Lois gets jealous after Carter adopts a young girl from an orphanage in order to restore his public image.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: A wolf and some gorillas trick Brian into entering their exhibits by claiming to have read Faster Than the Speed of Love and then viciously maul him.
- Chekhov's Gun: The episode begins with a Cold Open that sees Lois recall a crazy dream she had, which drives Peter to back away to another show while everyone else commits suicide. Later, when Tatum finds herself trapped in the gorilla exhibit, Lois starts talking about another crazy dream she had and it gets the gorillas (as well as everyone else) to back away from the girl.
- Crossover: The Cold Open sees Lois recount a crazy dream she recently had. While everyone else commits suicide to get out of hearing the dream, Peter backs off all the way into Bob's Burgers and decides to hang out at the titular restaurant for a while. Homer Simpson also makes a silent cameo there.
- Faux Affably Evil: The wolf that talks to Brian acts this way, encouraging him to enter the former's exhibit by saying by promising to reveal Tatum's whereabouts. When that doesn't work, the wolf lies that he read Brian's book Faster Than the Speed of Love, getting an enthusiastic Brian to enter the exhibit before viciously mauling him.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: A non-lethal example and Played for Laughs; when Brian tells the family that they will split up to look for Tatum after she goes missing, Chris takes those words literally and splits himself into vertical halves. Peter berates Chris for doing so because it will end up in their Fox promo. Chris is able to merge back whole from the vertical halves, however.
- Heartwarming Orphan: Tatum, whom Carter takes a real shine to when he visits the orphanage to do a photo-op. He decides to adopt her afterwards.
- Hilarity in Zoos: A large part of the episode takes place in a zoo, where a wolf lures Brian into his cage claiming he has read this book, and Tatum ends up in a gorilla habitat where Lois has to rescue her from the vicious apes.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Lois was wrong to lash out because she was jealous Carter was spending more time with Tatum than with her, she was concerned that he would end up neglecting Tatum like he'd done with her as a child. This ends up being validated at the end when Carter suddenly goes cold on Tatum for something that wasn't her fault.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all her faults, Lois does risk her life to rescue Tatum from the gorillas despite her being jealous of the attention Tatum has received from Carter.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Carter seems to genuinely bond with Tatum throughout the episode, only to tell her to leave his mansion just because she can't hear him across his long dining table.
- Killer Gorilla: The gorillas in the zoo are portrayed as quite violent; they surround Tatum menacingly when she ends up in their enclosure, they tear the zookeeper trying to rescue her from limb to limb (with one gorilla putting on his torn-off face as a mask to disguise himself as a human to escape the zoo), they charge at Lois when she climbs into their habitat to rescue Tatum, and finally they brutally beat up Brian because they didn't like his book (granted, he walked right in there himself just to ask them if they liked it).
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lois has this reaction when she loses Tatum in the restroom while accompanying her.
- Pet the Dog: Carter genuinely bonds with Tatum and paid attention to her. At the zoo, Carter admits to Lois that not spending time with her as a child was the biggest regret of his life. While he can’t change it now, the closest thing he has to make up for it is to do it to Tatum.
- Riddle for the Ages: How did Lois lose Tatum after just a minute or two in the bathroom?
- Series Continuity Error:
- The opening suddenly depicts the entire Griffin family as casual atheists who belittle praying families. The fact that most of them have been shown as loyal Christians in the past is not brought up at all, possibly just for the joke.
- The episode also claims that Carter and Babs had "three other children who didn't make it" while also seemingly not acknowledging Carol and Patrick's existence.
- Suicide as Comedy: When Lois starts recalling a crazy dream she had, the rest of the Griffin family (sans Peter) start killing themselves to get out of hearing it. Cleveland also claims that his uncle died from a "wife dream", implying that he did the same thing.
- Too Dumb to Live: Brian is tricked by a wolf into entering his exhibit when the latter lies that he read Brian's book Faster Than the Speed of Love, and gets mauled as a result. He makes the same mistake and gets mauled again when entering the gorilla exhibit to ask if the gorillas have read his book as well. It's revealed that they have, but they hate it.
