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8th episode of the fifth flavor of Family Guy

"Barely Legal"

Family Guy episode

Episode no.

Season five
Episode 8

Directed past

Zac Moncrief

Written by

Kirker Butler

Production code

5ACX03

Original air date

December 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)

Guest appearances

Drew Barrymore as Jillian
Barclay DeVeau as Patty
Phil LaMarr equally Oliver Williams
Kerrigan Mahan
Natasha Melnick as Ruth
Garrett Morris equally himself (live-activeness)
Tamera Mowry as Esther
Lisa Wilhoit equally Connie D'Amico and Beth

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"Barely Legal" is the 8th episode of season v of Family Guy. The episode originally circulate on Dec 17, 2006. The plot sees Meg developing an obsession with Brian after he accompanies her equally her appointment for the Inferior Prom, eventually leading to her kidnapping Brian in guild to rape him. Meanwhile, Peter and his friends join the Quahog Police Department to assist Joe with his work, just find beingness a law officer is not e'er about action.^[1]

The episode was written by Kirker Butler and directed by Zac Moncrief. It received mostly positive reviews from critics for its storyline and many cultural references, in improver from receiving criticism from the Parents Television Council. Co-ordinate to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 8.48 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances past Drew Barrymore, Barclay DeVeau, Phil LaMarr, Kerrigan Mahan, Natasha Melnick, Garrett Morris, Tamera Mowry and Lisa Wilhoit. The episode won an Annie Award for "Writing in an Blithe Television Production."

Plot [edit]

Mayor Adam West deploys the entire Quahog Police Section to Cartagena, Colombia to search for Elaine Wilder (a fictional grapheme from the moving picture Romancing the Rock which he was watching), leaving Joe behind (as he was not deployed due to his disability and the fact that parts of Cartagena are not wheelchair-accessible) with the police station'due south skeleton crew. Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire join the section to assist Joe.

Meanwhile, Meg threatens to commit suicide considering she does not take a appointment for her Inferior Prom. Even her backup boy, Jimmy, turned her down by shooting his younger brother and having to nourish his funeral. Equally a last resort, Brian agrees to have her to the prom. He gets drunk there, defends 1000000 past insulting Connie D'Amico about her inevitable time to come, and the 2 make out. After the trip the light fantastic toe, One thousand thousand begins to think Brian is her beau, despite Brian maxim he has no feelings for her and citing his already existing relationship with Jillian. One thousand thousand develops an obsession with Brian, fifty-fifty blistering him a pie and using her hair, unsaid to be her pubic ones, equally ane of the ingredients. Stewie arrives and sits side by side to Brian and asks if he tin accept some pie. He then asks for the "Cool Hwip" (this is the offset in a series of occasions where Stewie puts accent on the "h" sound in a word starting with "wh"). Brian soon works up the courage to tell Lois that he and Meg kissed. Lois gets enraged at the news, and orders Brian to straighten information technology out.

Brian goes upward to Meg'south room and tells her he is non attracted to her. Nonetheless, Million refuses to have "no" for an answer. After that dark, she knocks Brian out, puts him in the trunk of his car and drives abroad. Chris sees this and tells Lois, and she, Peter, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire track them downwards at the Barrington Hotel, where they see One thousand thousand has tied Brian up with packaging record and is about to rape him. Lois tells Meg that she is non thinking right, although Meg insists that she has never been more sure of anything in her life. Lois struggles to explain and says Meg does not know what she needs, and then Quagmire says in an erotic tone that he knows what she needs, and asks Meg to come across him at his house. This implies that he will endeavor to take advantage of Meg and when she arrives at his house, information technology seems even more probable when he puts on seductive music, dims the lights, strips down to a speedo and sits downwardly beside her. But suddenly, Quagmire (uncharacteristically) begins to accept a serious middle-to-heart talk with Million, telling her that her entire life is yet ahead of her and she should not be in such a bustle to grow up earlier assuring her that she will detect the correct person i day. To aid Meg, Quagmire gives her his copy of The Missing Piece to help requite her a better perception of things, and sends her abroad feeling much better. He then walks into his sleeping room, where two of his one-night stands wait with an array of sex toys, and it turns out that all of Quagmire'south seemingly erotic antics were really in training for this tryst. Ane of the women asks Quagmire if he has the hwip (with accent on the "h") and Quagmire responds with disbelief.

During the credits, Tom Tucker reports that the Quahog Police accept called off the search for Elaine Wilder and are heading back to Quahog.

Production [edit]

Kirker Butler wrote the episode.

A scene shows Cleveland falling out of the bathtub and subsequently out of his house. This is the second fourth dimension the testify has used this gag (as indicated when Cleveland comments that "I gotta stop taking baths during Peter's shenanigans"), the first i being "Hell Comes to Quahog", where Peter blew up Cleveland's house with a tank. This gag occurred three more than times in the 7th season episodes "Tales of a Tertiary Grade Null" and "Family Gay", the flavour eight episodes "Spies Reminiscent of United states", "Brian'due south Got a Brand New Bag", and the Cleveland Evidence pilot. Information technology took several attempts to animate it correctly.^[2] ^[iii] The gag of Meg's Junior Prom date killing his brother in lodge to escape from their planned date was included in the first draft for the episode, equally made by Kirker Butler.^[3]

