Stewie Loves Lois

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“Stewie Loves Lois”
Family Guy episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 1
Written by	Mark Hentemann
Directed by	Mike Kim
Production no.	4ACX32
Original airdate	September 10, 2006
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"Stewie Loves Lois" is the Season 5 premiere episode of Family Guy, which first aired on September 10, 2006. The show accumulated a Nielsen rating/share of 6.7/10, meaning that about 9.9 million viewers tuned in.^[1]

[edit] Plot summary

When his teddy bear Rupert is ruined in the park by a dog, Stewie is extremely miserable. But once Lois fixes Rupert, Stewie immediately becomes attached to her and finally decides to abandon his murderous plans towards her. He eventually gets on her nerves, which leads to her having a bad dream of homicidal thoughts about him, so she turns to Brian in an attempt to calm her down.

Meanwhile, Peter goes to see the doctor for a flu vaccine, but he is informed that he needs a prostate exam. However, his exam is not what he expects. Thinking that Doctor Hartman is trying to molest him by inserting a finger into his anus, Peter enters a period of shock. No matter how much he is told by people like Lois and Hartman that it was just a prostate exam, he refuses to believe that. Trying to find revenge, Peter takes Hartman to court and wins the case. Hartman loses his medical license, and Peter believes himself to be victorious, until he begins needing to urinate frequently. He is advised to get a prostate exam by Captain Seamus, but Joe thinks that no doctor in Quahog is going to trust Peter after that lawsuit...and neither will anyone out of town. Peter finally gives in and goes to see Dr. Hartman, who reveals the problem to just be some swelling (along with Mr. Sulu). Hartman gets his medical license back, and the episode ends in a parody of All in the Family.

[edit] Notes

• Someone other than Chris (Peter) sees the Evil Monkey (though Peter mistook him for Meg).
• Stewie and Peter both speak Spanish at different times in the show. Stewie says to Brian "Te mato perro feo ¿me entiendes estúpido? Tu eres un imbecil, te odio" (I am going to kill you, ugly dog. Do you understand me, stupid? You are an imbecile. I hate you!), and Peter answers "ocupado" (busy) when Chris knocks the bathroom door.
• Meg had one line and Chris had three in this episode.
• In one scene, a tired Lois is repeatedly called by a persistent Stewie a total of 28 times.[1]
• This is the second episode centered around Stewie loving one of his parents, the first being The Courtship of Stewie's Father

[edit] Censorship

• The Adult Swim version has the last part of the "Mr. Nipple" scene where Peter, while half-asleep, uses his finger to probe around Stewie's mouth, mistaking it for Lois's vagina. The FOX version, however, cuts off when Peter mistakes Stewie's nose for Lois's nipple.

[edit] Cultural references

• The family is watching a (fictional) TV show called Robin the Boy Wonder, in which Robin looks like Burt Ward's portrayal of the character in the 1960s Batman series.
• Peter claims that Frampton Comes Alive! was "a monster". Curiously, Peter Frampton saved Peter's marriage by playing for Lois at their anniversary in the previous episode "Death Lives".
• In the flashback of Peter's passing of his exam, the song "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)" by Kenny Loggins is played.
• During the flashback of Peter's "rape", he is thrown on a pinball machine. This is a reference to the rape scene in the movie The Accused. Also, the scene in which Peter is pushed onto the grass and a carnival is taking place behind Dr. Hartman is a reference to the film Dr. Giggles. There is also a American History X reference when Hartman spanks and is about to penetrate Peter, and the low frequency droning sound in the background is a reference to Gaspar Noe's Irréversible, another film famous for its rape content.
• Kermit the Frog is shown to be racist in this episode, in a flashback taken from the opening of The Muppet Movie. He threatens a black man to turn around when the man asks for directions to town, after which he pulls out a shotgun and cocks it.
• Stewie describes Lois as a female Bonnie Hunt.
• Stewie's explanation for his speaking Spanish is that he fell asleep during Sábado Gigante, a popular Spanish-language variety television show.
• Stewie testifies against Michael Jackson, a reference to the 2005 molestation trial against him.
• Lois seems to initially reference Andrea Yates as a parallel to herself, then changes it to imply that Barbara Bush gave George W. Bush brain damage by holding him under water as a child.
• The eponymous characters from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde become "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sulu" in a cutaway scene.
• During the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sulu segment, Mr. Sulu says "Hello" in a suggestive tone and eyes a man passing by, this is a reference to the actor who plays Mr. Sulu, George Takei's real life homosexuality
• Star Trek: The Original Series is referenced twice, once with the aforementioned Mr. Sulu segment and once with a Dr. Leonard McCoy scene. The Star Trek franchise had already been spoofed several times by Family Guy. It was notably done in episodes "I Never Met the Dead Man", "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" and "Peter's Got Woods" and the Family Guy movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!.
• The end credits are an animated replication of the All in the Family end credits shot sequence, complete with the use of the actual All in the Family closing theme and scrolling credits in the show's lettering style. (Note that the first few seconds of the opening sequence of the show, when Lois and Peter play the piano, are also similar to the opening credits of All in the Family).
• When Seamus the old pirate is showing Peter the random posters from his wooden arm, the last picture is of Primus. Other posters on his arm include one of Middle-earth, and a "Hang in There" cat poster.
• Chris mentioning that there is an Orange Julius at the mall where Peter might find a personal injury lawyer is possibly a reference to The Simpsons episode "Burns' Heir" where lawyer Lionel Hutz is shown to have a mall office in close proximity to an Orange Julius stand.
• After Lois ignores Stewie's pretended overdose of medication, Stewie asks if this is a "Tommy Lee pool party" referring to the 2001 drowning death of four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres at Tommy Lee's Malibu home during a birthday party for his son.
• Tom Tucker mentions a story about a woman inexplicably losing her sex drive after a big meal at an expensive restaurant. This is a reference to the stereotypical male attitude of an expensive meal equaling getting to have sex.
• When Peter is in the bathroom cutting his hair and putting lipstick all over his body, he is showing typical signs of emotional trauma that comes from rape or what he thought was rape.

[edit] References

Preceded by "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure (3)"

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Followed by "Mother Tucker"