Chick Cancer

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“Chick Cancer”
Family Guy episode
Brian and Jillian have a double date with Stewie and Olivia.
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 7
Written by	Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild
Directed by	Pete Michels
Guest stars	Drew Barrymore, Jeff Bergman
Production no.	5ACX02
Original airdate	November 26, 2006
Season 5 episodes
Family Guy - Season 5 September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007
Stewie Loves Lois Mother Tucker Hell Comes to Quahog Saving Private Brian Whistle While Your Wife Works Prick Up Your Ears Chick Cancer Barely Legal Road to Rupert Peter's Two Dads The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou Airport '07 Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey No Meals on Wheels Boys Do Cry No Chris Left Behind It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One Meet the Quagmires
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“Chick Cancer” is the seventh episode of season five of Family Guy. This is the second episode featuring Stewie’s show business partner Olivia (voiced by Rachael MacFarlane), after “From Method to Madness.” Her last name is revealed to be Fuller. Jeff Bergman does the voice of Victor (in the style of an Alan Alda impression.)^[1]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Notes 3 Censorship 4 Cultural references 5 Reception 6 References

[edit] Plot

Stewie sees on the news that his old friend, child actress Olivia’s Hollywood career is coming to a close and she is making an appearance at the Quahog mall. He goes to the mall to gloat but winds up falling in love with her. She does not return his feelings. Stewie takes Brian’s advice (after seeing Quagmire being mean to a stranger by calling her a whore) to be mean to her, and soon they tie the knot with Rupert officiating. But their relationship quickly turns into a stereotypical marriage filled with resentment and bickering, which comes to an ugly head when they join Brian and Jillian on a double date. When he discovers that Olivia is cheating on him, Stewie sets fire to their house, leaving Olivia and her new playmate for dead in the process.

Meanwhile, Peter watches a chick flick with Lois and is so deeply moved by it that, after renting several other chick flicks, decides to make one of his own. The plot of Peter’s movie, Steel Vaginas, is as follows: Peter plays a man who claims he did not care much for women until he met a girl named "Vageena Hertz" (played by Lois), who happened to be his own daughter. Vageena then one day eats a sandwich before swimming in the lake and nearly drowns. She is then rushed to the hospital where she dies of an angry hymen and, on that note, the film ends. Because of the film's poor editing and undeveloped plot events, everyone thinks Peter’s movie is completely pointless.

During the closing credits, it is suggested that Stewie's troubled relationship was because of his ambiguous sexuality; when Brian explains to Stewie what it means to be gay, Stewie replies, "Oh yeah, I could totally get into that."

[edit] Notes

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• When filming his chick flick Peter seems to be under the false impression that Joe can still use his legs. He showed a similar lack of understanding when he encouraged a drowning Joe to kick in The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire
• Brian’s comment about black men to Stewie is a running joke on the show, that Brian is a racist, first shown in “Don’t Make Me Over,” and later in “Peter’s Got Woods.”
  • In a different episode, “Peter’s Two Dads,” Peter is shown with a glass pipe and crack cocaine. Brian asks where he purchased the pipe and crack, and Peter replies “blacks.” Brian is stunned, but Peter goes on to explain that he got the crack from a white guy behind Black’s Hardware Store.
• According to DVD commentary and the animatic also on the volume 5 DVD set, the original subplot with Stewie and Brian involved Stewie falling for Jillian's friend named Anna (a single mother who reads to children at a bookstore) and building a robot suit that makes him look like an adult. Also included in the animatic is a conversation between Peter and Lois after watching his film, where one can understand what they thought about it; in it, Peter begins to question his abilities to make good chick flicks, with Lois cheering him up by saying it was not his abilities, but the movies he drew inspiration from that were bad, and goes on to criticize such mediocre chick flicks as Must Love Dogs and Mona Lisa Smile.
• This is the third episode where Brian has expressed his apparent contempt for his father. In “Screwed the Pooch,” he said, "My father wasn't there for me, but damn it, I'm going to be there for MY kids", and in “Don't Make Me Over,” Brian claimed to have unintentionally picked up racism against black people from his father, and did the same thing in this episode near the very end.
• This episode was shown twice on FOX with a “TV-14” rating for suggestive dialog (D) and offensive language (L), as have most Family Guy episodes. However, the Parents Television Council cited the scenes involving Chester Cheetah wounding his hand after snorting cheese curl dust as well as several other allegedly violent scenes in the episode in that the episode should have been given a “V” (violence) descriptor as well. In ^[2] There have been several other Family Guy episodes given “V” descriptors to their content ratings.

