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Peter Griffin: Husband, Father, ... Brother?
Season 2, Episode 7
Air date October 24, 1999
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Peter Griffin: Husband, Father, ... Brother? is the seventh episode of the second season of Family Guy. It is the twenty-fifth episode, overall.

Synopsis[]

While teaching Chris about his Irish heritach, Peter finds out he has a black ancestor

Plot[]

When Chris starts talking "street", Peter first thinks he is "speaking in tongues" and tries an exorcism. Later, at Cleveland's suggestion, Peter tries to get Chris to connect with his Irish ancestry at the Museum of Irish Heritage, but a trip to the genealogical section of the Quahog Public Library reveals the Griffin family has a black ancestor, Nate Griffin. Meanwhile, after a basketball game, Stewie becomes obsessed with the cheerleaders at Buddy Cianci Jr. High School, because he believes they have mind control powers, having seen them pump up the audience, including himself. He begins following them and listening to their conversations to learn about their techniques, eventually adopting their ways.

After Peter finds out about Nate, he decides to reach his black roots by going to a meeting with Cleveland's family, but fails. He learns someone got Rice Krispie treats as compensation from a family that used to own their ancestor. When Carter appears to inform the children of the Pewterschmidt side of the family after hearing of Peter's lineage, it is revealed from a photograph that the ancestors of the family kept Nate Griffin as a slave. Peter demands "Rice Krispie treats" from Carter, who offers him $10,000, then gives him $20,000 because he assumes Rice Krispie treats is black slang for money. Peter squanders the money to convert the den into a replica of Pee-wee's Playhouse, which angers Lois.

While spying on the cheerleaders in the locker room at school, Stewie hears the lead cheerleader, Cindi, yelling at the squad for messing up on their pyramid during practice. He then realizes that the pyramid is their source of power, so he plots to get rid of Cindi to take her place at the top of the pyramid at the upcoming game. At the game, Peter becomes alienated by both the black and white communities, and goes to the bathroom, where he sees Nate Griffin in the mirror, who gives him advice. Stewie kidnaps Cindi, then hides her in the men's bathroom. He ties her up and gags her with tape while threatening her, but then tells her he will not hurt her. He comes out dressed as her and attempts to control the audience by telling them to stab each other with knives. The pyramid falls and Stewie drops the microphone. Peter picks it up and announces to the audience that he realizes he made a mistake and that he will be sharing his reparation money with his brothers. When he sees white people partaking, he mentions that he was just talking to the black people. He then decides it does not matter if you are black or white, but what matters is green.

During the credits, Quagmire finds Cindi bound and gagged in the bathroom stall and is delighted, exclaiming "Dear Diary...JACKPOT!"

Characters[]

Major Roles[]

Minor Roles[]

Quotes[]

Lois: Peter, it's just a phase. You've gone through a few yourself, you know.
Brian: Yeah, like those two weeks you've spend narrating your own life.
[in the Griffins' kitchen]
Peter: [narrating] I walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. I looked with a grimace at the questionable meal Lois had placed in front of me. Of course, I never tell her how disgusted I was with her cooking, but somehow I think she knew. Lois had always been full of energy and life, but lately I began to grow more aware of her aging. The bright, exuberant eyes that I had fallen in love with were now beginning to grow dull and listless with a long fatigue of a weary life... [Lois punches him in the face and leaves. Late in the night, Peter stills lays on the ground until ...]
Peter: I awoke several hours later in a daze.
Chris: What's a library, Dad?
Peter: Oh, it's just a place where homeless people come to shave and go BM.
Peter: [after realizing Nate is black] Holy crap! I'm part black!
Buck: Hey, I thought you claimed to be part Indian.
Peter: Uh, well, actually both are true and I'm a "Mulattestizo".
Peter: Wow ... so it's true!
Chris: Cool! I get to be black and Irish! [gasps] That means I finally have a N-word Pass and I can say it with no issues!
[As he's about to scream it, Peter covers his mouth last second]
Peter: Yeah, never try to do that.
Meg: Yeah, and now I can wear clothes that show off my big butt.
Lois: Aww –! I gotta tell Bonnie I'm sleeping with a black man!
Peter: Welp....time for me to be hittin' the old dusty trail. [Peter tries to get out, passing by a man with dreadlocks] I like your hat. [goes to other side] Can't get out this way. [goes on other side and finds and breaks the fire alarm] Found the fire alarm.
Cleveland: Yesterday, we received reparations from the family that enslaved my ancestors.
Black Members: Amen!
Loretta: The family has become poor white trash-ass since then, so they only gave what they could, a tray of scrumptious Rice Krispie treats.
Cleveland: We share them with all of you in the hopes that one day your wounds may be healed as well. Pass them out, Jr.
Carter: Okay, Meg, here's your question: How do you buy friendship?
Meg: Buying friendship?
[Meg gets slapped across the face by Babs]
Carter: [makes buzzer sound] Wrong! Now, Chris, this one's for you. What's the secret to happiness?
Chris: Money!
Carter: Very good. Babs, give him a caramel.
Lois: Peter, what on earth are you wearing?
Peter: It's a dashiki. And don't call me Peter. That's my slave name. Call me Kichwa Tembo.
Chris: Cool! And I'll be Mambuto O'Malley.
Carter: How do you spell "Kichwa"?
Peter: Yeah, y'know what? Screw the "Kichwa", make it out to "Peter" – P-E-T-E ...
Stewie: Heavens! It appears that my wee-wee has been stricken with rigor mortis.
Peter: It doesn't matter whether you're black or white. The only color that matters is green.
Quagmire: Dear Diary...Jackpot!

