History Recap / FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Meg comes home from cheerleading tryouts crying. Peter excitedly asks if she made the team.

* NeverTrustATitle: Keeping up the theme with the macabre episode titles that have nothing to do with the main plot. The title was actually suggested as a joke as a play on the film ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', since the titles were so difficult to come up with. This is why they were dropped in favor of more relevant titles, beginning with "A Hero Sits Next Door". The title of this episode suggests that it's about a vintage car that, like the titular car from Ian Fleming's (1908-1964) book ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (©1964; it was published two months after Fleming's death), can fly through the air and float on the water, as well as drive on land, has a mind of its own, has been programmed for crime by a criminal network, and that the Griffins somehow thwart it, getting the criminals arrested in the process, and reprogram the car for good purposes. In the book, the villains, Joe the Monster and his gang, drive a 1950s black Rolls-Royce convertible; the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" car resembles a green 1920 racing Bentley convertible.

* FingerSnappingStreetGang: Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''Film/WestSideStory''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.

** The flashback to Meg's first birthday, where Peter gleefully informs Lois of all of his daughter's firsts (first words, first steps, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers first drum solo]]) which she's missing because of all the kitchen work, as well as the fact that they like her enough to throw her a party, is a far cry from the punching bag Meg would eventually become.

* NeverTrustATitle: Keeping up the theme with the macabre episode titles that have nothing to do with the main plot. The title was actually suggested as a joke as a play on the film ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', since the titles were so difficult to come up with. This is why they were dropped in favor of more relevant titles, beginning with "A Hero Sits Next Door".

* {{Bowdlerization}}: On Creator/Channel4 in the UK, the flashback where Peter guns down Music/{{Hanson}}, thinking they are [[Literature/ChildrenOfTheCorn the Children of the Corn]], was shortened so that he fires the gun three times instead of six.

-->'''Brian''': Wait. *goes to grab a kitchen chair* These are always classic.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The flashback to Meg's first birthday, where Peter gleefully informs Lois of all of his daughter's firsts (first words, first steps, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers first drum solo]]) which she's missing because of all the kitchen work, as well as the fact that they like her enough to throw her a party, is a far cry from the punching bag Meg would eventually become.

* LifesavingMisfortune: Peter unwittingly gives Meg permission to go to a party at her friend Jennifer's house, not realizing that the "party" in question is actually a cult meeting where the members are about to commit suicide. Peter goes to retrieve Meg from the cult when he tells her that having the whole family at Stewie's birthday party is more for Lois than Stewie; her best memories are of when all three children were born. [[HeelRealization Realizing this, Meg agrees to come home]], [[HeelFaceTurn along with her new "cult friends"]]. Peter makes a toast, but checks his watch before he drinks the [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned punch]] and pulls Meg out as well, ''obliviously saving both of their lives!'' [[TooDumbToLive Her friends, however, weren't so lucky]].
* NeverTrustATitle: Keeping up the theme with the macabre episode titles that have nothing to do with the main plot. The title was actually suggested as a joke as a play on the film ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', since the titles were so difficult to come up with. This is why they were dropped in favor of more relevant titles, beginning with "A Hero Sits Next Door". The title suggests that this episode is about a gang of criminals with a vintage car, possibly a green 1920s Bentley convertible that, like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has a mind of its own and can fly in the air and float on the water as well as drive on land, but has been programmed to assist the criminals in their crimes, and that the Griffins somehow help to stop the criminals and the car is then reprogrammed to do good. It also implies that perhaps the car has spoken lines, in a feminine voice, so that it can truly be referred to as a "she". In the original book ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' by Ian Fleming (published in 1964, two months prior to his death), the main antagonists, Joe the Monster and his gang, had a black car, which appeared to be a 1940 Packard convertible. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, on the other hand, appeared to be a green 1920s Bentley convertible. According to Fleming, the original "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" car, which had a 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine, was built in 1920 by English racing driver Louis Zborowski (1895-1924).

'''Airdate:''' April 18, 1999

* LifesavingMisfortune: Peter unwittingly gives Meg permission to go to a party at her friend Jennifer's house, not realizing that the "party" in question is actually a cult meeting where the members are about to commit suicide. Peter goes to retrieve Meg from the cult when he tells her that having the whole family at Stewie's birthday party is more for Lois than Stewie; her best memories are of when all three children were born. [[HeelRealization Realizing this, Meg agrees to come home]], [[HeelFaceTurn along with her new "cult friends"]]. Peter makes a toast, but checks his watch before he drinks the [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned punch]] and pulls Meg out as well, '''obliviously saving both of their lives!'''[[TooDumbToLive Her friends, however, weren't so lucky]].