Due to their financial situation, Lois insists that the family start sticking to a budget. Peter, rather than stop throwing away money on whatever random whim pops into his head, instead decides that the family should win the Rhode Island state lottery, which currently has a multi-millon dollar jackpot. When he unexpectedly succeds, the lower-middle class Griffins suddenly finds themselves with more money than they ever dreamed.
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!! Tropes:

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: All the Griffins suffer this upon winning the lottery, but Peter suffers it the worst, since he starts paying Quagmire and Joe to perform various humiliating acts, climaxing with him [[EyeScream deliberately shooting Joe's eye out with a BB gun]].
* AmusingInjuries: Peter smashes himself after trying to jump into coins via Scrooge [=McDuck=]. Somehow he ends up better in the next scene.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Exaggerated to the point where the Griffins go broke in only one month after winning the lottery. While he buys rounds of beer for his friends and gives people gifts (such as a diamond ring for Lois, hiring a singer for Joe, and giving Quagmire an investment for penis enlargement), Peter also wastes the money on things like:
** Buying a pool full of coins so he can [[PooledFunds dive into it]] ala Scrooge Mc Duck (only to seriously injure himself).
** Buying a solid gold tuxedo.
** Not only buying expensive food, but hiring somebody to give it ''a helicopter tour of the city'' (even the guy being hired to do this wonders why the hell he's doing it).
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Subverted when Peter tells Lois about how he quit his job after becoming a millionaire. The way he talks about it, especially the part where he told his boss what she could do with his job, suggests he did or said something nasty but the flashback shows he was polite and eloquent... and took a dump on her desk. Played straight later with how he treats his friends. They forgive him in the end.
* {{Deconstruction}}: PlayedForLaughs. Peter jumps into a pool of gold coins so he can swim in them like [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge [=McDuck=]]]... only to end up brutally smashing himself instead.
* EntitledBastard: Peter has the nerve to get offended when Quagmire finally calls him out for treating both him and Joe like crap which culminated in the latter getting his eye shot. He figured they ought to be grateful that he’s sharing his winnings with them period and quickly doesn’t care when they sever all ties with him.
* EpicFail:
** Peter tries to swim in gold coins like Scrooge [=McDuck=]... and ends up brutally smashing himself.
** The Griffins end up losing all of their lottery money... ''twice''.
--->'''Peter:''' Holy shit! We won twice, and we're right back here again!
* EyeScream: The final straw for Joe and Quagmire is when, after forcing them to perform a vaudeville act while he shoots at them with a BB gun, Peter deliberately shoots Joe in the left eye. When Peter later tries to apologize to them, it's revealed that Joe had to get a glass eye.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: The Griffins blow through all their lottery winnings and Peter decides the only way out of their new predicament is to win the lottery again. The next scene reveals that they ''did'' win again but squandered the new winnings. Keep in mind that they won $150 million and spent it all in just a month. There's a joke near the end that they did this ''twice'' after winning the lottery a second time, but it's a one-off gag, and it's unclear if it's really part of the story.
* FridgeLogic: As part of Peter's wasteful spending, he orders some caviar to be given a helicopter tour of the city, commenting that he hopes it enjoys it as much as the lobster he ordered the same thing for. Midway through the lobster's tour, the pilot goes through this InUniverse:
--> "Why the fuck am I doing this? I could have just ''said'' I did it!"
* MadeOGold: One of the ridiculous things Peter buys is a solid-gold tuxedo. He had to fight three rappers for it down at the "Nonsense Store".
* MoneyDumb:
** Even for somebody like [[TheDitz Peter]], blowing through $150,000,000 in a month is insane. Despite Lois warning him not to go crazy with the money, and the rest of the family spending the money on things that are quite reasonable in comparison, Peter's ConspicuousConsumption reaches ridiculous levels.
** Earlier, Peter asked Lois for $28,000 to invest in a sushi restaurant... so he could yell-greet the entering customers. Lois naturally doesn't budge.
** Stewie pays to have a giant cradle mobile suspended in the sky outside the house, so he can relax on the lawn.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Brian is thrown a curveball after he chastises Peter for gambling on the lottery:
-->'''Brian:''' Peter, this is idiotic! Your odds of winning are like a hundred million to one! Don't you know the lottery is just a tax on stupid people?!\\
'''Peter:''' Would you be saying that if the prize was a hundred and fifty bags of the neighbors' garbage?\\
'''Brian:''' But it's not!... I mean... I mean, Is it? It's... That's an unrealistic, unfair question!
* PooledFunds: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. One of Peter's decisions is to buy a giant room full of gold coins and dive into it a la Scrooge [=McDuck=]. However...
-->''(cue the room, Peter dives into the coins... only to bloodily hit them hard)''\\
'''Peter:''' Aaahhh!! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter, that form a hard floor-like surface! Ahhh!!
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Quagmire and Joe decide enough is enough and ditch Peter after he shoots them repeatedly with a BB gun, going so far as to shoot Joe's eye out. Peter shooting Quagmire in the throat during the latter's rant was just the icing on the cake.
* ShoutOut:
** Peter tries to swim in a giant money bin filled with gold coins like [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck did]]. He just ends up hurting himself. Apparently, Peter wasn't paying attention when watching Disney cartoons, as Scrooge repeatedly tells people that only he can dive into money safely.
** The scene with the Russian waiter is a reference to the then-popular "Trolololololol" meme.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Despite ending up broke and homeless, the Griffins manage to get their normal lives back thanks to Quagmire and the investment he convinced Peter to make earlier in the episode, giving them enough money to break even.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Albeit exagerated for comic effect, this episode shows what usually happens to people who have spent their lives in poverty or middle class, only to luck into a large amount of money - with no idea how to manage it, they just blow through it. Carter Pewterschmidt, who's been rich his whole life and thus knows how to hang on to his wealth, even calls up Lois and asks if they've managed to lose it all yet.
** Peter trying to imitate Scrooge [=McDuck=] swimming in his Money Bin ends exactly the way you'd expect when you jump into a giant pile of solid gold coins.
* ThousandYardStare: Still reeling from the loss of their fortunes, the Griffins all stare out of a different window from their house.
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