Line #4 Recap/FamilyGuyS2E12FifteenMinutesOfShame


1	'''Original air date:''' 4/25/2000 ''(produced in 1999)''
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3	'''Production code:''' 2ACX-08
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5	Embarrassed over Lois and Peter's antics at the Quahog Founder's Day carnival and her own slumber party, Meg gets Lois, Peter, and Chris invited on Diane Simmons' daytime talk show to call them out on their behavior. After the show, Peter meets a TV producer who makes a reality show out of the Griffin family's life (or, as Meg calls it, "The 24-Hour Loser Channel") -- and replaces Meg with a HotterAndSexier teen actress, which cuts into Peter's time onscreen.
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9	!!This episode contains examples of:
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11	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The catalyst for the plot, but ''especially'' the moment when Peter chats up Kevin at the gas station while nude.
12	* AnnoyingLaugh: When Creator/FranDrescher takes over the role of Lois on the reality show, she frequently emits her trademark laugh. Lois, annoyed, grumbles, "Ugh, I do ''not'' sound like that." As an added layer to the joke, both Lois and Fran Drescher as Lois are voiced by Alex Borstein.
13	* BaitAndSwitch: When Wilshard informs Lois and Peter that they can't quit the reality show because they signed a contract, Peter says, "Here's what I think of your contract!" You think he's going to rip it up (which would be the cliched thing to do), but he merely hands it back to him and says, "I think it's awful and I don't much care for it at all, good sir."
14	* {{Bowdlerize}}:
15	** Free-TV syndication cuts the entire sequence of Peter stopping at the gas station and getting out of the car butt-naked (after he loses his swimming trunks at the Quahog Founder's Day carnival).
16	** The scene where Meg walks in on Quagmire having sex with a woman on his kitchen counter is also cut in syndication, on UK TV, and was cut when FOX reran this show around the time that ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' was coming back and the network aired reruns -- and the banned episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" -- to prepare for its return). TBS cuts the scene as well, but only when the episode airs earlier in the day or in the evening.
17	** The UK TV version also cuts Lois telling Chris to finish masturbating before leaving Meg's slumber party and Peter saying, "Don't worry. I'll put it out" when he's peeing at the urinal.
18	* BreakingTheFourthWall: In-universe at the restaurant. Meg demands the cameras be turned off, so Chris says not to break the fourth wall.
19	* BrotherSisterIncest: Chris tries to invoke this with his sister Meg's hot new replacement.
20	--> '''Chris''': Ummm...I don't know if Mom and Dad told you this but we usually have breakfast naked, and I'm allowed to videotape it.
21	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Chris chats with the Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls thinking that they're taking him to soccer practice.
22	--> '''Chris''': We're gonna be late. ''(shouting)'' Why won't you talk to me!?
23	* ConfessionCam: Naturally used on the Griffin reality show.
24	* ContinuityNod: The replacement actors recreate the "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow drank at the stag party]]" scene.
25	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While the Griffins are starting to more resemble their familiar characterization by this point, this trope still applies in a few ways. Most notably, the Meg seen in later seasons would ''not'' have enough friends to put together the kind of slumber party seen in the episode.
26	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Wilshard points out how Meg is the least popular member in the family and is later replaced until the end of the episode. This isn't the first time she becomes the ButtMonkey of the series because of this, and it is far from the last.
27	* FullBodyDisguise: Parodied on Diane Simmons's talk show, in an episode featuring a dating couple; the male was really a woman in a LatexPerfection-style mask, but then confesses ([[LarynxDissonance still in a male voice]]) that she is not even a woman, and unzips her full body suit to reveal a ''horse'', and then confesses that he is a ''broom'', removing the horse suit to reveal a broom that lifelessly falls over.
28	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Upon intruding on Meg's sleepover party, Lois suggests the girls pair up to practice French-kissing and Chris gets excited about this, leading to him masturbating behind the living room couch next to the girls.
29	* HintDropping: At a seafood restaurant, Lois tells Meg to put her bib on. Meg is confused why a teenager would need a bib; Lois persists, and Peter is blunt: "She means your nipples are sticking out."
30	* HypocriticalHumor: Lois insists she sounds nothing like Fran Drescher, despite having a similar nasally voice (but not the same laugh). And to drive the point home, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Alex Borstein (Lois) provided Fran's voice]].
