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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Judging by Peter's line after he meets Quagmire ("Him and his crazy get-rich-quick schemes"), it looks like Quagmire was intended to be a greedy character, instead of the [[TheCasanova Casanova]] pervert we all know today.
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She races an amish wagon while Peter teaches her, but fails because she raced a police car
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Peter teaches Meg how to drive in time for her road test. When Meg fails for racing an Amish buggy, Peter gets distracted by the FOX reality special, ''Fast Animals, Slow Children'', and hits the town's cable satellite, causing all of Quahog to go without TV, which slowly drives Peter crazy...until Lois rescuing him from an angry mob makes him realize that there's more to life than television. Meanwhile, Stewie uses the town's banged-up satellite to create a weather machine so it can snow all around the world and wipe out the broccoli plant.
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Peter teaches Meg how to drive in time for her road test. When Meg fails for racing an Amish buggy, a Police car, Peter gets distracted by the FOX reality special, ''Fast Animals, Slow Children'', and hits the town's cable satellite, causing all of Quahog to go without TV, which slowly drives Peter crazy...until Lois rescuing him from an angry mob makes him realize that there's more to life than television. Meanwhile, Stewie uses the town's banged-up satellite to create a weather machine so it can snow all around the world and wipe out the broccoli plant.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: During a CutawayGag of Peter in Willy Wonka's factory, the latter asks him if he ate any of his candy. Peter denies it, despite being swollen and purple like Violet in the movie.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The German sausage clerk taking over a Czech sausage booth and a Polish sausage booth. To make it more obvious, the German clerk looks like a fat version of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The German sausage clerk taking over a Czech Polish sausage booth and eyeing a Polish sausage booth.Czech one. To make it more obvious, the German clerk looks like a fat version of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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'''Airdate:''' April 11, 1999
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'''Original air date:''' 4/11/1999
'''Production code:''' 1ACX-02
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-->'''Meg:''' Dad, I have to take my driver's test and get my license. If I don't get a license, I won't drive, I'll never get married and I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell!\\
'''Peter:''' Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?
'''Peter:''' Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?
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-->'''Meg:''' Dad, I have to take my driver's test and get my license. If I don't get a license, I won't drive, I'll never get married and I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell!\\
Creator/RosieODonnell!\\
'''Peter:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can'tdrive?drive]]?
'''Peter:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't
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'''Ensign Ricky:''' Aw, crap.
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'''Ensign Ricky:''' Aw, crap.[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Aw]], [[OhCrap crap]].
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** Ensign Ricky (the RedShirt guy) when he's one of the people picked for the landing party.
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* SplittingPants: When Peter is watching Star Trek: The Original Series, this happens to Captain Kirk, whose underwear reads "Captain's Log" on the seat.
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Meg laments how if she doesn't get a driver's license, she'll never get married and end up adopting a kid like Rosie O'Donnell.
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Meg laments how if she doesn't get a driver's license, she'll never get married and end up adopting a kid like Rosie O'Donnell.Creator/RosieODonnell.
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** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!".
** In Peter's Film/TheWizardOfOz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees Series/{{ALF}} (1986), Series/GilligansIsland (1964), the robot from Series/LostInSpace (1965), and Series/IDreamOfJeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Series/{{Bewitched}} (1964).
** In Peter's Film/TheWizardOfOz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees Series/{{ALF}} (1986), Series/GilligansIsland (1964), the robot from Series/LostInSpace (1965), and Series/IDreamOfJeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Series/{{Bewitched}} (1964).
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** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's Creator/{{NBC}}'s 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!".
** In Peter'sFilm/TheWizardOfOz (1939)-inspired ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-inspired dream, he sees Series/{{ALF}} (1986), Series/GilligansIsland (1964), ''Series/{{ALF}}'', ''Series/GilligansIsland'', the robot from Series/LostInSpace (1965), ''Series/LostInSpace'' and Series/IDreamOfJeannie (1965), ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', who turns into Samantha Stephens from Series/{{Bewitched}} (1964).''Series/{{Bewitched}}''.
** In Peter's
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: The family once they get tired of Peter making them do wholesome activities.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: The family once they get tired of Peter making them do wholesome activities.activities.
* WereLiveRealization: PlayedWith ''twice''. After Peter knocks out Quahog's television service, Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons feel free to say and do things they can't during their newscast, since no one will be watching... only to be informed that they're still on in Boston. A little later, Tom takes a shot at his wife, confident that she won't hear because she lives in Quahog... only to be told that that the town's service was restored.
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* WereLiveRealization: PlayedWith ''twice''. After Peter knocks out Quahog's television service, Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons feel free to say and do things they can't during their newscast, since no one will be watching... only to be informed that they're still on in Boston. A little later, Tom takes a shot at his wife, confident that she won't hear because she lives in Quahog... only to be told that that the town's service was restored.
