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Peter's in Charge
Season 1, Episode 6
Air date March 7, 1999
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Peter's in Charge is the sixth episode of the first season of Family Guy. It is the sixth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

When the Griffin family causes Lois to explode, she takes a vacation to see her parents, leaving Peter alone with the kids. But Stewie ends up using a mind control device on Peter to do his bidding.

Plot[]

Lois has been feeling overworked recently with the family using her for granted, and she lashes out by blocking traffic and causing all of Quahog to see when it is placed on the news. When Joe calls Peter in to talk to Lois, he manages to calm her down enough to tell her that he's sorry for taking advantage of her and that he loves her. She is moved by this and exits the car but is later arrested by the police.

After being released by Peter, Lois decides that she needs a vacation. Peter agrees and says they can all go and tells the kids they're going on vacation until Lois re-explains she meant she alone needs a vacation and her vacation is visiting her parents, bumming the family out. Before leaving town, Lois tells Peter he's in charge of the kids while she's away.

While Lois is enjoying her vacation, the rest of the Griffins are suffering without her. Meg and Chris - the former trying to get Kevin's attention and the latter going through puberty - are being constantly ignored by Peter, who wants to watch TV instead of raising them. And any attempt for getting Brian's help are not and are forced to take care of themselves. Even despite having Brian there, he's no help himself. But despite being ignorant of the other kids, Peter still has to take care of Stewie as he's still a baby and Peter needs to protect and care for him. But the constant surveillance from Peter frustrates Stewie even more than Lois, as Stewie admits as much as he hates Lois, she at least gave him space. So, to reticulate, he puts a mind control device on Peter while he's sleeping to make him his slave and do his bidding, like bringing him to a tool shop to get supplies, be his minion to help with constructing machines and even small basic everyday tasks like reach for Stewie's crackers when he wants some.

When Lois returns home from vacation, Stewie uses Peter as a way to kill Lois by making him kill her with an axe, but his device is shorted out by the microwave oven, making Peter turn on Stewie while the others welcome Lois back home.

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Major Roles[]

Minor Roles[]

Quotes[]

Lois: Oh, smoking. How does a boy like that go so wrong?
Peter: Well, they live in a crummy neighborhood.
Brian: The Bradys?
Peter: Oh, hell yeah. They got robbers, thugs, drug dealers, ah, you name it.
Aunt Jemima: You folks want some pancakes?
Peter: No thank you. See, that's the worst we got is Jemima's witnesses.
Lois: Thanks again for breaking me out of jail, Peter and Brian.
Peter: Hey, anytime. Though Brian's mostly to thank. My mediocre paycheck didn't even pay fifty percent.
Lois: Brian, where do you get your money anyway?
Brian: I pick up odd jobs here and there.
[In a cutaway, Brian's dressed as a janitor walking down a hallway to an open door with a window to see outside. He then, after looking behind him, pulls out a sniper and aims it out the open window to snip an old man exiting out of a limo. He then puts away the sniper, and whistles as he walks out as if nothing happened]
Peter: This sucks, Brian. My wife left on vacation for a week, and now I'm stuck raising the kids. (sighes) Forty-two years old and I have no control over my own decisions.
Brian: Peter, honestly I don't think Quagmire's the person you should look to for advice on parenting.
[Someone knocks on Quagmire's door, which he goes to answer. When he opens it, it's revealed to be a woman with a baby]
Woman: [to Quagmire] Remember me, Glenn? This is yours now.
[The woman gives Quagmire the baby and storms off]
Quagmire: Well, I guess I'm stuck raising you.
[Smash cuts to Quagmire walking out of an adoption center after passing the baby there]
Father Bob: I'm a pastor, not a father. I have the same knowledge of raising children as you do.
Peter: But you're name is Father. Bob.
Stewie: [to Meg] So, this is awkward, but... have we ever actually, you know, met? I mean, you know, I don't even know, say, for example, if you have a room up there. You know, a room? I have a room.
Peter: [drives up to James Woods Regional High School and hands Meg her lunch sack] Alright Meg, out.
Meg: [looks in her lunch sack] Dad, there's no food in here. Just a grenade in here.
Peter: If I were you, I'd use it to get a better lunch.
Meg: Dad, can you help me with an assignment for school?
Peter: In a few minutes, sweetie. Daddy's watching Star Trek.
Meg: The last time you said "a few minutes", it took three hours!
Meg: Ew, Dad, look at Chris.
Peter: What is it, honey?
Meg: He's sweating like a pig!
Chris: Shut up, Meg, it's hot in here!
Peter: Meg, your brother's going through a very normal stage in the life of a teenage boy. His body's changing and sometimes it does some very strange things.
Chris: Dad, make it stop!
Peter: Chris, there's nothing Daddy can do except smile and shake his head like the mommies in the Sunny Delight commercials.
Chris: Oh no, I'm screwed!
[As Cleveland and Loretta are washing their car, their son Cleveland Jr. comes up from behind them with a hose spray. Using it like a gun]
Cleveland Jr.: Hey Dad, put him up!
Loretta: Don't you spray us, Cleveland Jr.!
[Cleveland Jr. sprays Cleveland and Cleveland gets up to rub his eyes]
Cleveland Jr.: Now you dead! [laughs] I committed patricide! Now I can't live with myself.
[Cleveland Jr. points the hose spray at him and sprays himself, while running and laughing, until he drops it and shakes off the water]
Cleveland: He has your dark side, Loretta.
[Stewie has taken control over Peter. He has brought Peter to a tool shop]
Stewie: [Into his microphone] Walk up to the counter.
[Peter does so]
Stewie: [into the microphone] Good day, shopkeep.
Peter: [while under Stewie's control] Good day, shopkeep. I require a hand-operated buzz saw, capable of cutting through a human sternum.
Shopkeeper: What?
Peter: [while under Stewie's control] It's for a work project. I was sent here from my job at the ... oh blast what the devil does he work at? Uh... Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory.
Shopkeeper: Sir, I don't think power tools are needed for that kind of job.
Peter: [while under Stewie's control] Now look here, you gourd-bellied cod piece. Allow me to purchase the provisions I demand or I shall transform your blue collar into a red one and... who the deuce are you? No, I don't have any spare change. Where the hell would I keep it, in my diaper? Get out of here, you hobo. Oh, bloody hell, is this thing still on?

Songs[]

Trivia[]

  • The episode begins with the family watching an episode of The Brady Bunch in which Jan tattles on Greg for smoking cigarettes. A real episode titled "Where There's Smoke" featured a similar plot.
  • This is the first episode to:
    • Introduce Lois' wealthy background and her parents Carter and Babs Pewterschmidt.
    • Introduce Stewie’s teddy bear Rupert.
  • This episode debuts the running gag of Peter getting hit in the crotch with a bag of nickels.

Cultural References[]

  • The episode's name is a reference to the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge.
  • "Jemima's Witnesses" are a reference to Aunt Jemima's pancake syrup and the Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • Stewie uses his mind control device to force Peter to sing “Puttin' on the Ritz” by Irving Berlin. This refers to a scene in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein where the monster performs the same song.
  • After his mind control device short-circuits and Stewie is chased by Peter, he eludes him by disguising himself in a trenchcoat and sunglasses resembling Ferris from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Continuity[]

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