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Jungle Fever
Season 4, Episode 14
Air date September 28, 2003
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Jungle Fever is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of Family Guy. It is the seventy-sixth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

Chris runs away from his home after getting hazed and joins the Peace Corps, after which he is dropped off in South America and becomes popular with the indigenous people. Peter gets a job at the Pawtucket Brewery, where the beer is free as long as employees do not drink during their shift.

Plot[]

Chris is having a hard time add his middle school in recent times, as the “Upcoming Freshman Hunt”, a hazing ritual in which the students of high schools invade the middle school to beat the upcoming freshmen with paddles, have Chris get paddled by several high schoolars, including the mayor. As a result, Chris asks Brian for advice and he tells of joining the Peace Corps.

In the meantime, Peter, who has been unemployed for quite some time, goes to work at the Pawtucket Brewery, where drinking on the job is allowed as long as the employee can control himself. But since Peter can’t control his drinking, he has been demoted to the shipping department ending up as a subordinate to a mentally handicapped man named Opie for whom he can’t understand but is more qualified than him.

Chris decides to join the Corps and goes to South America, where he becomes popular with the natives. When he gets the tribe to dance, he is married to the chief’s daughter, as dictated by the tribe’s customs.

When Lois learns of this she immediately travels down to the country with the rest of the family. Disillusioned with his new job, Peter is as eager to go there as anyone else. Upon their arrival Peter is seen as the richest man in the country with just $37. Many of the natives of the country then become Peter’s slave for just nickels and dimes. When Chris accuses Peter of “using” the natives to escape his troubles Lois points out that that is also what Chris did. Chris then decides to return to Rhode Island, telling his wife that he must leave her, casually referring to his status as a freshman. The natives respond exactly as the upperclassmen in Quahog do, so they chase the Griffins with spears and poison darts. The Griffins escape on a seaplane, but forget Meg, who is left face-down in the river riddled with darts and arrows.

Characters[]

Major Roles[]

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Quotes[]

Lois Griffin: [honks car horn] FRESHMAN!!!
Brian: Cut. Print. Gay.
Sandy Duncan: Hey, is Peter there? I'd like to rehire him, my glass eye isn't working out.
Glenn Quagmire: Hey, Wheat Thins. Take your top off!
Brian: This is amazing. You've got the largest hut in the village and all these servants. And you've only spent a dollar fifty.
Stewie: Uhh, that's a hell of a lot less than I had to spend to go see that piece of crap remake of Bewitched. [cuts to a theater]
Nicole Kidman: Guess what? I'm a witch!
Will Ferrell: Guess what? I'm a Clippers fan! [theater audience laugh apart from Stewie]
Stewie: Mmhmmm... [Stewie calmly leaves the theater, hails a taxi, goes to the airport, goes through ticketing and security, gets on a plane, passes the time reading a magazine until the plane lands in LA on the other side of America from Quahog, finds the prearranged limo driver, goes to the hardware store, buys a stepladder, returns to the limo, goes to Will Ferrell's house, calmly walks to the front door, unfolds the ladder, climbs it to ring the bell, and Will Ferrell comes to the door]
Will Ferrell: Hello? [Stewie punches Ferrell in the face]
Stewie: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

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Trivia[]

  • From this episode forward, until "Return to the Seas", Peter is employed as a shipping clerk at the Pawtucket Pat Brewery. It was last seen in “Wasted Talent” in a spoof of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and has changed since Pawtucket Pat sold it.
  • Peter’s ideal jobs are cowboy, astronaut, warlock, more powerful astronaut, and beer expert. This is mentioned in a further episode “Patriot Games” when Peter pretends to be a “Secret Agent Cowboy Astronaut Millionaire” in order to impress his old friends at a high school reunion.
  • At the beginning of the episode, Peter and his friends watch an episode of the HBO western drama Deadwood, which puns on the word wood, which is slang for erection.
  • When Lois tries to recall which of the family’s acquaintances was in the Peace Corps, Peter suggests actor Beau Bridges who was never in the Peace Corps.
  • In a cutaway, Peter was Kevin Federline’s magic mirror. In which he told Kevin to not shave or shower, keep wearing his tank top that he slept in all day, and walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment after Kevin asked Peter how he can "look like a douchebag" that day.
  • Peter asks Chris who was the female star of in the 1980’s detective series Remington Steele. Chris correctly points out that it was Stephanie Zimbalist.
  • Peter pays the natives to reenact the episode “The Contest” from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The line spoken by the high priestess playing Elaine, however, is from another episode, “The Stall”.
  • In a cutaway, Stewie tours Europe with a musical rendition of My Left Foot, Irish author Christy Brown’s memoir of his struggle with cerebral palsy, which was turned into an acclaimed 1989 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
  • Chris mentions Lou Gehrig being a hero, a clip is then shown of Lou creating a poison he calls Lou Gehrig’s disease to enslave the Earth. The poison then spills on Gehrig causing him to contract the disease, he is then shown in a wheelchair, realizing the karmic irony.
  • Peter has a flash-back to when he was an assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, showing Peter morphed into a Beaker design and meeping. Bunsen laughs and agrees with Peter.
  • There is an extended sequence in which Stewie flies to Los Angeles to punch actor/comedian Will Ferrell for his role in the 2005 film remake of the television series Bewitched, which generally opened to poor reviews. The writers of the show stated in the DVD commentary for this episode that they like Ferrell, but they hated the film remake and felt let down by him. They also mentioned that the joke was originally Stewie going to beat up Steve Martin after seeing him in Bringing Down the House. Ferrell had previously guest starred in “Mr. Saturday Knight” and “15 Minutes of Shame”.

Cultural References[]

  • The episode’s title is a reference to a single of the same name by the Steve Miller Band.
  • The scene in which Chris is beaten with paddles is from the film Dazed and Confused. As in the film, the song in the background is “No More Mr. Nice Guy” by Alice Cooper. Mayor Adam West’s sequence is directly referencing Ben Affleck’s character from the same film.
  • At different times, Peter and Quagmire had jobs as “Sandy Duncan’s glass eye. Duncan, a Broadway and television actress, underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1972. She said that she lost sight in one eye and unconfirmed rumors persist that it was removed and replaced with a prosthetic. Quagmire calls Sandy "Wheat Thins", referencing that she was a spokesperson for Wheat Thins.
  • Stewie is shown in a cutaway reenacting Dustin Hoffman’s role from the film Tootsie.
  • The chief has a cousin named Vinny, who is Joe Pesci’s character Vincent Gambini from the film My Cousin Vinny, impersonated here by Jay Mohr. Later, Peter actually refers to him as Pesci.
  • The chief says “Never had it, never will” and laughs. This was a commercial slogan for the 7 Up brand soft drink from the 1980’s, indicating that 7-Up was always caffeine-free.
  • The ending when the Griffins are escaping from the natives is a spoof of a similar scene in the beginning of the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark, complete with the musical theme.

Continuity[]

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