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Hell Comes to Quahog
Season 4, Episode 16
Meg Driving a Tank
Air date January 4th, 2004
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Hell Comes to Quahog is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of Family Guy. It is the seventy-eighth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

After Peter buys a military tank with Meg's money, her car fund goes out the window and she's forced to get a job at the newly built Superstore in town. However, the town's economy begins to suffer when Superstore puts all the mom-and-pop shops out of business and interrupts the city's power supply. Brian and Stewie decide to take matters into their own hands in order to save the town from the corporate giant.

Plot[]

The Beer Bar Buddies are spending the evening at The Drunken Clam, when Peter is reminded to pick up Meg from the roller skating rink. They then go to the rink and continue to enjoy themselves, while skating. The guys forget to pick up Meg when they leave. After skating home in the rain, Meg asks the family for her own car. The next day, Peter takes his daughter to the local car dealership, where she shows an interest in a sedan. However, convinced by a swindling salesman after convincing the salesman to convince him, Peter buys a tank instead. At first, Peter uses the tank himself, despite it being intended for Meg, but then he teaches Meg to drive it. Later that day, however, the two accidentally run over Joe's legs, and he impounds the tank with Peter caring less. Frustrated at her father ruining her plan to get a car, Meg decides to earn the money for her own car, and is able to get a job at the local Quahog megastore*Superstore USA, a electricity-hoarding shopping corporation ran under a man named Mr. Penisburg. The arrival of the store puts a strain on local businesses and cost many residents, including Peter, their jobs. Even though Meg works at the store, Peter spearheads a protest of the store, but flip-flops after experiencing its “industrial” air conditioning and gets a job there instead. Peter does horrible at the job, taking advantage of working there and avoiding work as much as possible, while Superstore USA begins to cause misery for everyone else, as the town begins to look more and more awful, and people like Cleveland and Mort begin to lose their jobs at the deli and pharmacy respectively.

Later, Meg is promoted to assistant manager by Mr. Penisburg, who immediately instructs her to fire Peter. Despite her reservations about her father, she chooses her family over her job and quits, causing Peter to begin to say “I love you”; it's interrupted though by Brian and Stewie, who use Peter's tank to destory the shopping center, reverting conditions in Quahog to normal. Meg takes notice to how Peter was about to say he loves her, but Peter denies it and begins to make fun of Meg with Chris.

Characters[]

Major Roles[]

Minor Roles[]

Quotes[]

