Mr. Saturday Knight | |
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Season 3, Episode 9 | |
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Air date | October 13, 2000 |
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Mr. Saturday Knight is the ninth episode of the third season of Family Guy. It is the fiftieth episode, overall.
Synopsis[]
A dinner with the boss ends with Peter's boss, Mr. Weed, choking on a dinner roll and dying before Peter is offered a promotion. What's worse, Peter ends up out of a job when Mr. Weed's video will includes a request to shut down Happy-Go-Lucky Toys and replace it with a pharmaceutical company. After many replacement jobs prove useless (and, in the case of the prostitute job, illegal), Peter decides to live out his dream of being a Renaissance Fair knight.
Plot[]
When Peter appears at “Career Day” for Chris’s class, the kids are not impressed with his menial job at the toy factory; even nerdy pharmacist Mort Goldman receives a better response. Peter begins to worry that he is stuck at a dead-end job within the company, so Lois encourages him to invite his boss, Mr. Weed, to dinner. The occasion proceeds surprisingly well, and Mr. Weed is quite impressed with Peter’s home, family and “funny talking dog.” When he mentions that he will promote Peter to head of toy development, the shock causes Brian to start choking on a dinner roll. When Peter and Lois try to get it out with the Heimlich maneuver, it ejects out of Brian’s mouth and into Mr. Weed’s mouth, causing him to choke on it, and he dies. Suddenly, someone pounds on the front door and announces that the police are conducting a random dead body search; Peter panics and attempts to flush Mr. Weed’s body down the toilet. Death enters and admits that he was just joking about the police search.
At Mr. Weed’s funeral, Peter pathetically attempts to convince his co-workers of Mr. Weed’s dying promise to promote him via a mustachioed hand puppet. Weed’s videotaped will, however, reveals that immediately after his death, the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory is to be demolished to make way for the Happy-Go-Lucky Terminal Disease Institute. As promised, the building is immediately razed and all workers are fired. With this meaning Peter needs to find a new job to continue supporting the family.
Peter experiences difficulties in finding a new career, and even tries to become a cheap hooker. Lois reminds him of his long-standing dream of becoming a Renaissance Fair jouster. In a flashback, Peter remembers how he had a bad acid trip as a teenager. He jumped from a roof while attempting to fly and was saved by the Black Knight on horseback. Peter enrolls in joust training with Mort Goldman, displaying enthusiasm but little patience for speaking in “ye”s and “thou”s. When the Black Knight’s girlfriend flirts with Peter, the Knight bullies him into leaving the Fair. Peter remains inconsolable despite his family’s encouragement but decides to watch the joust from the stands.
Unsurprisingly, the Black Knight defeats all challengers, inspiring Mort to flee in terror before their horses near each other. The Knight notices Peter in the stands and begins berating him. Suddenly determined to defeat the Black Knight, Peter challenges him. Certain doom is averted when the Black Knight is distracted by an announcement that his Hyundai is being towed by a vengeful Mort. Peter unhorses him and wins the competition. Peter refuses an offer to join the Ren Fair as their new champion jouster, and the family leaves for home.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
Minor Roles[]
- Brian Griffin
- Meg Griffin
- Stewie Griffin
- Chris Griffin
- Death's Dog
- Johnson
- Sarah Bennett
- Kenneth
- Derek
- John
- Cleveland Brown
- Randall Fargus
- Performance Artist
- Jimmy Hopkins
- Danielle
- Rupert
- Tom Tucker
- Diane Simmons
- Ollie Williams
- Tricia Takanawa
- Leonard Hale
- Margot Kidder
- Richard Dawson
- Gene Rayburn
- Betty White
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Brett Somers
- Jousting Drill Instructor
- Renaissance Fair Jester
- Maid Madeline
- Barbara
Quotes[]
- [While at Chris' career day]
- Peter: Hey, kids! Hey, you know what I do? I work at a toy factory and you know what I do there?
- Boy: I bet you're just one of those low-level assembly-line guys who stands there all day screwing heads on dolls. "Ooh, is it on straight? I don't know." Boo!
- Peter: Why, you little snot-nosed...