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* KidsHateVegetables: Stewie spends the entire B-plot attempting to destroy his plate of broccoli Lois made him eat for dinner. He ends up trying to feed them to Brian, but Brian just dumps them back onto Stewie's plate.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: This is one of the first episodes to convey Meg as a ButtMonkey. However this is long before she was designated the de facto punching bag of the Family Guy universe, with her abuse in this episode more down to Peter [[CloudCuckooLander being Peter]] and the town's SeriousBusiness attitude towards television.
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* DirtyCoward: Peter blames the accident with the cable satellite on ''his daughter''.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Though the town is already an unruly mob after finding out it was Peter that destroyed television, some sound even more outraged that he blamed his own daughter for the accident.
-->'''Parachutist:''' [[VisualPun Well that's the lowest thing I've ever heard.]]
-->'''Parachutist:''' [[VisualPun Well that's the lowest thing I've ever heard.]]
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Just an early example of Peter being one where he bursts into Meg's class to reprimand her for not cleaning out the shower after shaving her legs.
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* NoodleIncident: Brian reminds Peter of his trip to the southwest where Peter accidentally ran over The Road Runner from the Looney Tunes while driving.
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* NoodleIncident: Brian reminds Peter of his trip to the southwest where Peter accidentally ran over [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner The Road Runner from the Looney Tunes Tunes]] while driving.driving. His passenger, Wile E. Coyote, didn't mind (of course).
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* MythologyGag: The entire ''Series/StarTrek'' parody came from [=MacFarlane's=] short, ''Life of Larry''. However, Ensign Ricky initially said, "Aw, shit" instead of "Aw, crap."
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* MythologyGag: The entire ''Series/StarTrek'' ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' parody came from [=MacFarlane's=] Creator/SethMacfarlane's short, ''Life of Larry''. However, Ensign Ricky initially said, "Aw, shit" instead of "Aw, crap."
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** In Peter's The Wizard of Oz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees ALF (1986), Gilligan's Island (1964), the robot from Lost in Space (1965), and I Dream of Jeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Bewitched (1964).
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** In Peter's The Wizard of Oz Film/TheWizardOfOz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees ALF Series/{{ALF}} (1986), Gilligan's Island Series/GilligansIsland (1964), the robot from Lost in Space Series/LostInSpace (1965), and I Dream of Jeannie Series/IDreamOfJeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Bewitched Series/{{Bewitched}} (1964).
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His reappearance when Shatner dies is sort of a brick joke that the red shirt survived and Shatner didn't
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Ensign Ricky's reaction to Creator/WilliamShatner getting killed by Meg's driving.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: [[BrickJoke Ensign Ricky's Ricky's]] reaction to Creator/WilliamShatner getting killed by Meg's driving.
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* FailedASpotCheck: "Holy crap! [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Uhura]]'s black?!"
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* FailedASpotCheck: "Holy crap! [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Uhura]]'s black?!"Black?!"
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* MythologyGag: The entire ''Series/StarTrek'' parody came from [=MacFarlane's=] short, ''Life of Larry''. However, Ensign Ricky initially said, "Aw, shit" instead of "Aw, crap."
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** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!"
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** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!"me!".
** In Peter's The Wizard of Oz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees ALF (1986), Gilligan's Island (1964), the robot from Lost in Space (1965), and I Dream of Jeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Bewitched (1964).
** In school, when Meg is about to confess that her dad was actually the one who crashed the car, she reflects with an inner voice, a reference to Series/TheWonderYears (1988).
** In Peter's The Wizard of Oz (1939)-inspired dream, he sees ALF (1986), Gilligan's Island (1964), the robot from Lost in Space (1965), and I Dream of Jeannie (1965), who turns into Samantha Stephens from Bewitched (1964).
** In school, when Meg is about to confess that her dad was actually the one who crashed the car, she reflects with an inner voice, a reference to Series/TheWonderYears (1988).
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* ShoutOut:
** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!"
** From his prison cell, Charles Manson recites NBC's 1997 slogan, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!"
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* NoodleIncident: Brian reminds Peter of his trip to the southwest where Peter accidentally ran over The Road Runner from the Looney Tunes while driving.
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** When Peter and Meg crash into a cable dish and then realize they've accidentally cut the town's cable.
** Peter and Meg's reaction when they are confronted by an angry mob.
** Lois' reaction when she and Peter are confronted by an angry mob at Meg's school.
** Meg, when driving home in the rain and realizing she accidentally hit both Peter and William Shatner.
* OhCrap:
** When Peter and Meg crash into a cable dish and then realize they've accidentally cut the town's cable.
** Peter and Meg's reaction when they are confronted by an angry mob.
** Lois' reaction when she and Peter are confronted by an angry mob at Meg's school.
** Meg, when driving home in the rain and realizing she accidentally hit both Peter and William Shatner.
