The Fat Guy Strangler

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MacFarlane notes that he was surprised they were allowed to do the pickle gag, which consisted of Stewie placing a cucumber on the sofa where Patrick's imaginary wife is sitting, but inserting it into her imaginary vagina (to see if it would turn into a pickle), but suggest that maybe broadcasting standards didn't fully understand the scene. The music song by the over-weight people at a funeral for a murdered obese-man was only shown on the DVD version and not televised for timing purposes, and for potential boredom to viewers.. The musical composition was recorded at Fox studios on the Gary Numan stage, and described by MacFarlane to be "beautifully, beautifully sung by our studio singers." The chicken falling out of an obese man's mouth when outside James Woods was used a promotional sequence for Fox. George W. Bush is portrayed hiding in a tree house and being informed by Brian of the Hurricane Katrina, Bush was offered the opportunity to voice himself, but declined.

A deleted scene had been made which showed the family traveling onboard an airplane showing Peter, rather than using the airplane toilet as "he is too fat to get out of his seat," urinates in his seat, but unknowingly urinates on Brian in the process, as he is in a dog cage below Peter's seat. If this scene had been used in the episode, it was intended for Brian, after throwing a rock aimed at Peter's head to say "that's for pissing on me!" The gag produced for the episode showing Brian throwing a rock at Peter's head and shouting "that's for rolling up the windows when I tried to jump in to the "The General Lee" is a reference to "To Love and Die in Dixie."

Cultural references

When Brian shows Peter that he (Peter) has a gravitational pull, brian throws a drink, a book, and a television showing The Three Stooges. Peter laughs and groans as the TV orbits him. Patrick was traumatized as a child by Jackie Gleason after seeing him seduce his mother, Barbara. When confronting Patrick strangling Peter in the woods Brian throws a rock at Peter. When Peter says that Brian had missed Patrick, Brian says: "No, that's for rolling up the window when I was trying to jump into the General Lee, you bastard!" This is a reference to a season-three "Family Guy" episode "To Love and Die in Dixie" as well as The Dukes of Hazard. Lois is shown watching American game-show "The Price Is Right", a reference to the actual show.

Reception

In a review of the episode, TV Squad commented positively about the storyline, noting that "Unlike "The Simpsons" tonight, "Family Guy" actually did work their two storylines together. Their first big one, was about Peter's ever increasing weight problem. He skips out on going to his physical, so that he and Brian can go meet the guys at an all-you-can-eat steak restaurant."cite web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/11/27/family-guy-fat-guy-strangler/|title=Family Guy: Fat Guy Strangler|accessdate=2008-02-18|author=Budke, Ryan J|date=November 27, 2005|publisher=TV Squad] In a review of "Family Guy", Volume 4, Nancy Basile regards "The Fat Guy Strangler" as one of her favorite episodes, as well as "PTV."cite web|url=http://animatedtv.about.com/od/fgdvdreviews/gr/fgdvd4.htm|title=Family Guy Volume Four DVD|accessdate=2008-02-18|author=Basile, Nancy|publisher=About.com] Basile moves on to comment that "Being prejudiced against fat people just isn't talked about, but this episode sheds a harsh light on that problem. At times the episode tries to show people who are fat as being victims of unfair bias, but other times just out and out makes fun of them."

References

External links

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* [http://www.tv.com/family-guy/the-fat-guy-strangler/episode/553990/summary.html "The Fat Guy Strangler"] at TV.com
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576935/ "The Fat Guy Strangler"] at the Internet Movie Database