Stewie Kills Lois

"Stewie Kills Lois"

"Stewie Kills Lois" is part one of the two-part "100th Episode" story arc of the FOX animated television series Family Guy (Part 2 being Lois Kills Stewie). It was scheduled as the 100th episode, preceded by the Family Guy 100th Episode Celebration, a clip show episode hosted by Seth MacFarlane. Both parts of this episode were set to re-air on February 10, 2008 as a 1-hour special. Its title appears to be an ironic play on the season 5 premiere episode "Stewie Loves Lois;" in fact, this episode was intended to air as the finale of the previous season, but production was not completed in time.

Plot summary

The episode opens with the family at a dinner celebrating Lois' birthday; the family gives her mediocre gifts. To their displeasure, Brian gives Lois a pair of tickets for a cruise, which she assumes are for her and Peter (Brian, of course, intended otherwise). Lois and Peter take the trip alone, not even taking Stewie. This greatly upsets Stewie and, as soon as he returns home, he begins to plot a diabolical plan to humiliate Lois out of revenge for leaving him behind, which he intends to carry out as soon as Lois returns. Brian scoffs, noting that Stewie has never followed through with any of his diabolical plans before, and is completely skeptical that he will do so this time. Stewie realizes that Brian is right, but swears that this time Lois is a dead woman, so he decides to take immediate action.

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Lois mere moments before her attempted murder by Stewie

Meanwhile, on the ship, Peter proves to be a continual embarrassment to Lois: he defecates on the poop deck (the name of which he claims is misleading) and tells a story at the captain's table about how they almost aborted Meg. Humiliated, Lois has a falling out with Peter. At this time, Stewie, who has made his way onto the ship via speedboat, finds and confronts Lois; Lois, who had gone outside to mull over her frustration with Peter, is completely astonished to see him, wondering how he came on board without her knowing. To add to her shock, Stewie pulls out a submachine gun and, after a brief moment of tension, opens fire. Lois' chest is graphically riddled with bullets and she falls overboard, her body plunging and sinking deep into the ocean's abyss--Stewie is ecstatic that he has finally killed his mother.

Six days later, Lois is considered missing and Stewie is elated to discover that no one suspects foul play as the other Griffins begin to worry. Since she has been missing for so long, Joe tells a distressed Peter that the search for her has been called off and he must now accept the fact that Lois is gone.

A year passes and, during this time, the Griffins have managed to move on with their lives: Peter begins dating other people (such as a stick figure and even Bonnie, each with little success), Chris has been led to believe that Lois is merely away at a health spa, and Meg, as Stewie states, has really begun to flourish after Lois' murder. Brian restates that her death was an accident, but Stewie counters by saying that was what everyone was led to believe. Greatly disturbed by this revelation, Brian asks Stewie if he killed Lois; Stewie just mockingly denies it. Brian realizes that he actually carried out his plan, and vows to find evidence and bring him to justice.

At the Drunken Clam, Peter mentions to his friends that his wife's life insurance has finally paid out. Before leaving to buy more hot dogs (Meg was using them to masturbate), he casually casts suspicion on himself by noting that he took out the policy while they were on the ship, just after having secretly wished she were dead after their fight. Suspecting him of murdering Lois, they decide to search his trash for clues. Incidentally, Stewie realizes that keeping evidence of his crime as mementos is too risky with Brian snooping around, and throws into the trash his drawings depicting Lois getting killed in various ways and his gun. Joe and the others search the trash and find these items just after Stewie disposes of them, implicating Peter as the murderer; noticing the coincidence, Stewie discovers that this means he is now exempt from accusation.

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Family Guy's officially celebrated 100th episode

Peter is brought into the police station for questioning where Joe reluctantly informs Peter that he is the prime suspect for Lois' murder and that things look bleak for him. At his trial, Meg and Chris begin to believe he killed their mother. Brian, however, convinces them to not judge him too quickly and that he is innocent, though Stewie attempts to convince them otherwise. Lois' father, Carter, testifies against Peter, presenting a video recreation of the crime in which he plays Peter and an Asian hooker (who is actually shot and killed by Carter in the video) plays Lois. Next, Chris is brought to the stand and asked to recall anything bad Peter did; Chris responds by telling the court of a time Peter picked his nose and wiped his finger on Meg's hat. Finally, Peter is brought to the stand and denies killing Lois, stating that he loves his wife. However, the prosecutor manages to get Peter to reveal things that would make it seem obvious as to why he would kill her, albeit perhaps unintentionally (such as drinking, striking her periodically, and being aggressive in nature).

Towards the end of the trial, Peter is found guilty and is sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. But before the sentence is carried out, a mysterious figure barges into the room--the court is stunned to discover it is none other than Lois herself, very much alive. The Griffins are greatly relieved and overjoyed to find she is safe and that Peter didn't kill her after all. After happily reuniting with her family, Lois goes on to say that someone else did indeed try to kill her. When Peter asks her if she remembers who it was, Lois responds to the entire court, pointing to her incredulous infant son, "It was Stewie!". The episode ends, setting the stage for the next episode.