Songs[]

Trivia[]

  • Peter adopts the name Kichwa Tembo when embracing his African heritage. In Swahili, “Kichwa” means head and “Tembo” means elephant. Peter has literally renamed himself Head Elephant. Swahili is mainly spoken in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. However, Africans brought to the U.S. as slaves were almost all West Africans, and would certainly not have spoken Swahili. In any case, it is not expected that Peter would know this, and was just being ignorant.
  • In a cutaway, Peter and Chris are playing Operation on a homeless person instead of the game board.
  • A rap version of the theme song performed by Peter is heard over the end credits.
  • Nate Griffin will appear once more in “Untitled Griffin Family History”.
  • It seems apparent that Nate Griffin is not an ancestor of Peter's, given the fact that as it was confirmed that Peter is descended from the McFinnigan family, not the Griffin family, due to his true father Mickey McFinnigan although it is not impossible for the McFinnigans to have branched off from the Griffins at some point in history meaning Peter could be both a Griffin and a McFinnigan.
  • A cutaway shows Stewie, drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men. It shows that Stewie knows O.J. Simpson but in the later "lost" episode "The Juice Is Loose", Stewie doesn't know who O.J. is.
  • Stewie makes a note to himself to try to understand the cheerleaders’ fixation with the “homosexuals” in the boy band ’N Sync.
  • Cleveland receives reparations from the family who enslaved his ancestors but, because the family has become poor white trash, they could only give him a tray of Rice Krispie treats.
  • The scene showing Ireland before the “discovery” of alcohol features technology similar to the cartoon series The Jetsons.
  • Peter watches a comedian who makes jokes about Jheri curl, an oily, glossy hairstyle worn by African Americans in the 1980s.
  • After Peter’s speech, he is cheered on by the junkyard gang from the cartoon Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, although the title character is not among them.
  • According to DVD commentary, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off parody in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was originally going to be placed in this episode, in the part where Stewie and the cheerleaders are in the cafeteria.

Cultural References[]

  • The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film American Beauty. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
  • When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
  • The professor of Peter’s African American studies class mentions Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court. Peter responds by “whooping,” in a manner similar to audience members on The Arsenio Hall Show.
  • Trying to convince the group of black men that he’s one of them, Peter borrows heavily from a speech by 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. However, instead of referencing various incidents in the civil rights movement, Peter mentions episodes of 1970s/1980s sitcoms with black characters, including The Jeffersons, Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life.
  • Peter uses his reparations money to turn his den into the set from Pee-wee's Playhouse, sings a comical variation of the theme song, convinces Brian to play the genie Jambi, references the King of Cartoons, and screams when Lois says the “secret word”.
  • Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?.

Continuity[]

  • Change for a Buck gets on Peter's case when he yells he's black, saying that he previously claimed to be part Indian. Which Peter told him in "The Son Also Draws" and repeated again in "Meg for Mercy".

Continuity Error[]

  • Peter acts surprised that he had a black relative, despite already knowing he had a black relative, Rufus Griffin. Who was shown in the previous episode, "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'".
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