''Dead Connie Society'' is ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' fanfic by {{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}}. It started out with a simple question: "WhatIf Creator/RobinWilliams [[SpecialGuest did a guest voice on]] ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''?"

The plot: Meg Griffin has decided to take poetry class as an elective in hopes that she will not only find a place to express herself, but also a place away from her tormentor, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]]. Unfortunately for Meg, Connie is in the class for the sake of being near a cute boy. But fortunately for Meg, the teacher, Rodney Weaver is a free-thinking BlitheSpirit who inspires her. [[HotForTeacher And he's cute too]]. As time goes by, Meg's feelings for Mr. Weaver grow stronger, and soon it becomes clear that he also has feelings for her. He manages to talk the rest of The Griffin family to into treating Meg right, but meanwhile, Connie is determined to make Meg look bad in front of him. She ends up humiliating Meg in swimming class while Mr. Weaver is in the room, but instead of making him dislike Meg, [[BerserkButton she ends up triggering a flashback to his own humiliation by a girl not unlike her]].

[[BewareTheNiceOnes It's payback time]].

The first fanfic I've completed in four years (though you really don't want to know about my [[OldShame early stuff]], you really don't), ''Dead Connie Society'' is [[{{Troperrific}} filled with tropes]], [[ShoutOut many referred to by their trope names]]. It's got a lot of jokes that in many ways are true to the spirit of the show (which means there is some BlackComedy as well as some [[AssPull stuff I came up with at the last minute]]). It may not ever become a classic, or even a cult classic, but hopefully it's decent enough that I won't go down in history as someone who wrote a ''Family Guy'' fic that's bad even by ''Family Guy'' standards.

Posted on Website/DeviantART [[http://lurkerbunny.deviantart.com/art/Dead-Connie-Society-part-1-140106414 in]] [[http://lurkerbunny.deviantart.com/art/Dead-Connie-Society-part-2-140107620 three]] [[http://lurkerbunny.deviantart.com/art/Dead-Connie-Society-part-3-140108476 parts]] on October 12th, 2009.

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!!Featured Tropes ([[{{Troperrific}} Hoo boy]]):

