Line #2 Recap/FamilyGuyS11E2RatingsGuy


1	The Griffins become a Nielsen family (a family chosen to have their TV watching habits monitored), which Peter sees as an opportunity to make TV more entertaining (for him, not anyone else).
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3	!Examples:
4	* ArtifactTitle: Peter turning ''Series/OneTreeHill'' into this by adding a second tree causes Mayor West to [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot up the house]].
5	* {{Bowdlerization}}: The following scenes were cut/altered between the TV version and the DVD version:
6	** Lois screaming "What the fuck was that?!" after the fire kills a fireman and then itself had "fuck" bleeped out on TV.
7	** Stewie's line to Brian after Brian suggests the family watches Creator/{{PBS}}: On TV, Stewie's line goes, "You donated once five years ago and they sent you a mug. And now the mug's so old that the 'P' has been worn off so it just says 'BS'. It's libtards like you that are screwing up our country." On DVD, the last part was changed to "...which is so fucking apt."
8	** Peter calling Jon Hamm from ''Series/MadMen'': On TV, Peter's line is, "Did I catch you at a good time or are you and the critics busy sucking each other's butts?" On DVD, the line is, "Did I catch you at a good time or are you and the critics busy yanking each other off right now?"
9	** When the townspeople complain about how bad TV has become thanks to Peter, the DVD has an extra scene where Bonnie complains that [[Creator/{{Lifetime}} The Lifetime Channel]] is now all rape, when before there was stuff leading up to the rape.
10	** The DVD has another extra scene where Bruce (who works as a barber) shaves a penis in the back of Peter's head as revenge for ruining television.
11	* ComicalOverreacting: Everyone in Quahog does this when they get angry over the fact that their favorite TV shows got ruined by Peter.
12	* DisproportionateRetribution: While everybody is angry at Peter for ruining television, Adam West shoots up all the Nielsen boxes because another tree was added to ''Series/OneTreeHill''.
13	* DoorstopBaby: At least according to a cutaway gag, Meg was one of these.
14	* FelonyMisdemeanor: Everyone treats having their favorite TV show ridiculously being changed as an unforgivable crime.
15	* AGodAmI: Peter declares himself to be a "Nielsen God" before the mob starts throwing stuff at him.
16	* HatedByAll: Peter earns the ire of everyone in Quahog when he makes the shows more ridiculous.
17	* HereWeGoAgain: After Peter fixes every television show and is forgiven by everyone in Quahog, Herbert comes across the Griffins' Neilsen boxes that Mayor West destroyed and starts using them after they're fixed up. Once Herbert starts watching ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' on Creator/DisneyChannel, he then calls the channel and asks if they can have Zack and Cody in their underwear for the sake of being funnier.
18	* IdeaBulb: After the Neilson boxes get destroyed by Mayor West, one pops up as Peter comes up with the idea to save television by going to the networks directly, only to get shards of bulb in his face and forget it as he gets up to execute it and completely forgetting said idea in the process. The moment he gets it again, another bulb pops up just in time to get smashed into his face.
19	* ItsBeenDone: At one point, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] shows up and confesses to breaking television with his Nielsen ratings, and needs help to fix it. Peter then remarks that, for once, his show beat Homer's show to a plot.
20	* MurderSuicide: Committed by a ''sentient fire'' of all things, which shoots the fireman trying to put it out, then itself. Even Lois is unable to comprehend any of it.
21	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Peter influences the shows, they end up becoming utterly ludicrous to other viewers.
22	* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, the networks are too concerned with Peter's influence over the Neilsen ratings and blindly implement all of his bad ideas without any consideration. This is [[LampshadeHanging ultimately lampshaded]] by Brian after Quahog turns on Peter because his changes ultimately ruin television, with him telling Peter that the networks - as the ones who actually control the shows Peter influenced - are the ones truly at fault for the state of television, because they were too concerned with appealing to a vocal minority instead of making quality television.
23	* ParentalAbandonment: The very first cutaway features Peter and Lois abandoning an infant Meg at a fire station.[[note]]U.S. states allow newborn infants to be "safely surrendered" at designated safe surrender sites, which include fire stations.[[/note]]
24	* ShoutOut:
25	** The garbage can being thrown against the Griffin's window is said to be a reference to the famous scene in the Creator/SpikeLee film ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' where a trash can is hurled at Sal's Pizzeria during a race riot.
26	** Quagmire calls TV "a vast wasteland" and mentions he read it in a book. The original quote comes from the so-called "Wasteland Speech" by Newton N. Minow, a former chairman of the FCC.
27	* SkewedPriorities: Of all the heinous acts Peter has committed upon the residents of Quahog, [[SeriousBusiness ruining TV]] is treated as the one truly unforgivable crime against them. His friends disown him, Horace bans him from the Clam and assaults him, with Dr Hartman refusing to treat the wounds, while Mayor West even instigates a HeelFaceDoorSlam by destroying all his Nielsen boxes when Peter tries to use them to fix TV. Peter ''is'' forgiven in the end, but only after he takes the more manual approach to mending the network.
28	* TakeThat:
29	** The episode can be seen as one to the Nielsen ratings system and networks putting too much stock in their figures, which doesn't consider actual viewership but only the viewing habits of the fraction of the population that have a superfluous box installed in their home.
30	** Peter orders Creator/DickWolf to "make the same ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' six times."
31	* WorldOfJerkass: Everyone in Quahog except the Griffins and Herbert over the fact that their favorite TV shows were ruined by Peter.
32	* YouMonster: Quagmire calls Peter this after he makes every show ridiculous.

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