I Take Thee Quagmire
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I Take Thee, Quagmire is an episode from the fourth season of FOX animated television series Family Guy. It premiered on March 12, 2006. It guest-starred Adam Carolla as Death, Nicole Sullivan as Joan and Alex Trebek as himself.
Plot summary
When Peter makes a surprise win on Wheel of Fortune, he wins a free maid (named Joan) for a week. While he shows off how he could cause a huge mess for her to clean up (specifically, giving an exploding watermelon to Meg), she meets Quagmire who immediately falls for her. He gives up his philandering ways and becomes a caring lover. He proposes to Joan. Peter, however, becomes irritated by the changes Quagmire made for his new fiancee.
Meanwhile, Lois is concerned when Stewie's teeth cause her pain during breastfeeding. Brian suggests that Lois begins weaning Stewie, to which Stewie objects.
During the reception for his wedding, Quagmire turns back into his old self when he notices Lois' swollen breasts. Realizing his mistake, he enlists help from his friends to get him out of it quick. They choose to fake his death. When their plot fails, Joan is relieved, but Death has come and must collect a body. Joan jumps in front of Quagmire and touches Death, which kills her. Quagmire's friends then inform Death that her last name was Quagmire and that she was suicidal, and so Death takes her body, allowing Quagmire to live.
Cultural references
- On Jeopardy, Adam West tricks Alex Trebek into saying his name backwards ("Kebert Xela"), sending him back to the Fifth Dimension in the same fashion as Superman's foe Mister Mxyzptlk.
- Peter gets lost driving The Great Space Coaster.
- Peter calls Pat Sajak "Regis", mistaking him for Regis Philbin.
- When Peter is asked to guess 5 consonants and a vowel, he guesses, "Z...4...Q...another Q...a third Q...and the Batman symbol." He then solves the puzzle, guessing "Alex Karras in Webster" and gets it right.
- Joan finds a ColecoVision video console stuck in Peter's navel.
- One of the men riding another maid sounds like Howard Cosell. This is a reference to the movie Better Off Dead.
- After sleeping with a woman, Quagmire chisels his name in the wall and laughs, similar to the style of Woody Woodpecker. He also does this at the end of the episode, except he chisels his phrase "Giggity Giggity Goo", his own trademark catchphrase.
- After Quagmire talks to Joan for the first time, he daydreams about the two of them replacing some of the characters in a few Disney love films (Beauty and the Beast, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin), as well as Aragorn and Arwen from Lord of the Rings. Note that they were shot at by an RPG while flying over Baghdad during the Aladdin sequence.
- Brian is watching an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, in which Hal kills his ranting wife Lois and he and the boys walk off into the sunset, enjoying their freedom. This may be a reference to the fact that Malcolm in the Middle was in its last season and this is the way the show would end in Family Guy fashion.
- After seeing the severed Statue of Liberty foot, Adam West goes through the closing lines of Planet of the Apes.
- While faking a dinosaur eating Quagmire, Peter hums the Jurassic Park theme.
- Death remarks that he had to see someone at NBC about Joey, and that he is going to a Celine Dion show but he's not going to kill her, he's going to watch her die on her own.
- Peter went through a Daisy Duke phase, referring to the extremely short, cut-off denim shorts, Daisy Dukes, named after the character from the television series Dukes of Hazzard
- At Quagmire's funeral the man working the cement truck remarks how Mayor West is afraid of zombies, a possible reference to the movie Zombie Nightmare in which Adam West's character is killed by a zombie.
Trivia
- On the FOX version of this episode, Cleveland's use of the word "erection" is bleeped out (both when it first came on and its recent rerun on June of 2006). The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim version doesn't have it bleeped out.
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