Hot Pocket-Dial

Hot Pocket-Dial
Season 11, Episode 23
Air date	February 17, 2013
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Hot Pocket-Dial is the twenty third episode of season eleven of Family Guy. It's the two hundred and sixty-ninth episode overall.

Synopsis

Quagmire admits that he is in love with Lois. Unfortunately, he proclaims his love while he has accidentally pocket-dialed Peter. Peter is furious and Lois takes it upon herself to fix the situation.

Plot

After the family dines out at a fancy restaurant, Peter's experience with a toothpick changes him into a stereotypical tough guy. When he accidentally swallows it, he has to return to the steakhouse for another. But when he sees an old woman use one, his need ends. There, they run into Quagmire and Ida and receive an invitation to join them. Lois' charm gets to Quagmire and he admits to Ida that he has a crush on her but can't get close due to Peter. But when Peter and Lois return home, Peter checks his phone and finds that Quagmire accidentally called during his talk with Ida and he overhears about his love for her.

Peter shares his story with Vinny, and although he is told that he may be making too big a deal out of it, Peter is convinced that Quagmire is determined to take Lois away. Vinny encourages him to keep it to himself, but at Peter's neighborhood picnic, he finds it difficult to control his jealousy and Quagmire's innocent conversation causes him to confront him in front of everyone. Quagmire is upset about his private conversation being made public and they fight until Peter orders the picnic over. Days later, Peter still can't get over it but Lois is amused by Quagmire's feelings. Peter admits that he is afraid of losing her but she reassures him that she's not leaving him, but he refuses to follow her advice to be friends again as he feels Quagmire should be punished. Later, Lois and Quagmire bump into each other at the store and despite Lois' attempt to work out the issues between the pair, Quagmire is embarrassed about his feelings being public so he decides to move from the neighborhood.

At the Clam, the remaining guys find it hard to converse without Quagmire's input. At home, Peter mopes around the house and when Lois tries to perk him up, he snaps at her until she decides to hunt down Quagmire and force the two of them to face each other. Acting as an intermediary, she gets everyone to admit to their own secret thoughts. Peter goes along and Quagmire agrees to suppress his true feelings.

Characters

Major Roles

• Glenn Quagmire
• Ida Davis
• Lois Griffin
• Peter Griffin

Minor Roles

• Vinny Filipeli
• Stewie Griffin
• Chris Griffin
• Meg Griffin
• Joe Swanson
• Bonnie Swanson
• Cleveland Brown
• Donna Tubbs-Brown
• Rallo Tubbs
• Cleveland Brown Jr.
• Roberta Tubbs
• Neil Goldman
• Mort Goldman
• Carter Pewterschmidt
• Crystal Quagmire (Cameo)
• Brenda Quagmire (Cameo)
• Herbert the Pervert
• Maurice
• Ariel
• General Zod

Songs

• Love in My Life
• Shame, Shame, Shame

Trivia

• Peter tries to replace Quagmire by telling an off-color joke about the family, before trying out his "Who else but Quagmire?" gag with his own name.
• A cutaway about Quagmire's grandmother's funeral shows both his mother Crystal and sister, Brenda Quagmire. A previously mentioned brother, Gary, is still unidentified.

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to both the "Hot Pocket" brand of snack sandwiches, and to the practice of "pocket dialing" which is when a cell phone is accidentally activated while in the user's pocket.
• Peter and Lois' visit to Auschwitz mimics the common opening for Walt Disney Pictures used since 2006.[1]
• Carter awakens thinking of the song "How Much Is That Doggy in the Window".
• Stewie compares the appearance of both Neil and Mort Goldman to Coachella, referring to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.[2]
• Quagmire walking naked through a medieval town with Peter yelling "shame" is a reference to Game of Thrones, specifically the walk of shame done by Cersei Lannister in the episode "Mother's Mercy".
• Peter's line of "I'm going over there right now and hit him with a shovel like a white trash YouTube girl" is a reference to a viral video of a fight between two teenage girls, Miranda Fugate and Emily Olinger, during which Olinger hit Fugate in the back of the head when she threw a shovel at her. [3]