History Recap / FamilyGuyS8E9BusinessGuy

* TheDogBitesBack: Even after Carter recovers, Peter refuses to give back the company, and forces him to perform several embarrassing tasks just as Carter had him do before. He is perfectly willing to drive the company into the ground ''out of spite''. It takes Carter and Lois fooling him with a ''Scooby Doo''-esque disguise to get him to sign it back over (and even then, Carter is forced to let him keep the company plane.)

* TheDogBitesBack: Even after Carter recovers, Peter refuses to give back the company, and forces him to perform several embarrassing tasks just as Carter had him do before. He is perfectly willing to drive the company to the ground ''out of spite''. It takes Carter and Lois fooling him with a ''Scooby Doo''-esque disguise to get him to sign it back over (and even them, Carter is forced to let him keep the company plane.)

* "I'm having a [[Music/BillyJoel heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! You oughta know by now!"]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The German bedtime story might seem like a play on the stereotype that Germans are aggressive, or perhaps poking fun at the fact that the original versions of various fairy tales were often way more gruesome. However, ''[[Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}} The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb]]'' is pretty much exactly like it's portrayed in the episode, the only difference being that the person who cut off the boy's thumbs was a tailor his mother warned him about, rather than the mother doing it herself. The designs of the characters were even based on the story's illustrations from the book that it originally appeared in.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Carter upon watching ''The Big Bang Theory''.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The German bedtime story might seem lke a play on the stereotype that Germans are aggressive, or perhaps poking fun at the fact that the original versions of various fairy tales were often way more gruesome. However, ''[[Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}} The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb]]'' is pretty much exactly like it's portrayed in the episode, the only difference being that the person who cut off the boy's thumbs was a tailor his mother warned him about, rather than the mother doing it herself. The designs of the characters were even based on the story's illustrations from the book that it originally appeared in.

* YeahShot: The episode ends this way, until Peter gets stuck in mid-air and can't get down.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The German bedtime story was just a play on the stereotype that Germans are aggressive, or perhaps poking fun at the fact that the original versions of various fairy tales were often way more gruesome, right? Wrong. ''[[Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}} The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb]]'' is pretty much exactly like it's portrayed in the episode, the only difference being that the person who cut off the boy's thumbs was a tailor his mother warned him about, rather than the mother doing it herself. The designs of the characters were even based on the story's illustrations from the book that it originally appeared in.

* VideoWill: Carter has one, and he planned for a variety of scenarios referring to different ways he may've died. Carter's lawyer eventually fastfowards over this material to get to the important details.

** One of the things that Peter has Carter do to humiliate him is to invite coworkers to a viewing party of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', which Carter doesn't watch and no one comes to. After finding Dr. House, he genuinely asks if he wants to come to watch ''TBBT'' because he genuinely likes it now.

* BrickJoke: One of the things that Peter has Carter do to humiliate him is to invite coworkers to a viewing party of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', which Carter doesn't watch and no one comes to. After finding Dr. House, he genuinely asks if he wants to come to watch ''TBBT'' because he genuinely likes it now.

* PetTheDog: After scaring Peter into signing the company back to Carter, Lois reveals that the contract allowed him to keep the corporate plane, leading to the FreezeFrameEnding above.

* PetTheDog: After scaring Peter into signing the company back to Carter, Lois reveals that the contract allowed him to keep the corporate plane.