I Never Met the Dead Man

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired

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While teaching Meg to drive, Peter crashes into the town's satellite dish, which knocks out the city's cable. He promises Meg that if she takes the blame, he'll get her a car. Without TV, Peter goes crazy, which drives the family insane. Meanwhile, after refusing to eat the broccoli that Lois gives him, Stewie attempts to build a weather control device that would destroy all vegetables.moreless
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  • Peter wrecks the cable

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By fsaenz0125, Dec 30, 2011
    While teaching Meg to drive, Peter crashes into the town's satellite dish, which knocks out the city's cable. He promises Meg that if she takes the blame, he'll get her a car. Without TV, Peter goes crazy, which drives the family insane. Meanwhile, after refusing to eat the broccoli that Lois gives him, Stewie attempts to build a weather control device that would destroy all vegetables. Another superb episode for Family Guy. The main plot was great, but it was not my favorite. Stewie's plot was funnier. It had a lot of funny parts such as the cold opening, Stewie doesn't want to eat vegetable, Stewie using a device to get rid of a broccoli, Peter at Meg's school in a tower, and around 4 more funny moments. Overall, this episode was superb. 9/10moreless

  • perfect

    10
    "Perfect"
    By futuramarama, Dec 10, 2011
    what i liked- tom about to spank diane when they think they are still not on the air, peter walking around pretending he is watching television, the ending where he interrupts lois, "Sorry Meg, daddy loves you, but daddy also loves Star Trek, and in all fairness Star Trek was here first", amongst other things.
    good episode. i did not laugh a whole lot but i did however think the plot was pretty good. A+moreless

  • Hilarious from start to finish!

    10
    "Perfect"
    By marebear2009, Sep 30, 2011
    This was another excellent episode in my opinion. It made me laugh hard pretty much all the way through and had a good message. The parts I thought were funny include all the references to TV shows like Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo and B-witched, the Willy Wonka cutaway, Peter embarrassing Meg at school, and the Amish guy's cart and horse blowing up. I also thought Stewie's subplot was pretty hilarious. William Shatner's appearance and and the montage of things the family did together also made me laugh. Overall, this was one of my favorite episodes, and my overall grade for it is definitely an A+! Marebear2009, out!moreless

