8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter

Season 4, Episode 8, Aired
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Peter runs up his tab at Mort's Pharmacy. When he is told he has to pay, he decides to sell Meg to the Goldmans, who gives Meg to Neil. When Meg finds out that Neil is dating another girl, she becomes jealous and tries to find herself a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with Liddane, his new babysitter.moreless
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  • Honestly, a great episode.

    10
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    By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    Peter runs up his tab at Mort's Pharmacy. When he is told he has to pay, he decides to sell Meg to the Goldmans, who gives Meg to Neil. When Meg finds out that Neil is dating another girl, she becomes jealous and tries to find herself a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with Liddane, his new babysitter.

    A perfect episode, reccomended to every fan

    10/10

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  • Mediocre

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    By futuramarama, Jan 19, 2010 Report Abuse
    Peter sells Mort Meg, who Neil wants. So Meg starts liking him, but they break up. Then Meg gets jealous when Neil gets a new girlfriend.

    Stewie has a hot babysitter, but is shocked and crushed to learn she has a boyfriend. So Stewie clubs him, and locks him in Brian's car.

    At the end, everything is back to normal, except Stewie realizes that his babysitter's boyfriend is probably dead because he never let him out of the trunk.

    Nothing really stood out, except the vomiting gag which was beyond gross. My overall grade would be a C- or so, maybe average, might a bit abovemoreless

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  • meh, kind of boring.

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    By ZaleIsBackAgain, Aug 11, 2009 Report Abuse
    None of the pop culture references were hilarious nor were they amusing, they were just there. And the two stories of Meg being sold to Neil and Stewie being in love with Liddanne were pretty mediocre. They didn't feel like there was a point to them, nor was the end result particularly funny or anything like that. The I can't believe it's not butter reference was pretty funny though. Overall though, mediocre episode. Oh wait, that whole scene where Brian, Chris, Peter, and Stewie are all throwing up together in living room was hilarious. The only saving grace in this entire episode.moreless

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  • Season 4, Episode 8.

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    By Wanted23, Nov 12, 2008 Report Abuse
    Peter runs up his tab at Mort's Pharmacy. When he is told he has to pay, he decides to sell Meg to the Goldmans, who gives Meg to Neil. When Meg finds out that Neil is dating another girl, she becomes jealous and tries to find herself a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with Liddane, his new babysitter. I loved the whole puking scene. It's a classic moment in Family Guy history. LMFAO! I love that scene! I loved when Peter puked on Brian's head. Lois said that Meg doesn't have a life. Haha, great episode, as can be expected.moreless

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  • High on jokes, low on plot

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    By oceanic6, Apr 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    When Peter learns that Mort's pharmacy runs a tab system, he goes crazy buying everything he can get his hands on including a rack of greeting cards, 8 crates Ipecac and suppositories to eat. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that he eventually has to pay for everything, and ends up thousands of dollars in debt. Peter makes an offer to sell Meg to Mort's son Neil in exchange for cancelling the debt. Mort agrees, but Neil has already found a new girlfriend. Stewie, meanwhile, falls in love with his new babysitter.

    It's obvious from the cold open that this is going to be a random episode and it powerfully is; the gags do no tie together at all and even though a few of them are quite good they slow down the good enough storyline too much.
    Every time a scene quickly cuts to another one; it acts as a laugh track and we only sometimes join in.

    The best parts is the Ipecac scene which, at 56 seconds, is probably the longest gag of the episode and when Meg tries to get out of her binding contract using the most desperate means possible. Also any scene with Peter abusing his tab is worthwhile too. The worst parts involve Stewie as he once again proves that juggling an effeminate and a homicidal persona doesn't work. The jabs at everything from Kramer. VS. Kramer to The Herculoids come off as a little excessive.

    The episode's rapid fire animation proves perfect for such a surreal and manic show and its detail really makes this a great episode visually.

    The vocals don't fair quite as well; partly because a lot of the voices are far too irritating e.g. Mort, Peter, Stewie, Lois, etc.

    This is basically an OK episode of Family Guy; it does make you laugh and keep you interested but also contains several of the problematic aspects of the show.moreless

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    • Peter claims that he'll be running for mayor the following week, but this never happens. Edit
    • Stewie claims not to know if Meg has her own bedroom, yet a minute later he tells her he spits in her mouth while she sleeps. So he would have had to have already known that she had a bedroom to do that. Edit
    • When Meg goes to "Everybody Loves Raymond", Ray calls his wife Patty, instead of Debra. Patty is the name of the actress who plays Debra. Edit

  • Notes

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    • When looking for a new babysitter, Lois interviews one of the "blob" creatures from the animated series "The Herculoids." Edit

  • Quotes

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    • Liddane: Hi, gorgeous man! Stewie: Oh, you! Must I lock up your tongue with the rest of the silver? Edit
    • Lois: I never thought finding a babysitter would be so hard. Stewie: Yes, a shame you weren't more discerning when you picked that happening Bruce Jenner hairdo. Edit
    • Stewie: (in chair being told about babysitter) Yes! I'm going to wow her tonight Rupert, I'm going to be cooler than Brian when he hangs out at the bowling alley. Brian: That's what I love about high school girls... I keep geting older, they stay the same age, hehehe, yes they do, yes they do.... Edit

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    • Peter: Here, take a Far Side one. The Far Side is a comic strip created by Gary Larson that ran in newspapers from 1980 to 1995. Edit
    • The scene where Brian is hanging outside the bowling alley is a reference to the 1993 movie Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater. Brian is impersonating David Wooderson (played in the movie by Matthew McConaughey). Edit
    • The breakfast machine was a gag on "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", the full-length film of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", at the part where a breakfast machine makes him a smiley-faced Eggs and Bacon dish, though, of course, there was no 9 mm involved. This sort of device is also known as a Rube Goldberg machine. Edit

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