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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: InUniverse. Lois claims that all known footage of "Quest for Fur" has vanished, even telling Brian at one point that there's no link to it anywhere on the internet. Despite this, Lois somehow manages to get a copy of the porn to show to her the congregation.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: InUniverse. Lois claims that all known footage of "Quest for Fur" has vanished, even telling Brian at one point that there's no link to it anywhere on the internet. Despite this, Lois somehow manages to get a copy of the porn to show to her the congregation.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: InUniverse. Lois claims that all known footage of “Quest for Fur” has vanished, even telling Brian at one point that there’s no link to it anywhere on the internet. Despite this, Lois somehow manages to get a copy of the porn to show to her the congregation.
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* ConfidentialityBetrayal: After Lois befriends Joyce, she confides in her that she once starred in an adult movie. Joyce promptly announces this on the local news station and is soon after revealed to have done so to get payback on Lois for a cruel prank she once played on her (back when she was overweight and had a different name).

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* EightiesHair: In ''Quest for Fur'', Lois had a gigantic 80s updo, and both her male costars had shaggy mullets.



* AnachronismStew: ''Quest for Fur'' is supposed to take place during the days of cavemen, but not only are their [[HollywoodPrehistory dinosaurs living among them]], but Lois' character has makeup and professionally-styled hair, is later shown lying down on a bed, and [[PizzaBoySpecialDelivery a pizza delivery guy shows up]].



** The opening shot of the porno has what appears to be two human body parts spread out with a hairy patch in the middle… then the camera pans out and reveals it's the male lead's armpit.



* ParallelPornTitle: ''Quest For Fur'' comes from the film ''Film/QuestForFire''.

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* ParallelPornTitle: PornStache: Lois' male costar in ''Quest For for Fur'' comes from the film ''Film/QuestForFire''.sports a thin mustache.



* StylisticSuck: When Lois and the Griffins show ''Quest For Fur'' to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, [[AnachronismStew despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.]]

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* StylisticSuck: When Lois and the Griffins show ''Quest For Fur'' to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, the hairstyles and synth music date the production to TheEighties, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, [[AnachronismStew despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.]]
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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' back in the '80s. Joyce reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her when they were in high school.
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* WalkOfShame: Occurs when Lois enters the church after it's publicly revealed that she once starred in a porno flick.
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* JawDrop: Quagmire when he sees Lois' porn film.

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* JawDrop: Quagmire Quagmire's jaw drops ''almost to the floor'' when he sees Lois' porn film.
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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois had once starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' back in the '80s. Joyce Kinney reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her back in high school.

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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois had once starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' back in the '80s. Joyce Kinney reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her back when they were in high school.
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Lois only told Joyce that she'd been in a porno, not how she got into one.


** When Lois is telling Joyce the story about how she got into a porno film, her friend in the flashback says he can think of another way Lois can make money while staring at her breasts. Apparently, he gave her a job at his pet store. She got hired for the porno when a porn producer came into the store.

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** When Lois is telling Joyce her family the story about how she got into a porno film, her friend in the flashback says he can think of another way Lois can make money while staring at her breasts. Apparently, he gave her a job at his pet store. She got hired for the porno when a porn producer came into the store.
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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois had once starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' in the '80s. Joyce Kinney reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her back in high school.

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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois had once starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' back in the '80s. Joyce Kinney reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her back in high school.
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* BleachedUnderpants: InUniverse, Lois had once starred in a porn parody of ''Film/QuestForFire'' in the '80s. Joyce Kinney reveals this information on air to get back at Lois for pulling a traumatic prank on her back in high school.
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* StylisticSuck: When Lois and the Griffins show ''Quest For Fur'' to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.

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* StylisticSuck: When Lois and the Griffins show ''Quest For Fur'' to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, [[AnachronismStew despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Joyce gets revenge on Lois for a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style prank that the latter pulled on her in high school. Lois attempts to apologize, only for [[RejectedApology Joyce to not care]] (due to the severity of said prank). This proves that even if an unpopular kid who was bullied grows up to be more successful than their bullies, he/she may still have self-esteem issues from the underserved bullying and hate they received and would still hold unhealthy grudges against their tormentors (even if they apologize).
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** A deleted scene shows '''[[AnythingThatMoves Quagmire]]''' angrily calling Lois "trash". Yes, the same Quagmire who has a StalkerShrine of Lois in his closet, tried to have sex with her when Peter had amnesia, and is a confirmed rapist, calling Lois "trash".

