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Employee for Fire
Season 2, Episode 9
Air date November 7, 1999
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Employee for Fire is the ninth episode of the second season of Family Guy. It is the twenty-seventh episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

When Peter gets fired from his job (again) for screwing up a big company deal, Peter must find a new one to provide for his family - and fast! Meanwhile, Meg gets a voice transplant in another attempt to gain popularity, Lois must choose whether to support her decision or reverse the transplant.

Plot[]

At the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory, a rich business man comes for a visit interested in having the company make toyline based off a popular series. However, Peter screws this up by giving Mr. Weed the wrong company promotional tape for the company to show to the business man (there were two made. A professional one, and a parody commercial Peter made about the company that mocked it and was complete with gratuitous swearing that was for the guys only), and costed them the deal. And an angry Mr. Weed fires Peter instantly.

At home, Peter breaks the news to his children and asks Brian why this happened, and Brian explains that Peter did a bunch of crazy nonsense in the past, even listing some past screw ups, and that this was just the final straw. Too afraid to tell Lois that he got fired again, he hides it from her. Brian wisely insists that Peter tells her the truth, but Peter has better ideas. He applies for other jobs, planning on telling Lois that he's simply transferring, but he has no idea how to get a new job. Thankfully, he gets help from Performance Artist Bruce, who is well known for having multiple jobs and helps gets Peter on his feet with a new job. However, Peter keeps getting fired from all his jobs before even a week passes, getting Brian more and more annoyed with each firing. After Peter gets into a chicken fight, Brian decides to put an end to the nonsense and gets a job at the toy factory himself, but gets distracted by the dog toys and gives into his canine urges. Leading to him getting fired himself. However, Mr. Weed loses something important, when Brian was chasing those toys, with Brian snagged his autographed baseball of Glenn Burke and runs off with it. Peter notices that this ball belonged to Mr. Weed and he returns it. Mr. Weed thanks Peter by giving him his job back.

Meanwhile, Meg, in another attempt to be popular, tries to get a voice transplant to impress Connie after she bullies her for having an awful-sounding voice. Lois, being against changing yourself and worried about the effects, declines to pay for it, so Meg decides to go get it herself. After taking a few odd jobs, and getting solids from Chris, she gets enough to do one and gets a new voice. Lois feels understandably upset about the fact Meg went behind and got it anyway despite her telling her no. But later on, Meg finds out that she's a hypocrite when she finds out that Lois' redheaded hair is really blonde, and she dyes it. Meg calls her out on this, and Lois apologizes and allows her to retain the voice she has now. Naturally, her new voice doesn't help her. In fact it makes her more unpopular at school, making her feel down. However, her friends note that her new voice is better and makes her sound sweeter, making Meg appreciate the new voice more and want to keep it.

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Quotes[]

