Long John Peter

Infobox Television episode
Title = Long John Peter
Series = Family Guy


Caption = Promotional poster for "Long John Peter"
Season = 6
Episode = 12
Airdate = May 4, 2008
Production = 6ACX06
Writer = Wellesley Wild
Director = Dominic Polcino
Guests = Amanda Bynes
Episode list = List of Family Guy episodes
Season list = Infobox_Family_Guy_Season_6
Prev = The Former Life of Brian
Next = Love Blactually

"Long John Peter" is the twelfth episode and finale of Season 6 of the FOX animated series "Family Guy". It guest stars Amanda Bynes as Anna, the vet intern with whom Chris falls in love. The title (and Peter's temporary nickname) references Long John Silver a fictional character in the novel "Treasure Island", by Robert Louis Stevenson. This episode was watched by 7.68 million viewers when it aired.

Plot

While waiting for Brian at the veterinary office of Dr. Jewish, Chris meets a young intern named Anna and develops a crush on her (who seems to return his affections). Meanwhile, Peter becomes very attached to a parrot he sees and decides to steal it for himself, replacing it with a dog with a moustache and hat. Carrying his parrot wherever he goes, Peter's friends compare him to a pirate and suggest he dress up like one. Naturally, it all goes to his head and he recruits three other pirates, and begins terrorizing the town under the name "Long John Peter." Peter and his men loot a British man's car full of sugar cane, tobacco, and spices in a drawn-out high-speed car chase that mimics a naval battle, filled with cannonade and sword fighting on each side. Peter's parrot is gravely injured in the attack and dies a reportedly humiliating death at the vet's office, though Peter quickly gets over it in interest of the pipe organ (which, too, quickly meets its demise at Peter's hands), then the deed to a ranch.

While at the vet's office, Chris meets up with Anna again and musters up the courage to ask her out. The relationship goes very smoothly until Peter berates Chris for treating her like a human being. Taking Peter's advice on male superiority, Chris puts Anna down on their next date so he can make progress with their relationship, but Anna breaks up with him instead. Chris laments his experience to Lois, who forces Peter to make it up to his son. Peter decides to hook Chris up with other girls, though his methods consistently fail. After Peter's ideas are exhausted, Lois comes to comfort Chris and says that though his father's intentions are good, the only person he should turn to in this situation is himself. Chris returns to the vet to see Anna (he intentionally broke Brian's nose with a chair as an excuse to go back to the vet) and apologizes to her and kisses her. Anna decides to give Chris another chance, and they renew their relationship

The episode closes with a severely disfigured Brian collapsing on the floor and pleading for help after Chris and Anna leave for another date when Stewie runs up from out of nowhere and inexplicably kicks him in the ribs.

Censorship

* In the Adult Swim version, Stewie says to Brian that if he likes "my poop going into your mouth, we can just "do" that" (referring to the used diaper that the vet found in Brian's stomach, after Brian mistook it for Indian food).
* During Chris and Anna's date, a couple of lines are cut from the FOX airing, in which Chris asks Anna what she likes to do, and she replies by saying that she enjoys "some of the music black people have been coming up with lately."

