As part one of a cross through with Family Guy and American Dad!, where all three shows are affected by the same hurricane, Hurricane Flozelle, The Brown-Tubbs Family's cruise is canceled because of the Hurricane. Cleveland, refusing to let the hurricane ruin their vacation, decides to have the cruise right there at home instead of evacuating the neighborhood like the mayor encouraged people to.
Tropes:
- Agent Scully:
- Cleveland believes Hurricane Flozelle is just a lie the news is using to scare people but he's very soon proven wrong.
- An even bigger Agent Scully comes into play when Junior claims to not believe in God.
- Armor-Piercing Response:
- Junior shatters Rallo's world when he tells him about God.Rallo: I believe that the man who created the entire universe knows my name and cares what happens to me. Do you know what that is?
Junior: Nacissism? - Donna gets Junior's goat too, later in the episode.Donna: I know it might not make sense but that's what faith is. Standing in the face of adversity and believing everything's gunna be okay.
Junior: Well, excuse me for not believing in things you can't touch, see, or measure.
Donna: Junior, Han Solo didn't believe in the force but he didn't think Luke Skywalker was in idiot for believing in it.
Junior: But the force—
Donna: Is what?
An unseen presence from which one draws strength and inspiration? How is that any different from what I'm talking about?
[beat]
Junior: ...You just blew my mind, Miss Donna.
- Junior shatters Rallo's world when he tells him about God.
- Ax-Crazy: The family goes this when deciding to eat Junior. They take out a bunch of kitchen knives and get ready to cut him apart and then eat his fat to survive.
- Bottle Episode: 98% of the episode takes place inside the house.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- To help kick off the cross through, a few inter-series fourth wall jokes are made to get everyone into the mood.Larvel: So, this is wild, man. What I heard was due to global warming, the storm's gunna be here for a while, then in Quahog about, in like, a half-hour. Then supposedly after that, it'll go to American Dad town.
- Another fourth wall joke involves FOX calling Cleveland and telling him he's not allowed to tell a joke, putting down one of their upcoming movies as they've got a lot riding on it and they want to give it the best of publicity.
- To help kick off the cross through, a few inter-series fourth wall jokes are made to get everyone into the mood.
- The Cameo: Roberta plays with marionette puppets of Brian and Stewie.
- Character Development: All of the members of the family and their relationships with each other develop more when the subject of religion comes into the mix.
- Cold Opening: The episode begins with a narration about the impending hurricane.
- Continuity Nod: Loretta's affair with Quagmire is brought up again.
- Cutaway Gag: A cutaway gag features an anthropomorphic carton of milk holding a gun and breaking down, crying at the corpse of a carton of orange juice he just murdered with a gun and then killing himself.
- Didn't Think This Through: After throwing a full-blown musical number, The Brown-Tubbs Family gets really hungry and finds out they don't have any food after Cleveland threw it all out.
- The Fundamentalist: Cleveland and the Tubbs family try to force their religious views on Junior. Rallo proves to have been successful in his evangelism, claiming to have turned all of his friends at school.Rallo: And I'm coming pretty close to cracking Mrs. Lowenstein. Man, can you imagine if I turned a Jew?
- Hands Go Down: Cleveland asks the family when a hurricane has even done any real property damage ... and to not say Katrina. This is their response.
- Hidden Depths: Junior is revealed to be a non-believer of god.
- Ignored Epiphany: Cleveland and Junior seem to disregard the messages they teach each other.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Done by Cleveland and the Tubbs family to mock religion.Cleveland: Christianity makes sense. A virgin had God's baby, who then grew up to be a magical sorcerer, who could Walk on Water, turn that water into wine, and then walk on the wine until one day, the ... [ahem] [uses finger quotes] "Romans", crucified him but he allowed it so you and I could be forgiven for Eve eating that apple she got from the talking snake. Three days later, Jesus rose from the dead to tell everyone he was coming back someday to fight The Devil. Then he flew up to his mansion in Heaven, where he sits in judgment of the gays. How can you not believe that!?
- Misplaced Retribution: Cleveland orders God to bring his wrath upon Junior. A bolt of lightning strikes down a tree, which crushes... Cleveland.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: After throwing out all the food, the family very quickly resorts to eating Junior.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Junior up and quits at the end of the episode.Donna: God answered our prayers and got Cleveland out from under the tree!
Junior: But—
Cleveland: Don't you see son? God does exist. He was here tonight in this room! You just witnessed a miracle!
Junior: Well, not really. It was science. Basic engineering. I did it.
Cleveland: But God showed you how to build that contraption.
Junior: No, I learned that in school.
Cleveland: God built the school.
Junior: Immigrants built the school.
Cleveland: Christian immigrants.
Junior: [claps hands] I'm out. - Spontaneous Choreography: The musical number, "Filled With Jesus".
- Take That!: With Seth MacFalane's lack of involvement in the show at this point, the writers seize the opportunity to take jabs at Brian Griffin and how shitty of a character he's turned out to be over the years.Junior: No, I'm not. Atheism is a religion too, and those people are the worst. You remember Brian Griffin back in Quahog?
Cleveland: [disdan] The dog?
Junior: Yeah. Remember what an insufferable d-bag he was about it? - That Didn't Happen: Donna denies Cleveland's cutaway gag about the suicidal milk ever happened.
