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I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
Season 2, Episode 2
Air date September 16, 1999
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I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar is the second episode of the second season of Family Guy. It is the twentieth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

When Peter gets reprimanded for telling politically incorrect jokes at work, he is forced to attend a woman's retreat for sensitivity training. But when he comes home embracing his newfound feminine side, he drives everyone crazy.

Plot[]

Peter and the neighbors receive an advertisement in the mail indicating that they will receive free boats if they attend a time-share sales pitch. However, during a high-pressure sales interview at the Quahog Airport Inn, Peter trades the boat for the "mystery box," which turns out to contain tickets for Chuckle Bucket Comedy Club. At the club, Peter becomes drunk and attempts to tell jokes on stage. Before his brief performance during which he mostly abuses the audience, he places his beer in his pocket upside-down, spilling it down his pants. The audience, amused that Peter looks like he wet himself, laughs hysterically.

I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar

Peter, however, believes his humor to be a hit. Continuing his hubris, Peter tells a sexist joke at his job at the toy factory, which every man finds hilarious, but soon a female co-worker comes to listen but is greatly offended by this, and her lawyer, Gloria Ironbachs, offers to drop the charges if Peter goes to a sensitivity training program. It has no effect, however, and so he is sent to a women's retreat. He continues to make insensitive comments and actions towards women, until he endures pain comparable to child birth. By the time he returns home, he has become very effeminate At first, Lois appreciates Peter's new sensitive nature, but soon tires of it. In fact, Peter actually begins to think he's a woman when he both tries to breastfeed Stewie and looks to a pregnancy test to see if he is pregnant. Peter is even prone to freak out about non-serious things. Then after asking Meg to change Stewie, Lois shows off her breasts to Peter to try to change him back only thought it made him realize he needed a breast exam.

In desperation, Lois asks Peter's friends for help. His friends try in vain to bring him back to normal, but Peter is not restored. They then try to bring him to an African-American convention, so he can return to his original manly ways, but as he tries to affirm how men are ruining the country, he ends up making racist comments to the whole crowd. All the men chase him through town, not because they are angry about his sexist comments toward men, but because he sounded like he was also bad mouthing all the black men in the crowd. Later at a women's charity dinner, Gloria Ironbachs talks to Lois about how Peter is finally treating women with respect, but at the same time insulting Lois, and more importantly her kids. This angers Lois which starts a cat fight, during which some of their clothes are ripped off. After being extremely turned on by the fight, Peter finally comes back to his normal ways.

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Quotes[]