Cultural references

*A promotional poster for this episode parodies the film posters of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
*When Peter's crew shoots down the telephone pole, the Wilhelm Scream is heard.
*After accidentally killing the parrot, Peter fears he screwed up worse than Disney for casting Michael J. Fox in a Zorro remake. This is a reference to the failure of "The Legend of Zorro" and Fox's Parkinson's disease as evidenced in his messed-up version of the "Z" insignia. This could also be considered a double entendre since "zorro" is Spanish for "fox".
*During the episode, Coldplay's song "Clocks" can be heard.
*E.T. uses his finger to try and heal Tom Hanks's character from the film "Philadelphia" but does not touch him because E.T. does not want AIDS. This is the 3rd time Family Guy has referenced the movie "Philadelphia".
*When Lois tells Chris he is not the first person whose life is screwed by Peter, Peter is revealed to be the real culprit behind the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
*When Peter sets up a date for Chris with Barbara he mumbles "Down Under" by Men at Work. Most of what he says is unintelligible, though the last line he sings is, "Look at me wit' a brand new Hyundai."
*The music that plays during the car battle scene is by Erich Wolfgang Korngold from the classic pirate movie "The Sea Hawk" starring Errol Flynn. The scene itself is a tribute to Terry Gilliam's "The Crimson Permanent Assurance", in which music from the same soundtrack is used.
*Chris sings "Crazy for You" by Madonna when he first sees the intern, Anna. This is a reference from "Vision Quest".
*The 1980s novelty answering machine recording message closely resembles "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow.
*When Long John Peter and his crew first break into the drug store, Mort Goldman cries, "Ahhh! Kristallnacht!" This refers to anti-Semitic violence perpetrated in Nazi Germany on the 9th and 10th of November, 1938, when thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed.
*While driving up behind Shelley, Peter is flying the British flag on his car (a mid 1970's Ford LTD station wagon) to lull his victim; he soon replaces it with the Jolly Roger. This was a famous strategy used by many pirates.
*The words "Shoot Me" that are uttered by Peter's parrot in it's last dying breath is a reference to the same line spoken by a young Vietnamese girl who is shot by American soldiers in Stanley Kubrick's film, Full Metal Jacket.
*Shelley, while going down with his sinking car, hums "Rule, Britannia!" Also, the steering wheel of his car (an old Mini) is on the right-hand side, like in other British cars.
*When Stewie is watching the TV, in a scene that parodies the way toy companies try to make their products look far more exciting than they are, Hasbro is mentioned. Hasbro is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory, where Peter worked during the first two seasons and part of the third, was a parody of Hasbro.
*Peter names his parrot Adrien Beaky, a reference to the actor Adrien Brody, whose nose is beak-like.
*Peter forbids Meg from being a veterenarian because he wants her to gain 150 pounds and write "Ugly Betty" fan-fiction.

Internal references

* The Parrot points out that Peter "had a gay expirence at camp" referencing the upcoming episode, "Family Gay."
*One of the girls Peter hooks Chris up with is Barbara, the girl he had a crush on at the start of the episode "To Love and Die in Dixie." For Chris's blind date, Stewie shows up dressed as a girl but turns away when he realizes the date is with Chris, further exploring his transvestism.
*This marked the second episode (after "Mr. Saturday Knight") in which the series referenced the Cleveland steamer. After Chris and Anna break up, Chris accidentally tells Lois that Anna "took a dump on me", when he meant to say that she dumped Chris. When asked what the difference was, Lois started explaining what a Cleveland steamer was (though it obviously wasn't referenced by name this time around) before getting back on-topic over Chris's break-up with Anna.
*The unnamed stereotypical Englishman who was seen in the episodes "There's Something About Paulie" and "North by North Quahog" appears in this episode; this is his first appearance outside of a cutaway, and the first time he has interacted with a main character (Peter). His name is revealed to be Shelley Boothbishop. It's also the second time overall that a character from a cutaway interacts with main characters outside of one. It happened early this season nine episodes ago, when Buzz Killington, who appeared in a cutaway in the fifth season episode "Whistle While Your Wife Works", temporarily filled in as the fourth guy in the group of Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe after the latter decided to hang out with new friends as a result of a leg transplant.
*This is the second time a member of the Griffin family has fallen in love with a medical intern, whether he or she is caring for people or animals. It happened to Meg in "Peter's Daughter."
*The method where "Family Guy" episodes quickly shift from one plot device to another is spoofed in the scene where Peter, who was despondent over the loss of "his" parrot, forgets about it as he notices a pipe organ; a moment later, the organ is smashed, but Peter forgets all about it as he finds a deed to a cattle ranch on the floor. The point is, despite the episode being "Long John Peter", the plot of Peter being a pirate takes place only for the first act. For the rest of the show, it focuses on Chris dating Anna.

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