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Da Boom!
Season 1, Episode 18
Air date May 30, 1999
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Da Boom! is the eighteenth episode and season finale of the first season of Family Guy. It is the eighteenth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

Peter makes the family cancel their New Year's Eve plans because he's paranoid about the millennium. But when Y2K hits and the world is destroyed, all that remains standing is a Twinkie factory.  When the Griffins set out to find the factory, they realize it's the end of the world as they know it.

Plot[]

On December 31, 1999, Quahog prepares for New Year's Day and the new millennium, and the Griffins have been invited to Quagmire's millennium party. At a store, a man wearing a chicken suit asks Peter if he wants a coupon, but Peter refuses, recalling an incident in which he got an expired coupon from Ernie the Giant Chicken, resulting in a destructive fistfight. The man then warns Peter that the world will end because of the Y-2K problem, so Peter locks himself and the family in their basement in hazmat suits, despite Lois' objections. Just after midnight, the Y-2K bug hits. This causes a worldwide nuclear attack, with vehicles crashing and missiles self-launching, destroying much of the world, and mutating, injuring, or killing most of its inhabitants. The Griffins remain safe, though their house has been severely damaged. Starving, Peter immediately eats all the dehydrated meals, without adding water. Peter recalls that the snack food Twinkies are the only food that can survive a nuclear holocaust, so the family prepares to travel to Natick, Massachusetts, in hopes that the Twinkie factory has survived.

The Griffins' car runs out of gas, so they must walk to Natick. When they get there, there is no factory. Stewie berates Peter for costing them their lives before tripping and getting covered in nuclear waste; his arms soon mutate into tentacles. Upon sunrise, the factory is revealed to still be standing and in perfect condition. Expecting to be able to live off the snack food, they establish the town of New Quahog around the factory, with Peter as mayor. In time, New Quahog becomes a thriving community, complete with houses and wells. However, when Brian points out that New Quahog is a peaceful place with no violence, Peter deems that they are completely defenseless; to the outrage of the citizens, he makes guns using the pipes from the city's irrigation system. Meanwhile, Stewie's body has completely transformed into an octopus, and lays hundreds of eggs.

Despite Peter's insistence that he is fit to remain as mayor, the townspeople throw him out of New Quahog, and his family follows him. The citizens destroy the guns, only to be overpowered by hundreds of newly-hatched Octopus-Stewies, which destroy the city. As the family walks away, oblivious to New Quahog's destruction, they decide to continue to a Carvel factory in Framingham.

The episode ends with Peter waking up in the basement with Lois and Brian next to him. They reveal that he passed out at the last second and the world didn't end, meaning that the whole episode was a dream, and mention the rest of the family is at Quagmire's millennium party. Peter apologizes for almost ruining the family's New Year and the three decide to celebrate the rest of New Year's at Quagmire's party

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Quotes[]

Peter: Whoa, whoa, whoa, look pal, I don't take coupons from giant chickens, not after that last time.
[cut to Peter in a store]
Peter: Oh yeah, that nice chicken outside gave me this coupon.
Cashier: I'm sorry, this is expired.
Peter: [turns to the chicken] You son of a...
Peter: Everyone leave, I have to poop...NOW!
Meg: I'm sorry for what happened to your son Kevin, Mr. Swanson.
Joe: Well I'm sorry about what the nuclear radiation did to your face.
Meg: The nuclear radiation didn't do anything to my face.
Joe: Oh, right. I forgot. Your face always looks like that.
Chris: Ha!
Lois: If there's no food in Quahog, why should there be food anywhere else?
Peter: Lois, everyone knows there are only two things that can survive a nuclear holocaust...cockroaches and Twinkies.
Brian: Oh, my God! They're eating Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa!
Peter: That's crazy! They're just gonna be hungry again in an hour!
Peter: Y-2-K? What are you selling chicken or sex jelly?
Cleveland: Hey, Peter, in case you didn't know, a balloon tied to a mailbox is the international symbol for "party over here!"
Cleveland: Oh, Peter, you are the height of just too muchary.
Meg: Yeah, and I could be getting felt up by Kevin.
Lois: Now, Meg, don't you give it all away up front. Make him work for it.
Peter: Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids. Damn long-ears, trying to take Easter away from Jesus.
Chris: Oh, my God! The government is here! Run, ET, run!
Peter: Honey, are you pregnant?
Lois: No. [Peter pushes her down the basement stairs] Aah!!
Stewie: Oh, dear me, yes, yes. This is how I wanted to enter the new millennium. Locked in a basement with imbeciles dressed like a gay Neil Armstrong.
Peter: Holy crap! Anybody else feel that?
Peter: Hey, Lois, you remember when I was the third Hardy Boy?
Lois: Peter, there was no third Hardy Boy.
Peter: Oh, really? Just like there was no apocalypse? He shoots! He scores!
Meg: It's just not fair. I finally get a date with Kevin, and he gets vaporized!
Chris: He's just using his own destruction as an excuse not to go out with you.
Chris: [carrying a plant] Come on, Woody. We're gonna search for food.
Peter: Sorry, Chris. The plant can't come.
Lois: It's his best friend.
Peter: Lois, it'll just be another mouth to feed. I'll take care of Woody, son.
[Takes the plant in the back and a gunshot is heard]
Chris: What was that?
Peter: Nothing. Let's go.
Stewie: We're finished! We're done! Game over, man! Game over!
Man 1: We don't need guns! We need food and water!
Man 2: I have a canker sore on my lip! And I keep poking at it with my tongue! But that's only making it worse!
Peter: There's a reason I'm in charge here, all right? I knew the world was gonna end. I'm the one who found the Twinkie factory and started this town. And I'm the one who gave elocution lessons to Rosie Perez.
Man 1: That's nothing to be proud of!
Peter: [imitates Rosie Perez] Don't be stupid! She speak good and everything!
Peter: Jeez, I haven't been thrown out of any place since I was a counselor at the bulimia clinic.
[Scene goes to Peter at the bulimia clinic]
Peter: Aw, man, did anybody else throw up after eating that fish last night?
Peter: We've left ourselves defenseless. Guys, we need to make some guns.
Cleveland: Guns? Guns only lead to trouble.
Peter: Right. And if that trouble happens, we'll be able to blow its frickin' head off.
Stewie: A dead Lois?
[POV shot of Peter waking up seeing Lois and Brian yell at him]
Brian: Peter, wake up!
Peter: Brian? Lois? What happened? Did the world end?!
Lois: Honey, nothing happened. You passed out at the last second and the world didn't end.
Peter: It didn't?
Brian: Yep.
Peter: Oh. (notices the family was missing) Where's everyone else?
Lois: At Quagmire's millennium party.
Peter: Lois, Brian, I'm sorry I almost ruined the New Year. I guess the world won't be ending anytime soon. I'm not always right, after all.

