A wife-changing experience
Joe accidentally sees Lois naked, which leads to a rekindling of his sex life with Bonnie.
Season: 21 Episode: 3
Total Episodes: 392
First broadcast: October 9, 2022
Starring: Joe, Peter, Lois
Also appearing: Chris, Stewie, Meg, Brian, Bonnie, Susie Swanson, Carter, Babs, Cleveland, Donna, Quagmire, Rupert the Giraffe, Rupert, Principal Shepherd, Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-Man, Forrest Gump
Directed by Steve Robertson
Assistant Director: Steven K.L. Olson
Screenplay: Steve Callaghan
Screenplay: Hannah Kim, Helen Kim, Stephen Wong
Conspiracy:
During the anniversary party held at Carter and Babs’ mansion, Lois goes to the bathroom to change out of her bathing suit, and Joe accidentally walks in and gets an erection as she watches. He quickly leaves, but Bonnie later tells Lois that he was able to have sex with her for the first time in years. While doing chores, he notices her looking at her through the window, so he puts on a show, allowing him to regain an erection for Bonnie. But when she tries to turn on her charms for Peter that night, he is completely unimpressed. Returning from a run with Donna, Quagmire spies her performing for Joe again and tells Peter, who confronts Joe and punches him.
When Lois stands up as well, she points out that he had absolutely no interest in her, and he tells her that he doesn’t have any excitement for him anymore, but falls when he tries to give her a taste of her own medicine. When she returns to Joe, he tells her that he cannot continue his behavior with her because he is Peter’s best friend. When she seeks attention by dressing up as a nurse at a veterans hospital, she ends up getting arrested and finds Peter also arrested for his own deviant behavior. They both admit that even though there seem to be no secrets or surprises left for each other, there’s no one else they’d rather be with, as they bring home role-playing games to spice things up.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the anniversary present for Peter and Lois is a toy car instead of an expensive toy car, so Stewie gets it. He puts on an air about his car until he has to pick up a drunk Brian, who throws up all over himself. While cleaning, he complains to Chris about maintaining such a car. While riding with some of his stuffed animals, he is interrupted by a boy on a big bike who enjoys the simple life, causing him to crash into a telephone pole when he loses focus. Rupert is thrown from the car and Stewie tends to him until he decides he is okay. Stewie burns the remains of his car and files an insurance claim, but when the insurance adjuster has video evidence on the lap cam, he discovers that Stewie has evidence of his own wrongdoing and gets his check from him.
While Peter and Lois enjoy Seuss’s sexual fantasy, it turns out to be just a bedtime story that Chris made up for Stewie, who refuses to let him read any more of his own stories.
Family Guy Season 21 Episode 3 Notes
Carter selected Peter and Lois’ gift car from the SkyMall catalog. Quagmire declares it a rookie move.
Bonnie says Joe hasn’t been able to get an erection for 9 years.
Bonnie divides her friends into “girls” and “girls”. Lois is considered one of the last.
Brian refuses to take the bait to start another Cool Whip gag.
Lois scrapes dog poop off her shoes while singing a song based on “Turning Japanese” by The Vapors.
Peter believes that James Cromwell is in an episode of Little House on the Prairie. Cromwell appeared in the two-part episode “Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pt I & II”.
Peter also notes that he still had most of his hair.
Quagmire and Donna go jogging together every week.
Both signed a petition to add more speed bumps to the neighborhood.
Quagmire refuses to talk to Peter on the phone, preferring to text him later.
Norwegian dance
The Norwegian gag mentions “Julaften” (Christmas Eve) and “lutefisk” (dried whitefish) and the inscription reads “hjem kjære hjem”, “sweet home”. The narrator notes that they had to Google these Norwegian references; he later mentions the Runeberg Cake, named after the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, which the writers found after getting too excited in their search.
Cleveland has a Nest camera.
Peter is arrested for exposing himself against the Lululemon window.
Lois points out that Peter is bad at their fantasy role-playing game until he seems pathetic.
Director Shepherd was arrested for getting into a fight with an Applebee’s hostess who did not want to change the TV to the Fox News Channel.
In “Believe It or Not, Joe Walks on Air”, Barney tells Fred Flintstone that a chance sight of Wilma naked caused him to “erocktion”.