User Reviews

This for me this wasn't very good episode. I thought it dragged on a bit, but the part of the episode containing Stewie and Brian was really entertaining (but not necessarily funny). There was two bits of the episode that I laughed: there's a bit were Herbet the Pervet comes and saves Chris (everyone is overjoyed) then he keeps running and brings him into his house. That kind of raunchy borderline humor always makes me crack.

It is rare that an episode with Carter is bad, but that's the case here. Family Guy is just not getting it done anymore. There's usually one good cutaway, one good reference, that's what we got here, and not many other laughs outside that.

Peter discovers that Babs has another side to her that's not too unlike him, but it causes a rift between her and Carter. Meanwhile, Stewie wants to win an actual trophy once he realizes all his other trophies were just for participating.

The main plot is basic but still pretty funny. Some of the jokes I liked include Peter rounding up his family when Stewie causes a fire and getting their names wrong, the fake-out of Carter walking into a bar with big tough boots only to turn out they are so big you can barely see the rest of him as well as both he and Peter knocking things down by accident pissing off the patrons.

Something the show has sometimes struggled with are the callback jokes, but this time there were two very successful ones. Herbert rescuing Chris from a burning building only to take him to his house was spoiled in the trailer though funny nevertheless. But Stewie's line when Herbert shows up out of nowhere in Carter and Babs house once again taking Chris with him, this time without even any need of rescuing made me laugh so hard it had me going for several seconds after it was over. The other one was Peter imagining he told a great joke only to have it revealed he just fell asleep and pissed himself. I suppose I should be annoyed since the second time it turned out he had slept during the whole episode's running time, but hey, at least this time the plot generally wrapped up much better. Plus Lois says to him afterwards she's glad Carter and Babs got back together, so maybe it did happen after all.

The subplot definitely didn't lack in laughs either. Just like Brian acting like a dog, Stewie acting like a baby is hilarious whenever they throw those kind of jokes in. His obliviousness to the family only pretending they like his mudpie, listening to Wheels On The Bus as a motivation song and his pretend game with Brian were all endearingly funny. Stewie preventing gravity from ever existing when he goes to fetch the Isaac Newton apple for his pie makes so little logical sense that it's gold. At the pie baking contest we get the return of the lovely Swedish baker Fjord as he makes more accidental dirty puns.

The cutaways all more or less hit the mark, the funniest ones being Peter's traumatic encounter with a perverted German müsli brand, the wedding with names all taken from 60's swing songs and the sly commentary on why Bar Mitzas supposedly make you a man when you're not legally allowed to do most things.

The only flaws I have is that I would have liked to see more development of Peter and Babs' friendship, since after the initial set-up we don't get much of it. For example, why not show Babs at the bar with Peter and the guys? The random musical number after Peter interrupts the Minister's Cat game was just weird.

Not much to complain about really. A nice arrangement of laughs throughout.

Rewatch episodes and search up what the jokes mean.

Peter jokes about how meaningless something is like a bar mitzvah. Bar mitzvah is for a boy who becomes a man but they cannot drink, drive, vote, have sex. Its for cashing cheques and feeling up a girl taller than you.

They advertise a German health cereal called Mueslix - the cereal that likes to watch you poop.

Their house burns down and they stay at Lois's posh parents'. Babs and the man go out and they come back home drunk - the entrance to the home is beautiful.

Lois informs Peter that Babs left her dad. Peter goes to the harbour (note to self - draw this scene).

Lois's dad dresses up as a casual looking blonde man and goes to the bar. Peter suggests they pull down his pants to see what he is working with.

Peter knocks down the bar and it knocks down the adjacent buildings like dominoes.