- Randall Fargus: Mr. Griffin! That's enough! (takes Peter out the classroom and talks to him in person) He plays kickball in the park after school. Get him there.
- Peter: I still remember my last job at The Electric Company.
- [cutaway to the word spelling segment]
- Man: D
- Peter: ot
- Both: Dot.
- Man: B
- Peter: et
- Man: Bet
- Peter: Bet. I knew that, slow it down now.
- Man: P
- Peter: it
- Man: Pit
- Peter: Pit. Oh, come on pal, this is my first day.
- Man: F
- Peter: at
- Man: Fat
- Peter: Oh, that's it, buddy!
- [Mr. Weed has just died. There is a knock on the front door to the Griffin residence]
- Deep voice: Police! Random dead body search!
- [Lois, Peter, and Brian panic. Peter tries to flush Mr. Weed's corpse down the toilet as Lois answers the door to find it is really Death]
- Death: Ha ha! Naw, it is just me. I am only here to collect the dead body.
- Lois: Peter! You can relax, it is only Death.
- Peter: Oh, hey Death!
- [Death takes the corpse and departs Griffin residence. Death's Dog appears]
- Death's Dog: Hey, did someone choke on a dinner roll?
- Brian: No, I recovered.
- Death's Dog: Sorry about that.
- The Black Knight: A word of advice... the path to knighthood is paved with strength and nobility, not LSD and sideburns.
- Tom Tucker: Welcome back to Quahog five news, and now here's Ollie Williams with the Blaccu weather forecast. Ollie?
- Ollie Williams: It's Gon' Rain!
- Tom Tucker: Thanks Ollie!
- Mort: I was once addicted to antihistamines. I took so many I thought I was Mr. Peanut.
- Peter: You know, since money's getting tight, I was gonna suggest that we eat the kids. You know, jokingly at first, but then I was gonna gauge your reaction and if you were cool with it, we would go from there.
- Peter: Nobody calls me a fizzle and gets away with it! Except that one guy who called me a fizzle and then he ran off. He got away with it. But most people who call me a fizzle don't get away with it. Well, actually, that guy who got away with it was the only one who ever called me a fizzle. After today... only half the people who ever called me a fizzle will have gotten away with it.
- Margot Kidder: AAAH! AAAH! AAAAAH! Forgot my purse. AAAAAH!
- Stewie: I'd do her, do her, wouldn't do her. Ugh, who hasn't done her? Do her, lose the pigtails and we'll talk, do her, do her.
- [At Buddy Cianci Junior High School, Peter was walking with Randall Fargus to his classroom as his buddy in teaching]
- Peter: Thanks for allowing me to teach kids alongside you, Mr. Fargus.
- Randall: Hey Pete, you got my job back so, hey, you scratch my back, I scratch yours.
- Peter: So, how's you pay here?
- Randall: Eh, it's something. I mean it's not like it's bad, it's more... mediocre...? Well, it pays the bills to my apartment and that's the most important part.
- [As they got to the door to start their first class, Randall pulled out one of his extra ties he carried in case of emergencies and put it around Peter's neck]
- Randall: Okay, remember, we're going in with the want to be memorable.
- [Peter and Randall then head inside the classroom, jumping on pogo sticks wearing jester hats, causing a laughter in the students. After a few more seconds to let them get out their laughter, Randall gets off his pogo and onto the ground, taking off his jester hat.]
- Randall: Good morning, class
- Students: Good morning, Mr. Fargus!
- Randall: Today, we'll be joined by an extra friend. Say hello to Mr. Peter Griffin.
- Students: Good morning, Mr. Griffin!
- Chris: Hi, Dad!
- [Peter hops off his pogo stick and stood next to Randall so he could talk about him]
- Randall: Peter was actually one of my old classmates when he was around your guy's age.
- Peter: Yeah, and it's an honor to be teaching you guys alongside one of my favorite teachers.
- [Fargus then takes out a sledgehammer and a container of light bulbs]
- Randall: Now for today's experiment, we're taking a suggestion from Mr. Griffin. So, everyone grab a sledgehammer, and line up!