  • Hilarious episode.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By jmbsonic555, Sep 18, 2011
    The episode begins with Lois trying to serve Stewie broccoli. Stewie, believing broccoli are little trees from Hell, plans to destroy it so he won't have to eat it.Stewie reads up that cold kills broccoli, so he plans to build a weather machine to make it rain and snow so the cold kills broccoli.Meanwhile, Meg wants someone to teach her how to drive before her big drivers test tomorrow. Peter, annoyed that he can't watch TV, teaches Meg how to drive.But, this is Peter Griffin, so he gives Meg all the wrong advice, and the next day Meg fails her driving exam and blames it on Peter.On the way home from the DMV, Peter is looking into people's houses to see the show he wants to watch on their TVs, but loses focus on the road and crashes the car into the cable transmitter satellite, knocking out all the TV for Quahog.People surround Peter and Meg furiously. Peter tries to place the blame on Meg by telling the people that he was teaching Meg how to drive, and tells everyone that Meg got her arm shot off in Vietnam. Everyone forgives Meg, even though there is no TV to watch in the whole city anymore.Peter and Meg drive home, and Meg is very mad at Peter for placing the blame on her. Peter tells her that if she takes the blame, he'll buy her a Convertible when she gets her license, and Meg agrees.When they get home, Stewie sees that the TV satellite was hooked to Peter's car and dragged home, so Stewie takes it to continue working on his weather device.Meg tells Lois what happened, and Lois is furious at Peter for bribing Meg with a car. Peter is sure the family will cope without television, but Brian tells Peter that it's impossible for Peter to cope because he's addicted to television.Peter ends up calling his friend out of town to tell him what's happening on TV, but it doesn't work because it only sounds like radio. Peter begins to slowly lose his mind.One night Peter has a dream that he's in the twister scene from The Wizard Of Oz, and he looks out his window to see TV characters such as ALF floating by. The house in Peter's dream crashes, scaring Peter.Peter wakes up immediately and turns on the TV only to see static, and begins channel surfing through static.The next morning, Lois tells Brian that Peter is really losing it, when Peter comes into the kitchen, and tied to him is a piece of cardboard with a large square cut into it tied, so it looks like Peter is looking through a TV screen.To mindless Peter, he thinks everything he sees is now a TV show, scaring Lois. Peter walks around Quahog seeing everything as a TV show, when he approaches Meg's high school, thinking it to be Beverly Hills 90210.Meg, who's been mistreated by everyone because everyone thinks she ruined TV, confesses to the whole school that Peter was the one who crashed into the satellite.A mob forms and begins to approach Peter angrily, when Lois jumps in front of Peter, and tells everyone that getting rid of TV was a good thing because the TV makes everyone lazy and dull.People agree with Lois and begin to go perform daily activities with their families. The Griffins, with back-to-normal Peter then go out into the world having fun, including a picnic, playing basketball, and fishing.When they've done many things, everyone is tired, and by now a new satellite has been installed, and TV is back. Peter, however, does not want to partake in watching TV, and wants to go have fun.With William Shatner, Peter goes to a Bavarian carnival, similar to Oktoberfest. Meg feels cheated that she again has no one to take her to teach her how to drive, so Lois gives Meg driving lessons.Meanwhile, Stewie has finally finished his weather machine, and activates it, causing it to rain and pour and thunderstorm.The carnival shuts due to the rain, and Peter and William begin to dance home in the rain without shoes. Meg, scared of driving in the rain, ends up crashing into the 2 and killing William Shatner.Peter ends up in the hospital, in a full-body cast, and can't move. However, to the shock of the family, Peter still refuses to watch TV ever again. The family leaves, scared that Peter has really lost it, and the nurse puts on the TV for Peter.Peter, unable to move, watches the TV and in no time is better, and again addicted to television. Peter returns home, and to Meg's dismay, Peter will not buy her a car.Peter is healed, Stewie has "defeated" the broccoli, and the Griffins are back to watching hours upon hours of TV, so everything is back to normal.moreless

  • Second episode ever

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    By fenway98, Jan 04, 2011
    When Peter teaches Meg to drive, he accidentally hits the cable satellite, and says if Meg takes the blame, He'll buy her a convertible. Everyone starts to ahte her, because they're going mad without TV. Espicially Peter, because he makes a cardboard cut out of a TV and wears it everywhere he goes. He realizes he dosn't need TV to have fun, so he takes the family on nature trips. They all get exhausted, and they just want to watch Tv now that the satelite is fixed. But Peter goes to the german festival without them. Instead, he goes with William Shatner. When trying to get Peter back, Meg accidentally hits him, and kills Bill. Peter is in the hospital, and decides he wants to watch Tv with his family.

    This was a pretty decent episode. I loved Stewie's plot with the broccoli. I also loved William Shanter, and all the tv shows, like Scooby Doo, and fast animals slow children. I think the best part of this episode was When the amish guy's carriage and horse blew up.

    Overall Grade: B+/85%moreless
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    • After Peter tells Meg that it is not the 1st time he embarrassed her, it cuts to a flashback of Meg's class in which the teacher is wearing a watch on his left wrist. After the camera shifts position his watch is gone.

    • When Lois and Peter are in bed, Peter's glasses disappear during shots.

    • We learn that Quagmire is a Pilot.

    • The different segments on Stewie's see 'n say are Freezing Rain, Blizzard, Tornado, Partly Cloudy, Hurricane, Apocalypse, Sand Storm, and Pestilence.

    • When Peter is watching Fast Animals, Slow Children while driving, the man's hair is yellow, but when they crash and they zoom in his hair is brown.

    • Near the beginning of the episode, Meg asks Peter to give her a driving lesson as the family sits and watches TV. If you look carefully you'll see that they are watching a blank screen.