31	* InformedFlaw: Parodied. The replacement for Meg bemoans not being attractive.
32	* LiteralMinded: When Meg is embarrassed by her family at her slumber party, she says, "God, kill me now." Cut to Heaven where God is about to shoot her with a sniper rifle. Luckily for Meg, God is interrupted by a phone call from someone named Karen.
33	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: After the Griffins' trip to the beach, Peter stops at a gas station and exits the car fully nude (a BrickJoke from the fact that he lost his trunks earlier while playing the Quahog Clam). He even runs into Kevin from next door.
34	* NonAnswer: When Wilshard informs Lois that she's very popular amongst the 25 to 49 female demographic:
35	--> '''Peter''': What about me?\
36	'''Wilshard''': (laughs) You?! Look, the bottom line is you folks are still under contract, OK?
37	* TheOtherDarrin: In-universe, this is what happens to Meg; she's replaced by a more attractive version of herself to increase ratings. When the rest of the family quits, Tom Arnold plays Peter, Fran Drescher is Lois, "that fat guy from ''Film/BoogieNights''" is Chris, and the Olsen twins play Stewie and Brian.
38	* OutOfFocus: When the new Meg is a hit on the show, the camera crew doesn't want to focus on anybody else. In one scene, new Meg barges into a scene and whines about her day, and runs up to her room; the camera crew follow in hot pursuit, leaving the rest of the Griffins downstairs.
39	* OverlyPreparedGag: Peter wants to make a sitcom about being a retired baseball umpire who opens a bar at the center of the Earth just to make this joke: "You, are, OUTTA HERE!"
40	* PrankCall: Stewie and Brian prank call Diane's talk show, using the old "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" joke.
41	* RecycledAnimation: The cutaway where Peter remarks that Jesus must have been wasted 24 hours a day from having blood made of wine is recycled from the first episode, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]". Subverted in that, when "Shadow" first aired, that gag wasn't shown due to censorship, so its inclusion here was new at the time.
42	* RightThroughTheWall: Meg and her friends are unable to sleep through the sleepover due to her parent's loud lovemaking upstairs.
43	* ShoutOut:
44	** In the ColdOpen, Peter paints a portrait of the family from ''Series/FamilyTies''.
45	** The opening shows Peter learning to paint from Bob Ross who threatens to cut him if he tells anyone where he painted a bush.
46	** A scene from the "Abyssinia, Henry" episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is recreated with the Griffins.
47	** The ending of the episode, where Meg types her diary on a computer while synthesized music plays, is a reference to ''Series/DoogieHowserMD''.
48	** Diane's talkshow format and set could be a reference to Series/JerrySpringer and or Series/{{Maury}}
49	** A Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy doll takes the place of Peter and Lois taking Chris to his soccer practice.
50	** The new Meg wearing heart shaped glasses and sucking on a lollipop is a reference to Literature/{{Lolita}}.
51	** Peter offers Meg's friends to get [[Film/TheBradyBunchMovie Davy Jones for their school dance.]]
52	* SoundEffectBleep: When Lois is given an unflattering subtitle on the talk show, she says, "Oh, go (fuck) yourself, Diane."
53	--> '''Stewie''': She said a swear!
54	* SpinOff: Peter was hoping for one and has a cutaway about it: he's a retired baseball umpire running a bar at the center of the Earth.
55	* SpitTake: Brian's reaction to Lois's SoundEffectBleep cursing at Diane Simmons on television.
56	* StockFootage: When Meg talks about her dad embarrassing her at church, footage from [[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]] where Peter drinks the blood of Christ is recycled into this episode.
57	* TakeThat: To Cybill Shepherd:
58	--> '''Stewie''': You! Cameraman! Make sure you use that Cybill Shepherd filter. If it makes ''her'' look half-human, it'll take six months off my face.
59	* TotemPoleTrench: Alluded to when the family is still in the audience of “Diane”:
60	--> '''Peter''': They drag these idiots up on stage and then blindside them. Like this one guy, didn’t really know he was two midgets.
61	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Parodied on Diane! where a woman discovers that her boyfriend is not only actually a woman but also a horse and then finally ''a broom''. She is surprised.

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