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** A deleted scene shows '''[[AnythingThatMoves '''[[ExtremeOmnisexual Quagmire]]''' angrily calling Lois "trash". Yes, the same Quagmire who has a StalkerShrine of Lois in his closet, tried to have sex with her when Peter had amnesia, and is a confirmed rapist, calling Lois "trash".
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Joyce gets revenge on Lois for a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style prank that the latter pulled on her in high school. Lois attempts to apologize, only for [[RejectedApology Joyce to not care]] (due to the severity of said prank). This proves that even if an unpopular kid who was bullied grows up to be more successful than their bullies, he/she may still have self-esteem issues from the underserved bullying and hate they received and would still hold unhealthy grudges against their tormentors (even if they apologize).
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Joyce gets revenge on Lois for a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style prank that the latter pulled on her in high school. Lois attempts to apologize, only for [[RejectedApology Joyce to not care]] (due to the severity of said prank). This proves that even if an unpopular kid who was bullied grows up to be more successful than their bullies, he/she may still have self-esteem issues from the undeserved bullying and hate they received and would still hold unhealthy grudges against their tormentors (even if they apologize).
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* ParallelPornTitle: ''Quest For Fur'' comes from the film ''Film/QuestForFire''.

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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: {{Invoked}} at the end. While Joyce does succeed in humiliating Lois, the latter ends up victorious when she ends up showing the very porn that was outed, prompting the citizens of Quahog to finally overlook Lois's vice. The disappointed look on Joyce’s face makes the audience realize that she did indeed lose her one-sided war against Lois.



* RejectedApology: While understandable due to bullying being a huge deal and the prank being a Carrie-style humiliation, Joyce does this to Lois. What makes this come off as harsh is the fact that Lois was genuinely sorry for what she did.

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* RejectedApology: While understandable due to bullying being a huge deal and the prank being a Carrie-style humiliation, Joyce does this to Lois. What makes this come off as harsh is the fact that Lois was genuinely sorry for what she did.



* StatusQuoIsGod: While Joyce does succeed in humiliating Lois, the latter ends up victorious when she ends up showing the very porn that was outed, prompting the citizens of Quahog to finally overlook Lois's vice. The disappointed look on Joyce’s face makes the audience realize that she did indeed lose her one-sided war against Lois.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Joyce gets revenge on Lois for a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style prank that the latter pulled on her in high school. Lois attempts to apologize, only for [[RejectedApology Joyce to not care]] (due to the severity of said prank). This proves that even if an unpopular kid who was bullied grows up to be more successful than their bullies, he/she may still have self-esteem issues from the undeserved bullying and hate they received and would still hold unhealthy grudges against their tormentors (even if they apologized and regretted what they did).

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Joyce gets revenge on Lois for a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style prank that the latter pulled on her in high school. Lois attempts to apologize, only for [[RejectedApology Joyce to not care]] (due to the severity of said prank). This proves that even if an unpopular kid who was bullied grows up to be more successful than their bullies, he/she may still have self-esteem issues from the undeserved bullying and hate they received and would still hold unhealthy grudges against their tormentors (even if they apologized and regretted what they did).apologize).

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What Joyce did is at worst the exact same thing and by no means disproportionate. In fact, if one considers that 1) Lois chose to do the porn film unlike the torture that she subjected Joyce to, 2) it was payback for her character assassination and 3) the school was actually worse because everyone knew her there and in this age this is the sole social circle available to many people she really got it less bad than her victim


* DisproportionateRetribution: What Lois did to Joyce was a Carrie-style humiliation in high school, Joyce went behind her back over twenty years later and aired Lois' dirty laundry on TV without confronting her directly about it and caused Lois public humiliation.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Joyce towards Lois. Her backstory is sympathetic, but rather than letting it go and forgetting about Lois, she gets revenge on her and causes Lois public humiliation. Additionally, while Lois humiliated Joyce in front of the whole school, Joyce humiliated Lois in front of the whole ''[[DisproportionateRetribution town]]''.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: What Lois did to Joyce was a Carrie-style humiliation in high school, Joyce went behind her back over twenty years later and aired Lois' dirty laundry on TV without confronting her directly about it and caused Lois public humiliation.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Joyce towards Lois. Her backstory is sympathetic, but rather than letting it go and forgetting about Lois, she gets revenge on her and causes Lois public humiliation. Additionally, while Lois humiliated Joyce in front of the whole school, Joyce humiliated Lois in front of the whole ''[[DisproportionateRetribution town]]''.



