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* AsHimself: Donny Most briefly appears as himself as a forest spectre.

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* AsHimself: Donny AsHimself:
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Most (Ralph on ''Series/HappyDays'') briefly appears as himself as a forest spectre.spectre.
** Adam West brings on Creator/JimmySmits to help him appeal to Latino voters.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The corpse of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Varney Jim Varney]], who Peter [[ArtificialZombie reanimates]] in a failed attempt to bring back ''John Belushi''.
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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well) [[/note]]

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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Brian's Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well) [[/note]]



* TakeThat: American politics gets it with both barrels throughout the episode. Not only do we have the obvious example of Mayors taking bribes from big companies, but undecided voters are openly called "the biggest idiots on the planet." This is proven with how they reject Lois' BoringButPractical policy proposals while fawning all over Mayor West's glittering generalities. Lois is able to scare the people of Quahog into supporting her cause by making up ridiculous conspiracies and dropping controversial terms in meaningless ways (most of her campaign platform just had her saying the phrase "9/11" over and over again.)

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* TakeThat: American politics gets it with both barrels throughout the episode. Not only do we have the obvious example of Mayors taking bribes from big companies, but undecided voters are openly called "the biggest idiots on the planet." This is proven with how they reject Lois' BoringButPractical policy proposals while fawning all over Mayor West's glittering generalities. Lois is able to scare the people of Quahog into supporting her cause by making up ridiculous conspiracies and dropping controversial terms in meaningless ways (most of her campaign platform just had her saying the phrase "9/11" over and over again.)again).
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* NonAnswer: Lois responds to two audience questions with merely, "9/11." And the questions had nothing to do with national security.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog. He responds by shooting them.
* TakeThat: American politics gets it with both barrels throughout the episode. Not only do we have the obvious example of Mayors taking bribes from big companies, but undecided voters are openly called "the biggest idiots on the planet." This is proven with how they reject Lois' BoringButPractical policy proposals while fawning all over Mayor West's glittering generalities. Lois is able to scare the people of Quahog into supporting her cause by making up ridiculous conspiracies and dropping controversial terms in meaningless ways (most of her campaign platform just had her saying the phrase "9/11" over and over again.)

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog. He responds by shooting them.
* TakeThat: American politics gets it with both barrels throughout the episode. Not only do we have the obvious example of Mayors taking bribes from big companies, but undecided voters are openly called "the biggest idiots on the planet." This is proven with how they reject Lois' BoringButPractical policy proposals while fawning all over Mayor West's glittering generalities. Lois is able to scare the people of Quahog into supporting her cause by making up ridiculous conspiracies and dropping controversial terms in meaningless ways (most of her campaign platform just had her saying the phrase "9/11" over and over again.))
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* AffablyEvil: [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] gets interviewed about the lake being cleaned of pollution and calmly discusses all the positive benefits to the restoration. He also stops for a moment to stab two teenage girls dead before finishing his analysis.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. When Stewie mocks Peter while playing the piano, we cut to an elderly Peter telling the story to someone else back in the 1800s.

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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. When Stewie mocks Peter while playing the piano, clavichord, we cut to an elderly Peter telling the story to someone else back in the 1800s.
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* CorruptPolitician: Mayor West lets the oil company pollute the lake in exchange for free oil for his hair. Lois [[NotSoDifferent starts to become one herself after she's elected mayor]].

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* CorruptPolitician: Mayor West lets the oil company pollute the lake in exchange for free oil for his hair. Lois [[NotSoDifferent starts to become one herself after she's elected mayor]].mayor.

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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog. He responds by shooting them.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog. He responds by shooting them.
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* AccidentalTruth: Lois scares Quahog into paying to restore the lake by saying it's being used by Hitler and the Legion of Doom as their base of operations to plan Jesus's assassination. Lex Luthor then demands to know how Lois found out what they were planning.
-->'''Solomon Grundy''': ME SOLOMON GRUNDY kind of dropped the ball on that one.
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* CorruptPolitician: Mayor West lets the oil company pollute the lake in exchange for free oil for his hair. Lois [[NotSoDifferent starts to become one herself after she's elected mayor]].
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* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example, Stewie has this reaction to Peter's impersonation of a woman with postpartum depression. It doesn't help that he was holding Stewie's head underwater as he was doing it.

