Line #16 Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal


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3	'''Airdate:''' December 17, 2006
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5	After Mayor Adam West deploys the entire Quahog police department to Cartagena, Colombia to search for a character from the 1980s action movie ''Film/RomancingTheStone'', Joe becomes bogged down at work, being the only officer not sent to Colombia (because South America “isn't wheelchair accessible”). Because of this, Peter and the guys decide to become police officers in order to help Joe. Meanwhile, Brian escorts Meg to the prom, and, after chewing Connie out on why she rags on Meg, becomes the object of Meg's increasingly deranged desires.
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8	!!"Barely Legal" contains examples of ([[YMMV/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal YMMV goes here]]):
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10	* AllegedLookalikes: Meg’s friends think that Brian [[CelebrityResemblance resembles]] actor Creator/BenAffleck.
11	* AlphaBitch: Connie D'Amico. Brian even chews her out by stating that she's a bitch because she developed sexually at an early age, got low self-esteem from it, and picks on innocent girls like Meg to make herself feel better.
12	* AndYouThoughtItWasReal: The A-Plot of the episode happens due to [[CloudCuckooLander Mayor Adam West]] believing that ''Romancing the Stone'' is real and that the heroes are actually in trouble.
13	* AsHimself: Garrett Morris (one of ''Saturday Night Live'''s original "Not Ready For Prime Time Players") appears [[RogerRabbitEffect in live action]] reprising his role as the head of the New York School for Deaf People to help Brian explain to Meg that he is not attracted to her.
14	* BaitAndSwitch: When Quagmire invites Meg over to his house for something that will "cheer her up", it looks as if he's going to seduce and possibly have sex with her but instead he gives her a pep talk about dating and growing up all while wearing a leopard print speedo.
15	* BeerGoggles: Discussed when Brian get this and he starts noticing all the other girls at Meg's prom and sympathizes with the reason why she would be insecure with herself in comparison to the other girls.
16	* {{Bowdlerise}}: A lot of lines had to be changed between the FOX version and the cable and DVD version:
17	** Brian's line about Connie giving handjobs to guys when she was 12 was changed to "putting out" in the FOX version
18	** Peter's line about Woody Allen taking a "Chinaman" home from the circus was changed to an "Oriental guy".
19	** Stewie's line about Meg's "carpet" matching her "curtains" wasn't "in color and length" in the cable and DVD version. It was "in color and quantity" and had an additional line, "Ever see a blacksmith's apron?"
20	** Brian's line that gets him punched in the FOX version was, "[Meg] made me eat the hair in her pie" while on cable and DVD, it was "She made me eat her hair pie."
21	** The word "masturbate" is only said once on the FOX version (Brian's line "Masturbate. [Chris and I are] gonna masturbate together" was changed to "That's it. That's what we're gonna do together").
22	** The DVD version has a scene during Peter's police training sequence where he, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Mort Goldman drink coffee and Joe tells them one of the cups is laced with PCP. While Peter, Mort, and Cleveland accuse each other of being on PCP, Quagmire wonders why his arm has so much skin on it and rips it off without feeling any pain (meaning that he's the one who drank the PCP-laced coffee, since PCP has an anesthetic effect and, therefore, Quagmire wouldn't have felt that pain).
23	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The ingredients for Meg's pie to Brian consists of apples, cinnamon and her hair.
24	* BreakTheHaughty: Brian puts Connie in her place by delivering an ''absolutely vicious'' speech about what her future will end up like, causing her to run away crying.
25	* TheComicallySerious: Particularly during the [[Theatre/TheWiz "Brand New Day"]] dance number. While everyone is happily singing and dancing, Tricia Takanawa is just standing there holding her microphone in her default expression.
26	* CreditsPushback: The end credits for this episode feature Tom Tucker's news report, who explains that Quahog's cops returned to the city after giving up on West's search for ''Romancing the Stone'' characters, along with some other smutty topics, like boys being reluctant to socialize in camp showers.
27	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When trying to explain to Lois what Meg did to him (it comes out as "I made out with Meg"), she repeatedly punches him in the face due to his poor use of words: "She made me eat her hair pie" and "Stewie had some, too". Since Meg is still a teen, and Brian is an adult dog, Lois just doesn't want to hear any of Brian's excuses.
28	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Played with.
29	** When Brian informs Lois of what happened between him and Meg, Lois decks him. Then when he states Meg "made him [[InnocentInnuendo eat her hair pie]]" Lois punches him again and orders Brian to end whatever is going on between him and Meg. While it's clear Meg is aggressively pursuing Brian, Brian didn't help his case due to the fact he ''did'' get drunk and make out with Meg and clearly should've specified that Meg baked a pie with her hair in it and tricked Brian into eating it.