Song[]

Trivia[]

  • In Natick, Massachusetts, there was a factory, owned by Continental Bakeries, that made Twinkies. It was torn down in 2004 and its location made into an extension to the Natick Mall.[1]
  • This episodes introduces us to the fight between Peter and the giant chicken. Peter flashes back to a fight with the giant chicken to explain to the man in the chicken costume why he doesn’t accept coupons from giant chickens, beginning one of the show's best-known running gags.
  • After the citizens of New Quahog kick the Griffins out and slam the city gates, Brian is absent for several scenes. Only after they start walking down the road in a line does he return.
  • When Chris is singing "Left Foot, Right Foot" after they leave Randy Newman, he says "Left foot" when he puts his right foot down, and "Right foot" when he puts his left foot down.
  • The Griffins' clothes are ripped and tattered in a week after surviving the explosion in the safety of their basement.
  • Randy Newman was parodied as a senile man at a piano singing about everything he sees. Newman is voiced by Will Sasso, who was reprising the character from a recurring MADtv sketch.[2]
  • There is a cutaway of Peter feeding Tom Selleck on Magnum, P.I..
  • The Griffins encounter a band of survivors that play a parody of Family Feud.
  • Peter watches a special about Twinkee the Kid, where his family talk about his flamboyantly gay personality as a kid. A slang word for gay men, twink, itself an abbreviation of the gay slang term "twinkie," originally for very young, blond, pretty men.

Cultural References[]

  • The title of the episode is based on a FOX ad campaign at the time, where "Da Boom" was supposed to be Jamaican slang for the best, or cool.
  • When Stewie breaks under the pressure of the Griffins' exodus, he says "Game over, man. Game over!" like the character "Hudson" does in Aliens.
  • When the family is on their way to find the Twinkie Factory, they come across a house in a green area. This is a reference to the short lived Fox series Woops!
  • Awestruck by the Twinkie factory, Peter parodies the movie Contact, saying "No words...should have sent...a poet..."
  • Stewie, as a mutant, climbs onto the ceiling declaring he is Fred Astaire, the actor/dancer. Specifically, he is referring to "You're All the World to Me", one of Astaire's most memorable dances, from the film Royal Wedding. In it, a rotating room was used to enable Astaire to dance on the ceiling.
  • When Peter's orders for guns have been met, he holds a hand gun while saying "A chicken in every pot, and a cap in every ass," referring to Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage."
  • Peter's line, "When the end of the world happens you'll have to meet those two dead bailiff ladies from Night Court, and you won't know which is which, and it will be really awkward, so bite me!" is a reference to actresses Selma Diamond and Florence Halop, who died in 1985 and 1986, respectively.
  • In the scene in which the family is walking to Natick, Lois tries to get Chris to stop saying "Left foot, right foot" by saying "Stopiiiiiit!" This is similar to Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Jean tries to stop her mother from yelling at her while she's driving.
  • Victoria Principal and Patrick Duffy's appearance in the deleted scenes refers to the famous "it was all a dream" sequence on Dallas.[3]

Deleted Scenes[]

  • After Peter pushes Lois into the basement and before Act 1 ended, Lois, Chris, Meg, Stewie, and Brian put on their radiation suits onscreen. Lois is first to put on a radiation suit, Chris is second to put it on, Meg is third to put it on, Stewie is fourth to put on radiation suit (Stewie has trouble putting on his radiation suit so Lois puts it on Stewie), and Brian is last to put it on.
  • An alternate ending where the episode ends in a live-action parody of a famous episode of Dallas, where Pam Ewing wakes to find her husband Bobby in the shower. She tells him about the episode, which was apparently a dream. This is a parody of the famous Dallas shower scene, where an entire previous season of Dallas was revealed as a dream.
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