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* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example, Stewie has this reaction to Peter's impersonation of a woman with postpartum depression. It doesn't help that he was holding Stewie's head underwater as he was doing it.
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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well) [[/note]]

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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well) [[/note]]
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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well

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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks (the latter has a TV-MA rating as wellwell) [[/note]]
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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!"

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** The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!""Jesus!" [[note]] suprisingly [adult swim] left this uncut despite formerly censoring the word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and eventually doing the same thing for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks (the latter has a TV-MA rating as well

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* BANGFlagGun: Alluded to when Quagmire says he's been sleeping with so many women to get their approval for Lois that this is all that would come out if he tried to masturbate.
* BodyHorror: When Jake Tucker shows off to his friends and dives underwater, the toxic waste fills the water he's in and when he resurfaces, his upside-down face turns right-side-up as a result of the toxic waste dumped into the lake. This horrifies him and his friends so much that they run out of the lake screaming "my face, my face!" and it gets Lois to change her mind.
* {{Bowdlerization}}: A lot of parts were edited/altered between the FOX version and the versions shown on cable and DVD

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* BANGFlagGun: BangFlagGun: Alluded to when Quagmire says he's been sleeping with so many women to get their approval for Lois that this is all that would come out if he tried to masturbate.
* BodyHorror: When Jake Tucker shows off to his friends and dives underwater, the toxic waste fills the water he's in and when he resurfaces, his upside-down face turns right-side-up as a result of the toxic waste dumped into the lake. This horrifies him and his friends friend so much that they run out of the lake screaming "my face, as he screams "Ah, my face!" and it gets Lois to change her mind.
* {{Bowdlerization}}: {{Bowdlerise}}: A lot of parts were edited/altered between the FOX version and the versions shown on cable and DVD
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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog.

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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out, Lois can't just give away her position as the mayor of Quahog to Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do that, and the city would have to have an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor of Quahog. He responds by shooting them.
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* BodyHorror: When Jake Tucker shows off to his friends and dives underwater, the toxic waste fills the water he's in and when he resurfaces, his upside-down face turns right-side-up as a result of the toxic waste dumped into the lake. This horrifies him and his friends so much that they run out of the lake screaming "my face, my face!" and it gets Lois to change her mind.
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* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example, Stewie has the reaction to Peter's impersonation of a woman with postpartum depression. It doesn't help that he was holding Stewie's head underwater as he was doing it.

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* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example, Stewie has the this reaction to Peter's impersonation of a woman with postpartum depression. It doesn't help that he was holding Stewie's head underwater as he was doing it.
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* BangFlairGun: Alluded to when Quagmire says he's been sleeping with so many women to get their approval for Lois that this is all that would come out if he tried to masturbate.

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* BangFlairGun: BANGFlagGun: Alluded to when Quagmire says he's been sleeping with so many women to get their approval for Lois that this is all that would come out if he tried to masturbate.
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* BangFlairGun: Alluded to when Quagmire says he's been sleeping with so many women to get their approval for Lois that this is all that would come out if he tried to masturbate.

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* AsHimself: Donny Most briefly appears as himself as a forest spectre.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bob Grossbeard is an oil CEO who bribes Quahog's mayors into letting him dump runoff into public lakes.
-->'''Stewie:''' This guy don't sit right with me, Lois. He don't sit right with me.



* EmbarrassingTattoo: After all of Brian's fur falls off, Stewie notices that he has a Ziggy tattoo on his butt, and Brian admits that he used to be a fan of Ziggy, but then points out that they and the rest of the family should probably go to the hospital.

