Peter decides to self-publish his own erotic novels, and when one that's been recorded to audio tape causes a car accident, the driver sues Carter Pewterschmidt (since he was the one who gave Peter the money to self-publish) and Carter loses his fortune.
Tropes:
- Aardvark Trunks: A Take That! variant; Renée Zellweger's face is drawn like an anteater's snout and she's seen sucking down ants.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Armando (one of the rats in Peter's rat farm) is two months behind on the rent, Peter tells him that his patience is running out. Armando pleads with him, first to give him another week, then to not make his wife perform a striptease.
- Artistic License – Law: Big time. First, even if Carter were guilty, a lawyer wouldn’t be allowed to seize his assets without a trial, nor would he be allowed to sue for “everything he owns”. Carter is shown to be quite wealthy, and a car accident, even one that crashed into a house, wouldn’t wipe out his money. Second, the law doesn’t allow someone to sue a publisher for the content unless it’s inciting behavior. The plaintiff would have to prove Peter had incited him to remove his shirt while driving to be entitled to anything. Third, Carter only gave Peter $5 to get started. That means at worst, Carter could only be held liable for Peter’s first book. Unless he continued to give Peter money, which he wouldn’t want to do and Peter likely didn’t need anyway, he would have no role in Peter’s other books and wouldn’t be liable for a cent.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Peter takes extreme pleasure at forcing Armando's wife to perform a striptease. Armando and his wife are both literal rats.
- Bloodless Carnage: Stewie gets a massive piece of glass embedded into his forehead after crashing into a cupboard, but no bleeding is present.
- Bowdlerization:
- In the montage of erotic novels Peter has written, the DVD version has an extra book called Catcher in the Eye, featuring a smiling woman with a bull's-eye target on her eyenote .
- The DVD version also includes a scene of Peter watching a TV show called, Blind Justice, about a blind police officer who runs out and hits a wall.
- Celebrity Cameo: Betty White makes an appearance playing herself as the narrator to Peter's trashy erotica book, before later showing up to Peter's door to complain after getting subpoenaed over it.
- Everyone Has Standards: Peter calls Carter out when he whacks Meg over the head.
- Imagine Spot: Peter has one at the end when Lois says she turned down her father giving them 10 million dollars where he kills her with a pillow, burns her body, then lies to the police about what happened.
- It's All About Me: Parodied with the Julia Roberts cutaway.Julia: Hi, I'm Julia Roberts. You know, a lot of people died in the tsunami, but don't worry, I didn't. And I'll be here to entertain you and love my life for many, many years to come. Me! ME! MEEEEEEE! (hugs herself while cackling)
- Never My Fault: The Carter is poor part of the storyline happens because the driver who got into accident sues Carter because he's liable as publisher (same with Betty White getting sued who read the book on tape). However, said accident only happened because the driver got aroused by said book on tape and tried to take his shirt off while he's driving! Basically, the whole thing was his fault, and he has nothing to sue over!
- Profile View Gag: Stewie’s vault ends with him smashing into a glass cabinet. At first he thinks he’s fine, but when he turns his head he, and the audience, see that he has a large piece of glass embedded in his head.
- Shout-Out:
- A cutaway gag shows a fictional Early-Installment Weirdness version of the Griffin family based on The Simpsons as seen on the Tracy Ullman Show.
- Carter Pewtershmidt forces a lawyer to fight the Rancor. The lawyer wins.
- Status Quo Is God: Carter becomes rich again at the end of the episode, after Babs divorces Ted Turner and takes half his money.
- Stylistic Suck: Peterotica is considered to be very hot in Quahog. We have no idea why, because what we hear of it, it's written in a rambling, disjointed stream-of-consciousness (one such work is called, The Hot Chick Who Was Italian or Maybe Some Kind of Spanish) that makes one wonder how anyone could get off to it. For bonus points, the audiobooks are narrated by Betty White. Here's a quote:...and then Captain Leeroy Hot Dog Zanzibar and Gina from my work got in the backseat of his really cool spaceship. Gina was finally wearing that tank top I got her and nothing else. Zanzibar knew he couldn't control his space horniness any longer, and then they totally did it. And if I'd have been there, I would've been like "Aw, sweet."
- Take That!: Peter Griffin claims Carter is going to love living with them more than Julia Roberts loves herself.
- Train Job: One of Peter and Carter's plans to get rich involves this. They get on the train, discover that the train is empty and end up having to pay for train tickets they didn't even want.
- Unnecessary Time Precision: A variation occurs. During the cutaway gag of Peter’s rat farm, Peter looks at his pocket watch before telling Armando that he is two months behind on paying rent.
