Recap / Family Guy S 5 E 13 Bill And Peters Bogus Journey

Original air date: March 11, 2007

Peter befriends former President Bill Clinton after trying and failing at lifting his limousine — but the friendship (and Peter's marriage) is strained when Clinton charms Lois into sleeping with him. Meanwhile, Lois is sick of Brian dumping in the backyard, so he takes to toilet training.

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Tropes used in the episode:

• A Family Affair: Attempted; when allowed to get even on Lois's infidelity, Peter tries to do so by sleeping with his mother-in-law as she's still pretty good for her age. Babs is fine with this, but Peter ultimately can't got through with it
• Awful Wedded Life: "If he wanted a pig, why didn't he just take my wife?"
• Bowdlerise: In the Cartoon Network and DVD version, Clinton asks Lois, "It depends on what the definition of the word "jizz" is". This was cut from the Fox version.
  • In the DVD version, Clinton asks her if she's into NAFTA, that is, "'Nother afternoon fuckin' that ass!" In the Fox version, Clinton asks Lois for the cigar he stuck in her so he can smoke it. Cartoon Network keeps the original version but instead bleeps the word "fuckin'".
  • When Quagmire tries to help Peter and later Lois cope with the latter cheating on Peter with Bill Clinton, he asks "You want me to drag my sack across your face?" These scenes were cut from the Fox version but were left intact on Cartoon Network and DVD.
• Delayed Reaction: Peter enters the same room Lois and Bill are in, but the reaction of seeing them in the same bed sinks in after a few seconds:
  Peter: "Hey Bill, you up for a little bowling? I swiped some money out of Lois's purse, I don't think she'll notice because she's here HUMPING YOUUUUUU?!"
• Depraved Bisexual: Clinton is one in this episode as he seduces both Lois and Peter without any sympathy towards his actions nearly jeopardizing their marriage.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Peter goes to Bill Clinton's hotel room to talk about his having sex with Lois, and Smash Cut to Peter in bed, having just had sex with Clinton himself:
  Peter: Boy, you are good. You are really good.
• Fan Disservice:
  • Played for laughs when Meg has stripped down to her underwear for Bill after he played the "Night Court" theme song on his saxophone and all he can say is "Eeeeeeeeheheheheewwww."
  • Bill lifting his shirt for a photo, exposing his nipple ring.
  • Peter running around the Pewterschmidt house naked looking for Lois. Also played for laughs.
• Foul Flower: One Cutaway Gag has a racist sunflower in the Griffins' yard show hostility towards Cleveland.
• Fun with Acronyms: Clinton asks Lois if she's up for NAFTA: "'Nother afternoon fuckin' that ass!"
• Halfway Plot Switch: The story starts with a trip to the aquarium that ends in Peter losing a fight to an octopus. Feeling embarrassed, Peter decides to get in shape. After a workout, he gets overconfident and tries to lift Bill Clinton's limo, but ends up giving himself a hernia. Peter then realises that he's getting old, so Clinton shows him a good time to prove that "age is just a state of mind", but Lois gets fed up of both of their antics and goes to talk to Clinton, whom she ends up sleeping with. The rest of the plot is about Lois' infidelity and her and Peter trying to overcome it.
• Goo Goo Get Up: Brian is forced to wear diapers by Lois so he doesn't defecate in the yard.
• Instant Seduction: All Bill Clinton has to do is play the theme to Night Court on his sax, and Meg has stripped down to her underwear. He also seduces both Lois and Peter when they confront him at his hotel room with the episode never revealing how he seduced them
  Meg: You can have me.
  Clinton: Eeeeeeehehehehewwwww.
• Karma Houdini: Bill gets away with a lot of crimes in the episode such as stealing a pig but he also gets off scot free with seducing Peter and Lois and almost destroying their marriage in the process
• Likes Older Women: Peter wants to have sex with Babs (Lois's mom).
• Love Father, Love Son: Peter/Lois/Babs. Peter attempts to sleep with Lois' mother Babs as a mean of getting even with Lois for her infidelity with Bill Clinton. He almost accomplishes it but refuses because he loves Lois.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Lois has instant regret over sleeping with Bill and panics over what to do to save her marriage with Peter
  Lois: What the hell was I thinking? I-I don’t know what came over me. Oh god what am I gonna do?
• Naked People Are Funny: Peter comes running after Lois and professing his love for her, while still naked. Leading to a hilarious bit from Carter seeing him.
  Carter: Why the hell are you naked in my mansion?!
  Peter: Um...why aren't you?
  Carter: ...You're alright, Griffin.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: The B-plot is Lois being inexplicably (because she's been casual about it before) upset with Brian for going on the lawn and demanding he potty train with Stewie. While they're both erudite in their own ways they treat the toilet like an arcane fixture and are frightened by it flushing.
• Prank Call: Clinton prank calls Linda Tripp:
  Clinton: You shouldn't have talked, you stupid bitch! I hope you die! [hangs up]
  Peter: Boy, that, uh that wasn't really a crank call, that was, that was just unpleasant.
• Shout-Out:
  • Bill Clinton plays the theme to Night Court on his sax.
  • The title of the episode is a reference to the sequel of the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, titled Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
  • The saxophone solo is a reference to when Clinton played a saxophone during the Arsenio Hall Show during his campaign race against George Bush Sr, except he played "Heartbreak Hotel" and not the theme to Night Court.
  • When Seamus throws the octopus right into a wall, the octopus goes down it like a Wacky Wall Walker, an octopus-like toy from the 1980s.
  • In a cutaway, Peter and Lois are laughing at a drawing Stewie drew. Lois says “It looks like Muhammad Ali drew this”, referring to Muhammad Ali's Parkinson's Syndrome.
  • The “Lost City of New Orleans” is a reference to Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Louisiana city, and the fabled city of Atlantis. The tank also contains the skeletal remains of a Girls Gone Wild cameraman and the woman who flashed him.
  • The scene in which Peter sees the Octopus he encountered at the aquarium standing outside his property smoking beside a red sports car waiting for revenge is a reference to Max Cady waiting in the same situation from Cape Fear.
  • In a cutaway, The Thing from The Fantastic Four is a victim of Lorena Bobbitt, who in 1993 cut her husband’s penis off.
  • The scene where Meg approaches Clinton after his saxophone performance wearing a white bra and pink panties is a reference to Empire Records where Liv Tyler’s character approaches a musician while wearing similarly colored undergarments.
• Stacy's Mom: Peter wants to sleep with Babs (Lois's mom) not just to be even with Lois' infidelity but because Babs is hot even for her age.
• Toilet Training Plot: In the B-plot of this episode, Lois is sick of stepping in Brian's poop, so she tries to teach him to use the toilet like the others. Stewie unsuccessfully tries to potty train Brian with a video, and when Brian tries to poop in the yard, Lois forces him to wear diapers. At the end, it looks like Brian is fully potty-trained, but instead he's been pooping in Mayor Adam West's front yard.
• Touché: Near the end, when Carter catches Peter nude in his house and asks why he is like that, Peter simply turns the question back on him and asks Carter why he isn't naked. Strangely, Carter takes this at face value.
• The Unfair Sex: Subverted, unlike several other affair themed episodes of the show where the man is blamed for their wives infidelity. In this case, Lois is unable to think of any justification to cheat on Peter with Bill and takes full responsibility and remorse for her own infidelity. She does not blame Peter for her affair with Bill.