraquivoicedMr. WeedRecurring (third appearance)
Jennifer TillyvoicedBonnieRecurring (first appearance)
Patrick WarburtonvoicedJoeRecurring (first appearance)
Suzie PlaksonvoicedVariousRecurring (first appearance)
Wally WingertvoicedVariousRecurring (third appearance)
Michelle KwanvoicedHerself 
  Episode Notes  
This is the first appearence of Joe & Bonnie.
 
  Episode Quotes  
Peter: You’re not supposed to admire wheelchair people. You’re supposed to feel sorry for them.
 
Joe: I just suggested a line of handicapable toys – ya know, to show the kids the fun of being physically challenged!
 
Chris: When the kids at school see this, they’re gonna think you’re a total psycho.
 
Chris: He’s cool, Dad…he killed a guy.
 
Peter: My whole family worships the ground he can’t even walk on…
 
Peter: Holy crip, he's a crapple!
 
Brian: Gosh, I'd like to help you, Peter, but I've got to go out in the hall and chew on the back of my ass for about five minutes.
 
Lois: Stewie, say hi to our new neighbor, Officer Swanson.
Stewie: You will bow to me!
 
  Episode Goofs  
Joe says that he is crippled from fighting the Grinch ten years earlier, but when in the flashback we see Bonnie was still pregnant back then. However, in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin Christmas", Joe implies that he has been impotent since becoming crippled.
 
In the bingo flashback, the man gets hit in right eye, and holds his left eye.
 
When watching the Wheel of Fortune, Peter believes the answer to the puzzle will be "Go Fuck Yourself", when it turns out to be "Go Tuck Yourself In". However, it would have been impossible for the answer to be "Go Fuck Yourself". Since the F in Fuck would have been revealed when the F in Yourself was revealed.
 
  Cultural References  
Grinch: You think you have won, you think all is well; but kiss my green ass, I shall see you in hell!

A reference to the classic Dr. Seuss book, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
 
Peter: Ummmm... Me Love You Long Time?.

A line from the 1987 classic: Full Metal Jacket.
 
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