30	** After Lois and the guys burst into the hotel room and see Brian strapped to a chair while Meg's on top of him, the guys are disgusted at ''Brian''. However, Lois realizes Meg's the aggressor and tries to talk her down.
31	* DrivenToSuicide: Meg, when she is upset that nobody wants to go to the dance with her – not even her back-up date who (supposedly) killed his own brother just to avoid going with her.
32	* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Brian uses one when he's trying to avoid Meg:
33	--> '''Meg:''' I'm going to the mall later, maybe you can come and help me pick out some underwear.
34	--> '''Brian:''' Uh, I don't think that's going to be a possibility, uh, I have plans, with Chris! Chris and I have plans this afternoon!
35	--> '''Chris:''' We do?
36	--> '''Brian:''' Yeah, yeah! We're doing that thing, we're doing what you usually do on a Thursday afternoon!
37	--> '''Chris:''' Masturbate?
38	--> '''Brian:''' That's it, that's what we're going to do together.
39	--> '''Chris:''' Well, maybe back-to-back, but I gotta tell ya, I'm not a hundred percent on this.
40	* ExtendedDisarming: Peter's cavity search on Quagmire.
41	* EyeScream: Peter's deep-sea training ended with this happening; he turned on the radio to alleviate boredom, and the decompression caused his and his fellow trainees' eyes to pop out. Worse, Peter gets into a slap fight with one of them over the incident, leading to ''their eye stalks getting tangled up''.
42	* FurryReminder: Meg attracts Brian by shaking a bag of Dog Chow, then whacks him over the head with it.
43	* GrammarNazi: Brian when it comes to the "whip" pronunciation.
44	* HoldingHands: At the mall, Meg tries holding Brian's hand but he rebuffs her. She still keeps trying though.
45	* IAteWhat: Brian's reaction after eating the pie Meg baked for him, which includes apples, cinnamon and her hair.
46	--> '''Brian:''' This is pretty tasty. What's in this?.
47	--> '''Meg:''' Uh you know, just some apples. And some cinnamon. And my hair...
48	--> '''Brian:''' ''(shocked)'' What?
49	--> '''Meg:''' My hair is baked into the pie, Brian. And now it's inside you. Do you feel me, Brian? Do you ''feel me inside of you''?
50	* IfICantHaveYou: Meg kidnapping Brian and forcing him to be on the receiving end of a lap dance once he stands up to her, with Peter, Joe and Cleveland arriving JustInTime before things get even more out of control.
51	* IHaveToIronMyDog: Comes into play with one of the jocks Meg attempts to ask to the dance and he clearly did not want to even be associated with her. While at the door of Jimmy's house, he excuses himself, after which two shots ring out. He then sprints back to the door in tears, claiming that he has to go to his little brother's funeral the night of the dance.
52	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Peter shoots his wife in the shoulder. She loves it.
53	* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Brian denies to have eaten the bubble gum from the trash, he [[ToiletHumor farts a big bubble]].
54	* InterspeciesRomance: Meg and Brian. Brian wants it to be just an InterspeciesFriendship.
55	* JustFriends: What Brian wants for him and Meg.
56	* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Brian believes his drunken kiss with Meg to be nothing as he tells Stewie. Meg on the other hand, becomes infatuated because of the kiss.
57	* ItMeantSomethingToMe: Meg believes the drunk kiss she shared with Brian to meaning something to her and refuses to believe Brian otherwise, becoming more obsessed over time.
58	* KarmaHoudini: Ironically, one of the few times Meg deserved punishment, she didn't get it for kidnapping and trying to rape Brian under the pretense of "loving him".
59	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Brian and Meg. He regrets it the next morning, she doesn't.
60	* LikesOlderMen: Lampshaded by Meg's friends when she introduces him as "her boyfriend" and he tells them all he's a friend of her dad's.
61	-->'''Stacy:''' Ooh, he's older!
62	* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: When Brian confesses to Lois that he and Meg shared a kiss at the dance, he said he had a few drinks. Lois scoffs, "What a surprise." Brian, clearly having heard that insult before, briefly laughs sarcastically before continuing.
63	* OverlyLongGag: The ArgumentOfContradictions between Stewie and Brain concerning the pronunciation of "cool whip".
64	* PetTheDog: Quagmire to Meg.
65	** Brian taking Meg to the prom and on top of that, telling off Connie D'Amico for bullying her.
66	* QuickNip: Brian takes a nip (too many) from his hip flask at the prom.
67	* ARareSentence: Courtesy of Peter:
68	-->'''Peter:''' Yeah, Brian, you're doing the same thing that Mia Farrow did to that Oriental guy that Woody Allen brought home from the circus.\
69	'''Lois:''' Peter, please hold onto that thought because I'm going to explain to you when we get home all the things that are wrong with that statement...
