Family Guy

Family Guy is a cartoon show on FOX. It's aimed primarily at mature audiences, and has many nostalgic and pop-culture references -- including references to The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock.

The show stars Peter Griffin, an overweight Rhode Island man and his family, his wife Lois, his daughter Meg, his oldest son Chris, his youngest son Stewie (a baby bent on world domination), and his talking dog Brian.

Episodes
Peter Peter Caviar Eater

In the episode the Griffins inherit a very large house from Lois's aunt. The family moves to the new home, and Peter sells their old house. After some stupid spending the family loses their money and the family gets tired of their new wealth. Peter is forced to sell the new house so he can afford to re-purchase the old one. In order to get the house sold he has to convince an auctioneer that the house is historic, thus raising the value, so they can afford to move back home. Below is a transcript of the part when Peter tries to prove the house is historic, and mentions Fraggle Rock.


 * Peter: Wait wait come back! This is where the pilgrims landed on Fraggle Rock!

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Bucks

When checking into a hotel, Peter asks if there are any bellhops at the hotel that are "rats like in the Muppets". A reference to The Great Muppet Caper.

Meg, feeling depressed that she has no talent, tries her bird calls in a park in New York City. Peter is so impressed and asks her to do another one for him. She does and after a short pause, Big Bird walks up to them acting like a tough New Yorker.

I Never Met The Dead Man

Stewie is seen outside the house, having a "Bond Villain" moment talking to Ernie on his Sesame Street phone(a yellow rotary phone).


 * Lois: (looking out the window)Aw, look at Stewie. Isn't he adorable playing with his Sesame Street phone?
 * Stewie: Put me through to the Pentagon.
 * Ernie: Do you know what sound a cow makes?
 * Stewie: Don't toy with me, Ernie! I've already dispatched with Mr. Hooper, I've got six armed men stationed outside Big Bird's nest, and as for Linda? Well, it's rather difficult for a deaf woman to hear an assassin approach, now isn't it?
 * Ernie: Can you count to three?
 * Stewie: Ho ho, Indeed I can!(takes out a raygun and shoots the phone with it. At the same time he counts to three)One! Two! Three!... Can I count to three? For God's sake, I'm already shooting at a fifth-grade level.

The Sesame Street phone would appear again in the episode Model Misbehavior, this time with several characters seen on the push buttons.

Brian Does Hollywood

Stewie has a frog doll(supposedly Kermit) tied up and asks him if he is responsible for foiling his world domination plans. Stewie then takes out a Miss Piggy doll and threatens the frog to answer by making love to her. ("I've become my father!")

I Am Peter Hear Me Roar

Reference to the "Baker Films" on Sesame Street:

At a women's dinner party at the Biltimore Hotel, a chef comes out of the kitchen holding banana cream pies.

Chef: Ten banana-cream pies!(gets run over by Lois and Gloria Ironbox who are fighting each other)

Jungle Love

Peter has a flash-back to when he was an assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, showing Peter morphed into a Beaker design and meeping.

Fifteen Minutes of Shame

Peter craves to get attention on his reality show with a puppet (it is Madame the puppet character from "Wayland Flowers and Madame"), when the camera starts to pan away from Peter to something more interesting. Peter wants him to come back because "she's gonna sing 'Rainbow Connection'!"

Let's Go To The Hop

News reporter Tom Tucker says toad licking (a new drug craze) is "also known as lillipadding, frenching the prince, and doing Kermit"

A Fish Out Of Water

A tough biker wants the tattoo artist to draw a skull on his thigh, but the artist says that he can do Kermit the Frog. The biker says he just wants a skull, but the artist goes ahead with drawing Kermit.

Ready, Willing, and Disabled

Peter demands his own TV movie starring Valerie BertandErnie(his mispronounciation of actress Valerie Bertinelli)

Mind Over Murder

Peter is under house arrest after having punched a man who turns out to be a pregnant woman at Chris' soccer game. Knowing that the force has attached a, Peter starts running around the living room like crazy until Lois enters. Peter then tells her that he can't see how she could stand being in the house all day and that he's too bored to watch TV because all the shows start to run together. This then cuts to "Homicide Life on Sesame Street", a parody of the crime drama series Homicide: Life on the Street(1993-99).

Announcer(voice-over): This show contains adult content and is brought to you by the letter H(letter H appears on screen)

The camera zooms into an inner-city street(possibly in New York) and a police siren is heard in the background. Cuts to a bedroom where a telephone rings and Bert, who is holding a bottle of liqor and seen in bed with Ernie(both naked), picks it up and answers.

Bert: (groaning)Hello? (annoyed grunt) Son of a b****! I'm on my way!(gets out of bed)'Some poor b****** got his head blown off down at a place called Hooper's. (Bert drinks the bottle of liqor and chokes on it)''

Ernie: Bert, I wish you wouldn't drink so much, Bert

Bert: Well Ernie, I wish you (shouting angrily)WOULD'NT EAT COOKIES IN THE **** BED!

Ernie: Bert, you're shouting again, Bert!

The skit ends with a comedic instrumental similar to the ones used to end every classic Ernie and Bert sketch. Bert has the disgruntled look on his face and makes his usual annoyed grunt.

