Barely Legal (Family Guy)
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"Barely Legal" is a season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy.
Plot summary
After Mayor Adam West deploys the entire Quahog police department to Colombia to search for a fictional 1980's movie character, Joe becomes bogged down at work, being the only officer not sent to Colombia (he was not sent because South America is not wheelchair accessible). Because of this, Peter and the guys decide to become police officers to help Joe.
Meanwhile, Meg comes home from school threatening to commit suicide because she does not have a date for her school dance. As a last resort, Brian agrees to take her. Brian hides his unhappiness in attending by getting drunk, but at the end of night he manages to bring Connie D'Amico down a peg when defending Meg. He has so much to drink that he ends up kissing Meg at the end of the dance.
After the dance, Meg begins to consider Brian her boyfriend, but Brian tells her he has no intentions to date her. However, Meg becomes obsessed with Brian and she begins to make bizarre advances at him. She ends up knocking him out and tying him up at a hotel in an attempt to have sex with him, but she is stopped by Peter and his friends.
Notes
- This is the second time Cleveland has fallen out of his house while bathing, the first time being in Hell Comes to Quahog. Cleveland actually recognizes this, saying that he "needs to stop bathing during Peter's shenanigans."
Cultural references
- Peter names the zoo giraffe Allison Janney.
- The townsfolk sing "Brand New Day", a song from The Wiz.
- The music playing when Peter and the gang arrive at the Quahog Police Academy is the theme song from the Police Academy movies.
- Garrett Morris cameoed as the "headmaster of the New York School for the Hard-of-Hearing", a part that he played while a cast member on Saturday Night Live. At the end, he says "Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow", which was the closer line of Weekend Update.
- The scene in which Brian is kidnapped and tied up by Meg is from The King of Comedy.
- There is a running joke about a phonological distinction of the pronounciation of wh.
- Emperor Palpatine's voice (of Star Wars) is parodied.