    • After Meg fails to get her driver's license, the scene cuts to a bird's eye- view of Meg and Peter in the car. In the opening shot of that scene, however, Lois is the one sitting in the car with Peter.

    • Meg goes to James Woods Regional High School. James Woods is the name of a Hollywood actor who came from Rhode Island.

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    • Peter: Look Meg, I know you're pretty upset at me right now, and I know this isn't the first time I've embarressed you... (Flashback to Meg in class) Teacher: And if you add the measure of the right triangle, the sum... Peter busts in wearing nothing but a towl around his waist) Peter: Hey Meg, you mind cleaning out the showers next time you shave your legs? It's a carpet in there!

    • Lois: Honey, it's not going to go away just because you don't like it. Stewie: Well then, my goal becomes clear. The broccoli must die!

    • Lois: Sweetie, it's broccoli. It's good for you. Now open up for the airplane. Stewie: Never! Damn the broccoli, damn you, and damn the Wright brothers!

    • Stewie (talking on his toy Seasame Street phone): Put me through to the Pentagon! Phone: Do you know what sound a cow makes? Stewie: Don't toy with me, Ernie. I've already dispatched with Mr. Hooper. I've got six armed men stationed outside Big Bird's nest. And as for Linda, well it's rather difficult for a deaf woman to hear an assassin approach, now isn't it? Phone: Can you count to three? Stewie: Oh indeed I can. One! (shoots phone) Stewie: Two! (shoots phone) Stewie: Three! (shoots phone) Stewie: Can I count to three? For God's sake I'm already shooting at a fifth grade level.

    • Lois: Stewie, you can't leave the table until you finish your vegetables. Stewie: Well then, I shall sit here until one of us expires, and you've got a good forty years on me woman!

    • Lois: I know you don't like broccoli Stewie, but you'll thank me when you grow up big and strong like your father. Stewie: A compelling argument. You've swayed me, woman. Mmmm. That is good. Oh I feel stronger already. Mmmm it's good tasting and good for you.

    • Peter: Look Meg, I suffer my own dissapointments too. (Flashback with Peter when Meg was born.) Doctor: It's a girl! (Peter appears with bunches of hockey, soccer, basketball, and football equipment.) Peter: Can you check again?

    • Peter: What can me and you do together? (Lois giggles) Lois, you've got a sick mind! Lois: Peter, I'm talkin' about making love. Peter: Oh, I thought you wanted us to murder the children and harvest their organs for beer money.

    • Brian: Hey barkeep, whose leg do you gotta hump to get a dry martini around here?

    • (Flashback to an episode of Scooby-Doo) Fred: Gee wizz, gang. Looks like the killer gutted the victim, strangled him with his own intestines and then dumped the body in the river. Velma: Jenkies. What a mystery! Scooby: (inaudible) Fred: You're right Scoob. We're dealing with one sick son of a bitch.

    • (Flashback to Peter in Willy Wonka's factory) Wonka: I'll ask you one more time, are you sure you didn't eat anything in my factory? Peter: (appears as a giant blueberry) No. Wonka: I'm just asking. Peter: Are you calling me a liar? Wonka: No, I'm just saying - Peter: Hey, shut up Wonka!

    • Meg: Dad, if I don't get my driver's license, I'll never have any boyfriends, I'll never get married and I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell. Peter: Meg ... are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?

    • Lois: Now kids, your father's just trying to spend time with his family. Or kill us. I'm not sure which.

    • Peter: Let's play a game called Takin' the fall for Daddy. If you win, I'll buy you a convertible when you get your license. Meg: Really? Oh Daddy, now I love you again. Peter: Oh, you're gonna make some Jewish guy a great wife.

    • Teacher: Well class, we WERE scheduled to watch a PBS Program on the mating rituals of the nude, large breasted Wewak Tribe of New Guinea. Unfortunately Megan Griffin ruined TV. So instead we're having a surprise test.

