Lois Kills Stewie

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“Lois Kills Stewie”
Family Guy episode
Lois and Stewie's "final battle".
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 5
Written by	Steve Callaghan
Directed by	Greg Colton
Guest stars	Simon Cowell Paula Abdul Randy Jackson Patrick Stewart Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
Production no.	5ACX18
Original airdate	November 11, 2007
Season 6 episodes
Family Guy - Season 6 September 23, 2007 – May 4, 2008
Blue Harvest Movin' Out (Brian's Song) Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air Stewie Kills Lois (1) Lois Kills Stewie (2) Padre de Familia Peter's Daughter McStroke Back to the Woods Play It Again, Brian The Former Life of Brian Long John Peter

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"Lois Kills Stewie" is the conclusion of the two-part "100th Episode" story arc of the FOX animated television series Family Guy (Part 1 being "Stewie Kills Lois"), and also features crossover appearances with characters Stan Smith and Avery Bullock from the other Seth MacFarlane series, American Dad!. Guest starring are American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson as themselves, Patrick Stewart as Bullock, and an uncredited Willem Dafoe as himself. ^[1] This episode re-aired February 10, 2008 alongside its previous part as a 1-hour special.^[2] It was the final episode prepared before the Writers Strike, though three more episodes aired during the strike without the final approval and editing of Seth MacFarlane.

1 Plot summary
2 Cultural references
- 2.1 References to action films
- 2.2 References to previous episodes
3 "Family Guy"/"American Dad!" crossover
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Directly following the events of the previous episode, Lois returns to Quahog after her presumed death and tells everyone that Stewie tried to kill her. The others are confused, saying that Stewie is just a baby. However, Lois insists that Stewie is evil and begins to explain what happened to her.

She starts with Stewie's murder attempt, saying how he shot her right on the cruise ship, causing her to fall overboard into the ocean. Dying and sinking to what could have been her watery grave, Lois' drowning body was quickly salvaged and carried to the surface by a passing merman, who swam her to shore and nursed her back to life. After awakening on a beach (and being put off by the fact that the merman who saved her was the reverse of what she expected), she found herself suffering from amnesia with no memory of the event or her own identity. Aimlessly wandering the country, Lois eventually ended up at a fat camp in North Carolina (PutDownDaForka) where she was hired as a counselor. A few months later, Lois met and hooked up with a young man who initially seemed very nice, though it turned out he was actually a white supremacist. He took her to a convention where, after she spoke out against them, Lois was hit in the head by a bottle thrown by an enraged attendee. The impact of the bottle caused her to regain her memory, and she rushed back to Quahog where she is now. As soon as she finishes her story, everyone notices that Stewie has escaped. Joe initiates a manhunt around town to track down Stewie, though his team has little luck.

The Griffins return home and are surprised to find Stewie waiting for them, armed with a gun. Knowing that his crime and maliciousness are no longer a secret to the Griffins (and all of Quahog), he uses his gun to boss them around, force them to do his bidding and, in part, avenge himself of all prior embarrassments evoked by them. Eventually Cleveland walks into the house in a casual manner, only to be shot and killed by Stewie in front of the terrified family. Realizing that neither the police nor the press would ever overlook a black man's disappearance, Stewie ties the family down to chairs in the living room (with Cleveland's body stuffed under the couch cushions) and forces Brian to drive him to the CIA Headquarters. Posing themselves as agents, Stewie gains access to the CIA's supercomputer and takes control of the planet's power grid. (This happens to be a new plan of his for taking over the world since his attempt to kill Lois proved once again futile.) Stan Smith and Avery Bullock attempt to intervene, (in a brief crossover with American Dad!) but find themselves helpless against Stewie's threat to rid the world of electricity, and fulfill his demands to become "President of the World."

