History Recap / FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded

After "winning" at Trivial Pursuit during game night with the neighbors, Peter deludes himself into thinking he's a genius and Brian challenges him to take the [=MacArthur=] Genius Grant test to make it official. When the results come back, however, Peter and the others find out that, technically speaking, Peter's "mentally retarded." After initially grousing over it, Peter decides to take advantage of it because people are more forgiving of those with mental retardation. As always, Peter takes it too far and ends up injuring his wife and getting the kids taken from him by Child Welfare.

* JerkassHasaPoint: In the court scene, Peter pointed pointed out that people like Bing Crosby and Joan Crawford aren't retarded, but they get to keep their kids beside being unfitted to be parents.

* RealityEnsues: Peter's attempts to exploit DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery end up getting his kids taken away by Child Services after he's deemed mentally unfit to be a parent.

* JerkassGotaPoint: In the court scene, Peter pointed pointed out that people like Bing Crosby and Joan Crawford aren't retarded, but they get to keep their kids beside being unfitted to be parents.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even when trying to do good and prove he's a good father to social services, Peter interprets this as making Cleveland look like a bad father and framing him for prostitution.

** The number of prostitutes are counted in a manner similar to ''SesameStreet''.

!!"Petarded" contains examples of ([[YMMV/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded YMMV goes here]]):
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Peter develops a pretentious attitude after he wins a game of Trivial Pursuit (that Lois rigged with questions from the preschool edition).

After "winning" at Trivial Pursuit during game night with the neighbors, Peter deludes himself into thinking he's a genius and Brian challenges him to take the [=MacArthur=] Genius Grant test to make it official. When the results come back, however, Peter and the others find out that, technically speaking, Peter's "mentally retarded." After initially grousing over it, decides to take advantage of it, as people are more forgiving of those with mental retardation. As always, Peter takes it too far and ends up injuring his wife and getting the kids taken from him by Child Welfare.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Inverted, since Peter has given social services every reason to think he is horrible father and place them with the more level headed Cleveland in the meantime.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even when trying to do good and prove he is a good father to social services, Peter interprets this as making Cleveland looking like a bad father and framing him for prostitution.
* JerkJustifications: Peter uses ''every and any'' excuse to act like a complete prick to those around him. When he wins a rigged Trivial Pursuit he becomes conceited and talks down to everyone, when he discovers he is retarded he exploits his condition to get away with any trouble he causes. When it finally bites him back and he has to prove his entitlement to his kids, he decides to do so by framing Cleveland (their current guardian) for mistreatment.

After "winning" at Trivial Pursuit during game night with the neighbors, Peter deludes himself into thinking he's a genius and Brian challenges him to take the [=MacArthur=] Genius Grant test to make it official. When the results come back, however, Peter is found to be mentally retarded and, after grousing over it, decides to take advantage of it, as people are more forgiving of those with mental retardation. As always, Peter takes it too far and ends up injuring his wife and getting the kids taken from him by Child Welfare.

* TooDumbToLive: Peter. Justified in that this episode reveals that, technically speaking, Peter's mentally retarded, so all those past times he did stupid things was because of mental retardation and not him being an expy of [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] (though some ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' detractors will still believe this).
** The entire cast decide to play Paintball with real police guns. Only Lois briefly questions the idea.
-->'''Peter:''' Alright, alright. Nobody fire at Lois, she's scared.

* TooDumbToLive: Peter. Justified in that this episode reveals that, technically speaking, Peter's mentally retarded, so all those past times he did stupid things was because of mental retardation and not him being an expy of [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] (though some ''FamilyGuy'' detractors will still believe this).

* TooDumbToLive: Peter. Justified in that this episode reveals that Peter is mentally retarded, so all those past times he did stupid things was because of mental retardation and not him being an expy of [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] (though some ''FamilyGuy'' detractors will still believe this).

* DeletedScene + {{Bowdlerization}}: On the DVD version, there's a scene after Peter talks to Joe about what it's like to be disabled (even though Joe is physically disabled while Peter is mentally disabled) where Joe calls everyone to tell them that Peter is retarded (the whole scene is a musical parody of the telephone scene from ''Bye Bye Birdie''). It was edited on FOX because the censors did not like the overuse of the word, "retarded."

After "winning" at Trivial Pursuit during game night with the neighbors, Peter deludes himself into thinking he's a genius and Brian challenges him to take the [=MacAuthor=] Genius Grant test to make it official. When the results come back, however, Peter is found to be mentally retarded and, after grousing over it, decides to take advantage of it, as people are more forgiving of those with mental retardation. As always, Peter takes it too far and ends up injuring his wife and getting the kids taken from him by Child Welfare.