* AllThereInTheManual: I attempt to clear up things that might be confusing about the fic in [[http://lurkerbunny.deviantart.com/journal/27735355/ my DA journal]]. It's pretty much the text equivalent of a DVDCommentary. I try not to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain too many jokes though]].
* ActorAllusion / CelebrityParadox: I had a lot of fun with this one:
** Series/MorkAndMindy appear as characters in their show but also in the "real" world.
** Meg and Mr. Weaver have a discussion about film (while stoned) where Meg mixes up Jeff Daniels and Creator/JeffBridges. Mr. Weaver corrects her by telling her that Jeff Daniels was the one in ''RV'' and and Jeff Bridges was the one in ''Film/TheFisherKing''.
** In the AnimatedActors ending (see below), Chris asks Robin if he'll ever appear on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/07/seth-green-i-wa.html This actually has basis in reality]].
* AllMenArePerverts: Mr. Weaver is the chivalrous kind, but as for everyone else... oh dear. [[BrotherSisterIncest Chris]] and [[ParentalIncest Peter]] [[{{Squick}} get excited]] when they hear Lois and Meg are going to have a [[GirlOnGirlIsHot "Girl-to-girl" talk]]. Tom Tucker and Principal Shepherd both say perverted things about Connie after her death. Even Mork is uncharacteristically randy. Then there's the cameo by ComicBook/FritzTheCat... and of course, who else but Quagmire?
* AnimatedActors: In the very end where it's revealed that Mr. Weaver (and [[Series/MorkAndMindy Mork]]) were Creator/RobinWilliams in costume. As he says his goodbyes to The Griffins, they all compliment him (in their own, er... unique ways).
** What's more {{Mind Screw}}-y is that Connie D'Amico is shown alive at the end, complaining to a friend on her cell phone about her character getting killed off. [[spoiler:And then Robin Williams accidentally runs her over with his car. Three times.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the end, Mr. Weaver and Meg get off for killing Connie after two other officers tell Joe how Connie [[DrivenToSuicide drove their daughters to suicide]], awakening Joe's PapaWolf side. However, Mr. Weaver gets fired after he and Meg get off [[TwoPersonPoolParty in the pool]].
* ArtShift: Several scenes, if really animated, would call for Mr. Weaver (and Meg) to become {{Animesque}} (see SelfFanservice).
* AuthorAppeal: Dear lord, where to start?
** Well, obviously: Creator/RobinWilliams. Not just Robin Williams, but Robin Williams as the story's [[MsFanservice Mr. Fanservice]], playing ''two'' characters, one being Mork and the other one being a savior for the show's ButtMonkey. By then end it's revealed that he and Lois had an affair in the past, that he and Meg actually had sex during the course of "filming", and then there's Pam Dawber's reaction to working with him for the first time in years:
-->'''Robin''': Pam... it has been so long since we've seen each other! Who'd have thought it would take Family Guy of all shows to- (she grabs him and kisses him for several seconds)
-->'''Pam''': I have missed doing that SO MUCH! (walks away, satisfied)
** I have a thing about [[HotForStudent teacher/student]] relationships in general... Yeah.
** Non-sexual examples include the soundtrack (there are a '''lot''' of songs used in this fic. So much that I made a playlist of them), and of course the Wiki/TVTropes {{Shout Out}}s.
** Also, Retro Rachel, as noted below.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Twice.
-->'''Lois''': Well, it's just that sometimes teenage girls can be such a pain to raise. Sometimes you lose your temper... sometimes you say things you don't mean... sometimes you dump hot spaghetti on her face and shove the meatballs down her throat during her "vegetarian" phase.
And later:
-->'''Meg''': So, what are we going to do to her? Are we gonna hack her Facebook account? Are we gonna raid her Website/MySpace page? [[BlackComedyRape Are we gonna rape her?]]
* CharacterFilibuster: Twice. First Mr. Weaver rants about how modern culture is so [[PedoHunt paranoid about adult men working with or helping out younger girls]] [[MistakenForPedophile because they think there's only a sexual motive behind it]]. On one hand it's somewhat funny [[HypocriticalHumor because he really is interested in Meg that way]], but there [[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118903209653018615-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA5NjAwMzYyWj.html is sad truth behind it too]]. And then there's his rant at the end about bullies ([[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful Particularly, the attractive ones]]) getting away with everything, which is even longer.
** Parodied when Connie starts ranting about [[NostalgiaFilter how certain things are only loved because of nostalgia...]] [[TakeThat and then she dies]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Thomas, the cute boy who Connie joins the poetry class for. He says nothing and doesn't play any important role in the main plot until the end where he helpfully tells Meg where Mr. Weaver went after being fired.
** Also, it's mentioned in the news report on Connie's "suicide" that two girls (Shannon Claire and Ashley [[ShoutOut Dunnstock]]) committed suicide after attending Connie's 14th birthday. This isn't elaborated upon, but later in the story, Joe comes to arrest Mr. Weaver with Officer Claire and Officer Dunnstock...
* ChivalrousPervert: Mr. Weaver lets inappropriate remarks about Meg's breasts slip out several times, but he still genuinely cares about her, and she still finds him charming.
** He also finds teen pop stars [[Series/HannahMontana Miley Cyrus]] and [=JoJo=] attractive, but also annoying. And yes, the [=JoJo=] thing was a deliberately {{Squick}}y CastIncest joke (she played Robin's daughter in ''RV''). Ain't I a stinker?
* DiscoDan: Retro Rachel, an Eighties-obsessed fan character who appears in only one scene for no real reason. What we do know about her from her short appearance is that she's meant to be a rare sympathetic example of this trope, since she contrasts her peers' ignorance.
-->'''Retro Rachel''': [[ValleyGirl What-ever!]] [[LampshadeHanging You know, this whole scenario is a big rip-off of]] ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. When I get home, I'm gonna go watch it... on VHS. And then I'm gonna read a book!
-->'''Boy #1''': [[WhatAreRecords What's VHS?]]
-->'''Boy #2''': What's a book?