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-->'''Stewie:''' You son of a bitch! Don't even joke about that!
* EmbarrassingTattoo: After all of Brian's fur falls off, Stewie notices that he has a Ziggy tattoo on his butt, and Brian admits that he used to be a fan of Ziggy, ComicStrip/{{Ziggy}}, but then points out that they and the rest of the family should probably go to the hospital.



* LegionOfDoom: The trope namers themselves appear after Lois claims they were plotting with Hitler to assassinate Jesus. Turns out, [[AccidentalTruth she wasn't too far off the mark]].
-->'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' How did she discover our plan?\\
'''Solomon Grundy:''' Me, Solomon Grundy... kinda dropped the ball on that one...
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Every hundred years, in this spot, Donny Most rises from the mist!" Cue him doing exactly that, with an angelic choir announcing his presence:
-->'''Choir:''' ''Donny Most, Donny Mo-ost,\\
He was Ralph on ''Series/HappyDays''\\
Donny Most, Donny Mo-ost,\\
Now he rises from the haze''\\
[{{beat}}]\\
'''Don Most:''' Actually, it's Don Most now.\\
[''he descends back into the mist'']\\
'''Choir:''' ''Donny Most, Donny Mo-ost,\\
[[WaxingLyrical Sunday, Monday, Happy Days]]...''
* NonIndicativeName: Bob Grossbeard does not have a beard, gross or otherwise.



* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.

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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. When Stewie mocks Peter while playing the piano, we cut to an elderly Peter telling the story to someone else back in the 1800s.
-->'''Peter:''' Go ahead! Mock Me! But it wasn't Stewie who was laughing at me... ''it was God!'' [''OminousLatinChanting plays in the background'']
* TakeThat: American politics gets it with both barrels throughout the episode. Not only do we have the obvious example of Mayors taking bribes from big companies, but undecided voters are openly called "the biggest idiots on the planet." This is proven with how they reject Lois' BoringButPractical policy proposals while fawning all over Mayor West's glittering generalities. Lois is able to scare the people of Quahog into supporting her cause by making up ridiculous conspiracies and dropping controversial terms in meaningless ways (most of her campaign platform just had her saying the phrase "9/11" over and over again.)
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* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example, Stewie has the reaction to Peter's impersonation of a woman with postpartum depression. It doesn't help that he was holding Stewie's head underwater as he was doing it.
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** Peter's campfire song summarizing ''BrokebackMountain'': On FOX, Peter says "gay sex"; on DVD and cable, it's "butt sex".

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** Peter's campfire song summarizing ''BrokebackMountain'': ''Film/BrokebackMountain'': On FOX, Peter says "gay sex"; on DVD and cable, it's "butt sex".
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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out that Lois can't just step down as the mayor and just give the position to Mayor West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do so, and the city itself would have to have another election to decide who gets to be the mayor. That doesn't stop Mayor West from shooting two bystanders, along with a possible third one.

