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Family Guy :: The Story on Page One (02x19)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | The Story on Page One |
| Episode #: | 02x19 |
| Production Number: | 2ACX14 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday July 18th, 2000 |
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Episode Summary |
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Meg joins the newspaper team to boost her extracurricular activities so she can get into Brown. She writes an article about Mayor West wasting taxpayer money on an inane project, but Peter replaces Meg's newsworthy article with one that claims that Luke Perry (from the original Beverly Hills, 90210 cast) is a homosexual. Meanwhile, Stewie fits Chris with a mind-control helmet so he can force him to do his bidding.
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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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The hit song "Adam West" (which is about the actor Adam West), was recorded by Wally Wingert, a guest star for this episode. Which is funny because Adam West was also a guest star for this episode.
| When Peter looks at a magazine with look Perry's picture on it you can see "If you are reading this Family Guy is still on the air" in the bottom right corner.
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Peter: We're here to see the Dean.
(Door slides open and the doorman from the Wizard of Oz comes into view)
Doorman: Not nobody gets to see the Dean! Not nobody and not no how!
| Peter: See, Meg, things always work out if you just do whatever you want without thinking about the consequences.
| Peter: You know that whole Vietnam thing? Never happened.
Brian: Oh yeah, but don't mention it around the Veterans Hospital. Those guys are really committed to the lie.
| Stewie: Oh my GOD there's an orgy in my mouth!
| Meg: Excuse me, Mayor West?
Adam West: How do you know my language?
| Lois: Oh, I haven't been on a college campus in years. Everything seems so different.
Stewie: Really? Perhaps if you laid on your back with your ankles behind your ears that would ring a few bells.
| Peter: Gays don't vommit. They're a very clean people. And they have been ever since they came to this country from France.
| Brian: Ah, the old alma mater. I tell you, there's something magical about Brown.
Chris: Brown is the color of poo. Ha ha ha!
Brian: Yes. Yes it is.
| Lois: My days in college were so exciting. This one time, the national guard came and shot some of my friends.
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Episode Goofs |
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Steven J. Cannell Productions is misspelled.
It should be Stephen J. Cannell Productions
| When we see the exterior of the school before Peter sneaks in, we see the flags are still flying.
It is not proper for the American Flag to be flown without illumination.
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Cultural References |
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Peter: “Excuse me, we're here to see the Dean.”
Man: “Nobody sees the Dean, Not nobody, no how!”
Reference to Frank Morgan's “Gatekeeper” character from 1939's “Wizard of Oz”
| Lois: “My days in college were so exciting, this one time the national guard came and shot some of my friends”
Allusion to the Kent State shootings. 4 students were killed & 9 others were wounded by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970 at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio
| Brian: “And this in Penbrook Quad”
Stewie: “Oh very nice, very Brideshead Revisited”
Reference to the 1981 British television serial based on the novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh.
The Oxford scenes were largely filmed at Waugh's alma mater, Hertford College, Wadham College and Christ Church.
| Brian: “COWARDS !!!”
Reference to 1992's “School Ties” starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon & Chris O'Donnell.
Brendan's character David Greene entered his room and on his wall instead of a sign saying “Go Home Dog”, it said “Go Home Jew”.
| Stewie: “So, what do you think of this music television”
(Obvious) Reference to MTV
| Stewie: “I wish I was big”
Reference to Tom Hanks' 1988's movie “Big”. Like Stewie, Josh Baskin (David Moscow) makes a wish at a Zoltar machine to be big, but unlike Stewie, the next morning Josh wakes up to discover he's a grown up in the form of Tom Hanks
| Peter: “I never wanted to call her Meg. I wanted to call her Twiki but Lois said kids these days wouldn't get the reference.”
Twiki is the robot companion of Buck Rogers from the scifi tv show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” (1979-1981)
| Lois: “You could get a part time job.”
Peter: “Yeah I had one when I was in high school.”
Peter's high school job was a Ghost Buster. Reference to 1984's movie “Ghost Busters” starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis & Annie Potts.
One of Peter's jobs was to capture the spirit of Sam Wheat, Patrick Swayze's character from 1990's movie “GHOST”. Peter interrupts the famous pottery scene from “GHOST”
| Vanity Fair magazine
| Mayor Adam West: “Are you Sarah Connor”
This line is spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator from 1984's “The Terminator”
| Meg: “Of course you realize this means war”
A line originated with Gracho Marx in 1933's “Duck Soup” but in this context it is a reference to Daffy Duck who would often get his duck bill blown off or displaced by a bomb or shotgun blast to the face
| Stewie's eating Nabisco's Fig Newtons
| Mayor West talks about the “got milk?” ads
| Mayor West: “Gotcha, diagonally. Pretty sneaky sis”
Allusion to 80s commercial for the Milton Bradley game “Connect Four”. The object of the game was to get 4 checkers in a row of the same color either horizontally, vertically or diagonally
| Stewie: “If you're blue and you don't know where to go why don't you go to where fashion sits”
Chris: “Putting on the ritz”
Reference to Mel Brooks' 1979 “Young Frankenstein” starring Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle.
Dr. Frankenstein (Wilder) and the Monster (Boyle) perform Irving Berlin's “Putting on the Ritz” w/ the Monster only able to belt out “putting on the ritz”.
| Peter: “I know kids and this story's gonna put them to sleep. Now Meg needs something that'll pull those kids away from their Rock’em Sock’em Robots and their Spirographs and their Moby Grape and their 90210”
Rock’em Sock’em Robots is a classic toy that's been around since the 60s. Controlled with two thumbs, 2 players try to hit the chin of the opposing robot causing it's head to pop up.
Spirograph is another 60s toy that's still around today. Using a series of plastic gears, geometric patters are created using different colored ink.
Moby Grape was a rock group formed in the mid to late 60s.
90210 aka Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), a FOX show starring Luke Perry, Jason Priestly, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering & Gabrielle Carteris.
All of which w/ the exception of Ian, Brian & Gabrielle have lent their voices to Family Guy.
| Peter: “Brian, I got my story!”
Peter sitting at the typewriter throwing the paper behind him is a reference to a real logo shown at the end of certain TV shows for Steven J Cannell Productions
| Female Voice: “Luke! Luke, it's time for dinner”
This is an exact quote used in Star Wars: A New Hope by Aunt Beru to call Luke Skywalker
| Peter: “So what, a lot of these famous types lead secret lives that we don't even know about, like Ricky Martin”
Instead of the rumor that Ricky Martin is gay, he apparently is also the singer Jewel.
| Peter: “It worked for Walter Cronkite, you know that whole Vietnam thing... never happened.”
Walter Cronkite was the anchor of the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).
During his tenure as anchor he became known as “the most trusted man in America.”
| Quahog's Five Seasons Hotel is a take off on the famous Four Seasons Luxury Hotels and Resorts
| Peter {to Luke Perry}: “You were great in Rain Man”
Peter imagines Luke starred in 1988's “Rain Man” instead of Tom Cruise.
The “dumb guy” Peter mentions was Dustin Hoffman, the other star.
| Peter: “I'm telling you, Dark Side of the Moon totally syncs up w/ The Wizard of Oz”
Peter tells Luke about the legend that Pink Floyd's 1973 album titled “Dark Side of the Moon” matches the actions and scenes from 1933's The Wizard of Oz.
Despite the bands insistence of a coincidences, people claim certain scenes do match up with the music like during “Time”, Mrs. Gulch pedals her bike to the tune, during “Breathe (Reprise)” you hear “Home, home again” as Professor Marvel tells Dorothy that she should return to her home among many more.
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