Airdate: February 10, 2013
In this special Valentine's Day Episode, Peter and Lois spend a romantic day in bed together, Meg dates a teenage organ harvester who has one of her kidneys, Brian confronts all of his past girlfriends who all hate him, a freak accident curses Quagmire to live life as a woman, and Herbert the pedophile's grand niece falls for Chris.
Valentine's Day in Quahog provides examples of (YMMV tropes go here).
- Body Horror: Meg's conjoined twin that was found in her body.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Joe borrows Quagmire's when talking to "Glenda."
- Call-Back: Brian's dates from the past include Seabreeze (Carter's prized dog from "Screwed the Pooch"), Jillian (the Dumb Blonde who dumped Brian as seen in "Moving Out (Brian's Song)"), Brooke (from "Brian the Bachelor"), Tracynote (from "The Former Life of Brian"), Carolyn (from "Love Blactually"), Rita (from "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"), Ida Davis (from "Quagmire's Dad"), Cheryl Tiegs (from "Tiegs for Two"), Lauren Conrad (from "We Love You Conrad"), Kate the blind girl (from "The Blind Side") and Miss Emily (the negligent preschool owner from "Be Careful What You Fish For").
- Continuity Nod: The mayor Carol is cheating on Adam with lives in Weekapaug, the established home of Al Harrington's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman Emporium and Warehouse.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Played for Laughs when the Kool Aid Man introduces his girlfriend (the Yoo-Hoo bottle) to his parents, and his father's reaction is a resounding "Oh Nooo!"
- Didn't Think This Through: After hearing various criticisms from his exes, Brian proceeds to tell off every single one of them. It didn't occur to him that this large group of women would react negatively.
- Dumb Blonde: Jillian mispronounces "ego" and doesn't refute Brian's claim that she doesn't know why she's at the meeting.
- Eye Scream: How Mayor West eliminates his rival.West: I hereby declare this Stabby Eye Day!
- Fantastic Racism: The Kool-Aid man's parents appear to be shocked when they see that his new girlfriend is a Yoo-Hoo! beverage (with the personality of an African-American woman).
- Foot Popping: The baby Mayor West makes out with.
- Harmful to Minors: Lois heads down to the living room in the dark and completely disrobes thinking Peter is there. She turns on the lights and sees Stewie is there instead. Stewie remarks he's ready for therapy.
- Ignored Epiphany: Quagmire realizes he's been made to look like a woman and that this is the universe's way of punishing him for his ways. He resolves to change... and then we see he's acting the same towards women but while pretending to be a lesbian.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Quagmire being viewed as a woman so he can experience how it's like for a woman to be treated badly.
- Subverted, as he just uses his new form to become a lesbian, with him remaining a Karma Houdini and maintaining status quo. Since he's only "seen" as a woman, nothing has changed. He still technically has a penis and is still a straight rapist, if only in his eyes.
- Brian getting called out for being a lousy partner, Brian calling out his ex-girlfriends for being lousy partners, and Brian getting chased down the street. Then subverted with Brian having a massive orgy with all of them.
- Long List: In the opening, the episode is said to feature songs by Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, Gin Blossoms, Jewel, James Blunt, Natalie Merchant, Hootie & the Blowfish, Goo Goo Dolls, Nelly Furtado, Xtreme, Shania Twain, Michael Bolton, Selena Gomez, Taylor Hicks, Joan Osborne, Jason Mraz, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Pussycat Dolls, Bruno Mars, Natalie Imbruglia, Alanis Morissette, Paula Cole, John Mayer, Train, Evanescence, Adele, Florence + the Machine, Gavin DeGraw, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, Sixpence None the Richer, Indigo Girls, The Cranberries, Savage Garden, Belinda Carlisle, Beyoncé, The Rembrandts, Natasha Bedingfield, Dido, Duncan Sheik, Dispatch, Elliott Smith, Edwin McCain, Rufus Wainwright, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Jason Derulo, Corinne Bailey Rae, Rob Thomas, The Wallflowers, Demi Lovato, Big Time Rush, Third Eye Blind, Fastball, Oasis, Ben Folds Five, Keane, Gwen Stefani, Jordin Sparks, The Killers, K-Ci & JoJo, Boyz II Men, Nickelback, Leona Lewis, Gym Class Heroes, Carrie Underwood, The Bangles, Annie Lennox, The Proclaimers, Matchbox 20, UB40, and Ludacris featuring T.I..
- Nothing Personal: Toby says his harvesting Meg's kidney was just a job.
- Oh, Crap!:
- The Kool-Aid Man's reaction to seeing his son is dating the Yoo-Hoo bottle.
- Stewie's reaction when he realizes the girl he kissed was his own mother.
- Organ Theft: The guy Meg goes out with steals one of her kidneys, but he gives it back to her at the end of the episode.
- Pet the Dog: Brian complimenting Meg's dress before her date.
- Playing Cyrano: Herbert does it for Sandy.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Brian's dates tell him off for being a pretentious, egotistical blowhard, and Brian turns it back on them and points out their flaws.Brian: You want honest? Fine! Here's honesty! (to Rita) You're old bag! (to Kate) You're blind! (to Brooke) Your vomit tastes weird! (to Jillian) You don't even know why you're here! (to Lauren Conrad) You chose to be on The Hills! (to Ida) You still have a bit of penis left! (to a gremlin) And you can't even get wet!
- Shout-Out: Meg's photo of herself giving a thumbs-up while torturing prisoners is a reference to the controversial Abu Ghraib photograph (with Meg as Lynndie England).
- Meg dating someone who ends up stealing her kidney was also very similar to a sketch on "Robot Chicken", where Mila Kunis played a character whose kidney was stolen by her date. The way it's done is also extremely similar.
- Quagmire's "female" name Glenda Vajmire could be a nod to Glen or Glenda.
- The subplot of Quagmire being cursed to be seen to others as a woman is pretty similar to the episode "Witch-Ay Woman" from Johnny Bravo, where the titular Casanova Wannabe character is turned into a woman. Considering that Seth MacFarlane worked on Johnny Bravo, it's probably not just mere coincidence.
- Skewed Priorities: Meg is more irritated by Toby attempting to break his promise that they'd spend the day together rather than him harvesting her kidney.
- Slipping a Mickey: Toby spikes Meg's drink so he can knock her out, take her to the motel, and harvest her kidney.
- Special Edition Title: The opening is replaced by a parody of the trailer for Valentine's Day.
- Surprise Incest: When Stewie goes back in time to the 1960's, he meets and falls in love with a female baby, kissing her before it's revealed that she is an infant Lois Griffin whose father Carter Pewterschmidt shows up at the exact moment to pick her up and take her home. Stewie is so horrified by this that he vomits every time.
- Take That!: Arizona is described as a state that can "shoot a Mexican for using a water fountain".
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Meg's date, and her getting her kidney back.
- Trauma Button Ending: When Stewie returns from a time-travel trip in which he kissed a baby that turned out to be Lois.Brian: Oh my God, Stewie, what happened?Stewie: NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS WHAT HAPPENED!Brian: Jeez, you kiss your mother with that mouth?Stewie: (vomits)
- Valentine's Day Episode: Also doubles as a Vignette Episode, with the story dedicated to seeing how each character goes about Valentine's Day.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't see what happened when it's revealed that the Kool-Aid man is dating the Yoo-Hoo bottle.
