Line #13 Recap/FamilyGuyS3E6DeathLives


1	'''Original air date:''' 8/15/2001 ''(produced in 2000)''
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3	'''Production code:''' 2ACX-21
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5	It's Peter and Lois' wedding anniversary, but Peter decides to ditch being together with her in order to go to an exclusive golf course. While leaving his family occupied with an extensive scavenger hunt, Peter is suddenly struck by lightning and has a near-death experience which involves meeting Death himself, ending up on a trip through time to rediscover his love for his wife and save their marriage.
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7	!!"Death Lives" contains examples of...
8	* AlreadyMetEveryone: Before this episode aired, the show implied that Peter (and by extension the rest of the Griffins) met Quagmire and Cleveland as neighbors, but this episode shows that they had all previously met while helping to escort Peter back to Rhode Island.
9	-->'''Quagmire''': So long, I hope you find your girl!\
10	'''Peter''': Thanks, Quagmire! [[LampshadeHanging Hope I live next door to you some day!]]
11	* AnAesop: Death at first claims that [[InvokedTrope Peter is required to find a revelation from his]] NearDeathExperience [[InvokedTrope in order to return to his body]]. However, once Peter starts to get on his nerves, Death threatens to send him back prematurely to his surely doomed marriage, but Peter manages to tag on a little longer by deciding to help him on a personal favor. After completing his own journey in remembering how he and Lois came to be married, he finally gets his revelation and figures out to solve his relationship with Lois.
12	* AngryGuardDog: When a young Peter finally makes it back to the Pewterschmidt residence, he ends up running into one of these and ends up climbing up the vines into the window to escape.
13	* AsHimself: Music/PeterFrampton voices himself, sought after by Death on Peter's request to play a solo version of "Baby, I Love Your Way" for Lois.
14	* BasementDweller: This episode reveals that Death still lives with his overbearing mom. He's annoyed by her and wishes "[[DisappearedDad that dad was still dead]]", but he doesn't seem to get how embarrassing it is to bring up when trying to talk with girls at the beach.
15	* BreakfastInBed: Peter places a tray of breakfast over a sleeping Lois, along with the first clue to a phony ScavengerHunt to keep her busy while he spends their anniversary golfing. Seconds after Peter leaves, Lois rolls over in her sleep, spilling the contents everywhere.
16	* TheBusCameBack: [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is a major character in the episode, whose last substantial role was in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E6DeathisABitch Death is a Bitch]]" (though he also appeared for a brief CutawayGag in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E20WastedTalent Wasted Talent]]"). His and Peter's first line to each other draws attention to this:
17	-->'''Peter/Death''': ''You again!?''
18	* CarpetRolledCorpse: Peter's very first interaction with his soon-to-be father-in-law, Carter, [[ObnoxiousInLaws proved to be so awkward and unimpressive for the latter]] that Carter [[DisproportionateRetribution knocked Peter out with a statuette, had his servants roll him up on a carpet, then had Peter]] ''[[DisproportionateRetribution dumped out into the middle of the ocean via helicopter]]''.
19	* CaptainOblivious:
20	** A young Peter and Lois make out on the street, and aside from hearing Music/PeterFrampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way", they completely fail to give any mind to the fact they just caused a tanker truck to swerve, crash, and ''[[StuffBlowingUp explode]]'' right next to them. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Even the present-day Peter and Death don't seem to give it much thought]].
21	** Later, Peter hitches a ride with Cleveland back to Rhode Island, but as they pass through South Carolina, they end up being chased by the Ku Klux Klan. [[TheDitz Peter assumes they're being chased by ghosts]].
22	* DemBones: PlayedForLaughs when Death finally has it with Peter and the two get in a fight. Peter accidentally rips Death's bone arm off, but Death still manages to [[EyePoke poke at Peter's eyes]], [[StopHittingYourself to which Peter starts hitting him with it.]] After Amy shows up to break up the fight, Death casually reattaches it back into its proper socket.
23	* EpicFail: One CutawayGag shows the results of Peter attempting to change Stewie's diaper. The diaper ends up in the lamp socket and the lightbulb ends up where Stewie's diaper should be.
