Original air date: 1/24/2002 (produced in 2001)
Production code: 3ACX-11
Stewie meets a child actress named Olivia, while Peter discovers that the man he recently saved from drowning is a nudist.
This episode contains examples of:
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: After causing a scene over the nudists, Peter and Lois feel bad for upsetting Meg (who has fallen for the nudists' son, Jeff). They opt to show their support by getting naked themselves. Meg is horribly embarrassed, but Jeff tells her he appreciates the intended sentiment.
- Bad Impressionists:
- Subverted with a stand-up comedian who did impressions of his friends and family, which all sound exactly the same (a stereotypical New York accent). In the next scene, we see him talking to his friends and family and they actually all really do sound the same.
- Later as Stewie attempts his own one-man show, he does a similarly crummy impersonation of his father that results in him getting knocked out by a heckler (who happens to be a grown-up, drunken Elroy Jetson). Funnily enough, Seth MacFarlane voices both Stewie and Peter, meaning it's a case of him playing a character playing another one of his characters.
- Brain Bleach: Upon seeing Jeff naked in his house, Peter immediately borrows Lois' mace and sprays himself in the eyes.
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Breakup Breakout: After they go their separate ways, while Olivia ends up rising to fame and is mentioned to be getting a movie role in Hollywood, Stewie tries his hand at various avenues of fame, none of which are successful. - Casting Couch: Stewie calls out Olivia for apparently sleeping with their acting teacher Simon to get her name billed first on a marquee.
- Driven to Madness: By the end of the episode Stewie's ongoing loss of fame drives him insane until he ends up in a straightjacket inside a padded room. He immediately regains his sanity the moment Brian proves Olivia was right about his singing voice being flat.
- Fan Disservice: Peter naked.
- Fanservice: Lois naked. Even Quagmire agrees, asking if they have a towel after seeing Lois naked.
- Former Child Star: Peter tells Lois that child actors turn out fine as adults, citing Elroy Jetson as an example, A cutaway, however, shows a battered and broke Elroy getting dragged out of a bar, all the while ranting about his former glory in a slurred tone. Bamm-Ramm Rubble is the driver of the cab he gets pushed into.
- Godiva Hair: Being a nudist, Dotty's hair is the only thing covering her breasts.
- Hand Puppet Mockery: Stewie, whose sanity was slipping in the hollow pursuit of fame, pretend to be his former variety show partner, Olivia, in an attempt to recapture the success they had prior to their messy breakup.
- Humiliation Conga: After he and Olivia go their separate ways, Stewie embarks on a string of failed showbiz endeavors: a hated musical, a hated one-man show, being rejected from performing at the nursing home he was previously at unless he was with Olivia, being interviewed by his stuffed animals due to pretending they're real and ultimately landing in an insane asylum.
- Laser-Guided Karma: When Stewie and Olivia are entertaining residents at a nursing home, an elderly woman applauding them breaks her wrist. Then as an elderly man points and laughs at her over this, his jaw immediately ends up breaking.
- Let's See YOU Do Better!: After Brian and Lois attend a poorly acted one-man show, Brian boasts that he could easily do a better job. He couldn't.
- Misophonia Gag: Peter and Lois cover their living room furniture with plastic wrap when Meg brings home their nudist neighbor. In one scene, Peter irritates Lois by rubbing his hand on the plastic to make a loud squeak.
- Naked People Are Funny: The Campbells are a family of nudists, much to others' discomfort. Peter and Lois later get naked themselves to make up for any hostility.
- Never Bring a Friend to an Audition: Brian auditions for an acting school, only for the casting director to immediately dismiss him before he gets a chance to show off his talent. When an angered Stewie then goes to bat for his friend and scolds them for not considering him, they're impressed by his skills and offer him the spot. Surprisingly, Brian holds no animosity for him.
- Screaming at Squick: After a nude Peter thrusts himself at Meg after besting her at a game of Yahtzee, she begins screaming at this display.
- Slippery Swimsuit: When the Griffins go over the nudists' house, Lois asks Peter if he knew about their behavior early on, to which Peter reveals that he thought the man had just lost his swimsuit in the ocean.
- Snap Back: Stewie immediately regains his sanity the moment he realizes Olivia was right when she said he was flat.
- Stage Mom: Olivia's mother, when told that her daughter has a chance to be famous, immediately says how she always wanted to be a famous actress.
- Take That!:
- Stewie's failed one-man show, according to a jeering audience member, is worse than Seussical.
- Linda Evans is apparently now a grocery store worker in the aftermath of Dynasty (1981) ending.
- When a student at Stewie's school performs mime, the teacher explains that the hierarchy of performing ranks "musical theatre-legitimate theatre-stand-up-ventriloquism-magic-mime".
- Trauma Button: One of the bullies hassling Jeff for being a nudist shouts, "My dad's a tailor, you jerk!"
