Line #18 Recap/FamilyGuyS4E8EightSimpleRulesForBuyingMyTeenageDaughter


1	When Peter runs up a tab at the local pharmacy, the only way out of paying the bill is to sell Meg to the owner's son, Neil, who has been stalking her for months.
2	!!This episode contains examples of:
3	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Meg signs the contract because she wants to be with Neil. Turns out that the Goldmans use the contract as an excuse to use Meg as a slave and actually treat her worse than the Griffins did at this point of the show.
4	* BettyAndVeronica: Meg (Betty) and Cecilia (Veronica) are this over Neil (Archie).
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A rare in-universe example; a CutawayGag features Meg walking onto an episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' to tell Neil that she hates him. After walking out, the show just simply continues on like nothing happened.
6	* BigWhat: Meg exclaims this when she learns that her father sold her to Neil Goldman to pay off a debt.
7	* BuffySpeak: Stewie mispronouncing marijuana and heroin and ecstasy as he frames his babysitter to get her fired.
8	* ButchLesbian: The Gym Teacher at Meg and Chris's school.
9	* ClingyJealousGirl: Meg is this momentarily when Neil starts dating somebody else and returns to being this when he hooks back up with the same girl just after getting him to end the contract she signed to unwittingly become his slave.
10	* CrazyJealousGuy: Stewie does ''not'' take it well that [=LaDawn=] has a boyfriend. Seeing them make out was the last straw for him, to which he attacks Jeremy and locks him up inside the trunk of a car.
11	* CreepyGymCoach: The Gym Teacher ordering Meg's classmates to strip down in the showers and bounce around for her.
12	--> '''Gym Teacher''': All right, ladies. Enough chit-chat. Take it off, get in the shower, and bounce around for me!
13	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Stewie loses his chance with [=LaDawn=] after he gets her fired and she departs after leaving a mixtape for him.
14	* EnduranceDuel: Peter, Chris, Brian and Stewie drink syrup of ipecac (a strong emetic used to make poisoned people vomit). Whoever lasts the longer without throwing up wins. (Chris wins, but really everybody loses).
15	* GracefulLoser: Neil takes Meg tricking him into making the contract null and void fairly well, as he wants Meg to genuinely like him and want to be with him of her own free will. It also helps that Cecilia quickly gets back with him afterwards.
16	* LoveFatherLoveSon: Lois tries to induce this by dressing up as Mystic to seduce Neil away from Meg so that the contract could be violated and Meg could be freed.
17	* LoveTriangle: Two of them. The main plot has Meg, Neil, and Cecilia, the subplot has [=LaDawn=], Stewie, and Jeremy.
18	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Stewie says this after getting [=LaDawn=] fired for rejecting him but not before she gives him a mixtape as a parting gift.
19	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Neil says this when Peter and Meg catch him in the act of being seduced by Meg's mother Lois. Justified since the whole thing was planned by Peter, Lois and Meg.
20	* OddlySpecificGreetingCard: Peter tries to sell Meg to Mort (as his son Neil's girlfriend) to settle his tab at Mort's pharmacy. Lois is naturally outraged, but cools off after Peter gives her a card saying "I'm sorry I tried to sell our daughter".
21	-->'''Peter''': You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find one of those things in English.
22	* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title refers to the 2002-2005 television show ''8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter'' starring Creator/KateySagal and Creator/JohnRitter.
23	* PairTheSpares: Implied with Cecilia and Jake Tucker hooking up after Meg and Neil get together.
24	* PyrrhicVictory: Chris, being the last man standing, celebrates for only a few seconds until he vomits from the ipecac.
25	* RiddleForTheAges: Why exactly did they manufacture a "breakfast machine" that ''shoots people'' instead of making breakfast?
26	* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: Peter reveal to Mort that he bought one of these as a breakfast machine. After all the bells and whistles, it inflates a balloon, which pulls a string... which pulls the trigger on a handgun, shooting Peter in the arm.
27	---> '''Peter:''' What was the point of all that?! All it does is shoot ya! It doesn't make breakfast at all!
28	* ShoutOut:
29	** The scene in which Stewie tests his “teleportation pods” and merges with Rupert is a similar to ones used in the film versions of ''The Fly''.
30	** In a cutaway, Peter buys a “breakfast machine,” which turns out to be a Rube Goldberg machine which shoots him. The breakfast machine itself is similar to the breakfast machine featured in the film ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure''. The Danny Elfman music used in the scene was adapted from said film.
31	** Kramer vs. Predator, pits Creator/DustinHoffman’s character from ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' against a Predator in a parody of the 2004 crossover film ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' which pitted the Xenomorphs from the ''Alien'' film series against the Predator of the ''Predator'' series.
32	** Stewie fantasizes Brian re-enacting the Creator/MatthewMcConaughey's character David Wooderson’s line in ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' in front of the pool hall: “That’s what I like about high school girls. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.”
33	** The scene in which Stewie attacks the babysitter’s boyfriend is similar to one in the film ''Film/ChildsPlay''.
34	** Lois' line "the position has been filled" is a reference to the 1993 film ''Film/MrsDoubtfire''.
35	** Stewie appears on the show ''Blind Date''.
36	** Stewie imagines being Jiminy Glick, interviewing Creator/ColinFarrell.
37	** One of the people Lois interviews for the babysitter for Stewie is Gloop from the 1967 TV show ''The Herculoids''.
38	** Before Stewie locks Jeremy in the trunk, Stewie gives him his iPod so he could listen to The Strokes while he gasps for air Stewie at first calls them “The Streeks”.
39	** In the joke in which Stewie makes a reference to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and Eva Braun dying together, it depicts the two “performing” suicide by means of drug ingestion. In reality, Hitler shot himself and ingested a pill, while Braun just ingested a pill.
40	** While stopping at Goldman’s Pharmacy, Peter imitates an Excedrin commercial and buys several copies of the fashion magazine Marie Claire, only to be disappointed by the physical appearance of actress Creator/KathleenTurner.
41	* SuppositoryGag: Peter asks Mort if the suppositories he sells come in any other flavors, causing Mort to ask if he's been eating them. To which Peter sarcastically replies "No, I'm shoving them up my butt, of course I'm eating them!"
42	* TogetherInDeath: After [=LaDawn=] scolds him for touching her breasts, Stewie laments he was hoping he and [=LaDawn=] would "go all the way and die together like Hitler and Eva Braun". A cutaway gag pokes fun at Hitler and Braun jokingly suicide pact.
43	* ThanksForTheMammary: As Neil tries to push himself away from Lois, he gets a handful of her breast.
44	* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Meg has never returned Neil's affections or her but when it's announced he is dating a girl named Cecilia, Meg becomes jealous and begs to Neil's girlfriend. And again in the end, after Neil goes back to dating Cecilia and Meg's jealousy returns.
45	* VomitChainReaction: This is caused by Brian, Peter, Stewie and Chris all drinking ipecac.

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