Model Misbehavior
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“Model Misbehavior” is the tenth episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The episode is a parody of the TV movie Model Behavior.
[edit] Plot summary
During a visit with her parents, Lois recalls her teenage aspirations to be a model. In defiance of her father’s wishes, she begins modelling and becomes very successful. Soon, however, she takes diet pills that her agent Karin Perrotta gives her, and stays out all night, and Peter becomes very jealous of the lust she inspires in other men. Desperate to get her out of the fashion world, Peter collaborates with Carter (Lois’ father) to get her back on track. They kidnap her at a Vogue party and bring her back to the Griffins’, where Carter demands that Lois quit her modeling career. Seeing his wife’s great desire for modeling, Peter soon acquieses to Lois’ career, insisting to Carter that it is her right. Peter gets the ultimate revenge of years of torture Carter put on to him, by knocking him out with one solid punch. Realizing that she indeed has the full freedom to fulfill her wishes, she quits the career anyway, and Peter and Lois have sex on Carter’s back.
Meanwhile, Stewie starts a pyramid scheme business (“Ca$hscam”). Brian learns he has worms and does not want to tell Peter about it (One incident led to Peter yelling at 3:00am about Meg having her Menstruation) So Brian works for Stewie until he can afford his medicine.
[edit] Censorship
- Syndication edits:
- The scene of Lois' first professional photo shoot (where the Cosmopolitan ad, “Is Pooping the New Vomiting?” is shown) is cut.
- When Peter and Carter carry Lois out of the Vogue Magazine party, the part where they toss her in the limo, and the license plate (HOTBITCHES) is shown before they drive off, is cut.
[edit] Cultural references
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- The music sung by the “Four Peters” is “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” by Mozart, using Peter’s trademark laugh.
- When Stewie refers to the worms “Shawshanking their way out of [Brian’s] balloon knot,” it’s a reference to the movie The Shawshank Redemption.
- A worm in Brian’s stomach says that even though he knows nothing of the world outside the dog, he still thinks Six Feet Under is pretentious.
- Stewie imagines himself playing red light, green light with several Playboy Bunnies; the first one “out” has to sleep with Rob Schneider. When Rob says “Makin’ copies,” it’s a reference to his character Richard Laymer on Saturday Night Live.
- Throughout the episode, the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street is depicted in cutaway scenes, as well as in the story, as being a jittery addict; this is in response to the changes implemented in his role on Sesame Street from claiming to eat cookies all the time to cookies being "a sometimes food".
- The announcer at the regatta jokes about how none of the rich people gathered there have any children stationed in Iraq; this is most likely a reference to how joining the Armed Forces has become a way for poor and working-class children to get an education and move up in the world (and no longer a place where, because of conscription, rich, middle-class and poor people might end up serving shoulder-to-shoulder), and possibly to how George H. W. Bush kept his son from having to serve in the Vietnam War.
- John Hinckley fires the starting pistol at the regatta, then walks away with Jodie Foster. In 1981 Hinckley attempted to murder Ronald Reagan in order to impress Foster, with whom he was obsessed. Her subsequent dialogue refers to the fact that Jodie Foster is widely assumed to be a lesbian.
- The famous Maxell “Blown Away Guy” is parodied during the flashback when Carter initially disapproves of Lois’s modeling career. “Ride of the Valkyries” is played.
- The founding fathers are shown debating on whether to call the state of Rhode Island “Rhode Island” or “Cacapoopoopeepeeshire.” They eventually decided on flipping a coin to make the decision and RI prevailed. The comical sounding name is a portmanteau word fusing the Spanish slang word for feces (caca), poopoo, peepee, and the place name suffix: -shire. In Spanish it was translated as Cacapupupipílandia—literally, caca, poopoo (pupu), peepee (pipí), and -landia meaning land, replacing -shire; it therefore translates back to English as “Poopoopoopeepeeland.”
- The topic listed on the cover of the Cosmopolitan magazine that Lois is modeling for is, “Is Pooping the New Vomiting?” This is a reference to how people who are desperately trying to stay thin, such as models, sometimes develop eating disorders.
- When Lois’ agent tilts her head back, a piece of candy ejects from her stoma, just like from a PEZ dispenser.
- At the Vogue party, one of the other models uses two mallets to play music on Lois’ ribs like a xylophone; the tune played is taken from the incidental music often used in The Flintstones.
- When Peter asks Lois “Aren’t you going to go do your little turn on the cat walk, Lois, on the catwalk, yeah on the catwalk, do your little turn on the catwalk?” he makes reference to the 1990s song “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred.
- When the evil monkey from Chris’ closet lies on Chris’ bed and listens to the song Slow Ride by Foghat , this duplicates a scene when Mitch Kramer lies in his bed from the film Dazed and Confused, except that the evil monkey rolls himself a joint, while Mitch did not.
- Stewie’s line to Brian “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” is very similar to a quote attributed to Henry Ford.
- One of Lois’s photoshoots (when the dog is tearing off her underwear), is a parody of the Coppertone girl.
- When Stewie is in Lois’s room as a teenager, he sees a trophy. He refers to this trophy as the second most impressive trophy he has ever seen. He then thinks of the first most impressive trophy and then a clip is shown where bachelor Stewie calls out “Album of the year goes to Justin Timberlake.” When Timberlake walks onstage to accept, Stewie clubs him in the face with the trophy, then says “Actually, it goes to Nelly...Nelly.”
- When The Griffins are in Lois’ old room there is an Erik Estrada and a Kiss poster, despite the fact that Lois doesn't like Kiss but pretends to for Peter.
- Peter refers to Lois being like Britney Spears and then says “except you’re not a fat guy.” This is a reference to Spears’ downfall.
- When Brian makes a call as part of his employment in Cash$cam, he has trouble pronouncing the name Donald Nguyen.
- When Stewie walks into the Cash$cam seminar there is a notice outside the hall reading “Tomorrow: Fogarty
Retirement PartyWake.” This is in reference to the legendary superbike rider Carl “Foggy” Fogarty who is still very much alive but stays out of the media spotlight.
| Preceded by “Breaking Out Is Hard to Do” |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by “Peter’s Got Woods” |