24	--> '''Stewie:''' Lois, he's done it again!
25	* EvilDetectingDog: Parodied; when Death first tries to talk to Amy at the pet store she works at, ''ALL'' the animals -- dogs, cats, and birds -- go utterly ballistic at him to the point where Amy can't hear him.
26	* {{Fingore}}: One of Peter's previous last-minute anniversary gifts to Lois was ''his own thumb'' ([[BadLiar which he tried passing off as something he got off eBay]]). [[TooDumbToLive Even he realized it was a huge mistake]].
27	* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: While flashing back to Peter and Lois' youth in the 70's, Death recognizes his past self at the scene, and is pretty embarrassed by the fact he was one of these, [[NewAgeRetroHippie with tie-dye robes and an afro]].
28	-->'''Death''': [[IHatePastMe I can't believe I thought that looked good! I must've been high.]]
29	* MentalTimeTravel: Death is revealed to have this power in the episode, allowing him to take Peter on a trip down his own memory lane without interfering. Compare this to "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E18MeetTheQuagmires Meet the Quagmires]]" two seasons later, where his TimeTravel is more literal and [[ButterflyOfDoom past events can change the present]].
30	* NearDeathExperience: Peter experiences one after being struck by lightning, prompting his encounter with Death. After some soul-searching and a journey through time, he manages to return back to the land of the living.
31	* NightmareFace: [[TakeOurWordForIt We don't get a direct look at it]], but during the middle of a conversation, Peter puts down Death's hood and screams in terror -- the most the audience sees is the back of a maggot-infested skull with a snake slithering through it -- [[MoodWhiplash then puts it back up and casually resumes his sentence without missing a beat]] (and then [[VomitDiscretionShot pukes offscreen]] once they finish the exchange).
32	* NonSequiturThud: While at Barrington, Peter accidentally bonks a guy in the head with a golf ball while he's in the middle of a phone call. It ends up causing a commotion at the stock market.
33	-->'''Businessman 1''': The fed is going to be lowering, so get your money out of T-bills and put it all into— ''(gets hit in the head with a stray ball and goes cross-eyed)'' Waffles, tasty waffles, with lots of syrup!\
34	'''Businessman 2''': Waffles! Buy waffles! ''(crowd of investors goes nuts to put stocks in waffles)''
35	* ObnoxiousInLaws: This episode establishes that Carter Pewterschmidt's hostile animosity with Peter was near-instantaneous. To wit, their first meeting has him club Peter in the head, then ''taken out to be dumped in the middle of the ocean buck naked''.
36	* PensieveFlashback: How Peter and Death observe Peter's flashbacks.
37	* PottyFailure: Apparently Peter according to Death.
38	-->"Oh, and, uh, by the way, when the lightning hit you, you soiled yourself! Enjoy."
39	* ScavengerHunt: The B-plot for the episode centers around Lois and the kids participating in a clue-seeking one arranged by Peter, ostensibly to celebrate their anniversary but in actuality just to distract them as he goes golfing (and then having his journey with Death). [[CrazyPrepared The locations of the clues they seek out are nuts]], from the top of a greased flagpole, to a greyhound in the middle of the race, to ''the underground sewer''.
40	* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: The episode reveals that Carter offered Peter ''a million dollars'' in a last-ditch attempt to get him to stay away from Lois. [[NotWithThemForTheMoney Peter instantly ripped up the check because their love is just that strong]].
41	* TooDumbToLive: Narrowly subverted by technicality. As Peter continues golfing during a storm, a lightning bolt hits a huge tree next to him. He wisely realizes it's dangerously close to falling over... then less than wisely tries to wrap his belt around it and pull it ''towards him'', though he doesn't manage to get it to move and gives up. Then ''another'' bolt of lightning comes down, hitting him instead.
42	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Much of the episode shows [[HowDadMetMom how Peter first hit it off with Lois and the trials he went through to eventually be with her]]. It also shows how he first met Quagmire and Cleveland before they became neighbors.

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