Notes

• Last episode to air before the Writer's strike. Part 2 was broadcasted the next week, and later the rest or the episodes up to McStroke were broadcasted.
• This is actually the 101st episode if you count the previous "Family Guy 100th Episode Spectacular" as a new episode due to new footage used.
• The simulation begins at the captain's table when Peter and Lois are eating.
• The simulation would actually only prove that the plan Stewie had wouldn't work. So in theory, a different simulation would occur if Stewie came up with a new plan.

Censorship

• When the family complains at Brian for making them look bad for buying Lois cruise tickets, Stewie originally calls him a "dick", while in the FOX version, Stewie calls him a "fink".
• While responding to Stewie's rant about what he will do to Lois when she returns from the cruise, in the Adult Swim version, Brian adds a line referring to watching her masturbate while grabbing her breast. In the Fox version, Brian stops after suggesting that Stewie smack Lois with a riding crop. Along with it, they changed "underwear" to "brassiere" in the Fox version. Clip.
• In the Adult Swim version, after Lois calls Peter gay and leaves after their argument, Peter retaliates by saying that "Pleasuring a man with a socked foot one time does not make a person gay.", which was removed from the Fox version. Clip.
• On Adult Swim, when Peter is telling Brian how his dates went, he mentions that he also went on a date where he read that the woman was a Cancer, but she was actually a cancer patient.
• On the part after Stewie says he can hear Meg upstairs (now that his head is turned 90 degrees vertically), the FOX version shows Meg outside her room in her normal clothes with a pack of hot dogs saying "I'm gonna pretend you're the New York Knicks!" before running inside. On Adult Swim, the line is the same, but the scene shows Meg sitting on her bed in her pajamas while "Afternoon Delight" is playing in the background.
• Stewie fantasizes about going to the carnival with a grown, muscular Rupert (as in "Stewie Loves Lois"). In the Fox version, Stewie asks Rupert if he wants to ride the "tea bags", and, realizing his mistake, quickly corrects himself by saying "tea cups". In the Adult Swim version, Stewie lets a few seconds pass, then asks Rupert if he wants to ride the tea bags again (referencing a blatantly homosexual fantasy as opposed to a simple wording slip-up). Clip.
• Peter's abortion story about Meg is longer in the Adult Swim airing. Clip.
• On Adult Swim, after the jury watches Carter's video, he says that Lois (referring to the hooker that plays her) claimed she would give Carter an over-under for $60. This was cut from the Fox airing. Clip.

Cultural references

• The Lionel Richie song Peter listen to in the beginning of the episode called "Hello".
• The promotional poster for this episode is a parody of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
• Fox's promo for the episode feature a synopsis set in the style to the Gilligan's Island theme.
• Lois says being on a ship reminds her of the movie Titanic, and she refers to the role Kate Winslet played in the film, but Peter insists that it was actually Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
• The Beatles sequence parodies the fact that Ringo Starr has the least songwriting contributions to the Beatles. The only songs he has written solo with The Beatles are the songs: "Don't Pass Me By" (featured on The Beatles "White Album") and hit "Octopus's Garden." (featured on "Abbey Road".
• At the end of his newscast, Tom Tucker scribbles on his paper and throws his arm into the air while saying, "That's the news, and I am outta here." This was Dennis Miller's trademark sign-off for "Weekend Update" on Saturday Night Live.
• When Stewie is overheard thinking to himself, he mentions "Pigs in Space", which was a recurring skit on The Muppet Show.
• When Peter tells Brian to stay out of the cat box, it is a reference to a habit where dogs, living with cats, may eat cat droppings from the litter box.
• Herbert standing outside of Chris' window and holding an old-fashioned record player over his head (playing Irving Berlin's "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee") is a parody of a similar scene in the film Say Anything.
• God is shown in Heaven, trying to help angels create Rosie O'Donnell, yet mistakenly designing the wrong body parts due to his intoxication.
• The dramatic music at the end, along with the typeface of the initial credits, is a parody of the third-season cliffhanger of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Best of Both Worlds"., commonly cited as one of the greatest cliffhangers in TV history. Lois emerges from the bright white light with eerie synthesized voices corresponds to the revealing of a Borg-assimilated Captain Picard to the Enterprise crew. The music of the two cliffhangers is close to identical, which is appropriate given that both were scored by the same composer, Ron Jones. It should also be noted that executive producer David A. Goodman, who wrote this episode, is a major Star Trek fan and actually paid tribute to this classic TNG episode as well as the 20th anniversary of the series altogether.
• The stick figure that Peter dates is similar to the ones in the Kingdom of Loathing.

Reception

10.5 million viewers tuned into this episode, making it the third most-watched episode since 2005 behind "Blue Harvest" (10.7 million) and "North by North Quahog" (11.9 million).

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