Peter gets fired for driving a forklift through an executive meeting, and suffers from impotence when Lois gets a job at the grocery store.
Examples:
- Adults Are Useless: Peter couldn't even do something as simple as make dinner without killing his kids. Though they appear later on alive and well, without any explanation.
- Body Horror: Peter tries to drop a beached whale into the ocean with his forklift and accidentally eviscerates it while it is still alive.
- Breather Episode: After the last couple of immensely
tearjerking Game Changer episodes, this one centers around Peter's antics with a forklift, and later, impotence. - Cartoon Whale: The beached whale Peter tries to save with a forklift is gray, blocky, and toothy.
- Double Entendre: In a Cutaway Gag, Peter has a conversation with a record store clerk, who makes a ton of these around Debussy.Clerk: Ooh, Debussy. I love Debussy. Sometimes all I can think about is Debussy. Oh, look at the pianist. The pianist is so good with Debussy.
Peter: So, you like his early work?
Clerk: Oh, yes, when Debussy was young, that's when you want Debussy.
Peter: Okay, I'll take these two.
Clerk: Very good, sir. Just make sure you finish on the Bach. Never finish on Debussy. - Either/Or Title: The full title is "Peter Problems, or How Peter Got His Groove Back" (though it appears on cable and TV guides as "Peter Problems," meaning that the full title could have been a
Working Title that got shortened before broadcast). - Evolving Credits: Inverted; Upon his death being prevented in the previous episode, Brian gets reinstated back into the intro after being replaced by Vinnie.
- "Lion King" Lift: Peter shows up a monkey holding up a lion cub by lifting a cub with his new forklift.Giraffe #1: Uh, are you gonna stay for the bris?Giraffe #2: Nah, I don't wanna see that!
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: The "problems" mentioned in the title. Peter suffers this after being fired and Lois becomes the breadwinner.
- Misplaced Wildlife: In a scene parodying the beginning and ending of The Lion King (1994), tigers are seen among the African animals. Tigers are supposed to live in Asia.
- Obsessive Hobby Episode: The first act features Peter being promoted to forklift driver and using the forklift for his daily activities (even pulling a "Lion King" Lift with it).
- Overly Long Gag: Peter accidentally killing a beached whale while trying to lift it with his forklift (and then trying to get the dead whale off it) takes at least two agonizing minutes.
- Status Quo Is God: Peter's job at the brewery is given back to him at the end of the episode.
- Too Dumb to Live: Peter tries to chug a huge vat of beer at work, while operating a forklift.