Peter: Now I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I am not, sir, and that sir, is an idiot.
Peter: Okay, Lois, you can open your eyes now!
Lois: [sees the tank] Bocce balls!
Joe: Oh wow. Wow, if I were a woman, I would press my bare boobs up against glass in public, just for the SEXUAL THRILL! THE SEXUAL THRILL!!!
Joe: [while playing ping-pong] OH YES!!! I slam it, you can suck it!
Peter: Who's sober enough to drive? [no one answers] Ok, who's drunk, but that special kind of drunk where you're a better driver because you know you're drunk, you know the kind of drunk where you probably shouldn't drive, but you do anyways because, I mean come on, you got to get your car home, right? I mean what do they expect me do, take a bus? Is that what they want? For me to take a bus? Well screw that! You take a bus.
Cleveland: I'm that kind of drunk.
Peter: [throws the keys to Cleveland] Shotgun!
Stewie: Ha! You're Earth's bitch!
[During a Pepperidge Farm commercial]
Man: Remember those sweet, warm New England summers? Remember sipping lemonade underneath a shady tree? Remember when you hit that pedestrian with your car at the crosswalk and then just drove away? Pepperidge Farm remembers, but Pepperidge Farm ain't just gonna keep it to Pepperidge Farm's self free of charge. Maybe you go out and buy yourself some of these distinctive Milano cookies, maybe this whole thing disappears.
[Peter blasts Cleveland's house with his new tank, Cleveland is seen taking a bath, the floor it's on tips over]
Cleveland: What the hell?!?! No no no no no NO!!! [crash!] Hey, Peter, can you blow that towel rack down here? [Peter does so] Thank you.
Lois: So how was work today, Meg?
Peter: phbbt!
Lois: Peter, you lost your job because of the superstore. You shouldn't blame Meg.
Peter: phbbt!
Lois: And you can stop making that fart sound every time someone says 'Meg.'
Peter: phbbt!
Brian: So how was your day exploiting the town's resources, Meg?
Peter: phbbt!
Chris: [laughs] Meg!
Peter: phbbt!
Chris: Meg!
Peter: phbbt!
Chris: Meg! Meg! Meg! Meg! Meg! Meg! Meg!
Peter: phbbt! phbbt! phbbt! phbbt! phbbt! phbbt! phbbt!
Chris: [whispers] Meg!
Peter: [quietly] phbbt!
Meg: I'm not gonna sit here and take this! I'm the only one in this family that has a job!
Peter: [whispers something in Brian's ear]
Brian: [chuckles] Yeah, like she'd get paid for that.
Meg: What did he just say to you?!
Brian: Nothing. It's like.. there was.. forget it. It's nothing, Meg.
Peter: phbbt!
Peter: Meg, people have always found ways to get around without a car. Look at Iceman.
[Scene shows Iceman coming home]
Iceman's wife: Honey, where'd you go when you went out last night?
Iceman: Uh, just over to Tom's house. Played some poker, had some brewskies, you know.
Iceman's wife: Really? Then would you mind explaining that?
[a trail of ice leads to a gay club]
Iceman: At least they know how to touch a man. [his wife leaves] Aw, walk away.
Cleveland: Meg is my least favorite of all your children.
Meg: Dad, where have you been? I've been waiting for over an hour.
Peter: Grab some wood there, bub. Daddy and his friends have been drinking, and we're gonna keep on drinking until we each uncover repressed memories of sexual abuse by a trusted religious official.
Cleveland: Oh, that's crazy tal... [his eyes widen] Oh, my God. Minister Washington, how could you?!
Lois: You know, Peter, maybe Meg having her own car isn't such a bad idea.
Peter: Yeah, I guess so.
Stewie: What?! I have been trying to get a sewing machine for months, but she gets a freakin' car just like that?! I hate this place.
[Scene shows a man and his wife arguing]
Woman: When are you gonna get rid of that stump?! I've been asking you for months to get rid of that stump!
Man: I'll do it, all right?! Just get off my back! [the woman is blown up by Peter’s tank; the man goes outside to the tree stump] She's gone. We can finally be together.
Stump: But, Tim, I'm rooted to the ground.
Man: We'll find a way. We'll find a way.
Peter: Geez, Meg, you ruined my good time! Just like basic cable.
[scene shows Peter watching television]
TV Announcer: We now return to Showgirls.
Peter: Yay!
TV Announcer: On TBS.
Peter: Aww..
Peter: Aw, man, this is the worst thing to happen to this town since that roving gang of Tom Brokaws.
[Scene cuts to Peter running to a gang of Tom Brokaws in an alley]
Tom Brokaw: Looks like someone's a little lost.
[When Peter goes to Superstore USA to protest]
Meg: Dad, what the hell are you doing?
Peter: We got a message for you: We're here, we're queer, get used to it.
Brian: Uh, actually, Peter...
Peter: Gattaca, Gattaca!
Peter: Meg, Meg, look, Meg look. I am so freaking good at coloring. I know I'm not supposed to go outside the lines, but I do anyway because I like being myself.
Lois: Brian, save your hippie B. S. for the winter months.
Peter: Joe, my God, what happened to you?
Joe: You just ran over me, you bastard! I don't know where you got that thing, but I'm impounding it!
Peter: Look at you, you look like a half-empty toothpaste.
Brian: Look at all these Hummers. What kind of jerk would drive one of those?
[Cut to a guy driving in a Hummer]
Guy in Hummer: Dude, this car kicks ass, and I can watch Madagascar while driving!
[The scene cuts to a screen with "Madagascar" on]
Alex: What kind of music do you like, Gloria?
Gloria: Hippo hop! [starts dancing] Woohoo! Yeah baby!
[Cut back to the guy driving a Hummer]
Guy in Hummer: Hahahaha! Dude, those animals are so fucking funny, they make me wanna merge without looking! [The guy then proceeds to change lanes, causing another car to collide into a tanker truck, making it explode] Yeah, Rumsfeld!
Brian: Great, rolling blackouts. Now, Superstore USA is siphoning off all the city's power.
Peter: And they cost me my job.
Chris: Mine, too. Superstore USA has their own paper route!

