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Recap / Family Guy S 15 E 13 The Finer Strings

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Peter and the guys form a string quartet, only for Peters laziness and slacking to begin frustrating the others. Meanwhile, Brian becomes Carter's Seeing-Eye dog and begins to enjoy the good life.

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  • Conspicuous Consumption: Brian indulges in this with Carter. At one point, he orders "moon beef" at a restaurant, which costs a million dollars. Not surprising, considering that it apparently involves the waiter actually having to go to the moon in person and butcher a cow that's also there for some reason.
  • Drunken Montage: After their successfull performance at the wedding, Peter and the guys close the episode by "drinking a bunch of free booze and be a huge presence in the wedding photos", with photos showing a drunken Peter giving a toast, Cleveland eating the wedding cake, Quagmire humping the bride, Peter almost crushing the bridesmaids while catching the boquet, all four of them brawling with the groom and other male guests, and stealing the newlyweds car, all set to Oh, What A Night, by The Four Seasons.
  • Grade Skipper: Evelyn Fong, the talent show contestant who inspires Peter to take up the violin, is introduced by Principal Shepherd as "our 11-year-old high school junior".
  • Eye Scream: Wanting to get back in with Carters rich lifestyle, Brian convinces Stewie to blind Carter again using tap water from Flint, Michigan.
  • Fingore: Peter's new violin instructor (Mr Washee-Washee) makes him practice until his fingers start bleeding.
  • Space "X": Brian orders "moon beef" at a restaurant with Carter, which consists of a waiter taking a rocket ship to the moon and butchering a cow that's inexplicably there.
  • Training from Hell: Peter undergoes this to improve his violin skills and make up his earlier laziness to the guys. It involves literal torture, as Mr. Washee-Washee burns him with a steam press as motivation. It does make Peter very good at the violin in a short amount of time, but it also saps any joy from playing for him due to the misery he had to go through.

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