* {{Expy}}: Mr. Weaver, of [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety John Keating]]... [[BewareTheNiceOnes at first]].
* {{Fetish}}: Meg likes Mr. Weaver's hairy arms, while he thinks it would be hot if she wore Connie's fluffy pink jacket during sex.
* ItsBeenDone: Every single character lampshades the fact that yes, we're homaging ''Film/{{Heathers}}''.
** Later, Meg wants to honor Mr. Weaver by re-creating the "Oh Captain My Captain" scene from ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'', but one classmate points out that the scene was already parodied in "[[TheOneWith The one where Brian becomes a teacher]]". She does it anyway at the airport.
** Then there's a literal example of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Already Did It]] when Mr. Weaver hands Meg a note saying "You Are Meg Griffin". He gets confronted by Matt Groening's lawyers on the plane
* KentBrockmanNews: The fact that JOLT cola (and other sodas from the company) are still being made is more discussed than Connie's "suicide". In addition, Tom Tucker makes inappropriate remarks about Connie on the air.
-->'''Tom Tucker''': So, there you have it, the tragedy of a girl raised to be a beauty, only to end up a self-loathing beast. [[MoodWhiplash Next up, the hot topless women that Google didn't let you see on Street View... until now!]]
* LampshadeHanging: Of tropes in both the fic and the show proper.
* NoodleIncident: It's never elaborated upon how Connie drove those girls to suicide, and Meg doesn't even want to bring up the "paper bag incident". Also, "Giggity" apparently means something really dirty on Ork, but if even Quagmire's never heard of it, YouDoNOTWantToKnow.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: {{Lampshaded}}.
-->'''Meg''': [Connie's torment of me has gone on] Ever since middle school. I remember the exact day I met her: September 1, 1995.
-->'''Mr. Weaver''': (pause) How old are you again?
-->'''Meg''': 17. [[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke When FG started in 1999, Meg was 15, which means 1995 would have presumably when she would have started middle school (when she was 11). However, she was 16 for several years (counting the time during cancellation) and just turned 17 two years ago in "Peter's Two Dads".]][[/note]]
** Also:
-->(as Connie is buying beer with a fake ID)
-->'''Joe''': Hey, she shouldn't be here!
-->'''Cleveland''': Oh I don't know. It's kinda hard to tell her age considering she and Meg and all the other high school girls seem to have been in the same grade forever.
-->'''Quagmire''': Yep, if there's one thing I love about Quahog, it's the vaguely-aged high school girls. Giggity, giggity, giggity!
* [[WholePlotReference One-third Plot Reference]]: A combination of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'', ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', and ''Film/WorldsGreatestDad''.
* OverprotectiveDad: Parodied in one scene where Peter forces a burqua and purity ring onto Meg, and then tells Lois to hold her down so he can force her into a '''[[{{Squick}} chastity belt]]'''.
* RaceForYourLove: Parodied near the end.
* RuleOfFunny: A lot of the jokes, as per the show as usual.
* RuleThirtyFour: Referenced in the dialogue by Brian and Stewie, who are not only familiar with it, but [[{{Squick}} deeply traumatized by it.]]
-->'''Stewie''':[[HoYay Actually, I quite like the one where you and I-]] (Brian punches him)
* RunningGag: "They still make JOLT?"
* ScriptFic: The entire fic is composed as if it were a script.
* ShoutOut: Oh boy.
** Mr. Weaver is named after the song "Dream Weaver", which plays during Meg's SelfFanservice fantasies. His first name is Rodney because, well, I wanted him to share initials with his "voice actor".
** Most of Mr. Weaver's dialogue is from Robin Williams' stand-up acts. While this at first may seem like plagiarism, it's actually realism, as Robin does slip some of his stand-up lines into his roles (sometimes he's had more than one role use the same line). Some of his other dialogue is parodies of his movie lines. [[RealitySubtext And a few lines are things he's actually said to me when I've met him]].
** The publisher, Steve Lehmann is named after Michael Lehmann, director of ''Heathers''. And of course, the late Ashley Dunnstock has the same last name as Martha (the fat girl) from that movie.
** And of course, '''plenty''' to this very wiki:
-->'''Connie''': (laughs derisively) Poor, deluded Meg. You will never be truly happy. You know why? Because you're the universe's ButtMonkey. You were MADE to be the butt monkey. [[ThrowTheDogABone Even if the universe throws you a bone... or banana or whatever once in a while]], [[YankTheDogsChain it will soon be taken from you because]] StatusQuoIsGod.
-->'''Meg''': Oh yeah? I'm [[GenreSavvy savvy]] too. And I know this is [[AllJustADream all a dream]]. [[CrashingDreams I'll just think of something really loud to wake me up.]]
* SpoofAesop
-->'''Mr. Weaver''': I guess the lesson here is that if someone is horrible enough, you can get away with killing them out of revenge!
-->'''Meg''': Really? I thought it was that you shouldn't torment the "different" kids in high school. (narrows eyes) [[WhosLaughingNow Because you'll pay for it. With your life.]]
-->'''Mr. Weaver''': Well, either way is pretty warped.
* StylisticSuck: Both Meg and Mr. Weaver's poetry.
* TakeThat: ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Miley Cyrus, and Meg-bashers (hell, bullies in general).
* TeacherStudentRomance: Meg and Mr. Weaver, obviously. A flashback cutaway shows that this was also the (thankfully one-sided students love teacher) case when he taught elementary school.
* TheEighties: The era Mr. Weaver was in high school. Also the obsession of Retro Rachel, of course. However, while ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' typically has a nostalgic view of the era, one cutaway shows that Creator/RobertCrumb's sex-and-drugs obsessed ComicBook/FritzTheCat did '''not''' have a good time then. (Ironically, the latter two hook up at the end, at least temporarily.)
* TooDumbToLive: Connie, who doesn't grasp that hiding [[color:blue: blue]] drain cleaner in a bottle of [[color:blue: blue]] soda would be a more obvious deception than hiding it in a mug (well, more like Too Hung Over To Live, but it's the same result).

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