Songs[]

Trivia[]

  • The disco song that plays during the scene where Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe are rollerskating is “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy, who, not so coincidentally, is also a composer for Family Guy.
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt appears in Ghost Whisperer with enormous breasts.
  • The salesman says that Meg should buy a 1996 sedan, but Peter insists on buying an army tank.
  • When Meg states that she is the only one in her family with a job, she says this before Chris mentions that he lost his paperboy job to the Superstore. Therefore, she knew ahead of time and Chris was informing everyone else.
  • “United Skates of America,” the roller rink where Peter leaves Meg, is a real chain with 17 locations across the United States including one in Rumford, Rhode Island.
  • Peter buys the tank from Wilkins Hyundai and Subaru, the dealership that he was previously a spokesman at in "Patriot Games". The General Lee is one of the cars available at the dealership.
  • Outside the theater where Peter performs a musical version of Red Dawn, there is a large sign with the poster art for the musical Wicked.
  • While working at Superstore USA, one of Meg’s duties is to give Sloth, the deformed strongman from the 1985 film, The Goonies, a Baby Ruth candy bar. He then states that he is “already in a committed relationship,” presumably with Chunk.
  • Peter fires the tank at Cleveland's house exposing him in his bathtub before it falls to the ground. This gag became a recurring staple and was also used in The Cleveland Show.
  • Paddy Tanniger is run over in this episode by the tank and is presumed dead, a fact which is supported by a statement made by Danny Smith on a DVD commentary.
  • While preparing to take out Superstore USA with their tank, Stewie is shown loading the shell into the breech of the tank's gun. However, he fails to close the breech, thus making it impossible to fire the gun, which Brian nevertheless does in the next shot, flattening the superstore.
  • In "A Hero Sits Next Door", Brian tells a woman sitting in front of him that he does not have sweat glands plus dogs can't sweat yet during the power outage and freak heatwave he can clearly be seen sweating through his fur.
  • A poster at the start misspells the commonly used product of the show Pawtucket Patriot ale. The poster states “PAWTUCKET PATRTOT ALE.”
  • According to the DVD commentary, during its initial airing in Canada, the dialog from the cutaway gag involving the man watching the Madagascar DVD while driving was unedited. It has been edited in subsequent airings.

Cultural References[]

  • The scene where the manager hides in the bathroom and is subsequently crushed by the smiley-face sign is a parody of Jurassic Park where the Tyrannosaurus eats the lawyer hiding in the bathroom.
  • The scene with Quagmire seeing a beautiful woman from the back and then turning into a fat woman from the front is similar to the film Shallow Hal.
  • When Joe sends the last ping-pong ball out the window, Peter says he will get some more from Mr. Moose, a reference to the character from Captain Kangaroo who, as a regular joke, has ping-pong balls dropped on the Captain.
  • The Easter-egg hunt scene with Richard Gere refers to an old rumor about him going into an ER to get a gerbil removed from his rectum.
  • While protesting outside the Superstore USA, Peter raises his fist and erroneously chants “Gattaca!”, the 1997 film of the same name instead of “Attica!,” from the film Dog Day Afternoon about the prison protest.
  • Peter saying “When I walk into Superstore USA, I get the sensation...THAT I’M STANDING ON A MOUNTAIN TOP WITH THE WIND BLOWING THROUGH MY HAIR!” is a take-off of the “When I bite into a York Peppermint Patty, I get the sensation” commercials.
  • When Diane Simmons reads an on-air message from the Quahog electric company, she screams “Hey, you guyyyyys!!” a la Rita Moreno from The Electric Company, which is then followed by an animated version of the opening sequence from the show’s first season.
  • "Superstore USA" is a reference to Walmart and other similar retailers.
    • Superstore USA's name bears similarity to Superstar USA, a short-lived American Idol parody in which the goal was to find the worst singers in America.

Continuity Goof?[]

  • In this episode, Goldman's Pharmacy is revealed to be located next to Cleveland's Deli. However, multiple episodes before and after show neither are close to each other. This may just have been a way to make it easier to show both of them losing their jobs then have one scene showing one lose their job and vise versa.
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