History Recap / FamilyGuyS14E11ThePeanutButterKid

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: What becomes of Stewie when his child-star fame and career begins to take its toll on him and his health. He soon learns that child acting is not all glamorous as it looks to be.

* WeightWoe: Because of Peter and Lois, Stewie believes he is fat and prefers to just dipping a piece of celery into a cup of water and then throwing it away in order to maintain his "perfect child star" look.

* ParentalFavoritism: Stewie's becomes Peter's "favorite son" after getting his first commercial. Chris didn't take it well (but only because he hates being touched, not because Peter's words hurt his feelings).

* {{Hypocrite}}: Subverted. Peter tries to counter Brian's point that Stewie's acting career shouldn’t impede his growth into a normal child by pointing out that his son is also an actor that Brian tried to mooch off of (with Brian countering that Peter's father[[note]]Francis, not the Irish town drunk who actually is Peter's father, though considering that the latter hasn't been seen much, it's anyone's guess[[/note]] hated his guts and died). However, while Brian did try to use his son's acting career to selfishly further his writing career, at least he did not overexert him nor have him ingest dangerous drugs in order to keep him active.

* RealityEnsues: What becomes of Stewie when his child-star fame and career begins to take its toll on him and his health. He soon learns that child acting is not all glamorous as it looks to be.

* TookALevelInJerkass: While Peter and Lois were hardly good people to start with, this episode makes them at their absolute worst at least until the end.

!Tropes

* StageMom: Peter and Lois evolve into this, blinded by greed from how profitable child acting is. They try to justify their actions with the excuse of saving money for Stewie's college but soon stop caring and now only care about the money for themselves!.

* CallBack: The song that Lois plays on the piano is "Alley Cat", the melody of which was used by Phineas & Barnaby in their song "Steak and Eggs" in "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey".
** Peter mentions that Brian has a son ("The Former Life of Brian") who became a teen actor ("Brian's a Bad Father").

* {{Hypocrite}}: Subverted. Peter tries to counter Brian's point that Stewie's acting career shouldn’t impede his growth into a normal child by pointing out that his son is also an actor that Brian tried to mooch off of (with Brian countering that Peter's father[[note]]Francis, not the Irish town drunk who actually is Peter's father, though considering that the latter hasn't been seen much, it's anyone's guess[[/note]] hated his guts and died). However, while Brian did try to use his son's acting career to selfishly further his writing career, at least he did not overexert him nor have him intake consumables not suitable for his age to improve his acting performances.

* ShoutOut: Brian names several former child actors to Stewie whose lives and careers ended badly for them, such examples such as Screech from Saved By The Bell and Dana Plato from Diff'Rent Strokes.
Brian's demonstrations of child actors to Stewie. Although Stewie tries to put his trust in his parents, Brian sets out to show him that they no longer have his best interests at heart and tells him about other child actors that ended up in pornography and/or have died like:

** [[Series/SavedByTheBell Dustin Diamond]] (who did porn).

* StageMom: Peter and Lois evolve into this, blinded by greed from how profitable child acting is. They try to justify their actions with the excuse of saving money for Stewie's college but soon stop caring and now only care about the money for themselves!.
* TakeThat: Brian's demonstrations of child actors to Stewie. Although Stewie tries to put his trust in his parents, Brian sets out to show him that they no longer have his best interests at heart and tells him about other child actors that ended up in pornography and/or have died like:

* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Stewie's acting career ends by the end of this episode. StatusQuoIsGod after all.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Not Stewie but Lois and Peter who become abusive stage parents after getting a taste of its profits.
* GRatedDrug: Even worse, to keep him going, they slip him a homemade energy drink called 8-hour Energy (which is made from 5-hour Energy, espresso, Scotts Turf Builder, and a "tiny, tiny super-small" amount of cocaine) to keep him going.

* WeightWoe: Because of Peter and Lois, Stewie believes he is fat and prefers to just dipping a piece of celery into a cup of water and then throwing it away in order to maintain a "perfect child star".