Peter's mother starts dating newscaster Tom Tucker while Brian creates his own radio show, which Stewie turns into a raunchy, Howard Stern-esque broadcast.
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: If Tom Tucker really did become Peter’s dad, this would count when they’re having dinner together. Though he does apologize for it later.
- Bait-and-Switch: In a cutaway where Peter is warned to not watch the cursed VHS tape from The Ring as he will die, he dismisses it as a lot of baloney and puts it in the VCR... and it turns out to be the 1987 movie Mannequin, but Peter dies from watching it anyway.
- Dastardly Whiplash: Peter's evil brother Thaddeus.Thaddeus: Nya! This will surely affect my inheritance. Nya!
- Disproportionate Retribution: Lampshaded by Peter after he keeps tickling Lois and she hits him with a frying pan.
- Dumbass DJ: Weenie and the Butt. Later in the episode, Brian and Stewie become shock jocks, calling themselves Dingo and the Baby.
- Frying Pan of Doom: Lois whacks Peter in the face with a frying pan after he keeps tickling her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Brian's exact reaction after Gore Vidal (whom Brian had invited earlier when the radio show was a serious talk show) leaves in disgust after walking in on one of the "Dingo and the Baby" broadcasts.
- Parent with New Paramour: The main plot centers on Peter's mother Thelma dating Tom Tucker, and Peter having to adjust to this.
- Shout-Out: The scene where Peter eats ice cream during dinner parodies Kramer vs. Kramer, except there’s slapping involved from Tom Tucker.
- Suckiness Is Painful: Played for Laughs during one Cutaway Gag, in which Peter watches a "cursed" VHS tape and dies, ala The Ring, but it's just the movie Mannequin.
