Original air date: March 25, 2007
Peter starts his own restaurant after finding a rare coin worth thousands of dollars — but must choose between having a failing restaurant or not being "cool" after Joe and his wheelchair-bound friends frequent the place.
This episode contains examples of:
- Airplane Arms: After Peter shocks Lois, he runs away, makeshift cape flapping, in a very familiar manner.
- Alien Geometries: One Cutaway Gag involves M.C. Escher recording a rap video which has him appear in a room designed in such a way and defy the laws of physics by "going up the sideway stairs".
- Artistic License – Biology: Stewie gets payback on a snooty customer by having a rat vomit on his prime rib. Rats are not capable of vomiting.
- Artistic License – Law: Peter bans Joe and his friends because they're in wheelchairs and he thinks that "crippled people aren't cool". While Joe takes revenge against Peter in a different way, such discrimination would be grounds for Joe to have the place shut down, especially since he's a police officer.
- Bowdlerization: The cutaway of Peter with Patrick Stewart's voice was different between the TV and the DVD version. The TV version has Peter's (with Patrick Stewart's voice) line as, "Hey, Lois. I spent the afternoon writing a list of famous Armenians. Eric Bogosian, Andre Agassi, Jerry 'The Shark' Tarkanian. That is all." On DVD (and Adult Swim), the line goes, "Hey, Lois. Sorry about the mess in the upstairs bathroom this morning. My post-sex pee stream forked in half last night and got everywhere."
- Call-Back: Once again, a character's head explodes after they eat a sweet food in a Cutaway Gag (albeit for a different reason).
- Contrived Coincidence: The restaurant is funded by an old ship token found by Quagmire when he rips up their carpet, providing the Halfway Plot Switch.
- Double Entendre: Lois calls Quagmire to help her tear up her carpet (because she's had enough of Peter's use of static electricity and shocking everyone), Quagmire rushes over (thinking she meant something else). He still helps her get rid of the carpet though.
- Exact Words: Peter's "exploding cupcakes" literally blew the diners' heads off.
- Foreshadowing:
- Peter proclaims that his restaurant won't serve "the little wigs" and refuses to accommodate a man with a Discover card. Whilst played humorously, this also serves to foretell Peter's pickiness when it comes to customers such as Joe's handicapped friends and why they aren't making enough money.
- The cutaway where Peter's last restaurant failed because the secret ingredient in his cupcakes caused diners' heads to explode, was a foreboding sign that Peter didn't know how to run a restaurant.
- Fusion Dance: The paraplegics forming "Crippletron", which is ironically able to walk.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The episode goes through several plots in rapid succession: Peter ruins his suit (so he can make a Hitler scarecrow to scare off Mort Goldman), and buys some adult-sized footie pajamas at the thrift store while trying to find a replacement suit. He becomes a faux-superhero by rubbing his feet on the carpet and shocking people. A fed-up Lois hires Quagmire to rip up all the carpet in the house and finds a coin worth a lot of money, which the Griffins use to open a restaurant. The restaurant then becomes a favorite of crippled people, Peter bans the cripples because he thinks they are "uncool", fights against them when they retaliate and becomes crippled himself as a result of the fight. The remainder of the plot is devoted to him coming to terms with being in a wheelchair and apologizing to Joe for banning him.
- Insane Troll Logic: Peter proves that "cripples aren't cool". His favorite actor, Mark Harmon, doesn't need a wheelchair. Mark Harmon is cool. Therefore people who need wheelchairs aren't cool and shouldn't be allowed in his restaurant.
- Irony: Fed up with Mort borrowing his things, Peter decides to retaliate with a "Scare Jew". It worked... as soon as Mort arrived to return one of the things he borrowed.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Peter gets crippled himself after Crippletron falls on the restaurant and traps him underneath. For bonus points, Ben Stiller refuses to help him after Peter bad-mouthed his movies.
- Lethal Chef: It is revealed that the last time Peter made food, he baked muffins that blew up the heads of people who ate it.
- Name-Tron: "Cripple-Tron", a result of Joe and other paraplegics combining to combat Peter.
- Overly Long Gag: Peter becomes enraged over the Maude intro song becoming excessively longer by adding nonsensical lyrics about historical people.
- Restaurant-Owning Episode: The Griffin family end up finding a valuable 16th Century Rhode Island Ship token worth thousands of dollars and end up becoming rich enough to start Peter's dream job of owning a restaurant called Big Pete's House of Munch.
- Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: Chris brings a prime rib back to the kitchen at a customer's behest, as he says it doesn't have enough juice. Stewie, as the chef, gives a rat an entire bottle of wine, causing said rat to puke all over the steak."Tell him 'Bon Appétit, douchebag.'"
- Riddle for the Ages: Just what was in those cupcakes that caused peoples' heads to explode when bitten into?
- Sad-Times Montage: Parodied; Peter has one of these after getting into an accident and having to use a wheelchair. He then tells Joe that he has been crippled for 45 minutes and understands how hard it is.
- See You in Hell: After Ben Stiller refuses to help him, Peter says "Go to hell, you mutant offspring of comedy people!"
- Self-Deprecation: Ben Stiller voices a version of himself with excessively large ears and who is petty enough to refuse help to someone who insulted his movies.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: It could be inferred from the cutaway when it's revealed Peter made cupcakes that blew people's heads up in his last restaurant that the House of Munch was practically doomed to fail from the start.
- Single-Episode Handicap: Peter loses the function of his legs in the ensuing mecha-battle with "Crippletron".
- Skewed Priorities: Despite the restaurant hemorrhaging money earlier in the episode, Peter still refuses to have Joe and his friends in the restaurant because he thinks they're "not cool", something that wouldn't exactly matter to most people if their business would be failing otherwise.
- Static Electricity: Peter gains the "power" to zap people after he buys a pair of footy pajamas. This results in annoying Lois so much she has all of the carpet removed from the house, kicking off the B plot.
- Super Wheelchair: Crippletron
- Take That!: After patching things up, Joe invites Peter to watch Grey's Anatomy with him and Bonnie. Peter says that sounds like an awful thing to do.
- Trash the Set: Big Pete's House of Munch receives substantial damage in the battle with the wheelchair-bound, and considering it's never seen again and its prior financial struggles, it's natural to assume the Griffins lost it.
- Your Head A-Splode: The result of whoever ate Peter's "exploding cupcakes".Peter: The secret's in the frosting. But I'll never tell.
