Padre de Familia (Family Guy episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title =Padre de Familia
Series =Family Guy


Caption =Peter showing off his American side
Season =6
Episode =6
Airdate =November 18, 2007
Production =5ACX20
Writer =Kirker Butler
Director =Pete Michels
Guests =Carrie Fisher Phyllis Diller
Michael McDonald
Episode list =List of Family Guy episodes
Season list =Infobox_Family_Guy_Season_6
Prev =Lois Kills Stewie (2)
Next =Peter's Daughter

"Padre de Familia" is a season six episode of the FOX animated series "Family Guy". Guest starring are Carrie Fisher as Peter's supervisor, Angela, and Phyllis Diller as Peter's mother, Thelma Griffin.

This episode aired November 18, 2007, two weeks after the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike interrupted production. At the time of the strike, the episode was not entirely finished. "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, a member of the Writers Guild of America, went out on the picket lines. As the show's showrunner, he would normally have been at work overseeing the final touches on the episode and would still voice his memorable roles (Peter, Stewie, Brian, etc.).cite news|first=Josef|last=Adalian|coauthor=Michael Schneider|title=Strike hitting '24,' 'Family Guy' hard|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/835/835193p1.html|publisher="IGN"|date=November 14, 2007|accessdate=2007-11-14]

The title of this episode is the same as the title of the Spanish version of the show, which literally translates to "Father of the Family" or "Family Father."

Plot summary

The Griffins attend a Veteran's Day parade where, after listening to Herbert sing "God Bless the USA," Peter realizes he is proud of his American citizenship. He begins showing off his patriotism everywhere he goes, even going as far as buying a suit themed after the American flag (Brian takes this as a sign that he is merely giving into post-9/11 paranoia). He also becomes frustrated with the presence of illegal immigrants, especially with the fact that they are taking away good jobs. Peter goes to great lengths to make Quahog immigrant-free, such as patrolling the town border and banning all non-American influences from his house (much to his family's chagrin). At the brewery, Peter convinces his supervisor to initiate an inspection, laying off any immigrants employed. After doing so, he goes to his mother Thelma's house for his birth certificate to prove his citizenship. However, Thelma tells Peter a startling secret: he was born not in America, but rather in Mexico.

She explains that after learning she had been impregnated by an Irish drunk, she went to Mexico to get an abortion; however, she was forced to wait until Peter was born. As soon as he was, she immediately realized she loved him and took him home with her. Not wanting to risk exposing his existence while crossing the border back to America, she never filled out his citizenship papers, turning Peter himself into an illegal Mexican immigrant.

Peter is subsequently unemployed and the family begins to fall into debt. Lois suggests that Peter try to take a naturalization test. He fails, however, and he and Lois are informed that their marriage, which has lasted for 20 years, may not even be legitimate.

After Peter fails to find any good jobs, Lois turns to her father Carter for assistance. Carter agrees to employ Peter as a servant on his estate, and the Griffins move into a settlement of other Mexican immigrants near Carter's mansion. Of course, working as a servant, especially under Carter, proves grueling for Peter, who begins to empathize with the immigrants. He forms a friendship with them, and they in turn invite him and his family to a party to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. However, Carter crashes the party by reminding him of American regulations. Peter is outraged and rallies up the immigrants to form a rebellion. Carter decides to negotiate with Peter, saying he will grant him American citizenship if he calls off the rebellion. Peter demands that everyone must gain citizenship, but the others insist that he take this opportunity, saying that their day will come someday. Peter agrees, and from this point onward Peter becomes an official American citizen; the family moves back to their house, Peter regains his job, and all is well.

Censorship

* On Adult Swim, when Brian tells Peter that he never knew about 9/11 until 2004, Peter says that he remembered, followed by a cutaway of him walking by Lois, who's watching the coverage on TV, and commenting that the one who crashed the plane "Must have been a woman pilot." On FOX, the scene ends after Brian says that Peter didn't know about 9/11 until 2004, and cuts right to the Toby Keith/goat scene.
* Peter tells his friends that he got his "balls" tattooed to look like the Space Shuttle's launch exhaust. On FOX, he says "'nads" instead.
* On FOX, during the Rapid Dave cartoon, Rapid Dave says, "Up yours, cat!" to Sylvester before speeding off. On Adult Swim, Rapid Dave says, "Up your ass, cat!" (this line was seen in the closed captions on the FOX airing).

