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[[caption-width-right:242:[[SarcasmMode One big happy family!]]]]
'''Original air date:''' 8/22/2001 ''(produced in 2000)''

'''Production code:''' 2ACX-18

Lois becomes a black belt while working out the aggression she feels toward the tourists who flock to Quahog during autumn.

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!!This episode contains examples of:
* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Quagmire's window slams on his [[GroinAttack junk]] and he calls 911 for assistance. Based on his line "It's in a window this time," it appears that he's a frequent caller.
* AuthorsRetaliation: Peter expresses his frustration with Creator/{{Fox}}. Lois warns him that he shouldn't, but Peter scoffs, "What're they gonna do, cut our budget?" He then walks to the kitchen... with only one animation frame with very rough movement.
* BigBrotherBully: Inverted; Chris, the younger brother, draws pictures of Meg with a pig's body.
* BitingTheHandHumor: After the family has their big fight scene, the family contemplates what even provoked the violence in their system they just spent getting out, which Lois hypothesizes is [[NewMediaAreEvil the violent TV they watch.]] Peter takes it a step further and shames [[Creator/{{Fox}} the network]] that allows such "junk" on the air, which Lois advises against, to which Peter responds incredulously by saying [[TemptingFate "What are they gonna do? Cut our budget?"]] The final few seconds of the episode ends with ''extremely'' LimitedAnimation.
* CurbStompCushion: Though Peter is obviously overwhelmed by Lois’s Taijutsu skills near the end of their fight, he doesn’t go down without a few good hits here and there.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Stewie hits Peter in the head with a baseball bat simply because he was eating his graham crackers.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Surprisingly {{downplayed|Trope}}: After winning a tijutsu match, Lois demands sex from Peter and doesn't care if he's unwilling to consent or not. While Peter's awkward, scarred behavior in the morning is played somewhat for laughs, Brian expresses immediate concern when Peter explains what happened. Said behavior inadvertently provokes Stewie into smacking Peter in the head with a baseball bat, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone in turn causing Lois to realize that her aggression was negatively impacting her family.]]
* DramaticIrony: Lois and Peter believe Stewie striking the latter to be the first violent thing he's ever done and that he only did this because Lois practised martial arts. Anyone who's watched ''one episode'' of the series so far will know that Stewie always had ideas of inflicting harm on others without outside influence, and very often has acted on it.
* FakeHigh: While under the influence of Brian’s “mood-enhancing pills,” the Griffins imitate South African mbube group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
* FauxHorrific: The characters reaction to the New Yorkers’ arrival in the cold open.
* FeelingTheBabyKick: Bonnie feels her baby kicking and invites Peter to feel it. Because she had been taking taijutsu lessons, the unborn child gives Peter one hell of a kick to the face.
-->'''Peter:''' Oh, you are freakin' dead, kid!
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: ''Twice!'' The episode goes from being about New York tourists invading Quahog to Lois becoming more aggressive after getting a black belt to the Griffin family dealing with their mutually repressed anger.
* HatesBeingTouched: Chris says this to Meg after she shoves him for defending their dad and they fight.
* HypocriticalHumor: "Nobody walks all over my wife because I won't let 'em" "Peter..." "Quiet, men are talking"
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Stewie knocks Peter out with a baseball bat, Lois comes to the horrible realization that she brought violence into the family with her taijutsu and immediately meets up with a family therapist.
* NeverMyFault: Though the above trope is later subverted as when the therapist asks where the violence is coming from and Peter says it's from Lois, she tries to pass the blame on him.
-->'''Lois:''' Now, just a minute! The whole reason I started fighting is because of you. I felt weak. You never listen to me. You undermine me in front of the kids. And besides, you're not exactly Father of the Year yourself.
* NoodleIncident: When Peter holds a "Fight the ass kicking wife stand" Lois says she's not a sideshow attraction anymore. Then it shows a clip of Lois as a feral cave person bouncing on a trampoline chanting "Me likey bouncy!". Later at the Drunken Clam, Peter offers to take her to the Olive Garden Italian Restaurant. Lois starts chanting "Me likey breadsticks!" before getting herself under control.