Meanwhile, back at home, Lois and the family manage to escape (discovering after fourteen hours that Stewie forgot to tie down Chris' arms) and begin to search his room for clues as to where he may be heading. However, much to their extreme awe, they end up stumbling upon Stewie's secret weapons cache in his room (along with a device that causes Lois and Peter to switch bodies), filled with various weapons of mass destruction. They are utterly speechless when they discover that Stewie has taken over the world. As he broadcasts all of his oppressive new laws across the planet on the news from the White House, Lois quickly becomes enraged and fed up with his tyrannical reign. Realizing what she must do, she arms herself with various weapons from his reserve and heads out to assassinate her baby.

Lois crashes through the window in the Oval Office at the White House and confronts Stewie. Stewie, however, is armed with his own arsenal of weapons, and they clash in a violent, drawn-out and destructive battle. Lois eventually gains the upper hand and prepares to shoot Stewie with her shotgun. After being spurred on by Stewie, however, Lois ultimately realizes that although he is evil, he is still her baby and she could never bring herself to kill him; Lois drops her gun and surrenders, allowing Stewie to gain the upper hand. Just as he is about to kill Lois, however, another gunshot is heard; Lois looks to see that Stewie's chest is bleeding. Another gunshot hits him in the head as he flies across the room, dead. It is revealed that Peter, armed with a still-smoking revolver, is the one who killed Stewie and saved Lois. (This was possibly done to get even with Stewie for making everyone throw apples at Peter on sight as a new law, which he "revoked.") Peter and Lois loom over Stewie's mangled corpse and hold each other brokenheartedly in silence over the loss of their son, despite everything that's happened, and Peter closes Stewie's empty eyes before leaving. We are shown one final image of Stewie's body before the words "SIMULATION OVER" suddenly pop up on the screen.

The scene pulls away to Stewie sitting in a strange chair-like device. Brian comes into the room with postcards from Peter and Lois on the cruise, which is reportedly going well for them, when he finds Stewie coming out of the device. It is revealed that most of the events from the past two episodes were in fact a computer simulation Stewie was watching to see how attempting to kill Lois would pan out for him after being told by Brian that he never would. In other words, most of the events of the last two episodes (from the dinner at the captain's table on the cruise to Stewie's death, of course) didn't really happen or even matter; everyone who appeared to be killed is still alive, and none, especially Lois, remain the wiser about Stewie's still-secret ambitions. Only the parts up to Brian telling Stewie he'll never kill Lois were true. Stewie tells Brian things didn't work out so well for him in the simulation, and that his plans of matricide and world domination will have to wait...before going into a conversation of how this would "theoretically" piss off a lot of people who had viewed the simulation from start to finish. And just when he thinks it doesn't end like The Sopranos where it just cut to black in mid-sentence, it actually does.

[edit] Cultural references

The maid who appeared in the episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air" is seen in the Fortress of Solitude.

Stewie auditions on American Idol.

Stewie auditions for American Idol in a cutaway, singing "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson. The judges, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, are all voiced by themselves.
When Peter and Lois temporarily switch bodies, Peter hums the theme to Green Acres while playing with Lois' breasts.
Gary Larson created a presidential portrait for Stewie, which depicts him in the same style as The Far Side. The second portrait is in the same style as Napoleon.
Lois' amnesia-related relationship with a white supremacist named Derrick is a reference to American History X.
One of the laws Stewie established was a ban on all direct-to-video Disney movies. This was apparently justified by the showing of a fourth Aladdin film called "Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses", cutting to a clip of Jafar getting his eyes examined at an eye doctor.
The scene where Peter shoots Stewie could be a reference to The O.C. season two finale, The Dearly Beloved. In it, Marissa (Mischa Barton) shoots Trey (Logan Marshall-Green) to save her beloved Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie).
After shooting Stewie in the head, Peter says "it's just been revoked", which is a nod to the end of Lethal Weapon 2. When Brian points out that the line doesn't work in this situation, Peter retorts "I'll have what she's having", a famous tag line said in When Harry Met Sally.
The part where Brian says that the fact most the past two episodes didn't really happen or even matter will make many people angry is a reference to the controversy that followed the reappearance of Bobby Ewing in Dallas.
Just after Stewie says "At least it didn't end like The Sopranos when it just cut to black in mid-sen—", the screen cuts to black in mid-sentence and the episode ends, referencing the abrupt finale for that series. The credit screen that follows is also done in the same style. He made a similar reference during his appearance at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

