Airdate: January 12, 2014
Peter helps Stewie get to sleep by telling him "unique" versions of three Grimm Brothers fairy tales: "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Cinderella."
"Grimm Job" contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Peter, viciously shaking Stewie awake after he falls asleep while hearing "Little Red Riding Hood".
- Adults Are Useless: Peter not noticing (or caring) that Herbert is in Chris' room or that Meg hanged herself.
- All Germans Are Nazis: Mort appears in Jack and the Beanstalk as a hideous troll, saying he looks like that because all the fairy tales were written by Germans.
- Ass Shove: A quick gag at the end of Jack and Beanstalk has Bruce planting some of the magic beans and squatting patiently over the spot.
- Big Damn Hero: Subverted with Peter as the Woodsman in the Little Red Riding Hood retelling, he is most likely a lunatic running from door to door murdering people, judging by how he bursts into another house (offscreen) and kills another person.
- Bittersweet Ending: For all three of Peter's fairy tale retellings.
- Jack and the Beanstalk ends with Jack (Peter) solving his and his wife's (Lois) food problems, but their marriage problems are still at large.
- Red Riding Hood has the woodsman (Peter) kill the wolf (Brian), but it's assumed (and then confirmed) that he's just a lunatic running around murdering people.
- Cinderella has Cinderella (Lois) and Prince Charming (Peter) marry, but they have difficulties with their marriage, and they're not friends on Twitter anymore.
- Bowdlerization: The following changes were made between the TV version and the DVD version:
- Brian the wolf's line "I believed I was due an explanation about why she was such a fucking whore" in the "Little Red Riding Hood" parody had "fucking" bleeped out on TV.
- In the "Cinderella" parody: Princess!Stewie's line to Prince!Peter on the TV version was "Oh, I'm so fancy and moist." On the DVD version, the line is, "Oh, my butthole is so tight today."
- The Cameo: Cleveland makes a vocal cameo in the first story as Little Boy Brown. In the uncut DVD version, he also appears in the third story conducting the orchestra and having them play his theme song.
- Cinderella Plot: The last segment of "Grimm Job" parodizes Cinderella, by casting Lois as the protagonist, Meg and Stewie as the ugly stepsisters, and Babs as the wicked stepmother. After the villains ruin Lois' dress, she is visited by her fairy godmother (played by Adam West), who gives her a new one and sends her to Prince Peter's ball. The rest of the episode closely follows the plot of Disney's original adaptation, but ends with the narrator's cynical description of the toxic nature of their marriage.Narrator: And so, two people who danced together one time entered into an ill-advised, long-term relationship. And they lived happily ever after for seven months and then separated with the goal of fixing themselves and getting back together. They got into a huge fight when his mom got sick. And now they don't even follow each other on Twitter. The end.
- Darker and Edgier: Peter's retellings of the fairy tales.
- Lack of Empathy: The Fairy Godmother, played by Adam West, transforms Brian and Joe against their will, with Joe implying it hurts. After the spell wears off, Cinderella!Lois laments having to leave the ball early as she's lying on the backs of a ragged Joe and exhausted Brian.
- Lampshade Hanging: Seeing Stewie and Meg are Cinderella's stepsisters, Lois breaks character and remarks how few female characters the show has.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Stewie during the "Red Riding Hood" skit, when out-loud asks as to how the scene with the wolf disguised as Grandma is a scene.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: Peter briefly recalls how he got into trouble for urinating by a playground, and had a social worker with him when reading the second story to Stewie.
- Painful Transformation: Joe being transformed into the carriage in Cinderella repeatedly shouts that it hurts.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Lampshaded. Stewie is incredulous that the Wolf dressing up as the grandmother could've possibly fooled anyone.
- Parental Obliviousness: Peter fails to notice a pedophile (Herbert) in Chris' room, or that Meg hanged herself.
- Self-Deprecation: During the Cinderella segment, Stewie (as one of the stepsisters) brings up how few female characters the show has.
- Shout-Out: A couple of minor examples, but Brian running to avoid being transformed into a horse and the mice having made Lois' (playing Cinderella) dress were directly lifted from the Disney version (with Gus the mouse with the former)
- Spoof Aesop: Peter claims the moral of Jack and the Beanstalk is "If you steal, you better be ready to murder too."
- Stealing the Credit: Cinderella!Lois takes credit for her pink dress. The mice are disgusted and one is worried about the screenplay they gave her.
- Suicide as Comedy: At the cut-to-black to close the episode, the feet and nightgown of whom the viewer is led to believe is Meg, implying she hung herself. Meg is alive and well by the next episode.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: For once, Meg gets a respectable role in one of the fiction stories Family Guy remakes (the Cinderella one). Granted, she's Cinderella's stepsister...
