Peterotica

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“Peterotica”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 24
Guest stars	Betty White
Written by	Patrick Meighan
Directed by	Kurt Dumas
Production no.	4ACX27
Original airdate	April 23, 2006
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"Peterotica" is an episode from season 4 of FOX animated television series Family Guy. Guest starring Betty White as herself.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Peter buys an erotic book, which he actually reads but is very disappointed by. His friends suggest he write his own erotic book; this sells well from its beginning stages as a xeroxed, stapled manuscript to its later incarnation as a professionally produced audiobook read by Betty White, and produced by Carter Pewterschmidt.

A distracted driver listens to the audiobook and crashes into the Kool-Aid Man's house while trying to take his shirt off. He sues Carter because the audiobook states that Carter was the publisher, whose entire assets are promptly seized. Peterotica is also pulled from the shelves of all book stores. An enraged Carter, feeling ruined, goes to Quahog to kill Peter with a rifle, but after Lois convinces him not to, he lives with the Griffins, while his wife divorces him and later marries Ted Turner.

Meanwhile, Stewie practices to be a gymnast in the Olympics. He practices pole vaulting with the unconscious Chris as a cushion. His training climaxes with an in-the-house vault that winds up getting him a large shard of glass in his head.

Peter tries to teach Carter how to be a regular person. Peter's attempt fails and Carter tells Peter what's wrong with his life. After Peter realizes his life sucks, he and Carter try to find ways to make money. Peter and Carter try several different ways of making money including stealing Lois's wallet, selling Meg pot, making a teen Drama TV show a la Dawson's Creek and robbing a train, but each attempt fails. At the end Barbara comes to Quahog to retrieve Carter, telling him that she divorced Turner and took half his assets as part of the spousal support agreement. Despite the fact that he helped Carter turn his life and views of normal people around, Peter gets nothing. When Lois tells Peter she turned down $10 million from Carter a few years ago, Peter suddenly fantasizes about killing her.

[edit] Notes

This episode marks the third appearance of Kool-Aid Man (seen previously in "Death Has a Shadow" and Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story).
The Mac scene where Stewie asks the computer what are you thinking about to which it replies, "Stewie is cool." Stewie then says, "Yay!" then looks around then is embarrassed. This is a reference to Stewie's loneliness and supposed lack of friends.
While the guys are in the adult book store, "Charwoman", one of actress Carol Burnett's characters in her 1970's show The Carol Burnett Show is shown mopping the floor. On March 16, 2007, Burnett sued the producers of Family Guy for copyright infringement, trademark violation, statutory violation of right of privacy, and misappropriation of name and likeness. [1]

[edit] DVD Exclusive Scenes

During the montage of erotic novels written by Peter, the book after Angela's Asses in the DVD version was "Catcher in the Eye", depicting a woman in a red bra with a bullseye on one of her eyes. According to the DVD commentary, this scene was cut because the censors objected to the implied male ejaculation joke.
Another scene shown only on the DVD is Brian and Peter watching an episode of Blind Justice that immediately ends after the blind cop runs into a wall.

[edit] Cultural references

Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe visit an adult book store named "Pornoslavia: Formerly Kenny Rogers' Roasters", where Peter watches a coin-operated movie booth showing "The Naughty Flapper Girl", which depicts a woman voting for Taft. Also, while in the adult book store, Quagmire performs a short parody of "Make 'Em Laugh" originally performed by Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain.
In a film entitled The Picnic, Jude Law and Renée Zellweger have their picnic ruined by ants. Zellweger, whose face is distorted to look like that of an anteater in what Peter refers to as her "scrunch-face routine", proceeds to consume the ants while Del Amitri's "Roll to Me" plays (according to the commentary, Seth McFarlane mentions that "Roll to Me" is almost always used in the trailers to romantic comedies).
Stewie has a Mac laptop and amuses himself with the text to speech feature available in SimpleText.
The four porn books shown on screen are references to works of literature: "Angela's Asses" to Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, "Catcher in the Eye" to Catcher in the Rye, "Shaved New World" to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and "Harry Potter and the Half Black Chick" to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling.
Julia Roberts is portrayed as narcissist in a tsunami relief television spot.
The Tracey Ullman Show cut-away is a reference to The Simpsons who had their own filler on that show before having their own TV series. Noteworthy is the family's poorly drawn appearance and unrefined voices which are similar to the way The Simpsons characters were portrayed on the Ullman's show.
Peter sings the famous Sabre Dance theme from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet whilst riding a unicycle.
The show "Quahog Creek" is a reference to the WB drama Dawson's Creek. The theme features Peter standing in a rowboat singing to the tune of the Dawson's Creek theme by Paula Cole, "I don't wanna wait, for my lunch to get colder, I want to eat right now... I don't wanna wait for a new Toyota, I want a car with lots of gas."
An attorney-at-law, whose client is the man who got into the car accident, shows up at Carter Pewterschmidt's door to announce his intention to sue Carter as the publisher, since his name appears on the cover of Peterotica. Carter activates a trapdoor, dropping the attorney into his rancor pit. The lawyer defeats the rancor in the same manner as Luke Skywalker did in Jabba the Hutt's palace in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. After the lawyer climbs back out of the pit, Carter comments, "I didn't realize Greenberg (the lawyer's name) was a Jedi name".
Stewie claims that getting hurt while doing his vault will get him onto a box of Wheaties. This is a reference to Kerri Strug, who in 1996 helped the US Woman's Gymnastic Olympic team win gold. She injured her ankle on her first jump and then landed her second jump before collapsing in pain. This performance not only earned her a gold medal but also put her on the Wheaties box.
Peter's audiobook that the driver is listening to is narrated by Betty White.