[edit] Censorship

• On both the FOX and Cartoon Network airings, during Peter’s Steel Vaginas movie, his voice-over says that Vageena Hurtz (Lois) died from “an angry hymen.” On the DVD, Peter says Vageena died from a “rotten vagina.”

[edit] Cultural references

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• When talking to Olivia with his "Bad Boy" look and attitude, Stewie calls her Ray Liotta.
• In the episode Olivia is the spokesperson for Tasty Juice, a parody of the drink Juicy Juice.
• The Star Wars cutaway in the opening is a recreation of a similar scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, complete with theme music.
• In a scene with Sandra Oh, Peter speaks to her slowly, under the misapprehension that she does not understand English.
• The song playing in the clothing store scene where Stewie "runs into" Olivia, is the classic Laura's Theme, from the 1944 film noir classic, Laura.
• The name of Peter’s film, Steel Vaginas, is a play on the title of the film Steel Magnolias.
• The scene where Brian continually tells Stewie “It’s not your fault” recreates the same scene in Good Will Hunting.
• Chester Cheetah is seen snorting Cheetos from a tray as if it were cocaine and listening to Rush’s Tom Sawyer. He exclaims, “Oh God! There is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart!” (he mispronounces his last name as "Pert") and smashes his hand through the glass table, stating “It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy,” a slogan from his commercials in the 1990s.
• During the advertisement for a compilation of 1980s television punchlines, Howard Hesseman provides a testimonial in exchange for cannabis.
• Stewie relates that he was once roommates with Q*bert.
• During the restaurant scene, Stewie refers to Olivia as JonBenet, a reference to murdered child beauty-pageant star JonBenét Ramsey.
• Peter claims that he was the original Pretty Woman. A cutaway shows him, in a red dress, reprising Julia Roberts’ role opposite Richard Gere.
• The George and Ira Gershwin piece “Someone to Watch over Me” plays over the scene under the suspension bridge.
• Several Woody Allen films are referenced: the scene where Stewie and Olivia are watching people is similar to a scene in Annie Hall in which Allen and Diane Keaton make similar quips about people walking by. Victor is a parody of Alan Alda’s character as a pompous writer in Crimes and Misdemeanors (including his notes-to-self on his portable microcassette recorder). The scene where they’re sitting under the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge bridge is a parody of Manhattan.^[3]
• Stewie makes a reference to the Don McLean song “American Pie” while talking to Brian, when he says "Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was 'Bri'."
• During a newscast, Tom Tucker refers to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
• Olivia claims that Victor played a dead baby on CSI: Miami.
• The chick flick that Lois and Peter go to see takes place at “Barncliff School for Girls,” a play on the women’s colleges Barnard and Radcliffe.
• The phone number that appears during the show is real and leads to a recording saying “If you would like to talk to some local people call 1-800-874-8255” and if called, it would lead to a number to have phone sex with a girl.
• Peter references Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg after watching chick flicks all night.
• When Stewie calls Victor "Phony" Curtis it is a pun on the name Tony Curtis

[edit] Reception

Dan Iverson of IGN wrote "this week was confirmation of the show's quality, as "Chick Cancer" proved that the program could create hilarious flashbacks, while presenting a story that added a lick of satire to improve on the overall quality of the show."

[edit] References