Family Guy

Season 2 Episode 14

Let's Go to the Hop

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A plane smuggling psychedelic toads from Columbia crashes in Quahog, and toad-licked becomes the new drug of choice in the Quahog high school. Peter infiltrates the high school undercover as a cool kid named Lando Griffin, and is successful in convincing all the kids to quit licking toads. Meg is trying to gain popularity so that a cool kid will ask her to the prom, and decides to go with Peter since he's established himself as an incredibly cool person. However, Peter can't help living out his own fantasies of being the coolest kid in school, and can't say now when the most popular girl in school asks him to the prom, so Peter ditches Meg. Peter and his date are chosen as king and queen of the prom, but Peter is suddenly feeling nothing but guilt. He tells the whole school that Meg broke his heart by dumping him, and makes it look like high school persona was killed after driving his motorcycle over a cliff.moreless
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  • Great!

    10
    I love everything about this episode,to the toad licking drug,to the 80's musical score,to Peter going to high school,to the finaly popularized Meg. This episode is great from beginning to end.
  • Peter becomes Lando in order stop toad licking

    9.0
    plane smuggling psychedelic toads from Columbia crashes in Quahog, and toad-licked becomes the new drug of choice in the Quahog high school. Peter infiltrates the high school undercover as a cool kid named Lando Griffin, and is successful in convincing all the kids to quit licking toads. Meg is trying to gain popularity so that a cool kid will ask her to the prom, and decides to go with Peter since he's established himself as an incredibly cool person. However, Peter can't help living out his own fantasies of being the coolest kid in school, and can't say now when the most popular girl in school asks him to the prom, so Peter ditches Meg. Peter and his date are chosen as king and queen of the prom, but Peter is suddenly feeling nothing but guilt. He tells the whole school that Meg broke his heart by dumping him, and makes it look like high school persona was killed after driving his motorcycle over a cliff. Superb episode here. Only problem was the way Lois acted to Peter at one scene. Other than that, an excellent episode. The kids after being licked by the toad was hilarious. Chris having fun with the tank was funny. It was interesting to see Peter dressed as Lando to stop the toad licking. I thought that the song was cool and it is way better than some of the songs in the later Family Guy episodes. Some other parts were funny/interesting as well. Overall, a superb episode of FG. 9/10moreless
  • I Only Liked Connie

    10
    I really only liked it cause Fairuza Balk did Connie's voice and I love The Craft and Fairuza Balk is Nancy in The Craft so yeah. :P
  • Classic

    10
    A plane smuggling psychedelic toads from Columbia crashes in Quahog, and toad-licked becomes the new drug of choice in the Quahog high school. Peter infiltrates the high school undercover as a cool kid named Lando Griffin, and is successful in convincing all the kids to quit licking toads. Meg is trying to gain popularity so that a cool kid will ask her to the prom, and decides to go with Peter since he's established himself as an incredibly cool person. However, Peter can't help living out his own fantasies of being the coolest kid in school, and can't say now when the most popular girl in school asks him to the prom, so Peter ditches Meg. Peter and his date are chosen as king and queen of the prom, but Peter is suddenly feeling nothing but guilt. He tells the whole school that Meg broke his heart by dumping him, and makes it look like high school persona was killed after driving his motorcycle over a cliff.



    What I liked:

    - The Sea Monkeys

    -Peter's persona, Lando

    - The song

    -Wait till I tell your mother!......................who I'm looking forward to meeting.



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  • this was a good ep

    9.0
    in this ep of the show family guy there is a plane that brought pysciadelic toads in the town of cohog and the kids at school are doing toad and its becoming a problem there. and so peter decides to come and pretend to be a student thing is he becomes so popular that the popular kids look up to him and his own daughter wanted to look cool by asking him to the dance thing is he does not want to go with his daughter. so he must get rid of his charter by jumping hte gorege and fall off . this was a good ep. and it had some really good parts in itmoreless
Seth Green

Seth Green

Chris (and various)

Alex Borstein

Alex Borstein

Lois (and various)

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Meg (season 2+)

Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane

Peter / Stewie / Brian / Quagmire / Tom Tucker (and various)

Gregg Allman

Gregg Allman

Himself

Guest Star

Mary Kay Bergman

Mary Kay Bergman

Voice

Guest Star

Patrick Bristow

Patrick Bristow

Voice

Guest Star

Lori Alan

Lori Alan

Diane

Recurring Role

Joey Slotnick

Joey Slotnick

Various

Recurring Role

Danny Smith (IV)

Danny Smith (IV)

Various

Recurring Role

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • TRIVIA (3)

    • In the cut scene with the medieval school lesson, the answer to the problem that the girl answers for the class is actually the quadratic equation.

    • When Peter and Lois are about to have sex, the candles on the dresser alternate between being held up by holders and standing up by themselves.

    • When Peter is singing on the table at Meg's high school, his head suddenly shrinks all through the scene.

  • QUOTES (13)

    • Peter: You don't remember what it's like to be my age!
      Lois: I'm two years younger than you!

    • Peter: You'll get chills all through your body
      And you'll lose all control
      Of your bladder and your sphincter
      That's your butt hole
      Cause if you use toad
      Then I'm telling you
      You can kiss your life goodbye
      Yeah, when you use toad
      It'll mess you up
      It'll make your mama cry, that's no lie
      You'll choke on your tongue and die
      Gotta give it up
      Students: Give up the toad now
      Peter: It's no joke, buddy
      Gotta give it up
      Students: Gotta give up the toad now
      Peter: Or you'll croak, buddy
      Gotta give it up
      Students: Gotta give up the toad now
      Peter: And don't smoke or you'll see
      It hurts to pee
      There'll be blood gushing from you
      Every time that you cough
      And forget getting lucky
      It falls off
      You better wise up
      Cause I'm telling you
      Toad is what Lando forbids
      Gotta give it all up
      Or you're gonna see
      Your whole life will hit the skids
      And your kids will be born without eyelids
      Gotta give it up
      Students: Give up the toad now
      Thanks to you, Lando
      Give it up
      Brian: Give up the toad now
      Students: Thanks to you, Lando
      Peter: Give it up
      Students: Gotta give up the toad now
      Peter: I'm no fool, Lando's cool
      All: Yeah!