70	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Brian delivers an ''[[Awesome/FamilyGuy awesome]]'' one to [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]].
71	-->'''Brian:''' You know, Connie, I think I have a theory about why you're such a bitch.\
72	'''Connie D'Amico:''' Excuse me?\
73	'''Meg:''' Brian, let's just go.\
74	'''Brian:''' No, no, no hang on, hang on. You see, Connie, you're popular because you developed early and started giving handjobs[[note]]"putting out" in the FOX version[[/note]] when you were 12, and now you can't stand to look at yourself in the mirror because all you see is a whore. So you pick on Meg to avoid the inevitable realization that by the time your body's used up by age 19, you'll be a worn-out chalky-skinned burlap sack that even your stepdad won't want. How's that, am I in the ballpark?
75	* RunningGag:
76	** The Cleveland's Bathtub Gag. On this time, a Giraffe destroys the front of his house.
77	---> '''Cleveland:''' I gotta stop taking my baths during Peter's shenanigans.
78	** The arguments about how to pronounce words starting with "wh".
79	* SanitySlippage: When Brian tells Meg that they should just be friends:
80	--> '''Meg''': ''(to herself)'' What's that, Brian? Oh, you were just kidding. I know you were. I love you, too, Brian. And you love me. You ''do'' love me, Brian.
81	* ShoutOut:
82	** When all the Black residents find out there's no police, they sing "Brand New Day" from ''Theatre/TheWiz''.
83	** Most of Meg's scenes where she obsesses over Brian are reminiscent to Creator/GlennClose's scenes in the film ''Film/FatalAttraction''. Such as when Meg turns the lights on and off, while listening to opera and the "I won't be ignored, Brian" line Meg uses.
84	** The scene where Meg is holding Brian hostage is a spoof on the scene from ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'', when Sandra Bernhardt holds Jerry Lewis hostage.
85	** In a scene, Meg says "Do you feel me, Brian? Do you feel me inside of you?", referencing the film ''Film/{{Casino}}''.
86	** The music playing when Peter and the gang arrive at the Quahog Police Academy bears similarities to the theme song from the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies. Peter mentions that "it is our first day at Police Academy 4," in which ordinary civilians are trained as police officers. Quagmire specifically also wears a T-shirt that says "ONE IN THE OVEN" as worn by Mahoney. During the scene when Peter and the boys raid Meg’s hotel room, Cleveland yells "Don’t move, dirtbag!", a line that was said by Sgt. Hooks from ''Police Academy''.
87	** Quagmire hands Meg the book ''The Missing Piece'' by Shel Silverstein, a book that deals with relationships using a round creature missing a piece.
88	* SpitTake: Stewie does this when Brian tells him what he's been having with some Cool Whip (as payback due to Stewie maliciously mispronouncing "Cool Whip").
89	--> '''Brian:''' You're eating ''hair''!
90	--> '''Stewie:''' ''(spits out the pie he's eating)''
91	* StalkerShrine: Brian goes into Meg's room to confront her on her obsession with him and is shocked to find a moral containing everything from candles, his dog collar, his dog bowl, and several pictures taped-together to look like him and Meg are kissing/dating.
92	* TakeThat: One of the items found in Quagmire during his cavity search is a DVD copy of the movie ''Good Burger''. Also a StealthPun on how "crappy" the movie was.
93	** When Peter and his buddies catch Meg seducing the captured Brian, Peter tells Brian that what he’s doing to Meg is worse than what Mia Farrow did to that Oriental guy that Woody Allen brought home from the circus.
94	* TrainingFromHell: The police training has some disturbing lessons. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Peter]] doesn't care.
95	* TranquilFury: Brian's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Connie is especially scathing because of just how calm and nonchalant about it just to emphasize just deeply in denial she is, and all she can do as he tears into her is tremble before bursting into tears.
96	* TheUnfairSex: Played mostly for laughs, but before finding out how crazy Meg's obsession with Brian has gone, Lois, Peter and Joe pretty much blame Brian when it's blatantly obvious Meg is the aggressor.
97	* ViewerFriendlyInterface: Brian's mobile phone shows "[[LeetLingo U R EZ 2 LUV. LOL, MEG]]" in huge letters on its display.
98	* VomitIndiscretionShot: After too many drinks and making out with Meg, Brian vomits then apologizes to Meg telling her it was the booze and not her. Then he asks her if she's going to eat it.
99	* {{Yandere}}: Meg becomes this towards Brian, thinking they belong together, refusing to listen to Brian's protests otherwise, and even kidnapping him after he bluntly tells her that they're not boyfriend and girlfriend.

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