- [Smash cuts to the two standing in the now darken classroom with smoke blooming and the fire alarm ringing]
- Peter: I think I should leave-
- Randall: Yes, you should.
- Peter: [Dressed as a prostitute] Hey. Looking for a good time, sweetcheeks?
- Meg: Oh. My God.
- Lois: Peter, get in the car!
- Peter: Ok, but it'll cost you. What do you want, a Cleveland steamer?
- Lois: I said get in the car...what's a Cleveland steamer?
- Brian: It means that he'll...
- Peter: [As a police car passes] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Be cool; be cool. Yes, so go to Maple Street and then take a left and then you go...ok, so you want a party or what?
- Lois: GET IN THIS CAR RIGHT NOW!!
- [Peter complies]
- Stewie: It's eerie, isn't it? Like looking into the future.
- Black Knight: What's your fatass doing here?
- Bruce: He's my only means of conveyance, but I guess I do spoil him.
- Black Knight: Clearly, you do.
- Mort: Take that, you bastard! Nobody makes a fool out of Mort Goldman!
- Lois: Remember that episode of The Honeymooners when Ralph lost his job, but at the end of the show he didn't get it back?
- Peter: Oh yeah. What was up with that? That bugged the crap out of me.
Song[]
Trivia[]
- This episode marks the first appearance of Ollie Williams, who shouts, "IT’S GON’ RAIN!"
- Peter's boss Mr. Weed chocks on a dinner roll and dies. And as a result, the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory is shut down forever, leaving Peter out of a job.
- We learn the original surname of Mr. Weed family was Bermudagrass. Bermuda grass, while prized for its hardiness, is sometimes considered to be a weed. Both are also slang terms for marijuana.
- Stewie plays Mad Libs based on the fairy tale Cinderella.
- A flashback shows Peter on the 1970s educational show The Electric Company.
- When Lois drops Peter off at the renaissance fair, his car door opens up as if it were a suicide door.
- When Peter has a flashback to when the Black Knight saves him, he recalls taking LSD but being told that it was a cheeseburger.
- Mort says that he once took too many antihistamines and thought he was Mr. Peanut, the Planters' mascot.
- When a server at the fair speaks in Old English language, Peter says "Listen you freak, we don’t all watch Frasier."
- Lois says the ending of this episode reminds her of the episode of The Honeymooners in which Ralph lost his job and did not get it back by the end of the episode.
- One of the classmates of Chris is also seen in “To Love and Die in Dixie” but features as Chris' crush, Barbara.
- For the end credits, a "medieval" version of the theme song is heard.
- Chris watches a rerun of the 1970s game show The Match Game with host Gene Rayburn reading this question to the panel: "Forgetful Freddy was so forgetful, when he tried to remember someone’s name he drew a blank," parodying the show’s use of fill-in-the-blank queries. Brett Somers appears on The Match Game as one of the panelists. Dan Palladino notes in the episode commentary that they made a mistake in her placement, shifting her to the side from her traditional top center seat.
- To impress Mr. Weed, Chris, Stewie and Meg sing "So Long, Farewell" from the musical The Sound of Music. According to Seth MacFarlane on the DVD commentary track for this episode, the estate of Rodgers and Hammerstein asked that an unrelated "fart joke" be removed from the script before approving the use of the song.
- Also in the commentary, MacFarlane notes that the censors would not allow them to use the term “half and half” in the scene where Peter tries out prostitution as a job. The censors did allow the term "Cleveland Steamer", which MacFarlane cheerfully admitted is a much more vile, if lesser known, concept.
Continuity[]
- Peter goes back to the Unemployment Office he went to in "Employee for Fire"
- In the spirit of return, Randall Fargus lets Peter work as a co-teacher in his job as payment for Peter getting his job back in "Running Mates".
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#04 | Peter Griffin's All-Stars | #05 | One if by Clam, Two if by Sea | #06 | And the Wiener Is ... | |||
#07 | Blind Ambition | #08 | Breaking Out is Hard to Do | #09 | Mr. Saturday Knight | |||
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#13 | A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas | #14 | From Method to Madness | #15 | Model Misbehavior | |||
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