A scene featuring Peter, Cleveland, Mort and Quagmire drinking coffee in the booth, waiting for one of them to act irrationally due to Joe adding a substance into their drinkable, was cut from the broadcast for timing purposes.^[4] A deleted scene had been made for the episode, which showed one of the characters present in the berth after Joe added a substance into their drinkable, turning into a lizard-like creature from Jurassic Park, simply the gag was never used. When Brian is explaining the state of affairs with Meg to Lois in the uncensored version he says "this morning she fabricated me eat the hair in her pie" Broadcast standards objected to this and it was inverse for air to "pilus pie". On the DVD commentary MacFarlane remarked he thought the latter sounded more offensive.^[5] American histrion and comedian Garrett Morris guest-starred on the episode, portraying the headmaster of the "New York School for the Hard-of-Hearing", which was once a regular Weekend Update piece on the 1970s episodes of Sat Dark Live.^[4] When Peter and everybody else discover Meg attempting to seduce Brian in the hotel, Peter uses the term "Chinaman"; this was changed for the television broadcast to "oriental guy", as "Chinaman" is accounted to be an offensive word.^[4]

In add-on to the regular cast, actress Drew Barrymore, voice histrion Barclay DeVeau, voice actor Phil LaMarr, vox actor Kerrigan Mahan, actress Natasha Melnick, comedian and actor Garrett Morris, extra Tamera Mowry and extra Lisa Wilhoit guest starred in the episode. Recurring guest voice actors Lori Alan, actress Alex Breckenridge, voice actor John G. Brennan, writer Chris Sheridan, writer Alec Sulkin and writer John Viener made small appearances. Recurring guest vocalisation actors Patrick Warburton and Adam West made appearances besides.

Cultural references [edit]

The movie Mayor West is watching on the idiot box is Romancing the Stone.^[iv] The music played in the background during the black people's parade is taken almost verbatim from the film adaptation of the 1975 musical The Wiz where, in the final number of the moving-picture show, they sing "Make New Solar day" when it came to the absenteeism of most of the Quahog Police Section. The two songs playing in the background at the junior prom are "Agree On to the Nights" by Richard Marx and "Why" by Annie Lennox.^[4] ^[5] The music used in the background and the academy's logo when Peter, Quagmire and Cleveland are entering the police training grounds is a reference to that used in the Police Academy.^[4] The scene where One thousand thousand plays Madame Butterfly while turning the lamp on and off and the line "I will not exist ignored, Brian" is a reference to the 1987 motion picture Fatal Attraction.^[4] The entire scene in the hotel where 1000000 is discovered attempting to seduce Brian is a reference to The King of Comedy, which MacFarlane notes every bit i of his favorite movies.^[4] When Peter Griffin steals a giraffe from the zoo, he names the giraffe Allison Janney. Garrett Morris reprises his office as Headmaster of the New York School for the Difficult of Hearing from the kickoff season of Sat Night Live.

Reception [edit]

In a significant decrease from the previous calendar week, the episode was viewed in 8.48 million homes in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode besides caused a 3.0 rating in the 18–49 demographic, slightly being edged out by The Simpsons, while even so winning over American Dad!.^{[half dozen]}

This episode was written by Kirker Butler, who was nominated at the 34th Annie Awards under the category of "Writing in an Blithe Television set Production", and Mila Kunis, who voices Meg, was too nominated for her work on this episode under the category of "Vocalism Acting in an Animated Tv set Production".^[seven] In his review of the episode, Dan Iverson of IGN wrote: "After a couple more episodes like the ane that Family Guy had on Sunday night, nosotros could officially and unequivocally phone call the prove the best blithe program to air on the weekend", adding "we are completely willing to raise the in one case hit-or-miss comedy of Family Guy to the level of most consistently funny comedy on FOX Sunday nights — and that is thank you to great stories and hilarious comedy like that of this week'due south episode "Barely Legal."^[8] In a review of Family Guy, Volume v, Nancy Basile regarded "Airport '07", "Prick Upwardly Your Ears", and "Barely Legal" as "gem episodes".^[ix] Brett Dearest of TV Squad commented: "Information technology seemed similar more of a cohesive story than nosotros take seen in a while as the whole family unit was tied in to the same storyline", later adding "I liked the story of Meg's infatuation with Brian", last with "overall, I'd call this one a actually good episode."^[10]

However, the Parents Television Quango, a media watchdog grouping and frequent critic, named "Barely Legal" the "Worst TV Evidence of the Calendar week" ending the week of December 28, 2006. PTC member and author Joey Bozell commented, "Information technology'due south becoming more and more obvious that these writers' missions is to provide the most offensive content they tin imagine and in turn proves they don't have an ounce of respect for the families watching at home."^[eleven]

References [edit]

^ "Barely Legal". British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2008-07-29 .
^ Butler, Kirker (2007). Family Guy season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Barely Legal" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
^ ^a ^b Moncrief, Zac (2007). Family Guy season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Barely Legal" (DVD). 20th Century Flim-flam.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h MacFarlane, Seth (2007). Family Guy flavor 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Barely Legal" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
^ ^a ^b Smith, Danny (2007). Family Guy season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Barely Legal" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2010-05-01 .
^ Soares, Andre (December iv, 2006). "34th Annie Awards – 2006". Altfg.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-01 .
^ Iverson, Dan (December 18, 2006). "Family Guy: "Barely Legal" Review". IGN. Retrieved 2008-07-29 .
^ Basile, Nancy. "Family Guy Volume five DVD". Well-nigh.com. Archived from the original on 19 Baronial 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29 .
^ Beloved, Brett. "Family Guy: Barely Legal". Idiot box Squad. Archived from the original on 2007-05-10. Retrieved 2008-07-29 .
^ Bozell, Joey (2006-12-28). "Family Guy on Fox". Worst Telly Evidence of the Week. Parents Tv Council. Archived from the original on 3 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-21 .