Cultural references

* The Griffins watch the (fictitious) movie "Superman V: The Broken Condom", in which Superman quickly breaks up with Lois Lane after his X-ray vision reveals that she's pregnant. This is a reference to "Superman Returns"Fact|date=April 2008, the actual fifth movie in the franchise, in which Lois has a son, who is implied in the movie to be Superman's son.
* Peter tells his supervisor that American companies such as Nike, Microsoft, General Motors, Ford, Boeing, Coca-Cola, and Kellogg's don't profit from non-American labor; the joke here, as Fouad points out, is that they actually do. The actual joke, to the viewers, is that Peter's comment was not intended to be a joke.
* One of Peter's relatives is Peter the Pig, from the story of "The Three Little Pigs."
* When Peter is knocking on the door of the hotel room, he says, "Housekeeping, housekeeping?" two or three times. This from the movie Tommy Boy with Chris Farley.
* Peter mentions becoming a nanny; it is a parody of Mary Poppins, except Peter falls through the roof, crushing Jane and Michael Banks in the process. Peter, who injures his back upon landing, realizes the dead children and is horrified. He then throws up, and pushes the bodies under a bed. Still hysterical, he runs to a window and jumps out. [http://www.videosift.com/video/Peter-is-Mary-Poppins-Family-Guy]
* The scene where Peter tries to feed a goat to Toby Keith parodies a scene from "Jurassic Park". Lois even states that "Toby Keith doesn't want to be fed; Toby Keith wants to hunt," a reference to a line from the film.
* When Peter talks about illegal immigrants, he says "They are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take them away!" This line is from "", which they happened to spoof at the beginning of this season with the one-hour episode "Blue Harvest."
* Peter deems Speedy Gonzales a bad influence on his children, and creates an American version of the character named Rapid Dave, who runs away from Sylvester while yelling, "Quickly! Quickly! Run fast! Run fast! Quickly!" (as opposed to Speedy Gonzales' regular saying, "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!").
* When Peter tries to figure out Lois' favorite thing during the oral part of his naturalization test, he suddenly goes back and forth with the test giver, similar to the way contestants in the Winners' Circle compete from the various incarnations of Pyramid; Dick Clark comes out after the buzzer and gets Peter to find the correct answer, and then Dick sends it to commercial and they all chat while the theme song ($25,000/$100,000 Pyramid version) plays.
* Peter mentions a more realistic ending to "Dirty Dancing", where Johnny gets arrested for having relations with a minor because Patrick Swayze was middle-aged during the time of filming. He was 34 at the time of release though co-star Jennifer Grey was not a minor, as she was 26 at the time.
* At one point, Peter calls Gerardo "Cheech," as in Cheech Marin.
* A parody of Michael McDonald is hired by Peter to keep him and his border-patrolling buddies entertained by singing everything they say; he appears again towards the end of the episode providing a high-pitched accompaniment to Peter's words, as well as Peter's fart.
*When talking about the citizenship test, Lois says that "If Wilmer Valderrama passed, it couldn't be that difficult." Referencing an episode of That '70s Show where Wilmer's character also takes a citizenship test.

Previous episode references

* Reappearing in this episode are Pasqual and Santos, the Portuguese fishermen who once worked for Peter; this is their first appearance since the episode "Perfect Castaway." Peter, though, seems not to remember them, assuming they are illegal immigrants.
* Brian complains that Peter had his acupuncturist arrested for being an illegal immigrant. He was seen in the cold open of the episode, "He's Too Sexy for His Fat" and later is Stewie's acupuncturist (not seen) in "Stewie Kills Lois".
* Peter's birth was depicted completely different in a brief flashback in "And The Weiner Is" where Peter's life flashes before his eyes as he's about to be attacked by a bear.
* Also appearing again is Fouad, Peter's coworker who loves ironic humor. This is his third appearance, the first two being in "Chick Cancer" and "Blue Harvest".
* The Ball in a cup-toy is also shown again, with a response from Stewie similar to his comments in "The Fat Guy Strangler," where it was last shown.
* Back in "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", Stewie claimed that a strip club on Tuesday is "not exactly their A-squad". We get to see why in a cutaway.
*This is the second episode where Peter sings about AIDS, previously done in "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" and the second episode to make numerous references to 9/11, previously done in "Airport '07". This episode also revealed that Peter didn't know what 9/11 was until 2004.

oundtrack

*Eddie Rabbitt - "I Love a Rainy Night" (used when Quagmire zones out)
*A song similar to Van Halen's "Jump" (used at the Uninjured Veterans parade)
*The $25,000 Pyramid - "Theme" (played at the end of Pyramid scene, composed by Bob Cobert)
*Eric Carmen - "Hungry Eyes" (during the "alternate ending" to "Dirty Dancing")

Reception

This episode was watched by 10.5 million viewers when it first aired however it was the first episode to receive less than a 7.0 score on tv.com. [cite web| url=http://www.tv.com/family-guy/show/348/episode_listings.html?season=0&tag=season_dropdown%3Bdropdown |title=Family Guy: Episode Listings |publisher=tv.com]

Trivia

* The legal premise on which the plot turns is incorrect. As long as Peter's mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, was over 21 and had spent 10 of the previous 14 years in the United States, he automatically had citizenship and she did not have to do any paperwork. cite web|title=Family Guy Just Lost Its Law Points|url=http://www.blogdenovo.org/archives/1885.html|date=November 19, 2007]
*The producers submitted this episode to compete in the Emmy Awards' Best Comedy Series category after finding out it could submit a special for the Animated category. cite web|title='Family Guy,' 'The Wire,' 'Pushing Daisies,' 'Mad Men' make Emmy lists of top 10 finalists|url=http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/06/emmys-top-10.html|date=June 26, 2008]

References

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