Peter and Lois invite their friends to a game night. While playing Trivial Pursuit, Lois switches Peter’s question cards with those from the preschool edition so he can feel smarter and when he wins, he thinks he’s a certified genius. His new attitude gets on everyone’s nerves and Brian tells him to take the [=MacArthur=] test to prove he’s a genius. Peter takes the test and the results say that he’s not a genius, but in fact, he’s mentally retarded. Peter begins feeling like an idiot for having special needs, but when he accidentally runs over Tom Tucker and he doesn't press any charges because of Peter’s condition, Peter thinks he can get away with anything and used his condition to do anything he wants without retribution. When he enters a fast food restaurant, he tries to steal the kitchen’s deep fryer and accidentally spills the hot liquid on Lois.

Lois ends up in the hospital and Peter has his children taken away because he’s mentally unfit to care for them. The kids are now placed under Cleveland’s care, but Peter wants his kids back. He devises a plan to make Cleveland look like a bad father by inviting several prostitutes into his house, but Cleveland and a child services worker don’t fall for it and Peter is sent to court Peter attempts to appeal to the judge to have his kids back, but is denied. As Peter starts to accept that the Griffin family will never be together again, Lois walks in, having fully recovered and has regained custody of the children. Peter is happy to have his family back, as well as the fact that Lois will be smelling like French fries for the next six months.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: For the Timer cutaway, the staff wanted Lennie Weinrib, the original voice of Timer to reprise his role. However, his agent said he was too old to do it and and Timer ended up being voiced by SethMacFarlane (whose vocal impression is on-point, but still, how cool would have been to have Lennie Weinrib come back as Timer for ''FamilyGuy'' [a show that caters to [[DeconstructiveParody breaking down nostalgic figures from the 1970s and 1980s for fun]]]?).

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Inverted, since Peter has given social services every reason to think he is horrible father.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices

* JerkJustifications: Peter uses ''every and any'' excuse to act like a complete prick to those around him. When he wins a rigged Trivial Pursuit he becomes conceited and talks down to everyone, when he discovers he is retarded he exploits his condition to get away with any trouble he causes. When it finally bites him back and he has to prove his entitlement to his kids, he decides to do so by framing Cleveland (their current carer) for mistreatment.

Peter and Lois invite their friends to a game night. While playing Trivial Pursuit, Lois switches Peter’s question cards with those from the preschool edition so he can feel smarter and when he wins, he thinks he’s a certified genius. His new attitude gets on everyone’s nerves and Brian tells him to take the [=MacArthur=] test to prove he’s a genius. Peter takes the test and the results say that he’s not a genius, but in fact, he’s mentally retarded. Peter begins feeling like an idiot for having special needs, but when he accidentally runs over Tom Tucker and he doesn't press any charges because of Peter’s condition, Peter thinks he can get away with anything and used his condition to do anything he wants without retribution. When he enters a fast food restaurant, he tries to steal the kitchen’s deep fryer and accidentally spills the hot liquid on Lois.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: For the Timer cutaway, the staff wanted Lennie Weinrib, the original voice of Timer to reprise his role. However, his agent said he was too old to do it and and Timer ended up being voiced by SethMacFarlane (whose vocal impression is on-point, but still, how cool would have been to have Lennie Weinrib come back as Timer for ''FamilyGuy'' [a show that caters to [[DeconstructiveParody breaking down nostalgic figures for fun]]]).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: For the Timer cutaway, the staff wanted Lennie Weinrib, the original voice of Timer to reprise his role. However, his agent said he was too old to do it and and Timer ended up being voiced by SethMacFarlane (whose vocal impression is on-point, but still, how cool would have been to have Lennie Weinrib come back as Timer for ''FamilyGuy'' [a show that caters to [[DeconstructiveParody breaking down nostalgic figures for fun]]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: For the Timer cutaway, the staff wanted Lennie Weinrib, the original voice of Timer to reprise his role. However, his agent said he was too old to do it and and Timer ended up being voiced by SethMacFarlane.

** The number of prostitures are counted like a recurring segment on ''SesameStreet''.

!!"Petarded" contains examples of:

* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Peter takes advantage of his mental condition to do anything he wants, like going into the womens' bathroom and announcing "Testicles!" over a restaurant loudspeaker. It comes back to bite him in the ass later.

* TooDumbToLive: Peter

Peter and Lois invite their friends to a game night. While playing Trivial Pursuit, Lois switches Peter’s question cards with those from the preschool edition so he can feel smarter and when he wins, he thinks he’s a certified genius. His new attitude gets on everyone’s nerves and Brian tells him to take the MacArthur test to prove he’s a genius. Peter takes the test and the results say that he’s not a genius, but in fact, he’s mentally retarded. Peter begins feeling like an idiot for having special needs, but when he accidentally runs over Tom Tucker and he doesn't press any charges because of Peter’s condition, Peter thinks he can get away with anything and used his condition to do anything he wants without retribution. When he enters a fast food restaurant, he tries to steal the kitchen’s deep fryer and accidentally spills the hot liquid on Lois.

** The number of prostitures are ciunted like a recurring segment on ''SesameStreet''.