    • Peter: Thanks, Spider-Man!
      Spider-Man: Everybody gets one.

    • Peter: Greg Allman, what did you do when life got you down?
      Greg Allman: (emerging from a poster) Me? I did a lot of drugs, married some broad named Cher. I wouldn't reccommend either.

    • Peter: ...and that's my plan, Principal. So, what do you think?
      Principal: But... you didn't tell me anything? You just sat down & said "And that's my plan".

    • Tony The Tiger: And you know what I got for Christmas? A pack of cigarettes. My dad grabbed me and said, " Smoke 'em up Tony, they're grrrreat!".....bastard.

    • Peter(as Lando): Sweet statuatory, you look beautiful.

    • Peter: I'll tell you Lois, High school is a lot more fun this time around. And it's a lot safer now that all the kids have guns.

    • Peter(as Lando): Hey, does anyone have any drugs? I'm lookin' to score some drugs.

    • Man #1: Say Phil, what do you say to Happy Hour after work?
      Phil: I'd say looks like Cheryl's gonna have another black eye to explain to the neighbours.
      (both laugh)
      Phil: Come on, I'm buyin'.

    • Teacher: A girl answered a math problem, you know what the means. A WITCH!

    • Peter: I had such a crush on her. Until I met you Lois. You're my silver medal. (kiss)

    • Teacher: All right, what's going on back here? Oh hello Megan. Wait a minute, your not part of the popular clique. You run along and play alone somewhere. Shame on you all, getting her hopes up like that.

  • NOTES (3)

    • The character of Connie D'Amico was originally going to be called "Connie Resendes" after the high school crush of Family Guy writer Danny Smith.

    • This is the episode that features the famous "things got way too real gag". The Mask in the scene was later given to the staff of Planet Family Guy, a popular Family Guy fansite, as a thank you gift.

    • After the plane has crashed the pilots say, "When the boss hears about this, we're dead!" and "Do you remember if I closed the garage door this morning?" - the subtitles are correctly translated Korean.

  • ALLUSIONS (16)

    • The Brady Bunch

      When Peter as "Lando" dumps Meg for Connie, he says, "Something suddenly came up!" A reference to The Brady Bunch episode where Marcia dumps a nice boy to go out with a hunk.

    • Tiny Toon Adventures

      Peter: Thanks, G. I'm the new kid in town, Lando Griffin. No Relation.

      The "No Relation" quote is similar to when Buster and Babs Bunny introduced themselves in Tiny Toon Adventures.

    • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

      Peter has an audio recording for when Lois opens the bedroom door. Ferris prepared an audio recording for Rooney when the house doorbell was pressed in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

    • Spiderman

      When Peter falls from the roof of his house, he is saved by the Marvel Comics superhero, Spiderman.

    • Boy: Mr. Toad How many Licks of you does it take to get to the center of a Rhode Island State Prison?

      The style and lines of this commercial are taken from the commercials for Tootsie Roll Pops.

    • The song Peter sings is a parody of "You're the One That I Want", from the movie Grease.

    • Lando Griffin: Lando Griffin

      Peters high school name when he is undercover is Lando Griffin. Peter probabaly used the name from Star Wars character Lando Calrissian, and also saying that Peter is a huge Star Wars fan.

    • Stewie: Please sir, I want some more.

      Reference to the 1948 movie Oliver Twist.

    • The Breakfast Club

      At the very end of this episode, it shows Peter's picture in the high school yearbook. The song "Don't You Forget About Me" by the Simple Minds is playing in the background. The last shot of Peter on the football field is just like the ending shot of the movie The Breakfast Club.

    • Title: Let's go to the Hop
      "At the Hop" is a Danny and the Juniors song from the Era that Grease is set in. This has numerous Grease references.

    • Peter: Graffiti Thompson Twins Rule
      When Peter is spraying graffiti on the wall and then sprays under his arms, it is a reference to the opening sequence of the Wil Smith sitcom, Fresh Prince of Bel Air. He also refferences the Thompson Twins, a group from the 80s famous for their song "Hold Me Now"

    • Peter: I've got to fight for my right to party.
      this is a reference to the hit song, "Fight for your Right" from the Beastie Boys' album Licence to Ill.

    • Tony the Tiger: And you know what I got for Christmas? A pack of cigarettes. My dad grabbed me and said, " Smoke 'em up Tony, they're grrrreat!".....bastard.
      This is similiar to what Judd Nelson said in the breakfast club, when he is yelling at Claire(Molly Ringwald) about the difference's in their Christmas gifts.

    • Lando: Holy crap, its the breakfast club.
      The Breakfast Club was a sleeper hit in the 80s written and directed by John Hughes. The film was about a group of kids forced to spend Saturday in detention.

    • Peter: I will drive recklassly into the night, and up Dead Man's Curb

      This is very similar to the ending of Grease 2 starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

    • Kid #2: I finally get Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night. Its a comedy that's too good to be funny!

      Sports Night was a series that ran for 2 years on ABC. It struggled in the ratings as it was considered too smart for its time slot. This failure worried NBC about the cost of The West Wing.

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