You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives
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“You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives” is the 25th episode from Season 4 of FOX animated television series Family Guy.
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[edit] Plot summary
Brian’s gay cousin Jasper comes to Quahog with his Filipino boyfriend, Ricardo. They reveal they’re going to get married.
Mayor Adam West has made a solid gold statue of Dig ’Em for the servicemen who died in the “recent Gulf conflict,” putting the city in enormous debt. In order to distract his constituency, he proposes a bill outlawing gay marriage. Meanwhile, Chris falls for Alyssa, a beautiful Young Republican girl, and joins the party to impress her.
Brian vows to stop West, eventually getting 10,000 people to sign a petition, but Lois, who is conflicted about gay marriage, refuses to sign. To escape this, she takes Stewie to visit her parents. Before Brian can present the petition to the mayor, Chris burns it because Alyssa has agreed he may touch her breasts if he destroys the petition.
Brian gets 10,000 more signatures, but West doesn’t change his mind. In an act of desperation, Brian takes a security guard’s gun, and holds the mayor hostage.
Lois hears about Brian on TV, then finds out that her parents do not love each other. She changes her mind on gay marriage, deciding love is more important in marriage than whether it involves a man or woman. She returns to Quahog, and convinces Brian to free the mayor. Because the hostage situation has distracted the entire town from the Dig ’Em scandal, Mayor West decides to cancel his ban on gay marriage. After Brian gave West a key for a Volkswagen Scirocco (which Stewie had found earlier in a candy jar at his grandparents' house), the mayor drops the hostage charges. Jasper and Ricardo then get married in the backyard of the Griffin house.
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Seth MacFarlane said he came up with the idea for the episode while writing a pilot with two gay men.[1] He said it was "infuriating and idiotic" that two gay partners "have to go through this fucking dog and pony act when they stop at a hotel and the guy behind the counter says, 'You want one room or two?'"[1] He said he is "Incredibly passionate about [his] support for the gay community".[1]
[edit] Notes
Marguerite Pewterschmidt, who died in the episode Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater appears at the scene where the citizens of Quahog are protesting against the Dig 'Em statue holding a sign. This is almost unseen without the aid of a Freeze Frame.
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- Stewie finds the control room at the airport and discovers that the door is open. He decides to take control of the planes. Matthew McConaughey's private jet which was running out of fuel and is requesting to land, but Stewie directs them out to sea where the plane went down. He is later seen in the episode. Stewie shoots him and drags his body outside.
- Popeye is seen in a cutscene in the hospital, where Dr. Hartman tells Popeye that his oversized forearms are tumors and his squinting eyes and stuttering speech are the result of a stroke and Popeye has only two months to live.
- Stewie claims that Jasper would fit in with the Griffins worse than Peter fit in with The Proclaimers; it then cuts away to Peter singing I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) with The Proclaimers and attacks one of them when they all start singing together.
- Adam West spends taxpayer money on a solid gold statue of Dig ’Em, the frog mascot for Honey Smacks cereal.
- Jasper uses the game Clue as a metaphor for gay sex saying "Ricardo and I were playing clue and he got me in the bedroom with the lead pipe"
- Glenn Quagmire sings the chorus to Ross Bagdasarian’s song Witch Doctor after declining to sign Brian’s petition (according to the DVD commentary, Seth MacFarlane refers to this joke as a “$10,000 joke,” since that’s how much it cost him to use the song).
- When the priest shows the video about homosexuals to Lois, it says it was made by Pat Robertson Industries; this is a reference to Pat Robertson, an American evangelist who often speaks against gay rights (according to the DVD commentary, Fox Standards and Practices wanted Seth and company to add the “Pat Robertson Industries” line so Fox wouldn’t be accused of being against homosexuality).
- The creature that comes out of the person and attacks the doctor is a reference to Alien. The man the creature burst from, “Mr. Braga,” was named for Brannon Braga by executive producer David A. Goodman, who worked under Braga on Star Trek: Enterprise.
- Adam West reads an issue of People Magazine from 1989, which has an interview with Paul Hogan.
- When Brian remarks to Mayor West that he "had to do a few things in West Quahog that I'm not proud of", there's a cutaway to Brian sitting between two presumed homosexual men watching Sex and the City. Brian asks the men, "So... it's a show about three hookers and their mom?" This is likely referring to the fact that Kim Catrall is 9-10 years older than her three co-stars.
- Peter remarks about a time which he saved Luke Skywalker. The scene then cuts to a parody of a scene from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in which Han Solo uses a dead Tauntaun to keep Luke warm during a snowstorm. Peter takes the place of the Tauntaun.
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| Preceded by “Peterotica” |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by “Petergeist” |
