No meals on wheels

Peter is annoyed that his friend Mort Goldman constantly takes all sorts of things from them, so he makes the Hitler scarecrow , which scares Mort away from his house. However, creating a scarecrow, Peter ruined his best suit, so Lois leads him to the sale of used clothes ( Quahog Thrift Store ), where Peter admires the flannel pajamas ( Blanket sleeper ). Having acquired this, Peter soon notices that he can now “beat with electricity” if he rubbed his feet on the carpet , and therefore imagines himself to be Jesus and “ Electric-Man ”, terrorizing the household. Tortured by Peter’s “electro-tricks”, Lois with Quagmire’s help (he misunderstood Lois’s request to “ make her carpets”, so he happily came counting on having sex with her) removes all the carpets from the house, and under one of them is an entrance token on an 18th-century Rhode Island ferry that manages to sell for $ 50,000.

Having received the money , Peter and Lois decide to fulfill their old dream by opening their own restaurant called “ Big Pete's House of Munch ”. The idea succeeds, the whole family is working there, but things are not going very well: few customers. Joe decides to add visitors by inviting his disabled friends there. This is not like Peter, who now compares his restaurant to the “cafeteria to the veterans' hospital ”, and he forbids people with disabilities to enter their institution: “We don’t serve without shirts, shoes and legs” ( no shirt, no shoes, no legs, no service ).

Angry disabled people under the command of Joe create (from themselves and their wheelchairs ) a giant robot called KalekoTron ( CrippleTron ), which crashes into a restaurant. Peter, Chris and Stewie keep the defense on the roof of their establishment. With great difficulty, they manage to defeat the giant (Stewie blinds Joe - the "head" of the robot), but Peter was injured in the battle, and now he will have to ride in a wheelchair for two weeks. Now Peter realizes what it feels like to be disabled; he apologizes to Joe, restoring friendships with him.

Script writer: Mike Henry .

Director: Greg Colton .

Composer: Walter Murphy .

Guest celebrities: Patrick Stewart and Ben Stiller (both cameos ), Keith Ferguson (as Jimmy Smiths).

Cultural References

• The title of the episode mimics the title of the Meals on Wheels program and the movie Diner on Wheels .
• At the beginning of the episode, Peter and Brian watch on TV the show “ Top Model in American Style ” (2003 - present)
• In the box, there are Mexican Super Friends: Mexican Superman , Mexican Batman , etc.
• Frightened by the scarecrow, Mort calls for John Stewart to be rescued, calling him "our most important Jew."
• From the sidebar, we learn that once Brian nearly died, disagreeing with his neighbor about the trial of O. Jay Simpson .
• Peter compiled a “list of famous Armenians ”: Eric Begosian, Andre Agassi and Jerry Tarkanian .
• In the sidebar, you can see Lisa Minnelli starring for Playboy . She cries and demands love from her mother .
• The episode parodied the opening musical theme from the TV series “ Mod ” ( 1972 - 1978 ). For 85 seconds, Peter and Lois sit motionless on the couch, waiting for the main character to appear on the screen.
• Peter hired Knight Shyamalan to advertise his restaurant.
• In the box there is " MC Escher " with its " strange video clip."
• Trying to explain to Lois why you should close the restaurant, Peter shows that photo of Mark Harmon .
• At the end of the episode, the song " I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues " ( 1983 ) Elton John ^[1] is performed.
• The scene in which Peter, Chris and Brian are standing on the roof of a restaurant, waiting for the invasion of Joe's friends - an allusion to George Romero's film “ Dawn of the Dead ” ( 1978 )
• There is also a parody of the Voltron cartoon (in this episode, Voltron consists of all the disabled people, friends of Joe, who want Peter to let them into his restaurant).

Trivia

• The premiere of the episode was watched by 7,970,000 viewers ^[2] .
• The family plays the Yetzi board game.
• The Parents Television Council once again called the new Family Guy series the worst show of the week. For his insensitivity towards the disabled, and a gag depicting Adolf Hitler as a scarecrow, or "Scare Jew," as it was referred to in the episode, he was particularly crippled by insensitivity to the problems of persons with disabilities , and the image of Hitler as a scarecrow (terrible Jew ) ) ^[3] .

• No Meals on Wheels on the Internet Movie Database