[In the cold open, Peter and Brian watch FOX on TV]
Announcer: World's Wildest Police Videos will return in a moment, on FOX
Brian: World's Wildest Police Videos? Is there any program too sensational for Fox?
Peter: Well, they turned down my idea for World's Slowest Lingering Deaths.
Brian: Well, that's because NBC's already got that show. It's called Veronica's Closet.
[Meg comes in, crying because of getting bullied at school]
Meg: [upset] I'm so ugly and unpopular and worthless!
Chris: Duh.
Peter: I don't get it. What did I do to deserve a firing like that?!
Brian: Hmm, let me think. Well, you've let unsafe toys get through safety inspection, you injured a team player with a wild pitch during practice, you brought your baby child to work and kept poor watch over him to let him wreck your workplace, you showed off a toy that more resembled a sex toy to the boards, you made a sexist comment that caused a company lawsuit...
Peter: Okay, okay I get it! Stop rubbing it in!
Brian: And this just a small fraction of the stunts you pulled. I could keep going
Peter: How the hell am I going to break this to Lois? If she finds out I got fired again, she's going to throw a fit!
Peter Devil: Lie to her. It's easy to lie to women, they're not people like us.
Peter: Oh, I dunno. [looks at his other shoulder] Hey, where's the other guy?
[cutaway to the Peter Angel stuck in traffic]
Peter Angel: C'mon, ya bastard, I'm late for work! [drinks coffee, spills on clothes] Oh-ohh-oh, this is perfect.
Peter: Look, I don't want your mom to worry, all right? When she worries, she says things like, "I told you so" and "Stop doing that. I'm asleep." So I'm just gonna tell a little lie, okay? Now, not a word to your mother about me getting canned again.
Lois: What's that, Peter?
Peter: Nothing, honey. Ooh, the lost-my-job smells great!
Lois: Excuse me?
Peter: Uh, Meg, honey, could you please pass the fired-my-ass for negligence?
Lois: Peter, are you feeling okay?
Peter: I feel great. I haven't got a job in the world!
Meg: Mom, Dad, does my voice sound good or bad?
Peter: Why does it matter, sweetheart?
Meg: Cause Connie told me it's awful
Peter: (small beat) Connie said that? Yeah, your voice might be bad.
Lois: Peter! Meg, it doesn't matter if you're voice is good or bad. Your voice makes you unique.
Stewie: (fake cough) So, bad. (fake cough)
[At a public school, Peter's a gym coach screams at the kids as they do the obstacle course]
Peter: [blows his whistle] Come on you guys! Faster!! Stop being so lazy and move it!
Kid 1: Well if you're so smart, why don't you do it yourself?!
Peter: Ha! I'm the teacher, so I don't need to.
Kid 2: Oh please! You're so fat, you'll probably be terrible at it.
Peter: That's it, you little turd! It's on!
[As Peter walks over the obstacle course, he trips and falls and hurts his knee before he can even start and begins to hiss and moan in pain]
All the Kids: Fatass! Fatass! Fatass!
Bruce: [to Peter] Well, the reason I keep changing jobs is because I keep getting fired due to different reasons. Though most of my firings all boil down to incompetence, tardiness, laziness, and stupidity.
Peter: I think I met someone who understands me.
Brian: Peter, you can't keep lying to Lois about losing your job. Sooner or later, she's gonna find out where you're going every day.
Peter: Oh, yeah.
[In a cutaway, Lois is watching what sounds like a game show on the TV. Behind her is Peter disguising himself as a lamp]
Lois: Peter, I'll need the checkbook in the morning. I'm going to Stop 'N Shop for some sweet corn.
Peter: Wha, you're spending money on food again? Lois, we just had dinner.
Lois: [sarcastically] Well you know, I enjoyed it so much, I thought we'd eat again tomorrow. [normal] Since when are you so concerned about our food budget?
Peter: Well, I just, uh... Lois, this is really hard for me to say, but...
Lois: What is it, Peter?
Peter: I... uh... you're getting kind of fat.
Lois: What?
Peter: I-It's just... It's not healthy. Heheheh...
Lois: Peter, I do my Jane Fonda workout tape three times a week. When was the last time you saw your toes?
Peter: Gee... Man, I thought you people were supposed to be jolly.
Meg: [with her currently having her Mila Kunis voice] Hey guys, notice or hear anything different about me?
Peter: You know, Brian? Do you think this is the first time a human has fetched a ball for a dog?

Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a pun on "Employee for Hire".
  • Mr. Weed has an autographed baseball from a gay baseball player, Glenn Burke.
  • This is the last episode where Lacey Chabert voices Meg, as Mila Kunis takes over the role halfway through the episode.
  • This is the first episode to introduce Meg's group of friends: Patty, Ruth, Esther and Beth.
  • Lois reveals that her redheaded hair is really blonde, calling back to the original pilot episode where her hair was blonde.
  • In 2024, Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific removed the episode from its in-flight entertainment after the airline received a complaint about the cutaway gag featuring Tiananmen Square in the episode, due to the sensitivity of the 1989 events at Tiananmen Square in China.

Continuity[]

  • Brian references past episodes to bring up his point of the crazy nonsense Peter did at the company.
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