* ShoutOut:
** The title is an obvious reference to ''Film/LethalWeapon''.
** Peter says in one line that "Brothers and sisters fighting is as natural as a white man's dialog in a Creator/SpikeLee movie," followed by a cutaway specifically referencing ''Film/DoTheRightThing''.
** Lois at one points comments that she's cutting loose, just like "Creator/JulieAndrews in that movie where she shows her breasts." [[BaitAndSwitch The following gag is not of]] ''Film/{{SOB}}'', but ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
** "Come one, come all! She [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli floats like a butterfly, stings like]] when I pee!"
** At the bar, Peter says “Krypton sucks,” and a few of the characters that Lois fights off at the Drunken Clam are [[Film/SupermanII General Zod, Ursa, and Non]]. She even sends them flying off into the Phantom Zone.
** At one point, Peter calls Lois' sensei Creator/RalphMacchio, no doubt a reference to his role in ''Film/TheKarateKid1984''.
** During her TrainingMontage, Lois is shown [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} trying and failing to kick a football being held down by Lucy von Pelt]].
** Once she prepares to fight her sensei, Lois' PreAsskickingOneLiner is "[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome spin the wheel, raggedy man!]]"
** "Ooh, look at me! I'm insane! I'm Creator/MartinLawrence on a bender!"
** The part where Lois grabs Peter’s crotch and says “This is mine! This is where my babies come from!” is a reference to a real incident that happened between O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson when they were still married.
** Peter calls Lois “Martin Mull” because of her bleaching the facial hair in her upper lip. Mull is notable for sporting a blond upper lip mustache and has guest-starred in the show in "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'".
** While the family lists derogatory terms for a fat person, Stewie shouts “country virtuoso Roy Clark.”
** In Stewie’s fantasy radio program, he interviews deceased variety show host Ed Sullivan and then imitates a commercial for the board game Operation.
** Peter watches a fictitious sequel to the film ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'', titled ''Speed 3: Glacier of Doom''.
* SpitefulSpit: Peter's "letter" to work out his feelings about Lois only consists of a "Dear Lois" and him spitting on the paper. He tries to conjure up a "P.S." in the form of a loogie, but is interrupted by Brian.
* TakeThat: The plot gets kicked off by the arrival of New Yorkers, derisively called "leafers", arriving to Rhode Island in droves to see the autumn leaves. The episode pulls no punches in showing how obnoxious the New England-native writing team thinks they are. In a more pointed jab:
-->'''Peter''': Look at the garbage those damn leafers dumped on our lawn! New York Post, New York Magazine, [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball the New York Mets]]...
** While voicing the “man-eating tree,” Peter claims he ate “insane New York anchorman Dan Rather” and “asexual former Mayor Ed Koch.”
** Cleveland says that protesters at the Million Man March set fire to their port-a-potties.
** Peter says that brothers and sisters fighting is as natural as the white guy’s dialogue in a Creator/SpikeLee movie. Cue a scene of a black guy trying to order a slice of pizza, while the white guy behind the counter snarls and growls like a rabid dog.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lois believes Stewie's anger outburst to being this after he hits Peter with a baseball bat and assaults a psychologist. [[AdultsAreUseless They obviously don't give any mind]] to [[EnfantTerrible how deep the rabbit hole goes.]]
-->'''Psychologist''': Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, does Stewart have a history of aggression?\\
'''Lois''': No, no. Hitting Peter is the first violent thing he's ever done!\\
'''Stewie''': ''(from a distance)'' Technically, the first act of violence was that time bomb I left ticking in your uterus before I came out. ''Happy 50th birthday, Lois.''
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: After countless anger management techniques, the Griffin family snaps and resolve their anger by beating each other up.
* ZanyScheme: Peter claims that his plan to get rid of the New York tourists who come during the fall is so brilliant that his brain would explode just by thinking about it. However, the following scene shows him behaving as silly as usual.
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