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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out that out, Lois can't just step down give away her position as the mayor and just give the position of Quahog to Mayor Adam West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do so, that, and the city itself would have to have another an entirely new election to decide who gets to be the mayor. That doesn't stop Mayor West from shooting two bystanders, along with a possible third one.mayor of Quahog.
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* RealityEnsues: As a couple of bystanders point out that Lois can't just step down as the mayor and just give the position to Mayor West--neither of them have any legal jurisdiction to do so, and the city itself would have to have another election to decide who gets to be the mayor. That doesn't stop Mayor West from shooting two bystanders, along with a possible third one.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: A lot of parts were edited/altered between the FOX version and the versions shown on cable and DVD
**After the "vacation with the ''Price Is Right'' yodeler/Cleveland in Plinko" cutaway, there's a scene where Peter and Lois arrive at the cabin and Meg points out that it's between two oak trees. Lois asks, "Well, there's a lot of trees around here. How do we know we're in the right spot?" The scene then cuts to an overhead shot where the entire area where Quagmire's cabin is is shaped like a penis, with Brian stating, "Uh, I think it's a safe bet this is the place."
**For reasons unknown, Lois' line when the family enters the cabin is changed from "Wow, Quagmire's got a nice place," (TV version) to "This looks comfortable." (cable and DVD version)
**The scene of the Griffins walking in on Quagmire about to have sex with a Japanese woman: On FOX, the scene ends after Quagmire asks, "Oh. Hey. Is this the week you guys were coming out?" On cable and DVD, Quagmire adds, "And here I am, cream on my face, hair a mess, and in mid-coitus. I must look a sight!"
**On DVD, there's a scene after the Donny Most/''Brigadoon'' parody, where Peter shows his family how to hang food from trees to keep animals from getting at it -- and ends up attracting The Pope.
**Another DVD-exclusive scene during the campfire sequence where Lois sees the Stephen Hawking-esque couple from "Brian Goes Back to College" at the campsite across from theirs "singing."
**Peter's campfire song summarizing ''BrokebackMountain'': On FOX, Peter says "gay sex"; on DVD and cable, it's "butt sex".
**The Griffins losing their hair because of the polluted lake and Stewie discovers Ziggy tattoo: On FOX, Brian grumbles, "Ah, geez!"; on DVD and cable, Brian grumbles, "Jesus!"
**The scene of Stewie pretending he's Mozart: on FOX, when he flashes the audience his butt, he's wearing white, frilly underpants; on cable and DVD, he has a bare butt.
**The cutaway of Adam West (with slicked-up hair, thanks to his deal with the oil company) hitting on a woman at the bus stop: On FOX, Adam's pick-up line is "Hey, baby, wanna take a gander at some Adam West penis?"; the DVD and cable version is the less clunky, more upfront "Hey, baby, want some Adam West penis?"
**Tom Tucker's line during his report on Lois running for mayor: On FOX, his question is "Can a woman be mayor, or will she just menstruate all over the city?"; the DVD and cable version replace "menstruate" with "bleed" (which is the same thing, only "bleed" is, by the FOX censors' standards, cruder).
**Quagmire's line about how he had sex with every woman in town so Lois can get the female vote: On FOX, he complains that he has one sperm left who's alone and scared; On cable and DVD, he says that if he tried to masturbate, a little flag with the word "Bang!" (seen on a lot of trick guns) would come out.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Quagmire lets the Griffin stay at his cabin for the weekend, but at the beginning of the episode, the Griffins hear something from upstairs and walk in on Quagmire and a Japanese woman about to have sex, and Quagmire admits that he forget that ''this'' was the weekend that the Griffin family was coming.

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* InterruptedIntimacy: Quagmire lets the Griffin stay at his cabin for the weekend, but at the beginning of the episode, the Griffins hear something from upstairs and walk in on Quagmire and a Japanese woman about to have sex, and Quagmire admits that he forget that ''this'' was the weekend that the Griffin family was coming.coming.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
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'''Airdate: May 13, 2007''

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'''Airdate: May 13, 2007''
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'''Airdate: May 13, 2007''

This episode Lois after she runs for Mayor of Quahog against incumbent Mayor Adam West, once she notices how polluted the local lake has become. Lois is elected as mayor and successfully cleans the lake, but quickly succumbs when the toxic-dump owner pressures her to let him resume dumping toxins into the lake.

!!Tropes used in this episode:
* EmbarrassingTattoo: After all of Brian's fur falls off, Stewie notices that he has a Ziggy tattoo on his butt, and Brian admits that he used to be a fan of Ziggy, but then points out that they and the rest of the family should probably go to the hospital.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Quagmire lets the Griffin stay at his cabin for the weekend, but at the beginning of the episode, the Griffins hear something from upstairs and walk in on Quagmire and a Japanese woman about to have sex, and Quagmire admits that he forget that ''this'' was the weekend that the Griffin family was coming.

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