    • Tom Tucker: Well Diane, that last report was so good I think you deserve a spanking. Diane: Oh Tom, I don't think your wife would appreciate that. Tom: Haha, that frigid old cow lives in Quahog, she can't hear a word I'm saying. Camera Guy: Actually, we're back on the air in Quahog.

    • Kirk: Alright men, this is a dangerous mission. And it's likely one of us will be killed. The landing party will consist of myself, Mr Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Ensign Ricky. Ensign Ricky: Ahh crap.

    • Peter: Fox is running one of those new reality specials tonight. Fast Animals, Slow Children.

    • Tom Tucker: Because of an accident today at the Quahog cable company, all television transmission will be out for an undetermined amount of time. Of course, no one can see this news program, so it doesn't really matter what we say. I'm the lord Jesus Christ. I think I'll go get drunk and beat up some midgets, how about you, Diane? Diane Simmons: Well, Tom, I just plain don't like black people.

    • Peter: Isn't "bribe" just another word for love?

    • William Shatner: Beam me up God.

    • Peter: Come on everyone, we're late for the Bavarian Folk Festival. You know those Germans, if you don't join their party they'll come get ya!

    • Peter: Meg, don't believe what they're saying. I always keep my eyes on the road. I don't miss a thing. TV: We now return to Star Trek Peter: Holy Crap! Uhura's black?

    • Peter: Sorry Meg. Daddy loves ya, but Daddy also loves Star Trek, and in all fairness, Star Trek was here first.

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    • World War II When the German sausage booth is next to the Polish booth, the German booth attendee, who resembles Hitler knocks the Polish booth keeper over the head and takes over his booth. He then begins coveting the Czech sausage booth.

    • Creature From the Black Lagoon The green man-like creature that the Griffins pull out of the water while fishing is the monster from the film Creature From the Black Lagoon.

    • My Fair Lady Stewie: Damn the broccoli, damn you, and damn the Wright brothers! Seth MacFarlane has said that he based Stewie on Rex Harrison and this line is a perfect example; it's a take on one of Harrison's classic lines from My Fair Lady, "Damn the eggs, damn Mrs. Pearce and damn you!"

    • Wizard of Oz When Peter is dreaming about a world without television, the dream sequence alludes to Dorothy's dream trip to Oz in The Wizard of Oz.

    • The Wright Brothers: Lois: Sweetie, it's broccoli. It's good for you. Now open up for the airplane. Stewie: Never! Damn the broccoli! Damn you! And damn the Wright Brothers! The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, created and flew the first controlled, powered, airplane.

    • William Shatner

      William Shatner: Beam me up God
      Reference to Captain Kirk, a part William Shatner played on Star Trek. Kirk was often beamed up by his ship's transporters, and often used the phrase "Beam me up."

    • The Wonder Years

      Kevin Arnold: Whoa. Suddenly, I was public enemy number one. It was time to tell the truth.
      From 1988 - 1993 ABC's The Wonder Years entertained audiences with its blend of adolescent humor, drama, and situation comedy. The show starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold. All of Kevin's inner monologues were performed by Daniel Stern, and went uncredited during the run of the series.

    • NYPD Blue

      Sipowicz: Are you gonna tell me what I want to know or am I gonna have to show you my ass?
      This is a reference to an episode of NYPD Blue where Dennis Franz's butt was shown on the air.

    • CHiPs

      Ponch: Driving without my phone number.
      This is a reference to the television program CHiPs. A program that aired from 1977 - 1983, and is often seen as campy today.

    • Raisin Bran Mr Sun: It's always a nice day with two scoops of raisins, Peter. This is a reference to the Raisin Bran commercials of the 80s.

    • Star Trek

      Ensign Ricky: Ahh crap
      Star Trek had a reputation for killing off its extras especially if they happened to be wearing red shirts. Ensign Ricky knows this and was not thrilled to be picked for this mission. The Red Shirts being killed was never more aparent than in Star Trek's: The Apple an episode where 4 red shirts were killed within the first 10 minutes of the show

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