Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High

"Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High"
Family Guy episode
Chris with Mrs. Lockhart.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 2
Directed by	Pete Michels
Written by	Ken Goin
Production code	4ACX02
Original air date	May 8, 2005
Guest stars
Drew Barrymore as Mrs. Lockhart Arif S. Kinchen as Carlos Jonathan Lipnicki as Wesly Carlos Mencia Tara Strong as Amanda Steven Zirnkilton as Himself
Episode chronology
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"Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" is the second episode from the fourth season of the Fox animated television series Family Guy. The episode guest-stars Drew Barrymore as Mrs. Lockhart.

Plot summary

The Griffin family attend an open house at Chris's school, and Chris's English teacher, Mrs. Clifton, wins the lottery. In spite of Mrs. Clifton's resignation, Lois suggests Brian to fill in as a substitute teacher. He enjoys the job, but is moved to a remedial class, which consists of nothing but inner city youth (a la Dangerous Minds). When he finds the techniques used in his previous class inadequate, he does not know how to help them since society is giving up on them. Stewie suggests that he should act like them, and he dances to the robot. He takes Stewie's advice and tries "talking their language", but appears racist. After an angry morning, he unintentionally teaches them to aspire to low-level jobs, the students noting that Brian is the first person who ever told them that they could amount to anything.

Meanwhile, Chris is instantly smitten with his new teacher, the voluptuous Mrs. Lana Lockhart. Chris asks his parents for advice on how to get a girl to like him, and Stewie gives him a condom, since he has heard about his relationship with his teacher. Lois tells him that he should be romantic, and Peter suggests that he should dress up as a naked spaceman to be spontaneous. When Chris shows up to class, Mrs. Lockhart is shocked and thinks he's being too impulsive. Lois is not pleased with this. After she and Peter talk to Mrs. Lockhart, she finds out that Chris is in love with her; she promises Chris to be with him if he kills her husband, Ronald, though he does not do it. When Lois finds the teacher's written instructions in Chris' laundry, she runs to Mrs. Lockhart's home and finds the mauled body of her husband. Believing Chris is the killer, Lois and Stewie conspire to cover up the plot by dumping the body in the lake and bluffing a policeman. Back at home, the rest of the family treats Chris differently because they believe he actually killed Mrs. Lockhart's husband, until it is shown on the news that it was really Mrs. Lockhart and a bear. In the last scene, Mrs. Lockhart and the bear are found in a motel, with Mrs. Lockhart all dressed up for a nice evening dinner while the bear is lying on the bed watching television. The two engage in stereotypical passive-aggressive behavior. The bear insists that he is not in the mood to go out for the night, then attempts to ameliorate Mrs. Lockhart's disappointment by rubbing her back with his foot and saying "Love you...", and with that the episode concludes.

Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a parody of the title of the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High; the school bears the name of Vincent (Buddy) Cianci, Jr., longtime Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, who has had repeated run-ins with the law.
• The regular Family Guy opening sequence is replaced with a spoof of the opening sequence of Law & Order. Steven Zirnkilton even provides the opening narration about "two separate yet equally important types of shows."
• A cutaway to Donny and Marie Osmond (pop stars and stars of Donny & Marie (1976 TV series)) show them in bed together
• When Chris' principal is receiving a massage from "Estovan", he sings "On Top of Old Smoky".
• The scene where Brian's students stand on their desks and say O Captain! My Captain! is a parody of a similar scene in the 1989 Robin Williams film Dead Poets Society.
• The scene where Lois worries about Chris going to prison and prison showers refers to the HBO prison based Oz, yet the prisoners in the showers are singing "In the Merry Old Land of Oz" from the 1939 fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz.
• After Lois accuses Chris of the murder of Mrs. Lockhart's husband they all stop to watch Joan of Arcadia, an American television fantasy/family drama.

Reception

About 9.71 million Americans watched this episode.

External links

• "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" at IGN.com

Preceded by North by North Quahog

Family Guy (season 4)

Succeeded by Blind Ambition