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After the family watches a PBS documentary on the unhealthy food habits of Americans, Lois begins forcing them to eat healthy, much to Peter's frustration. In response, Peter opens up a food truck that exclusively serves horrifically unhealthy food. Meanwhile, Meg discovers that she has a surprising talent for roller derby.


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  • The Alleged Car: Apparently this is all Bing! can afford for their image gathering.
  • Ass Shove: The Winnie the Pooh cutaway gag (referencing "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree"), where Pooh wonders why Rabbit is using his fist and not his shoulder to help push him from the hole he is lodged in. A voice inside Rabbit's house sternly tells Pooh, "Don't worry about it!"
  • Bait-and-Switch: Chris mentions how he got hurt running with scissors. The cutaway has Peter say Chris runs like a girl. Chris is so upset that he stabs himself.
  • Big, Fat Future: The documentary Lois shows a future where flying cars exist but are a little off the ground due to the immense weight of the passengers. As soon as a woman gets out, the car rockets up off the ground. This scares Lois into adopting healthy eating habits for her family.
  • Big Eater: Peter eats so much junk food for weeks that he gains over 200 pounds and cannot get out of the truck.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Inverted. While he does his best to be supportive, Chris becomes increasingly concerned for Meg's safety after she takes up roller derby, especially once he realizes just how physical the sport is. When Meg gets knocked down during her match at the end of the episode and is about to get run over, Chris races onto the track and pushes her out of the way.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Played for Laughs. As narrated by Morgan Freeman, Peter promised Lois that he'd eat healthier from now on, so he ate steamed vegetables and brown rice that night... and then ate like crap every day after, but he was nonetheless immortalized on Bing Maps.
  • Bizarre Taste in Food: Peter heads off to buy ingredients for a "peanut butter cup dorito sausage car panini with a cadbury egg". However, Cleveland and two men who buy sandwiches seem to like them.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Peter didn't put much thought into changing his diet so drastically - while already a Big Eater, his worst tendencies were tempered by Lois cooking relatively normal food for the family. His childish refusal to eat healthier and switching entirerly to his own cartoonishly unhealthy food causes a massive weight gain which he doesn't keep track of, eventually causing him to get stuck in his own food truck, and forcing emergency services to cut the truck open and hoist him out like a beached whale.
  • Don't Explain the Joke:
    Meg: I love roller derby. It's the first thing I'm really good at. Plus, I love making other women bleed... but you know in ways... besides the way... you know, they normally bleed.
    Stewie: [off-screen] She means periods!
    Chris: Yeah, I got it, Stewie.
  • Double Entendre: Peter's food truck is named "Eat My Junk".
  • Freudian Excuse: Meg takes to roller derby because it's a rare time she actually excels at something and because she gets to dish out abuse instead of taking it.
  • Humiliation Conga: Peter becomes so obese that they have to cut open the truck and use a crane to lift him out, all on live TV. While suspended in mid-air, workers hose him off and end up blasting off his clothes, just as the Bing Street mapping car drives by and catches this spectacle for the internet.
  • No Sympathy: Tom Tucker briefly reports that the Yellow-billed Marsh Finch has gone extinct, but the way that it's presented paints it in a more comedic fashion than it should be.
  • Not Helping Your Case: When Lois calls for the family to eat, she says that she made "a healthy veggie dinner". No one shows up and she goes out to force them to eat what she made.
  • Nutritional Nightmare: Peter serves this kind of food in his food truck, such as:
    • Cheeseburgers with jelly donuts for buns.
    • Milkshakes with hot dogs for straws.
    • Tacos made with Swedish Fish and chili.
    • Cereal that's just M&M's and Dr.Pepper.
    • Paella that apparently contains Pop Rocks.
  • Restaurant-Owning Episode: Peter starts running a food truck selling junk food. It's actually fairly successfull, but fizzles out after Peter gets stuck inside due to his weight gain.
  • Status Quo Is God: Peter learns his lesson after Lois explains that the reason she wants him to be healthy is because she loves him and wants him to live to old age with her and eats brown rice and vegetables for dinner that night... then went right back to eating like crap for the rest of his life.
  • Stuck in the Doorway:
    • Peter's extra size and weight causes him to get stuck in the entrance of his food truck when he tries to leave to get in the Bing car's picture, with the fire department having to cut him out.
    • A cutaway gag involving Peter becoming stuck in the doorway makes reference to "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," wherein Pooh becomes lodged in the hole to Rabbit's house after consuming jars of honey during his visit.
      Pooh: Uh, Rabbit. Perhaps you should push with your shoulder, and not your fist.
      Rabbit: Don't worry about it.
  • Take That!: To the Bing! search engine and its picture taking car, which unlike the high-tech Google Images car with its multi-angle digital roof camera, is shown as The Alleged Car with a bunch of old cameras strapped together into a huge ball on the roof.
  • Temporary Bulk Change: Peter was already obese, but he becomes even more obese after gorging on nothing but junk food for several weeks.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Played for Laughs. Rabbit, who had a rather effeminate voice in the cartoons, is given a deep, booming voice in the Cutaway Gag.

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