[edit] References to action films

Lois' minigun resembles one from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Lois is also dressed in the same attire as Sarah Connor.
Cleveland's death is an allusion to the myth that African-Americans are always the ones that die in action movies.
The violent shootout between Stewie and Lois mimics the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith; incidentially, the poster used to promote the previous episode parodied the poster for the film.
Within the shootout scene, Stewie and Lois dive at each other while firing their guns in slow motion; this is a reference to a scene in The Matrix.

[edit] References to previous episodes

When Peter and his family are tied up in the living room, they pass the time by thinking of false rumors they could spread about celebrities. Peter suggests that they claimed that Rob Schneider pays migrant workers from Home Depot to come to his house and choke him. Later on, Rob is featured in the episode with migrants in his house telling them to get in the shower with him at the time when Stewie becomes President of the World. This was a reference in Perfect Castaway where Joe mentions that he'd never picked up an illegal immigrant from Home Depot to choke him while he touches himself when Joe was playing the drinking game "I Never" with Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland. It's also the second episode where a speculation about a celebrity turns out to be true. Previously in "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", a man told his wife to imagine Lindsay Lohan walking backwards like a crab naked. This happened to be a sign that Peter asked Fonzie to show him once beginning his own church of the popular Happy Days character.

Stewie's secret weapons room was discovered by Lois in another dream-like sequence in the episode "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington"; ironically, this occurred in a dream Lois herself was having. As he trains his weapon on her, Stewie asks his mother to say hello to Mr. Weed for him, who died back in "Mr. Saturday Knight", which was written by Steve Callaghan, who also wrote this episode.

[edit] "Family Guy"/"American Dad!" crossover

Stan Smith faces Stewie in a standoff while Avery Bullock holds Brian at gunpoint.

Stan Smith and Avery Bullock from American Dad! make a prominent crossover appearance in this episode. When Stan and Bullock aim their guns at Stewie and Brian, Stewie mistakes Stan for Joe Swanson, since both shows are made by the same people; therefore the characters are sometimes similar in appearance. Stan and Bullock are voiced by their usual respective actors from the show, creator Seth MacFarlane and guest star Patrick Stewart.

At Comic-Con, after doing a table read for the American Dad! episode "The 42-Year-Old Virgin", there was a Q&A. Someone asked Seth MacFarlane if there were plans to do an American Dad!/Family Guy crossover where the Griffins would meet the Smiths. MacFarlane said there is currently none in the works, but American Dad! characters would appear in a Family Guy episode. This is the one he was referring to.

The crossover of these two Seth MacFarlane shows occurs at the CIA when Stewie takes control of the power grid as soon as Stan and Bullock show up to intervene. However, Stewie has threatened to turn off all the electricity unless his demands are met. Therefore, Stan and Bullock have no choice but to make him "President of the World."

Even though this episode is non-canon with the previous one, many consider this to be the first actual appearance of American Dad! characters in a Family Guy episode, not counting the brief appearances of Roger the Alien in the episodes "Meet the Quagmires" and "Blue Harvest".

The following is the dialogue exchanged in the crossover as seen in this episode:

(Stewie and Stan point their guns at each other, while Bullock points his gun at Brian, who raises his arms.)

Stewie: I'd drop the gun if I were you, Joe.
Stan: What? It's Stan.
Stewie: Oh, sorry, you look sorta like someone from... Anyway, I'd drop the gun if I were you. I now control the entire planet's power grid, and unless you want me to send you ALL BACK TO THE DARK AGES, you will do exactly as I say.

(Stan and Bullock eye each other nervously, then lower their guns.)

Bullock: What are your demands?

Interestingly, Stan only speaks a total of three words, while Bullock has fourteen. Also, the CIA sign is different than it's usually shown on American Dad!.