Dee Bradley Baker |
Klaus |
Rachael MacFarlane |
Hayley |
Scott Grimes |
Steve |
Seth MacFarlane |
Stan/Roger |
Wendy Schaal |
Francine |
Azura Skye |
Veronica |
Guest Star |
David Herman |
Man/Zack |
Guest Star |
Barclay DeVeau |
Lacy |
Guest Star |
Lizzy Caplan |
Debbie |
Recurring Role |
Patrick Stewart |
Bullock |
Recurring Role |
Jeff Fischer |
Jeff Fischer |
Recurring Role |
The Pam's Liquor store you see in one of the backgrounds is a nod to the Director of this episode, Pam Cooke.
Playing the board game Battleship, Debbie tells Steve that he sunk her battleship. However, when she holds it up, the ship has three pegs in it when four pegs are required for the battleship to sink. Only three were needed to sink the submarine and destroyer.
The color of the orange juice changes when Francine hands it to Stan.
Featured Music: "Let's Hear it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams
Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Jewish Gynecologist Develops Pap Schmear."
(Stan is mocking Debbie being fat)
Hayley: Who are you to judge someone's weight?
Klaus: Ja! Your suit is stuffed tighter than, um...some funny German word. (sighs) Sorry, I'm kind of running out of fish schtick.
Francine: Now, come on, I made your favorite pot roast.
Stan: Get that away from me! (whacks plate out of her hand and shoots his gun at the plate) Die, calories, die!
Stan: That was one exhausting workout.
(beeps)
Stan: Oh, time for my workout.
("Let's Hear It For the Boys" plays)
Debbie: You had me at lasagna.
Steve: I never said lasagna.
Debbie: Yeah, but I was thinking about it.
Hayley: We were just freezing our...
Francine: Tampons!!
Stan: What?
Hayley: It's a woman thing, keeps them crisp, great in the summer.
Francine: More refreshing than a popsicle!
Stan: Hayley, are you wearing makeup? You look like a whore.
Steve: How ya doing, Dad?
Stan: Fat and healthy, son. In a few weeks, I'll be a regular Debbie.
(Steve starts crying)
Stan: Steve, what's wrong? What about the word "regular" set you off? Here, have a Little Debbie.
(Steve continues crying)
Stan: What, now it's the word "little"? You know what? Why don't I put on some Debbie Gibson and we can talk about it?
(Steve cries even more)
Zack: Hey, bro, I couldn't help noticing you're kind of fat and pathetic.
Stan: And you're kind of perfect and scrumptious. What's your point?
Stan: Where's Steve? Still caught in Debbie's gravitational pull?
Francine: Stan, you're being ridiculous. We have a guest out there.
Stan: Please, Francine, show some panic. Our son is dating a fatty.
Hayley: Dad, that's awful. Plus-size women drive our economy with their purchases of Garfield books and Haagen-Dazs.
Francine: You apologize to your son.
Stan: For what? You brought fat into our house.
Steve: You'd like Debbie if you got to know her, Dad. There's a lot more to her than you think.
Stan: There's more of her?!
Steve: Here she comes.
Stan: (looks at Debbie through the window) Where's Debbie? Behind that fat girl?
Steve: No, Dad, that's...
Stan: Is the fat girl going to lead us to Debbie?
Steve: No, that's...
Stan: She's carrying a purse. She must have a map to Debbie in her purse.
Steve: Dad, that's Debbie.
Stan: To the panic room!
Hayley: And this girl actually wants to spend time with you?
Steve: For your information, she said she thinks I'm cute.
Stan: So she lies. Great. That's how you know she doesn't have a penis.
Francine: We can't wait to meet her, Steve.
Stan: You can say that again. It'll be nice to have a pretty girl around the house for a change.
(Francine glares at him)
Stan: I-I meant a pretty, younger girl.
(Hayley glares at him)
Stan: Don't get mad at me. It's called makeup.
Steve: Good news, everyone. I'm in love.
Francine: Tell us about her, sweetie.
Steve: Her name is Debbie. She smells like a glue stick, she shares my interest in bug zappers, and she likes reading old books by guys who died of syphilis.
Francine: Syphilis? Ooh, la, la.
Roger: Great. Thanks to your gassing on, I completely missed why Mr. Belvedere is stomping on his hat. The internet is not going to be happy.
Stan: That's one impressive man. Handsome, fit, the whole package.
Roger: That's great, Stan. Can we stop staring at your reflection in the TV and turn it on now?
This episode premiered on [adult swim] on July 20, 2008.
This episode was nominated for the 2007 Annie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production.
Interview with the Vampire
Roger takes Debbie to the buffet under the guise of "interviewing" her for the Anne Rice fan club. He is dressed like the vampire characters in the movie and novel written by Anne Rice of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise when he meets and talks with Debbie.
The Great Escape and The Shawshank Redemption
Stan hides food in his pants and drops them like the prisoners in these two films.
Fight Club
Stan's personal trainer, created by his anorexic state in order to feel better about himself, is a reference to the 1999 David Fincher movie Fight Club.
Zack: Pump it up a notch, Chunky Brewster!
This is a reference to the title character of the Punky Brewster TV series.
Battle Royale
The collar that was going to detonate, if Steve failed to ask a girl out in 24 minutes or less is a reference to this movie, where children wore collars that would explode, if they did not kill each other in a certain time period.
Steve: Good news, everyone!
When Steve announces to his family that he has a girlfriend, he enters the room saying, "Good news, everyone!" This is the signature entrance and catch-phrase of Professor Farnsworth in Futurama, usually followed by particularly bad news.
E.T.
Roger hides from Steve in a collection of stuffed animals, just like E.T. does in E.T. the Extra Terrestial.
Debbie: You had me at lasagna.
A reference to the line "You had me at hello" from Jerry Maguire.
Poltergeist
There is an allusion to the movie Poltergeist when Francine falls into the covered pool and finds herself surrounded by Stan's uneaten food. In the movie, JoBeth Williams falls into the unfinished pool during a heavy rain and finds herself surrounded by dead bodies. While Francine is in the pool, Hayley comes out of the house screaming "What's Happening!" just as Dominique Dunne did in the film when the house was being besieged by ghosts.
After Francine comes out of the pool, she shakes Hayley and shouts, "He only moved the food." This is a reference to the moment late in the film when Craig T. Nelson confronts his boss about moving the headstones of the cemetery but not the bodies. Nelson shakes him and shouts, "You only moved the headstones!"
After School Specials
After School Specials were half hour/hour dramas broadcast on ABC in the 70s and 80s aired more or less once a month in the afternoons. They were intended as morality plays, featuring actors popular at the time like Scott Baio and Julie Kavner, and were created mainly to fulfill FCC requirements that a certain amount of "community service" programming be presented among the daily gameshows and soap operas.
|
|
S 9 : Ep 19
Aired 5/12/13
S 9 : Ep 18
Aired 5/5/13
S 9 : Ep 17
Aired 4/28/13
S 9 : Ep 16
Aired 4/21/13
User Score: 3530
User Score: 732
User Score: 257
User Score: 220
User Score: 178
User Score: 142
User Score: 136
User Score: 104
User Score: 94
User Score: 83