Long John Peter
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"Long John Peter" is the twelfth episode and season 6 finale of the FOX animated series Family Guy. It guest stars Amanda Bynes as Anna, the vet intern Chris falls in love with. The title (and Peter's temporary nickname) references Long John Silver a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This episode was watched by 7.68 million viewers when it aired.
Plot
While waiting for Brian at the vet's office, Chris meets a young intern named Anna (Amanda Bynes) and develops a crush on her. Meanwhile, Peter becomes very attached to a parrot he sees at the vet and decides to steal it for himself. Carrying his parrot wherever he goes, Peter's friends compare him to a pirate and suggest he dress up like one. He does, and recruits three other pirates and begins terrorizing the town under the name "Long John Peter". Peter and his men loot a British man's car full of sugar cane, tobacco, and spices in a drawn-out high-speed car chase that mimics a naval battle, filled with cannonade and sword fighting on each side. Peter's parrot is gravely injured in the attack and dies a reportedly humiliating death at the vet's office, though Peter quickly gets over it in interest of the pipe organ (which, too, quickly meets its demise at Peter's hands).
While at the vet's office, Chris meets up with Anna again and musters up the courage to ask her out. The relationship goes very smoothly until Peter berates Chris for treating her like a human being. Taking Peter's advice on male superiority, Chris puts Anna down on their next date so he can make progress with her but Anna breaks up with him instead. Chris laments his experience to Lois, who forces Peter to make it up to his son. Peter's decides to hook Chris up with other girls, though his methods consistently fail. After Peter's ideas are exhausted, Lois comes to comfort Chris and says that though his father's intentions are good, the only person he should turn to in this situation is himself. Chris returns to the vet to see Anna (he intentionally broke Brian's nose with a chair as an excuse to go back to the vet) and apologizes to her and kisses her. Anna forgives Chris and the two renew their relationship. The episode ends with a severely disfigured Brian collapsing on the floor and pleading for help when Stewie runs up and kicks him in the groin.
Notes
- Official artwork for this episode depicts Anna as having brown hair, yet she is blonde in the episode itself.
- One of the girls Peter hooks Chris up with is Barbara, the girl he had a crush on at the start of the episode "To Love and Die in Dixie."
- This marked the second episode (after "Mr. Saturday Knight") in which the series referenced the Cleveland steamer. After Chris and Anna break up, Chris accidentally tells Lois that Anna "took a dump on me", when he meant to say that she dumped Chris. When asked what the difference was, Lois started explaining what a Cleveland steamer was (though it obviously wasn't referenced by name this time around) before getting back on-topic over Chris's break-up with Anna.
- The unnamed Englishman who was seen in the episodes "There's Something About Paulie" and "North by North Quahog" appears in this episode; here he interacts with Peter for the first time, and has a name — Shelley Boothbishop.
- A reference about Stewie's sexuality is made when he shows up as Chris's blind date.
Cultural references
- A promotional poster for this episode subtly parodies the film posters of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
- When Peter's crew shoots down the telephone pole, the Wilhelm Scream is heard.
- This episode references Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease when he is introduced as Zorro.
- During the episode, Coldplay's song "Clocks" can be heard.
- E.T. uses his finger to try and heal Tom Hanks's character from the film Philadelphia.
- Peter is revealed to be the real culprit behind the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
- When Peter sets up a date for Chris with Barbara he sings "Down Under" by Men at Work although, as he doesn't know the lyrics, he mumbles through the song. Most of what he says is unintelligible, though the last line he sings is, "Look at me in a brand new Hyundai."
- The music that plays during the car battle scene is by Erich Wolfgang Korngold from the classic pirate movie The Sea Hawk starring Errol Flynn.
- Chris sings "Crazy for You" by Madonna when he first sees the intern, Anna.
- When Peter's Parrot gets injured, it says in a long, raspy voice "Shoot me," a reference to a scene in Full Metal Jacket when the Viet Cong woman gets injured and begs the soldiers to kill her saying "Shoot me" in the same manner.
- When Long John Peter and his crew first break into the drug store, Mort Goldman cries, "Ahhh! Kristallnacht!" This refers to anti-Jewish violence perpetrated in Nazi Germany on the 9th and 10th of November, 1938, when thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed.
- While driving up behind Shelley, Peter is flying the British flag on his car to lull his victim; he soon replaces it with the Jolly Roger.
- Shelley, while going down with his sinking car, hums Rule, Britannia! Also, the steering wheel of his car (an old Mini) is on the right-hand side (as opposed to those in American cars).