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Family Guy :: DaBoom (02x03)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | DaBoom |
| Episode #: | 02x03 |
| Production Number: | 2ACX06 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday December 26th, 1999 |
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Episode Summary |
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Peter freaks out when a man in a chicken suit warns him about the end of the world coming due to the Y2K computer virus and ropes his family into staying with him in the basement on New Years' Eve.
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Guest Stars |
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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 | | •Mila Kunis | voiced | Meg Griffin | | •Mike Henry (1) | voiced | Cleveland Brown, Herbert, Bruce, Fouad, Cleveland Jr., Greased Up Deaf Guy (Jay), Various |
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Episode Notes |
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This is the first episode in which Meg is voiced by Mila Kunis.
| The Giant Chicken makes his first appearance in this episode. His fight begins with Peter, but it ends in a cliffhanger. He won't be seen again until Season 4: "Blind Ambition"
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Chris: All right! Fudgie The Whale! And Cookiepus! And Cookie-O-Pus! And Nutty The Chocolate Ghost!
| Chris: Oh no! The government's here! Run E.T., run!
| Cashier: This coupon's expired.
Peter: (to the Giant Chicken) You son of a bitch!
| Peter: No, Silly Rabbit Trix are for kids. Damn long ears, trying to steal Easter from Jesus.
| Brian: Oh my god! They're eating Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa!
Peter: That's crazy...they'll just be hungry again in an hour.
| Peter: Y2K? What are you selling, chicken or sex jelly?
| (Lois and Peter come out wearing the same dress.)
Peter: Well one of us is gonna have to change.
(Lois gives him a look.)
Peter: Okay. Unzip me.
| Peter: I don't take coupons from giant chickens, not after last time.
| Peter: Everyone knows there are only two things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches and Twinkies. And there's a Twinkie factory in Natick!
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As Brian is walking into the cellar part of his head disappears.
| While packing the car to leave for Natick Peter says, "We just gotta get to that twinky factor and we'll have all the food we need!". After that the grin on his face changes to frown.
| Meg continues to talk after her lips stop moving while setting the rat traps up around Joe.
| Meg sets a total of 9 traps around Joe. When the family is driving away we see 10 traps, then there are 6 when the giant rat shows up.
| The scar on Peter's nose keeps dissapearing/reappearing throughout their journey to New Quahog.
| While cooking breakfast in what is left of their home, we see that the kitchen roof still seems to be up. However, the train and plane that crashed into the house earlier clearly would have destroyed it.
| At the end of the episode, when the Griffin's are walking down the road, Brian is not with them. However, after a close up of Lois and Peter, Brian is with them again.
| While watching Quahog 5 news on the TV set, you can clearly see Tom and Diane are holding glasses filled with a red drink. However, in the close up, their drinks are clear.
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Cultural References |
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Norman Fell is seen in the in memorial.
Norman may be best known for his role as Mister Roper on the sitcom “Three's Company” (1977-1984) and the spin-off “The Ropers” (1979-1980)
| Peter: “Y2K, what you selling, chicken or sex jelly?”
Peter is referring to the “personal lubricant” KY Jelly
| Peter: “Nooo! Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.”
Peter confronts the General Mills' cereal mascot, the “Trix Rabbit”, and thwarts his taking of TRIX cereal while spouting the commercial's catch phrase, “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.”
| Peter: “...I bet you run into those two dead bailiff ladies from Night Court and you're not going to know which one is which”
Peter is referring to Selma Diamond & Florence Halop who played the bailiffs during the first 3 seasons of the NBC sitcom “Night Court” (1984-1992), Selma in Seasons 1 & 2, Florence in Season 3.
Both actresses died of lung cancer
| Chris: “Oh my God, the government is here! Run, E.T., run!”
(Obvious) Reference to the 1982 Steven Spielberg film “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”.
Oddly enough, the suit Peter wears is very similar to the ones worn by the Government in the film.
| Peter: “Hey Lois, remember when I was the third Hardy Boy”
Peter is referring to the series of juvenile criminal detection books, “The Hardy Boys”, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy first published in 1927.
| Lois: “When I think back at all the food we've wasted in this house”
Peter watches “Magnum, P.I.” (1980-1988) & attempts to feed Tom Selleck's character Magnum baked beans but refuses to feed Higgins (John Hillerman)
| TV Announcer: “And now back to A&E's Biography: Twinkee the Kid”
“Twinkee the Kid” (obviously) is the mascot for Twinkees.
During his fictitious A&E Biography episode, he is dressed as DC Comics' super heroine, Wonder Woman
| Jorad: “Show me potato salad!”
Allusion to the American game show “Family Feud” (1976-1985)(1988-1995)(1999-Current)
| Man: “Sure is. Except for Randy Newman”
Randy Newman is an Academy Award–winning American singer/songwriter possibly best known for his many film scores
| Stewie: “Game over man, game over!”
Stewie's quote is an allusion to the 1986 scifi movie “Aliens”.
Bill Paxton's character Hudson said the same line.
| Peter: “No words... should have sent... a poet.”
Reference to 1997's “Contact” starring Jodie Foster.
This is the same line spoken by Jodie's character Eleanor Arroway after she sees the splendor of outer space.
| Stewie: “Look at me, I'm Fred Astaire”
Allusion to Astaire's famous dance number from 1951's “Royal Wedding” when he danced on the walls and ceiling using a rotating set.
| Peter: “...and I'm the one who gave elocution lessons to Rosie Perez”
Academy Award nominated Rosie Perez is possibly best known for her unique voice
| The ending is a take off of the May 1986 Season 6 cliffhanger episode of “Dallas” (1978-1991) when Pam wakes up to find Bobby in the shower.
Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal reprise their “Dallas” roles from the series to do this live action episode ending.
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