- Emission Impossible
Infobox Television episode
Title =Emission Impossible
Series =Family Guy
Caption =Stewie prepares to exterminate Peter's sperm.
Season =3
Episode =11
Airdate =November 8 ,2001
Production =3ACX01
Writer =Dave Collard and Ken Goin
Director =Peter Shin
Guests =Majel Barrett ,Carol Kane ,Wallace Shawn
Episode list =List of Family Guy episodes
Season list = Infobox Family Guy Season 3
Prev =A Fish out of Water
Next =To Love and Die in Dixie "Emission Impossible" is an episode of "
Family Guy " that first airedNovember 8 ,2001 . The episode was originally scheduled to air on September 19, but was postponed due to theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks . The title of the episode is a reference to the television series "".The episode was written by Dave Collard and Ken Goin, directed by Peter Shin.
Majel Barrett guest-starred as the voice of Stewie's microbionautical ship, andWallace Shawn as Bertram, one of Stewie's potential brothers.Plot summary
Quagmire babysits Meg, Chris and Stewie while Peter accompanies Lois on a visit to her pregnant, newly single sister Carol. When Carol goes into labor, Peter drives her to the hospital, stopping only for
cheeseburger s (and a kid's meal for Carol's baby of course). Carol's obstetrician, Dr. Hartman mistakenly jabs himself with several needles, and faints, leaving Peter to deliver the baby himself. Reminded of the wonderful experience of childbirth, Peter tells Lois that he wants to have another child. Lois gleefully tells the rest of the family, but Stewie is less than enthusiastic. He feels threatened in his position as the youngest and resolves to prevent the conception of another sibling.Stewie attempts to interfere in a romantic moment by crying for attention. Foiled in this effort, he smears one of Peter's shirt collars with
lipstick but gets distracted by his own image in the mirror. In another attempt, hechloroform s Peter and utilizes a mechanical replica of him to insult Lois, but Chris accidentally knocks him out the window, where Stewie jumps out in front of Cleveland. When a candlelit dinner threatens to lead to intimacy between his parents, Stewie shrinks himself and a spaceship-like vessel and enters Peter's body to destroy his sperm.In his well-armed craft, Stewie easily slaughters the defenseless sperm with one exception: Bertram, who seems to be just as diabolically clever as Stewie himself. After a brief struggle and standoff, Stewie realizes that they have much in common. Additionally, with Bertram's help, he could accomplish many goals, including Lois' murder. They part on amicable terms, but Stewie has only moments before the ship reverts to its normal size. After a narrow escape through Peter's tear duct, Stewie steers the craft back to his room with no time to spare.
Peter and Lois, however, reconsider having another child, to Stewie's chagrin. He frantically tries to get her and Peter to resume their plans ("You "must" receive his seed!"), but Peter retreats to the bathroom and masturbates with the assistance of a
lingerie catalog. Stewie, appalled at the apparent death of Bertram, despairs until he notices a twinkle in Peter's eye signifying that Bertram is still alive. His relief is only momentary as he realizes that his unborn brother may be "too" clever.Connections to other episodes
*Bertram returns in the later episode "Sibling Rivalry", as well as in the video game.
*This is the third appearance of the Evil Monkey in Chris's closet.Censorship
*In syndicated airings:
**During the part where Peter and Lois drop the kids off at Quagmire's, the shot of them ringing the doorbell that's shaped like a woman's mouth several times is cut to show them ringing it only once to make the oral sex reference less obvious.
**The part where Chris and Quagmire play scavenger hunt (and Quagmire uses the hair from Lois's brush to put on a sex doll with Lois's picture taped to it) was cut.
**The part where Peter knocks over Carol's lamp and moving the bed to cover up the mess (and does it again when he leaves the room) was cut.Cultural references
*Stewie's dialogue after opening the fridge is taken verbatim from an old
Sunny D elight commercial where kids root around in the refrigerator and pick Sunny D over the other drinks.
*Before Peter and Lois leave the kids with Quagmire, he mumbles "Well, in accordance withMegan's Law , I'm obligated to inform you...". Megan's Law, named after seven-year-old rape and murder victimMegan Kanka , is aNew Jersey law requiring convicted sex offenders to identify themselves to neighbors. The term is used colloquially to refer to similar laws in other states.
*Peter asks Carol to say "David Banner, I just slashed your tires" before he rips through one of Ted's shirts. This is meant to mimic the transformation ofDavid Banner into the Incredible Hulk in the 1977-82 Hulk TV series (in all other adaptations of the Hulk, he was named Bruce Banner). The show has been referenced in several other "Family Guy" episodes.
*A cutaway shows the Brady family abusing the youngest boy Bobby after Cousin Oliver arrives. The character was added during the last season of "The Brady Bunch" because the younger children on the show had grown older and were not capable of the same "cute kid" humor they once were.
*After Cleveland sees Stewie escape the Peter robot, he says "I see nothing, nothing!". This was acatch phrase of SergeantHans Schultz , a bumbling German Sergeant, on the 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes ".
*Stewie's vessel is similar in function to that in the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage ", as well as the 1987 film "Innerspace ".
*The voice of Stewie's ship computer is provided byMajel Barrett , who has provided theLCARS computer voice heard in all "Star Trek " series.
*Stewie's air battle with Peter's sperm parodies that of the "Millennium Falcon " and the ships of the Galactic Empire in "" with each one of Peter's testicles representing theDeath Star .
*Stewie says farewell (for now) to Bertram using the popularShave and a Haircut .
*When Stewie and Bertram are fighting in Stewie's vessel, the beginning of the fight looked almost the same as in the movieThe Matrix where Neo and Smith fight under a subway station; most of their fight moves even look the same as they do in the film.References
* S. Callaghan, "Emission Impossible". "Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3". New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 152–155.
* A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 3" in "Bob's Poetry Magazine", 2.August 2005: 46 [http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02Au.pdf http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02Au.pdf]
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