And the Weiner Is...

In a gun safety video, a man goes over behind a gray brick wall and puts on a pistol puppet, who talks to the boy sitting on the wall. This is in some ways similar to the brickwall used for many of the Muppet sketches on Sesame Street.

Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows

At a planetarium, an old man who bears a striking resemblence to Statleris seen amazed with a lamp and flickering the switch(it is unknown of whether or not it was Statler).

Family Guy Viewer Mail #1


 * (Peter and Brian are watching TV - The Count is on, counting bats in his castle)
 * The Count:' Six! Six bats! Seven! Seven bats! Ah Ah Ah!
 * Peter: Hey is the Count a vampire?
 * Brian: What's that?
 * Peter: Why He-he's got those big fangs. Have they ever shown him doing somebody in and then feeding on him?
 * Brian: You're, you're asking if they've ever done a Sesame Street in which the Count kills somebody and then sucks their blood for sustenance.
 * Peter: Yeah.
 * Brian: No, they've never done that.

Petarded

Prostitutes come into the house and are being counted(reference to counting inserts on Sesame Street:


 * Children's chorus: [counting the prostitutes as numbers appear on the screen] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
 * Peter: [enters the shot] Seven. Seven prostitutes.

Model Misbehavior

Stewie starts his own CashScam business. Brian, who is in need of money for his deworming medication, agrees to work for him. The next day, Brian comes into Stewie's office(actually his room)and starts work. On Stewie's desk is a yellow toy phone, which we later find out is actually a Sesame Street phone.

Stewie asks Brian to come into his office for a minute. Brian walks in but before he can ask him what he wants, the Sesame Street phone rings. Stewie tells Brian to wait for a moment and answers the phone. The character calling is Grover(voice not heard).

Stewie: (answering phone)Yes, uh Grover what is it? This has to be quick, I am so pressed. Yes, the letter G is wonderful. Of course, and the number 6. Oh, okay. Okay. (stammering)Gr-Gr-Grover...Grover(shouting)GROVER! GROVER! Grover! You-you know what, if, if you're gonna shout, we could just talk later! Alright, you know what? Call me back when you calm down!(hangs up phone)

On the phone are four circular buttons with numerous Sesame Street characters(two sequences are listed here. The first one is from the scene where Stewie is talking to Grover on the phone. The second is from where Stewie tells Brian what to do. Both follow from left to right, from top row).

The first sequence is as follows: Big Bird, Grover, Ernie and The Count

The second sequence is as follows: Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Ernie and The Count.

Stewie then tells Brian to send Lois a congragulatory basket. He also adds "Oh and if Cookie Monster calls, tell him I am not talking to him until he gets out of rehab!"

Cookie Monster is seen in a rehabilitation facility for his drug-like addiction to cookies. Cookie is seen sitting in his bed reading a magazine. Three men enter the room for a contraband check.

Man #1: Contraband check

(Cookie gets out of bed and the men investigate his bed. Man #1 pulls out a plate full of cookies from under the sheets)

Man #1: What are these?

Cookie Monster: I don't know

Man #1: What do you mean you don't know?

Cookie: I, I, I I don't know how they got there

Man #1: Well I think you DO know!

Cookie: No no! (stammering)Uh, De, uh Derek was in here earlier. He was uh, making the beds. He probably put them uh, I, I was in the job.

(Cookie then swoops over to the plate full of cookies and gobbles them up the way he would normally do. The men start grabbing him and holding on to his arms and legs so that the first man can give him an injection shot)

Cookie: (screaming) Ah! AH!AHH! You guys are Nazis man! You're freaking Nazis! AAhhh!(falls to sleep after having the shot)

Man #2: (calming him down)Sh sh shh!

When Cookie Monster gobbles up all the cookies, a munching sound almost sounding like the actual "Cookie Munching" audio used on Sesame Street. Yet it is more likely that Sesame Workshop(formerly the Children's Television Workshop)would not have approved for usage of audio in a scene in which a character(the character in this case being Cookie Monster)does something that would be innaproppiate for a childrens' show and therefore could not have been the actual audio.

Later in the episode, Peter and Lois go to the Drunken Clam to celebrate Lois' first success as a model. The guys there start ranting on about how beautiful she looks, arousing Peter's jealousy. Lois starts arguing with him that being a model was her life-long dream and would not let anyone(especially Peter)ruin it. Lois goes into the ladies' restroom and takes out a tube of pills. She then hears some noise coming from one of the stalls and finds out what is happening. She gasps as she sees Cookie Monster sitting on the toilet squeezing a roll of cookie dough onto a spoon and lighting it on fire(as if it were a drug).

Cookie Monster: (waiting for the dough to heat up)Come on come on! (notices Lois) GO AWAY!

The buttons of the Sesame Street phone during the rest of the episode then turn into "blob drawings" of the ones in the first sequence.

The Father, the Son and the Holy Fonz

Stewie has been confined to a plastic ball after having been infected with contaminated holy water. In one scene he says, "You would not believe the morning I had," and we cut to the Pinball Number Count sequence from Sesame Street, with Stewie-in-the-ball replacing the pinball. The music is exactly the same, and so is the sequence, almost frame for frame.