Airport '07

After visiting a comedy show about the hillbilly, Peter decides to become a redneck himself and buys himself an appropriate car . Soon, Peter crashes into Quagmire’s car on it, so Peter has to take him to the airport , since he works there as a pilot . At the airport, Peter steals fuel from Quagmire's plane , believing that this would allow his van to take off. Naturally, soon after takeoff, this plane crashes. As a result, Quagmire is fired from his job, and he moves to the Family Guy until he finds a new one. Peter refuses to continue to be a redneck.

Having gotten closer to Quagmire, the Family Family is shocked by his sexual behavior, so Lois asks Peter to help Quagmire get his job back, and finally evict him. Peter, Quagmire, Joe, and Cleveland come up with a plan: Quagmire must take a plane next to New York , and they will change into stewards . They pump up the pilots with drugs , and Quagmire gently puts the ship. However, at the airport on Quagmire, he finds obsession, and he misses his landing, having sex with an employee of the airport. His friends are already on board, the crew is immobilized, and there is no one to land the plane.

Quagmire is drinking at the airport, and Hugh Hefner, who happened to be there, gives him valuable advice: go to the control room, contact Peter and explain to him by radio how to land the plane. The idea succeeds, the plane lands, Quagmire is returned to his work for this feat, Peter, Joe and Cleveland are soon released from prison , in which they were sent for hijacking the aircraft .

Initially, the episode was preparing for the release, entitled “Use on trains” ( “Keep on Truckin '” ), but the title was changed without explanation ^[1] .

Script writers: Tom Devanny and Mark Hentemann ^[2]

Director: John Holmquist ^[2]

Composer: Walter Murphy with an orchestra of forty instruments ^{[1] [3]} .

Guest Celebrities: Hugh Hefner ( Cameo ) ^[1]

Most critics took the episode positively. ^{[4] [5]}

Links to cultural phenomena ^[1]

• The title of the episode mimics the name of the film “ Airport '77 ” (“ Airport '77 ”) ( 1977 ).
• The scene in which Peter imagines himself flying in a car is a parody of the movie “ Top Gun ” ( 1986 ).
• Landing of the Boeing 767 , which ran out of fuel - a parody of the Gimli Glider .
• After the Quagmire accident, it turns out that his co-pilot was Nien Nanb ​​from the movie Star Wars. Episode VI. The Return of the Jedi ”(“ Return of the Jedi ”) ( 1983 ).
• A mouse pronouncing the phrase “three weeks later” is a parody of the film “ Babe: The Four-Legged Baby ” (“ Babe ”) ( 1995 ).
• The scene of the conversation between Peter and Lois is a parody of the series " Will & Grace " (" Will & Grace ") ( 1998 - 2006 ).
• The scene in which Peter and his friends want to pump up pilots with drugs, in which Quagmire helps Peter to land the plane accurately, and in which the Notre Dame Victory March is performed - a parody of the movie Airplane! "(" Airplane! ") ( 1980 ).
• The landing scene mimics the film " Ordered to Destroy ."
• The final credits of the episode mimic the series " Little House on the Prairies " ( 1974 - 1982 ).
• After Peter lands the plane, he and his friends watch a trailer from The Last Vacation .

Trivia ^[1]

• The scene in which Mayor Adam West reads a book to children about a plane crash is a parody of George W. Bush ’s reaction after he was informed of the September 11 tragedy . Also in the news release scene, when the dispatcher’s talks with the plane are playing, Peter talks about the “little problem”. Interestingly, the start of the recording is identical to the recording of negotiations with United Airlines flight 93 on September 11, 2001.
• In the scene of the conversation between Quagmire and Hugh Hefner, the latter has a slight echo , which is associated with the place of recording of his voice (not in the studio). To "align" the audio series, the editors of the episode added a similar echo to Quagmire's voice.

Deleted and modified scenes

• In the scene where a man beats his wife after a plane crash, the number of slaps in the face that he weighed was significantly reduced ^{[1] [6]} .
• The scene with the photo of the paparazzi is a real photo of taken by surprise Britney Spears ^[7] , only in the episode instead of her depicts Peter. In the DVD version, Peter's penis is not blurry, unlike the TV version.
• Broadcasting rules forbade the use of the name Long Rod Von HugenDong , finding it too indecent in an episode of a phone call to the Griffins looking for Quagmire ^{[1] [6]} .
• A scene was removed from the TV version in which Quagmire changed the diapers to helpless Joe in connection with the presence of feces on the screen; and a scene in which Quagmire encroached on a coffin with the body of a dead virgin ^[1] .
• To be admitted to the show, the creators of the episode had to replace the “ vagina ” with “ panties ” in Quagmire’s phrase “The contents of your vagina may have shifted during coitus in your vagina ” ^{[1] [6]} .

• Airport '07 on the Internet Movie Database