Peter: Hey, hey, Lois, what do you call a woman who takes forever to cook breakfast?
Lois: I swear to God, Peter.
Peter: You call her Lois.
Peter: Why do women have boobs? So you got something to look at while you're talking to them.
Peter: Ok, here's the plan. I'll be Charlie and you can all be be my angels! [looks at an overweight woman] Except you. You'll be Bosley.
Peter: At least I'll be the fattest guy on Spooner Street who's getting a boat.
Fat Albert: Hey, hey, hey! I'm getting a boat!
Peter: Aw man, even Della Reese is getting a boat.
Lois: I guarantee you a man made that commercial.
Peter: Of course a man made it. It's a commercial Lois, not a delicious Thanksgiving dinner.
TV Announcer: Pawtucket Patriot Beer. If you buy it, hot women will have sex in your backyard.
Peter: Women are not people. They are devices built by our Lord Jesus Christ for our entertainment.
Peter: Okay, okay, how many dirty stinkin' apes does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three. One dirty stinkin' ape to screw in the light bulb, and two dirty stinkin' apes to throw feces at each other!
Peter: This comic sucks! He couldn't make me laugh, even if I was laughing my ass off and he was making me do it
Peter: A boat's a boat, but a mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat.
Lois: Then let's get the boa...
Peter: We'll take the mystery box.
Gloria Ironbachs: Mr. Griffin, why don't you come up here and give it a try?
Peter: Alright.
Gloria Ironbachs: The filing is done, Mr. Griffin.
Peter: Thank you Ms. Ironbachs. You are a valued member of our business team and I will give you a raise tomorrow if you come to work without a shirt on.
Gloria Ironbachs: [gasps] Mr. Griffin!
Peter: I'm sorry, that came out wrong. L...lemme try again. [pauses] Nice ass.
Stewie: Oh, Mother, I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint. It's in my diaper and it's not a toaster.
Lois: Meg, Could you please change Stewie for me?
Meg: Fine. But if a boy calls, please don't tell them I'm wrist deep in poopy.
Peter: What day is it?
Lois: Thursday.
Peter: Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I’m late!
Lois: If you spent less time fixing your hair...
Peter: No Lois, I’m late, late. Do we still have that pregnancy test?
Lois: Are you insane? You can’t have a baby.
Peter: Well, I don’t have a lot of options. I’m Catholic. God, I thought you’d be happy!
Joe: Hey neighbors, where's your boat?
Lois: We didn't take the boat, we took the mystery box. Hop in!
Quagmire: I'd do everything to you.
Lois: What?
Quagmire: I'd do anything for you.
Peter: Free Tibet? I'll take it! [runs to a phone booth] Hello, China? I think I have something you may want, but it's gonna cost you. That's right, all the tea.
Stewie: Ok, ok. I've got it, I've got it. If you cooked any more slowly, you wouldn't need an egg timer. You'd need an egg calendar. Ah ha ha ha. Oh, that's right. I went there.
Stewie: [to Lois] I say, if you cooked any slower... well, you wouldn't be cooking very fast at all, would you?...Well, that wasn't very good.
Gloria Ironbachs: No wonder your husband didn't respect women.
Lois: Excuse me?
Gloria Ironbachs: I can't imagine how screwed up your kids must be!
Lois: You bitch!
[After Peter doesn't get the boat]
Brian: What are you so upset about? I never even knew you liked boats.
Peter: Hey, hey, boating's in my blood. Ever since my great-grandfather, Huck Griffin, rafted down the mighty Mississippi.
[Scene cuts to Huck Griffin and Jim]
Jim: What did you just call me?
Huck Griffin: I thought that was your name.
Jim: That is our word! You've got no right using it!
Huck Griffin: Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool. No problem. Could you pass me the oar, N-word Jim?
Jim: Thank you.
Lois: Peter, I think this'll be good for you. You know I love you, but I have to admit, there are times when I wish you were a little more sensitive and...[Peter looks down Lois's chest] Look at me! Look at me!
[When Peter comes home from the women's retreat]
Lois: Welcome back, Peter.
Peter: Lois! I missed you so much! And my babies! Chris, be a munchkin, and bring my bags inside, huh?
Brian: Peter, you're...
Peter: Brian, put the tea on. I have stories. But first, I'm gonna go freshen up and rinse out a few things. Oh, fudge. I broke a nail. Excuse me.
Chris: Oh, my God. Dad's a chick.
[Peter and Lois are in bed together]
Lois: I can't remember the last time we cuddled like this.
Peter: I can't remember the last time I loved you so much!
Lois: How did you get so sweet?
Peter: When I was born, my mommy dunked me in a barrel of sugar.
Brian: Oh, for God's sake!
[Brian goes into Stewie's room and moves Stewie's crib out of the room]
Stewie: [talking in his sleep] Oh, yes, I'll have the coffee cake.
[At the Million Man March]
Jesse Jackson: My brothers, we need to stand together...
Peter: Excuse me! I'd like to say a couple of truths to the men in this audience. It's your fault we have so much crime in this country! And it's your fault we have so much violence in this country! You are ruining our society, and you should be ashamed!
Peter: Look, I don't care how many letters we gotta write. The View should be on for three hours. I mean, you just get going, and boom, it's news at noon.
[Peter and Lois are in bed together]
Lois: That was wonderful.
Peter: Who said that? Oh, hi, Lois. I'm starving. How about a sandwich?
Lois: Glad to have you back, Peter.
Peter: Lois, less talkie, more fetchie.
Lois: I'm just gonna assume that's Chinese for "I love you."

Trivia[]

  • This episode is one of the few episodes to have a cutaway from a previous event in the exact same episode.
  • In the 1956 women in the workplace video one of the female characters that was especially homely in appearance was named Muriel. Family Guy would later introduce the wife of Mort Goldman, named Muriel Goldman.
  • The comedy club Peter and Lois go to is called the Chuckle Bucket Comedy Club.
  • When Peter goes to the Workplace Sensitivity Training course, there is an advertisement which says, "Tomorrow: the Dyslexic Film Society Presents Chevy Chase in Feltch. Fletch was a film indeed starring Chase. The film title is deliberately misspelled to be homonymous with the name of a sexual practice.
  • Peter mentions that Gloria Ironbachs and [Camille Paglia will both “whip it out” and see who is bigger. Camille Paglia is a Freudian literary critic noted for slamming modern-day feminism. It is also of note that her last name is mispronounced on this episode. Her last name is pronounced “Pall-ee-a,’” not “Pag-lee-a.”
  • Huck Griffin, one of Peter's ancestors is named after Mark Twain's character, Huckleberry Finn.
  • The Million Man March was a 1995 protest march on Washington, focusing on respect for and brotherhood of male African-Americans.
  • This episode marks the first appearance of Jim Kaplan.
  • Gloria Ironbachs was the name used in a parody human rights complaint which was dismissed in July 2013.

Cultural References[]

  • The title of the episode is from the chorus of pop singer Helen Reddy's 1972 song "I Am Woman".
  • The monsters shown on the island in the timeshare are from the book Where the Wild Things Are.
  • In the bus, Peter says to the women "I'll be Charlie, and you can all be my angels." This is a reference to the film and television series Charlie's Angels. Peter then points at a fat woman and tells her "Except for you. You can be Bosley," referring to Charlie's male assistant, Bosley.
  • The pain of childbirth being "taking your bottom lip and pulling it over your head," is very similar to Bill Cosby's standup routine about his first child and what he and his wife went through in the delivery room.[1]
  • During the catfight between Lois and Gloria, a baker came out of the kitchen carrying ten banana cream pies and singing, "Ten banana cream pies!" He was then knocked down by Lois and Gloria’s fighting. This is a reference to the old "falling baker" films from Sesame Street that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • The cutaway gag where Peter is in the net surrounded by apes parodies a scene from the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes.
  • Peter "buying" Tibet and calling China, saying he wants all of their tea in exchange for Tibet, is a reference to the expression, "I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China."[2]
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