** Joyce reveals her original last name was Chevapravatdumrong, saying they'd never let a name like that on TV. The name comes from one of the show's writers and producers.

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** ** In a meta way Joyce reveals her original last name was Chevapravatdumrong, saying they'd never let a name like that on TV. The name comes from one of the show's writers and producers.
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* AccuserOfTheBrethren: Combined with AntiVillain, Joyce Kinney airs Lois' dirty laundry as revenge for the prank the latter pulled in high school. Even after Lois apologizes, Joyce remains stubborn in her stance and refuses to accept Lois' apology.

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* AccuserOfTheBrethren: Combined with AntiVillain, Joyce Kinney airs Lois' dirty laundry as revenge for the prank the latter pulled in high school. Even after Lois apologizes, Joyce remains stubborn in her stance and refuses to accept Lois' apology.
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* TheCheerleader: Lois in high school. The bait for her trap for Joyce was a lie telling her she had made the cheer squad and that she was taking her to a celebratory breakfast.

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* BaitAndSwitch: When Brian sees Lois' film and looks down, the scene cuts to [[SomethingElseAlsoRises something red jutting out of a white tube]]. It turns out to be a woman's tube of lipstick.

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** When Lois is telling Joyce the story about how she got into a porno film, her friend in the flashback says he can think of another way Lois can make money while staring at her breasts. Apparently, he gave her a job at his pet store. She got hired for the porno when a porn producer came into the store.
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When Brian sees Lois' film and looks down, the scene cuts to [[SomethingElseAlsoRises something red jutting out of a white tube]]. It turns out to be a woman's tube of lipstick.



* SlutShaming: What everyone is doing to Lois.

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* SlutShaming: What everyone is doing to Lois.Lois once they find out she did a porno.


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* StylisticSuck: When Lois and the Griffins show ''Quest For Fur'' to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Joyce towards Lois. Her backstory is sympathetic, but rather than letting it go and forgetting about Lois, she gets revenge on her and causes Lois public humiliation.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Joyce towards Lois. Her backstory is sympathetic, but rather than letting it go and forgetting about Lois, she gets revenge on her and causes Lois public humiliation. Additionally, while Lois humiliated Joyce in front of the whole school, Joyce humiliated Lois in front of the whole ''[[DisproportionateRetribution town]]''.



** A deleted scene shows '''''[[AnythingThatMoves Quagmire]]''''' angrily calling Lois "trash". Yes, the same Quagmire who has a StalkerShrine of Lois in his closet and tried to have sex with her[[note]]which he called Brian out on[[/note]] on the episode where Peter has amnesia after appearing on an episode of ''Family Feud'' calling Lois "trash".

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** A deleted scene shows '''''[[AnythingThatMoves Quagmire]]''''' '''[[AnythingThatMoves Quagmire]]''' angrily calling Lois "trash". Yes, the same Quagmire who has a StalkerShrine of Lois in his closet and closet, tried to have sex with her[[note]]which he called Brian out on[[/note]] on the episode where her when Peter has amnesia after appearing on an episode of ''Family Feud'' had amnesia, and is a confirmed rapist, calling Lois "trash".
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Joyce confronts Lois about a prank the latter pulled on her as a teenager. This is understandable, considering how the action had no negative effect on Lois and that what she did was probably over 20 years ago and can be easily forgotten. Plus, Joyce has gotten thinner since then, so of course Lois wouldn't recognize her.

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Joyce confronts Lois about a prank the latter pulled on her as a teenager. This is understandable, considering how the action had no negative effect on Lois and that what she did was probably over 20 years ago and can be easily forgotten. Plus, Joyce has gotten thinner since then, then and changed her name, so of course Lois wouldn't recognize her.



* ShutUpKirk: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and she does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".

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* ShutUpKirk: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and she does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying that she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".
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* ShutUpKirk: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and Lois does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".

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* ShutUpKirk: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and Lois she does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".

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* ShutUpKirk: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and Lois does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".
* SinsOfOurFathers: Chris, and Meg to a lesser extent, get this from bullies in high school over what Lois did.



* SinsOfOurFathers: Chris, and Meg to a lesser extent, get this from bullies in high school over what Lois did.

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